Profile avatar
samanorac.bsky.social
La musique avant toute chose. #MDANT ✊🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://ngl.link/samanorac
2,741 posts 1,101 followers 820 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. (Bought in WH Smith’s in Ormskirk, summer 1978, while I was in a scout camp in Tawd Vale)

At the risk of sounding ridiculously middle aged, pop music used to be so wonderful. North Of A Miracle is proof (if proof be need be, to quote Chris Morris)

Sad to hear of Bill Fay’s passing…introduced to him, like so many others, by Jeff Tweedy’s cover of Be Not So Fearful (a beautiful song, full of hope), this one of his has always stuck with me. RIP Bill x

G’night chums x

Tonight’s featured artist

If it’s raining by you then BBC2 has another great afternoon of films to settle down with…

Hold my hand, we’ll trampoline. #Bossanova #ThePixies

If you’re a Frasier fan, take a few minutes out to read this, you won’t regret it: open.substack.com/pub/archerpa...

My oldest friend is determined to drag me out of my slump and is booking a rehearsal space for us to go and making a glorious noise. The plan is to dust off some old favourites I wrote in Uni, and do a few covers. I can’t wait.

I’ve written what could quite easily be a 33 1/3 book about this LP…I really should get my act together and restart the blog. I could have picked any track off it, but tonight My Finest Hour is the one. The interplay of vocal and guitar at the end gives me shivering jolts of joy.

Kim Deal - Big Ben Beat Directed by Richard Ayoade kimdeal.4ad.co/bigbenbeat

A great piece of writing about one of my favourite lps. Brings it right up to date, 1967 in 2025. Arthur Lee was a visionary www.hypedonmelancholy.com/amyklein

Not heard owt from Suzanne Vega for years... Mrs Flip has a new colleague called Marlene starting.... Looked Suzanne up and She's got an absolute banger of a single out ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnCT...

Victoria's interviews this last few days give true meaning to the phrase 'stunning and brave'. We are lucky to have her. #VictoriaDerbyshire

Still my favourite gif…still makes me chuckle and snigger