But awesome that you can hear that this is the way Bagdasarian recorded their voices. He took his time and really made their voices and pronounciations very clear and easy to understand. More care than they take today for today's incarnation's voices! Who would put this much effort into a song today???
i can tell you've never actually witnessed the music making process in the modern day. Just because something sounds simple or doesn't fit your taste doesn't mean it was easy to produce.
TuneStunnaMusic I'm trying to imagine Ross in the studio overdubbing all these vocals, looking at his watch from time to time and every so often giving a "why am I doing this" expression to the engineer. "Hurry fast" indeed...
TackyRackyComixNEO If you see the behind the scens from the newest chipmunk movies you can see the singers in studio singing at half speed. I tried it, and its EX-ZAUSS-TING. You gotta have lungs. Those people were doing it for money. Ross was just nuts, lol.
ShortFingeredShreder Doing it the original way is the cleaner way to do it. If you pitch shift it up one whole octave, you get weird artifacts in the sound. Pitch shifting wasnt designed to be used that extremely and still be clean.
If you are in a position to play songs at a radio station during the holiday season, I implore you to consider adding this to your regular rotation - especially late at night. Don't introduce it or anything. Just drop it in without comment and don't mention anything about it after. Let it ride
it feels like an old Christmas special in some horrible alternate universe: "it was swell of you to take time out of terrorizing the planet from the burning wastes of the north pole to make my make my audience's skin turn into writhing maggots Satan but before you go would you like to sing a song with us? "YYYOOoOooouuUuUUKKkkNOOooOOooOoOOWIIIIIIIIIiiiIIIiiiIIAAAaaaALLllWwaaaAYYYsSSSSsssssssSSSHhhHHHhhaaaAAAaaaaAAaVVvEeTTtIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiIIIIiiiIIIIMMmMEEEFFFfffffffFFFFFfffffFFFFOooooOOOOoRrRRrAAAAAaaAAASSSSSSSssSSSSsssssSSSSSSSooooOOOooonnNNNnnGGGggggJJJJJjjJJJiiiiiIIiiiIIiiiMMMMmmmmmmmmMMMmMMMmMm"
my new favorite christmas song. imagine if that song would play during christmas dinner with your grandparents and the whole family sitting by the table and eating a develish meal
Funny how when it originally started, Theodore had a much lower voice than he did later. Alvin was made the middle brother of the two (Simon being the oldest).
Gah! I remember doing this with my reel to reel (in before get off my lawn). The funny thing is the two speeds for a reel to reel are 33ips and 45ips. Those two speeds aren't a true octave from each other, so the guys singing had to sing off key at 33ips so it's sound on key at 45ips.
It never occurred to me until hearing this slowed down version that he used prepared piano for the instrumental verse, starting at 2:02. I always thought the sound was a mandolin.
I'm laughing so hard! I can't stop! Lol. This (normal version) came on my iPod today (it's May) and all I could think of was friggin Patton. Lmao. I'm going to listen to that next. Lmao
Here I sit, Listening to this on 25th of actual December 2012. Never thought I'd make it thru the 21st December "End of the World" thing... Again. Thank you Satan... (Sorry, Santa.) and all the Evil Little Chipmunks out there. Happy New Year to Us All, Each and Ev'ry One...
I used to have a reel-to-reel tape recorder with a 3 3/4 ips and a 7 1/2 ips setting. My friends and I would talk slowly into the mike at the 3 3/4 setting then play it back at 7 1/2. So we would make our own Chipmunk recordings!
This is Terrifying, but if you put it at 2x Speed, the last line at the end of the video sounds like Brian Griffen somehow. Or it just reminds me of him.
Patton Oswalt did a thing on this on one of his stand ups!!
He stole that from me! 😡
@@runcmd32 ur still alive?
Sounds like a barber-shop singer trio from the 50s went to Hell and Satan is forcing them to sing to the disturbed instrumental
Aman
They literally sound like Andy Bernard.
@@johnday2971 AHAHAHAHAHAHAAA
Especially if you play this video at double speed.
It's the slowed-Dave voice that always leaves me helpless with laughter, not to mention the drunken music, WHuump boomp-bup, WHuump boomp-bup.
