Somebody please tell me where Taylor borrowed the "whoa oh oh oh oh" at the end of the Opalite chorus from. It sounds like another massive, older song, I just can't quite place it and it's driving me mad.

Just finished listening to a Richard Ashcroft interview and was reminded of his song 'Music Is Power'. A stone cold banger I'd long forgotten. The guy knows how to pick a sample. The Curtis Mayfield/Walter Jackson part is so great. It's on repeat here. open.qobuz.com/track...

Worth remembering that you can change the voice of your inner monologue to Wallace from Wallace and Gromit if you want. Mine mostly says, " Ee come on, lad!" a lot and brings up cheese several times an hour.

Listened to Is This It by The Strokes on my Yamaha NS10s. I've heard this album a hundred times, but on these it just sounds exactly as it should; it feels perfect. Can't yet find any info to confirm Gordon Raphael mixed it on NS10s, but I'd put money on it that he did.

Incredible what a 5-0 win can do for your mood. #YCFC 🔴🔵

It's a strange paradox that the best music tech people online make the most unlistenable music. Also, the best podcast on songwriting and songwriters has the most unpleasant theme tune.

Just back from seeing the new documentary about The Coral. Really artfully and tastefully done - I loved it. Go and see it if you get the chance. Came out feeling inspired, head full of melodies.

York City are magic 🪄 #YCFC 🔴🔵

Fully giving in to the social media nostalgia loop at the moment. Listening to Travelling Without Moving by Jamiroquai after watching a reel on IG. The first cool album I had on cassette as a kid and it still sounds transcendant. It influenced me more than I realise.

Reached the stage of life where I want buy a can of a Lynx Africa just to smell the 90's again.

Radiohead tickets secured. What a palaver.

Blue (Da Ba Dee) by Eiffel 65 stalked me today. This morning my gf mentioned it. I told her I had the CD single and loved it as a kid (I was 10 and it's catchy as fuck, what could I do?) A couple of hours later, I found that CD in a box looking for something. Now this on YT!

Great new pod from The Music Venue Trust presented by my pal, Toni! youtu.be/o_00lJHF4zg... When you think of it as a 'National Trust for music venues', particularly focused on grass roots, it really makes sense.

Field Music are surely one of the most overlooked and underappreciated bands in the last 20 odd years. They should be regarded as a national treasure. To me they are. Prince knew. He tweeted about this banger.

Somehow I've still yet to see Radiohead, so I hope to tick them off in November if we can get tickets for the O2. Tame Impala and Stevie are probably the only other big ones that spring to mind. Oh, and Franz Ferdinand somehow slipped through the net, too. Whos's on your list?

Free bit of patter for you: When anybody says something funny, just say, "haha you win the internet today!" This also works if you want to be sarcastic. Using it in real life, offline is an excellent way to confuse your opponent and gain the upper hand in a battle of wits.

Think I've mentioned this before, but streamers should have a customisable VHS mode for all TV and Film made pre-2000. Automatically crops aspect ratio to 4:3, tweakable saturation, occasional scanlines, warbly sound, added noise, etc.

So cool living in the future and having the data to back up and visualise how COVID is currently destroying me. Don't let today's high fool you, I just got a little more sleep. Been so sick since Sunday night.

Just made my 80's playlist public on Qobuz if anybody's interested. 99% bangers, 1% cool weird stuff. 118 tracks, over 9 hours of music. You have to shuffle it. open.qobuz.com/playl...

I regularly fantasise about being the music supervisor for an indie film, but with endless budget and complete creative freedom. Thing is, basically every one of them has to start with a city walking scene/montage backed by Where There's Smoke There's Fire by Willie Griffin.

Half time player interviews feel so wrong man. Absolutely no need.

Absolutely buzzing to go back to the LNER today and start the season. All aboard the promotion train... Up Hinshelwood's reds! Up the city! #YCFC 🔴🔵

Going up north for a few days and I'm excited to check out the new McDonald's drive-thru that's built on a field next to a former WW2 prisoner of war camp. To a 1940's POW on rations, the concept of a chicken McNugget, let alone 24hr convenience, would've been a madman's dream.

