#TheN0ughtie5 1️⃣5️⃣ LCD Soundsystem | Losing My Edge | 2005 The aging hipter's lament. But fair play, debut single as manifesto is a proper move. Also known for #FearofMU21C youtu.be/6xG4oFny2Pk?...

#SongBuilding 1️⃣1️⃣ Skyscraper Underworld | Mmm ... Skyscraper I Love You | Dubnobasswithmyheadman | 1994 This track is indeed a beautiful thing: Karl Hyde intoning nonsense over a construction of beats, pulses and washes. Architectural. youtu.be/5KsUzH9x6M4?...

#SongBuilding 1️⃣0️⃣ Arch The Walker Brothers | Archangel | <b-side> | 1966 The church organ is incredible on this. A song which could fit seamlessly into Scott 2 or Scott 3 youtu.be/quIHqyxZszA?...

Sometimes it's good to make fetch happen

My brain is slowly braising in the Le Creuset of my skull

#TheN0ughtie5 1️⃣6️⃣ Beverly Knight | Coulda Woulda Shoulda | 2001 True story. During a Logica awayday for staff managers they had one of the best presentations I've ever seen on project management, which was themed around this song. Also #NOWPOP40 youtu.be/0d0JUiBCakg?...

#TheN0ughtie5 1️⃣7️⃣ Vampire Weekend | Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa | 2009 A song you put on and the world is a better place for a few minutes youtu.be/9wHl9qRsMzw?...

#SongBuilding 9️⃣ Classical Yussef Dayes ft Venna & Charlie Stacey | Black Classical Music | Black Classical Music | 2023 Jazz innit youtu.be/qw6MY45tK6o?...

#SongBuilding 8️⃣ Castle Halsey | Castle | Badlands | 2015 You gotta admire the deft use of the Agnus Dei to signal "Medieval". And that it's a sample taken from the video game Stronghold is 👨‍🍳💋 youtu.be/Vk0xkd8qs9I?...

#TheN0ughtie5 1️⃣8️⃣ Natacha Atlas | Ghanwa Bossanova | 2006 | Album: Mish Maoul My second and last non-single pick. A super chilled fixture of my summer playlists youtu.be/gYiR203D61c?...

I've just finished re-reading @greatdismal.bsky.social Idoru, and I imagine that Rei Toei's holographic glow is just like this

#TheN0ughtie5 1️⃣9️⃣ Kelis | Milkshake | 2004 Having watched the video I think maybe this paean to thick sweet dairy-based drinks with a cherry on top might have some kind of subtext Previously featured in #NOWPOP40 #FearofMU21C youtu.be/6AwXKJoKJz4?...

#SongBuilding 7️⃣ Station Melvins | Station To Station | Everyone Loves Sausages | 2013 You'll need to stick with this one. The experimental rock dudes turn in an ultimately faithful cover version here. JG Thirlwell helps out on vocals. youtu.be/pabmB-2SFsA?...

The Bonk must flow!

Yep

Karma cracks open a trippel #USABEL #FIFAWorldCup2026

Pochettino has the chance to do something which would win him the undying love and respect of football fans around the world but also the undying enmity of Trump.

#TheN0ughtie5 2️⃣0️⃣ Charles Bradley w/ Menahan Street Band | The World Is Going Up In Flames | 2007 Obviously Suits is now more famous for giving the world Meghan Markle, but the early series featured some damn fine songs. A #FearofMU21C pick

#SongBuilding 6️⃣ Roof Vampire Weekend | Mansard Roof | s/t | 2008 🎶I see a mansard roof through the trees I see a salty message written in the eaves The ground beneath my feet, the hot garbage and concrete And now the tops of buildings, I can see them too🎶 youtu.be/JlgNFwoApec?...

Sunlight is breaking through the cracks in the curtains, must be time for bed

Keith Starmer needs to declare this afternoon a public siesta

How on earth are we supposed to go to sleep after that?

