A lot of my music discovery and listening around #5DebutAlbums0509 period was via BitTorrent, or USB's so there's plenty I only have on mp3 Fever Ray - ace wonky electropop Leisure Society - lovely folk rock songs Bad Lieutenant - Barney's singing might be the best bits Annie - A great single..

West Streeting chooses his friends carefully...

#TheTenX5 Day 12 Sauna Youth - Transmitters 2015 Released on a split single in true lo fi indie style youtu.be/JgdAoAdwwBI?...

#StandaloneSingles Day 12 Young Marble Giants - Final Day

Oh look, we have a tax-dodging British billionaire who resides in Monaco telling you it’s the immigrants that are stealing all of britains resources, not tax dodging billionaires who reside in fucking Monaco. Fuck off, Rat.

#5DebutAlbums0509 A couple of collaborations here...can't quite shake off their roots. I think I preferred the second one at the time. Still do although the 60's retro charm has worn off a bit

#StandaloneSingles Day 12 Scott Walker - The Lights of Cincinnatti youtu.be/46yBoVhJtSM?...

Reform politicians are happy to throw insults from a distance. But when it comes to debating their ideas? No show. Richard Tice pulled out. Farage won’t face me. Now their candidate in Gorton & Denton has ducked our candidate Hannah Spencer. Vote Green.

Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children. Recognised refugees. Denied the right to reunite with their children. It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied. So yes, he’s hated.

#TheTenX5 Day 11 Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better 2015 youtu.be/lJJT00wqlOo?...

If Starmer is serious about a "reset" for Labour then one of the first things which needs to happen is that he boots Mahmood, and others, out of the cabinet and scraps his government's cruel and inhumane policies and rhetoric against migrants, and other marginalised groups. #r4today

Imagine being presented with these accounts of stark unfairness and insecurity caused by the earned settlement plans and your response being ‘It is a privilege not a right to settle in the UK and it must be earned’ - the Home Secretary needs to go www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

TheTenX5 Day 10 Jeffrey Lewis - LP's 2019 This might resonate with some of you... "and that's the way I got the disease" youtu.be/3urXygZXb74?...

#StandaloneSingles Day 10 Soul II Soul - Back To Life I don't think the Acapella on Club Classics really counts does it? 12" club mix youtu.be/b8DtH10VFEA?...

How to alienate the people who vote for you in 10 easy steps.. George sums up the failings of this Labour govt pretty well here .. then you realize there's at least another ten points he could have added..

#5DebutAlbums0509 Euros Childs - Chops Chops for tea tonight... Like most of his solo albums there's quite a mixture on here Surf Rage is my favourite youtu.be/Gws6go4gDSM?...

I want a PM who when fascist cunts show up less than a mile from my house to harass refugees, making my wife (who is black) worried to walk our streets, has my back. I didn't get that from Starmer in what has been a long grinding summer and autumn of the scum gathering here.

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci almost made the pop charts with this wonderful single. The songwriting genius of Gorky's Euros Childs will be on show when he performs live with Norman Blake at FRETS on Friday 20th Feb in the Strathaven Hotel. Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/685253

#TheTenX5 Day 9 Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra - Any Fucking Thing You Love 2014 "There's always been a dance element to our misery.." Almost no relation to the 2005 album track - The zany Mt Zions surprise us with two big dancefloor bangers.. theesilvermtzion.bandcamp.com/album/hang-o...

#StandaloneSingles Day 9 1981 Grandmaster Flash - Adventures on the Wheels of Steel Hard to describe how extraordinary this sounded.. youtu.be/gXNzMVLqIHg?...

#5DebutAlbums0509 Sibylle Baier - Colour Green A home recording from the 70s finally released in 2006. Might sneak into my 5 orangetwinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/colour...

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

#TheTenX5 Day 8 2014 Fat White Family - Touch The Leather This video should have a content warning.. I wonder if it will? youtu.be/vhHTxhE1mAU?...

#StandaloneSingles Day 8 Maceo & The Macks - 'Cross The Track 1974 "Toot your tooter baby" youtu.be/qnlo-6qz5MU?...

Nothing to see here just the British Home Office calling people who are totally legally seeking asylum (as is their right, enshrined in international law) "illegal immigrants" Christ 🙄

Last 4 #WeekendSingles for today that weren't quite makin' the cut for my theme...

Offerin' up Part 2 of my theme for #WeekendSingles It's stopped raining so I might even go out this morning!

#TheTenX5 Day 7 Rhianna ft Calvin Harris - We Found Love 2011 youtu.be/tg00YEETFzg?...

#StandaloneSingles Day 7 Judy Clay & William Bell - Private Number 1968 Can't find many of my soul singles that aren't on LP's. This one is gorgeous. youtu.be/X37YS3k6kI4?...

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmamac The ultimate 'album tracks that should have been singles' album must be this... Back in my parallel universe, ABC had a run of smash hits with Valentine's Day, 4 Ever 2 Gether, Many Happy Returns and Date Stamp (#1 for 7 weeks)

#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac In a parallel universe. The Fall released their third album on CBS, had two top 40 hits with Container Drivers and New Face in Hell, then split up and were never heard of again..

Mornin' all I've been thinkin' about this theme inspired by a few singles I bought last year and got round to organizin' it yesterday.. #WeekendSingles Part 1 Details in Alt

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#5DebutAlbums50s60s Dusty Springfield This reissue is missing two tracks compared with the original 🤷 Might sneak in my 5

#StandaloneSingles Day 6 The Fall - Fiery Jack "I live on pies" #FallFriday

#TheTenX5 Day 6 Rumer - Aretha 2010 youtu.be/ERzNIzrEnLg?...

The pure definition of ‘all killer, no filler’ ➡️ A Girl Like You ➡️ Gorgeous George ➡️ Low Expectations ➡️ Campaign for Real Rock ❤️ Make Me Feel Again

New arrivals today from @normanrecords.com The latest 2 from @warringtonruncorn.com and the reissue of the extraordinary Disintegration Loops from @musex1.bsky.social This one's been delayed a few months & it's been a long wait...

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

#StandaloneSingles Day 5 A Certain Ratio - Flight youtu.be/r_5DwObXHE0?...

#TheTenX5 Day 4 2019 Black Pumas - Colors youtu.be/2EntxPIULUI?...

If Starmer & McSweeney finally go over the revelations in the Mandelson files Their toxic immigration plans must go with them. NO MORE politicians in the pockets of the seedy rich blaming the outcomes of their greed & corruption on immigrants!

Steve Reed’s job for eight years has been sneaking around compiling little dossiers of incriminating Facebook comments to make Peter’s enemies sound like malicious, violent extremists, and passing them to the Times newspaper to hork up terrifying scandals

I have something I call The Harry Redknapp Rule, which goes thus: if someone is caught, by fluke, doing something wildly, intricately illegal - in Redknapp's case, placing dodgy cash in a Monaco bank account in his dog's name - then it is vanishingly unlikely that this is their first such crime.

#TheTenX5 Day 4 Sampha - Blood on Me 2016 youtu.be/_oM1DFL43Lk?...

#StandaloneSingles Day 4 Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty The final glorious release from the original lineup. I nearly got this played as a request on Peel's show - he played the B side... OGWT live in 1980 youtu.be/I_QJwR6D9d4?...

Next 3 coming up.. #12InchTuesday