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AND BY “REMIX,” BEN WEINMAN MEANS “MAKE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SONG”

 Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 11:00am by

You’re Ben Weinman, you’re a genius, and for whatever reason, you’re remixing a Bring Me the Horizon song. What the hell are you supposed to do with it?

Change it to the point where’s it’s not at all recognizable, that’s what.

An anonymous reader sent me this video, which plays BMTH’s original “I’ve Read About Girls Like You On the Backs of Toilet Doors” side-by-side with Weinman’s remix, which is really just a completely different song with a few samples taken from the original. As a matter of fact, for most of the “remix,” it sounds like you could be listening to outtakes from some of the Aphex Twinier moments of Ire Works (“Sick on Sunday,” the intro to “Dead as History,” etc.). And that’s a good thing.

-AR

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Hulsey/653830783 David Hulsey

    Neither version even sounds like music to me. Weinman’s version sounds like bunch of robots falling down a huge staircase.

    • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/46e389eb8b79606050d3d447431ff6ac?s=80 Nate

      Agtreed. Fuck scenecore and remixes of scenecore.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Hulsey/653830783 David Hulsey

        At this point I am thinking fuck all heavy music that does not come from acts established before 2002. Or better yet, acts with an average birthdate that does not fall before 1985. The metal scene is breathing its last breath and to be honest…I’m ready for a break from all of the “scenes” and their various plagiaristic styles.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sean-Wright/1365416981 Sean Wright

          2010 = Transition-era for Metal. This is one of those periods where Metal is more about quantity over quality and sadly is resembling how things were in the mid 90′s from about early ’95 to early ’98. Things are going to suck for a while and we won’t get the nice influx of quality releases until either people start listening to the right music and making better music or labels stop signing carbon-copy acts and start at least releasing better more diverse/quality acts. The top 5 genres that are going to suffer the most;

          1. Scene/Metalcore/Deathcore whatever you want to call it. It’s had it’s 15 minutes of fame and it’s just got to go.
          2. Groove Metal (ex: Machine Head/Skinlab….apparently people don’t know Five Flaming Dick Puffers are shitty Groove Metal)
          3. Pantera-worship (this could be put next to Groove metal but I am sick and tired of all of these scuzzy fucking heshers trying to be hip with black tooth grins at every local gig you go to)
          4. Un-inspired Death Metal/Black Metal
          5. Retro-Thrash (Yeah we get it, stretch jeans, denim jackets with the same fucking 10 band patches all-over it listening to the same riff Metallica and Kreator wrote at least 20 years ago….obnoxious)

          Nu-Metal doesn’t fit the top 5 genres that need to be snuffed-out. It’s already in it’s grave. It was put to rest in late ’05/early ’06. So no mor worry about that shit.

          If we cleared those 5 shit sub-genres out which seems to be the ONLY top 5 shit sub-genres metalheads are attracted to for whatever reason, I have no clue. God forbid a metalhead tries to sound like Watchtower, Raven, or Black Hole. God forbid a metalhead starts a band and does something out of the norm.

          Outside of my bitching…if we clear those acts out, Metal in general could possibly have another golden era like the 80′s. We can only hope…

          • Zoker

            When you say “scene/metalcore/deathcore” you say nothing… are you putting Misery Signals or For the Fallen Dreams on the same list with Attack Attack! or BMTH? Or are you just saying that the most part of these bands will suffer? Cause I have no problems in saying that I LOVE some metalcore stuff and I really hope some trends will survive this “transition-era for metal”…

        • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/46e389eb8b79606050d3d447431ff6ac?s=80 Nate

          Hmmmm, I’d agree most of the way, but there’s a few good newcomers out there. Gorod, Augury and Trepalium have all blown me away with their creativity, and i don’t believe they fit those conditions. Ignominous Incarceration isn’t bad either.

          • metalguy

            +1 for the II coment

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sean-Wright/1365416981 Sean Wright

    I didn’t even make it about 18 or 19 seconds.

  • Alkahest

    Ben’s remix is rad as fuck. I enjoy complex electronic music like that sometimes.

  • WowWee!

    This band is crap, why would you cover it other than comedic reasons.

  • Shep

    The remix is pretty good, hardly metal though so I could see why people hate it. The original is just crap…

  • iolanach

    The word “genius” shouldn’t be anywhere near anything related to Bring me the Horizon.

  • Chris

    I’m pretty sure nobody here really listens to electronic music that isn’t Postal Service, or Aphex Twin

    POSERS

  • SonOF

    I love electronic music, especially drum and bass (in particular, dark, HEAVY D&B), so I quite enjoyed this remix.

  • Anon

    It seems as though a lot of people are really too narrow minded to appreciate music in a general aspect.
    Yeah bring me the horizon is “TEH ScEn3sterz”, but so what?

    They are obviously significant to some movement in music.
    whether you like, or understand it doesn’t matter, because YOU DON’T MATTER!

    How are you contributing to contemporary music?
    by genre bashing?

    Unless you are Ben Weinman,
    U R DUMB!
    I H8 U.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sean-Wright/1365416981 Sean Wright

      Fans don’t matter? Wow. Can’t argue with that logic.

      • Chris

        nah, not really.

  • Tim

    This remix reminded me a lot of the digital hardcore records sound. It has a nice alec empire, atari teenage riot breakcore feel to it.

    Not that you queers would know anything about that.

    • Chris

      Hell yeah, Tim knows what’s up.

      @anon, well said.

      All you “733T” posers should actually study, and learn the history of music, instead of listening to whatever decibel magazine, or pitchfork music tell you to.

      You’ll learn to appreciate, and recognize current movements in music, rather than
      just bashing on shit you don’t understand.

  • Andrew

    Making this song sound nothing the original is the best thing Weinman could’ve done with it. I LOVE DEP

  • ande

    that girls is pretty hot in the picture, i would screw the guts outta her. oops. the music is awful though. i have made better music with a fucking wooden spoon and a can.

  • teaches_of_peaches

    BMTH’s whole remix album is better than anything the band could have written on their own.