Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-Ups, Volume 6: 2024-2025

I first discovered the mash-ups created by Bill McClintock on YouTube in 2023. I posted four albums of his creations that year. Then, in 2024, he made enough new ones for me to post a fifth album. Here it is a year later in 2025, and I've found enough songs for a sixth volume.

I'm going to repeat what I posted in my write-up for "Volume 5," because this is more of the exact same thing:

If you heard and liked any of the earlier volumes, you should definitely like this. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, there are a lot of people who have made mash-ups, combining the recordings of two songs to hopefully create something new and interesting. But in my opinion, McClintock is the master of this technique, and his soaring YouTube views are evidence of that.

I've mentioned in the past that McClintock has pretty much single-handedly created a new genre of music, "soul metal," by combining soul songs with heavy metal songs. The resulting mash-ups are fascinating. In my opinion, many of them could be big hits in some bizarro alternate universe. I'm not even much of a heavy metal fan, but I don't think you have to be to enjoy these.

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There's only a couple of things I want to add to that. One is that it's very hard to give adequate song titles and artist names for each track, and it's getting harder all the time. That's because, generally speaking, he mashes two songs together. But more and more, he's drawing on other songs as well as adding them into his edits. So often these credits are oversimplifications. Check out his YouTube and look at each song for more detailed and accurate information. In some cases, he's really gone wild, using many source songs. The last track is an example of that, drawing from 12 songs! 

The other thing I want to mention is that at the same time I'm posting this, I'm reposting the five earlier volumes. The music is the same for those, but I upgraded the cover art. Thanks to improving AI technology, I was able to improve the clarity and detail. I also changed the main color of the first two volumes, to better create a rainbow effect if you look at all the covers together.

If McClintock keeps posting new material at the same rate of the past couple of years, I hope to have a Volume 7 to post some time in 2026.    

This album is an hour and eight minutes long. 

01 Somebody's Snowblind [Somebody's Watching Me vs. Snowblind] (Rockwell vs. Black Sabbath)
02 Let the Bodies Get Off [Get Off vs. Bodies] (Foxy vs. Drowning Pool)
03 Fire in the Abyss [Fire vs. Seasons in the Abyss] (Jimi Hendrix vs. Slayer)
04 You Make Me Feel like Stayin' a Rocket Queen [Rocket Queen vs. Stayin' Alive vs. You Make Me Feel like Dancing] (Guns N' Roses vs. Bee Gees vs. Leo Sayer)
05 Best Unsainted Day of My Life [Best Day of My Life vs. Unsainted] (American Authors vs. Slipknot)
06 Sleigh Bitch [Sleigh Ride vs. Crazy Bitch] (Carpenters vs. Buckcherry)
07 Sabbath Toxic Sabbath [Toxic vs. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath] (Britney Spears vs. Black Sabbath)
08 Whip My Lonely, Dark Heart [Owner of a Lonely Heart vs. Let It Whip] (Yes vs. Dazz Band)
09 Motor City Woman [I'll Be Around vs. Jet City Woman] (Spinners vs. Queensryche)
10 Come as the Cat [Year of the Cat vs. Come as You Are] (Al Stewart vs. Nirvana)
11 Twist of Freak [Le Freak vs. Twist of Cain] (Chic vs. Danzig)
12 Hit the Bottoms, Jack [Bottoms Up vs. Hit the Road, Jack] (Van Halen vs. Ray Charles)
13 Hotter than a Highway to Hell with the Devil [To Hell With the Devil vs. Highway to Hell] (Stryper vs. AC-DC)
14 I'll Be a Disciple for You [I'll Be There for You vs. Disciple] (Rembrandts vs. Slayer)
15 Killing in the Name of a Terrible Holy Lie [Killing in the Name vs. Terrible Lie] (Rage Against the Machine vs. Nine Inch Nails vs. Various Artists) 

pixeldrain.com/u/UnHfYRqZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ereZQHYCbJBtZhw/file 

The cover is basically the exact same as the previous ones in this series, with only a bit of the text and the background color changing. That's a photo of McClintock in the center. 

