Sometimes, just sometimes, you stumble on the Old Internet like I did today. Last updated 18 October 1997. The html is beautiful, looks like he could have written it on a notepad on the bus. leftfield.org/~rawdon/musi...

They probably played this, just like I am now m.soundcloud.com/oombahband/l...

This year I started looking for a version of The Way You Look Tonight by Fred Astaire that strikes a decent balance between crackle, noise reduction and fidelity and I think I've found it youtu.be/DYdyADiDLl0

So their leader's a senator but they're still gonna have a separate Leader In The Senate. And I suppose the deputy leader will be representing the leader in the House.

Oh it is too, I'd forgotten! I've been playing this side of his quite a bit lately. Sure, he made far more significant records than this, but i like it, and that's all the excuse I need. I particularly like the bridge (?) at 1:36-2:01 youtu.be/6duzX92rSbw

Hi gluten free Australian people, the Aldi GF Hot Cross Buns are the most normal tasting ones I've had since i had to go GF. Sure, don't go and buy ten thousand of them on just my advice, but i expected them to be meh at best and was pleasantly surprised.

Ahhh shit.

Speaking of the Louis Armstrong Hot Five recording session of 26/2/1926, of course Heebie Jeebies is an amazing record, and Cornet Chop Suey, wow. But I always had a soft spot for this, recorded later in the day if the master numbers are anything to go by. youtu.be/XQ7SrMGD9Qg

As it turns out, basically spending 5 days on long distance public transport is a really great way to get the lurgy.

The movie I watched today really dated itself by mentioning ICQ.

Thank you Whitney for getting me through the too early train on 4 hours sleep youtu.be/zr3SvOR2rFc

I feel like a bloody camel with this backpack on.

I read this article about Rita Johnson yesterday and one short sentence is still with me - "It's unclear when Rita began drinking heavily." It's just heartbreaking, and might as well say "it's all over now." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

An album important to me when I was 19? That was the year I spent the summer holidays at a mate's in the country. We got into his dad's records and this one got a lot of playing. I knew who Bogle was, but hadn't heard an album. This one got me straight away.

@flemishdog.bsky.social another CD with the full clapping intro of You're The Voice (but a VERY short 3:00 edit of It's The End Of The World As We Know It) www.discogs.com/release/5020...

The best celebration of one of the best years.

A big thank you to Lauren Plant on PBS this morning who played Hazey Jane I when the soft rain was passing overhead. I only landed on PBS because all the other stations were at the news, but I stayed there and will be tuning in next week www.pbsfm.org.au/program/down...

It is far too hot today so it's time for folk music Gigliola. youtu.be/YVoAwbUWPTc

Happy Daryl and John night to all those who celebrate.

An 3MP top 500 songs of all time countdown from the late 80s is pretty good mental floss right now.

Ever since I heard this on Archives 3 it's been a part of the album for me youtu.be/2YOgzpM-3Ec

On December 11, 1936 The Three T's continued their broadcast residency at The Hickory House on West 52nd St in New York. Fortunately Frank Trumbauer had the broadcast recorded and the discs survived, so we can tune in on an 89 year delay. youtu.be/2oYTAf1gzMI?...

If you, like me, watched Arthur's Hallowed Ground about a zillion times when you were younger, and want to see it again, it's on SBS World Movies on Wed, Thu and Fri, and also on SBS On Demand www.imdb.com/title/tt0090...

And i just heard that Alex Hood went last week too. mudcat.org/thread.cfm?t... blog.bushmusic.org.au/2025/12/vale...

- I think I can fit 695 MB on this CD-R for the car - Goodness that's burning quickly, i thought i said 8x - oh well it finished and verified ok, let's grab it and head out the door - it's not working, maybe an incompatible file system? But I thought it got it right... It was a DVD-R.

I have spent the entire day either humming the opening trombone line Ray gave to himself, or the "ba ba dum"s of the women's/trumpet line. Catchy as anything.

Ted Egan has died. And here I was thinking he might just live forever. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

About a thousand years ago I saw Sarah Blasko on that tour at Ruby's in Belgrave with her band at the time. Ethereal on some tunes, intense on others, it was amazing. It's so good she went on to big things, but that little show still sticks in my mind.

Ooh, I certainly did, and everything else i could get my hands on. youtu.be/kLJkEk3F4cI

I did!

Gentle nothing.

Loving the scuzzy Australian 60s rock on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social this afternoon. Even scuzzier on 855 AM!

Gough's famous moment as seen on TV in 1975, 1995 and restored from the original film in 2015. You can read about the restoration at www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/dismi... if you're into that sort of thing, I certainly am.

Also, in other early 90s chart observations, Hothouse Flowers had a number 1, platinum album here without a top 20 single. Genuinely well done to whoever decided to push them to the albums market.

I was reminded of this by the recent Paul Dempsey cover. Angry wasn't something Michael Hutchence did often but it sounds good on him. youtu.be/CIVamkD07L0

The opening 45 seconds of Rachmaninov's arrangement of Liebesleid remind me of something and I just can't put my finger on it. youtu.be/gGmILVnE_dg

This week's earworm has come to me via Techmoan youtu.be/LTU3XHWS0kc - excellent transfer from Nick Dellow.

Anyway I am off for a brain cleanse, because I feel like I've lost some of it reading about today's discourse. This runs a bit slow, but it's straight off a metal mother and sounds superb. youtu.be/4-Y9NcqUHY4

Jeez, imagine what happens when she finds out what their name of the arisen phoenix was.

I've been listening to charts from 35 years ago this month and been really enjoying some tunes I was too blinkered to like back then.

Got the sheets and towels washed and dried outside this morning and now I'm watching the afternoon rain with a cup of tea. It really doesn't get much better than this.

An app notification just addressed me as "Hey Trendsetter", and i thought Rodney Rude had retired.

Listening to old home recordings of a mate, and between songs we're chatting and he says "nah I didn't get anything, it was $7.50 for bacon and eggs, so screw that."

Like The Lonesome Jubilee, I bought this album when I was far too young to understand it, but years later realised just how good it really is.

Wasn't expecting to have a sniffle cleaning the kitchen on a Sunday morning but here we are, hey? youtu.be/imHkz5nD6gs

That would explain the big change in the ARIA charts then - anything more that 2 years old has been shoved over into its own chart as of last month. So the massive runs of Riptide, Mr Brightside, Someone You Loved etc are over. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

@flemishdog.bsky.social speaking of aspect ratios, i was looking at a superjesus music video from 2003 on the bonus DVD that came with the CD (how 2000s), and it was 2.33:1 letterboxed into a 16:9 frame, then horizontally squashed to 4:3.

It's the "you know together we're glowing" line from Golden that gets me every damn time.