chipmunks on 16 speed - Vol. 2 (2015)
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- 01 Heartbreaker 0:00
02 Refugee 6:28
03 Whip It 12:36
04 Bettie Davis Eyes 17:54
05 Jessie's Girl 23:58
06 Mr Tambourine Man 30:09
07 This Diamond Ring 34:41
08 Eye of the Tiger 39:09
09 Fame 47:03
10 How Do I Make You 53:30
11 Good Girls Don't 58:12
12 Chariots of Fire 1:04:34
I'm going to imagine that this is how the chipmunks perceive the world. They think they are singing this way and we all just hear it the other way.
Like how passerine birds mentally process their song
Hahaha that's a good one!
Definition of misunderstood artists.
They are so fucking badass if that's the case. Went from parody band to dark rock cover band at lightspeed
Someone should start a series of videos with actual Alvin and the fuck heads but with this going down on a shelter filled with pp basically running with scissors with this jam. 10\10
Good sound
I actually played a show with these guys some years back. We were the "local opener" when they cam through Dayton, OH. Their career was obviously on the decline at the time, but I was never one to turn down a gig. When we showed up, their manager informed us that the band they were touring with had left so it was just us and the headliner. They asked if we were able to play a double set, or at least play for 90 minutes instead of the scheduled hour. We ended up playing every song we knew. As we approached the end of our set, Theodore pulled our singer tot eh side and asked us to buy some more time, they were trying to get Alvin cleaned up. So we played a couple of our songs twice that night. The rest of the band was pretty fed up and bailed when our set was over. I wanted to see what they had going on though, so i stayed through their set. As the Chipmunks' set went on, the crowd dried up more and more until there was only a handful of us left.
They finally finished. No encore, obviously. While their lone roadie was breaking down their gear, Alvin disappeared and Simon was trying to chat up the only girl in the bar. Theodore spotted me and asked if I wanted to go burn a cigarette. Standing outside, he thanked me for being a good sport about the mess. I had to ask him, though: Why did they open with 3 songs in a row from their Christmas album? He started to explain "It's a statement about commercialism..." but he sorta trailed off with a drag of his cigarette. "It was the only way Alvin would get on stage. He's not doing too well these days."
When our cigarettes burned down, he helped me load my amp into my shitty old VW and shook my hand. In parting, he told me "Some advice from someone who has been in this industry fro a while: read your contracts, watch your money, and be careful who you get involved with." I thanked him and closed the trunk. "Oh, and I got your band's demo. You guys have something. I'll show it to people at the label when i talk to them again." Then i got in my car and drove off. Either the label disagreed or he forgot, but that that was the last I ever heard of them.
This was amazing thank you for writing it
@@GregSierra well thanks for the kind words
Man. I wasn't old enough to remember them when they were really big, but honestly, I'm kinda glad I wasn't. This doesn't sound like a band I'd want to remember. I'm glad I can enjoy their music without thinking about this side of them. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Yea that’s pretty good m8
i love how in the comments of these videos you can find little bits of fiction about the chipmunks like this it's like a collaborative project
I present to you all: Melvin and the SludgeRats
Alvin and the Mønks
Sludgevin and the Sludgemunks
Melvin and the Melvins
I didn’t upvote so you could remain at 666 likes \m/
The Melvins approve of this, I assure you.
The eye of the tiger went from Rocky to homeless Vietnam vet so fast.
So Rocky to Rambo?
You made me turn red i laughed so hard.
Or Ozzy
Strung out on China White. Sucking on the barrel of a .45. Voices in his head saying do it. Be a hero.
old soldiers turned tramps relive moments of action for inane motives...
Who's cooking the best krokodil ?
Alvin
Simon
Theodore
Узнали . Согласны.
Whose legs rot off last?
Made me lol hard
Made me laugh so hard. Top comment.
Comment of the year folks
18:08
"Hit it, fellas" Theodore said feebly offering the opium cigar to the other chipmunks, his eyes barely open.
I'm gonna p*ss myself laughing
When you smoke the moisture packet from your new pair of sneakers and then go visit the local flea market.
What
What
What
that happened to my buddy eric
All it says is do not eat, doesn’t say nothing about smoking it!
