Your bird can sing

Yesterday I downloaded CCC's mash-up of the Beatles' Revolver album and various artists. Check it out. It's real good, comparable, in some respects, to last year's famous Grey Album mash-up. CCC took all of the songs on the album and paired them with lyrics and music from a wide variety of other musicians, from Hendrix to The Cure to Madonna and Glenn Miller. Most of the tracks really turned out great. My favorite track is "And Your Bird Was Right". I liked that one so much I even downloaded the original Beatles track, but it just wasn't as good as the mashed version. ;-)

I love mash-ups and wish there were more out there. They're mostly illegal, though, and that's a shame, because I consider them to be a new form of musical art. The Mu$ic Indu$try thinks they're losing money from the dispersal of these tracks and considers those who create mash-ups to be pirates, but--just speaking from my own experience--I think it gets listeners interested in a lot more different kinds of music and musicians than they might have been interested in previously. I've never really been too interested in the Beatles, for example, but the Grey Album and Revolved, have sparked an interest in me. The music companies need to lighten up.