#scott bradlee's post modern jukebox

[shakibone]

I hate AI voice replicators

See, I like musical genre remixes. Things where a popular song is done in the style of another artist, or another era. The Baseballs understood this, with their cover of Rihanna’s Umbrella:

I’m about to go off, so more under the cut!

Neil Gaiman once said (here on Tumblr, which I'll have to paraphrase due to an unfortunate inability to find the source):

“I enjoy songs. Sometimes I enjoy them too much and they grow tired. A good cover allows me to enjoy them again for the first time.” -Neil Gaiman, heavily paraphrased

Scott Bradlee understands the power of these covers, stylistic remixes, enough to launch multiple careers off of it. Such as with his own remix (featuring Casey Abrams & The Sole Sisters) of the afore-featured Umbrella by Rihanna:

Or one of my own personal favourites, Sugar, We’re Going Down originally by Fall Out Boy:

But!

These era-adjacent (or era-divorced) covers need not be wholly original performances to have value. Let’s return to Sugar, We’re Going Down by Fall Out Boy. While Scott Bradlee and singer Joey Cook reworked it in their own way, YouTube user Johann Olsson made his own era-divorced remix, this time transplanting them Boys what Fall Out to the 80′s using the original singer’s (Patrick Stump) vocal recording re-interpreted to an entirely different genre, rythm, and style:

Listen to both covers listed here and then the original and tell me they don’t each reveal something different about the subject, that they don’t highlight new facets of the same material. This is why I love covers that work on the premise of transplanting a song to a completely different style/genre. And it’s not just divided by era! Here’s what you get when you take John Denver’s classic anthem to pastoral paradise and nature’s magnificence and run it through it’s philosophical antithesis. This is Melodicka Bros rendition, which (to my reading) seeks to find that same beauty in an industrial world stripped of it:

You can hear the singers (identified only as Joe and Dave) yearning for that beauty which John Denver knew but they will never be afforded. Or at least...

That’s my interpretation.

These stylistically remixed covers afford such great exploration of the original work alongside what the covering artist bring to the material, that it inspires awe in me. I adore this genre of remixes and covers.

And now

AND NOW.

YouTube reccomends me garbage AI covers. I’m served up the digital ghost of Frank Sinatra singing Poker Face, Spongebob (which is to say Tom Kenny, the actor who gosh darn voices him) singing Gangsta’s Paradise or some nonsense, and the entire Team Fortress 2 cast (Nathan Vetterlein, Rick May, Dennis Bateman, Gary Schwartz, Grant Goodeve, Robin Atkin Downes, John Patrick Lowrie, and Ellen McLain) singing Bohemian Rhapsody or whatever. Stolen voices twisted to shallow purposes, with no regard to the artists whose voices are taken and their wishes regarding such uses:

https://catnippackets.tumblr.com/post/722596290851176448/catnippackets-listen-i-say-this-with-patience-bc

The use of these human beings voices to speak words they did not utter is horrifying, but on a personaly level it fill my algorythmically generated feed with utter tripe.

I don’t want to end on a downer, so here’s a final example of the types of stylistic remixes I adore. Presenting Brady Love with a beutiful rendition in the style of Luciano Pavarotti of Apple Bottom Jeans (Originally by Flo Rida):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZz2PMnEDM

This one is without preview due to Tumblr’s limitations. Perhaps we can find a metaphor in that.

[readwing]

Hi ! An ask game if you want to participate : shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals 🖤

You and Me - Lighthouse

Crash and Burn - Savage Garden

Another Innocent Girl - Alkaline Trio

Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) - Fall Out Boy

Despacito - Scott Bradlee’s Post Modern Jukebox

Just gonna normal tag people because I’m tired 💀

@thischapstickaddict @jamietarttsnorthernattitude @anotherlongstoryshort

[potionofinstantdamage]

if you don't mind me asking, what was the song cover you used for your "when i ruled the world" animatic?

scott bradlee's post-modern jukebox! i highly recommend checking out their other stuff too! :^)

[probabludaistkf]

Shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals. 🎶🎧💜💙🤗

Yay Yippee!!!! Another one!!!

