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 nostr:npub19fcv2nflra09c6p9xz8c8detwj6uy07u4z4m25qh836mnvxtatdq6aay3c I feel like a lot of these responses are musicians that a lot of people like (and that I mostly like) but that aliens probably won't understand. Like maybe they'd get Tinariwen on sheer virtuosity, but Tom Waits would do nothing for them, they don't know anything about being drunk and alone and heartbroken at a piano bar or whatever. We only like Tom Waits because we do know what that's like

I think the aliens might like Steve Reich