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Here's today's song of the day. Michael Jackson's Pretty Young Thing from Thriller. For all Michael's recent problems, the fact remains he was absolutely amazing in his time. Thriller, Off the Wall and to a lesser extent, Bad are still phenomenal albums. I like the quasi-funk backing on this song. Groove it. [audio:061030PYT.mp3] Oh, and tomorrow is Halloween; you know what that means.

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What do you get when you remove Eminem from an Eminem song? This, the instrumental version of Without Me. You supply the rap. [audio:061027WithoutMe.mp3]

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Even in 8-bit audio, the theme to The Legend of Zelda is a rousing piece of music. But add a full orchestra to it, and you have something phenomenal. The Tokyo Symphony really imbues the song with both an expansive power and a lofty tenderness. Enjoy. Zelda

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[audio:061025Fire.mp3] Fire, as performed by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, New York. August 18, 1969. This rendition is just great; I prefer it.

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While it is a song with an incomprehensible name Puncture In The Radar Permutation from an album with an incomprehensible name Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night, here's the song that got me hooked on Stereolab. It's a song with several movements, beginning with a haunting tension that mounts to a climax around 2:20. Then it totally breaks down and melts that ...

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This song never fails to put a smile on my face. Coming at you from 1945, here's June Christy singing with Stan Kenton and his orchestra on the song Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy. It's full of jazzy soul. Enjoy. [audio:061023ShooFlyPie.mp3]

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For some reason over the years, Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. Here we have one of those songs that no one ever talks about. It sits around being under-appreciated, despite all the hard work it does at being one of Nirvana's true great masterpieces. For some reason, it's constantly overshadowed by its bigger brothers. Come on! It ...

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I spent a good seven+plus hours burning through some iTunes today to make up for yesterday's somewhat disappointing performance a shortened day at the office will do that. With about 100 songs to choose from, I had a very hard time narrowing down the song of the day, so lucky you, here's three songs to choose from. Choose wisely. Orbital: Time Becomes [audio:061021OrbitalTimeBecomes.mp3] Constructed from a single line spoken ...

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Today's song is the unaccompanied robot/computer vocalist for Nobukazu Takemura's single Sign (vinyl 12" version) from his 2001 album Hoshi no Koe. I first heard the original version of this song at a show in New Orleans in 2001. That show was my first real exposure to glitch music (a form of electronic music that has intentional "errors" in it or is entirely composed of error-like sounds, ...

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