24:33 WHEN HE SAYS "jessie's got himself a squirrel" I FUCKING LOST IT
NO I WAS DRINKING WATER AND I CHOKED
I fucking lost it
The band was never the same since Theodore died from heroin overdose on his apartment in Seattle in 93'.
Courtney had him killed too.
@@revevil she didn't get any of the money either. He spent every last dime of the inheritance on smack.
holy shit that´s funny..kinda
Now Alvin's a born again christian and Simon's doing five years for cocaine possession
Meanwhile, Dave's doing fine leading another band, and he's still shouting just as loud as ever.
Trent Reznor has gone so far artistically with this album.
honestly forgot this was a sped up chipmunks album- and i don't know most of the original songs. i was just vibing to sludge goodness. up until "theodore, what do those words *really* mean?" "beats me!" and i realised i was listening to a grown up rat lament the refugee crisis.
i don't think anything could've mentally prepared me for that image.
Wait. This was sped up? I need to lay off the drugs man.
@@TalynStormcrow It's Alvin and The Chipmunks covers slowed down to half the speed they're supposed to be played at, showing what the songs originally sounded like.
@@dominicbofficial Minor correction.
That's the popular perception. Truth is, this was the band's sound. It was too much for the Label. Dave wasn't always the help he should been.
The records they distributed were sped up versions. Sold as kitsch.
Imagine being this visionary and only being allowed public domain and label owned music to record.
@@schrodingersgat4344 I don't know what's real anymore...
@@djinnxx7050For most, "Real" is a patchwork of perception; lain over a framework of notions. Search for what is True.
In truth there is goodness and light.
17:54
[Demonic voice]
"Wouldn't think of it, Dave"
holy shit...
h i t i t f e l l a s
WHAT ITS GOING TO EITHER SIDE OF MY HEADPHONES
[NONE OF
THAT
ROCK N' ROLL
BUSINESS]
@@AlphaMoon96 I'M TRANSCENDING
*N O N E O F T H A T R O C K A N D R O L L B U S I N E S S*
Love that the lead vocals on "Whip It" are being handled by a John Wayne impressionist and Squidward doing his best Fred Schneider impression.
I read this comment before hearing the song, and I fucking died when it started .
😂😂😂
It just started and I'm peeing myself
It sounds more like Jimmy Pop than John Wayne.
@Potential Spoilers That's honesty a fairly solid observation! I feel like Jimmy Pop would absolutely have Squidward guesting on a Bloodhound Gang track.
This might be the best Doom Metal album I've ever heard
The other one is pretty dope (thehee) too.
Na, Doom Post-Punk
more like sludge
@@thebasedgodmax1163 post-sludge
Post-Sludge / Post-Doom
Betty Davis Eyes is an unreal vaporwave trip.
My favorite for sure. The synths are so freakin' low and warm
It makes me want to tackle the world with feminine sex appeal and my under control BPD
@Layne Krusz It doesn't matter, I really like this album now. But that is an amazing version of the song too, thanks friend.
@@carolinereinventedhorsechild hahaha just like my ex.
the original track was sampled on Vektroid's New Dreams Ltd Initiation Tape
HEEEY MR TAAAAAMBOURINE MAN
PLAAAY A SONG FOR MEEE..
*rusted shackles clink in the distance*
"People will see me and die." This version of "Fame" sounds like it's being read straight from a manifesto.
Slowed chipmunks fame is either about a star cut from fame too early or a cult leader about to mass murder his flock
@@WfrArcPol i interpret this version more like a young up and coming star who quickly spirals into drugs and alcohol, losing sight of who they once were
“I’m going to make it to heaven. Light up the sky like a flame”
Lol
This is my personal favorite track from this record. You can really hear the anguish in Alvin's voice on this one. How the dreams of his youth had become a living nightmare of pain he couldn't escape. Such a genius but like so many other brilliant minds of his generation, a deeply tourted soul. RIP Alvin.
P.S. if there were any justice in this fucked up world we live in Dave would be in fucking jail.
@@WfrArcPol Sometimes both.
Betty Davis' Eyes is easily the Cure's best song
jesse's got himself a squirrel lmao
where can I find a wombat like that?
