The Grey Album
Music 02/12/2004 |Vocal tracks from Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” + samples from The Beatles’ “The White Album” = Danger Mouse’s “The Grey Album”.
Interesting project, which I’d heard about, but have not yet heard. However, as Danger Mouse (the DJ who constructed this project) has been served with a cease-and-desist order, Waxy.org is hosting the .mp3 files.
I’m downloading them now…
(via Mike)
iTunes: “TNT” by Sister Machine Gun from the album Covered in Black (1997, 3:47).
[See also: Grey Tuesday | Mashups | This is boring? | Electronic civil disobedience | …just a matter of emphasis ]
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February 12th, 2004 at 11:51 am
I’ve been listening to this nonstop for about a week since I heard about it on a music group I frequent. I’m really interested to hear what you think about it… being an ex-DJ and all. I like it more for the cut-up Beatles beats (I almost wish Danger Mouse would release an vocal-free version).
February 14th, 2004 at 3:27 pm
I was surprised that the album sounded so good, but that’s because I’m not a big Beatles fan. Too bad about the cease and desist.
February 15th, 2004 at 12:25 am
The infamous Grey Album
I opened up NetNewsWire and did my nightly (daily?) check of the blogs I like to read, I saw this post. I had heard about the Grey Album earlier this week, and hadn’t thought too much about it. I saw…