“Stepping through the door with the night in store
Whiling just an hour away“
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#nowspinning #oceancolourscene #vinyl #retro90s #altrock

“There’s only one way of life
And that’s your own”
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#nowspinning #levellers #vinyl #retro90s #folkpunk

“Laugh at the wonder of it all
Laugh so loud you break your fall
And you hear the gathering sounds“
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#nowspinning @wearejames.bsky.social #vinyl #retro90s #alternative

A little 90s “ska-core” on a Sunday morning never hurt nobody.
#nowspinning #mightymightybosstones #vinyl #retro90s #ska

Frutiger Aero and 90s retro theme inspiration for my pattern design. This is what I associated with these two aesthetic’s the most back in my childhood
#myart #frutigeraero #retro90s #retro #aesthetic #digitalart #artwork2026 #adobeillustrator #patterns #artistonbluesky

La formula de la casita del horror de los simpsons: 3 Actos, Referencias y personajes recurrentes: Kang y Kodos #Simpsons #CasitadelHorror #podcastMexicano #retro90s #fmenlínea #hermanospodcast

Best tunes of 1994: #24 Cranes “Shining road” << #25   |   #23 >> Here’s another song by a band whose introduction came by way of a sampler. Yes, they really did work! Back in the latter months of 1994, I was living in a basement apartment just north of Toronto while attending my second year at York University. Although it was definitely a shorter commute from that apartment than it was in…

Best tunes of 1994: #24 Cranes "Shining road"

#BestTunes #Retro90s #Cranes #AltRock #Gothic

Playlist: 75 tunes from 1991 Here’s a good long Apple Music playlist that could get you through an afternoon of chores, painting, or cooking. Perhaps a road trip from Toronto to Montreal. Or keep you company on a flight from North America to Europe. I’ve done a few playlists over the years on this blog but never any that focused on the music of a particular year in the past.

Playlist: 75 tunes from 1991

#Playlist #Retro90s #AltRock

“Hey, you chase the day away
Hey, you draw the blinds and blow your mind away
And there’s a sadness in your style
And there’s a blankness in your smile”
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#nowspinning @suedehq.bsky.social #vinyl #retro90s #britpop

“Now tomorrow’s here today
And yesterday’s todays just fade away”
Perfect.
#nowspinning @lightningseeds.bsky.social #colouredvinyl #retro90s #britpop

Behold these archaic relics of the ancient past! (I know that's what many would think, so I'm beating them to it)

A matching pair of Numark turntables for Xmas from my spectacular wife @bear-paw-patches.bsky.social

If 90's stuff is cool, consider me Miles Davis!

#vinylDJ #retro90s #oldskool

Best tunes of 1994: #25 Frank Black “Headache” << #26   |   #24 >> Back in the early 90s, Toronto alternative radio station CFNY collaborated with music retailer extraordinaire HMV on a series of alternative music compilations. Fittingly titled "Free at last", the radio station would hand them out as promotional items at events and the store would give them out free with purchases of music by at least one of the artists appearing on the compilation.

Best tunes of 1994: #25 Frank Black "Headache"

#BestTunes #Retro90s #FrankBlack #AltRock

Vinyl love: Concrete Blonde “Bloodletting” (Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.) Artist: Concrete Blonde Album Title: Bloodletting Year released: 1990 Year reissued: 2017 Details: standard black The skinny: Well, it’s All Hallow’s Eve again and though it’s been years since I’ve celebrated it in any traditional sense and double that since I dressed up in costume as the holiday warrants, I know it’s an important one to many people and I do try to observe it every year in my own way.

Vinyl love: Concrete Blonde "Bloodletting"

#Vinyl #ConcreteBlonde #Retro90s #AltRock #GothicRock

#nowspinning The Verve “Urban hymns” #vinyl #theverve #retro90s #britishrock

Low-angle seated portrait of a short-blonde model in a houndstooth knit set and oval sunglasses, layered gold chains and hoops, one knee raised toward camera on a plaid sofa; venetian-blind window light from camera left mixing with warm tungsten practicals for split color contrast; slight diffusion-glow from a misted filter, shallow depth at f/2.0 focused on the eyes, gentle halation around highlights, 35mm lens for environmental perspective, warm filmic grading with muted greens and browns, vertical framing that keeps furniture and drapery as soft background context.

