If you have ever wondered why the f*ck did the Chipmunks have to exist, now you know. None of us could have comprehended such higher purpose at the time.
10 year old me: "This is dumb. Why do they even produce this squeaky music?" Voice from the future: "The year is 2020. A global pandemic rages and major cities across the globe are ghost towns. However, the spark of civil unrest has been lit, and riots are spreading across the US as the president marches through the street with a bible and riot cops at his side. Within the year, violence will even overtake the capital as the very security of our democracy is threatened. Then, and only then, will you understand the chipmunk sludge punk album."
@@ryanwalraven812 I wish your comment didn't evoke such feelings of negative nostalgia in me. I wish it didn't. This is one of the best things I've read on RUclips in a minute.
@@MarthaRoseQuartzOh, Christ, they were utterly repugnant to me--but I was really fascinated by the music and the production technique as a kid in the mid-late 80s. I figured out how they did it by playing around with a record player and a tape recorder (I was a big electronics geek at the time). The thing is, before computers, you really had to have talent to do this. You have to sing precisely at half speed AND with perfect pitch--otherwise it sounds like hot garbage (like what I managed to create lol). I really don't know how much of the music they made themselves and how much of it was instrumental tracks mixed with their voices (and if that changed over the years), but you can hear in the earliest cartoons that they were still getting the hang of even doing the voices, although it's possible they did them really slowly for young children--not sure on that. A couple of years ago (I think when the pandemic lockdown had just started, because I was really scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to do) I found the sludgefest, and I was like "THESE GUYS WERE F!@#$ BRILLIANT" hahah. I had recorded a little of it and slowed it down off the air as a kid, but I did not have the perspicacity to appreciate it. Plus, some of the genres of music it resembled hadn't even been invented yet, I think.
The Sludge Never Dies album was a watershed moment for the band. Coming off the Chipmunks On 16 Speed album release and tour, the band was reeling from personal issues and substance abuse, but Alvin's determination to put together a new release before the end of '89 proved stronger, and a rambunctious 4 week studio session that involved at least 3 overdoses and one small fire culminated in this 51 minute clanger, an experimental, defiantly weird album that left critics sharply divided but was widely popular across the midwestern sludge and post-punk scene.
"Kids In America" is a lot darker after I saw that documentary about the Chipmunks' legacy. I'll never get that infamous scene out of my head, the interview with that 11 year old boy from '91 who says he got addicted to smack after seeing Theodore inject on stage. It ended with him flicking his arm and trying to get one of his veins to surface up while he wrapped a big rubber strap around his bicep. "I just tell my parents that they're spider bites."
I know I’m a bit late to the party, but “Theodore has a crisis and vocalizes in terror (interlude)” has absolutely been performed by either Moby or Björk.
A little know fact is that bjork and Simon had a kinda fling when she was still in the Sugarcubes she does an interview where she basically admits that the peyote fueled jam sessions with Simon provided her inspiration for the vespertine album. The interview is for her hometown paper so it's in Icelandic and hard to find
Theodore was probably the most traumatized of the group. Even with the physical abuse he suffered from Alvin (not to mention the drugs), the gaslighting he suffered from Simon was probably more debilitating. It's sort of a perfect storm situation. I get that he should still be responsible for his actions, but I can't help but wonder if Theodore might have made different choices that night, refusing Alvin's GHB spiked drink, and standing up to Simon, who had a very peculiar relationship to Elanor, the tragedy that unfolded, wouldn't have, and Elanor would still be alive, and Theodore wouldn't be in prison.
I remember listening to this on Vinyl, and Theodore Has a Crisis and Vocalizes in Terror was a beautifully absurd way to end Side A, whose context is lost in the digital age.
These were all distributed on records when they were first released, so all you had to do was play the record slow to find their real voices. The reason they sounded squeaky was simply from playing the voices at a high speed, which is the reason for all the record scratching in this song.
Yeah, it comes from a shovelware game which was created around the time, and due to, the popularity of those live action movies, given the other songs included in the game (like Walking On The Sun), it seems like anyone higher up didn't really care what songs they threw in there so they just changed the lyrics barely enough to the point where they could keep a kid friendly rating and I love that.
It's just a great song in general in terms of being slowed down. I've found versions that I'd say even surpass this, which I never thought I'd ever say.
