Can't Explain OK

[Tim Westcott]

Check out this remix of I Can't Explain with Whitney Houston's It's Not Alright. Kinda works in my view.

www.mash-ups.co.uk/

Click on the centre of the three circles in the bottom part of the pop up and scroll along until you see the Kids Are Alright CD cover and click to download the track.

Thanks to Sniff Who on The Shout for unearthing this one.

[Tim Westcott]

Here's the tech info on the track:

The hard work was done with this one - seeing as Braces Tower had already come up with the initial bootleg. I just wanted something quick to play around with - so remixing this excellent boot seemed like a cool idea. A bootleg of a bootleg - not a remix more of a reboot! The FBS track didn't like being pitched down to meet the vocals so I ended up taking just drum breaks and the intro SFX from it, then rebuilt the sub bass and layered The Who original guitar over the top. The guitar was sounding a bit twee so I stuck it through some overdrive and very mild chorusing to give some girth(!) It was obviousl from the start that the track would have to just build and build - I threw in some FX samples and a conga loop. I was determined to use the Elton John Pinball Wizard track partly because it's a Who track anyway and partly cos it's pretty much the same riff on the outro. Unfortunately it had to be shifted up two whole tones (shudder) but I somehow got away with it. The timing of the EJ track was all ove the shop so I cut each bar up into four and hand placed each one beat chunk to line up perfectly.

The intro and outro dialogue was taken from the Who BBC sessions CD. Incidentally Pete was actually talking about "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" and NOT "Can't Explain" at the start - funny how these things get twisted, eh?

[Ineedanewname]

It's a good concept, but there's something just 'too busy' about it. I'd rather just hear the Fat Boy Slim track on it's own.

There's another bloke who's name I can't remember offhand, he does the same thing, mixing the Sex Pistols and The Jam with Madonna and suchlike, and it works really work. He just uses two tracks and it all balances fine. This guy however seems to be trying too hard and over-egging the pudding as a result.

[granth]

I thought it was pretty cool , but the ending gets to cluttery- just alot of noise with ol' whitney thundering through it all.... indeed the fatboy slim track is excellent.

[stef]

Its alright,
its ok,
simple lyrics might blow you away,
but repetitive
guitar riff
(with a peaked up harmonic shift)
surely any would've done for this.
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I like the way these aren't obvious choices
(can't explain/its not alright), unlike kylie-Slow/angel-massive attack, as Slow is crying out for some MUSIC anyway (and that chocolate track too).
Sure hope Whitney gets her stuff back together.
Just try to think pinballwizard/greatest love,
or wgfa/Queen-of-the-night
(but needs to avoid Acid Queen maybe ?)
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