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"Sailing" is a good song SIX. Very relaxing.

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It's one of the few songs I grew up with that I can still listen to. So many great songs just seem to get to a point where they start grating on my nerves and even cause me to groan when I hear them on the radio.

I can't imagine ever getting sick of Sailing.

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I still listen to it too.

I listen to CD, tape or LP depending on my mood.

PS. Thanks for posting Buble's song. It wouldn't work with the "Official video" for me.

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This one's a banger...

I have no idea if it was in a movie or TV show I saw when I was a kid, and it came out before I was born, but I'd heard it enough that all I have to do is hear two notes of it and it brings on the nostalgia.

Just heard him brought up in a video seemingly completely unrelated and wanted to listen to it again now.



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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.

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I have it on tape and it is a great piece of music. Can't remember where I heard it first but that's another piece of music I like.

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I have it on tape and it is a great piece of music. Can't remember where I heard it first but that's another piece of music I like.

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I didn't see you reply to this Brenda.

Yeah. What a great song. I never hear it anymore unless I look for it on YouTube because something reminds me of it, but when I do I usually listen to it on loop for about an hour.



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I saw a real interesting video about how melody is dying. Sounds like something a Boomer or even a GenXer would say these days, but the guy who made the video is quite a bit younger than I am.

He used a lot of examples of new music that I definitely would never listen to, but I did listen to rap a lot back in the day so it's not as if I hadn't listened to my fair share of songs without almost any melody.

That being said, while reflecting on my favorite rap songs... those that are still on my mp3 player today, they were ones that had melodies to them. One even comes from a group that called themselves Bone Thugs and Harmony.

You could even find it in the Tupac songs still on my mp3 player...

Even if there isn't a large variation of vocal melody in that song, and trust me... Tupac has quite a lot of melodic range compared to your average rap artist, there's plenty of melody surrounding it.



Then I looked on my list here, and everybody else's, and I would say that there's plenty of melody in all of the choices here.


So I tried thinking real hard if there has ever been a song without melody that I've liked over the years, and I think I found one.

ETA: As not to offend those with more delicate sensibilities, because I'd like somebody to tell me if there is any melody here or not, I've opted to put the radio edit here instead of the uncensored version.

But is it really without melody? Listening to it now I don't believe that it is. Melody certainly isn't the driving force of this jam, but there is melody to it... Isn't there?

Or am I mistaking several really infectious hooks for melody here?



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I don't know what a "hook" is, but I do hear melody. It's kind of minimal but it's there.

If you want to hear some minimalist music, try Phillip Glass.

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So SIX, having gone thru your last six posts, I don't think it's melody or chord progression or rhythm that catches you, I think it's lyrics.

Yes, it has to be listenable too, but listenable songs without interesting lyrics are kinda blah.

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Love me some good video game music. Seriously underrated category of music that is starting to only now really starting to get recognized.

Good songs.

What do you mean by "reviewing data packages"?

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BRENDA: Son of the Sun

I.like it. He has a really clean voice too.

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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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BRENDA: Son of the Sun

I.like it. He has a really clean voice too.

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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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He does. Unfortunately the group is no longer together.

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Love me some good video game music. Seriously underrated category of music that is starting to only now really starting to get recognized.

Good songs.

What do you mean by "reviewing data packages"?

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Before I retired I ran a rather large section of chemists who analyzed pollution samples and products to see if they complied with our district's rules and regs, or for pollution research or method development. Sometimes the analyses were simple, like "solids content" (analyzed by drying. Altho even THAT had its complications, because some samples contained slow-drying oils that never reached a definitive endpoint, so we had to use other methods.) Sometimes the analyses were quite complicated, for example when we were analyzing for "toxics metals" (there are a lot of those!) or "volatile organic content" (even MORE of those!) at the part per million or part per billion level, requiring advanced instrumentation and detailed, exacting work.

