{"id":3302,"date":"2015-11-08T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2015\/11\/nablopomo-8-tunage.html"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:54:00","slug":"nablopomo-8-tunage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2015\/11\/nablopomo-8-tunage.html","title":{"rendered":"NaBloPoMo 8: tunage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enjoy this lovely Beatles-esque ditty by a band called Quilt<\/a>. Hello.<\/p>\n

Or how about this lovely sepia-toned video<\/a> of Adele’s new single. I probably like the visuals more than the song–her hair blowing in the wind, OMG yes–but, hey.<\/p>\n

You may know I am a huge fan of covers. I have this ongoing theory about why covers are always awesome whereas movie remakes often suck: a good song is a good song. It’s harder to ruin a good song even with bad singing than it is to ruin a good story with bad acting, bad directing, etc.<\/p>\n

Do ya see what I’m sayin’? No? Here’s this James Blake cover of Sounds of Silence for you<\/a>. Not wildly different than the original. Loooooove the rustling sound underneath. Rain? Leaves? Dunno, but it’s lovely.<\/p>\n

I bought it a little while ago but I finally spent some serious time listening to the Hamilton soundtrack<\/a>. It’s just gorgeous. SO many different styles, so many awesome lyrics, beats, melodies. It’s magical.<\/p>\n

And this, this song, Low’s “What Part of Me”<\/a>, I have been OBSESSED with this song since the first time I heard it, sometime this summer. Here they sound awesome playing it<\/a> and here is a more visually pleasing video (yet slightly less awesome sounding)<\/a>. I canNOT stop with this one. The lyrics! The beat! The yearning! Oh my.<\/p>\n

In other news, 1) tonight I’m going to see David Mitchell read and apparently he and Lana Wachowski (formerly a Wachowski brother, I think?) are doing a Q&A afterward and 2) I get to introduce my students to the mystery of Roanoke on Wednesday. Busy finding spooky videos to show them. Heh.<\/p>\n

Sorry I have no photo for you today. Smooches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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