The Lemon Fool

Lootman wrote:I hesitate to suggest that anyone can do Dylan better than Dylan, but "Mister Tambourine Man by The Byrds"

redsturgeon wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwKp6QhIvE

America by First Aid Kit.

You need to watch the video which is them singing live with Paul Simon in the audience. Very touching.

Trivia point, this song shows that if you are no good at rhyming (The Goes Rhymin' Simon) it should prevent you from writing a classic.

John

Mike4 wrote:I'm surprised no-one has posted the most stand-out example of a cover WAY better than the original...

My Way, by Sid Vicious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_al ... LuisAsenjo

JamesMuenchen wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzL5fYyptdI

Gimme Shelter all done on a guitar and loop pedal.

Sorcery wrote:

bungeejumper wrote: We cellists have a special place in hell for Pachelbel. The same bloody eight notes, over and over and over and over again, while everybody else gets a go at the variations. Two hours of that, and we'd be like Gerard Hoffnung's oboeists, getting quietly sozzled while nobody noticed.

BJ

Ok Ok I get it. As a bit of background while trying to find a deep bug in C code that you just know is going to cause you have to write x * 100 printf statements in a dozen different sourcefiles to have a chance of working out what is going wrong and then delete them all once you find the bug, it's pretty good temper moderating stuff.
Only 8 notes for the Cello? Have you thought of writing a variation for the cellists?

CliffEdge wrote:

Sorcery wrote: Ok Ok I get it. As a bit of background while trying to find a deep bug in C code that you just know is going to cause you have to write x * 100 printf statements in a dozen different sourcefiles to have a chance of working out what is going wrong and then delete them all once you find the bug, it's pretty good temper moderating stuff.
Only 8 notes for the Cello? Have you thought of writing a variation for the cellists?

Never heard of assert?

#define _STR_CAT(a, b) a##b
#define _STATIC_ASSERT_AT_LINE(predicate, line, file) \
    typedef char _STR_CAT(assertion_failed_##file##_, line)[(2 * !!(predicate)) - 1];
#define STATIC_ASSERT(predicate, file) _STATIC_ASSERT_AT_LINE(predicate, __LINE__, file)

Mike4 wrote:I'm surprised no-one has posted the most stand-out example of a cover WAY better than the original...

My Way, by Sid Vicious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyb_al ... LuisAsenjo

servodude wrote:

CliffEdge wrote: Never heard of assert?

Here's one of those weird bits of coincidence; thread necromancy relating to a discussion I was having with a junior colleague yesterday (lovely Iranian lass who's not long out of her EE PhD)
Understandibly given programming isn't a core discipline of Electronics Engineering they skip a lot of the stuff that I'd consider essential in the real world "asserts" being one of those things...
- that said I've known plenty of "professional" programmers who are frightened to check stuff because "it works"

Anyways here's a bit of fun I picked up a long time ago for when your compiler doesn't have static asserts

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#define _STR_CAT(a, b) a##b
#define _STATIC_ASSERT_AT_LINE(predicate, line, file) \
    typedef char _STR_CAT(assertion_failed_##file##_, line)[(2 * !!(predicate)) - 1];
#define STATIC_ASSERT(predicate, file) _STATIC_ASSERT_AT_LINE(predicate, __LINE__, file)

- yes... it's using the predicate failing to crash the compiler by defining an array of length -1
- can't fail faster than before it's been run

and to bring it round on topic:
Nathaniel Murphy's Crazy Arrangement of Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BJ6Qficleo
- which wasn't posted when this thread was first doing the rounds

- sd

MrFoolish wrote:1. Born to run - Frankie goes to Hollywood