#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 1️⃣5️⃣ A song about a fictional character The Fall | Dice Man | Dragnet | 1979 Not as dangerous as reading the novel, yeah? #FallFriday youtu.be/ArJ9EMxsf9c?...

#MayBeNot Day 1️⃣5️⃣ The Fall | Nate Will Not Return | Ersatz G.B. | 2011 Wikipedia says:"The album marks the first time in the history of the Fall that the group have released three consecutive studio albums recorded with the same line-up." #FallFriday youtu.be/K7Vctn0Pin0?...

#AdoorableThursday #Borough

#MayBeNot Day 14 Loona | Why Not? | single | 2020 I was going to post the Hilary Duff song but the Wikipedia disambiguation page led me here, and, well, why not? youtu.be/b6li05zh3Kg?...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 1️⃣4️⃣ A musical artist who has also acted in a film Mick Jagger | Memo From Turner | Performance OST | 1970 I have already picked Bowie and C P Grogan in this challenge, so ... youtu.be/lP0zsWupANs?...

🎶I'm not joining conventional rock band The conventional is experimental The conventional is now experimental And is no way noble And I'm no chock stock thing So stop mithering🎶

#MayBeNot Day 1️⃣3️⃣ Sault | Don't Waste My Time | 5 | 2019 Some of their earliest work, from when they were still a secret squirrel type of operation youtu.be/LzbAWmcnR_E?...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 13: A song about an historical event The Chi-Lites | There Will Be No Peace (Until God Is Seated At The Conference Table) | Toby | 1974 Side eye at the Paris Peace Accords 1973-74 youtu.be/LqtfR5TBhL0?...

Begin afresh, afresh, afresh (Philip Larkin)

Make a band out of two others? Stetasonic Youth

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 1️⃣2️⃣ A song with a male’s name in the title Momus | Nicky | Nicky EP | 1985 Nick Currie translates Brel's Jackie in a highly personal way: it's sly, clever, funny and wicked. Just like Momus in fact youtu.be/xP1qvEAg9yw?...

#MayBeNot Day 1️⃣2️⃣ Cassandra Wilson | I Can't Stand The Rain | Blue | 1993 It's hard to beat the original, but this jazz-blues take has a splendour all of its own youtu.be/52p6PLoucsI?...

Slightly increase a band: 6ive

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 1️⃣1️⃣ A song with a female’s name in the title Belle & Sebastian | String Bean Jean | Dog On Wheels EP | 1997 This EP started a run of amazing releases. Just some YTS kids growing into greatness. youtu.be/K2rc-Tj8fnc?...

#MayBeNot Day 1️⃣1️⃣ Hawkwind | You Shouldn't Do That | In Search of Space | 1971 Starting the week with some crunchiness youtu.be/RhUKB1DK3OE?...

CYBERWOIM!!!

#5DebutAlbums9599 Belle and Sebastian | Tigermilk | 1996 Basically you could construct a respectable top 5 out of nothing but Scottish debuts. Hardly any of us outside Glasgow heard this at the time of its initial release, so thank the Lord for the reissue youtu.be/_2OcymYkkqI?...

#5DebutAlbums9599 Arab Strap | The Week Never Starts Round Here | 1996 TBF the album is marred by the inclusion of sketches but overall the songs are completely solid. youtu.be/Mo8kh6EJ1dc?...

#5DebutAlbums9599 Dot Allison | Afterglow | 1999 Her out of One Dove. A bit of a Polachek who has worked with loads of cool artists (and Pete Doherty) without impinging on the wider public. Fittingly this was released on Heavenly Records, because it's y'know heavenly. youtu.be/zimx6RrH08Y?...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 1️⃣0️⃣ A song about mothers Clarence Smith | Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child | Whatever Happened To Love? | 1973 A rather groovesome take on despair youtu.be/UqlL4njhsjQ?...

#MayBeNot Day 1️⃣0️⃣ Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes | 99 1/2 Won't Do | ? | ?1950s? As we learned in #Let5D0It the documentation of early Black music is shamefully incomplete. But at least we have the recordings youtu.be/u3KQ1lQBrHg?...

#MayBeNot Day 9️⃣ Caribou | Can't Do Without You | Our Love | 2014 Simple and affecting caribouband.bandcamp.com/track/cant-d...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 9️⃣ Your favorite artist from the 2020s Loula Yorke | monolithic undertow | speak, thou vast and venerable head | 2024 The queen of modular synthesis quietdetails.bandcamp.com/track/monoli...

