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    Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

    I have to tell a story about a man named Joel. In the late 90s, my friend Phil introduced me to this musical genius. He spoke so highly of Joel's independently produced CD, that I thought there would be no way for it to meet expectations. I was wrong. It exceed them.

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      2. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        Phil played it for me in the car as he and I and a few others guys headed to Charleston, SC to continue our jobs as extras in the film, The Patriot. We'd been playing the role of British Soldiers in the film for some 6 months by then. This would be the last week we were together.

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      3. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        Joel was a local hero of sorts in Phil's hometown. He played his music at bars and small venues, anywhere he could really. Joel knew he had something. And he did. He just didn't understand what it was.

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      4. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        The music is bad. Very bad. So bad that your mind may not be able to comprehend all of the intricate ways that it effortlessly – and earnestly – does nothing right. To listen, you have to be prepared for this. It is truly bad in a way that you may not be aware a song could be.

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      5. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        This goes beyond @SimonCowell telling someone music "isn't for them." It transcends parody and rockets into something that could only be described as ... art.

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      6. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        It was entrancing. We couldn't stop listening to it. We all knew the lyrics by heart by the end of our week together.

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      7. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        Joel refused to listen to the haters. Refused to believe his music was not something people wanted. He was right. They did. And they would. For reasons that may seem cruel. That it was so bad that it defied reason. It defied our understanding of reality & challenged our beliefs.

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      8. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        By the time we were done listening to the album we were no longer the boys we'd been. The young 20-somethings that got into that car, listening to the hum of the CD winding up as we barreled down the highway, were gone.

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      9. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        We were men now. We had come to appreciate the rarest of arts.

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      10. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        Art that, while objectively heinous by any standard of decency, had been offered with the purest of faith. It's hard to describe but it's as though Joel had found the perfect pitch of awful. He hit every "note" as it were. Masterfully.

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      11. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        The paradox of Joel is that his musical masterpiece only exists as a result of his complete lack of musical competence. But, and I can't stress this enough, it is such perfect incompetence that it is difficult not to admire.

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      12. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        As we were all young and had dreams of filmmaking, we plotted out making a documentary following Joel's ambitious desire to be heard and the audiences that seemingly loved him for what would seem on the surface like all the wrong reasons.

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      13. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        But sadly, we lost that magical CD at the very end of our week together. Phil was incensed. He wasn't sure he'd ever be able to find another copy. But now, some 20 years later, I've found it. At least one of his songs, anyway. The hunt continues for the rest.

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      14. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        So now I present to you, "Yesterday's World," by Joel. Unappreciated in his time. May his music simultaneously torment and enrapture you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvE3M22zFP4 …

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      15. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        This one's for you, Phil. Sorry about leaving your CD at the hotel.

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      16. Ben Howe‏Verified account @BenHowe 3 Sep 2019

        Update: the hero that posted the above song reached out to thank me for spreading Joel’s magical wonder.pic.twitter.com/AomFMhmqLR

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