The very first single I bought with my own cash was Country House by Blur, on cassette. 🎧
When it was released, I never had cable TV and rarely watched Top of the Pops, so just realised - after hearing the song referenced today - that I have never actually seen the music video for the song.
It's fun! And I never knew that Matt Lucas was in it too. Haha.
In addition to Mirlo, I intend to get my music up on Faircamp, Funkwhale, Jam Co-op, etc.
But it took more time than I expected to get established on Mirlo, so when I went to the Faircamp site and saw a completely different setup that looks even more complicated, my brain was like NOPE. DRUGS ALL GONE. NOT ENOUGH BRAINS LEFT FOR TASK. :AAAAAA:
Before Caroline Polacheck was giving dominatrix ted talks to late night audiences, she was doing squid face dances in mint body suits as part of Chairlift.
A generalisation - at the moment, songs from the second half of the 1960s are doing better than songs from the early 1960s and 1950s. Is there a reason for this - do you have a theory?
This morning I'm discovering the music of Veronica Adane. Not sure where Veronica is from, but the cover lettering is Ethiopic, which implies singing in Amharic and being from Ethiopia or Eritrea. ¡Nice!
When the qualifying process is complete, on Mastodon we will start voting on our top twenty favourite records of the 1950s/1960s, placing them in order. Through 190 match-ups, we will create a unique chart, every song a classic.
Here is some background on one of the qualifiers, I Want to Hold Your Hand by The Beatles.
I've given myself time to digest the new #TaylorSwift record. I think if I were to rank it alongside her other albums, it would somewhere be in the bottom half...
That being said, I feel like most of my problems with the record are the track listing. While Taylor has excellent songs on every album, she could really curate the tracklist a bit better.
I made a 13-track playlist version of the album for when I get too overwhelmed by the real one.
Spouse was listening to a Dance Party playlist I made for him and when “Party in the USA” came on he admitted that he just now learned that it was by Miley Cyrus. I was like Sir how did you not know this before; it is practically our pop national anthem.