"Frankenstein (with Chris)"
Julie/Vox, Tim/Vox+Guitar, Chris/Vox+Percussion, Rob/Vox+Bass
1) Groove Is In The Heart - Dee-lite
2) Doin' The Doo - Betty Boo
3) Stuck In The Middle With You - Steeler Wheel
4) Lady Madonna - Beatles
5) Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out - Freak Power
6) Long Train Running - Doobie Brothers
7) How You Like Me Now? - The Heavy
8) In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly
9) Push It - Salt'n'Peppa
10) You're Unbelievable - EMF
And your Bonus Track is an early recording of "Frankenstein" when from Chris was still with Ambigram.

Frankenstein (+Chris)

"Man Falling Down The Stairs"
Julie/Vox, Tim/Vox+Guitar, Rob/Bass
1) Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
2) Rappers Delight - Suagr Hill Gang
3) Good Times - Chic
4) Le Freak - Chic
5) Get Lucky - Daft Punk
6) One More Time - Daft Punk
7) Crazy - Celo Green
For the curious: Ultimately we agreed to end this mash with the (mainly) vocal bridge from Get Lucky. However, we've changed key by that point, so I wasn't able to (easily) fudge it with cut'n'paste.

Man Falling Down The Stairs

"Trouble, Let Her Take Me On"
Julie/Vox, Tim/Vox+Guitar, Chris/Percussion+BackingVox, Rob/Bass
1) Let Her Go - Passenger
2) Take On Me - Aha
3) I Knew You Were Trouble - Taylor Swift
A chance to hear Tim start a section in the wrong octave and completely fail to hit some high notes!  ...On the bright side, it seems that we managed to leave the mic on the 'phone pointing almost directly at the bass amp, so the vocals aren't especially well 'balanced in the mix' on this recording.

Trouble, Let Her Take Me On

"Creepy Air"
Julie/Vox, Tim/Vox+Guitar, Rob/Bass
1) Creep - Radiohead
2) The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies
These two numbers are so clearly the same song, the arrangement wrote itself.  If only we had known at the time that Radiohead were suing Lana Del Ray for copying Creep!

Creepy Air

"Frankenstein"
Julie/Vox, Tim/Vox+Guitar, Rob/Vox+Bass
1) Groove Is In The Heart - Dee-lite
2) Doin' The Doo - Betty Boo
3) Stuck In The Middle With You - Steeler Wheel
4) Lady Madonna - Beatles
5) Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out - Freak Power
6) Long Train Running - Doobie Brothers
7) How You Like Me Now? - The Heavy
8) In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly
9) Push It - Salt'n'Peppa
10) You're Unbelievable - EMF
This was the first attempt at a full Mashmix. And the ideas just didn't stop coming. We even had to design a way to notate the transitions and overlaps, including Rob's vocal debut! ...Although Chris was involved in the arrangement of 'Frankenstein', this is a recording from after he moved away as it is a better rehearsed version. An earlier recording with Chris singing and playing is included as a bonus track on this playlist.

Frankenstein

"I'm Free To Want You Back"
Julie/Vox+Percussion, Tim/Vox+Guitar, Chris/Percussion+BackingVox, Rob/Bass
1) I Want You Back - Jackson 5
2) I'm Free - Soup Dragons
Despite Rob's protestations that he "can't play the bass", I'm actually quite disappointed that for all the EQ'ing the world I wasn't able to recover it from this recording :(

I'm Free To Want You Back

"I Will Survive This Love"
Julie/Vox+Percussion, Tim/Vox+Guitar, Rob/Bass
1) I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
2) This Love - Maroon 5
This mash is the one that started it, when Chris said "you know, This Love would fit right in the middle of this [I Will Survive]".  If this is ever revisited, You can be assured Robbie Williams and Erasure *will* be added to the arrangement!  **F-BOMB WARNING**

I Will Survive This Love

"Following"
Julie/Vox, Tim/Guitar+BackingVox, Chris/Percussion, Rob/Bass
1) Following - Bangles
This is the only straight cover we kept.  Ultimately it ended up as a duet, but the recording only has Tim crooning some harmonies in the background ...It all went fairly well - right up to the end, at which point both Tim & Rob managed to miss *every* one of the harmonics - LOL!

Following

"Sweet Home California"
Julie/Vox, Tim/Vox+Guitar, Rob/Bass
1) Royals - Lorde
2) Take A Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed
3) For What it's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
4) Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
5) Dani California - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
6) No Diggity - Blackstreet
7) Feeling Good - Nina Simone
8) Wade In The Water - trad.
9) Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles
We made it a full SIX words in to the track before Rob's prefacing confidence was proven to be well placed.

Sweet Home California

Ambigram started "for the love of music" with Tim [guitar & lead vocals], Chris [percussion, backing vocals & guitar], Rob [bass], and (after some hunting) Julie [lead vocals & percussion] ...After playing around with a few stock covers, they decided to do "Acoustic Mashmixes". When Chris moved away Julie stepped up to the mark to help out with the percussion. As most arrangements were built around bass lines, when Rob moved on, the project went on long-term haitus.

On the bright side: Every time we got a new arrangement finalised, Rob would put his iPhone on the living room floor and hit record (so we had something to which we could rehearse). Maybe one day Rob will be replaced and the project will resurrected; but in lieu of that day, these are the only recordings which exist.  

Please appreciate these tracks were created from iPhone "masters" uploaded to Youtube as Mono 128k CBR MP3 and downloaded to my local PC. I've done my best to clean up the EQ, and add some sense of 'stereo', but don't hold your breath for "quality production" or "well rehearsed masterpieces" just (hopefully) a memory of some good times doing something that has (seemingly) never been done before**

**The 'split infinitives' and 'dangling prepositions' are in lieu of any 'imperfect endings'!

Ambigram (UK)

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