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Tears For Fears released "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" as the third single from 'Songs From The Big Chair' 41 years ago on March 18, 1985 album.ink/TrsFrFrsSFTBC

It is weird. The same folks who said the Dems needed a primary in Kamala’s race are upset that there is a primary in Talerico’s race in Texas. Primaries are supposed to make the candidate stronger, right???

Thinking of all of my fellow Wonderama fans.

This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.

I found out about Rob Reiner and his wife in the middle of watching the Stuart Scott documentary. I'm not ok today.

Uber needs a no cologne option

06! Bros! Enjoy your day!

I was going through my albums and came across this Roberta Flack cover of Yoko Ono's Goodbye Sadness. Produced by Ralph MacDonald, it also features Steve Gadd and Marcus Miller. @danyelsmith.bsky.social Have you heard this before? youtu.be/cqxO71YznxM?...

There is a post going around for the top five opening tracks off an album. I'm going to make a full list, but it is crazy that I haven't seen Straight Outta Compton yet. Part of it is a strong rock bias in the lists, but still. #musicsky youtu.be/TMZi25Pq3T8?...

I just switched from a tube amp to a solid state. If anyone else has made the switch how long did it take you to get used to the new sound? #musicsky #vinylsky

When I tell you that Joni Mitchell was absolutely writing her ass off on Blue: Acid, booze, and ass Needles, guns, and grass Lots of laughs lots of laughs Everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way to go Well I don't think so But I'm gonna take a look around it though Blue I love you #musicsky

Acoustic by Everything But The Girl is such a beautiful sounding album. They really need to put out a vinyl reissue. #musicsky

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The original person is not alone. I also have not seen Love Actually or Friends.

It is a damn shame that we don’t have better sounding live recordings from Prince. #musicsky

I’m sure I will buy the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway remaster, but I stand on the idea that it should have been a single album. #musicsky

If you are an immigrant, you learn the asymmetrical balance of power when it comes to mistakes. You make a mistake - you pay for it. The bureaucracy makes mistakes - you might pay for that too. This is getting worse. More administrative mistakes and zero tolerance for immigrant errors.

Sunday is grading day. Trying to get my mind right before I start. Let's kick this off with Zoom by the Commodores. #musicsky #blacksky youtu.be/wjH41rn3Q-I?...

Tears For Fears The Seeds Of Love 1989 #vinylcommunity #vinyl #vinylrecord #vinylsky #nowplaying #vinylcollection #nowspinning #TearsForFears

This has been rattling in my head all day: We are stardust, we are golden We are billion-year-old carbon And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden #musicsky

U2’s performance at Live Aid was transformational. They start off spaced closely together. Almost as if the stage is too big for them. And slowly you see them spread out to meet the moment. It is the start of their path towards becoming the biggest band in the world. youtu.be/HvBgRSSlVBA?...

Maybe businesses should have just agreed to raise corporate taxes

And this is the bigger picture motive. Trump is or is becoming the Leviathan: And it's really not good jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/trump-is-o...

Happy first day of college football season! Things will be mostly the same but a little different around here. Please checkout our new podcast! awfulannouncing.com/ringer/colle...

I saw them on this tour at The Boathouse in Norfolk, Va. Cool little venue. They were excellent. #musicsky

Sophie on The Hunting Wives may be the dumbest character ever written.

The annoying thing about the DC police takeover conversation: It is ok to ignore the data because some people in the community don't feel safe. But, when others raise concerns about having an increased law enforcement & military presence, they are told the data says they have nothing to worry about.

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

I predict that The Clipse will have a Bonnie Raitt kinda year at the Grammy’s. Long time vets, respected by their peers but chronically overlooked finally break through. #blacksky #musicsky

Wow. Ummm. Wow.

Excited to see who the Washington Post will bring in to replace all the star reporters and columnists they’ve let go this year.

Great article by Joel Anderson. Also, if this works, I promise you my fellow Norfolk State Spartans will be insufferable. Behold!

I don't know if this works for anyone else, but whenever I'm facing writer's block while working on an existing piece, I open a new file and start typing on a blank page. I figure I can edit it into the old piece later. Kind of like when you got a new notebook for school as a kid. #academicsky

Congrats! Music Sermon has been an education and celebration at the same time. One of my favorite follows.

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In 2018, I packed up my dream house to move to NJ. Because I was also leaving a pretty big house to move into a small 2-bedroom apt, I wanted to give myself 1 last night with my stereo played at full volume. I played a lot of records, but Walk Away was the last 1. #musicsky youtu.be/VpWpX6iGgIo?...

Watching the rooftop performance of Don’t Let Me Down and thank God Billy Preston was passing through London.

Watching the Billy Joel documentary. Only on the first part, but it it is really good. Glad they are leaving in some of the messy parts of his life. Too many of these things are overly sanitized.

Piano Man is the middle class version of Walk on the Wild Side #musicsky

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

💫Released on this day 1984💥 #thetime #funk #musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicproduction

I wrote a little bit about Kerrville and Texas, a couple of places that are special to me that I'm still rooting for.

💫 Happy Declaration of Independence Day America. 💫 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

We are about to learn a big lesson in "Do not tear down a fence unless you know why it was built."

Every time you say Alligator Alcatraz you are making light of serious human rights violations. One day folks will stop labeling according to the terms of the worst people in the country.

Neil Sedaka was kind of a staple of kid shows in the NYC area during the 70s. This is pretty cool. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/a...

If Secret Garden wasn’t on your early 90s slow jam take what were you even doing? youtu.be/NpYjrixiCGs?...

Younger people will be shocked to hear this, but way back when I grew up, anytime you saw a movie where some government official stopped someone on the street and demanded to see their identification papers, that was supposed to let you know they were the *bad* guys.

Top down/sunroof open, driving much faster than I should. youtu.be/lVehcuJXe6I?...