Slightly late - but here is your reassuring post that the Mystery Jukebox will be coming your way again on Saturday (11 to 11 UK) with little old me at the helm ably assisted by our very own Kitty - see you there

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This week's albums! Mmm Cardiacs. 😻 I should do a whole-discog run through. Neil Young's 80s electro is fun! Nice compilations of covers of Jesse Malin & The Byrds songs. Molchat Doma do icy Belarusian coldwave. 🥶 Reincidentes are righteous Spanish punk! Revisited Aereogramme & Crystal Method.

#MusicByNumbers Day 244 #MusicChallenge "ARP 244" - Far Behind The Sun Genre: Post-Metal Nice bit of deep space post-metal from my library, taken from an album called "Story Of Collapsing Galaxies". 🌌

Just finished James SA Corey's "Babylon's Ashes". Book 6 of The Expanse series. Was part way in to this when I hit my reading slump last year. Good to be building the habit back up again! 🚀 #BookSky

#MusicByNumbers Day 243 #MusicChallenge "Indiscretion #243" - Aereogramme Genre: Alt Rock Found this in my library - I should revisit Aereogramme's stuff, I seem to recall really digging it, but it's been literal decades!

#MusicByNumbers Day 242 #MusicChallenge "Work 242" - Front 242 Genre: EBM I have a bunch of Front 242 in my library, but not this track, as it turns out - still, there could only be one artist for this number!

#MusicByNumbers Day 241 #MusicChallenge "241" - DUDES Genre: Punk Over to Norway for some punk rock to hit this number!

#MusicByNumbers Day 240 #MusicChallenge "240 Years Before Your Time" - The Black Keys Genre: Blues Rock My library offers up this track for 240 - I found this version online, which omits the 20 minutes of silence that was included in the original version, as was the custom at the time.

While I'm Trek-posting, I should also say I've rather enjoyed the first 3 eps of #StarfleetAcademy It is WILD to me that one of the main things people are complaining about is the glorious feline physicality Holly Hunter is bringing to Nahla Ake. I could watch her slink over furniture all day. 😻

Just getting to the mirror universe episodes of "Star Trek: Enterprise" and the opening credits are SO MUCH better than the regular "Faith of the Heart" credits! 😆

#MusicByNumbers Day 239 #MusicChallenge "PU-239" - Murdered By Horses Genre: Post-Metal Found this track to meet this number. Absolutely outstanding video that I thiiiiiiiink is just cleverly edited stock footage rather than AI? I hate that AI makes me second guess stuff like this. 😒

Hello (...I must be going!😥- more shopping to do before the weather hits here!) WAIAC, Kitty & all you metallurgic Jukeboxers!! 🎶✌😎🎶 TOKEN 1 : "Chromium (Cr), or CHROME, is a hard, silvery-white transition metal..." 👨‍🏫 'Like CHROME' ~ Motorpsycho (Norway, 2020) youtu.be/M3xX-RKxbbU?...

Token 2 is Rhoda Scott, the Barefoot Lady, playing Hammond B3 and synth on the title track from her album, Molybdenum. youtu.be/N0ABtx7FyN8?...

Tell me your pet’s name in a gif (Huh, I guess other people arrived at that being a good cat name, too!)

Good day, cats and kittys all. TOKEN 1 Quicksilver by The Field Mice paging @snowfloe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=su_s...

Hoping to see some old metal names: quicksilver, Plumbum, Argentium, Aurum etc appearing...

Token 2, Norah Brown & Stephanie Coleman - COPPER Kettle youtu.be/TTaPqtsulgo?...

For Token 2, jukeboxeteers, please enjoy Miranda Lambert’s excellent Platinum youtu.be/QgjO-rnNY9g?...

Hello WAIAC and feline helpers For token one I’m going for the slightly bonkers and well-known anagram - King’s Lead Hat from Brian Eno. youtu.be/e3PRnZZaY0I?...

Token 2 The Besnard Lakes: Life Rarely Begins With the Tungsten Film #1

Hi there Cats Token 1 is everyone's favourite - Tom Waits Tom Waits - On The Nickel www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1yt...

Morning all Token 1 Opus 40 - Mercury Rev m.youtube.com/watch?v=fusK...

Token 2 : youtu.be/Z05qiPnLpMM?...

Good morning and thank you for hosting! Token 1 is going to Bowie's Space Oddity. But not his version. Bowie kills the vocals but I remember seeing Chris Hadfield doing this while actually sitting in a tin can and thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen youtu.be/pDyl6I6ESSw?...

Token 2 Woodkid: Iron youtu.be/vSkb0kDacjs?...

Good morning again! First choice please and I feel I need to get in early. Token 1 Pretenders: BRASS In Pocket

Good morning Cat, good morning Kitty! Token 1: Revolting Cocks - Stainless Steel Providers youtu.be/oqS9KaEg_Xs?...

Good day all 😎, Cat, Thank you so much for hosting! ⚡🎶⚡ Token one: youtu.be/BITE3g7lSkw?...