I'll never forget the time I saw them play a pool hall in Shreveport, Louisiana in winter of 89. This was obviously a year or so before Alvin's overdose, but he was already well medicated by the time he came onstage an hour after the set was supposed to start. Theodore had to hold him up a few times to keep him from falling down. But goddamn they had that place going NUTS when they started Eye of the Tiger. Everyone sang every word while holding their lighters up. In that one brief moment, I saw true happiness on Alvin's face. I'll always remember Alvin and this album fondly, even in spite of all the allegations
Dude I was there too! Simion was crying about how supportive the fans were and they all truly loved each other that night.
@@christianm7250 what in the hell y'all talking about
@@KP-fy5bftheyre basically just acting like the chipmunks were a real band lol
@Hyperion4K dude you're just jealous you weren't there to see Alvin in his heyday. Before the OD he made Cobain look like the Cookie Monster.
absolute Sludge legend.
YOU'RE A
HEART B R E A K ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
DREAM M A K ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Souperfridge Laugh Out Loud
LOVE T A K ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
DON’T YOU MESSS AROUND WITH MEEE
Doom version
what the song called?
This is so reminiscent of the proper goth tunes played at Sanctuary: The Vampire Sex Bar in the 90’s. I can’t wrap my head around the Chipmunks making some of the best sludge, doom and synth wave covers ever
The what
@@lashee6573You heard OP
@@ScuttleBugReal I sure did
SEX CAULDRON!? I thought they shut that place down
47:03 Ngl this version of "Fame" really hits different. Cuz it's like a really upbeat song about becoming famous and feeling on top of the world but because it's slowed down and grungy it completely changes the emotion that it gives off. Like it makes me imagine a story where the main character is trying really hard to become famous, and they end up getting mixed up with the wrong crowd and kind of losing their morals along the way. Leaving behind all the people that believed in them in the beginning. In the end, they make it, it's going to be the biggest show of their life, but they have to have one last hit. Then you see them lying down backstage slipping out of consciousness for the last time, as they OD, while you hear thousands of people cheering their name in the background.
I can dig that. Well typed.
it's more like the bowie song of the same name
the original = Broadway, this version = Time Square
this with the chanting of "alvin, alvin, alvin" in the song really hits
It's honestly kind of haunting
This version of Bettie Davis Eyes was a magical and transcendental experience.
yeah
Legit, better than the original.
I'm feeling really weird and kind of hypersensitive to everything right now and I just got this overwhelming urge to hear this version of Mr Tambourine Man and it has me almost in tears. What a strange evening
half the tracks sound like they belong on pink floyd, like mr tambourine man vibes the same way as the beginning of wish you were here.
It's kind of haunting at this speed.
i feels ya- its probably my fav cover of it.
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All my senses have been stripped.
And my hands can't feel to grip
This version of "Fame" is so decadently, operatically tragic...it's frankly jaw-dropping.
It’s sounds cool I guess
Right??? I can’t get over it at all. It turns a silly chipmunk song into something hauntingly beautiful. It’s like listening to the recording of a dead man in denial. I’m gonna live forever, baby, remember my name…
"Fame" is what jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge must sound like
the theme song to a useless bachelor's degree from Julliard and 7 years of waitress work afterwards.
My dad would always tell a story about the one time he sat next to Alvin on a plane flying from Salt Lake City to Jacksonville. Dad always said he was super chill to talk to at first, even starting the conversation about music and the life on the road and all that, but after maybe ten minutes Alvin just... kept talking, like he was answering questions my dad hadn't even asked. Guy kept talking, seemed like he was getting frustrated at whatever he was talking about, so everyone sorta hurried away from him, getting really worried. Half an hour later, Dad was in a taxi headed out from the airport, and sees Alvin walking up the highway away from the airport still just talking, smiling real big this time, laughing to himself.
"Fame" doesnt get enough attention. It's like Alvin's still here.
Fame is absolutely killer here, oh my god.
They turned Devo into NIN
Accidental Sounds whats NIN again? I forgot
InklingFan77 Mettaton1936 Nine Inch Nails
Tyrone's Cringe Heaven Oh right thanks for telling me dude
@@InklingFan77Mettaton1936 a band not worth listening to
Bob Sloppy y
Mr. Tambourine Man sounds like a Velvet Underground B Side
I legitimately enjoy it lol
@@coolmanjack1995 same man
OMG you're right!
tammmm BOH rineeee mannnnnn
All Tomorrows Parties vibes
Sometimes I do the audio boards at local metal shows. I'm going to play this album between bands and see if anyone notices.
