“Deciphering the lyrics to ‘Louie Louie’ by the Kingsmen. To work up to that task, I started with Michael McDonald, he was the singer for the Doobie Brothers. That joker was not exactly the king of enunciation, if you know what I mean. After I had my fill of that crap, I tried Bob Dylan. Brilliant songwriter but, damn, what a marble-mouth singer. After revising my computational model fourteen quadrillion times, I was able to understand eighty three percent of Dylan’s songs. Except his live albums, those are a lost cause. Truthfully, even to get to eighty three percent I did a lot of guessing.
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