This album was rife with studio interference. While arguably a more critically acclaimed album, this sharply divided the band that eventually lead to them splitting up. Theodore refused to play any of the songs in a even time signature, which lead to them hiring session drummer Jeff Porcaro to replace him on every track. Fresh out of rehab for the 4th time Alvin got really into working out and, by all accounts, was probably on steroids. He was always about to explode and the band felt they were always walking on egg shells. Simon was constantly trying to keep the peace, which lead to Alvin eventually breaking his jaw with a mic stand during the recording of Kids in America. His agonizing scream was left in the mix and can be heard at the 20:58 mark.
The notion that Porcaro re-recorded *all* of Theodore’s parts is a myth, it was just the opening and closing tracks, which Alvin wanted done in a very precise way that Theo just couldn’t hack. To his credit, he’d master it by the time the SND tour got underway. Check out their Live in Boston album, Theo nails Blitzkrieg Bop like a boss.
I saw these guys open for Carcinogen in my friend's basement in Oakland back in '93. Alvin was huge into speedballing at the time and threw up all over the crowd and himself during Kids in America. someone who Simon owed money to showed up and tried to fight him on stage and we had to kick everyone out and their show stopped early. Carcinogen still went on and was fucking awesome though
It's a damn shame that Alvin took "rock and weed" a bit too literally. He got out of rehab the day they started recording, and the day it hit the shelves he was back in for his fifth stint. Amazed that they didn't get dropped by the label sooner, given the fact that he just about killed Theodore during "Kids In America." You can still hear his screaming if you pay close attention after Alvin shoved his face into an amplifier.
@@seanbrautigan7906 I wouldn't say Hurt specifically, but it absolutely feels like 90s NIN. I was trying to place exactly what 90s vibe it was giving me and you cracked the code for what I was thinking.
My favorite thing about this band is the way that on every album, everyone has their own pet favorite song, their own little obsession. I almost wonder if Alvin and the boys were really tapping into some deeper vein of the Jungian unconscious, like they figured out a way to say the same words we've heard before, the same platitudes and slogans that threaten to drown all our thoughts, our intentions, in bland consumerism and starry-eyed poptimism, and whisper those same words to us in a slurred-speech spell that penetrates past all the bullshit and becomes something like an addiction, a substance, an poisonous obsession, much like the ones that each of the members themselves struggled with, like perfection reflecting perversion in a cracked mirror. Idk. Maybe I'm rambling, the weekend's liquid quagmire is starting to take hold. R.I.P. Alvin
it's not 1/16th. it's a 33.33 repeating record being played on a 16 speed turntable. so it's a little under half speed. or maybe it's a 45 speed record, meaning it's a little above 1/3 speed
I cant believe they forced Alvin into the studio after he shot up his girlfriend with that fatal overdose. They had to shove him into the record label's company car just as they shoved her stretcher into the ambulance. This recording perfectly captured the guilt he was trapped with inside the mic booth. The chambers of his heart being eaten alive. Not knowing by the time he finished laying this track down, she would be dead, and he would be laying her casket down as well.
That interlude though. The day the fandom held their breath. I will never forget that first moment, when we all though Alvin and Co. had finally cracked into pure acid while on tape.
I'm glad I was there when it all happened. A moment in history like this only comes once in a lifetime, never to be repeated. Thanks for bringing back all the memories I was trying to forget.
16:22 and 36:16 after several failed albums and conflicts within the band caused by Alvin's heroin addiction, in 1994 the Chipmunks released a post-grunge album as a last ditch effort to stay relevant and save the band from being dropped by their label.
I’ll never forget the split in the fanbase’s opinion when this project dropped, just mere months after Alvin’s untimely death, and years removed from the split of the band, “Sludge Never Dies” was either a shameless, gross, lame attempt at a cashgrab, or it was a beautiful, transcendent, fitting artistic end to the group and their discography. It was more of a collection of unreleased works that were made back in the group’s hay-day, but with finished/polished composition and mastering from Dave and other producers, it had a bit of a newer flavor to it. It really brought the band back into prominence and put Theodore back onto his feet, so for what it’s worth, thank god for this album and may Alvin rest peacefully with God.
If you are not listening to this at volumes so high that the neighbours think that you are covering up the sounds of murdering someone, and call in the police - you are not listening at all.
