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Writes about Doctor Who at https://readfnord.wordpress.com
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Asking why sci-fi is not more positive in an age where the latest societal advance from the tech industry is the rise of cryptofascism is something close to pathologic.
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I doubt it. It's the perfect entry to pick for LetsDoIt because it's a really good song that isn't much like anything else by a major artist who isn't a white guy - when researching pre-1952 music, it stands out and is obviously deserving of praise. But is it anyone's favourite song?
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Sarges' art pop style is made from a series of very distinct sounds and each song is her trying out new ideas for them, particularly her vocals which are often falsetto, duplicated and keep falling in and out of sync with each other. This is just going to keep growing on me throughout the year.
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Biig Piig's "11:11" - wobbly bass lines, spacey synths, some glitch music influences, and one great pop medley after another. Really excellent pop album.
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I'll happily take my 12 pick getting to just outside the Top 50. Hell, I'm just glad to see Scott still being remembered! (Though I do recommend that people read about his full discography; the guy was a pioneer in a ludicrous amount of fields.)
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I have no idea what part of the "Louder, Please" album cover Bluesky considers to be adult content.
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"Louder, Please" starts as an album of very enjoyable 90s techno pastiches, ticking each major sound off one-by-one, only to slow down during its back half and reveal that Rose Gray's great strength is her ability to use club music to paint sweeping emotional portraits. Very, very fun.
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This is where it turns out the company was an eBay seller selling remote control car controllers.
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I knew this sketch was devastatingly accurate but never realised *how* accurate until I found the Four Lads were a thing.
youtu.be/NMjtvSABQ3Q?...
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Though I take your challenge and raise you a song that uses every second of its 41 minute length. Six minutes is nothing.
youtu.be/kZln5ktyYM8?...
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If I watch the latest Captain America film tomorrow and find it to be a laden movie full of dull continuity that takes itself far too seriously despite being completely politically incoherent, it'll truly be no different than "Captain America: Civil War".
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David Whitaker loves Barbara and can't come up with anything for Susan to do. Dennis Spooner loves Vicki and can't come up with anything for Barbara to do.
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ITVx currently has an ad for Pan Am, a 2011 show starring Margot Robbie, which somehow completely fails to mention that Margot Robbie's in it. I'm going to claim she'd be quite the draw.
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In general, British TV appears to have lost the art of the trailer. ITV are astoundingly bad at it - for the most part, they pick a single contextless ten second clip that has nothing to do with the show's conceit and just call it done. You learn nothing about the show through its ads.
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Doctor Who: The Crusades reviews
P3 (on how the serial's trying not to be racist, but is still pretty racist): readfnord.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/d...
P4 (on how nobody actually resolves their own plots in this serial): readfnord.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/d...
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Ethel Cain's "Perverts": sickness inducing (complementary)
The only downside to it being this monolithic 90 min mix of crushingly bleak drones played on faulty equipment and minimalist piano ballads is God knows how I'll have the time to revisit it. Worth revisiting though
Album of the year so far
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On the other end of the coolness spectrum, I also listened to "Journey to Voltus B", HENGE's latest album, and found it to be a surprisngly atmospheric, enveloping and coherent journey from Earth to a foreign planet. Their best album since "ExoKosm".
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Really hard choice between "Ribena" and "Mum Does The Washing"
Going to go for "Ribena" as it's the one I've listened to more and see myself playing more
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"Happy World" is my pick
(It would've been a fight between Dawson and Cheekface were I not already a Cheekface fan)
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Three songs that are objectively good but don't do anything for me personally, and "Good Luck, Babe!" Looks like I'm a Roan stan for the rest of the contest.
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Tbf, I suppose most people do have to have voted for most of the Top Ten, else those songs wouldn't have got into the Top Ten
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Turns out I voted for 7 of the Top Ten - am currently trying to decide if that makes my music taste objectively fantastic or if we're all just boring and predictable (The answer: both)
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This is my Golden Beat - I've been listening to it incessantly since first hearing it
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I did look at the longlist and think "A lot of people just voted for the artists whose names they recognised", and now that we've had to rank the songs, the bottom of this list is a lot of big names with popular albums but mid singles whose songs are not surviving direct comparison to other acts'
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* DragonForce; my Monday sleepiness and Doctor Who fandom sticking out there
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Ribena - 4am Kru, Papa Levi
vibrato chess - Eirik Hegdal et al
Happy World - Debbii Dawson
Mum Does the Washing - Joshua Idehen
Space Marine Corps - DragonFire
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Hell, can we please stop caring "what audiences think" in general? Audiences are so diffuse that you can find data points arguing that the viewers of any popular show believe anything. These arguments have nothing to say about the actual texts at all.