JoCo Looks Back creations
I thought we needed a thread for all the things people will create using the JoCo Looks Back source tracks.
So far we have the live performances compiled by Jmonkee, and a live performance with a phantom band by Javier.
I just had time today to make a very short thingy called 'Code Monkey Like Creative Commons' (or should I call it 'Code Monkey Like... and keep people in suspense for 16 seconds?) by splicing together clips from Mr. Fancy Pants, Code Monkey and Re: Your Brains. It seemed like the logical first thing to do. I was thinking that perhaps just the last bit of my 'song' could be used as a kicker at the end of other things created using these source tracks.
Has anyone done anything else?
So far we have the live performances compiled by Jmonkee, and a live performance with a phantom band by Javier.
I just had time today to make a very short thingy called 'Code Monkey Like Creative Commons' (or should I call it 'Code Monkey Like... and keep people in suspense for 16 seconds?) by splicing together clips from Mr. Fancy Pants, Code Monkey and Re: Your Brains. It seemed like the logical first thing to do. I was thinking that perhaps just the last bit of my 'song' could be used as a kicker at the end of other things created using these source tracks.
Has anyone done anything else?
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I have vague plans to do things with it, but for starters I still actually need to get the source tracks; I am twisting my wife's arm into getting it for me as a Christmas present ;-)
(Hmm, I notice 'never gonna' is fairly prominent. I reckon we could make JoCo sing his own Rickroll.)
Bet you didn't guess right.
ETA: damn, first time I have been ninja'd, shall have to type faster in future.
EATA: why is it that upon contemplating doing all of his songs in one my first thought is to write a bot to collect all the lyrics for me, the laziness or programmers knows no end.
That said, I did have an unfinished project in mind. I think the world needs a hardcore dance mash up of "My Monkey" and "First of May," along with some other Monkey-related lyrics, and perhaps some other bits and pieces harvested from various songs, entitled simply "Monkeyfucker." Yes, I'm a bad man : )
Probably _not_ what he had in mind when he released the source tracks. I'm not sure if that makes an argument against doing it... or for doing it!
Wait, what am I saying? I'm a parent, I have responsibilities... an upstanding member of my community. Hehehe, I just said "upstanding member..."
You'd have things arranged so that it was also easy to find words which are part of another word, e.g, a folder called girl containing all recordings of him saying 'girl' and also containing a 'girlfriend' folder with all instances of him saying girlfriend, so you can cut the 'girl' out if you prefer it. I'm sure there's a more typically-JoCo example I could use here but I can't think of it.
But I'm sure nobody would ever get around to doing that; certainly not me, considering I still have two shows that I haven't even split into songs yet, let alone words.
Enjoy.
My monkey is angry with your new wordle.
GO pants!
Where did 'Stein' come from?
Haha I see you got the bum-de-dum-be-dum-be-dum-de-dum from Rainbow Connection.
ETA: Not sure it looks so good as I put more words in it but a Mk II. Went through added all the right accents and removed some of the non lyric bits.
I've done my best to map the keys correctly, but if you have any corrections, I'd be grateful. And yes, I know the drum buttons are not loud enough.
But I'm already knocking myself out with this thing. Bravo.
Looking at the source tracks and the concert footage, it looks like JoCo plays the first background loop (everything except drums and vocals) twice, then the second loop once.
The sample buttons were tough. I cut them shorter than the real thing so the sequence I have in mind works.
I didn't put in a vocal loop because the thing is supposed to be just like the one he plays in concert, i.e., something you might find laying around his apartment/tiny house/secret lair.
The rickroll is coming, I just have to dig through the garage to find the CD again.
Edit: Alora (limekle) is really who discovered the one on "First of May", then I found the other one on "Future Soon"
To stay on topic: I've been having WAY too much fun playing around with these files. Everything I make just seems to be ruining the songs in some way though, haha.
Example: Creepier Doll
That doll is not only creepy, it is in fact quite ill!
I should warn you first that these are somewhat offensive mp3s, and you should avoid clicking on them if you aren't looking to hear an excessive amount of swearing. They are all NSFW... obviously.
My friend Neil and I have this sort of history remixing songs to amuse each other by just taking one word and using it over and over to get a whole new comedic effect... we're also like 12 years old, apparently. A couple examples: he took Weird Al's song Headline News and turned it into Headline News (Weiner Mix), and I also turned Neil's song Ben Bernanke into Ben Bernanke (Prick Remix)... so you can imagine my pure and utter joy when I realized that I now had singled out audio of JoCo saying "fuck" 13 different times. The possibilities were endless.
So without further ado, I present to you:
Fuck of May
(Now with 546% more use of the word "fuck"!)
There are still several parts in the song that I didn't get around to messing with, but I just can't bring myself to edit this thing anymore. Enjoy.
;' )))
This was a quick experiment gone horribly wrong:
Tom Cruise Mountain
I still think someone could probably make a really awesome version of that with a little work, I just don't have the patience for it. We pretty much just sped up the vocal track, pasted it as is into Tom Cruise Crazy, and were like "Okay, great! It's done!" Some parts match up, some do not.
I'm not sure if JoCo would... _approve_, exactly... but I'm sure he would at least grin... he has a naughty sense of humor at heart. What is intriguing about that has been to watch different audiences react. The Pontiac audience laughed at "First of May," but it was kind of a nervous titter. The Ann Arbor audience was roaring with a much more approving laughter, and you could hear them thinking "Yeah! How long until spring?"
ETA: Laughed heartily all the way through. Thank you!
While you're there, feel free to grab PG versions of Kenesaw Mountain Landis and Ikea. Again, nothing fancy.... I just took out the "offensive" words and replaced them with a moment of silence. Not ideal perhaps, but it will allow you to listen with the kids in the car!
People also get confused/annoyed by the background radio talking in the middle of "Shop Vac". They're not sure if it's intended or is some kind of corruption in the file.
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