How the bleep will I know it's the 1st Monday of the month anymore if I don't jump out of my bleedin' skin at 1pm??

#MayMusicChallenge #MusicChallenge Day 19: The last song I want to hear before I die ew "I'm Alive" - The Hollies (1 UK, 11 RPM, 35 CHUM, 103 US, 13 NL 1965) Because I don't intend to go out without a fight. 😁 youtu.be/NE0OmsjBR8k?...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 19: Your favourite song about nature "Signs That Will Never Change" - The Hollies (b-side "Carrie-Ann" 1967) "Our love went for a shit, but at least nature's predictable..." Oops😬 Covered by the Everly Brothers.../1 youtu.be/LaX-BV1Guoc?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 19: With heaven or hell in the title "Raise A Little Hell" - Trooper (27 RPM, 59 US 1978) Dedicated to all those headbanging boomer Canadian men out there. Don't hurt yourself trying now. youtu.be/pG_brDZoLAs?...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Day 18: "You Don't Have To Walk In The Rain" - The Turtles (51 US, 40 RPM 1969) From their last LP, Turtle Soup, produced by Ray Davies, his first production credit outside the Kinks. youtu.be/sX5RFAsqU-I?...

Woot! 60-day streak! Wordle 1,795 3/6* ⬛⬛🟧⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟧⬛⬛ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

Why does the Mhairi McFarlane book I just downloaded to my Kobo use American spelling? It's so jarring and wrong.

Drop an alien that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek

The week ending May 18, 1968, Canadian soul group Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers earned US #OneHitWonder honors when “Does Your Mama Know About Me” entered the US #Billboard #Top40 at #30. It spent 5 weeks on the chart, peaking at #29. #BobbyTaylor #TommyChong #OneHitWondered #MusicSky

Yeah, baby!

Live footage of me and my buds getting left behind by AI

The Small Faces comic illustrations and 1968 calendar, from magazines (1966-67) #smallfaces

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This is gorgeous! 🤩

18 April 1966 - Small Faces play the Top Rank Ballroom, Bristol. The Yardbirds play the May Ball, Queens College, Oxford, after which Paul Samwell-Smith leaves the band. Steampacket play the Bromel Club, Bromley. #6TYAT #OTD

18 May 1966 - Small Faces play the Top Rank Ballroom, Bristol. #6TYAT #OTD #smallfaces

Abergavenny!! youtu.be/wRL-p8KVH7o?...

How does one write a query-ready book in four months? AND get rep? My old, inattentive ADHD brain needs to know. Four months only covers the time I spend lobbing chunks, 50 pages at a time, to my critique partners & the 6 weeks I wait for beta. What's it like to have a mind so clear, so focused? 😭

Op 18 mei 1968 in het VARA tv-programma ‘Fenklup’ optredens van Outsiders, LSB, Rosette & René Verwoerd, de New Folk Troubedours, Yvonne de Bruyn, Ben Cramer, Bombs, Robert Knight, Honeybus, Minions of Fortune en Small Faces met ‘Lazy Sunday’. youtu.be/BKJXtTLmy_s

No, I'm not encouraging that clickbait about bands associated with London. If you can't think past Madness, do a bloody internet search and educate yourself.

Slightly diminish a book: Meh Expectations

I started reading Heated Rivalry last week. Then remembered why I can't stand jocks. Or the smell of their gym bags.

