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#PowerPop10Days Day 1 #MusicChallenge I do love me some power pop! "What's He Got" / The Producers

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#31GreatWomenMusicians Day 1 #MusicChallenge Susan Anway with Magnetic Fields / "100,000 Fireflies" www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKXk... Since her death in 2021, hearing this magical song also calls to mind this fine remembrance, which honors her mystery to the last: www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1...

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 28 #MusicChallenge "No Such Guitar" / Adrian Belew Couldn't omit the Twang Bar King, Kentucky native.

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#5CoverSongsBeatles Day 5 #MusicChallenge Enjoyed this more than I could have hoped for. Thanks, Pops and Sita! "Long Long Long" / Tanya Donelly

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 27 #MusicChallenge "Snowman" / Rainbow Yes, *that* snowman. Including the melody from "Walking in the Air" is just brilliant. Also, now I am sad.

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#5CoverSongsBeatles Day 4 #MusicChallenge "She Said She Said" / The Feelies

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 26 #MusicChallenge "In the Hall of the Mountain King" / Erasure

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#5CoverSongsBeatles Day 3 #MusicChallenge "Paperback Writer" / Saxon

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#25TitleTracks Day 25 #MusicChallenge Thanks for the fun challenge. "Bauhaus Staircase" / OMD Spread the love right across the globe Elevate the weak and weary Educate and truth be told www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFpI...

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 25 #MusicChallenge "Eve" / Dream Theater www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diay...

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#5CoverSongsBeatles Day 2 #MusicChallenge "In My Life" / Roddy Frame www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b3y...

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 24 #MusicChallenge "Pipeline" / The Alan Parsons Project

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#25TitleTracks Day 24 #MusicChallenge "Painkillers" / Brian Fallon I feel you move through this crowded room And I catch myself like a spell fallen under you

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#5CoverSongsBeatles Day 1 #MusicChallenge This will be a challenge as I am not a fan of the Beatles. There are a dozen or so Merseyside bands that I love, just not the most obvious one. This is a good start: "Nowhere Man" / Paul Westerberg

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#25TitleTracks Day 23 #MusicChallenge "This Perfect World" / Freedy Johnston

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 23 #MusicChallenge "Popcorn" / Hot Butter This is the earliest earworm that I can remember trying to get out of my head. I apologize in advance to anyone who is hearing it for the first time.

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#25TitleTracks Day 22 #MusicChallenge "No Obligation" / The Linda Lindas Young and angry is my favorite flavor of punk. Tends to lead to old and angry, which is my second favorite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlEh...

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 22 #MusicChallenge "Herringbone Tweed" / Dean & Britta

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 21 #MusicChallenge "Memphis" / Lonnie Mack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfFrBQFnB_o Bonus Bootsy Collins interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US1658nBJow

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#25TitleTracks Day 21 #MusicChallenge "Patent Pending" / Heavens High time we swore off everything we know

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 20 #MusicChallenge VSQ covering "Starlight" by Muse More pizzicato!

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#25TitleTracks Day 20 #MusicChallenge "Reconstruction Site" / The Weakerthans Last call for happiness

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#25TitleTracks Day 19 #MusicChallenge "Imperium" / Blouse Are you one of us? www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SX...

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 19 #MusicChallenge "Cry Me a River" / Eklipse www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugzu...

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 18 #MusicChallenge "Daybreaker" / ELO

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#25TitleTracks Day 18 #MusicChallenge "Shake It Up" / The Cars Don't let nobody pick your fun.

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#25TitleTracks Day 17 #MusicChallenge "Ghosts on the Boardwalk" / The Bouncing Souls Let me take you to a place where the sun warms your face

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 17 #MusicChallenge "Tara" / Roxy Music Here's a live version from 2013 because Jorja Chalmers. Duh.

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 16 #MusicChallenge "Joseph Merrick" / Mastodon

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#25TitleTracks Day 16 #MusicChallenge "Flesh + Blood" / Roxy Music Night size, perfect ten.

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#25TitleTracks Day 15 #MusicChallenge "Late Developers" / Belle and Sebastian I know that you're drunk and sometimes not in charge of your faculties. Who said that I had the wisdom, had the answer? Wasn't me.

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 15 #MusicChallenge Twinkle Twinkle Little Rockstar covering "Valentine" by Fiona Apple

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 14 #MusicChallenge "D.N.A." / A Flock of Seagulls This won a Grammy in 1983.

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#25TitleTracks Day 14 #MusicChallenge "Nocturne" / Wild Nothing Am I twisted? What can I say? Your days are empty and my tongue's decayed

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 13 #MusicChallenge "Sunday" / From the Country soundtrack (George Winston and Darol Anger)

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#25TitleTracks Day 13 #MusicChallenge "Trinity Lane" / Lilly Hiatt The first comment on this video is "Now, this is the real stuff here."

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#25TitleTracks Day 12 #MusicChallenge "Elevator" / Hot Hot Heat

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 12 #MusicChallenge "Road to the West" / Cowboy Bebop Blue soundtrack (seatbelts/Yoko Kanno)

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#25TitleTracks Day 10 #MusicChallenge "Beta Love" / Ra Ra Riot I might be a prototype, but we're both real inside.

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#StrictlyInstrumental Day 11 #MusicChallenge "February Sea" / George Winston This always makes me think of a Fry quote from Futurama: "I can't wait until I'm old enough to feel ways about stuff."

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Day 10 for #StrictlyInstrumental and #25TitleTracks #MusicChallenge Time to cross the streams. "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" / Smashing Pumpkins

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#25TitleTracks Day 9 #MusicChallenge "Moon Mirror" / Nada Surf Therе's an infinity maypole Of innumerable strands Reaching up through space from All these human hands

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