AI knocks it out of the park: "The number sequence 44-422-2 typically represents a specific offensive formation in football, where '44' indicates the number of running backs, '422' indicates the number of tight ends, and '2' refers to the number of wide receivers on the field….

Then there are Ross Alexander, Nick Foran and Robert Light as the three chums; Jean Muir and Ann Dvorak as the young wives and Margaret Lindsay as the charming and patrician girl who makes the mistake of deciding to marry into the newspaper business. --Andre Sennwald, Gentlemen Are Born, 11/22/1934

MC Lars "Hey There Ophelia" (2009). Kicking myself for forgetting this during October's conversations, think it's a better Ophelia song, also the best version of "Screamager," Brett Anderson is she of the Donnas, for all the fun it's a real heartwrencher. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJcW...

My latest Eardrums playlist, for November 2025, Emergency. I torture you with art, then I pummel you with dance. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Sisaket Radio "DJ Where Have You Been x Aria (Indo Style Remix by Sisaket Radio Slow Viral TikTok 2025)" Thai mashup, not sure how to credit this* (tho DJ Where Have You Been is a much better artist title than song title) but it totally triples the intensity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw7U...

EL GRAN COMBO, TIMBALE DANCE CHALLENGE Linking my friend s. pierre d'alai's thread on TikTok/YouTubers who dance to the timbale solo from El Gran Combo's "Un Verano en Nueva York." He challenges us to choose our favorite of the 8 dance acts, and I do so below. /1 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19904...

DJ Danz "Without Me (Budots Dance Remix)" (2025). What it says on the tin. Attn @fireh9lly.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I1N...

DJ Bedbugs "Aaron's Party Rocking" (2012). With DJ Bedbugs back on the radar, I thought I'd embed this classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=td8f...

I once contributed to Amnesty International by putting cash in an envelope without adding a return address.

Good news in Aurora, where I live, as several Repubs pushing idea that Venezuelans are gang members & criminals get voted off city council. Bad news down in Littleton, tho, as voters make it harder to build more living units, i.e., for poor people to find housing. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/04/e...

I know I've already done this, but since I've already downloaded the picture I might as well repeat.

ATTN: @jelbugle.bsky.social This was the first I'd even heard *of* Poison, afaik, unless Chuck had mentioned them in a letter. Piece also gives brief thumbs up to GN'R about 10 mos. before they went commercially boffo.

Andre Sennwald's review of *The First World War* from 1934, what looks to be a fascinating rethinking of the war using old photoreels. Note the film's date: 1934, and the film's title, the assumption being there's more to come. Need NYT subscription for link. timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

DJ Yuzak's the guy who produced the "Ritmadinho do Mario" track I threw at the Jukebox last year. This year he's found the pizzicato preset on his combo etch-a-sketch and training-wheel keyboard set and deploys it on his album for its lightness & sense of spontaneity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unak...

Ashley Monroe does good things aesthetically that I'm mostly bad at understanding. She uses reverb, washes, haze in a way that doesn't feel eerie or haunted, is more the opposite: she has timing, presence, like she exists several meters to the side of everyone else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg86...

Huh? New this month, Qu1lates -MC ft. MC Morena (prod. 081noBeat) "Bandido Da Quebrada (Remix Brega Funk)." Is a remix that takes rhythmic liberties. From the visual presentation I sense that it's aimed at a funk crowd, not an art crowd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdly...

Define your musical taste in eight acts: Wesley Gonzaga T-ara Trick Daddy & Trina Debbie Deb (Debbie Wesoff-Kowalski, Anne Williams) The Stooges The Rolling Stones Dion & The Belmonts Louis Armstrong

Not a fruit juice aficionado, so one of these major cultural shifts that I didn't notice when it was happening: When did cranberry juice take over the juice aisle? It hasn't displaced apple juice and grape juice as the major item, but is there competing with them. & combining with all other flavors.

thanks to an article i read in rock files abt skinhead fandom, bolan's genre for me will always be "hot goblinism" (the article was dismissive, which i don't understand given this terrific phrase)

i probably would call slade glitter yes (tho maybe just bcz the definition is wagging the dog) t rex is its own special problem! back in the day tyrannosaurus rex had been an elfin-folk albums band: bolan very consciously re-positioned himself (somewhat earning the disdain of the rock papers)

Question for ‪@andrewhickey.500songs.com‬ and @dubdobdee.bsky.social – what do you make of what Chuck has found here? Before reading I would've said that even in '70s, "glam" is the broader term and the greater usage, tho "glitter" gets extra boost 'cos more Amer. critics hence more Dolls bias.

I'd forgotten how *weird* Sade had seemed when I first heard them. ("Them." The band's name is Sade. They're named after their singer. Just like the band Alice Cooper. YES, THEY ARE JUST LIKE ALICE COOPER.) My friend Kevin brought the record over, a new British band. /1

Can my spare, blissful Dimples D nomination, w/ just Marley Marl's scratches and booms supporting her, stand up to Black Uhuru's "Big Spliff" (ft. Robbie Shakespeare's big bass), an excited Dionne Warwick in dance mode, and an equally blissful merengue from Las Chicas del Can? Come vote!

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."