LI A Cappella Challenge - Absolut A Cappella - Viva La Vida

SUNY New Paltz's Absolut A Cappella's winning performance at Oyster Bay HS LOng Island A Cappella Challenge. Other groups competing were from UMASS, BU, Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Cornell. They edged out the competition to win the 2008 competition. This song is Viva La Vida. Originally performed by Coldplay. The Soloist is Allen Davidson.

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[bassmalevolence]

Just a reminder...We beat the Dear Abbeys from BU at this competition. It was scored ICCA style. Watch more of the videos from this competition and as a whole, our set was the best, hence win. And they also backed out of a friendly invitational we asked the to join at that competition. Now who's the bad a cappella group? A Cappella is supposed to be 3 things. 1) Sound Good, 2) Look Good, 3) be fun.

[thedict]

I don't really have an attachment to any of these colleges seeing as how I'm still in high school, but it seems to me that you shouldn't gloat like that. You have every right to be proud of yourself, but expressing your smugness is another deal. It also gives people misconceptions about your entire group...unless they're all douches.

[bassmalevolence]

Yeah out of context this probably seems really arrogant lol. Originally someone from the BU Dear Abbeys had put a very distasteful comment on here slamming our version/group. I had deleted their comment and replied with this one as my retaliation to them. We're not smug in any way at all, it was just me defending my group against sore losers. Does that explain a bit?

[nicweber]

wow! by far the best version of a capella music for this song! completely legit, most other ones didn't have as many parts like this one :)

[LordofOran]

My group, the Amherst Zumbyes don't really do this style of music but this is probably the best recording of this song online thus far. I do wish that groups in general would take a bit more liberty with the arrangement of this piece though, since there's some fun stuff you could do with it not confined to just a fairly simple transcription.

Props, hope to sing with you some time.

[fudgemymonkey3]

that was at my high school

[DarasuumMandalore]

Video was crap, sound quality was crap, but I got to give it to you guys...It's the best I've seen! Great vocals maybe stretching for a couple notes here and there but other than the few minor mistakes a job well done by the entire group! Kandosii!

[erosso19]

Woooow!!! increíble!!! de todas las interpretaciones que he visto de "Viva la vida" ésta ha sido la que realmente me ha transmitido!!! Felicidades!!!

[Tsukasa009]

Great job with this, my schools Glee club will hopefully perform something like this later this year and this is a great reference

[Schaefer1610]

awesome!!!

[squeegie69]

Dude the soloists voice is VERY reminiscent of Coldplays vocal tone!

[imnolaxbro]

....you guys have way too much emotion!!! and when i say way too much, i mean not enough but it was good

[anniexanonymous]

aw, nice :)

definitely did justice to the song.

[purplegiraffehunting]

Wow, great job!

[freakermvids]

I don't know any of these guys or anything but i thought if the video quality was better that would have been really good