Reply To: The Mandelbrot Set 3: Creepy Monkey Underpants
I found this collaborative cover of Hotel California on Youtube, and mixed it with Coulton’s lead vocal from the CC source tracks, pitch-shifted up one step from Am to Bm (which makes his voice sound oddly androgynous). They actually fit together really well, musically. The main problem is that the progression in Hotel California is half the speed of the one in Creepy Doll. To compensate, I had to chop JoCo’s vocals into a bunch of short phrases. The other problem is that there’s no third chorus to HC, so the end of Creepy Doll (“As the smoke fills up…”) is placed awkwardly over the instrumental outro. And I didn’t use the Creepy Doll chorus or bridge. Somebody else could probably do a better job of matching lyrics into a coherent story, although there are a few humorous synchronicities. Anyway, here’s what I ended up with:
Hotel Creepy Doll.mp3 (demo/proof-of-concept)