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FYI, AI created “girls” from various countries:

_Robert_ wrote:
Would not surprise me if all this fakery results in sophisticated analysis tools to determine what is real vs what is AI-generated. AI will leave certain detectable markers for now at least. May even raise the market demand for genuine media dealing with anything from news, politics and pornography.

I’m not sure why anyone would…[Read more]

BTW, in case the legal issue with AI images of underage “girls” or “boys” engaged in sexual activities is that the legal theory behind what makes child porn illegal is that it documents the actual abuse of an underage person. If there’s no underage person, there’s no abuse.

Now, some psychologists might look at this and say, “Maybe we can use…[Read more]

Led Zep’s Kashmir as you never expected to experience it:

And here’s a live performance by LZ:

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Warning – if they can do Enter Sandman, they should give it a go. I think Paulina would get the drum sound right.

Never happen, I suppose, but it’s fun to think about.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
And…finally….one I think will remind you of another band that should try to cover it 🙂

I’m stumped. What third  band are you talking about?

How about Jimi Hendrix’ Purple Haze string quartet style?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I think I might have posted this in a previous post but it is one of the best covers (imo).

For many music lovers, the Disturbed version is now the standard version. He takes this classic to a whole new level.

While I put this one up in the thread about The Warning, it didn’t include the original for comparison, so here is The Warning’s version which is not a cover at all. Instead, they deconstructed the song and put it back together differently, including a noticeable tempo change. First, The Warning, then the Metallica…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
Donna Summer’s biggest hit was probably I Feel Love, which had an early electronic music background supplied by Giorgio Moroder.

It was recently voted “top electronic single” in a poll, I can’t remember the magazine that ran it.

It’s got an irresistible groove, that’s for sure.

Donna Summer’s biggest hit was probably I Feel Love, which had an early electronic music background supplied by Giorgio Moroder. The Irish band Ham Sandwich used to perform this song live and it was also on one of their albums. I’m showing a live version. It is about as far from Giorgio Moroder as it’s possible to get. The original follows. If you…[Read more]

@ Simon

Nice, but for some people (like me) who don’t know the original, it’s not a cover, it’s an original. So, let’s also include the original it’s a cover of. I’ll do it for you here:

One of the better musicological analysts of The Warning dissects one of their best songs.

_Robert_ wrote:
It’s a fucking war. What part of that seems to elude?

I’m aware it’s a war. What about the rules of war? It’s not a valid excuse to commit genocide that the other side has bad guys in it.

Oh, they travelled to Egypt and Jordan, LOL. Who want nothing to do with “Palestine”.

So what? Is there an argument in there somewhere? That…[Read more]

Some info about why the Band Maid/The Warning video take down happened:

@ Robert

If Israel wanted to kill them all, they could do that in a week.

Siege and Starvation: How Israel Obstructs Aid to Gaza

The brutal October 7 Hamas attacks that killed more than 1,000 Israelis prompted a massive military response intended to root out Hamas in Gaza. The conduct of Israel’s ensuing military response has wrought dis…[Read more]

@ Jake

If I were a Palestinian who had relatives in Gaza who had been uprooted, hassled, injured, or killed, I might blame the Jews rather than Israel, especially if were hampered by a lack of education.

Clearly, you are using a definition of antisemitism of some sort. From my end it appears to include anyone with misgivings about Israeli…[Read more]

Anti-Israeli conduct is not antisemitism. It isn’t even anti-Israel.

The word anti-semitism is being used nowadays as a cudgel to try to beat people into giving assent to a genocidal “final solution” to the problem.

What I’m hearing from you guys is basically “If it takes killing every last Palestinian man, woman, and child to get rid of Hamas,…[Read more]