Just reading your comment made me lose it. LMAO
Three kinda bored guys getting forced and yelled at by Satan to sing. A Christmas Classic.
At Satan's insistence.
i love how the end dissolves into an angry rabble arguing with satan
My grandparents had a turntable that went down to 16rpm, and back in the day I used to play all my Chipmunks LPs like this!
XD! Me too!! I still have that old turntable and it still works.
John Montagna when my dad was little, my grandmother would play regular albums at higher speeds to make it sound like the chipmunks
Haha I used to do that too, and press down to make it go sloooooow. haha.
Me too! Boy I feel old.
How did that work, exactly? Anyone could slow down/speed up records by pressing what? My parents had one but rarely used it.
Makes you really appreciate the individual harmonies.
But awesome that you can hear that this is the way Bagdasarian recorded their voices. He took his time and really made their voices and pronounciations very clear and easy to understand. More care than they take today for today's incarnation's voices! Who would put this much effort into a song today???
i can tell you've never actually witnessed the music making process in the modern day. Just because something sounds simple or doesn't fit your taste doesn't mean it was easy to produce.
@@alex-jgy Yeah, nowadays songs are written by corporate commitee.
I love the nervous laugh at 3:09. "Heheheheh... sure Satan ol' pal, whatever you say."
I never did trust those little hairballs
Who else but Beelzebub would give rodents the power of speech
Gold
Ok I laughed lol
Theodore's laugh...gives me a piece of eternity
3:08
He stoned as hell
When I was a kid back in the 1960's, my brother and I would play this album like this!
The voices aren't the only thing recorded at this speed. So are the tack piano and the single-string melody guitar. Never noticed that before.
Tom Betz they may have recorded those at normal speed and played them back slower while they tracked the voices...?
@@zachlosttrail9670 yes exactly. You can tell by the poor frequency response of the slowed down music that it's obviously a tape playing slow.
Piano's definitely been recorded at half speed. Think the guitar was done at normal speed cause it's in drop tuning at haf speed.
I can't believe this video has been up for *_12 years_* without being yanked down for copyright.
I doubt content ID recognizes it. lol
The stereo separation on this recording is awesome.
+Treknologist I just noticed that while watching this. In 1958, that was unheard of. Most music back then was still being recorded live from 1 mic.
+ShortFingeredShreder Well, these original Chipmunk records were done with vocals by just one guy, Dave included.
When you set this to 2.0x speed, it sounds like Satan is forcing 3 men to sing with meathooks in their throats.
You're right!
I'm fucking crying
I love Theodore's laugh slowed down xD
It sounds like an awkward guy who laughs with uncertainty
"Very good theodore"
"Eh, ha, ha, hahha?"
broadwaymelody33 Ross Sr did the laugh
This whole song is fucking nightmare fuel
😅🤣
@@jasonderebel7864 lmmfao
It's pretty scary when Dave/Satan yells "ALVIN!"
i bet one of the alvin toys that used to sell during christmas 2004 would have the batteries running down to the point where it sounds like this.
This would be enraging to me to have to sing all the chipmunk songs and harmonies at this speed.
TuneStunnaMusic I'm trying to imagine Ross in the studio overdubbing all these vocals, looking at his watch from time to time and every so often giving a "why am I doing this" expression to the engineer. "Hurry fast" indeed...
TackyRackyComixNEO If you see the behind the scens from the newest chipmunk movies you can see the singers in studio singing at half speed. I tried it, and its EX-ZAUSS-TING. You gotta have lungs. Those people were doing it for money. Ross was just nuts, lol.
TuneStunnaMusic Why are they still doing it that way? We don't use tape anymore, so wouldn't it be better just to pitch shift?
ShortFingeredShreder
Doing it the original way is the cleaner way to do it. If you pitch shift it up one whole octave, you get weird artifacts in the sound. Pitch shifting wasnt designed to be used that extremely and still be clean.
That arguing at the end 😅😭😂! Merry Christmas 2024!
Ross Bagdasarian really made each voice unique.
It sounds very sarcastic.
