I was ok until 00:44 and then I had to stop.
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This is brilliant. One of those pieces that makes you actually think about how musical conventions, styles, and even fundamentals like melodic structuring and harmonies are taught to us throughout our lives in a way so subtle we just accept them as a part of how the world works. This just takes a sledgehammer to all of that. The deconstruction and affective reversal of the chorus is fantastic. It is horrible as a song, but as art it does exactly what it should be doing.
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That’s fair. My comment was mostly a joke, too.
As did I
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Got me hungry for some Fifty Foot Hose.
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That, although not my bag, did have some melodic qualities.
The Neil Diamond thing really tried to eliminate those.
Mainly because it’s another song that garners lots and lots of covers, I wonder how badly this musician can cover Johnny Rivers’ Secret Agent Man? 
Sweet Cheeses, I want someone to sneak this into the seventh inning stretch at the Fenway.
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I love how it emphasized how much the “Ba Ba Ba” is like a sad trombone or a “bad turn of events” sting in a 70s/80s police procedural. Now I want to hear an explicitly sad trombone version. Also like how the whole thing can be interpreted as a mockery of Boston-based ravers.
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Thank you. The original has hurt me ever since it came out. On a long road trip as a young teen, there was no getting away from that song on the radio.
(I generally love Paul Simon, but that one is like a life-ear-worm.)
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There’s “so bad it’s good”, and then there’s this. I normally don’t appreciate cringe humor, but by gods, I’ve been laughing at this for ten straight minutes.
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When I was in Vegas, we went on after the guy who is apparently the world’s top Neil Diamond tribute act.
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I…didn’t hate it, actually. I mean, it’s absolutely ridiculous and awful, but in a kind of brilliant way. It’s simultaneously horrible and wonderful, and that is not as easy feat.
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That exists on an imaginary axis orthogonal to ‘good’ and ‘bad’
That axis is where a lot of worthwhile art is found. Definitely not imaginary, just … different. And very well hidden for most folks.
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