This week on Why Is This So Hard For You?, we dig into the precision of Steely Dan and the unexpected charm of Bruce Hornsby—who ditches the piano entirely in favor of the lap dulcimer (yes, seriously). Our category songs bring a "Number One in Our Hearts" synth gem from Gary Numan, and we close it all out with Schlong's completely uncalled-for punk cover of the Steely Dan track. It’s refined, it’s weird, it’s us.
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Curtis Gross is a self-employed video editor.
Jonathan Workman is an adult learning consultant based in Wichita, KS.
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The intro music is the first 30 seconds of the Ornette Coleman tune "Song X" fed into AI software that attempts to output the song to a solo piano transcription. The outro music is the first 30 seconds of Sonny Rollins' version of the tune "St. Thomas" fed into the same software.
