I received a few replies following the Melodrama post, in which you attempted to guess all 24 of the songs used in this clip, “Mash-Mello”:
[podcast]http://blog.belm.com/belmblog/audio/mashmello.mp3[/podcast]
As promised, here is the list of clips, in Artist, Album, “Song” format:
- King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King, “In the Court of the Crimson King”
- U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind, “Beautiful Day”
- King Crimson, Lizard, “Cirkus”
- Matching Mole, Matching Mole, “O Caroline”
- Air, The Virgin Suicides, “Playground Love”
- The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin, “Race for the Prize”
- Opeth, Damnaton, “Windowpane” (Melotron samples played on a Clavia Nord keyboard)
- Radiohead, OK Computer, “Exit Music (For A Film)”
- Oasis, What’s the Story, Morning Glory?, “Wonderwall”
- Yes, Close to the Edge, “And You And I”
- Captain Beefheart, Doc at the Radio Station, “Ashtray Heart”
- Tangerine Dream, Phaedra, “Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares”
- Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy, “The Rain Song”
- The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour, “Flying”
- Talk Talk, The Colour of Spring, “Life’s What You Make It”
- Kraftwerk, Trans-Europe Express, “Trans-Europe Express” (Vako Orchestron, not Mellotron)
- Pink Floyd, Ummagumma, “Sysyphus, Pt. 1”
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Architecture and Morality, “Joan of Arc”
- Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy, “Kashmir” (The segment in the clip is actually real instruments, but the Mellotron sections also contain vocals which are too easily identified.)
- Big Star, #1 Record, “The India Song”
- Genesis, Selling England by the Pound, “Cinema Show”
- Yes, Fragile, “Heart of the Sunrise”
- David Bowie, David Bowie, “Space Oddity”
- Genesis, Foxtrot, Watcher of the Skies
These artists, and any more rescued the Chamberlin and Mellotron from grandma’s living room. If not, we would have had a lot more of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrXtmKGkSa4