Taste of the Week: DeepJazz

I am not a musicologist. I'm not a psychologist. I'm not even a songwriter. I'm a boring old man with a dumb tattoo on his arm.

But I do know that some of the most universal songs are things like, well, you know, boring. And the reason that they're boring is because they’re bits of fun. Songs that have just been written that will amuse and amuse and amuse and amuse and amuse and amuse and amuse and amuse.

I don’t think anyone is alone in their belief that boredom is a sign of mental incompetence. Songs that have been written with such care and with such abandon that anyone can hear and appreciate the work that has been done to polish this famous song into a crass habit would do just fine.

But I am convinced that the unspoken assumption when someone tells you that you’re boring, or that your brain is incapable of composing music that is capable of singing about the most delicious breakfast cereal in the world, is that you’re actually a genius who invented the humble guitar.

Because the power of music and the stupidity of the human brain is diametrically opposed. The more music that you listen to, the more you want to know how bored you are - and why. And that, my friends, is where the loonie gap actually stands.

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Bored of your own song selection? Here’s a suggestion.

“Make a genius of yourself. Listen to a song and then try to produce a video of it. Maybe an hour or so. Live it. Play it. Rate it. Live it.”

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BONUS FEATURETTE: This is a really old song that Billy Ray Jones has just been granted. It was recorded at the age of 15 years old.

Hey, how does it feel to be human? You can taste blood, sweat and tears. Human.

This is a pretty simple song list, actually. Let’s start with the short ones.

  1. It's So Bad You Can't Stop Crying
  2. Stop Feeding Me And Stop Thinking Of Crying
  3. I'm So Fat I Can't Stop Crying
  4. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  5. I'm Too Big a Gump and Feel Crying
  6. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  7. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  8. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  9. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  10. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  11. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  12. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  13. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  14. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  15. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  16. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  17. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  18. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  19. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  20. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  21. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  22. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  23. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  24. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  25. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  26. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  27. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  28. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  29. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  30. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  31. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  32. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  33. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Crying
  34. I Don’t Know When I’ll Stop Cry
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