Paracetamol is a hell of a drug. Going from dog rough to ok and functional in under an hour with a couple of pills that you can buy everywhere for pennies. Massively under appreciated.

If, like me, the speed controller on your YouTube android app suddenly stopped working rendering it unusable, here's the fix. Press and hold the app icon (main menu, not in a folder), select app info. Select the 3 dots in the top right corner, then select "uninstall updates".

'Indie Sleaze' and 'Landfill Indie' were idly conceived terms by moronic, charmless hacks to try and sell a few extra copies of dead magazines. It's sad that they're now the official, historic descriptors. Just call it 2000s indie rock and have some respect for people's art.

Kinda mad how Oasis and Coldplay are both religious cults now.

Shame about the new Tame Impala song. Obviously fair play to Kevin, it's his art and the can do what he likes. FWIW I think it should've been put out under a different project name. It's more revolution than evolution. How will it fit in a live set alongside previous work?

Looking forward to see if England can do it against the world champs. Germany can take solace in having the best of the two Adidas shirts on display tonight. Trefoil > 3 stripes

Does anybody agree with me that Second Hand News is by far the worst song on Rumours by Fleetwood Mac? I can't imagine why they opened the record with it, other than to make it easier to skip. A misstep on an otherwise flawless album.

I'm reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. It's as good as they say. Essentially... Think of all the time you spent worrying about what other people would think. Realise that nobody cares; they're all thinking about themselves. Now do the thing because we're all soon dead.

It's just occurred to me that, in the past week, two friends who were bass players in my first couple of bands got in touch. One wanted to set up a time for a call and the other wanted to hang out. Neither finished the conversation and committed to a time/place.

Imagine the pressure on Jadeja going to the toilet with millions of people waiting for you.

My social media is full of gig and festival clips in summer - it's fucking brilliant. For me, the music that comes from the British Isles is the best in the world and our greatest export. I feel really proud of it. Always an icebreaker when meeting people from other countries

Tihomir Asanović Pop - Ostavi Trag [Yugoslavia, Jazz, Fusion] (1974) https://redd.it/ojok1l https://youtu.be/F8cwatRcHCM

Lindell Audio 80 Series on all everything

Happy "From The Oasthouse" day to all who celebrate 🙏

My favourite podcast put out a fantastic chat with Jimmy Webb yesterday. Jimmy is one of the all time greatest songwriters and he's got some amazing stories to tell. He wrote Wichita Lineman, what more can I say? Go listen to Impossible Way of Life. Link in next post...

Often wonder what Britain would be like if it weren't almost entirely populated by alcoholics. How would this have played out through history? I guess we'd just have a different drug of choice and/or ended up way more strictly religious.

All individuals, aren't we?

No bigger indictment of the British education system than the ubiquitous misuse of apostrophe's

Just thinking about being a kid on Saturday night in the 90s watching Big Break, then Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman followed by Noel's House Party. That was living.

New Adam Curtis series out this month. Yes please! www.bbc.com/mediacen...

I'm seeing a track by "Antonio Vivald" called 'Almost forgot that this is the point' being used in a lot of social media posts lately. It's literally just the intro piano to Matt Berry's song 'Take My Hand' being looped. Nothing added, just naked theft as far as I can tell.

The difference in the US and rest of the world cover art for "Is This It" is pretty wild in retrospect. Totally different vibes, one clearly superior. Were Americans really that square? I get the logic of switching out "New York City Cops" after 9/11, but do it for everywhere.

Nothing quite like early Beach Boys hits to lift my spirits. Those vocal arrangements do something to me I can't quite explain. Fucking phenomenal.

Sad going into the weekend knowing there won't be any more Outdoor Boys videos 😞

The pathetic satisfaction of getting today's Wordle on the second line. #humblebrag

Nobody tells you about how male pattern baldness forces you into becoming a "hat guy" against your will. Young lads need to think on this and prepare accordingly.

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