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On this date in 1962, the seminal Halloween hit “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot 100. Because this was way back in the day before real music videos, however, no official visual accompaniment for the song exists. This has allowed innumerable artists to [...]

As you’ve presumably heard by now, purveyor of many things lowest-common-denominator Disney recently bought out comic book empire Marvel to the tune of $4 billion. Regardless of whether you think this will make the mousy company’s products better or the wolfy-spidey-hulky company’s work suffer, you can probably take a great deal of pleasure from the [...]

If there’s a genre of music that’s more obsessed with covering Top 40 hits than reggae, it’s got to be Mariachi band music. Similarly, the chronic cover impulse has a lot to do with the need to produce cross-overs lest artists be ghettoized in the “world music” category. This, in turn, produces some amazing moments [...]

In a lot of ways, making a movie trailer is like playing with Lego: none of the pieces really mean anything on their own, and you can pretty much piece them together to make anything you please. It’s slightly different from the trailer mashup, which involves combining parts from two or more texts, but the [...]

Funny thing about movies as obnoxiously self-serious and bad as 300: they lend themselves very easily to good old YouTube remixing. Case in point, Unreality’s listicle of 10 300 Trailer Mashups, which features some pretty daring parings (D2: Mighty Ducks, A Bug’s Life, Hook, Mean Girls), but it’s the old stand-bys that work the best [...]

There are certain targets for which we think digital culture is especially well-suited. Hyper-litigious multinational conglomerates like Disney, for instance, would do good to be cut down somewhat by clever copying and pasting on YouTube. That’s why we like this listicle from Unreality of 8 Delightful Disney Remixes, our favorite of which is this mash-up [...]

If only every self-important middle-brow cultural disappointment got the royal mashup treatment Watchmen has received. The selection of trailer mashups is so rich that Unreality has compiled a relatively selective listicle of 7 Awesome Watchmen Trailer Mashups. You’ll find our favorite, Watchmen + Team America: World Police, below:

We here at Listicles are devout fans of the Interweb’s possibilities for the remixing and mashing up (or is that “mashupping”?) of cultural artifacts and various audio visual tidbits. We especially like such culture-jamming when it thrives on the incongruity of its constitutive elements, like, say, the well-known M.O.P.-Sesame Street mash-up. That’s why we especially [...]

Professional sports, much like Star Wars, are riddled with pros and cons that, when taken too far, can be disastrous, delightful, or both. Someone who knows the starting line-ups of The Chicago Bulls for every NBA season during the 1980s is, we think, kind of sad. Likewise, someone who knows by heart the ventilation systems [...]

Though the real presidential inauguration doesn’t go live until Tuesday, this story of a Lego inauguration has been making the rounds for some time now. In the spirit of all things that exist both as live action events and shadow Lego events, we revisited a favorite meme cycle to bring you Listicle’s 9 Best Lego [...]