Theodore’s laugh is the weirdest sound I’ve ever heard
The Chimpmunks career faltered once they hit puberty... :-(
FEATURING SATAN IM DYING
Discovered this when I was a kid. My grandma had a record player with 16 RPM speed! It’s just a really slow barbershop quartet.
If you play it double the speed you can still hear the original voices but twice the speed with out pitching, good one youtube.
Fer Galicia yeah that always anyone’s me
Play it at the lowest speed. (0.25) It sounds even more satanic.
Imagine every song, every movie, and every cartoon show was recorded like this... I'd loose my mind, lmao!
Maybe it's like that in Hell?
Set it to 2.0x speed
i did that before even seeing this comment
No, no, no. Set it to 0.25x speed.
Wtf!!
@@andyspendlove1019 YEAH!! They all sound like Satan.
Sounds like devil trying to take my soul👹
It sounds like listening to the song on acid or after drinking cough syrup. lol
The piano sounds like it's straight out of a saloon.
If you are in a position to play songs at a radio station during the holiday season, I implore you to consider adding this to your regular rotation - especially late at night. Don't introduce it or anything. Just drop it in without comment and don't mention anything about it after. Let it ride
Also if you're a fan of this, I highly recommend the full albums of "Chipmunks at 16 speed" you can find here or on Bandcamp
If I'm doing that I'm playing the entire sludgefest album.
Patton Oswalt brought me here, lol.
"our parents were hippies! They left a week early to join a commune."
-Alvin
Theodore's stoner laugh at 03:08
That vocal blend is like sandpaper to my ears
0.75 speed means even Satan himself sounds hella stoned.
Yeah. And even the bass plays in a different key from everything else at 0.75.
this is what drugs sound like
This is what chipmunks going through puberty sounds like.
Play this while playing Resident Evil, it's horrifying
The way the dude says Okay! In the intro is f*ckin funny
This sounds like it could be in an awesome horror movie taking place in the 1930's.
it feels like an old Christmas special in some horrible alternate universe: "it was swell of you to take time out of terrorizing the planet from the burning wastes of the north pole to make my make my audience's skin turn into writhing maggots Satan but before you go would you like to sing a song with us? "YYYOOoOooouuUuUUKKkkNOOooOOooOoOOWIIIIIIIIIiiiIIIiiiIIAAAaaaALLllWwaaaAYYYsSSSSsssssssSSSHhhHHHhhaaaAAAaaaaAAaVVvEeTTtIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiIIIIiiiIIIIMMmMEEEFFFfffffffFFFFFfffffFFFFOooooOOOOoRrRRrAAAAAaaAAASSSSSSSssSSSSsssssSSSSSSSooooOOOooonnNNNnnGGGggggJJJJJjjJJJiiiiiIIiiiIIiiiMMMMmmmmmmmmMMMmMMMmMm"
The fact that the chipmunks actual voices were like this actually makes the song supremely disturbing
I love how Theodore sounds like he’s voiced by Barry White.
my new favorite christmas song. imagine if that song would play during christmas dinner with your grandparents and the whole family sitting by the table and eating a develish meal
My music teacher showed us this when I was in 1st grade in the early 90s.
When I was a kid, and this song was new, we slowed it down just like this by playing the 45 at 33.
So who else came here because of Patton Oswalt? lol
ooh ooh. me! me!
Wow me to
"...Okay" hahahaha
I'm scared to know who DIDN'T.
Idk what you guys are talking a about.... I came here from Ratatouille.
Funny how when it originally started, Theodore had a much lower voice than he did later. Alvin was made the middle brother of the two (Simon being the oldest).
There should be a show based from this. Satan makes a barbershop quartet with 3 boring guys who can sing.
Gah! I remember doing this with my reel to reel (in before get off my lawn). The funny thing is the two speeds for a reel to reel are 33ips and 45ips. Those two speeds aren't a true octave from each other, so the guys singing had to sing off key at 33ips so it's sound on key at 45ips.
looked this up just because of patton oswalt
same
Same 😂😂
That guy sucks
Plot twist dave was actually singing , and the chipmunks just existed in his mind.
Sounds like the Residents.
Alanko Donnet Except fun to listen to.
Slowed down, this is the most depressing song ever.
Equal parts terrifying and hysterical.
