Interesting videos: regurgitated

[superluser]

Inspired by the Beethoven-singing scanner, here's a brief story:

A few years ago (7 in fact), I was sitting in a room talking with some friends, when we heard a song come on from the TV in another room.  A couple of us looked at each other as if to say, ``Am I hearing that right?''  We ran to the TV, and this is what we saw:

That's really not appropriate music for a census ad.  Especially one involving kids. (SFW)

[techmaster-glitch]

I don't get it...

[Tapewolf]

 

It appears to be heavily based on the Walter Carlos arrangement of Beethoven's 9th.  The version used in A Clockwork Orange.  Maybe I'm just being uncultured, but I think that's the connotation which SL is referring to...

[superluser]

I don't get it...

I found a video with the music from Clockwork Orange on Youtube, but it's *the* scene, you know with all the ultraviolence, the old in-out, and all that.  So you might want to skip it.

Maybe I'm just being uncultured, but I think that's the connotation which SL is referring to...

That's *exactly* the connotation.  And she prefers to go by Wendy Carlos now...

[Tapewolf]

That's *exactly* the connotation.  And she prefers to go by Wendy Carlos now...

Yep, but they weren't called that at the time it was recorded.  IIRC they did that one in 1969 or 1970... Rachel Elkind did the chorale, probably a solo voice that was then transposed over the polyphonic section using the vocoder.  Getting the polyphony alone was a major undertaking since the Moog modular can only do one note at a time.

I wasn't so impressed with the film, but the music will always have a special place for me since it was hearing that album which first made me go OMG!  Must have a synthesizer!...

[techmaster-glitch]

I don't get it...

I found a video with the music from Clockwork Orange on Youtube, but it's *the* scene, you know with all the ultraviolence, the old in-out, and all that.  So you might want to skip it.

I've never seen Clockwork Orange...All I know is that it's an old sci-fi movie. That's it.

[Tapewolf]

I've never seen Clockwork Orange...All I know is that it's an old sci-fi movie. That's it.

It was an incredibly violent, X-rated SF movie that was banned in the UK after people started imitating scenes from it, beating up tramps etc.  This of course meant that all my peers wanted to see it when we were about 16.  I didn't manage to see it until after Kubrick died and they were allowed to release it.

Aside from its infamy, it was also notable for it's remarkable electronic score, which was groundbreaking in 1971.

For some reason I don't see 1971 as 'old'.  Which is peculiar because it's before I was born.  For me, 'old' is pre-1966...

[superluser]

It was an incredibly violent, X-rated SF movie that was banned in the UK

Interestingly enough, that's not what I heard.  I heard that they were planning to ban it, so Kubrick bought up all the copies of the film and refused to allow new ones to be made.  It was never banned in the US. (figures)

(I will, of course, defer to the gentleman from the UK if this is not accurate)

Anyways, the concept is that to escape a murder rap, the protagonist is shown a number of violent and pornographic (and violently pornographic) films while being given drugs which make him hate whatever he experiences.  During one of the films, he hears Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 4th movement (the Ode to Joy), synthesized in a similar manner to the Census ad.  After that, whenever he hears this music which he once loved, he becomes violently ill.

The point is, I don't know if you want what you're advertising to be associated with ultraviolence.

Edit: Now I remember what I came back to say...the protagonist is what b-tards pretend to be.

Video, video...need a video...

Have a ball

[Tapewolf]

Interestingly enough, that's not what I heard.  I heard that they were planning to ban it, so Kubrick bought up all the copies of the film and refused to allow new ones to be made.

Yes, that's a more accurate way of putting it.  It was banned by Kubrick, not the government, but for people who wanted to see it, the net result was similar.
Some time in the mid-90s there was a cinema which illegally showed it (being a copyright/licensing offence) and I knew a guy at school who had a Dutch import, but I never managed to get a copy of it.

Clips of the film were shown in a documentary about how it was 'banned', and finally in the late 90s IIRC the thing was released (now downgraded from 'X' to 18) about a month or less after Kubrick died.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Entertainingly, my brother went to an 11pm double feature back in, oh, late nineties or so.

Shown were: Natural Born Killers and A Clockwork Orange

He said... he was -slightly- uneasy walking home afterwards. Just a bit. ;-]

[GabrielsThoughts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbsqkDE5gts

the difficulty level alone makes me want this game, who knew homer was a force to be reckoned with.

Someone tell me where I can get Simpsons VS Darkstalkers please...

[Zedd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbsqkDE5gts

the difficulty level alone makes me want this game, who knew homer was a force to be reckoned with.

Someone tell me where I can get Simpsons VS Darkstalkers please...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmV1g6tuIGI I raise you Homer vs Dalek Emperor and everyone...Some the Combos the fighters are funny as hell

[thegayhare]

Kittens plotting world domination

Wake up call

[King Of Hearts]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_V5fOqZYdmE

Not-Hitler stares Captain Planet to near-death.

[xHaZxMaTx]

Wow, that's just silly.   I lol'd.

[Paladin Sheppard]

Fellow forumites I give you the Toyota Hilux that couldn't die   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrk6vsb77xk&NR=1 in this episode we drive it down stairs, run it into a tree, leave it in the sea, drive it through a hut, drop a caravan on it, hit it with a wrecking ball and torch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uc4Ksz3nHM and then we put it on a building rigged for demolition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZDtC9kjVk

[Shadrok]

Here a funny one for Halloween. 

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=49750&cl=4754459&ch=49799&src=news

Trick
or treat 

[GabrielsThoughts]

http://www.dailymotion.com/rated/littlekuriboh/video/x2b0a6_ygo-the-abridged-series-episode-21_fun


the best parody ever.

[Zedd]

http://www.dailymotion.com/rated/littlekuriboh/video/x2b0a6_ygo-the-abridged-series-episode-21_fun


the best parody ever.

Yes...Shame the site is taken over by a mod whos too into Halo than the site its self

[techmaster-glitch]

Do not watch all of these videos at once. If you do, they get less funny from humor desensitization.

One of the Who's On First skits by Abbot and Costello.
So. Much. Win.

And a few parodies...
Geroge Bush: Who's In China I wouldn't be surprised if a conversation like this ever actually happened with Bush
My Documents Who's On First meets the Office.
Naruto Who's On First Just Who's On First with naruto. Rammenstien will love this

[Ryudo Lee]

My Documents Who's On First meets the Office.

It's sad that I've had that conversation before.

[techmaster-glitch]

Stumbled across this...

The utter randomness and absurdness of this WILL make you laugh out loud. If it doesn't you are not a human

[LionHeart]

Title Of The Song

[Janus Whitefurr]

No idea if it's been posted before but: Best. Marching Band. Ever.

[superluser]

You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Edit:

No idea if it's been posted before but: Best. Marching Band. Ever.

Have you seen the Battle with Kary?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSqNx7vJLDE

Bangkok, oriental city. And man, is it ever an interesting place.

(SFW, and only 40 seconds)

[superluser]

Bangkok, oriental city.

Aww, man!  It's not from a musical about chess?

Fixed. (also SFW)

Edit: re-fixed

[Zedd]

Ka ku ta Im a taxi driver maaannn..

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Aww, man!  It's not from a musical about chess?

Fixed. (also SFW)

Sir, I think you mean Fixed. ;-]

[superluser]

Sir, I think you mean Fixed. ;-]

I hate it when that happens. (actually, this is a better version)