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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:30 UTC

the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:39 UTC

Also hilarious because if they knew anything about the Reign of Terror they'd know how that particular strategy will eventually work out for them

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

Also I can only assume that anybody who thinks "y'all" is exclusively a Southern thing doesn't have any Black folks in their social circles

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:35 UTC

"Come down to Bob Ritchie Mazda, where we've got low low interest rates all summer long!"

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:29 UTC

Just because I don't feel like working today, I decided to test your hypothesis and it 100% checks out.

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

Anyway, luckily for Hosono (and thankfully for us), it turned out that the two session musicians he hired were every bit the genius he was, and they quickly realized that YMO should be more than a one-off project. And so it began.

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

*paging @suesswassersee.bsky.social*

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:54 UTC

I think when most listeners hear the YMO version (which would go on to become their first hit, hitting #17 on the UK singles chart and #18 on the US R&B chart) they'll immediately hear an '80s video game aesthetic, but of course this was recorded in 1978. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkkF...

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

I only discovered that Firecracker was a cover literally last week. Hosono wanted to record an electronic cover of Firecracker to subvert the original's westernized Orientalism. You can hear the original here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKaB...

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

Okay let's briefly escape our decaying democracy to discuss the self-titled debut from Yellow Magic Orchestra! YMO formed in 1978 when producer/bassist Haruomi Hosono hired session musicians Yukihiro Takahashi (drums) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards) to record a cover of Martin Denny's Firecracker.

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

Honestly my first thought was I hope his doctors know exactly what to shoot him up with beforehand

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

So anyway, just like I did with the Kinks, I'm starting with YMO's first album (appropriately titled Yellow Magic Orchestra) and I'm going to listen to it at least once a day all week, before moving on to the next album next week. And I'll share my thoughts here.

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

Anyway, in the year since discovering them, I feel like they pop up EVERYWHERE. Literally this morning on WGN Morning News they used one of their songs as background music while doing a story about tofu.

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

Now I'm intrigued, so I decide to listen to their debut album while doing a 20-mile trail run outside of Rockford. There are definite parallels to Kraftwerk and other early Krautrock bands like Neu, but it also has a distinctly Japanese feel that distinguishes it from its German electronic cousins.

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:36 UTC

I studied in Germany in college and am always on the look out for interesting German music so I click on it ("Neue[r] Tanz" meaning "new dance" in German). But then I notice the first song's title is in Japanese and I think "wait is this like the Japanese Kraftwerk?" and turns out they sort of are.

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:33 UTC

Alright, friends... new month, new band. Starting this week, I'm going to be doing a deep dive of Yellow Magic Orchestra's catalog, one album at a time. I should probably start with how I even discovered YMO (which was only about a year ago). I was on spotify and noticed this recommendation:

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

Wilco fans aren't made. They're born.

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:57 UTC

Will this be as popular as my Kinks deep dive? No. Was my Kinks deep dive ever popular? Also no.

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:56 UTC

This is every truck stop in 1992

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:54 UTC

Here's probably a good place to start: youtu.be/Y2lOyCxRp5s?...

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Beverly Skeetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

I am excited to announce that, now that I'm done with my Kinks deep dive, I'm shifting gears a bit and will start going through the Yellow Magic Orchestra discography one week at a time. If you're not familiar with YMO, imagine if Kraftwerk wrote video game music, but it's much cooler than that.

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