They should make the whole album this speed I'll listen to that shit all year around LOL 😅😅
Patton Oswalt brought me here. Also, love the graphic.
It never occurred to me until hearing this slowed down version that he used prepared piano for the instrumental verse, starting at 2:02. I always thought the sound was a mandolin.
My favorite part is the end, where they all start bickering with Satan.
Paul is dead, miss;em, miss'em.
No, I'm pretty sure this is the Beatles. There they are opening gifts with Satan.
As if this wasn't creepy enough...
I don't know about Satan. But puberty hit those chipmunks, big time.
Here from LTLVC
Satan's been feeling festive 😈🎄🎅
Vaporwave for 50s housewives
I'm laughing so hard! I can't stop! Lol. This (normal version) came on my iPod today (it's May) and all I could think of was friggin Patton. Lmao. I'm going to listen to that next. Lmao
0:38 Sounds like Mama Luigi says "Okay"
The laugh at 3:09...
Yes, as you can see here, Dave, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are all one dude.
That had me laughing so hard that I almost cried. "Alvin... what the FUCK are you doin'?!"
😂😂😂
Ya gotta love an old turntable with a 16 speed setting .
THEY SOUND GOOD AT THIS SPEED
Why the HELL did they get chipmunk-ized?
Axqu7227 Because cute critters sell merchandise.
Technically, all three of them are voiced by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. He also voiced Dave Seville, which explains why Alvin sounds like Dave.
Auto tune before the time
The record company forced Seville to do this in order for them to keep him employed.
Axqu7227 - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. had a terrific voice at regular speed.
Never fails to make me cry-laugh
Giant man sings a christmas song with 3 normal sized men
featuring satan XD
Rocky Stone Satan Claus to be exact...
@@mishasamorodin9150 LMAO
Isn’t Dave satan tho ✌🏼🥲
Finally we hear the true guys voices lol
Alvin was yelled by David the smurf bear 😂😂😂
Patton Oswalt wasn't exaggerating one bit when he described this.
Here I sit, Listening to this on 25th of actual December 2012.
Never thought I'd make it thru the 21st December "End of the World" thing... Again.
Thank you Satan... (Sorry, Santa.) and all the Evil Little Chipmunks out there.
Happy New Year to Us All, Each and Ev'ry One...
fun fact I had a few songs on my 3DS from the movies where you could lower the pitch and hear the actual voices
I’ve listened to this like four times. Just noticed satan on the left hand corner
If the world looks like it's gonna end in 2012, I'm toally blasting this version
Don't worry it didn't happen. Not even the next decade later surprisingly.
We all died in 2012 and this is hell
@@ozzie_goat That could have happened too 🤔
lol
if you play this backwards you hear "I command you in the name of Lucifer to spread the blood of the innocent!"
I heard patton oswalt mention this in a clip on the radio this morning, haha he was right.
AAAAAALVIIIIIIIIN!!! That plus the slowed down song makes it sound soooo horrifying
At 1:32 I lost my shit. "Hooooooolahooooooop"
k-kill... kill my parents?? ok, alvin, if you s-say
Do I hear a revolt against the overlord to sing it again?
This makes me laugh way too hard 😂😂
The Chipmunks after they all hit puberty. 😎
slow it down to 0.75x speed for the real hell on earth experience!
And Merry Christmas everyone!
I used to have a reel-to-reel tape recorder with a 3 3/4 ips and a 7 1/2 ips setting. My friends and I would talk slowly into the mike at the 3 3/4 setting then play it back at 7 1/2. So we would make our own Chipmunk recordings!
So how do I get the whole Christmas album slowed down like this?
Spin it on a 16 rpm turntable.
If your turntable doesn't have 16 rpm, just transfer to an open reel tape deck at 7.5 ips, and play the tape back at 3.75 ips.
Wayyyy too high to be listening to this, don’t know if it’s terrifying or hilarious…
This would go crazy in like a chritsmas horror movie
The ending is the best part!!
This is Terrifying, but if you put it at 2x Speed, the last line at the end of the video sounds like Brian Griffen somehow. Or it just reminds me of him.
So does the world always sound like hell and demons to chipmunks, then
Explains why they are so skittish!