What was the response?
Commenting for the reply notifs
Yeah what happened
Did you ever do it???
We need to know! What were the results??
I wanna open up a club and just have this album playing on repeat
If you played this in any dive bar in Jersey City or the lower East side you’d have people in tears every single night hugging each other and dancing, and definitely crying for all sorts of personal reasons
@@2serene1993 when and where
Shut up and take my money
I've been to some doom shows that play this before/after the show. It's great
Pink Floyd's cover of Eye of the Tiger on this thing is so good.
No way is that in any way related to David Gilmour's, Roger Waters' or Rick Wright's singing. Maybe some of the subtle droning sounds like 'One of My Turns' and the drums sound like 'Learning To Fly,' and the guitar on 'One of These Days'... But only a bit.
If someone had played just the beginning of this track and told me it was Pink Floyd back when they used to be called Ponk Fliyd I would have believed them
Weirdly, I had a stronger "Pink Floyd" feel from "This Diamond Ring", specifically "Piper at the gates of dawn"-era Pink Floyd. But I see where you're coming from.
@@kingfisherman9830 it sounds like something straight out of The Wall
Bettie Davis Eyes just straight up sounds like a Pink Floyd number.
So there I was, back in the summer of '96, seeing Alvin and the Chipmunks at an abandoned barn in Topeka, Kansas. They were on the road, doing a string of low-key, underground gigs, hoping to rediscover their roots or something. My band was warming up the crowd for them. When they finally made their appearance, it was clear Alvin was in one of his moods. He was picking fights with the farm animals and giving Simon a hard time.
We started our set, and as we're midway through our third song, Alvin rolls onto the stage, attempting some kind of a gymnastic feat but ended up tangled in our drummer's cymbals. Theodore, the level-headed one, helped him out and tried to smooth things over, but it was obvious this wasn't their usual performance.
Eventually, they stumbled through their set, but instead of their pop hits, they went on a surreal journey of jazz-fusion and avant-garde tunes. Even the livestock looked confused. To top it all off, they closed the show with a 20-minute kazoo rendition of 'Stairway to Heaven'. Alvin, in a rare moment of clarity, nailed that solo with a profound sense of melancholy.
After the show, as the sun was setting and we were packing our gear, Theodore came over and shared a cold beer with me. He sighed and said, "We're just trying to make music, man, but Alvin wants to be the next David Bowie of rodents." I chuckled, thinking he was joking, but the earnest look in his eyes told me otherwise.
The chipmunks' second album is dark energy in it's purest form. Being abducted by the musical industry at a very young age, Alvin was battling with feeling lost and guilty for dragging his younger brothers into this lifestyle. This album shows it by the inclusion of the reoccurring character called Dave, appearing as a demonic music producer speaking to the chipmunks in between songs.
By all means this is a complex and layered release, and it solidifies the chipmunks as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) doom rock bands of the 80's. I come back to this whenever I feel nostalgic and it takes me back to the old days. It is depressing reading about Alvin's drug addiction in the 90's resulting in his overdose. He did everything he could to fix his own life and the lives of Simon and Theodore, but in the end he just left them more lost than they had ever been. Such a tragic story for such an amazing band.
Why is the same family jobber who records all these latter-day Alvin and the Chipmunks songs giving the absolute vocal performance of his life on “Bette Davis Eyes”
Champiness The Bagsdarains are talentful
Because he loves the song, and rightfully so!
13:15
CRACK
THAT
WHIP
licorice whip!
CARACK THAT WHIP
Crack that whip and whip out that crack!
Heartbreaker is literally an early Butthole Surfers song now
Lmaoo hell yeah ! Sounds just like gibby
I'm stunned at how beautiful Bette Davis Eyes sounds
The Great Hawk same play it on 2X speed
Bette Davis Eyes was already so droney and moody on its own. Slowing it down is always magical.
Andy Plevyak see told u
Alvin gives the vocal performance of his life on that track.
Those synths man...
