That Music List continues. Edition #250 includes music from Adriano Celentano, Grand National, The Four Seasons, Dagmar Zuniga, Tic Tac Toe, Seazoo, Amsterdam, Twisted Teens, Malajube, Golden Starlet, Oracle Sisters, Ebo Taylor, The Golden Dawn and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/04/list...
That Music List continues. Edition #249 includes music from Lung Leg, Laetitia Sadier, Marie Davidson, Carla J Easton, Wesley Gonzalez, Monograph, Florence Adooni, Folk Implosion, The Siddeleys, Spratleys, The Last Poets, Marina Zispin, Colleen and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/04/list...
I sounded the alarm when Donald Trump went after thousands of libraries and museums — and they just won BIG.
These are institutions that preserve our history, add BILLIONS to our economy, and educate future generations.
There's power in fighting back.
here's the story
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Coincidentally, you've basically described the theme of and video to the lead track from The Just Joans' splendid new album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QPnk...
Also in this one from barely a year later:
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It was. Also used to soundtrack a Nike advert with Sergey Bubka, I think?
It's Barton Snow's world, and we're just guests in it.
As easy a win over the big fences as I think I've seen in 45 years' watching.
Das Omen and Karma (Omen II) were the big singles, but the 12" remix of the first-named and the album version of Requiem are better still. Shame they went down the nondescript Eurodance route when rebranding as Magic Affair in the early-mid 1990s. I prefer to remember them this way.
It's one of two German electronic pop albums from 1989 which are well worth your while. Assuming, that is, you don't already know the other - Omen : The Story by The Mysterious Art. A pop-darkwave crossover that I can't believe subsequent members of Faithless won't have been familiar with.
My memory fails me. The Great Commandment wasn't on Methods of Silence, of course - it narrowly predated it. Still a fine album, mind.
Methods of Silence by Camouflage was a very early cassette purchase on one of my various German exchange trips. Also includes their calling card Love Is A Shield and a perfectly serviceable cover of New Musik's On Islands. A nice album to revisit even now.
That Music List continues. Edition #248 includes music from The Just Joans, Cornershop, House Of All, Souad Massi, Holy F*ck, Gossip, The Real Tuesday Weld, Keith Seatman, Horsegirl, A Witness, Cocteau Twins, Robber Robber, Neko Case, Tompot Blenny & more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/04/list...
I feel your pain! This season and last have been our only two good ones in the last ten. From Dave Challinor's throws to the Half Man Half Biscuit association, I've long had a bit of time for Tranmere. Best of luck for the rest of the campaign.
That Music List continues. Edition #247 includes music from Prolapse, Ladytron, Wire, Yumi Yumi, Heavy Axe, Cootie Catcher, My Lo-Fi Heart, Gina Birch, The Montgolfier Brothers, Win, Delicate Vomit, Sock Puppets, ABC, Christy Moore, Mighty Mighty and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/03/list...
Depending on how the footie goes, I'd possibly want something sufficiently strong to help me forget!
(Mind, things have been going very well indeed of late until Crewe's 95th minute winner today. No matter, onwards!)
And fewer still compare and contrast the video layout for this track with that for Propaganda's Duel. The latter designed by Paul Morley, but inspired as much by the former's Bruce Hill as by the more often cited Salvador Dali?
A bottle of carrot cake-flavoured stout beer from the Netherlands, most of the contents of which have been poured into the beer glass to its right and the viewer's left. The bottle label bears the name "MADS", the name of the stout. The beer glass is a present-day standard pint glass, additionally bearing a picture of a windmill and two logos for the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). The glass sits upon a circular dark pink coaster.
A bottle of carrot cake-flavoured stout beer from the Netherlands, most of the contents of which have been poured into the beer glass to its right and the viewer's left. The bottle label bears the name "MADS", the name of the stout. The beer glass is a present-day standard pint glass, additionally bearing a picture of a windmill and two logos for the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). The glass sits upon a circular dark pink coaster.
I'd have quite happily declined the IPAs and Hells as well, but I'd have been all over that or any other cake-flavoured stout. My apologies! It's always a joy when I can source some of this 12% carrot cake stout from the Netherlands, in particular.
That Music List continues. Edition #246 includes music from Heavenly, Bis, Robert Wyatt, Cha Cha 2000, Voka Gentle, Suep, Aretha Franklin, Tulpa, Tom Vek, Tomora, Red Monkey, Air, Best Friends Forever, Cathode, Khaled, BMX Bandits, Solar 76 and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/03/list...
"If the abnormally good sound quality of the EP translates across the entire [Jimmy] album, it should be outstanding".
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2/2
"It was interesting to read in a recent interview with Paul Stewart and Gemma Malley how powerful a live proposition they believed Blueboy had become as the early-mid 1990s progressed, and the Bikini live EP of tracks performed in concert in Toulouse backs up their assertion most compellingly". 1/n
Sooooo... twenty years ago today, this happened.
Still the best job I've ever had.
Still the best job I ever will.
Sadly, still among the shortest lived, too.
But my God, writing full-time about your hobby under the tutelage of some amazing people takes some beating.
IIRC Keith Dobson of The 012 also covered this track himself, it being an early single of his subsequent project World Domination Enterprises.
Also briefly used as the opening theme for any non-Grandstand BBC horse racing coverage, before the move to something a bit more idiomatic (but less funky).
Sally even got invited to Joan's studio for cake and a sneak listen of her new album once, whilst Tom and Dick peered enviously through a window.
Is that the All The Little Flowers Are Singing skit? I think my brother and I could perform the whole thing from memory at one stage, right down to the fight.
An Italo Disco horror film would just have to be called Bad Dreams. #iykyk
I devoted two specials to Indie Top 20 in late 2011, with the bits I missed back then getting covered in an occasional feature in the relaunched blog. Family Cat's turn again this week: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/03/list...
I'm intrigued as to what sort of numbers constituted barely anyone reading the Indie Top 20 blog, but please don't feel under any obligation to divulge. I relaunched my own music blog this year after seven years' hiatus, and the figures are about the same now as then - mostly a bit under 100 views.
That Music List continues. Edition #245 includes music from Cardiacs, Hemlocke Springs, Nena, Luke Slater, David Lyme, Toxic Two, Therapy?, The Sugargliders, The Radio Field, Kiss AMC, DJ Kaos, The Bernhardts, Flying Saucer Attack, Howling Bells and more: thatmusiclist.blogspot.com/2026/03/list...