I miss being in an a cappella group. I have been in four or five in my time, and I have never had more fun than when I was arranging music, singing with a group of friends, or just goofing off with them. One day I was driving around with my a cappella friend Ben and we were brainstorming ideas for fun parodies to arrange. Well, we hit upon something genius I thought, and eventually I went home, wrote some lyrics, and arranged the song. It was one of my favorite songs to do, and when we recorded our farewell concert as that group was breaking up, I was really excited about having a copy of it.
Only the sound guy really screwed us. He showed up almost an hour late, forced us to delay the concert, and set up his equipment wrong in the rush. We didn’t get a recording of the beginning of the concert, where I had placed the song in the set list. I was furious. I was sad. I was a lot of things, but what could you do, right?
Well, we had also made a fun video for the song that played behind us while we sang it, and because I was bored yesterday, I re-recorded the song and synched it up to the video for nostalgia’s sake. It’s not my a cappella arrangement, but it’s still fun I think. And perhaps it will be only the first of many wonderful board game parodies (a clearly neglected genre). So for your viewing and listening pleasure, I present to you now: Mysterious Game!
Hmm. There were three good reasons I could see to excise the Mr. Boddy montage from the video… I am curious as to which one was your motivation. Nice to see this video again – when I heard you sing “roll the dice” I had a flashback to our favorite accompanying action performed in this song. Quite good.
ADAM!! Brings back memories 🙂 I was actually really missing all of you guys now that Christmas music has begun in DC…Listening to the ol Passing Notes Christmas album 🙂
Also – forgot to mention, when I hear the real song and it gets to the bridge, I always hear the Clue words instead… “now I’ve got no ideaaaaa!”
You know that I sing clue every time I hear Mysterious Game now. Laughing at what Chris said about the hand motion..heh heh heh. Hope you guys are all doing well! PN 4eva!