"Also would've accepted Nine Inch Oates"

October 8, 2021 11:30 AM

Bill McClintock (previously 1, 2, 3) presents "I Can't Get Closer for That" by Hall and Nails (NSFW).
posted by carrienation (25 comments total)

Love this mashup.

I remember all the "SCENE MISSING" title cards in MTV's edit of the "Closer" video.

Little did we all know, the mind-corrupting sexiness they were replacing was pretty-boy yacht rock, all along!
posted by armeowda at 11:39 AM on October 8, 2021 [8 favorites]

this is so SMOOTH my first thought was "buttered silk". which is a completely gross concept. I love butter. I love silk. I do not need my silk buttered. so yeah, this is 1000% brilliant.
posted by supermedusa at 11:53 AM on October 8, 2021 [4 favorites]

the question in my mind is: is he rejecting the whole "i want to **** you like an animal" request, or just the "like an animal" part?
posted by Clowder of bats at 11:56 AM on October 8, 2021 [3 favorites]

It’s like wiping your ass with silk.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 11:57 AM on October 8, 2021 [2 favorites]

This was amazing and so much fun!
posted by mogget at 12:00 PM on October 8, 2021

Who knew that angsty 1990s-style techno-nihilism would age so much worse than gauzy 1980s-style bubblegum R&B?
posted by Atom Eyes at 12:02 PM on October 8, 2021 [8 favorites]

magnificent.
posted by 20 year lurk at 12:03 PM on October 8, 2021

That's a sublime bridge solo thing
posted by riverlife at 12:05 PM on October 8, 2021

"buttered silk". which is a completely gross concept.

...but a great username.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:21 PM on October 8, 2021 [3 favorites]

Long ago, I realized that most NIN radio singles stayed rooted to the one chord the whole song -or at least the chorus. With that, I started humming the descending plunky piano bit from the end of "Closer" over every NIN single I heard on the radio, and it ALWAYS fits. I call it "The Reznor Constant."

I guess all's I'm saying is that while I have boundless appreciation for the genius of Bill McClintock, I wish that plunky piano bit were mixed into this mashup. Otherwise, it's perfect.
posted by onehalfjunco at 12:57 PM on October 8, 2021 [7 favorites]

This is perfection. Thank you. Made my week.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:39 PM on October 8, 2021

So good. For anyone out there who is new to this channel/concept...this guy has so much more (excellent) material. My personal favorite.
posted by NervousVarun at 2:18 PM on October 8, 2021 [3 favorites]

while I have boundless appreciation for the genius of Bill McClintock, I wish that plunky piano bit were mixed into this mashup.

Oh, wow. Now you've got me wishing they could have recruited Saxquatch to play the plunky coda. Would really bring it full-circle, y'know?
posted by armeowda at 2:56 PM on October 8, 2021

Maybe the best appropriation of this particular Hall & Oates song since De La Soul's. Thanks; that was entertaining!
posted by May Kasahara at 3:04 PM on October 8, 2021 [1 favorite]

This is amazing, and I really needed something fun today. Thank you.
posted by scaryblackdeath at 3:33 PM on October 8, 2021

That was great, as much for the editing as the music.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 4:33 PM on October 8, 2021 [1 favorite]

anytime anyone so much as mentions this motherfucker in my hearing and zap there's an hour gone and me putting more of it on my phone

I still think his peak was the metal Call Me Maybe where it's like oh that's just a lacuna coil song
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 4:58 PM on October 8, 2021 [2 favorites]

"Also would've accepted Nine Inch Oates"

Or "Feel You From the Oateside."
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:12 PM on October 8, 2021 [19 favorites]

It’s like wiping your ass with silk

and ending up a bit greasy round the bunghole.
posted by flabdablet at 9:38 PM on October 8, 2021

Head like a Hall.
posted by adept256 at 11:07 PM on October 8, 2021 [11 favorites]

I laughed so hard I peed a little. But it's OK, because this is the internet and I'm really a dog anyway.
posted by pH Indicating Socks at 11:33 PM on October 8, 2021 [4 favorites]

I wanna amuse you like an animal
posted by flabdablet at 11:38 PM on October 8, 2021 [2 favorites]

4 minutes of Trent Reznor being rejected by Hall and Oates.

I LOLed.

Then looked at his Youtube page, and the numbers that really caught me are ones where he takes some late 80's early 90's metal band and combines with a black soul or funk performer from 10 years earlier. I was in high school in the early 90s, when musical segregation was at its worst. The whole genre of 80's hair bands was the brain child of music promoters who realized they could fill venues with working class white audiences if they purged all visible blackness from the talent. So these mashups showing exactly where the style came from before that purge, it's great art and great justice. So on the nose.
posted by ocschwar at 8:32 PM on October 9, 2021 [3 favorites]

This is really such a wonderful, perky rejoinder to the grossness embodied in the NIN song. Wow. Extremely dated and dorky men, cheerfully noping out of being objectified. Thank you for sharing this.
posted by eirias at 6:12 AM on October 10, 2021 [2 favorites]

anytime anyone so much as mentions this motherfucker in my hearing and zap there's an hour gone and me putting more of it on my phone

Then you'll be pleased to hear the folks at SME have jumped into motion to save your productivity, having removed it from Youtube for copyright violations.
posted by pwnguin at 12:51 PM on October 13, 2021