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Rocket Silver Symphony YouTube video by Ride - Topic

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13. A song with an unexpected drop.

Rocket Silver Symphony - Ride

Moanin' - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Live YouTube video by Javier Rodriguez

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12. A perfect song for background listening.

Moanin' - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

"Background" but I'd immediately interrupt conversations to talk about Blakey's shuffle, Morgan's vibe & Timmons singing his piano solo. Then everyone would leave. 🤷‍♂️🎶🤓

🤔 Have recently seen the use of the phrase "the Epstein class" to describe various billionaires and other rich and powerful people who are unaccountable and are very often bad people. Think this is a useful phrase and we should all use it a lot until it becomes very mainstream... 🙂👍 #TheEpsteinClass

Rush - YYZ (Live In Rio 2002) Remastered HD YouTube video by SouthSideOfTheSky - George C.

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11. A song with a subtle meaning.

Not sure if this is subtle, but YYZ is the official IATA airport code for Toronto Pearson International Airport.

The intro is the YYZ morse code audio identifier.
-.--, -.--, --..

This is a song about going home. 🇨🇦

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light - 1976 YouTube video by Pegazusmart

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10. A song that feels like a memory replaying.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Winter '76: Spent 2 1/2 months recovering from a head injury in a low lit room w/ soft toys & a radio. This song played all the time. It takes me back to Winter '76 every time. I love it.

Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself (Official Video) YouTube video by MatthewSweetVEVO

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9. A song about insecurity.

Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself

Silly Girl YouTube video by Descendents - Topic

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8. A song that feels ahead of its time.

Decendents - Silly Girl.

When I was told of a "new" genre called Pop Punk I became an old man & said "in my day we listened to Decendents & Hüsker Dü. I had a Hosoi Alva Fish & I had to drive 200 miles to buy my Docs!"

Stars - Ageless Beauty (HIGH QUALITY) YouTube video by Stephanie Small (CurlySteph)

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5. A song you would play for your younger self.

Stars - Ageless Beauty

I would smile and say "you were right all along."

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Prince And The Revolution - Let's Go Crazy YouTube video by Music

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5. A song you recognize after two bars.

The first thought I had was a song that I recognize in two words

Prince And The Revolution - Let's Go Crazy

Chris Squire - Lucky Seven YouTube video by Indigoinsf3

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5. A song in 7/8 time.

Chris Squire - Lucky Seven

Been listening to this record a lot lately. Just such a cool nocturnal vibe.

No coincidence that I've also been shopping around for a Rickenbacker 4001 that I absolutely don't need a lot lately too.

Nick Drake - River Man YouTube video by Nick Drake

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4. A Song In 5/4 time signature.

Nick Drake - River Man

I find this song exquisite. The fact that he recorded the guitar and vocal at the same time makes it even more so.

Fela Kuti - Buy Africa YouTube video by ngome akrume

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3. A Song Using Polyrhythm

Fela Kuti - Buy Africa
When we started dating, my wife handed me a Fela CD and told me to study Tony Allen. She said her world beat band had opened for him once. That's kinda when I knew we'd get married someday.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970) YouTube video by Beat-Club

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2. A filler song.
Paranoid by Black Sabbath

They turned in the new album titled War Pigs. The label said it was too short. Iommi came up with a riff, Butler wrote lyrics and Ozzy read them as he sang. Geezer said they wrote it in about 25 minutes.

Los Lobos "Los Chucos Suaves" (from Native Sons) YouTube video by Los Lobos

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1. More Cowbell
Los Chucos Suaves - Lalo Guerrero as covered by Los Lobos

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Some couples still hold hands after 30 years together. Some still write little love notes. Others give each other lavish gifts.

My wife just sent me this link, and it's like John Cusack is in my driveway holding a boombox over his head. . .
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Christmas Eve Gift '25! YouTube video by Craig Bagby

Christmas Eve Gift '25!

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Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK / July 1983) YouTube video by DireStraitsVEVO

I used it on an album I'll be releasing in a couple of months. But this is probably the best example of it and why I wanted one in the first place.

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Resonator guitar - Wikipedia

It's a round neck resonator guitar. They typically used more with bluegrass / Americana styles. Mine has a P-90 pickup installed. I like it because it increases the volume of my finger picking and I can still run it through effect pedals.
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A quick shot of the iPad mount. I'm way too proud of this project. But dude, it's a 1950's freakin' phone booth!

Finished turning a 1950's phone booth into a vocal booth for the studio. Had to drive it from my wife's childhood home in Houston to Austin, open up the wall and build a closet around it. It's finally deadened, wired up and the iPad mounts works perfectly.
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I miss Van Halen.

What a let down. I was really hoping that he'd form a boy band with Kevin Sorbo and Scott Baio.

Guided By Voices - Glad Girls YouTube video by Radial by The Orchard

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Thanks so much to @wecdsend.bsky.social for a great July! GBV inspired me to pursue diy recording years ago. Now I'm making records in my backyard. Cheers to all!

This was the moment they got me. . .
31. Glad Girls

Everyone Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking) YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic

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30. Everyone Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)
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Teenage FBI YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic

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29. Teenage FBI
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Guided By Voices - My Kind of Soldier YouTube video by Gnapster

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I've experienced some pretty cool things at gigs. Seeing Beatle Bob dancing during your set is right up there at the top of the list for me.

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Guided By Voices "See My Field" YouTube video by Guided By Voices

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27. See My Field
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Hold On Hope YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic

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In the final turn & sharing my go to faves. It's not a deep dive & probably been shared a lot. But it's just too beautiful to not include.

Some don't dig bigger production. If I didn't love it, I wouldn't listen to "Breakfast In America" all the time.

The Birthday Democrats YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic

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25. The Birthday Democrats
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Yeah it's just gorgeous to me.