The girl from Ipanema

my way of life - Frank Sinatra

Booty swing

habits - Scott Bradlee’s post modern jukebox

Falling behind - laufy

[whatilistenedtoatwork]

From October 2nd to October 5th, 2023

02-10-23

THE FALL “The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall”; WILLIE NELSON “Red Headed Stranger”; ROY ELDRIDGE & DIZZY GILLESPIE “Roy & Diz #2”; BUTTHOLE SURFERS “Locust Abortion Technician”; JASON FORREST “The Unrelenting Songs Of The 1979 Post Disco Crash”; PLANXTY “After The Break”; CURTIS MAYFIELD “Curtis”; SCOTT BRADLEE’S POSTMODERN JUKEBOX “BACK When They Called It Music: The 90’s, Vol. 1”; RAY CHARLES “The Genius Of Ray Charles”; SUM 41 “All Killer No Filler”; BAD RELIGION “No Control”; LOU REED “Transformer”; JOHN LENON “Imagine”; DIZZY GILLESPIE “Dizzy Gillespie At Newport”; QUINCY JONES “Big Band Bossa Nova”; R.E.M. “Reckoning”;  EDGUY “Mandrake”

03-10-23

SINEAD O’CONNOR “Universal Mother”; DRAKE “Nothing Was The Same”; SHACKLETON “Three EPs”; DIZZY GILLESPIE “World Statesman”; ANTHONY MANNING “Islets In Pink Polypropylene”; THE FALL “Perverted By Language”; GOODIE MOB “Soul Food”; SEPULTURA “Beneath The Remains”; BO DIDDLEY “Have Guitar Will Travel”; SKYCLAD “Irrational Anthems”; REUBEN WILSON “On Broadway”; THE DESCENDENTS “Everything Sucks”; DAVE “PSYCHODRAMA”;

04-10-23

LUOMO “Vocalcity”; OLIVIA RODRIGO “SOUR”; OUTKAST “Speakerboxxx”; SONIC YOUTH “Dirty”; ELLA FITZGERALD “Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Rodgers & Hart Songbook”; CHUCK BERRY “Rockin’ At The Hops”; MODEST MOUSE “This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About”; AROVANE “Tides”; PET SHOP BOYS “Behaviour”; KIRSTY MacCOLL “Galore”

05-10-23

BOLA “Soup”; LUTHER VANDROSS “Give Me The Reason”; BO DIDDLEY “Bo Diddley Is A Lover”; MERCURY REV “Boces”; SCOTT BRADLEE’S POTMODERN JUKEBOX “The Essentials”; THE NATONAL “Boxer”; BUTTHOLE SURFERS “Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac”; BON IVER “For Emma, Forever Ago”; CHUCK BERRY “Fresh Berry’s”; RAY CHARES “Modern Sounds In Country & Western”; THE PASTELS “Illumination”; EXODUS “Fabulous Disaster”; FOUR TET “Pause”; THE WONDER STUFF “Construction For The Modern Idiot”; TALKING HEADS “More Songs About Buildings And Food”; JANELE MONAE “Metropolis: The Chase Suite”; PIXIES “Doolittle”

[olafsings]

Music History Today: April 30, 2023

April 30, 2015: Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ) posted a cover of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in vintage 1920s Gatsby style. Ariana Savalas sings (and whistles) her way through this remake while Sarah Reich tap dances.

PMJ is a rotating musical collective founded by New York-based pianist Scott Bradlee in 2011, known for reworking popular modern music into different vintage genres. The "Bad Romance" cover has received almost 44 million views.

[l-lend]

Top 5 Favorite Songs!

Thanks for the ask. I'll be taking selections from my "Bard" playlist

I Like It Heavy - Halestorm

Roaring 20s - Panic! At The Disco

Creep - Scott Bradlee's Post Modern Jukebox

Woman - Dorothy

Losing My Religion - R.E.M.

[quoteiplier]

My Campsona: Quote

Made with this picrew.

[danieandflars]

Incredible

[princessmovieticket]

It just takes some time

[terrainofheartfelt]

In light of a certain new fic, I have a Very important question for you. What would Dan and Blair's wedding playlist consist of?

*cackling like a villian* muahahahhaaha I love this question bc it's not only a chance to rec more songs to you and push my taste on all you lovely followers, but it involves some very granular meta soul searching which greatly appeals to me. I am not going to do one of my full unhinged playlists but I will share a few links :)

I think Blair and Dan are def band people over DJ people, so they would opt for live music with a band that can play all the crowd pleasers. Blair obviously loves herself the standards, and so does Dan, for all his punk hipster tendencies, so there's lots of slow dances to be had. The following are selections that I believe the two of them would categorize as must-plays (to both their tastes), which would show up alongside the required reading for every wedding setlist : Whitney Houston, Beatles, Hall and Oates' "Making My Dreams Come True," and "Love on Top" plus Nate's pleas for more bangers

these are curated from the show itself, my Dair & Dan & Blair playlists, plus my personal "Standards to Yearn to," Post Modern Jukebox, and "Good Covers" playlists - I opted for lots of covers because that capture the wedding band vibe to me

This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - as performed by Scott Bradlee's Post Modern Jukebox

