Hardest song to make an AMV to?

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 12:06 pm

dbz_doomrider wrote:Why dont you make a music video to "Excitable Boy" by Warren Zevon....the absolute strangest song I've ever heard...

aside from "What's he building in there?" by Tom Waitts.

Neither of those...are songs you could TOUCH. Those are by far the most impossible songs. I -DARE- you to try and make a good video to either song.

Both of those songs are nigh on improssible... shit nearly every Warren Zevon song is impossible except for Werewolves of London... To add my hints to that tally I would like to say Kenny Rogers and the New Edition: The Condition My Condition Is In

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 3:15 pm

Dannywilson wrote:Kenny Rogers and the New Edition: The Condition My Condition Is In

The Coen brothers did a pretty good job to that one IMO

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 3:34 pm

As Slow As Possible, composed by John Cage and currently being played in Halberstadt on a 642 year old organ. The song will last for 639 years total (it's been going for 21 months already).

'nuff said

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 4:06 pm

Jogeir Liljedahl's "klisje paa klisje". All of you MOD-sceners better know what this one is; it's an electronic (computer?) music classic

The fact that the song goes on for 10 minutes isn't the difficult aspect (although it certainly is daunting)...I'd call it difficult because of the huge variety of themes presented in the piece. There doesn't seem to be any way to really do this song justice without having a seriously epic idea.

I'm posting the original 4-channel ProTracker music module here -- it's a pretty small download (224 kB). Be warned that this makes use of some really old Amiga module player conventions, and therefore won't play correctly on some players. MOD 4 WIN did a nice job of handling it, but I know that Winamp's decoder doesn't handle the tempo commands at all correctly...ModPlug _might_ do it, but I dunno...

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 4:18 pm

trythil wrote:MOD 4 WIN did a nice job of handling it, but I know that Winamp's decoder doesn't handle the tempo commands at all correctly...ModPlug _might_ do it, but I dunno...

Bah, that should be "set BPM-speed command", not "set tempo command"...

And this one isn't impossible by any stretch of the imagination, but it's definitely a fun piece, and since everyone seems to be getting song ideas here...I'd love to see someone AMV it

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 4:43 pm

Where are people getting "impossible"? It's HARDEST, not IMPOSSIBLE.

People are acting like wankers and taunting people with "omg taht is sooooo ez! omg," and yet they can't seem to read. Ironic, that.

< /bitchmode >

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 4:53 pm

Surely the hardest one to do is one that can't be done at all and hence impossible?

My use of "impossible" was in response to people who'd claimed certain songs couldnt have effective amvs made to them. As it happens I dont think any of them are impossible but some suggested here really are damn difficult (and not worth the effort sometimes

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SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 7:42 pm

Technically speaking, but I didn't think the point of this thread was to taunt newer/less celebrated users about their AMVing skill. I suppose I was wrong.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 8:54 pm

SarahtheBoring wrote:Technically speaking, but I didn't think the point of this thread was to taunt newer/less celebrated users about their AMVing skill. I suppose I was wrong.

That's just a different way of looking at things. I know you don't give yourself much credit but personally I dont see it being so much about skill. Getting the idea (which is what this thread is about) is half of the battle. Honestly, I think a lot of these videos that people think are hard would really not be so bad if they were forced to make them.

I'm not saying they'd be a piece of cake but they really wouldnt be as bad as people make out.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 9:08 pm

4'33"