American Edit

I have been a big fan of mash-ups ever since I heard somebody put together Skee-Lo’s I Wish with Survivor's Eye of the Tiger and the Breeders’ Cannonball. Ever since then I have searched the internet to find other such musical brilliancy. Some were better than others with the best being Danger Mouse’s Grey Album which combined songs from Jay-Z‘s Black Album rapping over music from The Beatles’ White Album. The latest full album mash-up takes ever song from Green Day’s American Idiot and gives each song its very own mash-up. Unfortunately as soon as the artist, Dean Grey, put the album up on the internet, he got a cease and desist letter from Green Day’s record label because they are evil as seen by my Record People Are Shady series (use "search this blog" function at top). But in a sign of civil disobedience, Dean and a few other people have posted the album one day only. To get a copy of your own head over to the American Edit website and choose from the gracious people who are hosting the album and hear the Green Day album mashed-up with such songs as (but not limited to):

Kanye West – Gold Digger
Smokey Robinson – Tears of Clown
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
Gary Glitter – Rock & Roll part 2
Oasis – Wonderwall
Travis - Writing to Reach You
Aerosmith – Dream On
U2 – Sometimes You Can’t Make it On Your Own
The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
Ashanti - Only U
Buffalo Springfield - For What it's Worth
The Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
Nelly and Tim McGraw - Over and Over
The Bangles - Manic Monday

And speeches from George Bush and John F Kennedy.