Season 5
Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Lonely Rips Club Band
Ripped by LarryInc64
Requested by @themessengervevo!
Part of what's exciting with SiIva's various takeovers and events is that you never really know what to expect. Some events take a day, some a weekend, some a week - some a variety of sources, some a single, low-effort shitpost. Hell, we've even had a takeover that only featured three rips in total. Yet its that unpredictability that gives us the biggest surprises - surprises like A Day In The Snow.
I'll be very blunt and say, that I have little to no real experience with The Beatles despite just how hugely influential they've been to the world of music. Yet my attachment to the band means little when we've got people like LarryInc64 on the SiIva team, whose love for the band has been underlining his entire ripping history on the channel. As the self-described "Beatles Remix Guy", over a third of the tracks featured on the Beatles Day's album release are credited to LarryInc64, and his love for the band goes back as far as late Season 1 - still going strong today. I can only imagine that finally getting a takeover for the band in Season 5 must've been a dream come true for the guy.
And indeed, the takeover was enormous in scope and sheer quality despite being part of a larger event - 133 rips wound up being featured in the eventual album. And one of the many, many jewels of this takeover, this album, is A Day In The Snow: an above-and-beyond Snow Halation rearrangement that shows just how much love and care LarryInc64 has for The Beatles. Like Dancin' Tranquility, its a rip that shows just how much more there is to the art of mashups - what could've just been the instrumentals of The Beatles' music to the vocals of Snow Halation, is instead carefully tuned to allow the two sources to harmonize absolutely beautifully.
It pulls mainly from its titular song, of course, and its still very recognizably itself within the mix and edits, but to fully complete the Snow Halation sound, its edited and pitched in ways that still sound devilishly similar to the original song - as if its the boys themselves tweaking their tune to fit these new vocals. Elements from other Beatles songs are added into the mix to fill the spaces that A Day In The Life cannot, yet it never breaks my immersion or turns into any sort of chaotic, song-mashup mess. Not that there's anything decidedly wrong with those kinds of rips, I love meme mashups! But there's an aura of sincerity and care that goes into rips like A Day In The Snow, a vibe and feel that make them absolutely magical listens even to non-Beatles fans like myself. And honestly? It's thanks to this takeover that I've even became interested in listening to more Beatles music. Guess LarryInc64 won in the end!