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-Ups, Volume 5: 2023-2024

I'm more convinced that ever that Bill McClintock is a twisted genius. Back in February 2023, I posted four albums containing mash-ups created by McClintock and posted on YouTube. Since then, I've been waiting for him to post enough new songs for a fifth volume. Here were finally are.

If you heard and liked any of the first four volumes, you should definitely like this. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, there are a lot of people who have made mash-ups, combining the recordings of two songs to hopefully create something new and interesting. But in my opinion, McClintock is the master of this technique, and his soaring YouTube views are evidence of that.

I've mentioned in the past that McClintock has pretty much single-handedly created a new genre of music, "soul metal," by combining soul songs with heavy metal songs. The resulting mash-ups are fascinating. In my opinion, many of them could be big hits in some bizarro alternate universe. I'm not even much of a heavy metal fan, but I don't think you have to be to enjoy these.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

Note that, as with the other albums in this series, the track list is rather unusual. The song titles are the titles created by McClintock that often jokingly combined the titles of the source material. Then in brackets are the names of the original songs, with "vs." in between them. Then for the artist names in paranetheses, I've put both artists who created the source songs, with "vs." between those names as well.

01 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go to the Grave [Wake Me Up Before You Go Go vs. Children of the Grave] (Wlam vs. Black Sabbath)
02 More Forgiven Today than Yesterday [The Unforgiven vs. More Today than Yesterday] (Spiral Starecase vs. Metallica)
03 Shake Your Dude Thing [Shake Your Groove Thing vs. Dude Looks like a Lady] (Peaches & Herb vs. Aerosmith)
04 She's Got the Sentinel [She's Got the Look vs. The Sentinel] (Judas Priest vs. Roxette)
05 Could You Be a Freak on a Leash [Could You Be Loved vs. Freak on a Leash] (Bob Marley vs. Korn)
06 I Was Made for Boogie Wonderland [I Was Made for Lovin' You vs. Boogie Wonderland] (Kiss vs. Earth, Wind & Fire)
07 Let's Get Bleeding [The Bleeding vs. Let's Get It On] (Five Finger Death Punch & Marvin Gaye)
08 Freeze Frame City [Freeze Frame vs. Detroit Rock City] (J. Geils Band vs. Kiss)
09 Superfools [Supernaut vs. Chain of Fools] (Aretha Franklin vs. Black Sabbath)
10 Take the Soul Power Back [Take the Power Back vs. Soul Power] (James Brown vs. Against the Machine)
11 Dirty Deeds Around the Christmas Tree [Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap vs. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree] (AC-DC vs. Brenda Lee)
12 Still Coming Undone [Coming Undone vs. Feel it Still] (Korn vs. Portugal. The Man)
13 Unchained Love Machine [Unchained vs. Love Machine] (Van Halen vs. Miracles)
14 Squareboys from Hell [Square Biz vs. Cowboys from Hell] (Teena Marie vs. Pantera)
15 Celebrate Both Worlds [Good Times vs. Best of Both Worlds] (Van Halen vs. Kool & the Gang)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xa8EUwfA

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/C4vBdsV9QOmLPNs/file 

The cover is basically the exact same as the previous four in this series, with only a bit of the text and the background color changing. That's because I was lucky to find any photos of McClintock at all. 

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-Ups, Volume 4: 2021-2022

This is the fourth of my volumes of Bill McClintock mash-ups.

This is just more of what's on the previous volumes, so if you like those, you'll like this too. If anything, McClintock has been getting more skilled with his mash-ups as he keeps going.

Just to review in case you've missed those previous volumes, this isn't music performed by McClintock. Instead, he takes two, or sometimes three, songs, and mashes them together. The first song is a good example, where there are parts of both "Rock Steady" by Aretha Franklin and "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith in roughly equal measure, but mashed together to create something new.

