It's 11AM. Welcome to the Mystery Jukebox 4.0! How did your RESEARCH go? If you haven't done it yet, it's not too late to start. You'll need it if you want to join in today. WARNING: THERE ARE RULES! NO REPLIES HERE⛔ 1/2

#MusicByNumbers Day 252 #MusicChallenge "252" - Gem Club Genre: Dream Pop I had something for this number! Good lawd, that is a preposterously bleak music video. Although, reading the song lyrics, it's a pretty bleak song! 😵‍💫

Formula for The Good Ship Murder: Jack (ex-cop, now headline singer on a luxury cruise ship) solves a murder in each port then croons to a capacity audience. How does this affect Kitty, you ask? A surprising number of Jack's songs have served as her openers and closers over the years. . . . 1/2

Travelling 3 million years back in time and explaining to our ancestors that we've used the godlike power of our civilization, for fun, to reintroduce spotted cats that will bite you.

#MusicByNumbers Day 251 #MusicChallenge "251" - Unicef Genre: (Finnish) Hardcore I can't decide if Unicef is a terrible name for a punk band, or an awesome one! 😆 Perkele! 🇫🇮

This week's albums! Heavy on the Cardiacs! 🤡 Silver Y is _gorgeous_ - dreamy vocals with electro ranging from ambient to moody trip-hop. 😻 New Craven Faults is suitably droney ⚡️ pôt-pot do cool post-punk/krautrock. Bailter Space are a great discovery! They seem to hop all over the genre map! 🗺️

#MusicByNumbers Day 250 #MusicChallenge "w250hz" - Uncle See'J Genre: Soundtrack / Hip-Hop Yay I had something for this! A rare occurrence on this stretch of the number line... Taken from the soundtrack of "They Cloned Tyrone", which was a fun flick...

#MusicByNumbers Day 249 #MusicChallenge "Spuistraat 249" - Pez Genre: Prog Psych Found this Argentine band to fill this number - the song title is the address of the Magic Mushroom Gallery in Amsterdam! 🍄 (I linked to a video with two songs merged together as it had better visuals...)

Just finished "Press Enter ⬛️" by John Varley. A proto-cyberpunk horror novella, I found it rather compelling. Blasted through it in one sitting! Thanks to @rrwscott.bsky.social for the rec! Reckon I may track down more of his collected short stories... #BookSky

#MusicByNumbers Day 248 #MusicChallenge "248" - La Place du Kif Genre: Instrumental Ska Over to France for this number!

Just finished "The Mimicking of Known Successes" by Malka Older. Good stuff! Will definitely be reading the others in the series. #BookSky

#MusicByNumbers Day 247 #MusicChallenge "247" - Mnqobi Yazo Genre: Afropop Had to go looking to fill this number!

I generally give the critic score on rotten tomatoes more weight than the audience score, but I guess I should start ignoring the audience score altogether, eh?

#MusicByNumbers Day 246 #MusicChallenge "246" - Yap!!! Genre: House Found this pleasant slice of Japanese bedroom dance music to hit this number...

A quick brown fox is in the back garden and two lazy dogs are just lying down - some jumping may occur as Kitty organises everything... Welcome to the Mystery Jukebox There are rules laid out in the link below Two tokens, music, more music, chat and fun is what we are all about. 1/2

#MusicByNumbers Day 245 #MusicChallenge "245 Wagon Talk" - Prefuse 73 Genre: Electronic Coulda sworn I'd used Prefuse 73 earlier, but apparently not!

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