How is it possible that nobody commented about the great voice talents that were involved in making these recordings? The guy singing "Bette Davis eyes" really kicks ass!
Alvin gives the vocal performance of his life on that track
@@danwalsh3406 Sad, in retrospect. After what happened with him and Brittany.
Everybody saw it coming but....
.... nobody ever speaks up.
Wasted potential.
"The guy" that is Ross Bagdasarian Jr. They all are.
@@danwalsh3406 It was his last good record before the drugs started taking their toll.
I feel that "haunted" is an extremely fitting way to describe this
Betty Davis Eyes is a classic entry into the "love songs that are not-so-secretly about drugs" canon
Alvin was a serious amphetamine user in the band's early days but it was around the time they were getting ready to go into the studio to record what would be Sludgefest 1 that he started heavily getting into heroin. Simon and Theo certainly were no stranger to Mrs Brown either, but Alvin was always the most recklessly hedonistic one, his lack of impulse control led to some incredible artistic explorations but it also led him to some hopelessly dark places that he couldn't come bac from
The band's massively increased H usage was arguably the biggest driving factor in their wild departure from the high energy hardcore punk of their early records into more a more punishing and doom laden sound that came to define their later work in the "Sludgefest era"
In hindsight it's obvious that Betty Davis Eyes wasn't about a girl, Alvin was a hypersexual maniac who could never be content with just 1 partner, neither male or female, he was so fucked up and jaded that he likely wasn't even able to truly love another person... But Betty Davis Eyes wasn't about another person
Betty Davis Eyes was written shortly after Alvin checked himself out of rehab and immediately relapsed, he lived long enough to record it but unfortunately he was found dead in a Belgian hotel room while they were on the ill-fated "Sludge Across The World" tour, it's not clear if it was an accidental overdose or suicide... Either way, he died with his true love *in his arms*, the one with Betty Davis Eyes, Mrs Brown
RIP Alvin, thank you for the music
Ah you can hear the Sabbath influence
It was Simon that led them down that path. He was obsessed.
Whoever decided to slow down these records deserves a grammy
This and "Vol. 1" at 1.5 speed is some of the greatest post-punk/darkwave I've ever heard. Chipmunks are goth as fuck dude 🐼
I am obsessed with Jessie's Girl in this. It sounds so trippy. The Vocals sound So right but So Wrong.
A lot of these are unironically great covers
@Clark Fannin I laughed so hard at that
All the lyrics seem more meaningful at slowed down speed.
For Those On Mobile Here U Go
01 Heartbreaker 0:00
02 Refugee 6:28
03 Whip It 12:36
04 Bettie Davis Eyes 17:54
05 Jessie's Girl 23:58
06 Mr Tambourine Man 30:09
07 This Diamond Ring 34:41
08 Eye of the Tiger 39:09
09 Fame 47:03
10 How Do I Make You 53:30
11 Good Girls Don't 58:12
12 Chariots of Fire 1:04:34
god bless you
Mazda Fan gee thanks
Mazda Fan what your favorite song bro
I think it's "refugee"
Vincent Teichmann mines Whip It, Heartbreaker, (even tho they got a lot of lyrics wrong) Mr Tambourine Man, Good Girls Don’t, (even tho they got the lyrics wrong for a good reason because the creator of the chipmunks wanted to keep it kid friendly) Refugee,This Diamond Ring,Chariots Of Fire,How Do I Make You,Fame. Basically Every Song that’s on here.
I might have just started weeping at "Bette Davis Eyes".
It was Mr. Tambourine Man that did it for me. Beautiful track list all around
“Bettie Davis Eyes” done like this, is pretty fucking sublime.
Listening to this while dizzy, confused and disoriented from SSRI discontinuation syndrome.
I hope you’re doing better now
I went off pristiq almost a year and a half ago. I had been on it and effexor before that for 20 years. It's hell.
@@jeffreydavid2997 Oh Christ. Effexor. I had forgotten it’s name. I remember to this day some decades later when I tried to just stop taking it. After two days it felt like I had a live wire randomly firing in my brain. Hopped back on that pill faster than hell. The worst part was hearing it and feeling it in my teeth at the same time. It took years to wean myself of of it.
