Original music can be really awesome, but when two perfect songs meet up, it is so much more awesome than either song could ever be.
Mashup artists with their own pages:
- DJ Earworm's yearly "United State of Pop" mashup, which mashes each year's Billboard Top 25 Songs. You will find yourself thoroughly enjoying songs that you'd normally hate on their own.
- "Pop Culture" by Madeon is simply a happy, energetic mashup of 39 of his favorite songs, ranging from "Take It Off" to "Wow" to "Aerodynamic" to "Video Killed the Radio Star".
- "Let's Roll". Six country songs, mashed together and edited so that they all run together seamlessly.
- "Marble Soda" by Shawn Wasabi, consisting of over 153 samples and having a very cutesy, happy sound. From the same artist, there's Pizza Rolls which combines a large amount of EDM and Metal songs into one.
- This mashup mashes up Coldplay's "Clocks", Oasis' "Wonderwall" and The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" with a bunch of other songs thrown in the mix. The three mentioned songs are already masterpieces on their own, but when they're put together, the results are epic!
- What happens when you cross the Ghostbusters theme with one of AC/DC's most awesome songs? You get Thunderbusters!
- The themes from Bill Nye the Science Guy and Space Jam, the Dream Land music from Kirby, and Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot" would, to some people, probably not work together in a mashup. Someone did just that, and the result is pretty freaking awesome.
- Related: The Internet Is For Music, a 30-minute mashup of nearly every Internet meme and viral video that existed at the time the mashup was created.
- Who would have thought that MC Hammer, Eurythmics, New Order, Talking Heads and Donna Summer had songs that worked together surprisingly well?
- The same person also mashed up the Ghostbusters theme with "Gangnam Style", and it got a considerable amount of buzz around Halloween.
- Three songs from Interpol, The Beach Boys and The Muppets Take Manhattan that blend together in an almost ethereal way.
- Unanimous Delivers' 1000 PEOPLE CLICKED ON THE SUBSCRIBE BUTTON BY ACCIDENT is an epic mashup of many of the remixer's previous videos. Take note, however, that it starts as a short YouTube Poop; the mashup segment starts exactly one minute in. In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, the video is so synonymous with streaming site Bronystate (who always plays it just before a new episode is about to air) that a special version was made for it with an extended Fake-Out Opening where it plays The Dover Boys for about three minutes before cutting to the mashup when Dan Backslide is about to say "Confound those Dover Boys!", presumably to keep viewers on their toes.
- From the same mind that brought you Thunderbusters, George Michael meets Billy Idol in Careless Rebel. And it's awesome.
- "Radioactive In the Dark" may make Your Head Asplode from the combined awesomeness. Ditto for "Radioactive Swimming Pools".
- This mashup of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel and "Fix You" by Coldplay is nothing short of excellent.
- The "EXTREME MEME MEGAMIX" series is a Spiritual Successor to The Internet Is For Music and a mashup of plenty of songs from real life, video games, TV shows, anime and other things.
- The first one uses songs such as "What Does The Fox Say?", "Takyon", "Spooky Scary Skeletons", "Blurred Lines", "Who Let The Dogs Out", "Crank Dat Soulja Boy" and the Yoshi's Island map theme.
- The second one uses songs like Eminem's "Rap God", the Space Jam Theme, "Darude - Sandstorm", Frozen's "Let It Go", "Royals", "Wrecking Ball", "Tipsy" and even the Cory in the House theme!
- The third one uses OMFG's "Hello", "My Time is Now", Skrillex's "Bangarang", PSY's "Gangnam Style", "Gentlemen", "Where the Hood at?" and Undertale's "Megalovania".
- The fourth one uses The Moon theme from Ducktales, Avril Lavigne's "Hello Kitty", Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby", "Lookin' Fresh" from the first Splatoon, Biz Markie's "Just a Friend", Smash Mouth's "Walkin' on the Sun" and The Flintstones theme. It also goes in a different route then the others and actually manages to be rather heartwarming with a very laid-back medley.
- The fifth one continues the impressive use of music, containing sources like "Ocean Man", "Take On Me", "Snow Halation", "We Are Number One", "Garry Come Home", "Cruel Angel's Thesis" and The Nutshack theme.
- The sixth and final one definitely ends the series on a high note, incorporating songs such as "What I Like", "Wow Wow", the h3h3 theme, Scanty and Kneesocks's theme, "Africa" and even managed to incorporate sections from the previous medleys as well.
- Feel Good in Black and Yellow works surprisingly well. From the same artist, All Star Youth. Smash Mouth has never sounded so beautiful.
- Usually in life, there are things that shouldn't mix together very well yet they just do. Like bacon and maple syrup, deep fry and bananas and Lil Wayne and The Office.
- For Final Fantasy XV, Square Enix collaborated with Florence + the Machine for a cover of Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" mashed up with the franchise's iconic "Crystal Theme".
- Kanye West and The Beatles sounds like something that shouldn't work, yet this mashup between "More Popular Than Jesus" and "Hey Jude" just seems to work for some reason.
- In similar vein to EXTREME SOUNDCLOWN MEGAMIX, "Soundclown House" is a mashup of all the popular trends from 2015 mixed into one song. It contains Splatoon's "Calamari Inkantation", Megalovania, Hotline Bling, Beastie Boys' Intergalactic, Adele's Hello and even manages to work in some samples from SpongeBob SquarePants, Snoop Dogg and Gorillaz.
