#TheTwen2ie5 I handed in a list, so my picks are mixed in with them all on the website/playlist. I backed off daily posting on these a while ago (no one needs to hear why I like this stuff) but pleased to see the hashtag active. This one is all about discovery for me; looking forward to the choices

A short thread on digital ID (cards) just to bear in mind. There are a few myths that I keep hearing about this idea that need clarifying/debunking. 1/10

Whether you agree or disagree with what it being said in this article overall (or even the bit about commons sense in this paragraph), bloody hell, these last two sentences are on the money.

Been doing some more #TheTenX5 listening, using the 2015 PPP nominations list. Instructive for me, since 14-16 is probably as bad mentally as I ever have been. I missed most of this - and it seems I didn’t nominate anything for this PPP. About the only new music I engaged with was Susanne Sundfor.

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Think this list just goes to show how undeniable My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It) by En Vogue was and is. Even that made number 4 in the UK in the midst of these sorts of chart positions for records of a similar ilk.

National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes

#TheTenX5 The research continues and I am moved to ask if what they made Taylor do was have a really flat chorus in place of something that could have exploded after the build up to it? An interesting choice/swerve. Xenomania would, of course, have suggested sticking another pre-chorus in there.

I once thought I would listen to and then write about every Mercury Prize shortlisted album - in the same way as the #1 singles and #1 albums tell a (n incomplete) tale about music in the UK, I think those lists sort of do too - but who’d want to read my amateur rubbish on all of that.

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*Youth pastor voice* You know who else was a carpenter people are weird about?

Getting somewhat of a start on #TheTenX5 listening and have been rudely awakened from my enjoyment of a relevant album by the sudden deployment of your man from Snow Patrol…

#TheTwen2ie5 Just about to finalise my list. Doing final due diligence and, bloody hell, a track I thought eligible actually got released in 2019. At least I checked. Also, the odd surprise when scanning Discogs for first credit date for some artists - at least one I found is ISC non-compliant.

The All50rts roll out is happening and I had another look at my list - I don’t want to spam the hashtag so will keep this separate but here’s the stuff I picked that I think I was solo on* *Though difficult to tell given lists and so on, maybe some of these did get picked…

Can’t make a divorce album without getting married first…

For this challenge, I picked Loving Cup (and Gimme Shelter) - but freely admit that what Tom is saying here influenced my choice, finding some redeeming feature to their rock piggery. Loving Cup, to my ear, is one thing that you can very rarely accuse the Stones of being: generous.

Slightly diminish a band Crass©️

For me, there’s 3: God Angrily Clarifies Don’t Kill Rule "No Way to Prevent This", Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades This latter one wins probably, for accurately predicting the response to the Wilkinson Sword Quattro from Gillette.

I thought I’d locked my #TheTwen2ie5 long list earlier today - then I realised the new Amaarae album has come out…

Will the news tomorrow be “sun rises in east”?

I have never run a music challenge, and honestly don’t want to, but an idea someone can nick. #LastGreatTrack Pick 10 or 15 or one a day for a week/month etc, of what you think is the last great track an artist released. It’s celebratory! It’s also allowing you to write off swathes of careers!

#TheTwen2ie5 research continuing by revisiting the 2020 PPP playlist. I still can’t complete Murder Most Foul. Struggle to shake feeling that if someone like Father John Misty (who to be clear I like significantly less than Dylan) had done it, it may well be viewed as meandering at very best.

#TheTwen2ie5 research has been continuing and I am reminded I never really got my head around Air by Sault. Unsure I will be long listing any of it necessarily but the title track in particular is working for me today at least.

I feel like there is a lot of truth here.

Fair play getting that last gig in just in time. 🤘 And though I have not been posting my Allsorts list (and won’t spam the hashtag here either), I hope at least 3/4 more people join me on this one, with the huge samba breakdown. youtu.be/_xFc86tzFG4?...

An incredible homage to the classic Viz letter in today’s Telegraph

I’ve been #TheTwen2ie5 listening for a month now and a thought just flashed across my mind. That thought is: Burn/Build by Miayamoto Is Black Enough Old PPP heads may remember it in the 2020 poll but it’s only available on Soundcloud (I think). Early for shilling but: don’t let it slip your mind.

So the guy with the broken hand takes the final wicket. One regular day of Test Cricket. Will never happen.

FFS.

OMGOMGOMGOMG #ENGvIND

Perfectly acceptable for people not to get cricket. Days like today’s Day 4 at Lord’s are why people keep coming back though. The sense of jeopardy in the game was there pretty much every delivery from 11am until 6:33pm. Riveting.

Jofra has bowled 10 deliveries off the belt end above 90 and is chatting shit to the batter. It’s so good to have him back.

Come on Jof!

I was once a regular on an online cricket site; long since left. As Jofra comes out to bat, back in the test team after a long absence, it’s the first time I’ve missed being there - if only so I could ram it down the throat of the many very self assured men there who said he’d never play Tests again

Cricket Alert: Wiaan Mulder is currently 367 (344) not out on day 2 of the SA game v Zimbabwe. Very real chance of taking Lara’s world record 400 off the books. It’s currently lunch.

It sure looks like Sione Tuipulotu, British and Irish Lions centre, has a tattoo of Lauryn Hill on his bicep.

Once again, I call on the authorities to give rich people a copy of Sim City 2000, so they can play out their fantasies somewhere sensible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This test series seems to be entirely about England putting themselves in difficult situations and then batting like hell to get out of them (though they’re by no means out of the woods here, merely moved from jungle to forest) Call me a bluff old traditionalist but how about not doing the 1st bit?

Alex Kapranos is gradually turning into Alex McLeish. Scottish former footballer and manager for those not aware of him.

A quick scroll down the BS mentions for En Vogue is heartening. Nary a bad word amongst them reacting to this Glastonbury set. Rightly so.

Listening to the current edition of the 60 Songs podcast and, bloody hell, the crap indie band cover versions of pop and R&B songs part… There’s an extended section on Travis. Now he’s moved onto a Keane cover of Dirrty/Bootylicious I’d never heard and has played a snippet of it. Kill it with fire.

Bumrah The Ever Living versus England at the minute.

Well, what does this idiot know?

India could score 700 here. The only person getting Pant out is Pant. It will probably be 17/3 when England bat when Bumrah takes Crawley and Pope by routine and then produces a worldy to rip Root’s off stump out, so they probably have the time to amass whatever they want.

This is replacing the Pataudi Trophy, itself only having been in place since 2007. The next series is going to be the Kohli-Root Trophy. The one after that will be named after two debutants in the first test of the series.

Having bailed out the #All50rts list, I have moved onto the research for #THETWEN2IE5 and I will say this for Rina Sawayama - fully here for her periodically getting Bill S Preston Esquire and “Ted” Theodore Logan to apply Wyld Stallyns guitar onto her tracks.

#WTCFinal Ian Smith on comms: Ordinarily at Lord’s you get a third of the deliveries in good areas. In this match, it’s more like 50%. Subtext: England bowl like shit at Lord’s.