Here is something you may either hate or love, depending on your mood and fondness of the mashup genre. Meet Alan Hurley (Ireland), who in addition to being a standup comedian, filmmaker and creative artist, also is an avid mash-up magician. Under the ah! moniker, his Bandcamp page has ten plus mix tapes of mashups. Sometimes his focus lies on mashing pop songs with alt rock and classic rock, sometimes it’s on mashing up advertising songs, at other times Hurley mashes up Irish artists, or songs from movie soundtracks.
Hurley’s latest collection Well Do Ya Punk? mashes pop songs with punk tracks. Well Do Ya Punk? opens with Earth Wind & Fire singing September over Sex Pistols’s God Save The Queen. The execution is pretty flawless and it’s sure nice to hear those two bands playing along so well. Remember the Bobby Ramone experience? I am getting similar vibes from this song. Other highlights on the compilation are mashups between Wet Leg and The Chats (I’m On Smoko On A Chaise Longue), Birdy and Buzzcocks (Ever Fallen In Skinny Love?), Olivia Rodrigo and The Damned (neat neat neat 4 u) and between Starship and Stiff Little Fingers (We Built This City On Suspect Device).
Well Do Ya Punk? may not be for everyone, but if you are looking for some tracks to get your next party started, you might find some great material here.
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