As I mentioned before, he often likes to mash something from a heavy metal or hard rock group with something totally different, but that's not always the case. One extreme musical clash is the mash-up of the new wave hit "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor with a Merle Haggard country song, "Goodbye Comes Hard for Me." How is it possible those fit together?! I don't know, but somehow they do.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

UPDATE: Many months after I first posted this, I realized that I'd used the same background color, yellow, for the album cover here and with Volume 3. So I changed the color to yellow. Everything else is exactly the same.

01 Rock Emotion [Rock Steady vs. Sweet Emotion] (Aretha Franklin vs. Aerosmith)
02 Funktonite [Kryptonite vs. Do it Any Way You Wanna] (3 Discos Down vs/ People's Choice)
03 Your Jumpin' Heart [Your Cheatin' Heart vs. Jump] (Hank Williams Jr. vs. Van Halen)
04 She's a Trooper [Maniac vs. The Trooper] (Michael Sembello vs. Iron Maiden)
05 Ten Seconds to Run [Ten Seconds to Love vs. Nowhere to Run] (Motley Crue vs. Martha and the Vandellas)
06 You Make Me Feel Sad but True [You Make Me Feel like Dancing vs. Sad but True] (Leo Sayer vs. Metallica)
07 Holy Mary Jane [Mary Jane vs. Holy Diver] (Rick James vs. Dio)
08 Strokin' More than a Feeling [Strokin' vs. More than a Feeling] (Clarence Carter vs. Boston)
09 Eye of the Haggard [Eye of the Tiger vs. Goodbye Comes Hard for Me] (Survivor vs. Merle Haggard)
10 Hey Baby, Am I Black or White [Hey Baby vs. Black or White] (Ted Nugent vs. Michael Jackson)
11 Electric Sex Machine [Electric Eye vs. Sex Machine] (James Priest vs. James Brown)
12 Mutiny at the Go-Go [Going to a Go-Go vs/ Mutiny on the World] (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles vs. the Armored Saint)
13 Land Down One-der [Land Down Under vs. One] (Men at Work vs. Metallica)
14 Look Again [Do It Again vs. Looks That Kill] (Steely Dan vs. Motley Crue)
15 Master of the Neutron Dance of Destruction [Neutron Dance vs. Symphony of Destruction] (Pointer Sisters vs. Megadeth)
16 Super Rock Hard [Super Freak vs. Rock Hard, Ride Free] (Rick James vs. Judas Priest)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6sCnhXYf

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1UNcssRwxnazfqC/file 

As with the previous volumes, the cover uses a logo from Bill McClintock's YouTube page, plus a photo of him I added in the middle of it. I used a different background color to help differentiate it from the previous volume.

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-Ups, Volume 3: 2019-2021

Here's the third volume of mash-ups by the twisted mind of Bill McClintock. 

If you don't know who McClintock is, or what this is about, I suggest you check out the comments from the first volume in this series. But, in short, this isn't music played or sung by him. Instead, he makes mash-ups by combining two or sometimes three songs together by famous artists. He's the best mash-up creator I've come across, by far, at least so far. He has a particular penchant for mashing together hard rock or heavy metal songs with pop or soul music to create what sometimes sounds like a brand new genre, which has been called "soul metal" or "disco metal." You really should give it a listen. If nothing else, it's very unusual and interesting.

As with the other volumes in this series, the naming of the songs and the artists is a bit complicated. First comes to combined name of the mash-up, then the names of the songs that were mashed together in brackets. Then the names of the artists for each of the original songs. The mash-up names were made by McClintock, although I occasionally made some tweaks.

