Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Off the Beat rocks "Snakes on a Plane"

I just discovered this video from a past Off the Beat performance

Check out Off the Beat's great rendition of "Snakes on a Plane" and the excellent solos from Will Green (C'09), Rina Goncalves (C'07) and Jonah Platt (C'08). Some great voices here...

Click here to watch them perform

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3 comments:

  1. The Penn Glee Club performed this song in its 2007 spring show, "Glee's Anatomy." Not only were the singers substantially better in that version, but it also featured brilliant snake-like choreography (not the ol' a-cappella-knee-bend-and-bob), a full band (including non-vocal percussion) and an original mambo bridge, in which the singers danced the mambo. It's a shame that Off The Beat has cast aside the old statute of limitations on performing identical songs -- a rule the Glee Club has taken pains to observe for so many years. In this case, it might have saved them the embarrassment of a sub-par arrangement.

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  2. OTB did this in their Fall 06 show, so Glee Club was behind the curve on that one. And since when does a bunch of guys dancing the mamba with a full band constitute a good a cappella arrangement of a rock song?

    And while we're talking about arrangements, how many Best Arrangement CARA's has the Glee Club won? Oh wait, they've never even been nominated? Hmmm...

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  3. Zing! Haha! Sorry. From the sound of these singers and soloists, I assumed OTB had just started learning the music.

    The Glee Club is not an a cappella group (though it does sing many songs without instruments), so the group doesn't participate in CARA's arbitrary back-patting.

    But congratulations to OTB on picking the optimal moment in a popular song to say "jen-jenna-jen." How many MIDI files had to live and die to get that one right?

    Anyway, I'm sullying the PGC's good name with all of this garbage. This thread is dead.

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