#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums8589 Revolting Cocks - Big Sexy Land My favorite album from Uncle Al if we’re being totally honest. Enough for a top 5 placement? Maaaaaybe.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums8589 The Sugarcubes - Life’s Too Good! Starting Monday off with another lock for my top 5, this still sounds so deliciously otherworldly.

Pretty sure this classick beauty will be my number one pick for #5DebutAlbums8589 but there are lots of favorites to revisit in the next few weeks. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits

This handsome boy is 10 today…he’s barely changed since the day we brought him home lol. Happy birthday Megaman. 💙 #CatsofBluesky

#MusicSky #NowListening Seemingly out of nowhere, a new Early Years single on @soniccathedral.bsky.social with new LP in May; what a delightful treat for a Thursday morning.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Kaiser Chiefs - Employment Fairly inescapable at the time, this one is still a blast…though I still think you could lop off the last two songs and have an even stronger 10-track album.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Duels - The Bright Lights and What I Should Have Learned The flagship band for the Nude relaunch, this would have fit right in if it has come out in 96 instead of 06. One of my favs, such a fabulous record.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 The Saturdays - Chasing Lights Created by Fascination to capitalize on the success of Girls Aloud, their debut remains a solid girl pop album with the Yaz sampling “This Is Love”, hyper catchy “Up” and nasty deep bass send off “Keep Her” being highlights.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Gruff Rhys - Yr Atal Genhedlaeth Gruff has made some fantastic solo albums over the years but his lo-fi Welsh language debut remains my favorite of the bunch; crazy to think it may not make my Top 5. (I also deeply regret not getting it on LP at the time.)

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Hey Willpower - PDA Will from Imperial Teen’s synthpop side project is a lot of fun; apparently my CD didn’t survive the cull a few years ago and the full length isn’t on streaming so it’s back to ol’ reliable iTunes for this one.

It is not a perfect album by any means but in terms of the impact it had upon release and how well it aged, there are few that can even come close; a monolith of an album most can only dream of accomplishing.

TUUUUUUUNE. JrSr do not get the respect they deserve, that first record is fucking incredible.

#NowListening #MusicSky V V Brown - Samson & Delilah After revisiting her debut for #5Albums0509 , winding down the night with the experimental pop masterpiece that is her sophomore album.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Neon Neon - Stainless Style Gruff Rhys + Boom Bip with a (loose) concept album about John DeLorean because of course it is. I’m still not entirely convinced it works as a whole but there are some incredible tunes here.

@bookshop.org delivered my copy of the new @catrionaward.bsky.social today and I cannot wait to dig in later tonight. #booksky

#NowListening #MusicSky #5DebutAlbums0509 V.V. Brown - Traveling Like The Light Very solid 60’s inspired retro pop; she kind of got lost in the shuffle with a new pop sensation every 5 minutes at the time, but this has held up quite well.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Annie - Anniemal Keeping with the electro/indie pop girls theme; “Chewing Gum” is a total bop but I’ve never loved this one as a whole like others do. (2nd album ‘Don’t Stop’ is an underrated masterpiece though.)

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Little Boots - Hands Around this time there was a rise in female-fronted indie/dance-pop and Little Boots was one of my favorites from the crowd.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 La Roux - La Roux The thrill I felt when I first heard “In For The Kill” has rarely been felt since and the album as a whole delivered on the single’s promise in every way imaginable. Without question my number 1 for this round; absolute perfection.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Lady Sovereign - Public Warning Make way for the S-O-Veeeeeee! Honestly not everything hits but those that do - especially “Gatheration” and “Hoodie” - hit HARD.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Dragonette - Galore Canadian dirty girl indie pop perfection. “Hello” ruined their trajectory IMO in that it turned them into the go-to guest for largely questionable acts, but they started out VERY strong.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Pop Levi - The Return To Form Black Magick Party Our introduction to this indie pop chameleon; the uptempo numbers are VERY up, the ballads are hyper dramatic and it’s all fabulous.

I’m seriously not sure what I’m going to do about my #5DebutAlbums0509 ; I’ve got a dozen albums I love pretty much equally to somehow squeeze into a Top 5…anyone got any spare votes they can lend me?

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms I’m surprised I haven’t seen this one mentioned yet; the perfect intersection of shoegaze and dreampop, to say I was obsessed at the time is a wild understatement.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Die Monitr Batss - Girls of War Brutal Neo-No Wave from the Gossip’s guitarist’s other (short lived) band. If you think ‘Confusion is Sex’ is Sonic Youth’s most underrated album, you’ll find plenty to like here.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 To My Boy - Messages If you told me this was a long-lost private press synthpop LP from 1982 I would 100% believe you. The usual topics of computers and the future throughout with the surprise beating heart exposure in “Fear of Fragility”; a stunner.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid They quickly evolved into something completely different but I’ve always been enthralled by the raw energy and wide-eyed wonder of this debut.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Jakobínarína - The First Crusade Sole album from Icelandic teenage rabble rousers. Searing indie punk grounded by Gunnar Bergmann Ragnarsson’s incredible growl, I love this one so much; it’s kind of perfect that it’s all we got.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future I’ve seen this one mentioned a lot already. It has held up exceptionally well, especially considering it was a huge hype/next big thing record. Won’t make my Top 5 but still a total blast of a record.

