Warning: This episode exceeds the USDA recommended daily allowance of honky tonk piano. Ask your doctor if Novelty Easy Listening is right for you. Side effects include handle barred moustache, piano tacking, jauntily angled straw boater. Not to worry though, the antidote is located in the 3rd set.
Season 5, Episode 42 starts off slow, but boy, does this thing have some acceleration! Enjoy.
The 2021 Ear Worm of the Day playlist continues to roll along. Added since our last transmission: Allyson Seconds, Sweeping Promises, Wilco, Fairport Convention, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Burnette Trio, and Talking Heads. Where will it go next? Only my brain knows!
Inside a Monkey's Brain
S05E42 Cover Image: Keir Dullea does what he has to do to HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968). Why? Included in this episode is a rendition of Daisy Mae (Bicycle Built for Two), which is the song that Dr. Chambers programmed into HAL 9000.
S05E42 Music behind the DJ: "Walk on By" by Les Brown and his Orchestra. Why? Isaac Hayes' version is side 1, track 1 of Hot Buttered Soul featured in this episode.
S05E42 Amplifier Header Image: Homer does what he has to do to Ultrahouse 3000 in the Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XII: House of Whacks" (S13E01). Why? A nod to the aforementioned 2001: A Space Odyssey scene.
All right, next time we really will make it to albums with titles that begin with I as in India. Join me, won't you?
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