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Music 🎵 Today's Music Break thread

My aforementioned nephew, singing what has been his biggest hit so far. My brother edited this video.

They did what they could considering it was 2020 and nobody could get too close. I think he did a good job.

 
Everything you need to understand about Germans summed up succinctly in this 1982 music video by Trio

You may recall the band from their big international hit 'Da da da"


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Maybe this should be in the "Car Talk" thread but...

This sweet ~1970 Buick Skylark was stopped next to me at a red light this afternoon:

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Very cool car but I was drawn to the license plate which made me think of this deep cut:


The line, "1-900-976-DooDoo" has lived rent free in my head for decades.
 
Middle son and I saw Garbage last night. Great show. Opener was Starcrawler and they were great, too. Observations: 1) Shirley is a powerhouse, 2) band was tight, 3) no background vocals provided by the two guitarists, 4) bass guitar (she did sing background) was turned up which was nice.

 
^ Speaking of '90s bands...

I was in spin class this morning and the instructor had Deep Purple's Hush on her playlist. I like to occasionally Shazam songs during the class, even if it's a song I already know, so I can look back and say to myself, "Yeah, I want to add that to one of my own playlists."

So I Shazamed the Deep Purple song but it came up saying it was Kula Shaker's version. I thought to myself, "Huh... maybe this is Kula Shaker?" but then I went just now and listened to both versions back to back and it was definitely Deep Purple's version that played this morning (and knowing the spin instructor, Deep Purple makes a lot more sense than Kula Shaker.

Deep Purple's 1968 version:


Kula Shaker's 1996 version:
 
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