The Joe Flacco trade must be very important, given that the Bengals swapped a 5th-round pick for a 6th-round pick in order to get him. That's why I just spent an hour-and-a-half reading about it.

Fun w/ Dibangu (Francky) vs fun w/ Dvorak (Harrassment). (Incarcerated young man complains to Jessica Fletcher that someone stole his idea for a book; he recounts plot, Jessica says, "But that's The Brothers Karamazov!" "But it was *my* idea to steal it first!") Going w/ Lady Lumps, in a tight one.

And is an early example of NYC freestyle producers taking great wild liberties www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSl9...

Dave @otherdavemoore.com I linked my Duncan J. Watts/cumulative advantage piece here and sort of asked Brad a question. bradluen.substack.com/p/odds-and-e...

beatsbyhand "Aphotic Zone." Warm, suspenseful South African house, from the recent Stay True Sounds Vol.7 compilation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nc-...

More from the BPHM longlist, Martinique: Gertrude Seinin "Ti Manmaille" (1985). Wikip "Like the Americans with gospel, Gertrude Seinin introduced a musical style born from the fusion between sacred music and traditional Caribbean music, called 'Creoles Spirituals'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rBw...

From my BPHM longlist, two more from Cameroon: Tala André Marie "Solam" (1983): Afro roll but w/ a folk-rock strum, yeah yeah yeahs, and a dark chord pattern from the Kinks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZY7...

Would hope that existing Pitchfork readers and Taylor Swift fans (not to mention spectral Pitchfork readers and spectral Taylor Swift fans), if they were to come across something I write/wrote about Taylor, would hear her differently, or anew, or at least be interested enough to rethink.

"Lavender Haze" is fabulous, sounds like Taylor's collecting dirt she'd scraped off of raindrops; I put the song on a playlist betw. Ice Spice and Farah as if it was made to go right there. Then the rest of the alb just drifted by and I didn't get it but I should try again.

Tuco & Les Freres Dejean ft. Lionel Benjamin "Mr. Magic": Want something not obvious for 1982 for my BPHM nom, go to discogs and first Haitian alb yields this gem, so much packed into it, trumpet that's both dripping and scorching, vocals both suave and yearning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQpF...

Katy Rose "Watching The Rain" www.youtube.com/watch?v=STCJ...

WHY I DON'T FOLLOW YOU My motto is never follow *anything* (see below). Makes no dif anyway cos I never look at "For You" or newsfeeds or whatever they're called. My experience of the Internet is different from everybody else's. But I do visit your bsky now and then and scroll down and walk back up.

Hey, @tomewing.bsky.social, sorry to be pushy since you do so much for us, but I hope this doesn't get lost, as it'll provide me a nice tactic for winning arguments on the Internet.

20 Heavy Hits Janis Joplin, The Impressions, Tommy James & The Shondells, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Len Barry, The Delfonics, The Intruders, The Ohio Express, The Who, Ricardo Ray, 1910 Fruitgum Company, The Turtles, Amboy Dukes, The Happenings, The Lemon Pipers, Sonny & Cher

1975 Pt. 2, "You Never Know Yourself Until You're Back Against The Wall." Running wild, dancing hard. Judge Winchester is funny, "Search & Destroy" is funniest. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Made a couple of 1975 playlists inspired by this poll and BPHM but through my own ears, you know? 1975 Pt. 1, "60 Seconds Over Tokyo," smiles wild, dances wide, rocks hard. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Perhaps the keystone to understanding my music taste and takes, and the thing you need to keep in mind when I say anything about music, is that I actually like "Under My Thumb"

why does YouTube keep putting videos in the sidebar that I would *never* *ever* click, like 5 bands some musician doesn't like, or that stupid sneering Rick B@!t0 who pretends to know about pop music? duckduckgo.com?q=why+does+Y...

I've been here before bsky.app/profile/koga...

Asked my wife, Clare. She'd have recognized (from 1963) the Beach Boys, PP&M "Puff The Magic Dragon," "Blowin' In The Wind," Allan Sherman "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh," Lesley Gore "It's My Party," and, especially, anything that hit by the Four Seasons.

Kicking myself for missing this. Would've failed most 1949 songs but would've correctly ID'd any from orig Bway casts of Kiss Me Kate and South Pacific. To my shame, tho, I'd have not known thw *names* Lorenzo Fuller ("Too Darn Hot") and Juanita Hall ("Bali Ha'i"), *singers* of my two faves 1/5

Had never heard or seen this until today, when I saw it on @bradluen.bsky.social's 1985 singles list (bradluen.substack.com/p/1985-poll-...). I'd call it timely, though that hardly expresses how strongly I feel for it right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUF...

Mine too. (And I recommend the alt text.)

Reminder, the deadline for Brad's 1985 poll is 9 days away on July 22. Is a regular "poll" (we post or send lists of albs & singles, he adds them up), but I always learn tons. And I suggest you read the linked thread where he talks of eligible African, NZ etc releases. bsky.app/profile/brad...

