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Reader Tips

There’s nothing quite like amateur choral monophony for stripping a melody of all melisma, clever phrasing, personalization, and other such rearrangements. When a unison melody passes through the filter of non-consultative collective assessment of what the tune is, all that’s left is a shared, modest, and mutually understood pact with the beauty of music itself: This, we and the songwriter agree, is how the song goes.
Exhibit A: The Langley Schools Music Project’s mid-70s rendition of Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline.
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Reader Tips

Give a man some chile cheese nachos and he’ll snack for ten minutes; teach a man how to make his own chile cheese nachos using pre-prepared store-bought ingredients and he’ll turn into a forlorn bachelor trapped in an existential hell.
h/t Judith
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Reader Tips

In tonight’s amusement en route to the tips the late Ian Dury, whose bout with childhood polio left him as perhaps the world’s first and only (non-blind) disabled pop star, enjoins you to hit him forcefully with your rhythm sticks. So hit him. Hit him. Hit him.
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