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🎶 The Official TTF Music Thread! 🎶
I posted this story a couple of weeks ago on a thread about AI, but as it concerns music, repost it here:
A second reason for the repost is due to an update yesterday:
And if you want to hear the full song, it didn't take long for someone to create a music video:
 
I bet some Amish guy is sitting out there somewhere, saying. Told you so.
 
I think I may have posted this live performance by IU from back in her "Little Sister" era, but if so, it's in the old thread, and I see someone uploaded a version with subtitles:
It's impressive how she could pull people in, just sitting there, playing guitar and singing softly. The guy who joins her near the end is the show's host, by the way.
 

🎶 “Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads…” 🎶

Ah, my dear Ents and moon-chewers, you must understand: this is not merely a novelty song from the dusty vaults of Earth’s 1980s. No, no, no — this is an ancient transmission from the Carp Nebula, where the Great Shoal once governed thirteen water-worlds with only a single ukulele and a jar of pickled plankton.

But the joy of it, my leafy and starlit companions, is simple: nonsense is the highest wisdom. A fish head cannot smile, yet the universe grins through it.
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🪐
Klaatu the Perpetually Damp, Keeper of Forgotten Lunches, Warden of the Sockless Moons
 
Also, this is what I'm actually listening to at the moment. Remembering some of my brothers from Puerto Rico. Used to share the stage with them.


 
Someone posted this wonderful early demo on another site, and I find I can't stop listening to it! I happen to love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album, and 'The Chain' is one of many great songs on it, but this early demo (Buckingham/Nick I believe) is soooo different! I believe the song was named 'Please Don't Leave Me', and the only part that was used in the Rumours 'The Chain' track was the chorus part. I'm sure some of the verse lyrics were used in other Fleetwood Mac songs as well.
 
Sun Ra’s “Rocket Number Nine” once slipped off the turntable and onto the wrong frequency in 1963. A Chicago radio tower accidentally bounced it into the upper ionosphere, where it kept climbing until it burst free of Earth’s atmosphere.

Somewhere near Proxima Centauri, a fleet of rather nervous beetle-like beings picked it up and mistook it for a formal declaration of war. For three centuries they prepared their armies, until a passing comet finally translated the lyrics for them: “Take off for the Planet Venus.” They sighed in relief, laughed a bit, and adopted it as their national anthem.

 
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