10 albums, 21st century E.via - a.k.a. happy e.vil 1st EP Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography DJ Wesley Gonzaga - EP Antidepressivo After School - The 6th Maxi Single (First Love)* Orange Caramel - Orange Caramel Babes Wodumo - Crown Montgomery Gentry - Carrying On Britney Spears - Blackout ...

New blogpost, scraped together from #Pop75 bsky posts, with a meta paragraph discussing the back side of me. (Not really.) Cleveland gtr is something special. koganbot.substack.com/p/cleveland-...

Note to self: Look for or create context where it makes sense to say, "Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowbells."

YouTube's Watch History is very complete, but its "Search watch history" feature is REALLY bad, comes up with very little. Chrome's own history search does a much better job of finding what I've looked at (tho only through the past three months).

after googling for conclusive proof had been unsuccessful, I had settled on ‘MTG/montagem’ simply being 🇧🇷funk lingo for ‘remix’, even tho ‘remix’ itself is used in the scene as well. but you’re right: the terms are used for different things, as is helpfully explained here: youtu.be/EhJxNVqpo3Q?...

The "MTG - Carnaval em BH" that I just reposted is my answer to the @tomewing.bsky.social question "What is the best new track of 2025 so far?"

DJ Ws da Igrejinha, DJ Hugo CS, MC Xangai, MC Marlon PH, MC TH Da Serra, MC Fabinho da Osk "MTG - Carnaval em BH" MTG short for "montagem" which translates as "assembly" but essentially means they mix things together and against each other (imo); BH is Belo Horizonte. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8gA...

Tammy Wynette recorded a lot of song titles with parentheticals in 1975: at least four. Some acts don't do that in a lifetime. "I Did My Best (To Fall In Love Last Night)," "I'll Take What You Can Give Me (When You Can)," "I'm Not A Has-Been (I Just Never Was)," "(You Make Me Want To Be) A Mother."

#pop75 There weren't enough women and wasn't enough country in my 1975 Suggestions Box so I added a bunch of both, incl. Jessi, Crystal, and the glorious Sammi Smith.

#pop75 Here's my personal Suggestions Box playlist for the 1975 People's Pop Poll, if anyone's looking for ideas. Nominations day is this Saturday, June 28 (see below). I only get to nominate four of these, which'll leave 47 I'm sad to pass by. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

1985 poll announcement is up, vote for your top 20 albums and 20 singles over there (or just message me), due July 22 I'll use this thread to show my due diligence on international music (outside N. America/the British Isles), plus jazz if I get around to it bradluen.substack.com/p/1985-music...

I love this. Doesn't quite match up with anything else. Not that that is like this, but I look forward to Lana Del Rey backed up by the surviving members of Vanilla Fudge. n.b. I don't like Anika's "End Of The World" much at all.

"Under Me Sleng Teng" or "Under Mi Sleng Teng"? Wikipedia can't make up its mind.

Sinawe "Set My Fire" (Korea 1990) has that slog, that push, the weight of metal, but something thrilling in the high vocals: arising out of the mud there's a shimmering professional gloss. The bass does its job, globs things up, pushes, if it doesn't quite bounce. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWZ6...

Linking one of my all-time favorite Singles Jukebox comment threads, for Lily Allen's "22." web.archive.org/web/20230602...

Believe my missing Chernoff and Xgau's lost orange Sunny Adé LP had a secret rendezvous, were close for a long time, ended up in separate cities, still communicate via "likes" on social media.

...cars on Havana that honked support contained *much* greater variety than we did incl what I could see of dress and demeanor: blacks, Latinos, a few mid-East, some young people, middle-agers driving their kids, a guy driving a big rig; you could say they were the honkers and we were the honkies.

Attn @dubdobdee.bsky.social

Remember when Shakira looked like Alanis? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHF_...

"We are entering waters beyond the scale of constitutional crises and nearly every expert in this shallow pool feels ill-equipped to speak about it publicly for a variety of reasons. I’m having trouble imagining circumstances more dangerous." www.crisesnotes.com/can-the-trum...

It would lead to preventable deaths by taking health care away from millions of people. It would worsen food insecurity by taking food away from the hungry, particularly kids. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Can anyone tell me about Tafka Buddah? Seems to be the DJ here, not the vocalist. Samples "Day Tripper." Sometimes works w/ established rappers, but doesn't match up in sound w/ rest of Korean hip-hop, from what I can tell, but have only heard first album. Intrigued. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw4T...

Say more. I certainly didn't notice this in *my* writing. But I also didn't notice this in yours. Were you, e.g., more emotional writing about Robyn than about Destiny's Child? I was more emotional writing about Eminem and more technical writing about Destiny's Child but it was in the same piece!

I tried this with financial swaps and it didn't work. Maybe "fucking" works as a prophylactic for musical instruments but not financial instruments.

Nephew! "a lot of folks don't know that we are staring at: a bill that would rip millions of people off of Medicaid, take food away from millions, you know, almost everyone on SNAP. Tens of millions of people" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-intervi...

Bus ride home (where approx one person looked like he'd been to the demo: me). A black man late middle-age, neatly dressed but pulling his alcohol mini bottle from his pocket was playing music semi-aggressively loud but not rebelliously so. The album, of course, was Stevie Nicks's The Wild Heart.