G. H. Elliott - Wikipedia

Oh, I imagine they'd be big fans of GH Elliott if they only knew.
Probably as well they don't, they'd be clamouring to reinstate his headstone.

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Honestly, I don't think it's any better.
And it looks like a grey smudge.
Which could have been tweaked for sure but...
I think that record just had such a hard time coming into existence it was less of a concern

ENJOY YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CHANGE ANYTHING ANYWAY

If you see this, post something orange from your gallery.

Ozzy the mechanical bull at New St Station, Birmingham

"Fuck off, Sharon!"
Being a mechanical bull, Ozzy doesn't shit, but he still knows bullshit when he sees it
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Cover goes hard

Also, they're both excellent.

The Applicant (2006 Remaster) YouTube video by The Blue Aeroplanes - Topic

Child has been writing an essay about Plath's The Applicant.
Dad rock Dad proof reads.
I always thought this was a masterful reading of it. A high risk move I think but he gets away with it.
Child liked it to.

#Plath
#BlueAeroplanes
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Even by their own standards, it's terrible.

"And we love this song,
it’s a classic hit
Yeah, Thompson Twins,
they rarely missed"
This lyric from the new New Pornographers album caused me to splutter a bit. I mean, I like a couple of Thompson Twins tunes, sure, but really only a couple, they were definitely more miss than hit

18 “Bring them here to me,” he said. 19 And directed the people to sit down. Taking the Royale with Cheese and two fries and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the buns. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.

St.Vincent of Vega 12:18,19

Billie Eilish - you should see me in a crown (Vertical Video) YouTube video by Billie Eilish

My face is numb.

#dentist
#crown
#Billie
#spiders

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Let's all hope so Linda

Review | Loula Yorke (feat Charlotte Jolly) - Salix by @ouchmonkey.bsky.social

"The music is like a willow dipping its boughs in a stream, turning its leaves in the wind like a shoal."

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"But at this point, we can see War for what it really is: as the flailing and obviously doomed effort of a declining power to make its peculiar combination of bureaucratic war machines and speculative financial capitalism into a permanent global condition." . - David Graeber

Speculative Financial Capitalism is always part of the equation.

Gates of the old Bluebird toffee factory in Halesowen. Currently under redevelopment as housing.

Bluebird toffee

They've got so many absolute bangers

About a year ago, I went back to Continue As A Guest, and found its words and melodies already hiding back in my brain. Then the stuff I'd overlooked since at least Brill Bruisers was just as good as the early record. New one is less immediate, but I speed ran it...

@mergerecords.bsky.social

My wife was a cinema manager when this came out. They kept the life size cut out of Walter in the projection booth for ages

You're being very un dude about this

T.V. Eye (2005 Remaster) YouTube video by The Stooges - Topic

I mean, kinda the whole thing, but the breakdown toward the end and particularly when Iggy starts screaming "BROTHER!" before it stops and the riff comes back
God DAMN! that's the stuff

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No boogie boogie piano.
Can you even imagine?

Colourful interior of a pub, with black and white cat

Always love a pub cat

#pubcat

Ah, flash flood Friday. Everything was so beautiful Thursday night...

I don't like it

All the winning, so much winning

The remains of your knee are in a dreadfully litigious state

Mark Rothko at Tate Modern | TateShots YouTube video by Tate

Somewhat alarmed that it's about eighteen years ago
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He has a very litigious estate

Fortunately for me Clement Greenberg is dead, or I'd be in trouble for Colour field as well.