The last thing Alvin was involved in before he locked himself in the microwave the last words of him were not words more so screams and the sounds of his popping blood and skin
I relate. sludge, doom, and the economics of global colonialism at the height of the industrial revolution are the only three things i have any interest in anymore
Christ, forgot how much love they put into Walkin' On The Sun. Through all the pain, suffering, and Mocscow Mule infused rampages they really let Theodore go CRAZY with his vocal work on that track (and the interlude of course). Fun fact! The nastily modulated guitar riff was performed on a bootleg Casio by Carmen Alonso of Jem and The Holograms fame. Despite being a prolific drummer, she was known to experiment with synth production and dub every chance she had outside of touring. Pretty sure she was onsite by pure coincidence during the recording of Sludge Never Dies, might've been a schedule overlap for all we know! The ONLY reason she was credited as a collaborator, but not listed as a feature, was because her agent had a hunch that the Chipmunks were just a few inches away from teetering over the edge and bro wanted to minimize Raya's odds of getting roped into that bullshit.
You may be right! I may be melting... But it just might be some 16 speed you're lookin for... Im becoming sludge, don't try to save me This may be wrong, I'm melting down, but it feels so right!!
Theodore has a Crisis and Vocalizes in Terror (Interlude) is one of the most disorienting and terrifying things I've heard in a long time. (^ Complementary)
That was actually Alvin shooting at simon's feet for playing the wrong tempo. The Chipmunks refused to do another take, so they had no choice but to leave it in. Their label really wanted to give them a cleaner and more commercial image, but no matter how hard they tried they couldn't hide the Chipmunks' darkness and toxicity
I CANT BELIEVE THE BASSIST FOR MY FAVOURITE 90S SLUDGE METAL BAND WAS HIT BY DRUNK DRIVER!!!!!! (haha guys get it it sounds like acid bath haha im original guys haha)
I don’t do meth so I listen to this on 2x speed and they sound like 3 Weird Al’s at different ages using different levels of vibrato. Perfect for my coke habit 😬
This period was an inevitability. All those years, being a " cover band" and having their work hijacked and sped up ....for a GAG? I didn't blame them a bit for saying to hell with it. They financed the first one with their own money. The label ,being a label, smelled money.
Light the spoon dad, we're going in 💉🥄
How do I heart this comment? I'm not the uploader, but I still want to heart this. Liking it won't do.
@@JimTheCurator here
@@FrancisTha1st Dog bless. ❤️
@@FrancisTha1st
hey uploader can we get the mp3s
🤣
"a n d r e m e m b e r , n o n e o f t h a t r o c k a n d w e e d b u s i n e s s!"
"wouldn't think of it dave"
"hit it fellas"
*rock and weed*
Okay...that "Hit it fellas", followed by that apocalyptically heavy, slow version of "Blitzkrieg Bop".....I can't even......
The sheer majesty takes my breath away. No bullshit.
I guess you could call it crushing lightning at that point. Lol
That's one of the greatest things I've ever heard.
Thank you
@@FrancisTha1sttook you long enough francis
If you have ever wondered why the f*ck did the Chipmunks have to exist, now you know. None of us could have comprehended such higher purpose at the time.
10 year old me: "This is dumb. Why do they even produce this squeaky music?"
Voice from the future: "The year is 2020. A global pandemic rages and major cities across the globe are ghost towns. However, the spark of civil unrest has been lit, and riots are spreading across the US as the president marches through the street with a bible and riot cops at his side. Within the year, violence will even overtake the capital as the very security of our democracy is threatened. Then, and only then, will you understand the chipmunk sludge punk album."
@@ryanwalraven812 I wish your comment didn't evoke such feelings of negative nostalgia in me. I wish it didn't.
This is one of the best things I've read on RUclips in a minute.
Dude, that's it
I hated Chipmunks as a kid. I only listen to these versions haha
@@MarthaRoseQuartzOh, Christ, they were utterly repugnant to me--but I was really fascinated by the music and the production technique as a kid in the mid-late 80s. I figured out how they did it by playing around with a record player and a tape recorder (I was a big electronics geek at the time). The thing is, before computers, you really had to have talent to do this. You have to sing precisely at half speed AND with perfect pitch--otherwise it sounds like hot garbage (like what I managed to create lol). I really don't know how much of the music they made themselves and how much of it was instrumental tracks mixed with their voices (and if that changed over the years), but you can hear in the earliest cartoons that they were still getting the hang of even doing the voices, although it's possible they did them really slowly for young children--not sure on that.