Room-Tone Static

Prompt in ALT

#aiart #blueskyart #digitalart #aicommunity
#editorialportrait #retro90s #ambienthaze #35mmlens #windowlight #softfocus

Best tunes of 1994: #26 Sonic Youth “Bull in the heather” << #27   |   #25 >> On my old, long defunct blog Music Insanity, I remember writing a post about all those bands that I’ve respected and tried many times over the years to ‘get into’ but ultimately, failed. The list at that time included The Ramones, Skinny Puppy, Husker Du, Bon Iver, Destroyer, Broken Social Scene*, and of course, Sonic Youth.

Best tunes of 1994: #26 Sonic Youth "Bull in the heather"

#BestTunes #Retro90s #SonicYouth #AltRock

Working my way through this bad boy. #WarhammerCommunity #PaintingWarhammer #Retro90s

Gone back to 1996/97 with this classic terrain 🤘🏻 #WarhammerCommunity #PaintingWarhammer #Retro90s

“Scraggly hair and messed up shoes
I’m lookin’ all around for you
Find you in the corner bar
But you can’t find the keys to your car”
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#nowspinning #recordcollection @buffalotomband.bsky.social #buffalotom #letmecomeover #vinyl #reissue #retro90s #alternativerock #lyricsmatter #velvetroof

#nowspinning Ned’s Atomic Dustbin “Godfodder” #vinyl #nedsatomicdustbin #retro90s #altrock

#nowspinning Lush “Lovelife” #vinyl #lush #retro90s #britpop

#nowspinning Radiohead “The bends” #vinyl @radiohead.wastehq.social #retro90s #altrock

The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries Cartoon Intro!
[1995-2002]
#90scartoons #retro90s #saturdaymorningcartoons #thesylvesterandtweetymysteries #sylvesterandtweetymysteries #looneytunes #sylvesterthecat #tweetybird #granny #hector #joealaskey

#nowspinning Echobelly “On” #vinyl #echobelly #retro90s #britpop

#nowspinning Dodgy “Free peace sweet” #vinyl #colouredvinyl #retro90s #britpop

Best tunes of 1994: #27 Green Day “Longview” << #28   |   #26 >> For a couple of weeks last month, my life* revolved around Ottawa’s Bluesfest, the local big music festival and arguably one of the biggest in Canada. I’ve been attending this shindig to some extent for the past fifteen years or so and have seen some amazing acts in the process. In fact, one of the things I love most about it, besides discovering new bands, is how it has made it possible for me to see a litany of acts that I likely wouldn’t have otherwise seen.

Best tunes of 1994: #27 Green Day "Longview"

#BestTunes @greenday.bsky.social #Retro90s #GreenDay #AltRock #Punk

Skullmaster from Mighty Max by Creed Stonegate!

Skullmaster from Mighty Max!
#saturdaymorningcartoons #100cartoonvillains
#infinitecoolness #villain #cartoonvillain #90scartoons
#90stoys #mightymax #skullmaster #timcurry #evil
#90snostalgia #retro90s #cartoonsky

Best albums of 1990: #1 Depeche Mode “Violator” Well here we are at the number one album of 1990. I started this particular countdown and mini-series back near the end of May and if you’ve been following along, you might have guessed this album would end up at the top, simply by the glaring absence of its mention thus far. "Violator" by Depeche Mode is quite simply, no question, my favourite album of 1990.

Best albums of 1990: #1 Depeche Mode "Violator"

@depechemode.com #BestAlbums #Retro90s #DepecheMode #BritishRock #SynthPop #NewWave

100 best covers: #36 Sinéad O’Connor “Ode to Billy Joe” << #37    |    #35 >> This wasn’t going to be next post. In fact, it wasn’t even supposed to be any of the next few posts. However, I was recently contacted by email (once again) by someone who mentioned they were enjoying the list and asked after the rest of it. And of course, I had to explain (yet again) how I am still working my way through it.

100 best covers: #36 Sinéad O'Connor "Ode to Billy Joe"

#BestTunes #Retro90s #Covers #SineadOConnor #BobbieGentry

Best albums of 1990: #2 The Charlatans “Some friendly” Now that Ottawa Bluesfest is over (and has been for almost a week), I've been doing my best to avoid festival withdrawal and part of my strategy now is to get back to our normal schedule of posts. Returning to the series counting down my favourite albums of 1990 is a good way to jump right back into it. Picking things up at the number two position on this list, here’s yet another album with which I am and have been intimately acquainted for years.

Best albums of 1990: #2 The Charlatans "Some friendly"

@thecharlatans.bsky.social #BestAlbums #Retro90s #TheCharlatans #BritishRock #Indie