
Patton Oswalt 💯
Life is Short with Justin Long
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Daddy's Shenanigans Paid for This House
A lot of Motown songs used classical music techniques, but they just reworked them for pot. So a Marvin Gaye's version of her to the grapevine uses what's called horror strings. Those little violin trills that was taken from like Russian composers. And Barry Gordy was like, Oh, we can use that to build tension. It's in a pop song and it's fucking great, but it is kind of like, Hey, that'll work for that in there. But by the way, I do listen to like now she plays his albums all the time in the car. He also just now got into Green Day and Green Day lets me connect her back to
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