A couple of years ago (I think when the pandemic lockdown had just started, because I was really scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to do) I found the sludgefest, and I was like "THESE GUYS WERE F!@#$ BRILLIANT" hahah. I had recorded a little of it and slowed it down off the air as a kid, but I did not have the perspicacity to appreciate it. Plus, some of the genres of music it resembled hadn't even been invented yet, I think.
The Sludge Never Dies album was a watershed moment for the band. Coming off the Chipmunks On 16 Speed album release and tour, the band was reeling from personal issues and substance abuse, but Alvin's determination to put together a new release before the end of '89 proved stronger, and a rambunctious 4 week studio session that involved at least 3 overdoses and one small fire culminated in this 51 minute clanger, an experimental, defiantly weird album that left critics sharply divided but was widely popular across the midwestern sludge and post-punk scene.
I love reading these 'Making Of' posts........... I made one on the 16 speed one.............. classic.... ROFL
Somebody should really redo the scene in American Psycho where Bateman's going on about Huey Lewis except with 16 Speed bullshit instead
i have become an unironic chipsludge fan
"Kids In America" is a lot darker after I saw that documentary about the Chipmunks' legacy. I'll never get that infamous scene out of my head, the interview with that 11 year old boy from '91 who says he got addicted to smack after seeing Theodore inject on stage. It ended with him flicking his arm and trying to get one of his veins to surface up while he wrapped a big rubber strap around his bicep.
"I just tell my parents that they're spider bites."
Wft, like Theodore? The chipmunk?
That Blitzkrieg Bop is dope af. Punk Never Dies.
Best version ive ever heard
Infinitely better than whatever Punk Goes Pop has ever done, is doing now, or ever will do. No exceptions.
Are there any songs similar to this version? I’ve been looking but they don’t have the same raw feeling.
@doctor tired there is a real band that has exactly the intro but I can't remember who it is. Maybe love.and rockets? Driving me crazy
I know I’m a bit late to the party, but “Theodore has a crisis and vocalizes in terror (interlude)” has absolutely been performed by either Moby or Björk.
I want to hear a Björk cover now.
A little know fact is that bjork and Simon had a kinda fling when she was still in the Sugarcubes she does an interview where she basically admits that the peyote fueled jam sessions with Simon provided her inspiration for the vespertine album. The interview is for her hometown paper so it's in Icelandic and hard to find
reminds me of ancestors by bjork
Theodore was probably the most traumatized of the group. Even with the physical abuse he suffered from Alvin (not to mention the drugs), the gaslighting he suffered from Simon was probably more debilitating. It's sort of a perfect storm situation. I get that he should still be responsible for his actions, but I can't help but wonder if Theodore might have made different choices that night, refusing Alvin's GHB spiked drink, and standing up to Simon, who had a very peculiar relationship to Elanor, the tragedy that unfolded, wouldn't have, and Elanor would still be alive, and Theodore wouldn't be in prison.
I like that Walkin' On The Sun removes all the drug references but it still has the word hell
It's the hardest the Chipmunks without their internal organs detonating
I remember listening to this on Vinyl, and Theodore Has a Crisis and Vocalizes in Terror was a beautifully absurd way to end Side A, whose context is lost in the digital age.
u know what im actually pretty shocked that there was an official unedited chipmunks cover of blitzkrieg bop
These were all distributed on records when they were first released, so all you had to do was play the record slow to find their real voices.
The reason they sounded squeaky was simply from playing the voices at a high speed, which is the reason for all the record scratching in this song.
@@Tanookicatoon I think they mean with all the lyrics intact, they’re a childrens act
Yeah, it comes from a shovelware game which was created around the time, and due to, the popularity of those live action movies, given the other songs included in the game (like Walking On The Sun), it seems like anyone higher up didn't really care what songs they threw in there so they just changed the lyrics barely enough to the point where they could keep a kid friendly rating and I love that.
I'm so glad this is still a thing.
it’s so good
Sludge never dies
Munks 4 Life!
"Theodore has a Crisis and Vocalizes in Terror"
Same Theodore, same.
That december cover is so good.
This Alvin still has an A on his shirt, but it's an Anarchy symbol.
No one's figured it out yet and I _just can't keep it secret anymore_ I put the design that's on a percocet 30mg on Alvin's shirt.
@@FrancisTha1st that's fucking beautiful
@@leithReddit iykyk
@@FrancisTha1st😂lmao I was just about to comment about that
Oh I thought that M on his shirt was a morphine tablet
"December" is just too fucking good.
