rest well jh prynne, the / mere & lovely centre, of the earth

eeeee, herit-AGE, are the Dead Sea Scrolls available on V*NYLS, eeeee, Acid not real museeeeek, Rare Groove authenticit-EE, Section 25 were bland cuz they didn't sweat, you never saw their exertional armpits cuz they didn't MEEEEEEEEEEAN it MAAAAAAAAN
(see mid-'80s UK music/fashion press ad nauseam)

PRINCE: <i>Batman</i> - Motion Picture Soundtrack (#390: 1 July 1989, 1 week) Track listing: The Future/Electric Chair/The Arms Of Orion/Partyman/Vicki Waiting/Trust/Lemon Cru...

Received generally rotten reviews at the time but I'm not sure how many critics were actually listening:
nobilliards.blogspot.com/2015/08/prin...

Since I heard this yesterday I've been humming another roaring side from this Oliver band that was recorded about a month later. They're all distorted as anything but my goodness they're exciting. youtu.be/uy1AXvxA_Z8

IIRC it was a combination of generally low singles sales and a wee bit of promotional pushing from the label.

Dale Winton on POTP re. the latter: "Thank you, boys."

Centrists killed the public option for Obamacare.

Centrists killed the ability to codify Roe v. Wade into law during 2009.

Centrists killed the ability to prevent trump from continuing his stupid war in Iran.

Centrists killed a mechanism to no longer send money to Israel.

Centrists are fascists

"Everything's Gone Green" by New Order, in its 12-inch form the greatest single recorded by anybody, got to #38, "CCCan't You See" by Vicious Pink, a pop record of genius, made #67 #FuckTheCharts

"Best Years Of Our Lives" by Modern Romance, possibly the worst song Tony Visconti ever produced, made it to number four #FuckTheCharts

See also "I've been doggedly centrist (I'm perfectly happy with Keir Starmer in truth...)" as posted last month by a notorious blogger from the noughties.

"The Downtown Lights" by the Blue Nile, one of the greatest songs of the eighties, peaked at #67. "What Kinda Boy You Lookin' For (Girl)" by Hot Chocolate, one of the worst songs of the eighties, made the top ten #FuckTheCharts

King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators - Deep Henderson Recorded in Chicago on April 21st 1926 featuring Joe 'King' Oliver cornet. -See more at: http://www.20sjazz.com/videos/king-oliver-2/deep-henderson.html#sthash.tk740zOz.dpuf

Recorded 100 years ago today

King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators - Deep Henderson

One of the all-time great 20s jazz records

And they put the data behind a paywall. There's socialism for you.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".

Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.

Think what we said about him on TPL (passim) sums him up better than any biopic could.

Purple rain on the guardian weather

Ten years later I still love this guardian tribute to Prince

I was a bit muted about the album when I wrote about it on TPL because it was the middle of 2014 and that's how I felt about it at the time for various extraneous reasons. People and their opinions don't remain the same, as much as internet footprints would like to convince us otherwise.

Big Time is a fucking jam of Tackhead proportions, as is for balance Land Of Confusion. Just admit it.

40 years plus one week of Sledgehammer. Nobody liked it or its parent album at the time apart from the millions who bought and loved both. One of those millions was me because I didn't and don't subscribe to pseudo-purist indie assholism.

Traffic In My Mind YouTube video by The Osmonds - Topic

Alan Osmond R.I.P, producer of the brothers greatest lp and co-writer of a lot of their best tunes.

youtu.be/nN9SS5bqN4s?...

Oh, look! A thread about the upcoming Olivia Rodrigo album!
*reads thread*
*walks away, as far away as possible*

Oh and he didn't have Authentic Soul, Passion and Honesty, that as well.

Basically he was ignored and/or mocked for variously not being August Darnell, Michael Jackson or Morrissey.

Also, in the eighties his only British top three singles (as a performer, i.e. excluding Manic Monday) were a double-sided reissue and a cut-up movie trailer. Whereas Bros had five top three hits.

For most if not all of the '80s, when his best music was new, Prince was routinely slagged off, belittled & mocked in the British music press. Even when he received good reviews, they were grudging. He was viewed as that funny little guy who didn't talk to anybody at the BRIT Awards. Remember that.

I suppose we should be grateful they're not doing a Traitors Proms.

Judging by their picture, the "writer" of that resembles a bot. They're catering to ageing readers who haven't been in a club since 1987, and even that was probably the Stax revival night at the Town and Country Club.

Today a person can work two jobs for fifty hours a week and struggle to make ends meet, while in the stone age, a weird bird could be a hairdryer for a caveman for like five minutes every morning and it was a living.

PLAY SOME BROS

People have to go to jail for this.