Blondie vs. The Doors - Rapture Riders Mar 1 2006

[darkstar]

Blondie's New Hit?

Blondie vs. The Doors - Rapture Riders



Music nerds love to play the "What if" game: "Oh. My. God. What if Gwen Stefani re-recorded the Motels' "Suddenly Last Summer"? Or "What if Eminem sampled "Brass in Pocket?" "What if Jim Morrison and Debbie Harry rapped together?"

No, that music nerd is not stoned. In fact, Mark Vidler of Go Home Productions had an idea so compelling that he not only got the blessing of both Blondie and the Doors, but the song is currently a hit in Britain and now "Rapture Riders" -- which mashes the Doors' "Riders on the Storm" with Blondie's "Rapture" -- is this week's No. 1 Billboard Breakout, the most added single on the Billboard top 50 Hot Dance Club Play Chart.

So how did he come up with the idea?

"It was one of those inspirational 'shower' moments," Vidler told PlanetOut. "Whilst enjoying a good 'soaking' and listening to the radio in the bathroom, Blondie's 'Rapture' came on and I just could help but start singing 'Riders On The Storm' out loud over certain parts. I proceeded to piece this mad combination together in the studio upstairs. To my complete amazement, both tracks were in the same key."

The song appears as a bonus track on the upcoming "Blondie: Greatest Hits -- Sound & Vision," a new greatest-hits CD/DVD package that contains twenty audio tracks and sixteen video clips. The CD hits stores March 7 (the band is also scheduled to tour this summer), but you can take a listen to "Rapture Riders" in its entirety right now.

Listen now: "Rapture Riders" (click link below)

Then tune back to PlanetOut on March 14 for a surprise Blondie announcement and our upcoming interview with Debbie Harry!

www.planetout.com/content/slideshow/?coll=739&navpath=/entertainment/music/

[pep]

received the 12 inch single in the post this morning £3.99 including postage from www.hmv.co.uk ;D

[sparky]

ITS NOT BAD.
I HEARD WORSE SONGS BEING SAMPLED TOGETHER!

[ensenada]

yeah i quite like this tune...not bad at all. i dont understand why so many people have a problem with anyone else trying to do something with doors music..yes is is sacred, but its art and art should be used by others and we should be able to learn from other peoples work...much the same way science exists...if scientists borrow and look at others work, we wouldnt have advanced very far...and if it wasnt for the doors, we may well still be in the dark ages...musically speaking.

[jym]

If I tear the Mona Lisa & say Picasso's the Guitar Player (I think that's the title) & glue the two halves together is that going to make it art or even good?

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

I agree with Jim....all I see here is something of novelty value .....I got this ages ago off the net along with the one with the cult.....I see no value in this really and like that idiot DJ Paul Edge whose crazy acolytes are going around the net threatening people cos they see some Doors conspiracy preventing him adding silly drum/bass bits to Doors classics this is just being taken just a tad too serious now for my liking.........
File under...'yeah great...whats on TV?'

[sharpy]

i think its a proper good tune man! ;D always liked rapture anyway, so to mix it with riders is a winner for me

[ensenada]

hey sharpy, just to change the subject...the week we come back from paris there is a doors alive gig in london, some of us are going, do you reckon you will be up for it? you could come down with me and the missis, as i think she is coming....spose i coulda PMed you this...

[sharpy]

hey, sounds good man!! will it be a stay over? promise not too get blitzd off my face on lager/brandy chasers and stripping off this time! nah....! f**k it. think my clothes will get lost yet once again!!

[ensenada]

yeh dude..will be crashing some where...fuck it mate...get as drunk as you like....Stu is the worst for making a spectacle of himself, you will be alright! last time stu went he risked getting thrown out by the bouncer for jumping on stage before the band and talking sheer bollox into the mic, much to the amusement of the crowd...

[sharpy]

yeah!! im up for it. be good to see TDA again ;D best doors tribute ive seen

[ptlwp]

Can't be better than The Doors Concerto with Nigel Kennedy a few years back.

All for the $$$$....this deceased gentleman cannot rest.

[ptlwp]

jym said:

If I tear the Mona Lisa & say Picasso's the Guitar Player (I think that's the title) & glue the two halves together is that going to make it art or even good?

Indeed, if I took Michaelangelo's David in half with Brancusi's "the Thinker" indeed, what kind of hellish mixture would we have here.

Why don't we have the Doors done by U2 or maybe Hooty and the Blowfish.....the mixes are enless, maybe Kiss, or even John Fogerty!!!

Missisippi Queen........light my fire baby!!!!

ha ha

[alabamaangel]

I lurve it!

[gizmo]

i heard it and cannot say i like it, but , as said , there are worse things done with doorstunes.

i like the doors vs. the doors things like crawling kingsnake melody with la woman lyrics, shamans blues melody with who scared you lyrics and more like that. i try to create such a thing in my studio now. some lovely stuff( i think)(can be done with a lot of bands)

i like that more than 2 different bands