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Careful Tech 106: Keeping your Spotify recommendations pure
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Priming your ears
Hearing the film score before seeing the film enhances—rather than spoils—the theater experience.
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‘The hero of a generation’
Why ‘The Force Awakens’ is the first J.J. Abrams movie for which Michael Giacchino didn’t write the score.
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The best work soundtrack? Soundtracks.
Great music makes even the dreariest work more bearable. For manual labor, anything catchy can do the trick. But what about knowledge work?
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Garfunkel goes rogue.
Is there a method to Art Garfunkel’s jealous madness?
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A cappella covers are awful.
I hate a cappella music. Well, that’s overstating it. I hate a cappella covers of band-driven songs.[1] Billy Joel fans expect bluesy piano riffs, not swaying boys in bowties. If someone loves the Beatles, they want George’s gently weeping solos, not this guy’s kazoo impression. U2 isn’t U2 without The Edge’s shimmering rhythms. No one wants to […]
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Bugler’s Nightmare
More often than not, when NBC played Arnaud’s “Dream,” they cut out a whole measure of the timpanic intro. Why would they short-circuit their own spectacle?
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