Is this the real life? or is this just fantasy…
…well, apparently not. In one of those moments that makes it seem like your whole world has just gone and eaten itself (and ended up looking a bit like a haggis), news reaches us that The Flaming Lips have just completed recording a cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody” for a future Queen tribute compilation album.
No, I am not making this up.
If any of you weren’t on our Xmas card mailing list, you will have missed our little tribute to the wonder that is “Bo Rhap”, so in honour of this excellent, if somewhat disturbing news, I’ve stuck it up again here.
Personally, I’m just a teeny weeny bit miffed that we never got asked to get involved… I wonder why? I mean, they must have got the idea from somewhere…
;)
April 14th, 2005 at 3:52 am
This is the coolest thing I have heard all week.
April 14th, 2005 at 6:44 pm
it’s like candy for the ears. whoo.
April 14th, 2005 at 9:55 pm
Would it be possible to get a list of the covers? Some really bizarre ones in here.
April 14th, 2005 at 10:44 pm
Yeah, or do we need to leave that up to Andy Baio as well? :-)
For a start, I recognise Bad News (produced by Brian May!), California Guitar Trio (I think that’s what they’re called), The Braids, an orchestral one which I have at home (but can’t remember the name of the orchestra). Is Russell Watson’s in there?
April 14th, 2005 at 10:48 pm
Yup, Russell is in there (with the godawful Soul II Soul style swingbeat, if memory serves me well).
April 14th, 2005 at 11:58 pm
Weird Al Yankovic’s Bohemian Polka Lyrics is in there near the beginning.
April 15th, 2005 at 6:41 pm
Coolest. Mashup. Ever.
What’s the cover at 4:49-54, though? I’ve heard it before and it’s driving me nuts trying to remember…
The G’n’R one is there too, and Rolf’s.
April 17th, 2005 at 5:14 am
The orchestral one is by a group called G4, I think. I found it on Gnut–ahem, sorry, by many fervent hours spent searching in the back of record shops.
April 17th, 2005 at 5:17 am
Hey, Naisa, if you figure that particular segment out, I too would love to find out what 4:49-4:54 is. That massive orchestra-chorale effect on the song is just giving me incredible goose bumps.
April 17th, 2005 at 11:02 am
Can anyone tell me the name of the woman/band who sings the snippet “Mama, just killed a man…” (it’s at one minute and 17 seconds in; lasts about 5 or 6 seconds)? It’s pretty.
April 17th, 2005 at 8:53 pm
A couple of answers, then…
The “Mama, just killed a man” clip is by a japanese (I think) band called Folder. Their cover is on an album called “7soul” – good luck with finding that outside of Japan ;)
The section from 4:49 is by John Miles (as in “Music was my first love…), taken from a live album of the “Night Of The Proms” show. Not sure which album, as there’s a few, but I think it’s this one.
:)
April 19th, 2005 at 12:20 am
What’s the song from 1:55 to 2:01? I’d like to know all of them so I could listen to them all in a row in a mega-binge of covers, but just knowing this one will do.
April 19th, 2005 at 7:28 pm
Hope you don’t mind if I play this in the club coming thursday? People will be shocked. SHOCKED I say! *grin*
Excellent!
April 20th, 2005 at 3:26 am
someone best be makin up a list. id love to find out who does the rockout part in irish jig-ery.
April 30th, 2005 at 3:22 am
There’s a probably partial list of known Bohemian Rhapsody covers here: http://home.worldnet.att.net/~byarosh/BoRap.html
May 24th, 2005 at 6:41 am
I’d like to know who sang “Pulled my trigger now he’s dead” part?
August 18th, 2005 at 12:28 am
Nyehehehe…
But this sucker carries one helluva theme with it. All these covers, many ungodly (Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew…), are A-OK, but your stuff is illegal?
>_
September 28th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
So this is really old but I only just found it, and I’m wondering where the two second instrumental sample starting at 3:44 until 3:46 comes from.
I’ll be slowly checking out the list of covers posted by max johnson but it’d obviously be a lot easier for me if you were just able to tell where that specific sample came from. :P
July 21st, 2011 at 11:42 am
[…] Kutiman, who has built a career out of harvesting clips from YouTube and producing masterpieces from them, takes 80 performances of Led Zep’s Black Dog and stitches them together in order. It’s great, but it also reminds me of Eric Kleptone’s fantastically unlistenable Bo Rhap. […]