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The Places In Between I had read this and it is still somewhere on my bookshelf, one country I'd like to go, among central steppes.
Ya know for the above post, I just put "Comfortably Numb" into YouTube search, and then picked a live version. But I'll tell you what... you young folk can go to all the Taylor Swift concerts in the world... but nothing out there today will ever capture the power that the above elicits. 6:40 on. It's perfect. Try to ignore brilliance of the guitar solo, and just listen to the greater tide. Certain songs will live forever. This one of them. Times are changing fast, but no AI will ever create that which the gifted create. Sure, AI can and will replicate with a twist and certainly come up with something appealing, because that's where we are heading... but rest assured... 100 years from now, no matter how far it goes, AI will never top the genesis above.
Everyone has their flavor of music. I've never been too fussy about music so it's OK but wouldn't make my top 100.