Steve told me that Spotify can make playlists for your pets with some information from you, and I had to try it out and see if any of Shmans’s favourite songs would show up on her list. They didn’t, but the playlist sounds like something that might be found on an easy listening station and …
Monthly Archives: January 2021
Hey Google, What Song Is This? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
The ability to use a smartphone to tell you what a certain song is has been around for years. Siri can do it thanks to an integration with Shazam, and before that I used to use an app called SoundHound that did the job pretty well. But until now, you could only identify songs that …
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Shut The Fuck Up And Put On Your Mask
There are a few different please wear a mask type songs out there. I think we may have even posted some of them. But I write today to let you know that if you have been thinking about composing one of your own, you don’t have to bother anymore. I just found the only one …
New Orleans Is Sinking Is A Country Blues Song Now
Crystal Shawanda released this cover last summer. Obviously there’s no substitute for the Hip, but this is very cool and worth some repeat listens.
Nobody Died Every Single Day
I am not very smart and therefore have only the faintest of clues how these Markov chains work, but what I can tell you with confidence is that they write a pretty decent Nickelback song. With a database chock full of Nickelback lyrics, I made a Markov Chain write Nickelback lyrics. This is the end …
Will You Wear A Mask? I Ask
I’m surprised it took so long for someone to do this. And it’s even for charity! “Will You Wear A Mask? I Ask,” a rhyming read-aloud picture book for everyone. Performed by Mark Hamill. All proceeds go to World Central Kitchen: wck.org Written and Illustrated by Tom Ruegger Voice Directed by Kelly Ward Film & …
Sleep, Eat, Whinge, Tweet
I missed this one during the first wave, but since we’re still all at home for the foreseeable future… Let’s start at the very beginning A sore throat, a cough in Wuhan And in no time at all, there were 1, 2, 3 And one went on a plane – took it overseas Overseas And …
And Now, Your Government With A Message About Coronavirus
If a real government had talked to us about the pandemic in these terms from the start, we might all be in a much better place right now. I’m also a big fan of the term “malignant shit funnel.”
Babystruck
Looks like it’s unintentionally becoming AC/DC day around here. This doesn’t count as music playing kids exactly, but dad here did get his baby to do something resembling Thunderstruck. I recorded my son making baby noises, figured out the notes he made, and arranged them into “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC If you came here looking for …
It’s A Beautiful Mover
Here’s something I didn’t know. On the same day that he tried out for the job of AC/DC lead singer, Brian Johnson also recorded a song for a Hoover vacuum cleaner commercial. That’s not bad. Not sure I would have figured out it was him had I not known going in, but there are definitely …
