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Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by chromaton on Monday January 12, 2015 @04:47PM (#8876629)
This reminds me of this recent popular YouTube mashup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapt5C3yDeY

6 recent hit country songs combined into one. They blend into each other perfectly.

Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by im3w1l on Monday January 12, 2015 @05:46PM (#8876942)
That seems to be some random guy just reposting. Didn't know youtube had "blogspam" before

Original mashup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o

Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by Jgrubb on Monday January 12, 2015 @05:25PM (#8876832)
That's hilarious, but it sounds like those tunes were pitch shifted into the same key. Nashville producers have more skill than that. Oh, and FL/GA line is frigging awful.
Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by baddox on Monday January 12, 2015 @06:05PM (#8877057)
The pitch and tempos are shifted, but more nefariously, the pieces of the songs which don't fit the VI-I-V progression are removed and replaced by pieces of other songs which do fit. It's deliberate and meticulous cherry-picking. The only thing all the songs have in common is that they're in 4/4 and the verses and choruses all start on the VI chord. I should make a table showing the actual chord progressions from each song and how the creator deliberately masked out the parts of each song which are different from the baseline the creator chose.
Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by baddox on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:53PM (#8884385)
(replying to self) I charted out the chord progressions of the six songs for comparison:

http://baddox.github.io/six_country_songs.html

Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by ChuckMcM on Monday January 12, 2015 @06:46PM (#8877254)
Please do, that would be an interesting companion piece to this.
Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by Jgrubb on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:18AM (#8879284)
That would require you to listen to and chart out these 6 mediocre songs. I wouldn't ask you to do that. You've got a music background, I take it?
Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by baddox on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:55PM (#8884397)
Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by baddox on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:04PM (#8881475)
I listened to them last night, and started the chart. Should be ready tomorrow. A couple of the songs are actually decent. :)
Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by Giulalbez on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:58PM (#8878237)
Please, if you do it, let us know.
Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by baddox on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @11:52PM (#8884382)
Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by twerquie on Monday January 12, 2015 @05:35PM (#8876891)
And time-stretched.
Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by Kiro on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @03:45AM (#8878717)
FL/GA line?
Re:Why Do All Records Sound the Same? by Jgrubb on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @07:16AM (#8879280)
The worst band in that mashup - Florida/Georgia Line. (diatribe about my upbringing in Georgia redacted)