Neil Cicierega

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I don't want to leave spoilers on the thread but holy shit @ "Closerflies"

that's the one that split my brain in half

one half of which was crying for death and the other half of which was like "hahahaha yesss an abomination unto the earth is born"

I'm hyperventilating at "Whitehouse"

this starts out so strong, I can't believe it gets STRONGER as it goes

I have decided that I really need to befriend Neil Cicierega

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okay gonna throw this on in a bit should I liveblog y/n

holy fuck this is WRONG

ok "Sleepin'" nearly made me choke with laughter

can we forget about the CLOTHES I had when I was SLEEP
I didn't mean to SLEEP WITH MY CLOTHES ON

look into these eyes
then you'll see the size
of these eyes

the fukin Seinfeld! !! what the fuc!!

Chili's segment was the highlight for me

are you fucking kidding with this

I listened to Sounds & Silence maybe once each back in the day, had a laugh and that was it, forget about them soon after and wasn't aware of Moods. Have been listening to them all again and god damn there's so much here. Part of the appeal is the sheer variety of effect - there's bad jokes (Monty Python/Bon Jovi), good jokes (Ghostbusters), sound collages, 'how the hell did he get away with that' moments (Oasis/Dead or Alive), car crashes you can't look away from (REM/Billy Joel), insane things that shouldn't work as well as they do (Love Psych), classic mashups where the instrumentals or vocals or both are transformed and elevated (too many to mention) and moments of pure transcendence (T.I.M.E.)

I think that does Silence a disservice, but his pure mixing skills and ambition have definitely deepened with each album. Sounds is quite clearly the worst one at any rate.

Excited for everyone discovering him! Hopefully they'll all end up checking out Spirit Phone too...

btw if you thought that I wasn't voting for 10,000 Spoons in the EOYs, you thought wrong

idk if this is the best one yet but it's definitely the funniest. the way he rearranges the lyrics on so many of these songs just kills me. idk of any other mashup artist who makes it sound this seamless

also wanna say parts of this album are absolutely CURSED

"wah" to the ending is pure gold. well, "brithoven" is just a goof, but everything else, gold.

yeah "Wah" made me lose my mind

at the end I was thinking "I hope this transitions into Feel Good Inc" and my man delivered

The genre is listed as "Dream."

lmao at this comment

Pee Wee Inc is what you'd think Insane Clown Posse would sound like if you'd never heard of Insane Clown Posse

oh lmao I just got the joke on "Ribs"

ohhhh

is it about the marilyn manson story?

marilyn manson had several ribs removed so he could smell his own knees

Bands you keep trying to like but can't get into

have tried a lot this week, but the fact is, i prefer Girl Talk over this fella.
guess i just hate jokes.

Girl Talk? I haven't heard that name in years

this isn't as good as the last one imo

still v good tho

I think Girl Talk & Neil Cicierega are aiming for totally different things

i.e. NC is about the jokes that i just don't care enough about to get ?

or, am i missing another level to NC ?

(i have never enjoyed joke filled/humorous music - so this is not specific to NC)

idk, either you think this is funny or you don't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE

but that's just an overly aggressive edit as opposed to a proper bootleg !?
and no, not a single chuckle throughout.
guess i really am a humourless f#cker.
hey ho.

but that's just an overly aggressive edit as opposed to a proper bootleg !?

but?

sleepin' makes me feel good

this intricate edit is an intricate edit, I call shenanigans

guess i just hate jokes.

― mark e,

this game is not over.
i will continue this pursuit of enjoyment another time.

I think the funniest thing on this album is 1:38 on "Fredhammer" that final pitched-down "yeah" idk why but that kind of shit always makes me crack up

I don't think you need to worry about forcing yourself to like it if it's not your thing. I've always had an affinity for slapstick humor that takes the air out of self-serious cultural touchstones — Looney Tunes, Weird Al, etc. Obviously you might like those things and not like Neil Cicierega, but that's just what I get out of it personally.

yeah I'm terrible at explaining why anything is funny much less something like "if you're all alone...let me sleep in your bed"

I'm just in awe of his editing skills. Like, "Yahoo" is legit great to listen to.

freaky ghost bed

Yeah his editing skills are legitimately amazing. He has a track called “Don’t” which didn’t make any of the albums, an incredibly cursed mashup of “Don’t Stop Believing” and “Homies” by ICP. At the end he has a bit where it sounds like Steve Perry is singing “Homies! Homies!” to the Don’t Stop Believing hook...I have no clue how he managed to do that. Like even with Mouth Sounds it wasn’t so much “put All Star in everything” as much as it was him making brand new tunes out of it. Idk anyone else who does it like he does.

He has a track called “Don’t” which didn’t make any of the albums, an incredibly cursed mashup of “Don’t Stop Believing” and “Homies” by ICP

i had somehow missed this

my life is now complete

yeah that one is something

this guy has completely ruined the song "Wonderwall"

I remember once meeting Neil C. at a Harry Potter convention, and he was so happy to have someone not talk his ear off about Potter Puppet Pals, but instead about Lemon Demon (or more specifically, the opening riff to "Action Movie Hero Boy").

I followed this guy religiously when I was in high school, not only do I own multiple Lemon Demon CDs I also guest wrote a comic for Farchie Archie. and yet it somehow snuck under my radar that he had made one of the top 10 most viewed YouTube videos of all time (at least it was top 10 when I found it...I assume it's been demolished by two dozen Justin Bieber videos since)