In fact, one of our analyses ... one that we developed in the lab ... turned out to be basically the same procedure that international labs use to analyze for chemical weapons, and got one of our chemists a job back in her native country of Finland, where she is now Lab Director for chemical weapons.

But I digress...

Since our analyses would sometimes get involved in costly litigation with deep-pocket industries (think ExxonMobil and Home Depot, for example) the data had to meet high quality assurance standards, and also be relatively easy to "unpack". So EVERYTHING there was to know about a sample -from its initial request, equipment preparation, chain of custody, moisture gain/content to its density to detailed analysis of sub-part-per-million toxics and final, signed report- was collected together in a "data package". The package needed to include the "who, what, when, where, how, and why" of every analysis- all pages signed and dated, all instrument printouts signed and dated, all calibrations referenced to calibration data etc.

I had to review them. And because we trained a lot of new people, I had to review them CLOSELY, and get back with ppl on things like: "You didn't sign this page" or "You mis-identified these peaks" or "Your blanks are too high". My all-time favorite? "Your components add up to 110%".

I put the "anal" into "analytical chemistry".

It was mind-numbing, tedious (but interesting!) work.

But that's one of the reasons why I kind of laugh when people talk about "evidence" or "audits" or "how much moisture is in the air" or even "how bureaucracy works" as if they know what they're talking about, and I don't. I know KIKI has similar experience, but while I have the 10,000-ft view, KIKI has that whole 30,000-ft interagency thing going. And KIKI is MUCH more knowledgeable about biochem and all things medical.


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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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BRENDA: Son of the Sun

I.like it. He has a really clean voice too.

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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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He does. Unfortunately the group is no longer together.

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Oh, too bad.
Has the lead singer continued with another group, do you know?

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Oh, hey Jack - I just reposted one of your earlier posts that didn't autoload. But since it looks like all the links are slowing the page down, I broke up the link address so people can see it and play it for themselves, after taking out the extra spaces.

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OH - for anyone else - this goes nowhere. Don't use this link.

ACTUALLY - it redirects to wix logomaker, hitting the back button it goes to https://10.trackints.com/ .

Is this another one of your traps. JAck?

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Oh, I used to do reviews on a day when most of the lab was off (fewer interruptions) but the field techs worked every day of the week, and one of them gave me a thumb drive of his favorite music. I used to listen to it on my phone bc our IT people got the heebie-jeebies whenever they detected a thumb drive on the system.

His was not exactly my kind of music, so I went looking online until I found a LOOOOONG video that I mostly liked. But I got the idea from him.

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When I was young I was taught to not like country music bc it was... well, country. But as I've gotten older I've also gotten to appreciate it, because it's about real stuff: life, loss, choices.

As I've mentioned, I really don't listen to music a lot. Usually when I'm doing something tedious that requires my eyes and hands, but not my ears, like kitchen work. So I kind of bumble around and have missed whole decades of music! Which is why I appreciate your choices: they introduce me to music I might not have otherwise known.

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When I was young I was taught to not like country music bc it was... well, country. But as I've gotten older I've also gotten to appreciate it, because it's about real stuff: life, loss, choices.

As I've mentioned, I really don't listen to music a lot. Usually when I'm doing something tedious that requires my eyes and hands, but not my ears, like kitchen work. So I kind of bumble around and have missed whole decades of music! Which is why I appreciate your choices: they introduce me to music I might not have otherwise known.

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Hey Jack - here's what (I think) happened to your link.

My router was in the early stages of what eventually became a catastrophic hardware failure. But for some reason, it was gagging on that link, and only that link, repeatedly doing the same wrong thing and redirecting me through the same wrong series of websites to end up at the same wrong place ...

... until after a few hours the router cascaded through a quick series of more random and global failures into not working at all.

So, that's why it looked like a bad link. (However, I haven't tried it again! just because ... superstitious, I guess.)

And that's why I haven't been here. I just got the new router delivered and set it up, and I'm back!

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