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COHEED AND CLOWNIA

 Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 5:15pm by

Slipknot are out on tour with Coheed and Cambria right now, and I guess it’s like one big love-in or some shit, ’cause ‘Knot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan has done a remix of C+C’s “Kashmir” “Welcome Home,” which is currently streaming on the band’s MySpace page.

Look: generally I think re-mixes are a waste of time, a total wankfest, and, often, a chance to fuck with a perfectly decent song just because you can. And this one doesn’t really strike me as being any different; it doesn’t seem like Clown had any unifying thoughts behind this remix other than to drop acid and just go kuh-ray-zee with Pro Tools. And I say that as someone who generally thinks Clown is a pretty cool dude (his completely nonsensical rants aside).

Check it out and weigh in below.

Thanks to good1apollo for the tip!

-AR

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  • You Don’t Know Me

    Okay… so he cut up some of the different parts to make it sound a little different. For the most part, it’s almost exactly like the original, but just chopped up a bit more in places. Lame, even by remix standards.

  • Nigel

    I agree with You Don’t Know Me, sigh, it could have been pretty good too

  • Bicro

    Put in position to wage 40-something mayhem
    A common affair for the ones who are egotistic
    If it is idiot kids that grants him the power
    He thrives on what’s more idiotic than most of the world

  • Selaphiel

    I also agree with You Don’t Know Me, I’m a Coheed fan and LOVE this song, plus I dig some of Slipknot’s stuff (s/t and Vol. 3), but this just kinda… It was bland. One of the worst remixes I’ve heard.

  • g

    At least its not just the vocals with a bunch of stuttering techno drums and no guitars. But yeah, kinda boring for a remix.

  • Douche

    Clown needs to disappear. I like Slipknot and everything, he’s just such a fuckin’ douche. Actually everyone in the band is kinda douchey. They all need to shut the fuck up and just play.

  • http://leaningback.blogspot.com Brien

    I think it’s pretty unanimous that this remix sucks and that Coheed only posted it to make Clown feel better about his lack of talent. But this is the price we must pay for an age where music editing and recording software is readily available to the masses in an easy-to-use format.

    I generally like the concept of a remix due the concept of rearranging a song into something completely different. The Sequoia Throne PtH featured I thought was pretty cool. But Clown completely missed this point. His “remix” consists mostly of chopping layers off the main track, adding shitty “phone effects the vocals for no reason and looping “but if you really loved me” at the end.

  • Kit Brandner

    This song fooled me. I heard it, liked it, downloaded the rest of the Coheed/Cambria crap, deleted it. For every good riff or bass line they start, they then go on to make a complete mockery of themselves with that fucking vocalist. Whatever, there’s plenty of other good bands to listen to (Brutal Truth, Cephalic Carnage, Death, GWAR).

    But I gave this remix a chance, and yes, mostly all Clown did to it was cut out tracks at different times and add shitty vocal effects. But then he cuts the best part, the guitar solo, short? This guy is a douchebag. THE douchebag. Go fuck the wall, douchebag. It’s the only one listening to your shit.

  • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

    I like it.

  • Sleneder

    UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Completely butchered.

  • Sleneder

    @CJ, your a fucking idiot listen to the real song

  • DanyLektro

    Kit, I know exactly how you feel. The song DOES fool you, but luckilly, there are other tracks on that myspace page that warded me away beforehand. Limewire the song, not the band, hehe.

    Remixes are popular with the rap/hiphop generation because all they keep are the vocals, hey, that’s fine, maybe their add some creativity to the dullness.
    Remixes are popular with the Industrial/synth generation, because the music is already electronic, and generally the remixes have so much experience in the market that they know how to take a track and actually make it sound like it’s completely different.
    Slipknot.. Coheed & Cambria.. no. Doesn’t work, not because of lack of skill, not because of lack of attempt, but because of the underlying feel of the music. If you want to remix a song that isn’t already electronic, consider covering it in a different style instead, at least then you get your point across. “I wanted to hear the song in THIS musical style”, instead of, “I wanted to add some synth and remove some parts, ‘cuz now it sounds better, hahaha”.

    Remixing is supposed to be a different interpretation of a song, what you think you can hear underneath what’s actually there, not… this abomination.

  • maggotforever

    i thought it sounded cool and was kinda revamp of a song that i’ve honestly gotten bored with cause i’ve heard it the exact same way so many times… i liked it and apparently coheed and cambria did too cause it’s on there space… so i think the words are shut the fuck up? Especially danylekro… retard… you said “what you think you can hear underneath what’s actually there” how is cutting the guitar part and putting in the symphony which is under the guitar in the real version NOT hearing underneath what’s actually there? just saying.. and the vocal part at the solo which you can barely hear on the real version, once again “underneath what’s there”.. But i do agree with you look on remixes having said all that