The Shangri-Las and the Sonics, Seattle Teen Spectacular, 1966. Photo:Jini Dellaccio

(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone Daydream Believer Mary, Mary Last Train To Clarksville I’m A Believer She (very close runner-up)

Today’s reassuringly satisfying realisation: EVERYONE. LOVES. THE. MONKEES.

This wasn't released as a single in the UK, but demand for it was so strong that it was imported from Holland in such quantities that it became the highest placed import single in chart history. The second highest placed? Also The Jam, with That's Entertainment. They were a pretty popular band.

Brad posting a thread of Carole King’s demo recordings of her Monkees songs is just one reason why I ❤️ my echo chamber. cc @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social

Gonna go with five written by members of the band Do I Have To Do This All Over Again (Long Title) Mary Mary For Pete's Sake Circle Sky Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title)

Porpoise Song Goin' Down Tapioca Tundra The Girl I Knew Somewhere The Door Into Summer

A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You For Pete’s Sake Someday Man Valleri Shades of Grey

#weekendsingles Two from the TW fair yesterday…

The Girl I Knew Somewhere Saint Matthew As We Go Along The Door Into Summer Randy Scouse Git

Boiler House at the former offices of Thomas C Keay Ltd, Dundee. Pic: Simon Phipps

Morning everyone. Something picked up without realising this week. Flexidisc's eh? (Was inside sleeve of an album I picked up.) Think prev owner may have colour coded stuff. #weekendsingles #musicsky #vinyl

Interviewed John Cameron a few years back and he spoke fondly of Ken Loach and the kids who starred in Kes. His music for the film remains so evocative of time and place. Love this piece - still makes me thing of the Saturday mornings of my childhood - yay, no school! youtu.be/LFMT6QvAKs4?...

Amicus' second anthology takes a great cast to a funfair of fear care of superbly sinister tales from Robert Bloch. Maybe less loved but no less fun. 1967. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

Today I saw a Walrus. Four of them actually, and some crocodiles, dolphins and herons. The Grand Fountain, Fountain Gardens, Paisley.

My wee sis sings in Glasgow choir The Parsonage (named from Gram Parsons). Went along to their 20th birthday celebrations today - they did John Grant, the Stooges & Hank Williams numbers amongst others! Was most thrilled to catch Sister John too.

Official release date is July 3, but you can now stream and purchase the entire Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane set AT IRIDIUM 2004. 14 full performances recorded over 6 days - *16 hours of music!* ceciltaylor-bam.bandcamp.com/album/at-iri...

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School from ‘80 #ramones #MusicSky #VinylSky

Hutcheson Grammar School on the southside of Glasgow. Designed by Thomson and Sandilands with Renaissance and Baroque details, it was built in 1910. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #glasgowschools

My grandmother, born on this day, 1864 in a two roomed flat up a tenement stair at 124 Duke Street Glasgow. Then a busy noisy street, much of the traffic horse-drawn, lined with shops of all kinds. 124 is now a patch of grass and the street more or less deserted except for traffic passing through.

More football tonight! At least it’s a game I care about for a change. If you do too you’ll want some good beers to watch it with. That’s the shop open for the day, till 6pm. Come on Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Old Woolies, Springburn Rd, #Glasgow 1959. (Angela Pryde)

I've dismissed the idea of a one hit wonder in my piece about @petepaphides.bsky.social's new collection of early Musical Youth recordings for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

From Maximum RocknRoll August 2006 #FallFriday

Here's a playlist of the Clientele tunes that got most votes in this poll. The fact that the top five tracks come from five different LPs spanning almost 20 years underlines what a consistently brilliant band they are open.spotify.com/playlist/64O...

Niche, I know, but never thought I'd ever hear this again - my first Fall gig, at Glasgow's Plaza Ballroom in 1981. My late bestie and I, both aged 15, got the 23 bus to the show. He had a four-pack of Breaker Malt Liquor and a half-bottle of Eldorado Tonic Wine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDcy...

Alice Mary Gordon #author on aesthetic domestic electricity. Worked with 1st husband electrical #engineer J.E.H. Gordon in movement to promote domestic use of electricity, using #Kensington home as a showcase. 1891 wrote book Decorative Electricity. d. #OTD 18 Jun 1929 #WomenInSTEM bit.ly/31HFIlI

1965

This week finds Frank sniffing out delicious yeasty aromas in McNeil Street. The French fancy of a building was designed by Glasgow architects, Donald Bruce (1834–1919) and Edward Alexander Buckingham Hay (1855–1934).

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has 'evaded tough decisions' and been 'badly managed', broadcaster Stuart Cosgrove has said, after the corporation announced plans for sweeping cuts which will hit Scotland

Yeah, no thanks, I'll pass. That sled thing does NOT look like it meets OSHA standards. - The Champions #8, Oct 1976

I love British reggae: the homespun nature and the mixture of Jamaican stylings and British references. And this new collection of Musical Youth's early years is brilliant: dubs, militancy, guest singers, and the real father of Pass The Dutchie. burningshed.com/tag/Musical_...

A thing of beauty! 😍🐦🌳🔔🐟

Taking a moment to remember the great Tenor Fly who we lost a decade ago Tune: Tenor Fly & Deman Rockers ‘Dan Man’ Image: Deman in the Wrongtom Meets Ragga Twins ‘Follow Fashion’ video which we shot not long after Tenor died

Seems he still has much to rid………… Another tour! @inlandempire777.bsky.social

Tonight on TCM #TCM THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974) Nothing says 1974 like this blazing disaster movie. I saw it when it came out. I was 16, Even then I knew it was silly but fun entertainment.🎥

TIL that the person in this famous photo (Skinhead, John Downing, 1980) was Kathy Burke's then boyfriend. If you want the full story behind the photo, and the boy, listen to Kathy talking to Adam Buxton. It's a great interview. www.adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/82d...

“The King of Duntrine had a daughter when he was old, and she was the fairest King’s daughter between two seas…” —Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Song of the Morrow” is the last of his twenty published FABLES. An eerie, looping tale, it could be described as a fictional Möbius strip #WyrdWednesday 💙📚

Did a Baker’s Dozen for @thequietus.com themed around reinvention of the guitar - half Still In A Dream era heroes and half their hallowed ancestors of noisepop chaos and sonic overload thequietus.com/interviews/b...

The Tennors scored a hit in 1967 with Pressure & Slide, but when they wanted to record a follow-up, no-one was interested. They ended up producing Ride Your Donkey themselves and it became an even bigger hit... youtu.be/NdHpM0zMZT8?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

The Feelies may have made a better Velvet Underground live album than 1969: The Velvet Underground Live, and I'm not kidding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqbz...

Here's the building's predecessor, the Theatre Royal, in the aftermath of the fire in 1829. Glasgow endures... (artuk.org/discover/art...)

‘Anyone who thinks that the sportswashing which stains the contemporary game is a recent development might be grimly consoled by its precedents.’ Simon Skinner on the history of the World Cup, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

An excellent name for a brand of umbrella, too

“The Muirs gave Kafka a distinctive voice in English for half a century: fluent, formal, enigmatic and mesmeric” – but a new, award-winning study of Kafka’s translators has almost completely erased their work from literary history, says Boyd Tonkin engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...

Arguably the greatest Bond theme written for Donna Summer then offered to Debbie Harry who refused to sing it, instead recording her own theme song with Blondie which was rejected, and future Prince collaborator Sheena Easton was hired against the wishes of co-composer Bill "Gonna Fly Now" Conti

On Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicisation Without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/15/h...