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Still of the Boogie [Still of the Night vs. Keep on Truckin'] (Whitesnake vs. Eddie Kendricks)
02 I Can't Get Closer for That [I Can't Go for That vs. Closer] (Hall & Oates vs. Nine Inch Nails)
03 War Puppets Rise to Heaven [War Pigs vs. Rise. vs. Master of Puppets] (Black Sabbath vs, Herb Alpert vs. Metallica)
04 I Got Girls [I Feel Good] [Girls, Girls, Girls vs. I Got You [I Feel Good]] (James Brown vs. Motley Crue)
05 You Make September Fun [You Make Loving Fun vs. September] (Fleetwood Mac vs. Earth, Wind & Fire)
06 Dance Memories [Dance, Dance, Dance vs. Dead Memories] (Chic vs. Slipknot)
07 Chop Around the Suey [Chop Suey vs. All Around the World] (System of a Down vs. Justin Bieber)
08 Flying Hot Stuff [Flying High Again & Hot Stuff] (Ozzy Osbourne & Donna Summer)
09 Closer to Fire the Fame [Closer vs. Fire. vs. Fame] (Nine Inch Nails vs. Ohio Players vs. David Bowie)
10 Stop, Listen, and Bust a Move [For What It's Worth vs. Bust a Move] (Buffalo Springfield vs. Young MC)
11 Bad Mother [Bad Girls vs. Mother] (Donna Summer vs. Danzig)
12 Superkill [Super Bad vs. Overkill] (James Brown vs. Motorhead)
13 Girls, Girls, Girls, and Your Mamma, Too [Girls, Girls, Girls vs. Word Up] (Motley Crue vs. Cameo)
14 Rime of the Good Times [Rime of the Ancient Mariner vs. Good Times] (Iron Maiden vs. Chic)
15 South of Christmas [South of Heaven vs. Last Christmas] (Slayer vs. Wham)
16 Chained Uptight [Unchained vs. Uptight] (Van Halen vs. Stevie Wonder)
17 Hip to Be the Sandman [Hip to Be Square vs. Enter Sandman] (Huey Lewis & the News vs. Metallica)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/XZ3JhywQ 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hhQc4CuSZvFvTSd/file

As with the two previous volumes, the cover uses a logo from Bill McClintock's YouTube page, plus a photo of him I added in the middle of it. I used a different background color to help differentiate it from the previous volume.

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-ups, Volume 2: 2018-2019

Here we are with a second volume of Bill McClintock's mash-up crazy genius. This is just like Volume 1, and very similar to the coming Volumes 3 and 4. He typically mashes two, but sometimes three, famous songs together to create something new. In my opinion, these are superior edits to the typical mash-ups one can find here and there. If you haven't checked out Volume 1 yet, give this a listen. If nothing else, it's very different and interesting.

As I mentioned with Volume 1, McClintock is a fan of hard rock and heavy metal, and has a habit of combining those kinds of songs with soul, rock, or pop songs. You can see more examples of that on this volume than on Volume 1. Who, for instance, would ever think of combining a Wham pop hit with a thrash metal song by Slayer? But he did, and it somehow works! Better still, in my opinion, is his mashing together of "Chemical Warfare" by Slayer with "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves to make "Chemical Warfare (Don't It Feel Good)." The first time I heard that, I couldn't stop laughing. He also makes videos for all of his mash-ups with just as much expert editing and attention to detail. For an even better laugh, check out the video to that song.

But while some of these songs are funny due to the absurdity of the juxtapositions of different styles, in many cases they also work musically, with the mash-ups often as good as the originals in their own ways. You really need to listen to this to understand.

As with the other volumes in this series, the naming of the songs and the artists is a bit complicated. First comes to combined name of the mash-up, then the names of the songs that were mashed together in brackets. Then the names of the artists for each of the original songs. The mash-up names were made by McClintock, although I occasionally made some tweaks.

This album is an hour and five minutes long.

