I really feel like these are becoming an artform in their own right. I've heard so many good ones that I couldn't possibly name them all. Who says you have to be a known name and make major coin to produce a good remix these days? List and discuss some of your favorites here.

I just found an excellent mash-up of Bjork's "Hidden Place" and The Cure's "A Forest". Perfectly executed. Check it out.

[snip- no boot sharing folks..sorry- sos]

Listening to it now....

I loved the mash-up between Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out and Kelis's Milkshake.

HamsterHuey said:

What do you think?

GangstaFam said:

I will not save this mash up... It is funny, but the two do not FIT perfectly...

Where as the Kelis/FF mash up ROCKS! Do you know that one? It was a free download on the ff.org site.

HamsterHuey said:

You don't think? I was really impressed actually.

Never heard the FF one.

One really fucked up juxtaposition is the Missy vs. Joy Division "Love Will Freak Us". I can't tell whether I should be sad or dancing.

GangstaFam said:

Dancing.,Remember Polly Jean!

HamsterHuey said:

True. But can I be sad and dancing at the same time?

GangstaFam said:

mmmm.
Trick question. Maybe the dancing helps relieving the sadness...
Dance it all away!

I know I can forget the world when dancing...

What's that?

Kylie Minogue vs. New Order - Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head

GangstaFam said:

Now that is Roxy Music, the one that was playing while you posted the dance remark...

Spin Me Round from Manifesto. It's not my favourite, but the lyrics just fit the moment, didn't it?

Axchi696 said:

Now that one is what they used to call phat. Love that one too.

HamsterHuey said:

Don't know Manifesto well. I have it, but have only listened to the tracks from it on the box set a few times. I definitely prefer their glory years from '72-'75.
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Come to think of it, Bjork has countless amazing fan mixes out there.

The Bjork remix web used to be the best source of them, but it seems they're only storing the newest ones now.

[snip-sos]

Axchi696 said:

That one is not so exciting because it's legit.

Girls On Top - "We Don’t Give A Damn About Our Friends" (Freak Like Me/Are Friends Electric). That's one of my favorite songs of all time. Again, the legal version featuring the Sugababes in place of Adina Howard is not so hot.

Freelance Hellraiser's "A Stroke Of Genius" (Genie In A Bottle/Hard To Explain) is another good one.

GangstaFam said:

That one is excellent!! I love mashups when they're done well.


My favorite mash-up was my own Justin Timberlake "Don't Stop Til You King Of Pop"

"Hidden Forest" fits together so well, it sounds like a Sugarcubes outtake.

GangstaFam said:

That was actually pretty good.

I think however, the best mash-ups are the ones that are almost sacrilegious--where two artists that are totally different musically are combined seamlessly into one pop song. You're kind of preaching to the choir with a Björk/Cure mash-up. Having said that, I still liked "Hidden Forest" enough to save it. I'll be playing it a lot the next few days.

sextonseven said:

Ever hear 'Smells Like Bootylicious'? Thank God I'm not really a Nirvana fan.

Control the Needle

Janet and Dannii Mingoue

and there is a good mix of Music from Madonna, Amazing from George Michael, and Can't Get You Out of My Head from Kylie

and a great Madonna fan made remix cd called Hallucinations

Axchi696 said:

I have "Smells Like Booty". Love it.

It's been a looooong time since I heard "Smells Like Booty" and I hadn't heard it many times in the first place... I forget what it's like.

CinisterCee said:

I have the Best Bootlegs Album from a few years back with that track and the others I mentioned on it. Damn, I used to play that CD a lot.

sextonseven said:

Yeah I have only seen that a scan in magazines. Where'd you cop it?

CinisterCee said:

Where everyone cops everything: ebay.

True dat

CinisterCee said:

You're so cool! That's exactly what I thought.

Björk

Crave [Vespertine Bonus Track]