Analysis of the Super Mario 2 overworld theme. It's full of stylistic quotes from early jazz piano history!

youtu.be/5iH_rrY3rB0

Everybody on the dance floor!

DJ Kool, Biz Markie, & Doug E. Fresh - Let Me Clear My Throat

youtu.be/gnsqvz9iIlA

Sabrina Carpenter > Taylor Swift

Vocal skill, song structure, lyrics, and production: It's not even close.

Be careful if you start playing saxophone on a NYC subway, because there's a non-zero chance another sax player will challenge you to a battle.

youtu.be/RPjL909DiVI

Alternative Playlist Thread

The DNC has drawn a lot of attention for their playlist this week. They have certainly picked some good ones, but this thread is for songs we would like to hear played there, even though they certainly would never get picked.

I'll start.

Tool - The Grudge
youtu.be/3BXyEUOuNds

This is the pianistic equivalent of an M61 Vulcan rotary cannon.

Yuja is one of very few pianists alive who can play this arrangement with this speed and clarity.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. György Cziffra - Flight of the Bumble Bee
Yuja Wang, piano
youtu.be/fdKEUmFUMFg

Time to post this one again.

Rage Against the Machine - Know Your Enemy
June 24, 1994
Glastonbury Festival

youtu.be/R2K2hSB4fEU

Here's another amazing choral reimagining by Eric Whitacre. This one may rip your heart out even more than the Johnny Cash version.

Hurt - Trent Reznor, arr. Eric Whitacre
Eric Whitacre Singers
youtu.be/gVlwPujkmLA

This isn't really a cover; it's a complete reimagining. You may never think of Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence the same way again.

Watch his explanation first before you listen to the performance.

S:t Jacobs Ungdomskör - Workshop with Eric Whitacre: Enjoy the Silence
youtu.be/Ro8PPimKHTE

Enjoy the Silence (arr. Whitacre)
Eric Whitacre Singers
youtu.be/JHb2kcpwlrc




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