I love this! As someone who always "sings along" with the background music, this just makes me smile. Sounds exactly like NPH too.

ShanshuBugaboo | October 01, 14:16 CET

This sounds so fantastic! I think the a cappella sound worked especially well for "Freeze Ray".

I just went back to the link to see who this group was, then saw that it is just one guy! One guy who was apologizing for the way it sounded. Color me even more impressed than my original impression.

KnitWit | October 01, 14:50 CET

I love a cappella music! And these were fun... thanks for posting this, lauratd.

BTW, are there any other Whedony songs out there done by a cappella groups? Anything from OMWF?

floofypooh | October 01, 15:42 CET

Ah-sum!

Pointy | October 01, 15:54 CET

Super job for a bored guy sitting alone at a computer with nothing to do on a Saturday morning! But I don't agree that the lead vocals are quite up to NPH standards. (I'm a choir teacher and very, very picky. Plus, kinda obsessed with Neil, to boot!)

It's weird, I suddenly feel like I, too, need to start spending my free time doing fan homages, such as making animations, posting videos online and singing songs. Never mind, it'll pass...

missb | October 01, 16:15 CET

Really really interesting. Also, very Andy Bernard from "The Office."

patxshand | October 01, 16:19 CET

Now this is the kind of cover I've been waiting for. Awesome.

LiLi | October 01, 16:20 CET

This is so so cool. Whenever I hear/watch something like this it just makes me happy. Total cure for stress. And, really, this is all thanks to YouTube and readily available software -- a few years ago this would've been so much more difficult to pull off. We live in interesting times.

MattK | October 01, 16:29 CET

Too, too cool! I hope they do more.

Scaniano | October 01, 17:43 CET

The a capella arrangement is really good, but the guy doing the lead is... well, he sounds like NPH if NPH couldn't really sing.

Brand New Day? MUCH better.

[ edited by Clay on 2008-10-01 18:30 ]

Clay | October 01, 18:29 CET

See, I'm just the opposite. I really enjoyed Freeze Ray more. I just think it's so interesting how they used their voices to imitate the background music.

deepgirl187 | October 01, 19:08 CET

patxshand, Andy was the first thing I thought of. ;-)

That guy is crazy talented. I too disagree with Clay; for a second I thought the guy had actually used NPH's vocal track at the beginning. "Brand New Day" is nifty, but I loved "My Freeze Ray."

UnpluggedCrazy | October 01, 23:45 CET