Good Morning Kitty Being an ex Midlander can I ask if the Farmers Bridge Locks will be being traversed today? Token 1 SILVER Jews Random Rules youtu.be/bPD0JLwpc3k

Morning all, Token 1 Battles: Titanium 2 Step youtu.be/TDh0uAI_uRM?...

It's 11AM. Welcome to the Mystery Jukebox 4.0! Kitty is all set up on the party barge! The goblin assistants have been approved, the heaters are cranked to max, & we will be cruising the UK canal network dispensing drinks, tunes, & good cheer! NO REPLIES HERE ⛔ CLICK LINK FOR FULL RULES! 1/2

#MusicByNumbers Day 238 #MusicChallenge "Two Hundred & Thirty Eight Days" - High Contrast (feat. Underworld) Genre: Electronic Usually quite drum & bass-y, this track is interstitial I guess? Quite a tease, actually - first 2/3 are atmospheric buildup, a crumb of beats, and then an outro!

Same energy

This week's albums! Dar Disku is 70s Arabian disco, or a recreation thereof! 🪩 Revisited "Fourth World" after mentioning it t'other day. 🌏 Wussy - the finest early 90s indie rock released in 2005. Can't believe I've only just discovered The Angelic Process! I am now Shpongled. Alex Cameron 👎

The Mystery Jukebox will be taking to the waters tomorrow! Starting in the Midlands, Kitty and her new sphynx assistants will be crewing the party barge & cruising the nation's canals! Come aboard & spend your tokens to match the topic. It'll be warm on the barge! I'll be your host, 11am-11pm.

#MusicByNumbers Day 237 #MusicChallenge "Room 237" - Damsel in the Dollhouse Genre: Dark Pop I had a track by Turn Me On, Deadman, but I've already used them. Found this very fun video instead, though! "Room 237", of course, refers to the Overlook Hotel. We've all been waiting for you! 🪓

#MusicByNumbers Day 236 #MusicChallenge "236" - Kouhei Matsunaga Genre: Drone Beats (!?) Had to go looking for something, & found this awesome experimental electronic track! Frustratingly the album it's from, "Self VA.", doesn't appear to be on the internet anywhere, except random tracks on YT 😞

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "Un-catlike and inappropriate in a fundamental way, but still confusingly feasible."

@mtgallagher.bsky.social - I couldn't resist seeing what Kitty would look like if she were a sphynx! This image probably doesn't have as much universal appeal as the furred one!

#MusicByNumbers Day 235 #MusicChallenge "U-235" - Mogwai www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK4... Genre: Cinematic Post-Rock Yay Mogwai! Yay stellar processes! ⚛️

#20FaveVideos Day 20 #MusicChallenge Dexys Midnight Runners - "This Is What She's Like" (Dir. Jack Hazan) Going out on a weird one! First saw this in the chillout tent at a festival when feeling a bit, uh, overstimulated. Chatting nonsense for chunks, wearing suits in NYC, & glorious levitation!

#MusicByNumbers Day 234 #MusicChallenge "234" - Dekka Genre: Tunisian Hip-Hop Hmm, just noticed it's "2.3.4" in the screen cap. 🤨 No dots in the description & streaming platforms, so let's say it still counts. Fun seeing which genre video conventions get used in this otherwise slice-of-life vid!

Just finished Karen Armstrong's "A Short History of Myth". Kinda bleak conclusion that our era has alienated itself from a mode of being important to "wholeness" (my paraphrase), but I am too of this era to really believe that things used to be that much better. 🤷 #BookSky

#20FaveVideos Day 19 #MusicChallenge Bad Religion - "21st Century (Digital Boy)" (Dir. Gore Verbinski) I absolutely love the practical effects used to make it look like they're emerging from TV static! 😻

#MusicByNumbers Day 233 #MusicChallenge "233" - Yu Su Genre: House / Fourth World Ambient Finding a track for this number sent me down a 🐇🕳️! Yu Su is often tagged as fourth world ambient, but I'm not 100% sure this specific track qualifies....

#20FaveVideos Day 18 #MusicChallenge Liars - "Plaster Casts of Everything" (Dir. Patrick Daughters) Wonderfully demented video - really captures the mania of the song!

#MusicByNumbers Day 232 #MusicChallenge "Athens 232" - Metaman Genre: Progressive Electronic Found this lovely Vangelis-adjacent slice of electronic soundscaping to hit this number!

#20FaveVideos Day 17 #MusicChallenge Aldous Harding - "Imagining My Man" (Dir. Charlotte Evans) A wonderful less-is-more video - really feels like you're getting to invisibly share her car ride through Auckland.

Message Body Welcome Mystery Jukeboxers. Kitty arrived last night and is set up and ready to play music and pass some drinks. It snowed all night & temp is -8°C Enhanced coffee & tea available. Please tip generously. Rules: michaelgallagherwrites.com/rules/ NO REPLIES HERE 1/