- MGMT vs Daft Punk vs Passion Pit vs Gorillaz vs Bob Marley. Saying anything else would ruin it.
- From the mind that brought you Careless Rebel and Thunderbusters, Marvin Gaye and Slayer combine to make South Of The Grapevine. On the funk metal train from the same artist, Stevie Wonder meets Metallica for Sad But Superstitious.
- If you like "Another Brick in the Wall" and "Eye of the Tiger", chances are you'll fucking adore this mashup between the two.
- Behold, a DMX and Carly Rae Jepsen mashup. The last two things anyone expected to get mashed together and come out fucking beautiful.
- Yo dawg, DJ Schmolli heard you like Rock. So he mashed up 23 Rock songs spanning several decades into a delicious musical stew and appropriately named it "Rock of Ages". (Yes, the Def Leppard song is prominently featured in the chorus.) His other mashups aren't bad either, frequently blending songs that most listeners wouldn't put on the same playlist.
- In similar vein to "Best" by Neil Cicierega, Cyranek gives us "DO", a collective mashup of various songs and samples all based around the word "do" or the phrase "do it".
- "Let Yourself Sing" is another unexpected mashup, combining Frozen's "Let it Go" with My Chemical Romance's "Sing", creating a result that almost feels natural, despite the oddity.
- Bill McClintock is made of these. His YouTube channel is filled with some of the best marriages between pop, rock, metal, disco, motown and reggae, topped off with a brilliant attention to detail. One YouTuber said that Bill's ear "belongs in the Smithsonian." He's that good.
- His breakout hit, "I Heard It Round and Round The Grapevine".
- Bill's apparently a huge fan of The Temptations, with hits like "Get Ready for the Grave", "Mother Was a Rolling Stone", and "I Can't Walk Next to You".
- How about some Stevie Wonder? There's "Living For the Paradise City" and "Ice Cold Ground".
- "I Wouldn't Wanna Be Like The Holy Diver" and "I Will Survive the Rainbow In The Dark". Dio and Disco are closer than you think.
- "Walk Like an Angel of Death". Also a major Funny Moment. DIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!! like an Egyptian.
- Possibly the most awesome of his mixes, "With a Rebel Yell, She Cried 'Don't Give Up The Fight'". Add in a freakin' Judas Priest guitar solo and you will believe in headbanging for peace! This one was so impressive, Billy Idol's original keyboardist, Judi Dozier, gave him major props. Bill's pinned it ever since.
- THIS SLAM OF MINE JAMS WITH A BALLIN' POWER! ITS BURNING GRIP TELLS ME TO DUNK YOU! SLAMMING FINGER! And that's just the description on the video. The mashup of the vocals from the Space Jam theme with the dramatic G Gundam instrumentals works better than it has any right to. Listen to how seamlessly the saxophone flows into it, and how the words and violins practically sync up at the end. The comments section is a gold mine of mashup Memetic Mutation as well.
- The Piano Guys like to mash up classical music with contemporary, as seen in "this arrangement of Vivaldi's Winter and "Let It Go", or "Ants Marching/Ode To Joy".
- Thomas Sanders mashed up a batch of Disney Villain Songs, using "Friends On the Other Side" as the main melody, and the results are glorious, as demonstrated here.
- Who knew the instrumental to Modjo's "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" can provide mashups so catchy?
- Jurassic 5 and Gorillaz blend together as well!
- Two Hundred Memes manages to do what "The Internet Is for Music" did in the span of less than seven minutes and mash together 200 memes/songs from "Never Gonna Give You Up" to "It's Everyday Bro" in a singular, epic jam.
- Crawl Your Seatbelts by Raz Q merges Linkin Park's angst-anthem "Crawling" with Pendulum's songs "Watercolour" and "The Island", their remix of Prodigy's "Voodoo people", and miscellaneous drum and bass loops from other Pendulum songs. The result is an epic (and surprisingly cohesive and poignant) Glitch-hop-esque fusion.
- There's a way for Queen, David Bowie and Vanilla Ice fans to put aside their differences about the "Under Pressure" bass note sampling, by combining "Under Pressure" and "Ice Ice Baby" and holy fuck, did it work?
- SURPRISE MOTHER F***, in which Rythmind and BreZ collaborated to do a mash-up of their popular famous tracks, "Headshot" and "Girls Like". Their styles just blend together perfectly and, as the Swissbeatbox channel acknowledges, it's the best version of both songs.
- "X Gon' Give It To Ya" from DMX and "Sad But True" from Metallica together? Let the Rap Metal craziness go high!
- We all know Iron Maiden and Michael Jackson are incredibly cool, but if we combine them, it'd be even more awesomesauce! Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Beat It, Trooper! The cover art is also simultaneously hilarious and epic, with MJ's head being placed over Eddie on The Trooper, making Michael Jackson look like a fearful, yet very badass warrior!
- The rhythm and beat of Tame Impala's "The Less I Know The Better" combines amazingly with Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" (ft. Timbaland, of course) to form a vibing masterpiece, made famous by a meme featuring it.