Warning: this video contains repeated use of words that some people may find offensive
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Wow, is great!
Did you see Don and Sally Draper in the audience?
Hmmm, having been a Beatles fan for about 46 of my 54 years, I couldn’t watch more than 20 seconds of this. Sorry Chris – worst post ever.
It may seem as sacrilege at first but it was made with such care so whoever made it must have been a beatle fan as well.
I take your point, Ray. I am a big Beatles fan and a big Prodigy fan. What most interests me about this clip is that the shocking effect of this music with those images must come close to the shocking effect the Beatles themselves had for some people hearing them for the first time in the 1960s. Twist and Shout is almost easy listening for us now, that’s not how it sounded then.
Not a Beatles fan – so my emotions are not assaulted by the sacrilege. I just think its interesting to see the reactions to the music compared this way. An interesting social comment on how little has changed apart from it takes more to shock us these days – perhaps it shows how desensitised we are becoming? Mind you I’m not a Beatles fan because to me they are a bit bland but i do like the prodigy partly because they are a bit wild – evolution? Just imagin what those people in the 60′s would have made of the prodigy.
About 80% of the video is just shots of the crowd…it seems a bit like a lazy way to avoid syncing footing of the performers to the music.
The ‘people in the sixties’ (me and my mates!) would have made nothing of the prodigy cos the prodigy wouldnt have existed without the Beatles.
Quite true, Boomer
RadialSkid- you’re right about the performers appearing less in the video then the crowd is but it looks like the creator made an effort to syncronize not only the singing, but also the instrument palying, crowd movement and the “bitch smacking” (at around 3min). Also if you notice there isn’t much singing going on except in the beginning as it is a mostly an instrumental piece.
the “bitch smacking” is actually at 3:40
Ok, I’m having to scratch my head at this one. I’m guessing someone synced the song from one band, to video of another. But the style doesn’t quite match (The Prodigy? Really??)
Interesting. Not as offensive as some things by today’s standards…but can you imagine if they were really singing this? The concert would’ve been shut down within 5 minutes…..
It’s a nice try… Be more impressive if you synced the Beatles song, to a *Prodigy* video… No, really…think about it…
I’ve been a Beatles fan since 1965 (five years old) and this is great!!!
Ridiculous. Their guitars were not capable of feedback, since it hadn’t been invented yet. And Brian Epstein would never have allowed them to do anything close to that. Total fucking fake idiocy. Very badly done, too, I might add.
“Feedback … hadn’t been invented yet” ??
Sorry, you obviously know nothing of the topic. Not only is the capacity for feedback intrinsic to all amplified sound (meaning it was “invented” at the same time amplification was), The Beatles did in fact make use of it, most notably at the beginning of their recording of “I Feel Fine.” And they weren’t the first.
As for Brian Epstein, he lost all input into musical decisions when the Decca audition failed — 1962. They simply would not have listened to anything he might have had to say on the subject.
But I would agree that on the whole it’s poorly done. It would have made more sense to have chosen something that has approximately the appropriate instrumentation. There’s clearly a synthesizer or some such sort of electronic drone going at a time when the lads are all playing their usual strings and drums. At one point John is shown making noise with a keyboard that matches nothing at all in the audio.
I find some of the negative reactions strange. I’m not sure why people would view something like this in such a literal manner, looking for things to “make sense”.
It is a mash up and therefore not logical to begin with. Enjoy the whimsical nature of it and maybe look for something more meaningful occurring either by happy accident or through the creator’s implicit commentary.
And if you don’t find anything meaningful, laugh at the absurdity, and since you like retro stuff (otherwise you wouldn’t be here), drink in the 60s documentary footage.
Great post.
From the same makers: The Prodigy performing ‘Help’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXkNeITOai4