I found this extremely hilarious. This one is likely only funny for those that really understand.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1897090

well done. The high note on "Take on Me" was nicely done LOL. I don't even want to know how he did that. I wonder how long it took them to compile all that?

It isn't as difficult as it might sound. They did put some time in it, though 'cause it's so well done. It's simply funny that so many pop-tunes are really the same song, and lots of people don't even realize it. There's another video about Pachelbel's (sp?) Cannon in D that is similar in concept.

Our bass-player calls it "80 versions of chopsticks".

Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.

"Gotta Be Somebody" is different

I can't help it, I'm an 80's rocker chick at heart. I like Theory of a Deadman too and yes I know, it's no coincidence that they are the label of the lead singer of Nickelback

I sure miss the Headstones.

there's no comparison to "Tweeter and the Monkeyman" and "Cemetery"

"Went down the cemetery looking for love.......got there and my baby was buried I had to dig her up"...

Classic

Heart of Pain!

Here is Cemetery:

Phooey on these guys!

I know they're not "edgy" rock per se...but I sure like cranking them up and let's face it...they don't hurt the eyes either LOL.

My son knocks them, too, but he likes Slayer and groups like Aborted, Grave, and Crytopsy. I rest my case. *-)

I liked them in the early days, when they were a band. Since they became a "brand", I don't care for them so much. Happens a lot, sadly.

The later songs I knew. I must admit I don't listen to music on the radio very much, and when I do it isn't the "pop" stations.

Brilliant at any rate.

Makes me want to play some Offspring now.

they said that every conceivable combination of notes had been used and from that day forward, there would be no such thing as an original song. It may have been 20 years ago I heard that.

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/35088

"The only way the answer of this question can be anything other than "no, it's infinite" is to set parameters on everything, and rule that interpretive differences do not make different songs, even if different notes are played (say there is a bend in a guitar solo, we have to say that a bend is a bend is a bend, as opposed to counting every possible frequency the string could bent to. We have to set a time limit, perhaps designate a set of scales, a minimum note duration, a maximum number of notes to be played at a time, limit dynamic markings, and so on. Very complicated.

However, there are limited note combinations that sound musical in a given culture (or even a musical genre... e.g. the common use of the "devil's interval" in metal music), so if you look at songwriting in a formulaic fashion, then yes, there are a finite set of MUSICAL note combinations. (Song formulas even provide convenient length parameters... 3-4 minutes for a pop song, etc.)

Regardless, there are many ways to look at this question."

This guy was really reaching... LOL!:

"-As this question depends on how long the song is I have written a rule at the bottom in which given the number of seconds measuring the duration of the song it is possible to calculate how many songs are possible in that period of time.
(The following numbers I work with are also theoretical but will give you a reasonable answer based on the human processing capabilities).

The human hearing range is 20Hz to 20000Hz.
Therefore range is 19980 (humans can't detect 10ths of hertz)

Humans can hear from 0.00 to 250.00(any greater and you're deaf) decibels

So that's 25,000 (for the loudness distinguishing)
25000 * 19980 = 499500000

Planck's time (smallest unit of time) is about 3.3 x 10-44 sec

so that would be about (1.64835 * 10^53)*seconds of duration = number of possible songs.

For 2 seconds there are a possible:
329,670,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000 songs possible, theoretically of course... "