It's just a great song in general in terms of being slowed down. I've found versions that I'd say even surpass this, which I never thought I'd ever say.
@@VersusArduaCould you link them? I love December.
The harmonies on the intro are fucking immaculate.
This album was rife with studio interference. While arguably a more critically acclaimed album, this sharply divided the band that eventually lead to them splitting up. Theodore refused to play any of the songs in a even time signature, which lead to them hiring session drummer Jeff Porcaro to replace him on every track. Fresh out of rehab for the 4th time Alvin got really into working out and, by all accounts, was probably on steroids. He was always about to explode and the band felt they were always walking on egg shells. Simon was constantly trying to keep the peace, which lead to Alvin eventually breaking his jaw with a mic stand during the recording of Kids in America. His agonizing scream was left in the mix and can be heard at the 20:58 mark.
I went to the time stamp and lost my shit xD
😂😂😂
The notion that Porcaro re-recorded *all* of Theodore’s parts is a myth, it was just the opening and closing tracks, which Alvin wanted done in a very precise way that Theo just couldn’t hack. To his credit, he’d master it by the time the SND tour got underway. Check out their Live in Boston album, Theo nails Blitzkrieg Bop like a boss.
I saw these guys open for Carcinogen in my friend's basement in Oakland back in '93. Alvin was huge into speedballing at the time and threw up all over the crowd and himself during Kids in America. someone who Simon owed money to showed up and tried to fight him on stage and we had to kick everyone out and their show stopped early. Carcinogen still went on and was fucking awesome though
It's a damn shame that Alvin took "rock and weed" a bit too literally. He got out of rehab the day they started recording, and the day it hit the shelves he was back in for his fifth stint. Amazed that they didn't get dropped by the label sooner, given the fact that he just about killed Theodore during "Kids In America." You can still hear his screaming if you pay close attention after Alvin shoved his face into an amplifier.
Let's face it. The weed is the only thing that allowed him to go as long as he did before his speedball overdose.
December is a fuckin vibe, and looking at these comments, I'm apparently not the only one who thinks so
Wouldn't think of it Dave
Dave was an enabler.
Love this version of Johnny B Goode. Sounds like its being played by a blues rock band at some dingy biker bar
It was actually the last B-side cover they made before Alvin's third and lengthiest stint in rehab
Dude I'm imagining a post-apocalyptic biker bar and there's like a sheriff in town named Johnny who keeps things livable
That dingy biker bar reeks of rancid beer and stale cigarettes, complete with sticky carpet that hasn’t been changed since 1972.
@@noo343 Be good, or Johnny will get ya. Make it look easy, too.
Put it on 1.75x speed and it's actually really good.
The vocals are legitimately great and I hate myself for enjoying this.
December was a genuine religious experience
I really like this version of December, gives very different feel to the song.
Alright is great too.
It gives off a Nine Inch Nails - Hurt feeling to it.
you could say alright is alright
@@seanbrautigan7906 I wouldn't say Hurt specifically, but it absolutely feels like 90s NIN. I was trying to place exactly what 90s vibe it was giving me and you cracked the code for what I was thinking.
My favorite thing about this band is the way that on every album, everyone has their own pet favorite song, their own little obsession. I almost wonder if Alvin and the boys were really tapping into some deeper vein of the Jungian unconscious, like they figured out a way to say the same words we've heard before, the same platitudes and slogans that threaten to drown all our thoughts, our intentions, in bland consumerism and starry-eyed poptimism, and whisper those same words to us in a slurred-speech spell that penetrates past all the bullshit and becomes something like an addiction, a substance, an poisonous obsession, much like the ones that each of the members themselves struggled with, like perfection reflecting perversion in a cracked mirror. Idk. Maybe I'm rambling, the weekend's liquid quagmire is starting to take hold.
R.I.P. Alvin
Note: All Day and All of the Night
*chefs kiss.
Kids in America is getting added to my list of 1/16th Chipmunk songs that are unironically as good as the original
it's not 1/16th. it's a 33.33 repeating record being played on a 16 speed turntable. so it's a little under half speed. or maybe it's a 45 speed record, meaning it's a little above 1/3 speed
This version of Blitzkrieg Bop is incredible…
Didn't realize they were still recording in the '90s.
