A few links have stacked up, and I have a few posts lined up for the coming week, so might as well share them on a Sunday. Most of these are music-related, which seems ideal for a weekend.<\/p>\n
Tennessee\u2019s win over Alabama was spectacular.[1]<\/a> The images of the orange-clad Volunteer fans taking over the field after the winning field goal sailed through the uprights will be one of the lasting images of this college football season. Alex Kirshner on why games like this are so great.<\/p>\n Validation in college football doesn\u2019t really<\/em>come from winning national titles. It can\u2019t, or fans of 115 or so teams would have nothing to care about year after year. Instead, it comes from two things: beating the team you hate the most, and having the time of your life with your friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Tennessee Over Alabama Is Why God Invented College Football<\/a><\/p>\n A good piece about the anniversary of Stevie Wonder\u2019s Talking Book<\/em> album.<\/p>\n MACY GRAY (musician, released her own remake of \u201cTalking Book\u201d in 2012): The album is like \u201cGoodfellas.\u201d Every time you watch it, you see something different, you know? There\u2019s all these little details, and you\u2019ll hear it once and you listen to it again, or you\u2019ll hear it in different speakers and something will pop out that you didn\u2019t hear in your car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Stevie Wonder\u2019s \u2018Talking Book\u2019 at 50<\/a><\/p>\n Holy shit! The Verge\u2019s Nilay Patel sets Elon Musk straight following his purchase of Twitter.<\/p>\n What I mean is that you are now the King of Twitter, and people think that you, personally, are responsible for everything that happens on Twitter now. It also turns out that absolute monarchs usually get murdered when shit goes sideways.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Welcome to Hell, Elon<\/a><\/p>\n Revolver<\/em> has been my favorite Beatles album since I really started listening to their music with fresh ears about 20 years ago. A new box set features remastered tracks along with demos, outtakes, and other audio mementos from the album\u2019s recording. Here is the LA Times\u2019 look at the updated release.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026Bowie famously would change genres for each album. The Beatles seemed to do it within<\/em> an album.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Beatles at their \u2018peak\u2019: A new box set sheds light on the making of \u2018Revolver\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n And this piece gets a little more into the technology behind the remixes, and some of the questions that arise because of it.<\/p>\n How Peter Jackson Broke Up the Beatles And used AI to make Revolver better than ever.<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019ve spent bits of this year reading a book that is heavy on music theory. I\u2019m (finally) getting close to finishing it, so I\u2019ll share more about it in an upcoming Reader\u2019s Notebook post.<\/p>\n This article reminded me of that book, although taken to the next level. One commenter nailed how I felt after finished it: \u201cI didn\u2019t understand most of it, but I really liked reading it.\u201d<\/p>\n For all the cultural baggage it carries, \u201cAfrica\u201d is a truly innovative, masterfully crafted piece of music (which is saying something given that it\u2019s not even the best song on the album!). Yet we so often see the song reduced to droll memes, or dismissed simply as a superficially dramatic (albeit catchy) pop tune. As famous as the song has become, it seems most people really don\u2019t appreciate the brilliance of its musical architecture. But make no mistake: It is brilliant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A Composer Breaks Down The Music Theory Behind Toto\u2019s \u201cAfrica\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n I love that there are still a few mysteries like this, relics from the Cold War era when technology wasn\u2019t as advanced and it was much harder to identify strange signals in the ether.<\/p>\n Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades, it\u2019s been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone. Every few seconds it\u2019s joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn. Then the drone continues<\/a> .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run<\/a><\/p>\n
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