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New record coming soon. A concept album about the next Civil War. @fuguestatefair

@davidclowery It's more like this: Band and I have been recording a song. Bass player shows up, "haha, I asked Suno to turn our track into Billy Joel". It now has a robotic dramatic bluesy piano and idiotic honking sax. We all laugh, "Haha, that is so dumb!" Then we turn it off.

@paranoiacs I hope he's happy.

The saddest LP about disappearing completely, Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea' is one-part sequel to John Cale's 'Paris 1919' and one-part last moan of a boxer who's thrown his final fight. Frank conversations about Ann Frank. Thinking of Jeff, wherever he is.

@BradRTorgersen "Culture is a continuum" and "some people are better at it than others" are both true statements.

Real question for every Beatles fan who insists they revolutionized music forever and ever: did Elvis even happen? Little Richard? Chuck Berry? The Everly Brothers? The Platters? The Isley Brothers? Bee-Bop? Doo-Wop? I get this sense that everyone stanning The Beatles as the beginning (and the end!) of 20th century pop bands is just ignoring the entirety of the American 1950s pop revolution. Which eschewed war-era Big Band for smaller, tighter clusters, including harmony, as well as guitar duos. Hell, *all* of the Brit pop of the 1960s tipped its collective hat to American R&B and even gospel to one degree or another. But this isn't showing up in any of the "Beatles are the Forever Greatest!" assertions.

@KateBMwriting If people believed that someone was actually going to read it, they'd put more effort into it.

I’m reviewing job applications and 90% of the cover letters are AI generated. They use identical phrases and have exactly the same structure and word count. Why do people do it?

@DustyFyodor @charlescwcooke The Beatles were already objectively sophisticated songwriters by the time of IWTHYH. There's a depth to the chord progression (key change in the chorus) that was super unique compared with most early Rock n' Roll.

@charlescwcooke You think "I want to hold your hand" had creative depth and technical innovation? If you were a real Beatles fan you'd know the Beatles, to their credit, openly admitted they were just copying Americans and for that reason feared touring USA at first. But enjoy your cult.

Then you've always been completely wrong. x.com/Kulambq/status…

@paranoiacs Producing the Modern Lovers LP is #29

Reflecting on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is at once one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard, and also how it is like the thirtieth most important thing to occur over the course of his career in music. There truly is nobody else like him.

@seanonolennon All You Need is Move

Why does spell check assume I want to ‘love’ the kitchen table by the window? Move. I want to move it.

@paranoiacs @Culo_Kelly 100% this is Paul doing his John Impression

@Culo_Kelly Fascinating!

The weirdest and most inspiring Beatles is when they start blending together in uncanny, baffling ways. The sped up John on "Strawberry Fields" sounds almost indistinguishable from Paul. If you told me George was singing lead on "Nowhere Man", I'd believe it. The enigma persists.

@davidclowery by the way, which one's Camper?

@paranoiacs I think that is even more true the way they mimic each other on backing vocals. For instance nowhere man is a three-part that sounds exactly like three Johns.

@RGA Keeps ya sharp

No one talks about this, but the secret to creative excellence is having 8 projects with concurrent deadlines and overlapping meetings and being in a constant state of panic

If a robot acts in a way that is indistinguishable from a "real consciousness" we have to assume it is one and act accordingly.

@kkb_soundsystem What other people think about music you like doesn't matter

in the aeroplane over the sea slowly but surely losing its reputation and being considered overrated by so many people is one of the worst and most unfair things to happen in the 21st century

@emollick Conversations

I have been writing for years about the fact that we are not ready for the destruction of costly signalling mechanisms. Writing used to be a way of measuring effort, ability and diligence. We still have no easy substitute. oneusefulthing.org/p/setting-time…

@Chapinc the same people who bought curved TVs

Who is buying fold phones

@joerogan It’s not complicated. There are lots of ideas that are good at getting attention that have no value whatsoever, and this is actually the norm.

Shout out to all the people that still don’t believe in conspiracies. Your ability to stick to your guns is inspiring.

@paranoiacs Baby we were born to run out of steam

Forty-five years later, Springsteen's 'Darkness On The Edge Of Town' and Costello's 'This Years Model' feel like companion pieces. Two overlapping visions of a nightmare future of debased politics, abandonment of the working class and the prizing of vanity over all other virtues.

@RGA C'mon. Our brand guidelines clearly say that our voice is supposed to have "a playful wink". That is clearly "slapstick" you are talking about.

A common mistake in advertising is thinking that when someone says "humor" that means they are looking for something funny that elicits laughter

@Chapinc some grill to remember, some grill to forget

We grill to remember

@notlouisck Tom Petty

Are there any extremely famous people that are universally loved by everyone? Or do you have to be hated by a percentage of people to reach a crazy level of fame?