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Naomi Sharp's avatar

80’s foam headphones applied. Tape rewound with a pencil. Walkman clicked shut. Press play. Must be 10 yrs old ‘in my room’ with the Beach Boys.

Although I fell for the harmonies all that time ago, I still prefer the solo version of surfs up with Brian at the piano, that song being a sort of doorway into a new era for the band, I guess. Seems kinda haunting now

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Matthew Barr's avatar

I’d actually never heard that, thank you ❤️

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Naomi Sharp's avatar

I like the workings out of the Smile Sessions

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Tim LeRoy's avatar

Can't seem to register my vote to see DLT play Macbeth, but sweet Jesus the first few minutes of that podcast are way too near the knuckle. Would I have picked that it wasn't two humans if you hadn't said so before hand? I'd like to think there's enough uncanny valley instinct in my brain to recognise AI generated speech, but I don't know that I would have. I'm all for AI use to solve real problems, and to increase accessibility, but this is neither of those things. There's quite enough unlistenable human gibberish already, so this kind of deliberate fakery is a nasty, profoundly inhumane development and we should burn it with fire.

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