@@Mrgoraist oh thanks, yeah it went better after a few weeks and changing the approach.
I can confirm this sounds exactly like how SSRI discontinuation syndrome feels.
people saying to play at 1.5x or 2x speed i think your missing the point
@ayyy__donkey x1.25 is a pretty sweet spot tbf
Pfff. It changed the way I think about music to listen to it at 2x.
@@innercityprepper real men Listen to it at .5x speed
Facts
Yeah the real sweet spot of 1.75X
Take this version of Bettie Davis Eyes and imagine what it would be like if Chris Cornell sang it.
i swear i culdn't laugh more in the chariots of fires remix. It's like a conversation between two stoners making music and that's so fucking beautifull
Lacking context, it’s one of the most hilariously avant garde things I’ve ever heard. I’m in tears 🤣
your comment had me listening to it, I completely forgot how slow this song was before this mix lmao!!
Eye of the Tiger is literally the song of a veteran, I can't describe it but the slow beat of the song and actually listening to the lyrics gives off the vibe that it's being sung by a veteran close to succumbing to his illness of trauma. Very sad for me.
Not literally then.
The guy that wrote it flipped out in jail and burned half a town to ashes.
Cops hassled the wrong guy.
Tempos, for the curious:
01 Heartbreaker -- 79 BPM
02 Refugee -- 59 BPM
03 Whip It -- 78 BPM
04 Bette Davis Eyes -- 62 BPM
05 Jessie's Girl -- 68 BPM
06 Mr. Tambourine Man -- 61 BPM
07 This Diamond Ring -- 68 BPM
08 Eye Of the Tiger -- 54 BPM
09 Fame -- 67 BPM
10 How Do I Make You -- 80 BPM
11 Good Girls Don't -- 84 BPM
12 Chariots of Fire -- 70 BPM
Doin’ god works over here
what does that mean?
@@nooowhyyyydouwantmyURL what DOESN'T it mean?
@@andrewroby1130 "BPM"
Oh lol beats per minute
The vocal only section of Heartbreaker at 4:20 is stunning, I love the intensity.
The 16 Speed version of Whip It sounds like a demo straight out of late 70s Hardcore-era Devo and I fucking love it.
oh it absolutely does sound like that
Agreed
Was friends with a bouncer over at Billy Baloney’s and he got me into a show in kind of that weird time Alvin and Simon were pissed at each other, they came out after some punk/ska/synth hybrid group and they just went right into an early version of Tambourine man. Everyone in the place was floored, I mean, I think everyone like stopped breathing for a solid 5 minutes, folks were zombified and somewhere a beach ball covered in baby oil floated around, the smoke was in everyone's eyes, it got real freaky, wild stuff. It was like perfect harmony until the song ended. -Alvin and Theodore go into the first bit of Heartbreaker, heavy, and Simon goes up to the mike and yells out "We are The 'munks!". Instantly like a weight dropped and Alvin threw down the guitar and just cold hit him with a bottle. He didn't need a mike, I could see him mouth "We're not the fucking 'munks!". The place just went off, Simon took a swing from the ground and they started rolling around the stage in the broken glass knocking over the setup, somebody popped the beachball. Theodore just leaned back and lit up a smoke while the crew tried to break them up. Folks were fighting in the place calling each other sellouts or idiots. Crazy thing was they came out again a few minutes later and just finished out their set without a word, still bloody, Simon did that part Dave used to do in "How do I Make You" flipping him the bird the whole time where he goes "Dream about me Alvin!" and Alvin with a cut of glass over his eyebrow was just laughing in the notes. They walked off with their arms over each other's shoulder, fucking legends.
Okay...."Bette Davis Eyes" is just genuinely beautiful (in a heartbreaking sort of way).
Seriously amazing that *this* is what happens when you run a Chipmunks album at 1/2 speed.
I feel like we all have our own little head cannons for these kooky little characters
Heart Breaker Kind of sounds Like a Alice in Chains Song.
I thought the exact same thing
At 2x speed it almost sounds like Bad Religion
Adrenaline0413 not really.
Yes really
I thought more Ozzy Osbourne
This music makes small child and angsty teen versions of me so happy
You're hearing Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and Janice Karmen's actual speed voices now! (But they had to sing slowly to match the slowed down backing music.)