01 Beautiful Shining Star of Superstition [Beautiful Girls vs. Shining Star vs. Superstition] (Van Halen vs. Earth, Wind & Fire vs. Stevie Wonder)
02 Billie Jean's Got Another Thing Comin' [Billie Jean vs. You've Got Another Thing Comin'] (Michael Jackson vs. Judas Priest)
03 Gimme Shelter Baby [Gimme Shelter vs. Give it to Me Baby] (Rolling Stones vs. Rick James)
04 Rock the Space Freak [Rock the Casbah vs. Super Freak vs. Space Truckin'] (Clash vs. Rick James vs. Deep Purple)
05 Killed by Exodus [Killed by Death vs. Exodus] (Motorhead vs. Bob Marley)
06 Mean Machine [Mean Street vs. Dancing Machine] (Van Halen vs. Jackson 5)
07 Ain't Too Shy to Beg [Ain't Too Proud to Beg vs. Once Bitten. Twice Shy] (Temptations vs. Great White)
08 Shining Woman [Shining Star vs. American Woman] (Earth, Wind & Fire vs. the Guess Who)
09 Money for Shopping [Money for Nothing vs. Shop Around] (Dire Straits vs. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
10 Too Young to Strike a Pose [Too Young to Fall in Love vs. Vogue] (Motley Crue vs Madonna)
11 Tropicana Death Ensemble [War Ensemble vs. Club Tropicana] (Slayer vs. Wham)
12 All I Want for Christmas Is the Beautiful People [All I Want for Christmas Is You vs. The Beautiful People] (Mariah Carey vs. Mariah Manson)
13 Finally Faster [Finally & Faster] (Cece Peniston & Within Temptation)
14 I Wish It Would Burn [I Wish It Would Rain & Burn] (Temptations vs. Deep Purple)
15 Bang Your Head, It's a Celebration [Celebration vs. Bang Your Head] (Kool & the Gang vs. Quiet Riot)
16 Chemical Warfare [Don't It Feel Good] [Chemical Warfare vs. Walking on Sunshine] (Slayer vs. Katrina & the Waves)
17 Fire into the Jungle [Run through the Jungle vs. Into the Void vs. Fire] (Creedence Clearwater Revival vs. Black Sabbath vs. the Ohio Players)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GSakQZ2K 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ik8AztrWGOJ7N8P/file

As with Volume 1, the cover uses a logo from Bill McClintock's YouTube page, plus a photo of him in the middle. I used a different background color to help differentiate it from the previous volume.

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-ups - Volume 1: 2017-2018

As the Monty Python comedy group used to say, "And now, it's time for something completely different." Here's something way off the beaten path of what I usually post here. I'll bet most people will either love it or hate it. Personally, I think it's brilliant.

I haven't paid much attention to the whole genre of people making mash-ups. Occasionally, I come across them, but I generally haven't been impressed. But I stumbled on a Bill McClintock mash-up while reading a social media forum that has nothing to do with music. The song was the first one here, "You Should Be Smoking." I was so impressed that I went and looked for more. I soon decided that Bill McClintock is some kind of freakin' mash-up genius. What he does is miles better than the usual, and turns mash-ups into an art form.

McClintock's specialty is taking two very different songs and merging them so well that I many cases a person who hadn't heard the originals would think the mash-up was a classic hit. He's really into heavy metal, and I'm not. But he frequently makes heavy metal songs palatable to me, and even very enjoyable by mashing them with something very different, often soul music. As a result, some commenters have claimed he's invented a new genre, "soul metal." Personally, I prefer the term "disco metal," because that better conveys the strange meshing of sounds that he somehow gets to work. (Note though that only a minority of his mash-ups included here involve heavy metal songs, though there are lots of hard rock ones.)

In my opinion, the key to his success is attention to detail. I can only imagine there's hours of painstaking work behind each mash-up he does, because he must spend hours figuring out how seemingly totally different songs actually share many musical commonalities. Then he carefully places even little bits, like snippets of backing vocals or brief musical riffs. He also tends to patch in solos, usually guitar solos, from yet other songs, and makes them fit perfectly. He posts all his mash-ups at YouTube, and he's taken great care to mash-up the videos for each song as well. If you like these, it's totally worth it to check out the video aspects as well. Here's his YouTube page:

Bill McClintock - YouTube

I like most, but not all, of the mash-ups he's done. The ones I don't like are generally the ones involving heavy metal songs with what I call "Cookie Monster vocals" - lots of rough screaming and groaning. So that's another reason to check out his YouTube page, to catch the songs I didn't include here. I found enough songs I like for four volumes, all at about this length. I've posted the songs in rough chronological order of when he posted them.