I cant believe they forced Alvin into the studio after he shot up his girlfriend with that fatal overdose. They had to shove him into the record label's company car just as they shoved her stretcher into the ambulance. This recording perfectly captured the guilt he was trapped with inside the mic booth. The chambers of his heart being eaten alive. Not knowing by the time he finished laying this track down, she would be dead, and he would be laying her casket down as well.
That interlude though. The day the fandom held their breath. I will never forget that first moment, when we all though Alvin and Co. had finally cracked into pure acid while on tape.
The cover of December is delicious 👌😩😄
I love how the replay graph actually shows everyone going "HOLY SHIT THAT'S PURE NIN"
This legitimately sounds like it could be a melvins album.
The lyric changes in Walkin on the Sun are hilarious
together they joked
This makes me want to smoke cigarettes and paint with my feet
Hell yeah, dude.
this makes me want to wrap myself in extra blankets during a heatwave
Rin Tezuka moment
I'm glad I was there when it all happened. A moment in history like this only comes once in a lifetime, never to be repeated. Thanks for bringing back all the memories I was trying to forget.
Im remembering my childhood roadtrips me my dad would just jam to this and other classics the whole trip
16:22 and 36:16 after several failed albums and conflicts within the band caused by Alvin's heroin addiction, in 1994 the Chipmunks released a post-grunge album as a last ditch effort to stay relevant and save the band from being dropped by their label.
that "one more time" in Theodore has a crisis makes me wanna rip my medial prefrontal cortex out
That cover of You May Be Right is just perfect for this.
I’ll never forget the split in the fanbase’s opinion when this project dropped, just mere months after Alvin’s untimely death, and years removed from the split of the band, “Sludge Never Dies” was either a shameless, gross, lame attempt at a cashgrab, or it was a beautiful, transcendent, fitting artistic end to the group and their discography. It was more of a collection of unreleased works that were made back in the group’s hay-day, but with finished/polished composition and mastering from Dave and other producers, it had a bit of a newer flavor to it. It really brought the band back into prominence and put Theodore back onto his feet, so for what it’s worth, thank god for this album and may Alvin rest peacefully with God.
Soundtrack for what one hears in the parking lot of a PBR mural gallery opening as they sit in a car hotboxing a bug bomb.
I need more Sludge Billy Joel in my life
Fr
This, who knew they would make such a pair.
It's like Nine Inch Nails doing "Walking on the Sun".
Nine Inch Snails more like it
It actually does sound a lot like Piggy.
BLACK TAR BOP
Just the kind of music america would be listening to on a Thursday night if Chuck E Cheese had won the war.
I think I’m addicted to “Blitzkrieg Bop”… it legit gives me chills every time…
Walking on the Sun slaps, best one on the album
If you are not listening to this at volumes so high that the neighbours think that you are covering up the sounds of murdering someone, and call in the police - you are not listening at all.
Walking on the sun could not be more fucking perfect for this sludge edit, just read the lyrics
The song we play at the family reunion when grandaddy starts passing the spoon around.
The last thing Alvin was involved in before he locked himself in the microwave the last words of him were not words more so screams and the sounds of his popping blood and skin
I believe his last words were: "hot pockets are the true religion. So I must become one."
@@Nio744 makes sense
Blitzkrieg Bop is a massive banger, I keep coming back to it
Absolutely amazing.
If Weezer were to cover Blitzkrieg Bop... this would be it.
kinda sounds like one of the really early rivers demos
It's better than the recent Weezer offerrings
Totally has Jamie production values.
I would pay good money to see famous bands cover slowed-down Alvin and the Chipmunks songs, no joke.
You may be right Unironically sounds so good
the title "Theodore has a Crisis and Vocalizes in Terror (Interlude)" killed me
This fucking slaps. I unironically (okay, mostly unironically) can’t stop listening to these sludge remixes
14:11 Guy sounds absolutely hammered lol
snnnnnnnnnnes drunk
Ssssssup, Drunk?
This moment has the exact same vibe as Iggy Pop yelling at Ron Asheton to "Tell 'em how I feel!" before the solo in "No Fun"
@@whiteboysushi Underrated comment.
OBSESSED with the Johnny B. Goode 👌👌😩
Um..this is one of my favorite albums now, I mean, it's incredibly good. I love this.
maverick file
Same; had to find the intro.