Ross can sing his butt off (Bette Davis Eyes shows it).
I think we hear Janice only in "Refugee". The rest of the songs are performed by studio singers
@@SimoAnto96 No that was Ross Jr. and Steve Vining on Refugee. Janice didn’t join in until Urban Chipmunk.
@@timmy841212 How do you tell Ross and Steve Vining apart? Is it the accent? Fun Fact: Vining worked for Pickwick Records (or did he own the company?)
Original "Fame": upbeat, empowering, inspirational
Chipmunks on 16 speed version of "Fame": subdued AF
Not for nothing, but I could totally see an arrangement of this version of Fame being used in some shitty Netflix series that gets meme-famous.
I did not know that Whip It has the dirtiest bass line in the universe
Edit: The waveforms in Bettie Davis Eyes 1.5x are exquisite
Pink Floyd’s Time covered would be transcendental
That would be to much for any human to handle 😂
the chords to eye of the tiger are so delicate
the piano almost makes me want to cry
The vibe of those opening vocals: when you're in year 7 of your PhD and your adviser is telling you to just keep going.
That’s the best version of Jessie’s Girl of all time
Back in 81' me and a couple of my friends were hitting up a local dive bar and we managed to catch the chipmunks on one of the forst perfomances of this album. Simon and Theodore were the same as ever, if a lot less burnt out at the time, but alvin man, I'd never seen a kid eith more gusto in my whole life. He was singing his fucking heart out in that shotty dive bar and it changed my whole life. Their set had more passion than I even thought that bar could handle.
Watching the slow fall on the chipmunks as alvin got more and more fucked up on PCP and Ket and Theodore and Simon got more fed the fuck up man.
In 86' they finally toured officially in my city and man what a case of whiplash man. All that life and passion that filled that bar was nowhere to be seen man, just drug abuse and garbled lyrics. I miss those old boys man, really a shame how they lost it all in the glitz and glammor of the 80's man.
At least their kids seem to be keeping up the torch but man the nepotism those new chipmunks are coasting on. Their parents were god damn legends who just couldn't handle the times man, real shit.
Best Bette Davis Eyes cover I've ever heard
Dave is a demon
"Her hands are never coooooold"
Hits me in the feels every time
Eye of the tiger is supposed to be upbeat but damn this sounds like its coming from a world of pain.
Some of these songs remind me of the stories my uncle would tell me about the '91 Gulf War
Obvious credit for the person who slowed the music and matched it, but we honestly gotta give props to Ross Bagdasarian Jr.
Dude has been behind one of the best kids series ever (he voiced Dave and sang for Alvin/Theodore for most of their outings) and, as we can hear, could belt when he needed to.
God I love this version of Mr Tambourine Man. Sounds like the thoughts going through a dying person's mind as their body slowly starts shutting down the nervous system as their vision fades to black.
legend has it, you stare long enough... they keep melting
"Nœnovthahtwölkenawveystufboiz"
"Wouldn't think of it, Dave!"
On the look out for chipmunk lp’s now, who knew we were playing them at the wrong speed all these years.
This is the song that plays during a montage of Theodore doing heroine and eventually overdosing
Bette Davis Eyes sounds like a cover by Type O Negative
When I listen to "Whip It"
I imagine I'm walking into a crypt.
The sounds of whips cracking in the distance.
As I walk in , the smell of incense and blood.
It's a circle of priests performing self-flagellation.
"Yes"
Says the one in the center, like a maestro conducting his final encore
"Whip it..."
Then unison, all of the priests echo
"Whip it good."
this is the cult of DEVO
Just like Sunday School
"DOES THIS SONG HAVE ANY WORDS??"
"YES BUT I LEFT THEM AT HOOOOMMMMEEE"
-___________-
"SO YOU GOT US HUMMING!?"