#MayMusicChallenge #MusicChallenge Day 18: A song you heard live "Flying" - Long John Baldry (b-side "Rock Me When He's Gone" 1971) 1993. Lakehead University Outpost. Best $2 ever spent. Interesting this Faces cover ended up on the side Elton produced rather than Rod's. youtu.be/Dpa_V649KSE?...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 18: Your favourite song about the beach "Echo Beach" - Martha & The Muffins (#5 RPM, #10 UK 1980) Another one from the summer I turned "legal." youtu.be/lpqDTQOFvf0?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 18: From the year you left high school "This Beat Goes On/Switchin To Glide" - The Kings (#59 RPM 1980) The ultimate Canadian dance floor filler that summer! Despite Dick Clark, it never caught on down south. Sorry... youtu.be/sxkjvKBPQjo?...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Day 18: "If It Don't Work Out" - The Zombies (uncharted US/Canada 45 1969) Very cool song! Released after "Time Of The Season" but recorded in 1965. And apparently written for Dusty Springfield.../1 youtu.be/qEnqFHJ6jZE?...

Wordle 1,794 3/6* 🟦⬛⬛🟦⬛ 🟧🟦⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

I just read somewhere that North Americans call the noughties the aughts. Seriously? If I ever moved back to Canada, I swear I'd sound like a complete weirdo with my British colloquialisms and Canadian accent. (and Dutch swear words, lol)

No, Google, I think I won't.

SMALL FACES - TALK TO YOU (extended version) youtu.be/ArgPgMAs8to ‘On this take you hear Steve count the band in plus this has an extended ending. more singing from Steve plus his final shout of "Ok" to end the song.’

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Song with an excellent drum solo Mr Kenny Jones on Rod Stewarts version of I'm losing you youtu.be/pdXd35c6GGU?...

17 April 1966 - Small Faces play the Palais, Ilford. The Pretty Things play the 100 Club, London. The Action play the Corn Exchange, Bristol. #6TYAT #OTD

If your entire feed is all questions and you can't be arsed to engage with ANY answers from ANYbody, that's an unfollow from me, sorry. I'm not there to stroke your effing ego.

"Listen!" says the smug billionnaire who listens to nobody.

Yoooo hoooo @mandobanjoman.bsky.social

17 May 1966 - Small Faces play the Palais, Ilford. Photo: John Rogers #6TYAT #OTD #smallfaces

Trademark extortion scheme alert! 2nd example I've seen of identical email, tho sent out w/ different names/addresses/company names. Goal is to scare writers into responding so they can be pressed to pay big $$$ to "preserve their rights". Needless to say, this is not how trademark or copyright work

Rising Action? 😬

If you see this, post a Star Trek

And the AI fucks up the post.

It might just be me, but if I didn't want people talking about really heinous, unforgivable, shit I'd been accused of, I wouldn't sue my accuser for life-ruining sums of money right when a TV show based on my work premiered, thus reminding people of her accusations and all the other ones.

#MayMusicChallenge #MusicChallenge Day 17: A song about radio "Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me" - Reunion (8 US, 2 RPM, 33 UK 1974) Respect to lead singer/rapper Joey Levine. /1 youtu.be/kySY1rR8_Nk?...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 17: Your favourite summer road trip song Driving from Port Arthur to Toronto, 1969. Finding a radio station was an event! Can't pick just one: "Put A Little Love In Your Heart" - Jackie DeShannon (4 US, 12 RPM, 5 CHUM) /1 youtu.be/Yz41em-5M9Y?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 🎶 Day 17: With love in the title "You Need Love" - Muddy Waters (1962) Papa Song that spawned Baby Songs, "You Need Loving" (Small Faces) and "Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zeppelin). youtu.be/WoqR7ztdTCg?...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Day 17: "If You Don't Want Me" - The Guess Who (b-side "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong" 1967) Burton writes, sings and sounds suspiciously like Mark Lindsey of Paul Revere & The Raiders... youtu.be/zU9K0N6g6-E?...

Wordle 1,793 5/6* 🟦⬛⬛🟦⬛ ⬛🟦🟦⬛⬛ 🟦🟦⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟧🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

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SMALL FACES - HAPPINESS STAN (alternate take) youtu.be/F3cRHdRuAzE ‘Reminds me a bit of the Adams Family and Lurch on the Harpsichord ha. Nice instrumental take from the Small Faces Happiness Stan.’