https://Last.fm does it right. None of this namby-pamby "The-year-ends-at-Thanksgiving" Spotify-style crap. Also includes listens across all sources. Anyway, I absolutely cannot recommend The Paranoid Style enough 1/some number
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If my calculations are right, I had the 4th highest number of plays for them of anyone on https://last.fm (I was in the top 0.11%). If there's one band quiz bowlers should love aside from @themountaingoats.bsky.social , it's The Paranoid Style, and being honest, QBers are likely the only ones reading this.
If you couldn't tell from their name, the lyrics are mind blowing. Being a an absolute sucker for references of all kinds, Elizabeth Nelson is the best lyricist I've encountered in years.
From the brilliantly-titled "Movable Feast Blues":
Oh it's gonna take astringent
It's gonna take a hoover
It's gonna take a gallon
Of human stain remover
Hey you pick it up used
Honey buy it in bulk
I confess I'm confused!
Call me Coleman Silk!
In addition to name dropping Phillip Roth characters and the Richard Hofstadter-inspired name, lead singer Elizabeth Nelson (@paranoiacs.bsky.social ) writes some of the best music-related content around (cf. https://substack.com/@theparanoidstyle/p-151056474).
Don't know where I'm going with this, other than somewhere in the direction of a general "check out this band" recommendation to a general group of people I think would appreciate a band like this. I can't do them justice. Listen to them and enjoy.
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Oh it's gonna take astringent
It's gonna take a hoover
It's gonna take a gallon
Of human stain remover
Hey you pick it up used
Honey buy it in bulk
I confess I'm confused!
Call me Coleman Silk!