Dreams - The Cranberries

Dancing on My Own - as performed by Morgan James

All the Things You Are - Ella Fitzgerald

Call On Me - Big Brother & the Holding Company

Never My Love - as performed by Jakob Dylan and Norah Jones

Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen

Tumbling Dice - as performed by The Gaslight Anthem

Dancing in the Dark - as performed by Scott Bradlee's Post Modern Jukebox

Till There Was You - as performed by Peggy Lee

Thank You - Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

Still Into You - as performed by Scott Bradlee's Post Modern Jukebox

Songbird - as performed by Eva Cassidy

The Nearness of You - as performed by Morgan James

Time after Time - Cyndi Lauper (DUH)

Like Someone in Love - Chet Baker

Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You) - Aretha Franklin

What I Need - Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

I Only Have Eyes for You - as performed by Scott Bradlee's Post Modern Jukebox

[russomartinsp]

Song Tag

Okay, that was a tough task (so many options... Just 5 songs...)

I was tagged by @alex-a-roman to name 5 songs I've listening to.

1. J'aime J'aime - Zaz;

2. Doctor - Chanmina;

3. Happier ft. Allison Young - Scott Bradlee's Post Modern Jukebox (an incredible cover);

4. Video Games - The Young Professionals (an incredible cover²);

5. Serena Existencialista - O Grilo (this one is from Brazil, my country, so... It's in portuguese).

Idk who I could tag... So, if you see my post, it's a sign to do it. If you want of course.

[wabblebees]

songs ask: 5, 7, 15?

oooh,, those are SUCH good choices -- ive got manymany multiples for all of these lmao,, so im gonna keep it to just a couple for each bc im Indecisive hfhdgshk (these are all VERY different vibes lmfao,, just a heads-up)

5 (a song that needs to be played LOUD): "damn your eyes" by etta james; "drumset" by fiona apple; & "love, me normally" by will wood

7 (a song to drive to): "looks like rain" or "ill be alright" by passion pit; "come sail away" by styx; & "electric love" by børns

15 (a cover of a song by another artist): "where is my mind?" by the pixies/scott bradlee's post-modern jukebox cover; "joli rouge" by the dreadnoughts/the longest johns cover; & "cactus" by the pixies/david bowie's cover!!:>

[scarfacemarston]

Top 5 songs?

OMG I can't answer. I have so mannyyy. Just assume anything by Prince. Oof. (My Prince ones out side of the most famous: 1. Gett Off - that's the spelling. 2. Gigolo's get lonely too w. the time 3. Love u 2 the 9's. 4. Joy in Repetition. 5. Star Fish and Coffee but I have legit over 400 Prince songs on my phone.) I love R&B, Blues, etc. We have so much to thank the African American and African Communities for. Okay - not in order. 1. "Look for the Silver Lining" - Judy Garland. So beautiful. "How About You" and, "No Love - No Nothin". 2,. Hozier - Everything? Okay - Sunlight and Wasteland Baby and Would that I are underrated. FAVE: Angel of Small Death and the COdeine Scene and Sedated. His rendition of Parting Glass WILL make you cry. 3. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd. Yo, that guitar solo is hot. Very sexy. 4.High Hopes Scott Bradlee Post Modern Jukebox cover by Spence Day. I may or may not have swooned. 5.I have to cheat. Purple Rain. by Prince I want it played at my wedding / cermeony/etc. Right now, I'm listening to "Half in the City" by St. Paul and the Broken Bones. Bonus - I ALWAYS have a weakness for Hozier and Tim Curry. Yum.

[arty-e]

Kellan And Jana Playlist

Maps (Feat. Morgan James) - Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox I Just Can’t Wait to Be King - Lion King Circles - Post Malone Weidos Make Great Superheroes - Central Park A Lovely Night - La La Land What Do I Need With Love - Thoroughly Modern Millie Crush - Tessa Violet Kill the Director - The Wombats So Close - Enchanted Legally Blonde - Legally Blonde Musical Mother Knows Best (Reprise) -Tangled Anywhere (Feat. Will Heard) - Dillon Francis Here With Me (Feat. CHVRCHES) - Marshmello Moneybox - Eliza Doolittle Wait for Me (Reprise) - Hadestown Everything Changes - Waitress To Be a Princess - Barbie Princess and The Pauper Lifeboat - Heathers Go to Bed Angry (Feat.Wayfarers) - Set it Off It Took Me By Surprise - Maria Mena When I Look At You - The Scarlet Pinpernel I Will Prevail - Wonderland Musical Heart of Stone - Six Talking to the Moon - Bruno Mars Good For You - Evan Hansen Thnks Fr Th Mmrs - Fall Out Boy The Calendar - Panic! the Disco When She Loved me - Toy Stroy 2 My Immortal - Evanescene How Could I ever Know - the Secret Garden Musical