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://www.upload.ee/files/15602490/BillMcC_2018-2019_MashsVolum2_atse.zip.html

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.