They do roadhouse blues, rap, Southern rock, ballads and especially medleys, without which no Christmas special would be complete.
But any regret and introspection over the badminton scandal was largely subsumed by the outrage over suggestions, first raised by a prominent American coach, that the 16-year-old female swimmer, Ye Shiwen, could not have pulled off her record-shattering victory in the 400 individual medley on Saturday without some chemical assistance.
Dan Wallace just missed out on a place in the top three of the 200m individual medley on a rare night without a British medal at the world championships in Russia.
Nature uses oxidative dimerization as a biodiversification step, creating a medley of dimeric hexahydropyrroloindolines often without regard for features prized in total synthesis: regio-, chemo-, and stereoselectivity.
More a mash-up than a medley, it samples and tweaks Sousa without really making fun of the music: the themes are simply repurposed as part of a wooly, amusing meditation.
As one of its encores, the band performed a medley of two songs: Badfinger's "Without You," popularized in 1971 by Harry Nilsson, and John Lennon's "Mind Games".
They've got around the dancing problem - or some other problem, I have no idea - by prerecording the number without an audience and intercutting medley bits with pieces of black and white film of empty old recording studios.
Ian MacDonald gave a mixed opinion of the album, noting that several tracks had been written at least a year previously, and would possibly have been unsuitable without being integrated into the medley on side two.
Keeping kids spotless and unsoiled, however, may be setting them up for trouble later on, because without exposure to nature's medley of microbes our kids can grow up with confused, weak immune systems.
