Jim Mortleman’s Comments

• Aug 31st, 2015 @ 1:49pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hilarious?

  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  yes, those are great, Pink Shark. Cheers - we're shooting for a similar vibe with ours.
• Aug 31st, 2015 @ 1:47pm

  Re: Re:

  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  Haha! Just got round to watching this nasch - brilliant! Laughing out loud. Yes, certainly scope for a classical one twittter-stylee, too.
• Aug 31st, 2015 @ 7:52am

  Re: Subterranean Facebook Blues

  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  ('Blues' not 'Clues' - autocorrect!)
• Aug 31st, 2015 @ 7:28am

  Subterranean Facebook Blues

  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  Now we've discovered youtubedoubler.com, we can finally show folks our punny version of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (re-titled "Subterranean Facebook Clues") on YouTube. (It was up on Vimeo for a while and managed to get about 50K hits, but we had to take it down on legal advice.) Slient version synced to legitimate audio can now be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/sub-fb-blues. Every cloud, as they say...
• Aug 28th, 2015 @ 6:05pm

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  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  Sorry, 'news programmes' not 'new programmes' that should've read... or even 'programs', as you say on your side of the pond. :)
• Aug 28th, 2015 @ 6:03pm

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  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  Again, each to their own. A group of us works very hard on amusingly punning these songs using social network profiles and we've covered genres from the 60s to the 90s (so far) including blues, prog rock, rock, punk, electro and grunge. We make our choice of songs based on the potential for misheard lyrics, not the quality of the songs per se, and have deliberately varied the genres we parody. And they clearly have a broad appeal - our work has been lauded by the national press in the UK, France, Eire, a number of big blogs as well as being aired on one of BBC TV's flagship new programmes here in the UK, Newsnight. As for young punks, I'm 46 and some of my fellow punsters are even older! :)
• Aug 28th, 2015 @ 5:30pm

  Re: Hilarious?

  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  Each to their own. You really need to get to the punned names rather than the instrumental intro to "get it". We're going for a "misheard lyrics" vibe, rather like the old Maxell tape ads, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAsmf1LGcpA
• Aug 28th, 2015 @ 5:26pm

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  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  Odd. Wonder what their interest is? Will have to investigate fully next week.
• Aug 28th, 2015 @ 5:25pm

  Re: Re: Even Nirvana's bassist liked it!

  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  Just spotted this - thanks. Won't have time to trim, render and upload another copy tonight (it's 1.30am here in the UK) but will try to get a better-synced version up soon if I can't get the takedown lifted. In the meantime, it's possible on youtubedoubler to get a better sync by quickly pausing and unpausing the video that's playing ahead until the two come into perfect sync.
• Aug 28th, 2015 @ 5:00pm

  Sync link

  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  Thanks to @pgregg, who provided a shortcut to a youtubedoubler syncing my silent version with the legitimate version. Kind of demonstrates the idiocy of the block, no? http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DhTWKbfoikeg&st art1=0&video2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DbTYJvOCDzjc&start2=31&authorNa me=PG
• Aug 28th, 2015 @ 4:05pm

  Even Nirvana's bassist liked it!

  on Universal Music Has No Sense Of Humor, Takes Down Hilarious Twitter Profile Pun Parody Of Nirvana Song
  Thanks for the write-up, Mike. Yes, it seems so stupid. Even Nirvana bassist Krist retweeted the video, so he obviously doesn't have a problem with it. I'll get on to UMG next week and see if we can't sort this out with a bit of common sense. In the meantime, I'm posting a SILENT version of the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTYJvOCDzjc) that people can sync with a legitimate version of the audio, also freely available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg) and readily playable in another browser tab or synced using a site like youtubedoubler.com. Just an unnecessary PITA.