The music of our times

February 2, 2009 8:23 PM

The past year in economics and politics as described by Microsoft Songsmith(SLYP) via this guy
posted by mock (10 comments total)

Teehee.

Some of these are actually rather nice sounding.
posted by Phire at 12:06 AM on February 3

total trash, pls remove this garbage.
posted by Addiction at 12:06 AM on February 3

♪
posted by fleetmouse at 12:29 AM on February 3

Eventually some of those stock charts are gonna go so low that they'll hit the brown note.
posted by spoobnooble at 5:01 AM on February 3

Songsmith is so 2009.
posted by mazola at 9:11 AM on February 3

Didn't Douglas Adams predict this in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"? Or was it the other one?
posted by jpziller at 10:02 AM on February 3

This is WICKED. Love it!
posted by Hildegarde at 10:29 AM on February 3

total trash, pls remove this garbage.

whut? :::::big fat fucking shruuuuuug::::::


Awesome link! Very well put together.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:10 AM on February 3

Very ...well "cool" isn't the word, but... I like it!

And I had never heard of "the brown note" before. Thank You MetaFilter!
posted by Xoebe at 5:03 PM on February 3

jpziller, yeah pretty much. He used the ending of that story as the ending of a Dr. Who episode he wrote.

god, I miss Douglas Adams.
posted by edgeways at 9:41 AM on February 5