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Tom Ewing

Not top 10, but I hope I'm never unfortunate enough to hear 'Janie Jones (Strummerville)'. Imagination is powerful enough...

Tom Ewing

Shurely Teardrop Explodes are more challenge-appropriate! (But ofc I understand you are going for the taste jugular instead 😬)

#UncoolTwo50 DAYS TO GO… (Would have been shockingly remiss of me to skip this today…)

#UncoolTwo50 I should mention that (similarly to last September before FoM) I will be on holiday from 9-24 Sept and for much of that time (11th-20th) will be on Kilimanjaro with no internet access. If you have questions please avoid sending them then! Ta.

Jeff

Interesting method of year-splitting! Mine would work out as 77-79: 8 80–84: 13 85-89: 9 (and 6 are from one year) 90-94: 14 95-99: 6

Her obviously calculated behaviour wrt new digital versions and the no.1 album spot has put me off her for a very long time tbh. There’s saturation, and then there’s whatever the hell this is.

The One True Poster

This sort of thing won't be decided until I see how many people are playing and how many votes songs are getting. Ideally, I would be very surprised if more than two recordings of the same song were allowed to qualify, but my hand may be forced in order to reach 250, who knows.

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ICYMI, I put together twenty-five mixes of pre-1954 popular music. Available with annotations at: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/tag/%23...

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The Spectator Garden Party Guest List

If you would prefer your Bluesky experience not be filled with UK journo/media types, this is a useful list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

List by @Naadir

British commentators who share one brain cell and their American buddies. Twinned with https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uraielgolztbeqrrv5c7qbce/lists/3jxlfb5rt3w2e @ me to add smooth brains.

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#LetsDoIt25 1939: Solomon Linda Manhattan Brothers Glenn Miller Vera Lynn Lale Andersen Golden Eagle Gospel Singers Betty Hutton Judy Garland Sidney Bechet Pete Johnson Willie 'the Lion' Smith Billie Holiday Louis Jordan Fats Waller Johnny Hodges Lionel Hampton youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Added to my #LetsDoIt25 playlist today for 1938: Blind Boy Fuller Georgia White Kansas City Six Cuarteto Caney Coon Creek Girls Bob Wills Russ Morgan Charles Trenet Billie Holiday Chick Webb Count Basie Artie Shaw Bob Haggart & Ray Bauduc ...and... youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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I am so mad about growing deluded idiot opposition to the fucking rabies vaccine. People who don’t vaccinate pets and then put the public at risk should be imprisoned for a VERY long time.

The survival rate for rabies in humans without prophylactic vaccination is less than twenty. Not percent, PEOPLE. Sadly, anti-vax opinions are increasingly common amongst pet owners.

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I think the apple’s rotten right to the core apnews.com/article/trum...

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#LetsDoIt25 Prelude: 25. Jùjú, Filmi, Shidaiqu, Hula: African, Asian & Pacific Islander Music — Jonathan Bogartwww.jonathanbogart.net And then there’s the rest of the world.

#LetsDoIt25 Mix 25 Jùjú, Filmi, Shidaiqu, Hula: African, Asian & Pacific Islander Music www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2024/8/...

Bernard O'Leary

Obviously there are people I know are doing it, but I haven't asked (and won't ask) for advance sign-ups so there's no definitive list. Not everyone who did #FearofMu21C took part in #Let5D0It, so I wouldn't assume beyond the names you're sure of.

Bernard O'Leary

I don't know what a welcome pack is, but I struggle to imagine what more people need than the documents I've already linked to many times. bsky.app/profile/unco...

#UncoolTwo50 Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of the original 'Uncool50' launch, and apparently a big day for people migrating here from T****er. So here, ICYMI, details of an imminent future challenge and ongoing project:

I just checked and there were four British women in the last 16 - they all lost apart from the one I voted against (PinkPantheress v Chappell Roan, and PP obviously had an American woman on her song!). The last 8 were all led by or featured US women, apart from NewJeans. (and Chale > all 8)

(except maybe A&W)

Seems like every time you post lately it reminds me of a Twitter music grudge :) (in this case, Escapism not even making final groups in the 2023 PPP, while the American women trampled over everything)

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#LetsDoIt25 for 1937: Ciro Rimac Xavier Cugat Koichi Sugii Charles Trenet Secco's Gitanos Vulkana Stoyanova Raymond Scott Ivor Moreton & Dave Kaye Reinhardt/Grappelli Duke Ellington Michel Warlop Count Basie Lionel Hampton Andrews Sisters Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Woman who posted fake name of Southport attacker says it ‘destroyed’ herwww.telegraph.co.uk Bernadette Spofforth, a businesswoman from Chester, denies being the source of the rumour

The Telegraph coming out to bat for one of the racist lie peddlers, and she's a white millionaire, what are the chances

She claims her life has been "destroyed", but she's been spreading obviously false information for years & even set up a new account to carry on doing it recently. I really have no sympathy for her. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08...

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Added to my #LetsDoIt25 playlist today for 1936: Harlem Hamfats Memphis Minnie The Lion Septeto Anacaona Bob Wills Charles Trenet Teddy Wilson Django Reinhardt Stéphane Grappelli Benny Goodman Jones-Smith Incorporated (Count Basie) Billie Holiday Stuff Smith Ink Spots youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Added to my #LetsDoIt25 playlist today for 1934: Georges Boulanger Bob Wills Tommy Dorsey Jean Sablon Josephine Baker Duke Ellington Nat Gonella Lydia Mendoza Giorgos Batis Giorgos Katsaros Fănică Luca Cleo Brown Django Reinhardt / Stéphane Grapelli Fats Waller youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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#LetsDoIt25 Prelude: 24. Rebetika, Kanto, Chaabi: Eastern Mediterranean Music — Jonathan Bogartwww.jonathanbogart.net A mix of Greek, Turkish, and North African music.

#LetsDoIt25 Mix 24 Rebetika, Kanto, Chaabi: Eastern Mediterranean Music www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2024/8/...

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Added to my #LetsDoIt25 playlist today for 1934: Malinke Musicans, Mali Big Bill Broonzy Nicolas Slonimsky Dorothy Melton Chick Webb Coleman Hawkins Django Reinhardt Duke Ellington Fats Waller Austin Coleman & Joe Washington Şükrü Tunar Udi Hrant youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Added to my #LetsDoIt25 playlist today for 1933: Bessie Smith Clarence Ashley & Gwen Foster Lightnin' Washington Carmen Miranda Ethel Waters Estrellas Hababeras Fernando Vilches Sol Hoopii Bennie Moten Casa Loma Orchestra Art Tatum Boswell Sisters youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Graham Thorpe’s daughter: He loved us and his life before illness took overwww.thetimes.com Family of Graham Thorpe, who died last week aged 55, tell Mike Atherton about former England star’s struggle with anxiety and depression

This a heartrending but also admirably honest read about Graham Thorpe, informed and written by people who clearly loved him. www.thetimes.com/article/29b5...

Kind of funny... I was listening to the BOMT episode of '60 Songs That Explain the 90s' in the gym last week. Presenter came right out with it: "The best Britney Spears song ever is 'Piece Of Me'."

Do you know what, I'm actually a bit sore that only 'Toxic' made the FoM Top 250. When you look at some of the acts with two or three singles. (I don't think that would be the case if the shift from there to here had been complete, as it was for LDI)

#UncoolTwo50 DAYS TO GO... It's that time already.

#UncoolTwo50 DAYS TO GO... (will 'No Doubt About It' by Hot Chocolate score any points...?)

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