A Couple Of Rollercoaster Rides

Ella Fitzgerald “What Are You Doing New Years Eve?” (Mangini Vs. Pallin Mix)

This remix doesn’t change the mood and tone of Fitzgerald’s original recording so much as enhance it to the point that its glossy, over the top artifice becomes a bit surreal, and charming in and of itself. In other words: Yo dawg I herd you like nostalgic whimsy so we put nostalgic whimsy in yo romance so you can be nostalgically whimsical while U romance!

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Anya Marina “Afterparty At Jimmy’s”

This feels cartoonish, in a good way. Even though it’s not entirely true, the guitar sounds like it’s nothing but a single, stabbing down stroke chord repeated forever, or at least until the player takes a break for a moment of awkward noodling in, as Noel Gallagher would say, “a Wayne’s World stylee.” Marina’s voice is even more exaggerated, warping her sexy rock bad girl front into something weirdly Muppet-ish at points. (This muppet.)

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