I remember it vividly, the day I got the opportunity to witness these dudes back in San Francisco. It was on their '89 tour, after a radically fascinating show, a buddy of mine managed to get me free backstage access to the back rooms of the venue. what I got to see brought out an array of emotions, starting off with Theo (my muse at the time), right at the time he was grabbing his weathered green sweater, I got to introduce myself, and he was very welcoming and placid. I thanked him for all he's achieved in the underground music scene, and that I was lucky enough to see the guys rocking. He thanked me for the compliment, but had to leave because he was tired (they were crashing at an old-timey motel in Sacramento). I only got to share waves with Alvin, until I eventually stopped to catch a glimpse of Simons room; it was the most dingy, trashed, and overall destructed space. Keep in mind, this was around the time Simon was the drug abuser in the circle, there were scattered hypodermic needles, spoons, and a pvc leather belt on the chair. it was saddening, Theo hates it, Alvin was naive, the chippettes (their occasional guest vocalists) were under frequent trepidation just by standing near him. years later, I''m still recollecting the time I learned about Theodore's disappearance, Alvin's suicide, and Simons 40 year sentence. I still have sleepless nights bearing that truth in mind. R.I.P Theo.
I'll never forget when Isaac Rose and I played that show back in '89 with them. tensions were high, and it was arguably the most creatively productive the band ever was, but it was the moment backstage I mentioned Theodore's wife to Simon, that all hell broke loose. I won't specify any of the tings that were said and done, but it was the beginning of the end for the band, and all I will say, is that the scuffle that night was the reason Simon went Blind in his left eye a few months later.
Whip It sounds like if Roger and Steve from American Dad set out to make the most depressing/bizarre version of the song they could possibly create
This version of Mr Tambourine Man is honestly so beautiful
I love that everyone here genuinely enjoys it haha
'Whip it' at 2x speed is just a B-52's cover
I’ve heard this album was so close to Alvin’s suicide that they only actually played live at three venues officially, one in San Francisco, one in Detroit, and their only international show, in London. Thing was, no one really knows how many shows Dave forced them to play at without paying them. It drove the band insane, and led to Dave dying in a motor accident, and of course the lasting emotional damage caused Alvin’s drug induced suicide. I heard even after all the abuse, with Theodore getting hooked on Vicodin from his injuries, they still really missed Dave, with Alvin even breaking into tears on occasion.
I’m going to tell my kids this was The Beatles
Most underrated comment!
This way you get more album for your money.
The feels, they just keep coming, Daaaaaaaave
The eye of the tiger...sounds the way it feels to be reaaaally depressed for a reeeeeeally long time
Whip it on 2x sounds like a group of middle aged dads singing it. Like everything is said really weird. I can’t put my finger on it, but it’s very wrong
Dude it does though....
hahahaha, it feels so wrong, but I can't stop it.
Eww It's weird like they're looking in my window
@@thegreathawk2244 oh lord why
The one singer is doing a Weird Al.
i'm laughing in fear
The soundtrack to dragging yourself over a field of broken glass.
Eye of the tranquilized tiger
"Bettie Davis Eyes" belongs in a Nicholas Winding Refn film during a contemplative, slow-motion kill scene.
I remember when the first archives were released of chipmunkson16speed. I asked my great uncle about it and he showed me his original concert tickets from 1983 when they rebranded to the Sludgemunks. They were playing Massey Hall in Toronto on December 19th, my great uncle said it was pretty much Zero Fahrenheit that day. Still sad to hear about Alvin Sr. Passing on in 1991, and I am glad Alvin Jr, Theodore and Simon's son began releasing records recently as a tribute to Alvin Sr's life work of sludge music, the foundations of daycore and sludge metal as we know them today.
theres no real alvin sr
I'm so glad I got to see them before Alvin OD'd. So tragic. Thanks for posting, sharing, and bringing back some memories I tried to forget.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Let’s get some things straight here! The only people that died of an overdose was people that were dancing and lip-synching and looking like them. First of all, Ross JR does the cassette player voices, and speeds up the tape of voices. And number two yeah, the old guy that lip-synch may have died, but that doesn’t mean that Melvin died. Honestly, this thing is going way too freaking far. And he’s actually not dead because he was recently in concert with him a few years back for a 2016 to 2019 tour. So what you’re saying about the actual person you’re talking about might not be bold, but actually Alvin himself wasn’t the one that died it was just a person lip-synching and looking like him. Also, I meant Alvin not Melvin. Also, Alvin was in concert with them a few years ago was what I was trying to say. So before you go replying saying that stuff, just hear me out on this one. I’ve done my research.