#TheN0ughtie5 day 18 33. mariah carey ft snoop dogg - say somethin' 🇺🇸 released - april 2006 charts - uk #27 one of her most underrated songs from an artist who will be back with another of her most underrated songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxH...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 18. a classical piece beethoven - 'pathetique' piano sonata, 3rd movement *snarky voice* pathetic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJpS...

This is too much, at that point it would still be happening at the bank and stuff and I don’t want to put that on the people who work at the bank

only just realised that the world cup being on means that i'm supposed to take some sort of interest in it, ngl it's daunting

listening to my very best of elton tape again and noticing that it's got all the bad covers (lucy in the sky, pinball wizard) no one remembers on it as well as passangers and bloody nikita, fair to say that he never really perfected the greatest hits formula til diamonds 😔

Centrist dads all for getting rid of the BBC radio stations they don't listen to, is it?

no one remembers this

tough thing about being Sting is that if he has sex and it only lasts 45 minutes he probably has to be embarrassed and do the whole this never happens to me thing

Well, that was a fucking ride.

Come on, Gland.

What an excellent opportunity for me to post this

this is why bluesky needs polls, how else are the official polling community supposed to go about their business?!

i am posting what are known as "takes" i believe, follow me for more such things

seeing "the bbc should get rid of radio 1 and 2 to save radio 4" takes on the tl and yes, i too believe they should dump everything about the bbc that people enjoy in order to save their reactionary political coverage, that's sure to be a vote winner and help the cause to boot

inevitably there's more ballgown coverage than analysis but i'm enjoying it, i had hoped for more writing about her music tho and it bothers me that even w/good writers and a pop artist who is (notionally) taken as seriously as ariana it's hard to find a book more about her music than her celebrity

started watching waterloo road from the start and i'm getting some good memeable content

jack antonoff talking about the influence of the mountain goats on him, the JD <> taylor connection made manifest! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

the true fourth wave of ska

#TheN0ughtie5 day 17 34. MF DOOM - hoe cakes 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 released - november 2004 top beatboxing, conceptually dubious, it's a DOOM classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv6k...

"Clement Attlee, Henry Cooper, Lady Diana" is a marvellous piece of stream of consciousness ... “Lord Beaverbrook! Sir Winston Churchill! Sir Anthony Eden! Clement Attlee! Henry Cooper! Lady Diana! Maggie Thatcher! Can you hear me?"

Norway's greatest World Cup qualifying moment was of course Bjorge Lillelien's 1981 commentary after the shock victory over England. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZT...

I have found myself explaining to more than one bewildered Norwegian how this is a canonical English footballing moment.

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 17. a song with falling or flying in the title selena gomez and the scene - falling down the ultimate teen rebellion (watching yr friend fail, waiting for them to come crawling back...being quite happy with that) www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dAD...

"labour is a socially liberal party" factoid actualy just statistical error. average labour cabinet minister is 0% liberal. bisexual roy, who does not live in a cave & wants people to have over 10,000 civil liberties, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

still wading thru one more love and this stands out (estelle just pops up every so often here and there doesn't she) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgc1...

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seeing the "any democrat could run uk politics" take again and i am thinking once more about all the democrats who have notably failed to beat *checks notes* donald trump

bluesky seems esp deranged today, getting crossover from american politics and also just the loons, sometimes entertaining, sometimes just a bit exhausting

missed the 20 point question on ten to the top, was one year out and it was a guetta question, triple failure 😢

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 16. a band with more than one vocalist saturday looks good to me - the girl's distracted fred and betty in action! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aChx...

#TheN0ughtie5 day 16 35. scissor sisters - laura 🇺🇸 released - oct 2003 charts - uk #12 sh'mon www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-0d...

another fine random selection of artists on the chart website

clear that the youth must be protected from this kind of damaging content (almost all these bands are 50 years old)

in conclusion, bluesky is a land of contrasting class analysis

continuing my survey of the old fashioned mens magazine market (i was curious if such a thing still existed) and i am assailed with this image which feels straight out on an issue of FHM (surely its spiritual forebear)

was having a quick look at uk GQ's music coverage which i'd remembered being pretty good thru 2023/24, apparently they've fired all their good journalists and now publish articles on why rock is cool again and how the cure are the hottest band of the summer 😢

will the legacy of harms done by short dick man by gillette ever end smdh

#TheN0ughtie5 day 15 36. MGMT - time to pretend 🇺🇸 released - march 2008 charts - uk #35 i didn't really know it at the time so it's fine, my pick is spiritually better than the other ones for this www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9dS...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 15. a live song fleetwood mac - landslide (live) best version www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7-...

just realised that this is what they're doing

giving this a listen and it takes a bit to get going but actually this is pretty good link.deezer.com/s/33ysy71VWE...

#TheN0ughtie5 day 14 37. josé gonzález - heartbeats 🇸🇪 released - january 2006 charts - uk #9 the definitive version, as i'm sure everyone will agree 🤺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOsR...

catching up on the new hits on spotify autoplay (get that sweet sweet payola!): ariana - still good gaga/doechii - banger! charli - growing on me surprisingly madonna - new one isn't bad at all jungle - this is bad

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 14. a song with hot or cold in the title zara larsson - hot and sexy she's the moment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=drsg...

becky g rolling out the trashy bangers, nature is healing www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZmJ...

tori amos voice: "it's gotta be big"

becoming clear to me that my #TheN0ughtie5 list is a mix of classic and forgotten hits punctuated by obvs indie disco classics that could have been picked by anyone, possibly the inverse of what it would have been a few years ago when it would have consisted largely of songs known by about 3 people

stalled quite early on in the long guardian article about taylor, starts quite well and then degenerates into a long list of not very much that i vaguely knew already and didn't care about

i'm glad food discourse has returned to my tl because i was starting to forget what website i was on tbh, now if only someone could start saying that it's rubbish then we'll really know where we are

only watching this if it ends with a wrestling match between all the surviving members