Deeply naff design and typography and a pic that looks like a passport photo but oh boy, the music inside: www.discogs.com/release/8954... It's long since been superseded by much more comprehensive collections, but this was the best there was when I started digging into 'Plonk', maybe it still is?

Win signed Dire Straits ‘Brothers In Arms’ boxset! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/mk25?utm_c...

If you see this, post an album cover with a car (truck, motorcycle, tractor) on it.

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a GIF? As you wish.

Crikey #Duolingo #completedit

The Israeli military killed 46 Palestinian children overnight. That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October. Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids. That's easy: because there's no outrage

So Fontaines D.C. are the answer to the question "What if Campag Velocet, but Irish" is it?

It's not enough to steal, you have to taunt them with your stolen goods, is it?

The fuss over who appears in TV adverts misses the point...

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white" Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀

A few recent acquisitions for #weekendsingles. Most are Spanish from Daily Records and Revolver Records in Barcelona. All have jubebox centres. Prices seemed a bit dear, but hey I was on holiday. 'Let It Be' bought for the outstanding 'You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)' on the flip, obviously.

Connections Puzzle #865 🟪🟩🟨🟦 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟦🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 As if "shuttlecock" wasn't a ridiculous enough name...

I've got to think that one of the best examples of this is surely The Darkness' Black Shuck. Not a radio version _per se_, but recorded at the behest of Walmart, the revised lyric is "that dog don't give a *duck*" and then instead of a "Woof!" from an East Anglian hellhound it ends with a quack.

Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home". "What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.

Connections Puzzle #864 🟦🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟩🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 I predict this is going to annoy a lot of people today. Unless you're extremely online one of those purples is simply not a thing and barely even then.

The Capri, Model A, Model K and Pop are all Fords Connections Puzzle #862 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

I thought I'd catalogue my latest arrivals from @brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social on @discogsofficial.bsky.social, but apparently Luna has other ideas.

#weekendsingles When I arrived at Wembley last Sunday to see the recently reheated Starlight Express (quite good, but not as good as it was in 1991) I was bummed to see boxes being wheeled out of a record fair at Boxpark. Managed to snag these four up before it was completely over. A bargain at £9!

I mean, hats off NYT Connections person.

NEWS! Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize newsthump.com/2025/10/10/f...

Connections Puzzle #852 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

I'm not awake enough for Connections apparently but 'Big' 'Star' 'Third' 'Sister' 'Lovers' presumably not a coincidence

People like me that are tragics for both Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy *and* vinyl may like to know that there's a copy of the rare Marvin the Paranoid Android "double B side" Reasons to be Miserable on eBay right now: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23637624... I paid £30 for mine at a record fair.

That's *not* the radio version, GHR.

Someone is ready for work, even if I'm not quite there yet myself...

Ethnicities. And identities. Are. Made. Up. We get to choose. Someone can be a Leeds native, a Yorkshireman, a Brit BUT not English. Just take me out and throw me in the sea. I’m done.

Lots of people have covered Norwegian band A-ha's song Take On Me but no-one has ever done it nearly so well as the late lamented Samurai Seven from Oxford. That rare band for whom the patronage of John Peel ultimately never amounted to much, I dunno why.

In and out of the shadows, at the highway of mistakes When you get down, you get down to nowhere You pay your respects to higher stakes

Call me a prescriptivist if you will, but I'm not having reune as a verb, NYT Mini.

Sadly #Gills unbeaten run and its run of games where they scored a goal (club record is 20) both ended today in a 0-1 reverse against Harrogate Town. Gillingham drop two places to 3rd, their opponents climb two to 16th.

Let's hear it for the #Gills! 21 games unbeaten, can they make it 22 vs Harrogate Town?

The cat's well and truly out of the bag now so I can talk about it. 24 years ago this month @simonprice.bsky.social recommended that I check out a new band, The Darkness. I loved them, and went on to work for them as webmaster and aide-de-camp. In November they re-release this, their second album.

CHOTINER: The album is titled "One Way Ticket to Hell and Back" THE DARKNESS: Yeah, it's also a track on the album. CHOTINER: And it's about a one way ticket... TD: ...to Hell and back, yes. CHOTINER: Isn't that a round-trip ticket, by definition? TD: Well, uh CHOTINER: there's a return trip.

Not bad that "Guernica", Pablo, pleased with it yourself? What a sublime bit of writing.

The magnum opus. Twelve and a half minutes long. Never a dull wotsit. The greatest record in the history of blah blah blah by anyone ever, blah, etc. No, but REALLY. This is the one.

My Father My King - Mogwai youtu.be/TbGyPYNZ8y8?... Its odd, but superb in a way many will have never heard before. Its also 20 mins long.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Only I could string out a post-work beer that I miss the first couple of songs by the band I was going to see. Twat. Ah well, it's all going to be alright.

Oh help! Oh no!

I went to Nag Nag Nag at The Ghetto a bunch of times and I never saw Cilla Black on the dancefloor. I took Justin Hawkins there once but that was before he was famous and anyway he left after about 20 minutes. Not really his cup of tea I guess. Larry Tee protégés W.I.T. seem like a glaring omission.

My old school never really hid its small c conservative streak, but I think it may have misjudged the politics of the parents of the boys that go there.

My mum was a big fan of Robert Redford and when I told her she said "Good for him." Mind you this is the same woman who, when I told her of Scott Walker's passing, said "Guess the sun ain't gonna shine for him any more."

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

Max Quordlepleen!

Someone tell LyricFind, used by YouTube Music. They have "speed it up a notch"