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I’ve always held a deep respect for Annie Lennox and her music, so when she gave me her multi-track masters to mash up, I was thrilled. The task was to tie together all of her solo career into single song and video, and I could deconstruct it as much as I wanted! Woohoo!
Her music expresses much hardship and sadness, but also defiance, joy and triumph, and I wanted the mashup to reflect that journey. Here’s the tracklist:
- Why
- Walking on Broken Glass
- Little Bird
- No More I Love You’s
- Waiting in Vain
- Something So Right
- Dark Road
- Sing
- Shining Light
To listen to the streaming audio (sorry, no downloads on this one), click HERE
And here’s the video for it:
To view the video in full screen, click HERE.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Wonderful! Excellent! Phenomenal! I cannot stop gushing about your talent and your ability to bring out the newness in classics again and again!
July 14th, 2009 at 8:58 am
BRILLIANT .This was absolutely brilliant to listen to. Sometimes I despair of mashups as I listen to the b’zillionth beastie boy-A+B=mash but then I hear something done as well as this & I am reassured the talent ist still out there.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Earworm -
You are the best! This mashup just keeps growing on me.
One of my favorite things about your mashups is your sometimes brilliant, but always clever, arrangement of lyrics. Sometimes you masterfully rearrange lines to form a coherent lyric far in meaning from the originals, but serving to deliver your own message. Other times you juxtapose lyrics in startling ways, revealing new insight or providing much humor.
To that end, I’ve just spent a little time doing my best to capture the lyrics of Backwards/Forwards. Anyone who wants to take a look, maybe help out where I’ve missed a backing vocal or messed up some line, can find and comment on my working version here::
http://visualmashups.posterous.com/
Keep up the great work, my friend!
July 14th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Your sir, make me happy.
July 14th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Helllo
Where can i get a mp3 download of this song??
July 14th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
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July 14th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
awesome mash-up! love it
July 15th, 2009 at 1:57 am
Madness! I’ve been an Annie Lennox fan from when I was a little kid. This is delicious!
July 15th, 2009 at 2:07 am
DJ Earworm, you keep on outdoing yourself. Good stuff!
July 15th, 2009 at 2:08 am
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July 15th, 2009 at 2:16 am
You have outdone yourself yet again. Everytime I thing that you simply can’t pull another brilliant mash-up together you do. You are so much more of a lyrical/melodic painter than you are a DJ or Mash-Up artist. Congratulations on a great piece of workl.
July 15th, 2009 at 2:46 am
Excellent work as per……
huge fan of your mashes!!!
just jaw droppingly brilliant!!!
any plans for a MJ tribute??
TCJ
July 15th, 2009 at 2:50 am
GENIUS!
Could you make it available for Download as an mp3?
July 15th, 2009 at 3:28 am
MI DIOS!! The best of the bestest!! I can’t stop of listening it!! Hope you can share it for downloading!! GREETINGS FROM CHILE!!
Vesna
July 15th, 2009 at 6:41 am
As always, Earworm, sonically brilliant and visually stunning work; Annie is a wise woman for having chosen you for the job. Kudos!
July 15th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Your creativity is incredible and the results of it are consistently even more enjoyable than any single song by itself!! Thanks for all the great music and inspiration.
I am also hoping this one will be available for download.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Beautiful work Dj Earworm. I am a big fan of Annie and your work so this piece was two gifts in one! I would love to download it or purchase it if possible. Thanks.
July 15th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Its not very nice that you keep making it look so easy. DJ Earworm, you are in a league of your own. Well done with this one.
July 15th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
awesome mashup is there way to download that mix..keep up the good work
July 15th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Thanks again, wonderful fresh & insightful work! Hope that it can be shared for download, if possible…
July 16th, 2009 at 12:47 am
This is amazing. I’ve been a fan since the early 80′s and this is a excellent overview of her solo work.
July 16th, 2009 at 4:27 am
Great stuff! You did Annie justice. Keep it up.
July 16th, 2009 at 4:36 am
Hello Mr. Earworm. I want to share this with world, or at least my small part of it, but there is no MP3. Let me know when it is available and thank you for giving me a reason to wake up!
July 16th, 2009 at 9:28 am
I Love Annie Lennox with all my heart but I think you Love her more. You obviously put a LOT of love and care into this Brilliant video mashup. Congrats!!
Will the mp3 be available soon??
July 16th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Thanks everyone for the comments. Downloads for this aren’t available at the moment, but I’ll post updates as soon as there are any developments…
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July 16th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Annie Lennox knew what she was doing when she gave you her masters. This is a MASTERPIECE!
July 17th, 2009 at 6:04 am
absolutely BRILLIANT!
July 17th, 2009 at 11:48 am
It was moving to experience this piece…absolutely fantastic distillation of her amazing body of work. Thank you.
July 17th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Awesome mix!
July 17th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
I’ve been a fan of yours for a long time, but a fan of Annie’s for a faaaaaar longer time. To combine both of your exquisite talents into this project was a masterstroke.
What an astonishingly beautiful and insightful video. The way you combined threads of lyrics and musical motifs to create a new entity, in effect a biography of one of the world’s greatest artists.
Truly inspiring. Fantastic.
When you and Annie release an MP3 / MP4 download ep of this track I will be the first to buy it.
Love it, love it, love it.
July 17th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
This is an absolutely sublime mash-up. I’ve loved your work for years, downloading all of your tracks and listening to them over and over. This one is masterful. Bravo! Please, please put up the MP3s!
July 21st, 2009 at 3:54 am
Is there a way to get the Annie as an MP3? Brilliant fun!
July 21st, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Love this mix!!!!! Don’t take your time getting the links for this one, I’d like it asap!!!! =)
Maybe sometime you can throw in a pitbull mix. that would be amazing! =)
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Love it! Up there with Reckoner Lockdown as one of my favourite Earworm mashups. Keep up the good work!
July 24th, 2009 at 3:59 am
WOW man….that annie lennox mashup….pfff thats good stuff!! just discoverd these mixes…
u got a new huge fan from the netherlands right here man!!
keep it up!!
grts
July 24th, 2009 at 5:27 am
ages ago I emailed you with a wish that you do a mash-up of Annie/Eurythmics – all I can say is….. you’ve done it and then some!!! bl**dy inspired piece of work – hey! even Annie herself rates your work enough to showcase this mash-up on her site!! bravo maestro!!!
July 24th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Awesome! Would love to purchase, going on iTunes? I’d love to hear a Eurythmics mash w/ Sex Crime and Missionary Man- and whatever you think would work.
Again Awesome.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I love this! I heard this on Ben and Dave’s Six-pack iTunes podcast on their “Music for Homosexuals” segment. Excellent mashup!!!!
July 26th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
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July 26th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Great work. When will this be available for downloading?
July 29th, 2009 at 1:07 am
this is tremendous. congrats.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:09 am
That was FABULOUS!
Not just Annie Lennox’s solo career though, nice to see clips from Savage and Sweet Dreams too.
July 30th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
I would love to be able to download this. Please make it available.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Awesome. Nice work, big ups to Annie Lennox for giving you the masters.
July 31st, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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July 31st, 2009 at 7:44 pm
any chance to make her acapellas public? or is that against her will?
July 31st, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Amazing job.
July 31st, 2009 at 10:05 pm
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July 31st, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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