Kids in America hits different
like sitting on the roof having a cig and a cheap beer, looking down on the knife fight that just started in the alley
This blitzkrieg bop needs to be played in a nightclub
41:50
👁
Come gather with us in the woods
I wish there was an acoustics only version of December
What the hell does Victoria 2 have to do with this lmao. Also this was really awesome.
"I literally don't know I go into a fugue state when tagging"
-opium- heroin wars
I relate. sludge, doom, and the economics of global colonialism at the height of the industrial revolution are the only three things i have any interest in anymore
@@ItsGoodToHangPirates and Alvin and the chipmunks of course
THE
BEST 16
SPEED ALBUM. UNDERATED AS FUCK.
Hell yes more chipsludge
Thank you so much
sounds like Jesus and Mary Chain doing Kids in America
That Johnny B Goode is so dirty. Love it
Put away the snack, before the snack puts you away
This is honestly the best thing I've found
The intro to Walking On the Sun sounds like Tom Waits
What happens when you go Walking on the Sun in 16 Speed? You melt, baby! Become part of the sludge!
Holy shit that fuzz in kids in America
Christ, forgot how much love they put into Walkin' On The Sun. Through all the pain, suffering, and Mocscow Mule infused rampages they really let Theodore go CRAZY with his vocal work on that track (and the interlude of course). Fun fact! The nastily modulated guitar riff was performed on a bootleg Casio by Carmen Alonso of Jem and The Holograms fame. Despite being a prolific drummer, she was known to experiment with synth production and dub every chance she had outside of touring. Pretty sure she was onsite by pure coincidence during the recording of Sludge Never Dies, might've been a schedule overlap for all we know! The ONLY reason she was credited as a collaborator, but not listed as a feature, was because her agent had a hunch that the Chipmunks were just a few inches away from teetering over the edge and bro wanted to minimize Raya's odds of getting roped into that bullshit.
Hard to believe they reunited to play Occupy Wall Street before the car accident
"Walking on the sun" is genuinely terrifying.
This is dangerous for your recovery.
Johnny B. Good hits harder than a $75 sheet.
🤯🤯🤯🤯
This is my new Favorite Album. Chipmunks Forever!
Listening to this makes me feel like I'm tripping on qualudes...
Nobody:
RUclips: VICTORIA II
Album of the year for me. I'm not even close to tired of it.
You may be right! I may be melting...
But it just might be some 16 speed you're lookin for...
Im becoming sludge, don't try to save me
This may be wrong, I'm melting down, but it feels so right!!
melting like alvin in that microwave
Theodore has a Crisis and Vocalizes in Terror (Interlude) is one of the most disorienting and terrifying things I've heard in a long time.
(^ Complementary)
they finally found a way to make alright tolerable
Blitzkreig Bop really has a Malcolm in the Middle theme song vibe
37:40 I thought one of the chipmunks shot themselves
RIDICULOUS, Simon barely made it half an our in
That was actually Alvin shooting at simon's feet for playing the wrong tempo. The Chipmunks refused to do another take, so they had no choice but to leave it in. Their label really wanted to give them a cleaner and more commercial image, but no matter how hard they tried they couldn't hide the Chipmunks' darkness and toxicity
I couldn’t stop crying when I saw this comment thank you for this
Perfect intro, Holy shit
Interlude's not bad either goddamn
Album of the year, fellas
this feels like this band's late 90s album that not many people know but is really good
Walking on the Sun is better than Allstar
100x yes!
Okay but "Blitzkrieg Bop" is just amazing I just can't stop listening to it 💀
Didn't even know The Chipmunks did songs by Smash Mouth.
i kind of lost my mind when i found it
put away the snack before the snack.. puts you away; you've gotta be there when your baby's old enough to relayy
@@dustytheloneranger I just reached that part lmao
*the snack*
I CANT BELIEVE THE BASSIST FOR MY FAVOURITE 90S SLUDGE METAL BAND WAS HIT BY DRUNK DRIVER!!!!!! (haha guys get it it sounds like acid bath haha im original guys haha)
I don’t do meth so I listen to this on 2x speed and they sound like 3 Weird Al’s at different ages using different levels of vibrato. Perfect for my coke habit 😬
this edible aint shi.....
Literally addicted to their cover of "Blitzkrieg Bop"
This period was an inevitability.
All those years, being a " cover band" and having their work hijacked and sped up ....for a GAG?
I didn't blame them a bit for saying to hell with it. They financed the first one with their own money.
The label ,being a label, smelled money.
Imagine recording this in the studio that would be so teriffying