Andy Freeman

@batcountry1980 Always liked this one.

Written as an apology from Bono to his Mrs, The Sweetest Thing was originally a B-side to U2’s Where the Streets Have No Name, before they realised a pop song this delightful deserved a proper release of its own. Re-recorded and released in 1998, I honestly couldn’t tell you where it landed in the charts. But it’s one of those songs that didn’t seem to need that. That year, it was absolutely everywhere. You heard it in work, jumped in the motor and it was on, went to the pub, turned on the telly, it was there. Music doesn’t seem to do that anymore. Maybe it’s my age, and I just don’t know what’s floating around out there now, or maybe the medium itself has changed. But either way, I miss when songs felt inescapable, defining the times wherever you went. youtu.be/5WybiA263bw?si…

@stoolgambling Carolina Planthers

What is the only NFL logo that is a plant?

@SussexHenryVIII That was an AMAZING re-release. The movie plays very different on a huge screen. When Ripley's face is 30' high all the emotions playing across her face have a lot more impact. I'm so glad I went!

We watched Alien when they put it back into theaters a few years ago and I was taken aback by how normal the crew looks and how much it helps with overall immersion.

@someguy_9 @historyinmemes Yeah but it's *how* he wipes it.

@historyinmemes “Filmmaking trick” it’s literally just a guy wiping the lens

The cameraman cleaning the lens mid-shot is a classic filmmaking trick—and James Cameron still incorporates it into his movies today.

@HexagonKri33900 @heynavtoor Yes!!

@heynavtoor Our modern world is turning into a Jorge Luis Borges short story.

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB it's called Halupedia. nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived. the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it. it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles. the only difference is none of it is real. here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia: > the great pigeon census of 1887 > the ministry of slightly wrong maps > chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden > armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair > the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present." the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year: "an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it" the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time." we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web. the internet is healing.

Bobby Cox managed 4,505 major league baseball games. A pro's pro.

HUGE part of my childhood here. RIP, Bobby. Thanks for everything.

@JeffHow82493818 @TomsPedalDemos Pretty much.

@TomsPedalDemos Level 5 might be a Recording Studio collection of pedals. 🤔

I kinda like this

I hope Apple gives Tim Cook a U2 album as a parting gift.

songs used to have werewolves with chinese menus in their hands

@steelydante Ha! Impossible to go overboard. There's so much there! Enjoy the ride :)

@steelydante Oh it wasn't that, it was more that REM seems to be totally slept on. People forget (or don't know) how great and how HUGE they used to be. I'm glad you're one of the good ones!

@steelydante A Gen-Z guitar player came into my studio last night, grabbed an acoustic, and started playing "Drive". I about died with pleasure. Maybe everything's gonna be OK.

@BeatlesPraise This guy gets it.

"I heard Joni Mitchell say, 'Everybody's a songwriter, even people who shouldn't be.' It's true. It was as true in 1963 as it is today. People heard the Beatles and said, 'Oh, I could do that!' Actually, no, you couldn't. You couldn't write 'She Loves You,' let alone 'For No One' or 'Girl.' It's the same today. A lot of people who can sort of write songs screw up their ears and tell themselves it's something special. But it's not really. "Lennon, McCartney and Harrison had stunningly high standards as writers. Imagine releasing a song like 'Ask Me Why' or 'Things We Said Today' as a B side. They made such fantastic records as 'Penny Lane' b/w 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and only put them out as singles! These records were events, and not just advance notice of an album release. "You can’t really put onto the page what is great about 'And Your Bird Can Sing' or 'Paperback Writer' or even a great overlooked hard rock Beatles cut like 'Hey Bulldog.' Ok, you can break it down to this remarkable guitar part, those weirdly tracked, overlapping vocal harmonies or Lennon’s insanely intense delivery of an almost throwaway cut and even remark that the piano part is a relative of 'Lady Madonna.' But this doesn’t begin to explain how these records make me feel. That is beyond words." --#ElvisCostello #Songwriter #TheAttractions @ElvisCostello #Grammys #ASCAP #BAFTA #HallOfFame #TheBeatles #Influence #GOAT

@FranziaMom The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross

working on something and I want to know everyone’s favorite book about music. It can be anything, about anything, just something to do with music (nonfiction)

@Hot_Pepper76 I walked into an @Elbow show in Oakland simply to meet another band there who I was about to work with. I didn't know Elbow at all. Within two minutes I was so taken with the music I forgot about the meeting entirely. I've been a fan ever since.

What band or artist did you discover completely by accident (maybe on the radio, a mixtape, or flipping channels) that ended up becoming one of your all-time favorites?

@CharlesDiAngelo @dreamkid83 That is AWESOME.

@dreamkid83 I completely agree, Lee Roth fantastic but Van Hagar , OU812 was a great album but I really love 5150 but my favorite from the album is Why can't this be love and in 87 I went to their concert with Alice in Chains where I first heard Man in a Box ...Mind Blown ..

I’m just gonna go ahead and say it. I prefer Van Halen with Sammy Hagar.

@Evan64m By and large, Mellon Collie sounds great in hi-res on a good system, IMO. It doesn't sound like anything else - super gainy guitars and very natural, almost un-compressed drums are a unique combination - but it sounds excellent to me!

Really wish Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness wasn't mixed like absolute dogshit. Even listening on a CD through a nice stereo it still sounds really flat and compressed

@Evan64m @celinedionysus_ I've always thought that was the point of Jellybelly. It sounds like the room can't contain the all the noisy guitars. It reminds me of standing in a loud rehearsal room where the guitars and bass hit the room's resonant frequency. I love it for this reason.

@celinedionysus_ I wish I could agree but it just reeks of missed promise to me. Tonight Tonight is the kind of song that just begs for a more open mix and Jimmy Chamberlin’s amazing drumming in Jellybelly just gets drowned out by the guitars

@TheChrisLambert Not all heroes wear capes

I worked at Barnes and Noble when that song was at its height of popularity. The album was in their rotation of like 3 albums. So I’d hear the whole dumb thing like 2-3 times a shift. I finally went back to Music/Movies and asked if the area manager if they could never play the album again. They said no. I said please. They asked why. Then I went on a long rant about how much I hate Owl City and how Fire Flies is the most forced quirky song of all time and is just the best and worst example of the industry pandering to an archetype. They listened carefully then asked if I was supposed to be working. I said it’s my break. They asked if I really spent my entire break trying to get them to never play Owl City. I said yes. They said okay. And that’s how I saved the Barnes and Noble at the Asheville Mall from the horror of Owl City