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Feel the music/ And you'll wonder/ Is he a Yankee?/ No I'm a London-aaargh The views expressed here are personal, not that of my employee. Owner of Everybody's Number 1 to Someone, a blog about NME Indie Chart toppers: https://indienumber1s.blogspot.com

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Tbh, I would assume that any haunted garment would cause at least some issues.

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If, like me, you occasionally find yourself missing Pacers, I've just discovered that Bond Of London Spearmint Chews are basically the same. They even have that same pleasing "chewy end of a Berol pen" consistency to them.

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The Black Tower - drolly-narrated bleakly satirical short film taking aim at the relentless alienating march of modern urban architecture with the tale of a man silently pursued by an ominous encroaching newbuild. Unsurprisingly beloved of early Channel 4. timworthington.org/2023/12/14/l...

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this story gets weirder, grimmer and creepier by the minute

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Look at the size of that sausage.

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Another thing that seems to have been completely wiped out of digital history (apart from this video evidence) - the original version of The Farm's "Love See No Colour". A more laidback mix was released in 1992 and that now seems to be treated as the "proper" version. youtu.be/qEUSkA3OQU8?...

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Blimey. I was doing a bit of research on indie-pop group The Chesterfields just now, and I had absolutely no idea that: a. David Goldsworthy had died after a blow to the head b. Police were stumped by how he died, and investigated the possibility that it may have been ice falling from an aircraft.

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Loads of teenage metallers in the park. I haven't heard of the bands on their T-shirts, but beyond that, it's the same lager drinking, beard growing and larking about I saw in what was called "Fluffy Beard Corner" in our sixth form common room.

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I'm going to pitch a greatest hits compilation celebrating the writer of We Don't Talk Anymore. I'm calling it Lasting Power of Alan Tarney.

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Just seen an article about a reasonably well known musician and, surprise surprise, 50% of the comments beneath are from smartarses simply asking "Who?" Why do people do this? I don't respond to travel articles with "Never heard of it" or "Never been there" because it's a waste of everyone's time.

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I just wrote 'Why it's okay to keep writing the same poem again and again'. buttondown.com/niall/archiv...

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Absolutely this.

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Bought my son a comic earlier came with a free toy, with a serious font fail. I sat there reading dp anal & wondered what the fuck

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Sad: when a friendship ends from a difference in philosophy, politics or a misunderstanding. Just Plain Depressing: when a friendship has simply reached its expiration date.

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Really sad to hear that Peter Ebsworth, the co-editor and founder of South Bank Poetry, has passed away. A fascinating man with a mod-turned-hippy background who nonetheless never made himself the focus of the magazine, always quietly but enthusiastically making sure everyone's work got out there.

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Bit of targeted clothing advertising on social media just now: "A must-have for handsome men, it is not only very stylish but also can show your masculine charm!!!" Erm...

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Last night I read a bunch of posts from women with LLM boyfriends and it made me think of this section from Computers as Theatre

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By the time you’ve reached your forties you will have lived to see the newspapers that insisted that the country you grew up in was on the verge of social collapse portray those very same years of your youth as a period of blissful social cohesion.

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Because Spotify does feature, reluctantly, in some of my many projects, I won’t be switching to alternatives immediately, but Andrew’s thread does present some tempting options.

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This. There were immense advances in pop music specifically in the 1960s because it was an era of incredible technological advances in recording, coupled with a new demographic of relatively affluent young people with other entertainment options...

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But it's not ALL The Smiths, you know - lower down the charts, we look at Folk Devils, Break Machine, Jonathan Richman, The Cool Notes, Inca Babies, Dead Can Dance, Wolfgang Press, Psychic TV, The Higsons covering Andy Williams, Felt, GBH, Screaming Dead and Paul Haig.

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If you're being bombarded with online ads for actually very nice looking summer shirts at the moment, do check the material being used before checkout. I nearly ordered a top before noticing it was 100% polyester. Tbf, that is "70s vintage style", but it's also very cheap and nasty.

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But it's not ALL The Smiths, you know - lower down the charts, we look at Folk Devils, Break Machine, Jonathan Richman, The Cool Notes, Inca Babies, Dead Can Dance, Wolfgang Press, Psychic TV, The Higsons covering Andy Williams, Felt, GBH, Screaming Dead and Paul Haig.

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I was there for the Iraq war, and I tell you what, it might have been a load of plainly obvious bollocks and total fucking horseshit, but at least the cunts like Campbell who were shitehousing us into war at least tried to fake a load of plausible seeming evidence. This is just "fuck you!"

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Re Kneecap- I bet you any money that Keir Starmer once owned some kind of offensive C86/Indiepop/Indie rant about Thatcher on 45. If not the obvious ("Margaret On The Guillotine") then possibly something like The Family Cat's "Bring Me The Head Of Michael Portillo". The man is a known indie nerd.

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