nichtsnutz.bsky.social
Linda Manz admirer, he/old
"I don't want to hear about you, I want to hear from you."
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You remained optimistic for a long while, which speaks well to your nature.
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I'm sorry to say I forgot that but not your love of Two Broke Girls.
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I'm guessing they make a lot of crab?
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My generation was introduced to her doing very corny sketch comedy. She had a run of good movies at this time but aside from this one big hit the appeal of her albums seemed to be ironic enjoyment of her terrible cover songs. I do like her though overall and her highlights are very good.
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You can hardly call it an intervention if you don't have any strategic goals.
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I don't think I'd ever heard of The Blue Nile before today and after listening to the whole thing I'm grateful. I'd have voted Soul II Soul even if the 8 non-hit tracks were horrid, but they were mostly pretty good.
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"Fluent in sarcasm" in bio.
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Folks, we all need to be vigilant in fighting the impulse to do this, it's only funny when it's like this:
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Has he seen "World's Greatest Dad"?
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In that universe I'd be very upset when Durutti Column knocked out Felt.
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Reading KLF's "The Manual" opened my eyes on that, it was also a hell of a lot cheaper to ply 3 or 4 big DJs than to cover the many many markets in the US.
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I will say that Petty's cover of "I Feel a Whole Lot Better" was just fine, not much more than "that Gene Clark was a hell of a songwriter, huh?" Which I appreciate, as he must have appreciated the royalties from it.
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Listened to the whole thing and it is quite good for what it is. I value albums I can listen to while reading quite a lot and would listen to this one again, but it's not particularly exciting. It's also the top-shelf organic version of the sounds that 80s digital synths gave musicians on a budget.
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Listening to the Peter Gabriel album on YouTube, had to check that I didn't accidentally click on a "Korg M1 - Just Sounds, No Talking" video. Seems like a pleasant score but no.
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It's just "but have you considered that the system of oppression benefits me personally?"
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Love the choice of still for Murderbot. Anna Konkle was such a treat last week.
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If Bluesky picks Goose over Geese I might have to go back there.
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Are EPs singles? If not then Wendy
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At the time I was a big Negativland fan, this was probably my second-favorite album of the year after Paul's Boutique. It's one of the best-ever conceptual art stunts as an album and a display of Don Joyce's genius at tape editing. However this Tom Petty album is great, 9/10, I have to vote for it.
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The best hook is "wish death death wish two two", that one's stuck with me for a long time.
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I have this idea that the smart ones will go to college, read Amartya Sen and scrub their socials before applying to work at the World Bank.
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I think it's better for fans of Lost. I can't get past the fact that dude looks all of 55.
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There was retro stuff in country, and rockabilly influence (Ricky Van Shelton, Ricky Skaggs), but I don't know if anyone else fit that niche to the same degree. k.d. lang does seem like the more important link to me.
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Honestly seeing Black people in restaurants and shopping at the overpriced food coop on a daily basis makes a big difference.
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The obvious point is none of those made any impact in the US, but really it was the remix album that came out the next year that was Technotronic's big hit here. I love the three singles though, if Ya Kid K was actually in the PUTJ video I'd give it a bye.
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Bummed that you posted this too late for me to go to the Trinidadian roti shop up the street.
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Yeah, they don't think they're selfish when it's about their kids. Which is fully understandable, they have a responsibility, but folks take crazy amounts of license whether it's HOA NIMBY shit or taking their double stroller to a museum on the free day.
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Slogged through the whole Batman album to get to "Batdance" and it's the worst version of a "Beat Dis"/"Theme From S'Express"-style tune. The best of the rest is like denatured Kid Creole & The Coconuts. Voting for the guy who can't decide if he's Tom Verlaine or Michael Hedges.
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That's interesting. I had the cassette of "Walking With a Panther" that had "Jack the Ripper", which makes a big difference, but I don't consider it canon. Really though they should have cut about seven songs and added that to the LP.
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You convinced me to go back and do the Panam ending last week, on a replay I'd abandoned a couple months ago. Very worthwhile.
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I do wish I'd spent more time in L.A. when I lived in CA with the food as a major factor, but I'm not a driver.
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Yeah, I think you can get all of those things most places these days, which is beautiful. And there are plenty of Mexican flags in Boston too.
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I think about this in regard to the follow-everyone-back folks. Their feeds must be thousands of reposts of the same dozen skeets every day. Insane.
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I guess the blame is shared between Romney, who was smart enough to be publicly on board with the concept, while trying to weaken the actual bill, and Sanders, who used it as a key plank in his Democrats suck argument.
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Sometimes I get tripped up because I start by looking at my iTunes library and while I'm obsessive about my metadata, it's not all correct. Or I'll miss that I tagged a CD bonus track with its release year, e.g., Paris' "Break the Grip of Shame" 12" came out in '89 but the album in '90.
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Marillion got more votes than Kool G Rap? Truly this is a fallen world.
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I had a friend in high school who used to go to BU parties and pretend he was British. It worked for a while but didn't end well.
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Soft Boys' "Underwater Moonlight", then his first, "Black Snake Diamond Role". The other solo albums are mixed but the first several Egyptians albums are similar in quality, with this as a likely pick for the best. I like "Element of Light" a lot but I hesitate to pick one in particular.
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The argument for why Sanders would win, and how he would be effective in office, was that he was leading a huge popular movement that would transform politics. That would have been cool if it had been true but the primaries showed that it just wasn't. It sucks but nothing of value was lost.
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OK, but when Will Trent gets snubbed by the Emmys again you'll eat your words.
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Break in and install proper lighting.
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Was Grindr named after the song?
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I think Matt's specific role in the project has been to alienate progressives from the Democrats. That's always been two-pronged, increase power in the D party, and throw elections to the Republicans. Right now though, the first option looks better all around.
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Philosophy is a great thing for people to study but if it's the only elective you take while getting your engineering degree it can be a disaster.
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Yeah, I get that. Listened to 808 State first, thought it would be an easy vote for LL but three terrible ballads? Outside of those I thought every song on the LL album was better than any on the other but 90 was much more digestible, if not very interesting. Don't agree but can't blame you.
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That also happened during the second world war. A lot of people were focused on the specific threat posed by Hitler rather than the bigger questions of principle. I'm not 100% sure that was a bad thing.
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I hadn't listened to either of these before, AFAIK. Galaxie 500 was fantastic. Aerosmith was better than I'd expected, it starts strong, they're very good at doing this hard rock thing. Then they tried some other things, I didn't like any of those at all. Was there a didgeridoo in there?
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Huey was in the band already when they did "My Aim Is True" but he and the other singer weren't involved. Costello borrowed them and then later Huey took them over.