The Grey Video

Posted Nov 18, 2004

The Grey Video is the brilliant Jay-Z/Beatles music video mashup of DJ Dangermouse's "Encore" off the infamous Grey Album.

The official site is down, likely a result of popularity or legality, and I don't know if it's coming back. Until then, I'm going to mirror the high-quality Quicktime version.

Download: grey_video.mov (Quicktime, 22 MB)
BitTorrent: grey.torrent (thanks, Kyle!)

Also, Matt Haughey is mirroring it.

37 Comments (Add Yours)

Nov 18, 2004
2:12 PM

Kyle wrote:

I made a torrent.

Nov 18, 2004
2:20 PM

Andy Baio wrote:

Very cool, thank you.

Nov 18, 2004
2:26 PM

Scott Johnson wrote:

Has anyone heard from the site owners? I'm really curious to know what happened.

Nov 18, 2004
3:04 PM

Joe wrote:

You'd think being the master mix artists they are that they could get more than one sample of a woman screaming to repeat over and over again. Annoying.

Nov 18, 2004
3:07 PM

darwin wrote:

Is there any legal way for the author of the video to perhaps sell it on DVD, I would definitely pay for a high quality copy, albeit not much more than 5-7$.

Nov 18, 2004
4:05 PM

alan wrote:

the screaming is deliberately looped as is the footage!

Nov 19, 2004
3:43 AM

mads wrote:

God hail the torrent distribution system.

I'd like to see disney take that down.

Nov 19, 2004
8:19 AM

Jason wrote:

Thanks for doing this. You're a saint.

Nov 19, 2004
3:56 PM

Patrick Quinn-Graham wrote:

I have added another mirror.

Nov 19, 2004
4:01 PM

Clayton wrote:

Hmm, can't say the screaming was done well. However, definately an impressive video. And cd for that matter.

Good Day :)

Nov 19, 2004
4:04 PM

k wrote:

Maybe the screaming was looped like the footage was looped and sampled over and over like the music was sampled

Nov 19, 2004
4:05 PM

k wrote:

I think it rules

Nov 19, 2004
10:30 PM

Duncan wrote:

That video is brilliant!

Nov 19, 2004
10:46 PM

Bill Walsh wrote:

"You'd think being the master mix artists they are that they could get more than one sample of a woman screaming to repeat over and over again. Annoying."

What are you proud of? - Kim Peek

Nov 22, 2004
3:56 AM

rich wrote:

cheers for this. genius!

Nov 22, 2004
7:31 PM

Brian wrote:

Awesome! thanks for the torrent. Since the official site is down, do we know anything about who created it?

Nov 23, 2004
11:09 AM

Non nude teen guy wrote:

Thanks for the torrent. Downloaded dude :)

Nov 24, 2004
1:42 AM

Arthur Che wrote:

Awesome.

Nov 25, 2004
7:16 PM

Michael wrote:

MTV says it is "Graphic Designer and animator Antoine Tinguely" on their news page for Mixtape Mondays. http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mixtape_monday/112204/?headlines=true Yea, it really is brilliant. peace.

Nov 29, 2004
5:22 PM

kat wrote:

yes, it's genius... and proof that good art is more powerful than bad law. how uptight do you have to be to think that this kind of media manipulation is harmful to the original artists? the beatles's lawyers + publishers have already shit their drawers. anybody know if jay-z has any objections to this? i bet not.

thank god for the internet, where good ideas can't be killed.

Nov 30, 2004
8:26 PM

Cormac wrote:

Bah, the torrent seems to be down... Many thanks for the mirror, I tried to get this before failed.

Dec 1, 2004
11:44 AM

Kyle wrote:

The site that I set the torrent up at (lokitorrent.com) is down--hopefully it will be live again shortly.

Dec 2, 2004
11:35 PM

cba wrote:

It was enormous, could laugh. It is funny.

Dec 7, 2004
1:17 PM

blueluke wrote:

The true spirit of freedom of expression, and a first class video, shame about the repetitiveness of the background but I'm willing to look beyond that

Torrent was great, i got 60kB/s on a standard 512 broadband modem

Dec 8, 2004
2:39 PM

Philip wrote:

notice the r+p on the screen at the end. the guys behind the video (antoine and gilles) go by the moniker ramon&pedro, and have signed with partizan productions - you can see some of their other (rather nice) work at their site www.ramonandpedro.com
thanx for the tip-off, and long live new distribution...

Jan 3, 2005
5:27 AM

John Voight wrote:

Awesome! thanks for the torrent

Jan 7, 2005
1:11 AM

Vitaly wrote:

Cool video !!!!!!!

Jan 25, 2005
5:46 AM

Sylvia Anderson wrote:

Damn that thing looks cool. Thanks for posting this.

Mar 2, 2005
12:37 PM

Adam wrote:

Excellent video-quite humorous. When the drum kip converts to a dj booth and Ringo flips a record; CLASSIC!

Apr 10, 2005
9:08 AM

brian surgenor wrote:

Jay-z approves of this because he went on tour with danjermouse doing the grey album. Just proves that Jay-Z truly is a music lover as well as an artist... he was fucking impressed with the album as any music lover would be....

May 13, 2005
9:42 AM

Gary wrote:

John would have bloody loved this!

Dec 6, 2005
3:40 PM

mark429 wrote:

Cheers for the video m8!

Jan 2, 2006
4:02 AM

711 wrote:

OH MAN that was beautiful!

I'm not even a hip hop fan and I love and respect the grey album. This is just one rung higher on the ladder of awesome.

May 25, 2006
4:04 PM

Mike wrote:

This video is a disgrace to The Beatles and relates their talent with the processed crap out today, and it's disgusting.

P.S. The screaming is looped because the scene is taken from a scene of Hard Days Night, and back in the sixties they cut corners whenever they could.

Jul 28, 2006
10:06 AM

flatline wrote:

711 is an idiot, and his comment is ignorant.

Feb 5, 2007
2:23 PM

Saman Sadeghi wrote:

I just created another torrent file!

Feb 5, 2007
2:44 PM

Saman Sadeghi wrote:

Link: http://www.torrentbox.com/download/88436/grey_video.torrent

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