After living through this period, I will never be able to enjoy any “cool” movie villain ever again. From this point on I want every villain to be a stupid, incompetent, insane, utterly embarrassing loser clown who failed upward because of society’s moral decay and no other reason.

All seven Jurassic Park films ranked in order by my son Theo (11)

On Cambridge Radio starting in a minute, my favourite music of 2025. You can listen on FM or DAB around Cambridge, or you can use this link anywhere in the world - consoles.radioplayer.cloud/8261297/inde... (If you're seeing this a bit later, I will post a mixcloud version as the first comment)

RIP to Brigitte Bardot, sixth best singer to collaborate with Serge Gainsbourg, but definitely the one most convicted for repeatedly inciting racial hatred.

I was a Catholic schoolboy aged 12 on holiday listening to REM on my walkman during a family holiday in France in 1992 and when Michael Stipe sings "fuck me, kitten" I thought the devil was somehow in my cassette, song still freaks me out a bit tbh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsIW...

This was used as the theme tune for TV talent show Opportunity Knocks in the mid-80s, for some inexplicable reason it is strongly associated for me with the death of the horse Dark Ivy in the 1987 Grand National. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxx1...

This is a song from an album I listened to a lot in my first year at university, it conjures up for me an ancient European city and I would feel myself there as I looked out of my lonely room in Southampton, now it takes me back to the reality and the fantasy at once www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qlN...

I did not ask the question. I asked a different question.

Are people doing the "Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains" thing again specifically to annoy me or... sorry cannot think of another reason.

Younger son: "you know Santa isn't real" Older son: "of course he's real, you think Isaac Newton is going to come down the chimney and give you some science?"

I run into a cousin of this with early cinema: people will see a GIF or screenshot that is similar to a later film and assume that the layer filmmaker *must* have been specifically referencing the silent, and not that the technique is common of they’re drawing from a shared non-film influence

I got the washed-my-jacket-with-a-tissue-in-the-pocket-and-now-when-I-put-my-phone-in-there-a-bit-gets-in-the-charging-port-and-I-have-to-clean-it-out-with-a-toothpick blues

Out now for all members, paid AND free*, A Christmas Gift for You from Centuries of Sound – Christmas Records 1962-1968 Come listen to a Christmas selection from the wildest decade of all. www.patreon.com/posts/146374... *will change after Christmas

Out now for all members, paid AND free*, A Christmas Gift for You from Centuries of Sound – Christmas Records 1962-1968 Come listen to a Christmas selection from the wildest decade of all. www.patreon.com/posts/146374... *will change after Christmas

Tracklist for my new Xmas mix, out later today, once I've made the artwork and the blurb. A lot changes from 1962 to 1968!

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 20 Stereolab - Melodie Is a Wound Completing a quadrilogy of unexpected strong returns in 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nndp...

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 19 #PeoplesPop25 Disclosure with Anderson .Paak - NO CAP 2010s musicians using slang from two years ago? Yeah, I'll take it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q4k...

I cannot take listening to Music Sounds Better With You. Thought I was ok but after two minutes I started to feel sad and nauseous. (This is not about the song itself but very bad associations it has for me) #totp

As 'tis the season, I've checked out what Ladbaby is up to, he has pivoted to selling sauces and is struggling to get even 30k views on his videos. Merry Christmas everyone!

Having read one of his books, I suspect that he did write it, because "AI exclusively trained on Roald Dahl" wasn't available a decade ago, and no ghostwriter would dare write like that and expect to be paid.

Looking good!

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

Many people often do not like their faves being critically analysed, though this is how you know something is being taken seriously as art. Instead they will do this pseudo-analysis based on technical innovations, "tropes" and financial performance, with a heavy dash of hero worship in the mix.

New horrible YouTube video thumbnail just dropped, no I will not be clicking apart from three dots + "Not Interested"

Just spent ten minutes searching for my Addams Family and Munsters themes in my new mix folder before remembering that it's Christmas, not Halloween. Yeah, probably should go to bed.

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 18 #PeoplesPop25 Kate Nash - GERM Third time I've posted this here, but it needs saying, and it slaps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Mo...

Omg. I thought "oh that's nice, you can read it." But no, not just that, you can WATCH the stuff. You can click on the programmes and watch them. Flaming hell

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 17 #PeoplesPop25 Pulp - Slow Jam Obviously I love "More" but the three singles have been gradually eclipsed by this slow-burner which genuinely goes somewhere new. youtu.be/6B56zHzmxHg

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 16 #PeoplesPop25 PinkPantheress - Illegal Stateside has the better video - but I'm picking songs here, and this is in the running for song of the year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFWX...

Strong Mr Burns Energy to "mixed tape".

Every film made in an extended universe is one less original script being filmed.

Just seen the Animal Farm trailer. Fucking hell. My expectations were low, but fucking hell.

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 15 #PeoplesPop25 Kneecap - No Comment (ft. Sub Focus) The collab we didn't know we needed www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDru...

My son wants to know which colour crayon you all think tastes the best.

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 14 #PeoplesPop25 Sudan Archives - My Type www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vho...

Imagine spending your limited time on Earth compiling a list of everyone on Bluesky who doesn't like the planet-destroying plagiarism machine, and it isn't even YOUR planet-destroying plagiarism machine.

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 13 Marie Davidson - Demolition Creepy icy early 80s electro-goth music but with the full benefit of the last 40 years of production advances. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iNY...

Absolutely love this album and advise anyone scared off by Trout Mask Replica to check it out.

This is AI slop and you should all stop sharing it please.

Good thread! I will be exploring where Xmas music went in the mid 60s in my new mix which will be out sometime next week.

There's plenty not to like about British Xmas music, especially if you ever had to work in retail or pubs in December, but it's fundamentally *party* music. US Xmas music is schmaltz.

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 12 Amaarae - S.M.O. Maybe one day we'll all be ginga and free www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngee...

#totp is now up to the time I am at university and there's this uncanny feeling of it being at once a long time ago but also somehow still "now" - this time is frozen as my eternal present day, a time I really don't care for, and will never feel nostalgic about.

Limmy reveals the best-kept secret of DJing youtu.be/OffY08wSUwU

Facebook is worse than Twitter, both are full of callous people with fascist leanings, but on Twitter they are strangers and on Facebook they are old friends from a couple of decades ago who seemed to be perfectly nice at the time.

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 11 Bad Bunny - NUEVAYoL Until this year I somehow managed to ignore Bad Bunny, the biggest artist in the world right now. Putting that to rights now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU5V...

RIP old Prague friend Bob Woods, “lilpixeyman”, Passport said “Robert Arthur Woods III”, American, but Dingle was his home, just a few years older but seemed like a creature of another age, with stories of travelling with The Grateful Dead and ability to recite the whole of Alice’s Restaurant. 1/

#25SongsFrom2025 Day 10 Cafuné - Temporary Lover ft. Riovaz We have somehow got to the point where artists are rediscovering the retro sounds of late 2000s pop D&B, and I am all here for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA9p...