Missed the hashtags on this yesterday 🙄 #EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge

Day 8️⃣ Your favorite artist from the 2010s Michael Kiwanuka | I've Been Dazed | Kiwanuka | 2019 The best album of the decade? It gets my vote youtu.be/HEqeRL4LRuE?...

#MayBeNot Day 8️⃣ The Fall | You're Not Up To Much | Middle Class Revolt | 1994 I wonder which of his exes this was about? #FallFriday 🎶Too much Warehouse shop Too many fancy hats Clothes imitation A body map🎶 youtu.be/EqjCXsVkLu4?...

Happy #FallFriday to all who celebrate!

#MayBeNot Day 7️⃣ Kylie | Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head | Brit Awards | 2002 This smashing together of two iconic dance tracks gave the boffins at CERN the idea to build a Large Hadron Collider youtu.be/Ysn_Lad-zsg?...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 7️⃣ Your favorite artist from the 2000s Grizzly Bear | Knife | Yellow House | 2006 Life meant I didn't follow music as closely as before. So I first heard of Grizzly Bear by reading Sasha Frere-Jones in The New Yorker 😬 youtu.be/quU_TyL_xc0?...

The Pope flying back to Chicago to sort out an issue with his bank account

We live on a street with a tube station at one end of it. Consequently a large number of e-bikes and e-scooters builds up at the station entrance. Frequently they are dumped higgledy-piggedly, often on the pavement. Today the Lime bike infestation spread to the other side of the road.

Every month I remember the OT's side-eyed galnce at my stash of @quietdetails.bsky.social CDs and think, maybe she's right and we do have enough ambient music. And every month QD releases something like this. I mean, come on, it's music made from THE SOUND OF WORMS!!!

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 6️⃣ Your favorite artist from the 1990s Orbital | Are We Here? | Snivilisation | 1994 What a flippin' record youtu.be/pKY3emCtaik?...

#MayBeNot Day 6️⃣ Anohni & The Johnsons | Can't | My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross | 2023 Straight to the point youtu.be/h6pQFPDtobg?...

FINAL DAY! I'm doing a RAFFLE Tickets are just £2 each. THE WINNER ANNOUNCED TODAY! The Prize? ALL these SIGNED books + £50 to spend on books of your choice! The money raised is going on books for two amazing schools Details HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex... PLEASE REPOST.

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 5️⃣ Your favorite artist from the 1980s Sonic Youth | Teen Age Riot | Daydream Nation | 1988 🎶Time to get it Before you let it get to you🎶 youtu.be/xvDuATZCY8I?...

#MayBeNot Day 5️⃣ David Shrigley | Don'ts | Late Night Tales: Four Tet (v/a) | 2011 🚨Important PSA from David Shrigley🚨 youtu.be/prKQuLL7_Og?...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 4: Your favorite artist* from the 1970s David Bowie | Blackout | "Heroes" | 1977 Just about the mid-point of that amazing run of albums from Young Americans to Scary Monster *Based solely on 70s output youtu.be/BaheeJgRYkA?...

#MayBeNot Day 4️⃣ Yazoo | Don't Go | Upstairs At Eric’s | 1982 Don't Leave. Don't Leave. Don't Go. Is my P/L developing a theme? 🤔 youtu.be/_sQGwDeambg?...

Happy Space Force Day to all who celebrate! 🚀🤖🎊 Set phasers to phun!!!

Unai Emery in the press conference addressing the dogshit performance of his team

Slightly diminish a book: Deaf Souls

Slightly diminish a book: Rogue Kale

#MayBeNot Day 3️⃣ Momus | Don't Leave | b-side | 1986 Nicky Currie with his own translation of Brel's Ne Me Quitte Pas youtu.be/9mUoz1kXqUo?...

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 3️⃣ A favorite artist from the 1960s The Supremes | Stoned Love | New Ways but Love Stays | 1970 Not trying to be controversial by posting a track from the post-Ross version of the group, I was just in the mood to hear this song youtu.be/KXGabuGle1A?...

Simon is a good egg. So once again I am encouraging other people to diminish my chances of winning some free books.

It's not shoplifting if it's a free transfer

Gotta make the most of the English asparagus season while it lasts