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It is a tenet of this guy’s faith that the US Constitution is divinely inspired. Well. Okay. Weird, but I guess I’m happy that this moved him to do his duty by it and not steal an election for the former POTUS.

Wake me up when Microsoft Eliza suggests not writing any code at all to solve a problem. This is the most valuable advice any human pairing-coding partner has given me, so it’s my standard for replacing humans.

I don’t remember much of anything other than politics and doomscrolling from the election to Jan 6. :sweat:

Now watching today’s hearing, and they’re coming out swinging from the start.

Time to catch up with today’s hearing. I worked too much today to watch at the time. There was a hearing today, yes?

No, sorry. This update just in: I need to feed the cat instead. Which cat? All of them.

Talking to myself in work Slack about awk. A dismal virtual monday.

Phew! Okay. You’re safe from me tweeting for a while. That was super-fun to put together, by the way. I listened to tons of covers, including some I liked but that didn’t add enough to the discussion of the track, if that makes sense.

I lied; one more. I leave you with the astonishing Queen live at Wembley Stadium. Was there a live band that competed? The Who, perhaps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVzvoPP6M50

Our last cover is by Soundwalkers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP3BY4-u9gg
This cover does fascinating new things with the track: the harmonies! If you’ve been skimming these covers, you might want to pause and listen to this one all the way through.

Wow, that was… more tweets than I’d realized I’d accumulated for this deep dive tweetstorm. I have ONE MORE for you.

Here’s a straight-up faithful cover by the Band Geeks podcast. I am trying to decide what this is lacking, because vocally it’s great. The rhythm groove lets me down slightly in ways I don’t have the words to describe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7I5ryuoBhc

Let’s stay acoustic and voice-centered with the next cover. Death Angel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCy1Y5_-k8
I love the video, which refers back to the original but through modern concerns. This cover is aware of the song’s meaning in a way most of them aren’t.

I am a sucker for a capella arrangements of famous rock songs. Rajaton is 100% a capella, and live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NixhQFSJkmU

Blooming Vowels does a (mostly) a-capella cover which is tons of fun! Also another early pandemic lockdown collab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n2zTA9mMbU

Disturbed’s David Draiman joins Breaking Benjamin for a live cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYYaIOvwAoY
Draiman takes the Bowie part, and I dunno. He can be an electric singer but isn’t here.

I post this one for the deliberate? thing the bassist does where he plays the Vanilla Ice variation on the bass line. I hope it’s a cheeky joke. Keane (do not know this band): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da__o9TpJPA

Train, live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo8qkhNJtiY

This is a good cover and a good live performance. I think the drummer makes it, but I am a fan of double-neck guitar in use.

It’s time to look at more obscure (to me) artists doing good covers. I am not au courant with pop music in the last decade, so some of these bands might be famous. (I apologize to them if they are.)

Uh, there’s a Smash Mouth cover that you can listen to if you insist. I wouldn’t recommend it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdseN1Irbp8