For my third audio assignment, I decided to do So and So’s Greatest Hits, which required me to make a mash-up of one artist’s greatest hits or your favorite by them, with the requirements being that you have to use at least 5 songs and it has to be at least 5 minutes long.
I decided to do one of my favorite artists, Panic! At the Disco, as their multitude of music has a wide variety of sounds and would make for some interesting mixing and mashing. Being that I love this band so much, I ended up using 23 songs, and creating a piece that is almost 7 minutes long.
The hardest part was probably choosing the songs and which part of the songs I wanted to use. I did most of this work in iTunes, by creating a playlist and taking note of the time ranges for the parts I wanted to use. Then I imported all the tracks into Audacity, trimmed them, and began to arrange them. This was also difficult, as I tend to focus more on the lyrics than the music, which doesn’t really make for good music. Realizing where there were issues, I tried to smooth some of the transitions and overlays out through adjusting the volume of the tracks or using the fade out effect.
Ultimately, what I’ve created is a hella cool mix of some awesome songs. Sure there are some rough patches where I just couldn’t get it quite right. But there are also some great parts where the lyrics either coincide or contradict each other, which I really love. My favorite part would have to be where “Casual Affair” is overlaid with “Northern Downpour” (around the 5:34 mark).
Here is the list of the song used in order of appearance:
- “Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind)”
- “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage”
- “That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)”
- “This is Gospel”
- “Trade Mistakes”
- “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”
- “Nine In the Afternoon”
- “Mad As Rabbits”
- “There’s A Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought Of It Yet”
- “The Ballad of Mona Lisa”
- “Build God, Then We’ll Talk”
- “All the Boys”
- “Miss Jackson (ft. Lolo)”
- “Girls/Girls/Boys”
- “Hurricane”
- “Let’s Kill Tonight”
- “Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off”
- “Nicotine”
- “But It’s Better If You Do”
- “When the Day Met the Night”
- “Casual Affair”
- “Northern Downpour”
- “Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met…)”