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I am fascinated by this, Joshua Redman doing "Streets of Philadelphia."

It's a little bit of an odd duck. Brian Blade is playing this wonderfully limber, very loose, very horizonal part on the drums and when Joe Sanders comes in, he is doing by far the funkiest thing of the five of them, but it's also way more vertical, more bouncing into the beat than Blade, who is just unbelievable smooth.

Aaron Parks, though, is doing something different. The piano is almost all tightly stacked, sometimes cluster-y chords and then he will end his phrases with a bluesy, soulful idea. He never sticks with it, though, and so, even though the arrangement isn't complicated, it's never exactly comfortable. Redman himself does more or less the same thing, where he is often either playing long tones or outlining the main melody, but he doesn't stay there long enough for you to be comfortable.

I am still not sure how I feel about Gabrielle Cavassa's vocals. She's a very good singer and she does lots of things that are stylistically interesting. I do feel a little like she's trying to do pieces of what everyone else is giving her. I am not sure if that adds up to something incoherent or the best part of the arrangement, but I am definitely going to spend more time with it to figure out how I feel.

#streets of philadelphia #joshua redman #gabrielle cavassa #aaron parks #joe sanders #brian blade #bruce springsteen #our daily jam #aesthetic indecision #Youtube

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Sometimes I wonder what the weirdest thing that has happened in our culture is. I think this might be it.

Either OJ or Mike Dukakis is my most-famous-met-in-person person.

#seth cotlar #bluesky #this is something other than humor #our dumb century

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I love me some Rome, but this is the dead-on truth.

#dominique baker #bluesky #rome #lucius vorenus #titus pullo #humor

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Happy Anniversary!

Poetry.

#liverpool fc #lfc #squishing man united like a bug

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Some of us are just nerdier than others.

#kevin collins #christina wolbrecht #taylor swift #super tuesday #election 2024 #data nerd life #bluesky

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When I talk with the other humans, one of the thing that periodically comes up is that I seem to be one of the more unlikely Paramore fans you will find. I will have the argument about how I think their median output is probably in the top 2-3% of all artists ever.

Today, I just wanted to note how good their instincts are here. "Burning Down the House" is absolutely, 100% a group sing. Every other cover of the song I know will pull the goofiness of the song out, but I they don't do the thing we get here, which is that the ends are meant to hang way out. There are a couple of lines that Hayley gets a little cute with, more staccato than I would like, but the song is supposed to be straight, funky, and big at the same time and they get all those things here.

By the way, if you know a comparable group-sing-y cover of "War Pigs," send it my way. I've only heard such a thing around a campfire at the beach and I desperately want a recording like that I can go back to.

#paramore #burning down the house #talking heads #our daily jam #Youtube

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#uncle duke #humor

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I'm not really over there much, except for occasional sports stuff, but this is some quality shade.

#liverpool fc #alexis mac allister #enzo fernandez #datamb

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Couldn't help myself

#jeremy swist #monty python #kamelot #it's only a model #humor

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I love this so much

Ran into error 404

#dog #cute #animals #wholesome #humor

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Unless you're of a certain age, I imagine James McMurtry is just one of those guys who's been around forever. For me, it's impossible to think that this song is 28 years old. I moved to the Bay Area in 1995 and KFOG (gone but not forgotten) played the heck out of this song and included this version on the second installment of their Live From the Archives series. I can still hear every note in my head to this day.

#james mcmurtry #where'd you hide the body #kfog #our daily jam #Youtube

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Don't try this at home, but I was amused.

Asher Perlman

#asher perlman #books #humor

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I am always good with an excellent musical image

#art #music

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Pumpkin dunk, anyone?

#coach finstock #humor #pumpkin dunk

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#maris kreizman #david lee roth #diamond dave #humor #happy birthday #ain't talkin' 'bout love

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Couldn't be more true!

#will carroll #baseball #miguel cabrera #joey votto #zack greinke

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This is basically Sabaton, right? They're not hardcore, but the rest of it checks out.

#golikehellmachine #sick man of europe #world war i #sabaton