Due to the unique nature of mash-ups, I had to come up with my own style for the song titles and artist names. First comes the song title McClintock gave his mash-up. (Although in a few cases I've altered them. For instance, he simply called the second song here "Beat It/Urgent" whereas I thought "Beat It Urgently" worked better.) Then, in brackets, I've listed the two songs that have been mashed together with a "vs" separating them. Finally, I've put the two artist names in parentheses, also separated by "vs." The first song title matches the first artist name and so on. Occasionally, three songs are mashed together, though there aren't any cases of that with this volume.

If you open your mind to it, I think you'll find this a really entertaining listen. Some songs are amusing, some are interesting, and some legitimately stand up as impressive songs of those own. There are cases where I prefer the mash-ups to the originals. Hopefully, this will allow you to appreciate some songs in a brand new way.

As an aside, I also appreciate what is NOT here. And that's any hip hop or rap song. I've noticed a lot of mash-ups involve that genre. I would think that's easier to do when the source material is just rapping without a melody. I also like that he's avoided doing any Beatles songs. I love the Beatles so much that I don't think I'd like most mash-ups involving them.

I'll be curious what you all think of this, and if you know of other mash-up artists that are on this level. If you've read this far and you're on the fence about downloading this, I strongly suggest you do.

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 You Should Be Smoking [You Should Be Dancing vs. Smoke on the Water] (Bee Gees vs Deep Purple)
02 Beat It Urgently [Beat It vs. Urgent] (Michael Jackson vs. Foreigner)
03 Fly like Kid Charlemagne [Fly like an Eagle vs. Kid Charlemagne] (Steve Miller vs. Steely Dan)
04 Billie Cocaine [Billie Jean vs. Cocaine] (Michael Jackson vs. Eric Clapton)
05 Break on Through [To the Funky Side] [Break on Through vs. Shakey Ground] (Doors vs. the Temptations)
06 I Heard It Round and Round the Grapevine [Round and Round vs. I Heard it Through the Grapevine] (Ratt vs. Marvin Gaye)
07 The Way the Bayou Makes Me Feel [The Way You Make Me Feel vs. Born on the Bayou] (Michael Jackson vs. Creedence Clearwater Revival)
08 I Wouldn't Want to Be like the Holy Diver [I Wouldn't Want to Be like You vs. Holy Diver] (Alan Parsons Project vs. Dio)
09 Living for the Paradise City [Living for the City vs. Paradise City] (Guns n Roses vs. Stevie Wonder)
10 I Can't Walk This Way Next to You [Walk This Way vs. I Can't Get Next to You] (Aerosmith vs. the Temptations)
11 Mother Was a Rolling Stone [Mother vs. Papa Was a Rolling Stone] (Danzig vs. the Temptations)
12 With a Rebel Yell, She Cried Get Up, Stand Up [Rebel Yell vs. Get Up, Stand Up] (Bob Marley vs Billy Idol)
13 Stayin' a Hollaback Girl [Stayin' Alive vs. Hollaback Girl] (Bee Gees vs. Gwen Stefani)
14 My World Is Empty without a Maneater [My World Is Empty without You vs. Maneater] (Hall & Oates vs. the Supremes)
15 Ice Cold Ground [Cold as Ice vs. Higher Ground] (Foreigner vs. Stevie Wonder)
16 We Are All Right Now [We Are Family vs. All Right Now] (Sister Sledge vs. Free)
17 Let's Dance, Let's Shout [Shake Your Body Down to the Ground vs. Stand Up and Shout] (Jackson 5 vs. Dio)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ujVL2SNf 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/vfujCqbnG9hHvmM/file

I put these albums together a few weeks ago. But I was stumped as to what I could do for the album covers. In the end, I used the circular logo that McClintock uses for his YouTube page. I also found a photo of him, and put that in the middle.