Those lads in the Dublin Fire Station online right now ordering pickled herring and brown cheese for Saturday

Football! Bloody hell! #BRAENG #FIFAWorldCup2026

Crikey! #Bellingham #MEXENG #FIFAWorldCup2026

Ancelotti hasn't even got the energy to raise an eyebrow at that. #Haaland #BRANOR #FIFAworldCup2026

"Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, score the goal".

The citizens of Dublin can rest safe in the knowledge that these people are professional firefighters, trained to deal with the effects of hot sauce.

Oh boy, that was always going to happen wasn't it. #Haaland #BRANOR #FifaWorldCup2026

file under Too True To Be Funny

Sepp Blatter is just open-mouthed in admiration. The imagination! The audacity!

The inaugural recipient of the 2027 FIFA World Justice Prize writes ...

The scriptwriters of this US politics show continue to jettison credible plotlines in favour of jump scares and grotesqueies

My lad is a goalie so I'm always inclined to root for the person between the sticks. But even so, that was a shocking penalty from Guimaraes. #BARNOR #FifaWorldCup26

#TheN0ughtie5 2️⃣1️⃣ Tracey Thorn | Get Around to It | 2007 | Album: Out of the Woods She just has a knack for taking someone else's song and making it her own. For a long time I didn't realise this was a cover verion (Arthur Russell) but then I am often slow on the uptake. youtu.be/Q5JpK-eoLac?...

#SongBuilding 5️⃣ Arcade Chris & Cosey | Arcade | Exotika | 1987 AKA the other The Other Two. Back in the 80s Psychic TV and Coil were the post-TG groups which attracted my attention, but now I find I've outgrown them and grwon into Carter Tutti youtu.be/poHSqh13RG8?...

By the time I was 15 I'd read LOTR a couple of times and the Dune trilogy* a couple of times, and I chose ... JG Ballard 🏚️🌴🚘👨‍🚀 * as it was then

#SongBuilding 4️⃣ Lighthouse Hawkwind | Lighthouse | Live '79 | 1980 "If it's me and yer granny on Korg MS-20 it's the Hawkwind" D Brock . In this case with Tim Blake on the moody keys. youtu.be/Zymx1sdTvV4?...

#TheN0ughtie5 2️⃣2️⃣ Burial | Ghost Hardware | 2007 My second pick for South London's (no longer) mysterious sonic manipulator youtu.be/ZCvu1QQ2Slg?...

"KO time" seems like a brutal but accurate assessment of England's chances of progressing

Lion Of Duty

When you plan to drop by @merchantshallyork.org today ...

@clairewillett.bsky.social #TheN0ughtie5 2️⃣3️⃣ Gnarls Barkley | Crazy | 2006 One of those 2000s tracks whose popularity transcends age and genre affiliation. It's got a good beat, y'know? Previously nominated in #NOWPOP40 #FearofMU21C youtu.be/-N4jf6rtyuw?...

@clairewillett.bsky.social #SongBuilding 3️⃣ Pyramid Four Tet | Pyramid | Pink | 2012 I'll probably pick a bunch of electronica tracks as there's an affinity bewteen synthesized music and architecture, something to do with engineering and assemblage youtu.be/pliTlT-uDZg?...

Pope Leo XIV to the Fraternal Society of St. Pius X

#AdoorableThursday St Mark's Chapel, Bletchingley

#AdoorableThursday St Mark's Chapel, Bletchingley

The Guardian finally catches up with taste-maker @causticcovercritic.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

#SongBuilding 2️⃣ Modern Shirley Bassey | Goldfinger | Goldfinger | 1964 As you know, Fleming named the Bond villain after Ernő Goldfinger, because he despised the architect's modernist style youtu.be/Tvl8KH6WBO8?...

#TheN0ughtie5 2️⃣4️⃣ Spiller ft Sophie Ellis-Bextor | Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) | 2000 The first appearance of the future queen of #KitchenDisco*. A #NOWPOP40 pick * for me, I have never knowlingly heard theaudience youtu.be/FI3gn4APNXc?...