Ever since we featured the awful ad for Songsmith, I've been following the emergence of a wonderful genre - Songsmith redoing classic tracks.

If you haven't heard about it, Microsoft's new Songsmith software takes any vocal track you create and automatically generates a backing track. While it's meant for kids to put music to their singing, enterprising individuals have been isolating vocal tracks from classic rock songs, feeding them into the software, and capturing the output.

It's a very twisted type of artificial intelligence. Forget Terminators, this is the way Skynet will take over the Earth.

More after the jump.

Just a quick note to thank all our visitors for giving us a big week at YBNBY, both new readers and loyal regulars. In terms of visitors, it's been our biggest traffic week for many months, perhaps ever, with over 300,000 visitors in the last seven days, which is probably two or three times what we usually get. Special shout out to baierman for attracting most of that traffic with Where The Streets Have Bad Names. If you found YBNBY for the first time with that story, and you're still here, thanks for staying around. Say "Hi" in comments.

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