#Top31DavidBowie I've been wondering what #MusicChallenge I was going to do for December. I reckon this is the one.

Introduce yourself with 5 gigs you've seen: Grateful Dead James Brown Idles Fugazi Pavement

I might be old but I have got a very puerile sense of humour. I laughed way more than an adult should. youtube.com/shorts/de9nM...

#ArtistFave15 Last one from Brel. My very favourite song of his. It builds and builds to a soaring crescendo, it's absolutely astonishing. Lyrically it's like if Hotel California had been written by Baudelaire. Listen. youtu.be/_G8MniQNKTY?...

This one goes out to the Liverpool fans out there. I empathise with you. #LFC youtu.be/5TWK48LcX0w?...

#ArtistFave15 This Brel song is right up there with his best, but I think Scott Walker's version just pips Jacques to the post. youtu.be/QrprWI_bABc?...

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#ArtistFave15 And now I pull out the big guns. Jackie by Brel is level pegging with Scott Walker's version. What do you think? youtu.be/jxYVa0q8q_U?...

#ArtistFave15 Today's Brel song is a great one, that was immeasurably improved by Scott Walker. youtu.be/uMwumoZ8yMw?...

#ArtistFave15 I'm going to start putting Brel songs that had arguably better cover versions than the original. However the very famous version of this song isn't better than this. youtu.be/cXAKq5QvX4k?...

#ArtistTop15 It's been a couple of days since I posted. So today's Brel is the wonderful Marieke, with it's lyrics in both French and Dutch. It's a lovely thing. youtu.be/jalwU5D8Kag?...

So she said that in 2016 and USA still elected him President. And again in 2024.

#ArtistTop15 Next up. Top tune. We forget nothing, nothing at all. We forget nothing, we just get used to it. That's all. youtu.be/3aLWa_sZhto?...

#ArtistTop15 Next up. Top tune. We forget nothing, nothing at all. We forget nothing, we just get used to it. That's all. youtu.be/3aLWa_sZhto?...

What exactly is "alternative support"?

#ArtistFave15 Next one from Brel. Maybe his most famous song, which he never recorded for an album, so we only have one live version of it. Apparently he didn't like it that much. youtu.be/EFl1kCYTHcw?...

If there were a god, this would be as famous as Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. But it isn't, so there obviously isn't. youtu.be/yMNm3zto8FM?...

Been listening to hip hop. After The Clipse, I've been digging this. Far out. youtu.be/Oahu6x7akhQ?...

It's almost as if Rodney King never happened. USA, wake up, it's time to riot. youtu.be/ZM4TFrpnu88?...

#ArtistFave15 Today's Brel is a beauty. If you have 3 minutes and 53 seconds to spare, feast your ears and feel your soul swell. youtu.be/nGxclxrwVO0?...

Happy Birthday Kurt Vonnegut! (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007)

My Great Grandfather, Alfred Willetts, died at Paschendaele 1917.

#ArtistFave15 N⁰5 from Brel. A homage to Jean Jaurès, a socialist pacifist anti-militarist who was assassinated in 1914 just before he was to have a meeting to dissuade belligerents from going to war. Pourquoi ont ils tué Jaurès? youtu.be/DXfHxN7x5vY?...

I've been binging on Brel. There's going to be a couple of tracks from this album over the next few days in my #ArtistFave15

#ArtistFave15 4ème partie of my Brel collection. This one was famously and brilliantly covered by Scott Walker and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. An absolute bijou of a song, which even mentions gonorrhea, hey. youtu.be/37JXRx6Ceec?...

#ArtistFave15 Numero 3 of my favourite Brel songs. Here's one about the elderly, and getting old. This hits a little harder every year. With the line that says "I'm waiting for you". youtu.be/50J67s-zTCU?...

The Reformistas will bang on about Rotherham, but ne'er a peep about this.

#ArtistFave15 Part 2 of my top Brel songs. If you know the Scott Walker version you'll know that the lyrics are super sad, in its original version, it's even sadder. youtu.be/sk1jfXB6IU0?...

I'm going to do a #ArtistFave15 on Jacques Brel. If you don't know his stuff, I'll be posting some wonderful music. He was so great both Bowie and Scott Walker covered his songs. So, first up... youtu.be/tVKWiseNGUU?...

The worst thing about BlueSky is that I don't get to see the MAGA cultists totally losing their shit.

When it's over, I'd like to see whoever is the next president: tear down the ballroom, give the plane back to Qatar, rip all the gold plated shit off the White House and replant the roses.

This needs to be done.

One more for Donna. youtu.be/DL-lXXFSAtI?...

RIP Donna. 7 beautiful years with the Grateful Dead, her voice is on some of my favourite albums. youtu.be/yxUSLi5IZBo?...

So I drop my daughter off as she leaves for a 7 week internship far away. This came on the stereo, and kinda fits my mood. youtu.be/sbrPTLqwof8?...

King Charles has had close friendships/mentorships with Laurens Van der Post, Jimmy Savile, Bishop Peter Ball; & was very close to uncle Louis Mountbatten. All were paedophiles. To befriend 1 paedophile is unfortunate, to know 4 or 5 looks ... darker. #downwiththecrown #notmyking

#80sTop30 Last one from 89, and last one for this #MusicChallenge. So much brilliant music in this year, a lot has already been picked by others, you all know the usual suspects. So I'm going with a big favourite of mine. youtu.be/-tt7EUXLbak?...

#80sTop30 2nd song from 89, from the album that dominated that year. A very good friend of mine did the editing on the album and is responsible for the "gleep" towards the end of this track. youtu.be/vWP54WPwYlI?...

I'm totally going to get this.

I woke up this morning with this in my head. I have no idea why. youtu.be/uyWfFRa4M1Y?...

I remember back in 1989, having a laugh with my housemates. We were imagining the most unlikely Stars in Their Eyes contestants, and I said "Matthew, tonight I'm going to be Kurt Cobain from Nirvana". Everyone laughed. A couple of years later it actually happened.

Remember Duane Allman. youtu.be/oJF5ql7hS8I?...

#80sTop30 First one from 1989, I absolutely loved this from the very first bars. I passed the baton not too long ago and my son is also a massive hip hop fan. youtu.be/TMZi25Pq3T8?...

I just had a chat with God. And He told me that there's a special place in Hell for people who steal bicycles. If you steal a push bike, especially a crappy one that obviously belongs to someone who doesn't have any money, you will spend all eternity being buggered by a donkey.

So Jay blocked me for suggesting that Stalin wasn't a Marxist. I don't understand some people. That's the weirdest reason to block me.

#80sTop30 Third pick from 88. Maybe the funkiest bass ever, debatable, but it sho is funky ass bass. youtu.be/fLoH7Ra2WxI?...

This is what Reform want the UK to look like. Don't let it happen.