"Enter Sandman":
(Here's a better version of the same thing. In my defense I only spent like five minutes writing this.)
UPDATED 4/22: There are usually two kinds of ways I'll write a song of the week. Either it's something I've worked on for a while and figured out enough to get recording, or it's something where I started recording with just a concept (sometimes not even) and just worked out ideas as I went along. This is the much rarer third kind, where I'd have an idea and record so I wouldn't forget it. If you want you might call it a sketch.
I had this just come to me after watching that smoothtallica video and a melody just popped into my head. I decided to do it rockapella because the internet has a retarded fascination with a capella and I knew if I put it in the title it would get a billion hits. This turned out to be true. According to the Youtube this has quickly become my 2nd most popular song, beat out only by That Zelda Song. I'm a whore.
Artistically, this is one of my less successful songs, partly because I don't really know how to write a cappella music (at least I avoided the "guy one sings the guitar, guy two sings the bass, guy three beatboxes" cliche, which is basically the lamest thing ever yet describes nine eighths of all internacapella music). The other failure is that I didn't really care enough about this song to work hard on it. Like I said, it's a sketch, and (hopefully people figured this out for themselves) a joke. I tend to obsess when I fail, but here I just hope people listen to my other, better songs after hearing this one.
UPDATED 4/22: There are usually two kinds of ways I'll write a song of the week. Either it's something I've worked on for a while and figured out enough to get recording, or it's something where I started recording with just a concept (sometimes not even) and just worked out ideas as I went along. This is the much rarer third kind, where I'd have an idea and record so I wouldn't forget it. If you want you might call it a sketch.
I had this just come to me after watching that smoothtallica video and a melody just popped into my head. I decided to do it rockapella because the internet has a retarded fascination with a capella and I knew if I put it in the title it would get a billion hits. This turned out to be true. According to the Youtube this has quickly become my 2nd most popular song, beat out only by That Zelda Song. I'm a whore.
Artistically, this is one of my less successful songs, partly because I don't really know how to write a cappella music (at least I avoided the "guy one sings the guitar, guy two sings the bass, guy three beatboxes" cliche, which is basically the lamest thing ever yet describes nine eighths of all internacapella music). The other failure is that I didn't really care enough about this song to work hard on it. Like I said, it's a sketch, and (hopefully people figured this out for themselves) a joke. I tend to obsess when I fail, but here I just hope people listen to my other, better songs after hearing this one.
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