#MusicSky #NowPlaying #5DebutAlbums0509 The Whip - X Marks Destination From the ashes of Nylon Pylon came The Whip. At the risk of gross oversimplification, this was closer to what I wanted the New Order albums of the time to sound like. Very likely in my Top 5, I love it lots.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 The Boxer Rebellion - Exits Darker and noisier than subsequent albums, there remains something special about this one. I realized I’ve never owned a physical copy of it, I should fix that.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Ladyfuzz - Kerfuffle Only album from quirky trio who were friends with Bloc Party. I’ve always gotten B-52’s/Sugarcubes vibes from them - especially on incredible single “Bouncy Ball” - and am still sad we never got more.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Battles - Mirrored The presence of John Stainer and the “Atlas” single roped me in and while I think it sags a bit in the middle, the album as a whole is a blast…one of my favorite sleeves as well.

#MusicSky #NowListening #5DebutAlbums0509 Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat They give off a little too much theater kid energy at times, but the hyper pop of this album is undeniable; “Boyfriend” is one of my favorite singles of the era, such a jam.

#MusicSky #5DebutAlbums0509 A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers First in queue for this round is our introduction to these NYC-based noise peddlers. All the hallmarks of their sound are here but I reach for second LP ‘Exploding Head’ when I’m in the mood.

A quick glance through my Discogs and iTunes is suggesting that #5DebutAlbums0509 might be the toughest for me yet: I can immediately pick out at least a dozen for my Top 3 from this list and who knows what I’ve forgotten about/left out.

#NowListening #MusicSky Prince - P Control Good morning ladies and gentlemen, boys and motherfucking girls. A stormer for a Friday drive to work.

The ZTT singlette-esque ‘State of the World Suite’ mix is an all time favorite.

#NowReading #BookSky Horror Movie - @paultremblay.bsky.social I started this yesterday and have been tearing through it over the last 24 hours; what a delectable love letter to the horror movies that raised us and still thrill us today.

#NowListening #MusicSky Happy 40th to a cornerstone album for myself and many others; both incredibly of the time (of which is essentially created) and absolutely timeless. ❤️💜

‘Slave to the Rhythm’…but while we’re here, we’re long overdue for a ‘Living My Life’ deluxe edition. (Which is my second favorite for what it’s worth.)

#NowListening #MusicSky Superdrag - Last Call For Vitriol I recently learned they finally pressed this to LP late last year. My copy showed up last weekend but this is my first chance to give it a spin; I’m thrilled to have one of my favorite four album runs on vinyl at last.

I believe they mean What a FCKNG RCRD. Happy birthday to one of the greats. (Too bad about Bobby.)

#NowListening #MusicSky Catherine Wheel - Happy Days It’s too long by a bit for sure and gets kinda loopy in places but it’s far better than it ever gets credit for; I’ve always had a soft spot for it and, to be honest, listen to it more than ‘Chrome’. (One day we’ll get a CW reunion.)

#ArtistFaveLP Robbie Williams - Rudebox 1 Never Touch That Switch A similar piece to yesterday’s, the paranoid ramblings of a mad popstar over a bleep-bloop electro bop; it gives random no-name 90’s white label and it’s absolutely incredible. youtu.be/Vmo3-Mi_GLM

#ArtistFaveLP Robbie Williams - Rudebox 2 Mess Me Up A bit of a cheat as it was the b-side to ‘Lovelight’, but this is an absolutely incredible piece of popstar meltdown via a string of non-sequiturs over a squelchy backing track; put the Beatles on the phone indeed. youtu.be/fpMtKTBBLT0

It has come to my attention that there’s a new Disgusting Sisters single out and while it’s no “Killing It”, it is Quite Good. #MusicSky #NowListening youtu.be/dvuQr2W28D0

#ArtistFaveLP Robbie Williams - Rudebox 3 Lovelight Lewis Taylor’s original is a perfectly wonderful slice of UK soul but with the help of Mark Ronson, Robbie gives it some heft and creates a modern electro-soul pop masterpiece. youtu.be/gNJos-NCzIc

Megaman doesn’t mind being snowed in for the night. #CatsofBlueSky

#ArtistFaveLP Robbie Williams - Rudebox 4 Rudebox I’m not sure who decided that an 80’s freestyle rap over bubbling electro would be a good idea for a Robbie single but I’m thrilled someone signed off on it. Questionable lyrics in places but a total blast, fuck the haters. youtu.be/ldPmzftRsIg