Van Halen's "Jump" - enjoy a staggering, atonal trainwreck:

[mikeytherat]

So, the sampled keyboard riffs are tuned 1.5 semitones higher than the rest of the band, but still they soldier on.

http://warmowski.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/jump-in-pitch/

:rofl:

mikey_the_rat

[Frank Cannon]

1. What's really amazing about this

is how Roth and Eddie both attempt the task of singing/playing in two different keys simultaneously!

That's hilarious.

[mikeytherat]

2. To a degree, I can sympathize.

I've got a great recording (well, not great) of my college band, Outrage, performing "Twist and Shout." I (the bassist) am slightly flat, and Chuck (our guitarist) is slightly sharp. We both realize we're out of tune, and each of us starts correcting pitch. As I am tuning up and he is tuning down (while still playing and singing the song), there is a brief, sonorous moment where we are in tune, then we pass each other and I go sharp and he goes flat. At the end of the song, all you can hear is the band onstage howling with laughter!

mikey_the_rat

[QueenOfCalifornia]

3. I couldn't lookn at the article

I hates...hates Van Halen. I never "got" it.

[mikeytherat]

9. Go. Listen. Best laugh you'll get all week.

Seriously. Watching the entire clip is nigh impossible - just give it 90 seconds. Like I told DS1, give it about 30-45 seconds after the band comes in after the synth intro.

mikey_the_rat

[Dr. Strange]

4. A good Spinal Tap moment.

In fact, they may as well take a cue from Tap and call it a free-form jazz moment!

[mikeytherat]

5. Pompous, cheeeeeeezy synth, combined with banner-waving and confetti?

The Tap could not have done it better. The only things missing were:

Alex blowing up on stage
Wolfgang getting stuck half-in and half-out of some prop
Dwarfs as Druids

As it was, they had an 80% Spinal Tap moment without even trying. That, in itself, is quite impressive.

mikey_the_rat

[regnaD kciN]

12. Spinal Tap, indeed...

I'm sure that, if Van Halen promised to play the synth at that sampling rate every night, there are people here who would be quite happy to make them a 10" replica of Stonehenge!

(And even Tap wouldn't have come up with that giant inflatable microphone as a stage prop... :rofl: )

[DS1]

6. I really really hate that moronic pos of a song

Don't think much of the band, either

[mikeytherat]

7. Then this is the vid for you. Seriously.

I, too, have always loathed this particular tune (though there are a few Van Halen songs I do like). You need not watch the whole thing; that may well be impossible. Just give it a good 30 seconds after the opening synth riff. It is worth it. Unintentional Spinal Tap lives!

mikey_the_rat

[DS1]

8. ouch, haha

[regnaD kciN]

10. Just what that "song" deserves...!

:spank:

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. I'm surprised (well, not really) that they didn't stop it and start over.

That would have been the right thing to do.

Here's another half-step problem in tuning:

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/10/11/the-most-amazing-video-of-a-girl-playing-star-wars-on-the-trumpet-ever/

[DS1]

13. I think it's the tape that's too high

Star Wars was never that ummm yeah


anyway


I don't think it's totally her fault