The high point of the comedy is when McGrath turns political speech into a high-speed song-and-tap-dance routine -- about as apt a metaphor as we are likely to see this election season.
Sharing the bill is Meshuggah, the unstoppable Swedish thrash band whose high-speed songs flaunt the complexities of math-rock.
Don't be surprised if not long from now another group of gagmen finds success by poking affectionate fun at spiky hair, nasal vocals and high-speed songs about breaking up.
In November 1962, the band recorded Please Please Me, with Martin suggesting they speed the song up.
Like Ms. Faithfull, she went full speed into songs from a new album, "Royal Blue," (Alligator), and old favorites, including her classics "I'd Rather Go Blind" and "Wang Dang Doodle".
Sadly, Kris won't be following its example, not after an ultra-odd arrangement that sped the song up and gave it a kind of funk grind.
Dr. Gooch said that the technology stood up even to the most difficult conditions -- poor loudspeakers, highly compressed streaming files or broadcasters who speed up songs slightly to make room for commercials.
The 120-gigabyte music player offers a line-out and headphone crossfader (blending two channels of music), an equalizer, pitch-speed alteration, song looping and the ability to save and share any mash-up on the device's Web site.
After the album's release, Mills said, "I think, honestly, it turned out a little slower than we intended for it to, just in terms of the overall speed of songs".
The Holy Ghost! remix of "Goblin City" was born out of the friendship between the two artists, even though the high-speed rock song was "the most difficult thing you could choose to remix".
