Since Mike, Kevin and Bill have created such great music over the years, I was astonished to not find a thread specifically about the RiffTones - their latest musical endeavor - in the Music area here.
I just got the CD Tuesday when I got
Casablanca. The RiffTones
Music For Riffing CD [EDIT:]
is still not linked to on the website, tho they're working on it... here's a link if anyone doesn't have it and is interested (it was linked in the May 6 e-mail for the live show):
The RiffTones 'Music For Riffing'.
Back when the
Jaws RiffTrax came out, after hearing
Love Theme from 'Jaws' (When a Man Loves a Shark) at the end, I really wanted an MP3 of it. I was thinking of making one by editing the film off of a duplicated copy of the whole Jaws RiffTrax, but luckily (given the bitrate for those) RiffTrax released that - and far more - as either a downloadable 'regular' CD, or as MP3s.
Currently, because I have a female friend who got so into
Twilight that she bought (and read) the books (and because the riffing for the film is one of their funniest RiffTrax)
Sparkly Vampires is a big favorite of mine. But there are so many great tunes on the 'album' that the whole thing gets a
lot of play here. [The female friend's birthday is coming up, so I gave her a copy of the tune and the RiffTrax to go with the film. When she heard the tune she was laughing as hard as I was and if I hadn't given it to her, she said she would've downloaded it herself, so she's not 'protective' of the story as some who get into things are.]
I really like Mike's
Let's Dance-era Bowie impression (spot on!) in
Eat Me, and - even though I dislike the Stooges - really like Kevin's
Fine. But there really aren't any on the album I don't like. Kevin's mandolin-rendition of the opening of
House of the Rising Sun is not to be missed (in
(Party at the) House on Haunted Hill).
Anyone else have thoughts, comments on The RiffTones album?
I remember reading that other RiffTones tunes were available, but the link in another thread led to a dead webpage. These are so good I'd like to find the others if possible.
And hopefully others will do this here as well: take a favorite RiffTones tune and type out the lyrics. I did this largely for the friend I'm getting involved in RiffTrax so she could sing along with it. Here are the lyrics for
Sparkly Vampires.
EDIT: I just thought that possibly people might want the 'newness' of the lyrics to be a surprise when they first hear the tunes, so I just put the lyrics for
Sparkly Vampires (below) in spoiler-protection. If anyone else adds lyrics, please do the same for the courtesy of others.
