There Is Going To Be A Lot of Pissed of People
 

Producer Combines Jay-Z's 'Black Album' With The Beatles' 'White Album'

Fri Jan 16,10:00 AM ET

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Producer Danger Mouse has taken all of the vocals from Jay-Z's Black Album and recorded them over music from the Beatles' 1968 set The White Album, to create The Grey Album, which will be released in March according to NME.com.

Mouse, who sampled portions of the Beatles' set, maintains that all of the music from The Grey Album can be traced to The White Album.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._launch/216431

My gawd 'n hymnal!!! NOOOOOO!!

uh-uh.....no way

Paul McCartney needs to borrow his wife's faux leg and beat this assmunch senseless with it.

This makes me feel very sad. :(

Good one 33girl!

John and George will be turning over in their graves... this is just wrong.

Uh...that would be "Gott in Himmel" which is German for "God in heaven"......LOL

But I do agree.... ;)

I think it's cool.

I like mash-ups....they are another form of art.

Ugh. That's all I can say.

What's the big deal?

Re: There Is Going To Be A Lot of Pissed of People
 

Interesting.

OH. LORD.

Let's just make this easy - do not mess with Beatles songs. Never, never, never, never, never.

ETA, that includes you too Phil Spector, you bad toupee wearing psycho.

I heard that the Beatles are going to re-release the "Let it Be" album without Phil Spector's music.

ETA: The link to the Rolling Stone article. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/new....asp?nid=17453

This is a travesty. Enough said.

They already did. It's called "Let It Be Naked" I believe.

As to the mix, I will eserve comment until I hear it, but I don't know that much good can come of this...

Some of the "naked" songs are on Anthology III. Long and Winding Road, for one, is much better with just Billy Preston's organ and Paul's piano.

Producer Of The Grey Album, Jay-Z/ Beatles Mash-Up, Gets Served
 

It was an ingenious idea, and one that played so dangerously close to the third rail of copyright law that it was sure to get shut down eventually.

Cease-and-desist orders went out last week to the producer who created The Grey Album and the few independent retail stores that were carrying the CD.

DJ/producer Danger Mouse married vocals from Jay-Z's recent The Black Album with beats made from the Beatles' classic The White Album to create The Grey Album. The "mash-up" CD is one of several bootlegs created using vocals from Jay-Z's supposedly final LP (see "Remixers Turn Jay-Z's Black Album Grey, White and Brown"). But it was the only one that dared to use music from the Beatles' guarded catalog.

A representative for EMI Records served the cease-and-desist orders to Danger Mouse and stores such as Fat Beats and hiphopsite.com. EMI Records controls the sound recordings for the Beatles on behalf of Capitol Records Inc. The publishing side of the Beatles' catalog is owned by Sony Music/ ATV Publishing, a venture between Sony Music and Michael Jackson.

Danger Mouse said he created The Grey Album strictly as a limited-edition promotional item (only 3,000 copies were pressed), but it quickly caught the ear of everyone from Damon Dash to the Neptunes to Jay-Z himself, and copies found their way to hip-hop retail outlets and auction sites like eBay.

Danger Mouse said he's complied with the order not to distribute any more copies of The Grey Album. Because of the small number pressed, he didn't expect any further legal action to take place.

—Joseph Patel

Okay, I am bumping this because I am listening to The Grey Album as we speak.

It's really freakin' brilliant.

For real.

That anyone would even THINK of creating such a disgusting rip-off of talent is just further proof that the Apocalypse is upon us!

33girl, Heather McCartney seems to have taken care of this one!

It's even better than brilliant.

Let them call this a travesty or whatever, I can't seem to find a track I *dont* like.

I would listen to it.

Something a little different, for a change.

What can I say? We know good isht when we hear it. :D

YOU JUST DON'T mess with Beatles music......it's unholy!

John and George are definitely rolling in their graves

Have you listened to the Grey Album?

Nobody who has said it was disgusting or unholy or whatever has actually said that they listened to it.

It's imaginative, it's good, it's not at all what I expected it would be.

I might have to check it out.

It could be the very best cover in the world, but it's still... a cover. Sorry, that's not exactly "imaginative" in any way.

I'm sure that there are really good and imaginative copies of the Mona Lisa, or Sunflowers - but they're still imitations of the real thing.

That's not accurate.

The Grey Album is NOT a cover album. It is an album of remixes (or mash-ups, depending how you look at it) of Jay-Z's Black Album using samples from The White Album.

It takes source material from two unique works from different genres of music and blends them in ways that have not been done before.

So basically, you haven't heard it?

How can we listen to it???

Where can we get it from?

Re: There Is Going To Be A Lot of Pissed of People
 

So. JayZ ain't nothing special. He's a shark, nuff said.

Imperial1

Well, since it's being recommended by some folx here that I think have good sense, I may have to give it a listen.;)