Larry’s Pretty Good Journal

A few musical links:

1-hour acid techno mix filmed in a Japanese sake brewery. Top comment: “she’s cooking, they’re cooking too.” The channel @Login.jp_ has more mixes played in various Japanese cultural locations both traditional and everyday-modern. (via)

Jon Batiste re-imagines Für Elise. (via)

The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats play an Irish folk-punk cover of The Boxer. (found after YT sidebar served me an atrocious AI-created Irish ‘folk-song’ version)

---L.

Subject quote from The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel, for comparison.

Holy crap, how did I only notice this AFTER posting yesterday’s links?!? The people who brought us Krill Waves Radio posted at the start of last April a 1-hour mix of skeleton shrimp to headbanging to instrumental metal, under the Kriller Waves Radio label.

People. They just invented Brinecore. As an April Fools joke.

And it RULES.

---L.

Subject quote from Let’s Go Crazy, Prince and the Revolution.

A few musical links, from various traditions:

A 1-hour mix of Chinese lofi tracks from Lofi Girl. Excellent. (via)

A 1-hour mix of jazz arrangements of traditional Iranian music. There’s lots more on the channel. Dig it. (via YT sidebar)

A 2-hour mix of the Pokémon Red/Blue soundtrack covered as Japanese jazz fusion. Ooo-kay then. (via YT sidebar)

---L.

Subject quote from Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin.

A link for you, and a link for you, and, yes, a link for you, too. All three are for the anonymous gifter of a paid account -- thank you, whoever you are:

Drone videos of black sand beaches in Iceland.

There I Ruined It presents Santa Claus Is Coming to Town as sung by Radiohead, to the tune of “Creep.” (via)

A contemporary (1813) review of Pride and Prejudice. That Mr Collins was considered a recognizable type and not a caricature is interesting. (via lost)

---L.

Subject quote from On Grafton Street, Nanci Griffith.

A few songs to share:

Disco Snails. The simple answer is they’re dancers. (via)

Video for Defying Gravity using paired coasters in Roller Coaster Tycoon. (via)

In Another World, EJAE — the singing voice of Rumi in K-Pop Demon Hunters gets her first official release.

---L.

Subject quote from In Another World, EJAE.

TIL that The Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” and UB40’s “Red Red Wine” have something in common: they were both written by Neil Diamond.

(IAB was day-job work as a Brill Building songwriter, while RRW was written for himself. And no, his version of RRW wasn’t remotely reggae—but it was covered by a Jamaican rocksteady singer, and it was that version that UB40 gave a pop-reggae cover, unaware that the credited N. Diamond wasn’t a local.)

---L.

Subject quote from HOT TO GO!, Chappell Roan.

According to billboards around town, there was a yacht rock music festival last weekend. Which, sure, chase that Boomer money, it’s probably lucrative. The head-scratcher is that the headline act was Barenaked Ladies.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but those guys don’t match any reasonable definition of yacht rock that I know of. I only have their first five albums, but I haven’t heard anything since that has changed up their sound.

I’m comfuzzled.

---L.

Subject quote from The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel.

Chappell Roan has been getting some quality covers lately:

Rick Astley covers Pink Pony Club on solo guitar. NOT A RICKROLL.

Weird Al covers Hot to Go! with someone else’s band. NOT A PARODY.

Amandumb covers Good Luck, Babe! in Japanese* as citypop. NOT MERELY AWESOME.


* The title becomes Ganbatte!, which as sarcasm is as perfect as the original.

---L.

Subject quote from Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads.

Links to a couple videos of possible interest:

Scott Bradlee of Postmodern Jukebox improvises a ragtime accompaniment to My Chemical Romance’s “Helena.” Or as one comment put it, My Chemical Ragtime. (via YT sidebar)

The Reverend Al Green (who is indeed an ordained minister) makes a soul cover of R.E.M.’s Everybody Hurts. (via lost)

How to Win Connect 4. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from We Are Young, fun. feat. Janelle Monáe.

Various musical links:

Pink Pony Inn by Hildegard von Blingin’, a bardcore remake (demake?) of Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club. “Black light and a mirror disco ball” becomes “Firelight and a boar's head on the wall.” (via)

Yes, they’re promos for a music learning app, but I’ve enjoyed several from this series: Musora challenges artists with a song they’d never heard before and have them cover it on the spot. (Sister apps Drumeo and Pianote also do these, focused on their specific instruments.) In this one, folk-pop duo Fionn were given System of a Down’s “Toxicity” (the series producers like genre contrasts). To handle it they went hard on their Celtic roots. (via my YT sidebar)

Speaking of which, YTCH: YouTube as tv CHannels. Click the book icon for a channel guide. (via)

Okay, fine, that last is more music-adjacent than musical. But I've been using it for the music channels.

---L.

Subject quote from Piano Man, Billy Joel.