Happy Music Monday! Today Scott's using the Infinite Jukebox to make some magical endless pop songs. What's the Infinite Jukebox, you ask? It'll become super obvious real soon.
As you can see, the Infinite Jukebox makes your song of choice into a loop, then finds connecting points using a threshold you can customize via the "Tune" button. I've found that the most fun comes from crankin' it up to a very high level and letting it go crazy, building a whole new soundscape. With a band like the Cocteau Twins, this can have wonderful effects. But don't worry if you don't like the first attempt, because each play creates a new experience. If at first you aren't impressed, try, try again!
Four more Infinite songs after the jump. And they're gonna get better and better. And pro tip: if it gets stuck, just refresh and start again! Infinity does strange stuff to computers, after all.
I've found two factors help your Infinity sound good. The first is that the song needs to be someone you're familiar with. The second is that the song needs to be a bit repeatative. "Heroes" is perfect on both these counts, and it's really neat when a solo is completely rebuilt by the randomization.
Of course, sometimes it's the lyrics that start to change. Like a William Burroughs cut-up piece, randomized Don Henley lyrics can make a whole new song come to life. I tried a few of his super-hip, super-serious songs, but this was one of my favorites. Maybe because of the drone in the background? Or maybe because fusions like "A little voice inside my head saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac" turns this song about broken love into a fevered madman narrating his bad dreams on a street corner!
Knights On Broadway - Bee Gees
Pretty quickly, we discovered that most songs from the golden age of pop music (aka the '70s and '80s) were the best choices to make a refurbished pop song. This Bee Gees hit had just the right amount of swagger and style and make a wonderful new version. It took a few tries to make the magic happen so don't be scared about restarting if you don't like what you hear, but it eventually became sublime.
But here, friends, is the big kahuna of the Infinite Jukebox. It's so good that Kathleen mentioned it last week. Toto's "Africa" has so many twists and turns and corners that it's easy to get trapped in the rains, or hunted by the wild dogs in the night, or jump from beginning to ending and back again. If you pick only one song to listen to forever, pick this one. You'll thank yourself later.
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