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  It’s #BandCampFriday ! Go check out this amazing Lucky Bag package from @racheltaylorbeales.bsky.social stuffed with music and goodies! https://racheltaylor-beales.bandcamp.com/album/lucky-bag-reboots-rarities

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  #ThursdayFiveList #ElementsAndCompounds Have you tried covalent bonding? Bunsen Burner by John Otway https://song.link/i/997835567 Elements by Lemon Jelly https://music.apple.com/gb/album/elements/1027466484?i=1027466485 Iron Mountain by Laurie Anderson https://song.link/i/1045887432 Carbon Cycle by Hannah Peel https://song.link/i/1550814790 Silver Threads and Golden Needles by Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette & Loretta Lynn https://song.link/i/876961864

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  #DailyHaikuPrompt #Cascade Resonance cascade A bad day for Black Mesa labs They're waiting for you

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  #1001Albums Planet Rock: The Album by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force https://album.link/i/1288203472 Let’s start with the good stuff. This is a genre defining album that takes the icy electronic music of Kraftwerk (reproduced in the studio rather than sampled) and melds it with a danceable beat to create something genuinely new and fresh. It’s good to see that the members of Kraftwerk get individual writing credits on this, which earns this album a star.

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  #MondayRandom10 A nice selection of bangers this morning! Shadows by Orbital Bela Lugosi's Dead by Nouvelle Vague Music for Evenings by Young Marble Giants Lichtspiel I: Opus by Public Service Broadcasting Crumble by Calexico Beautiful Burnout by Underworld A.H.B. By SURVIVE High Rise by Ladytron Davy Jones' Locker by System 7 Tiger Girl by 65daysofstatic

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  Here’s my #Owlbear after action report! https://dogwoodtales.blogspot.com/2026/09/owlbear-wizards-staff-2026.html

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  #DailyHaikuPrompt #FirstStorm #Frog Froglet finds her feet Leaps on to a lily pad To enjoy the storm

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  #1001Albums Like a Prayer by Madonna https://album.link/i/83448003 Madonna may have started the 80s as a carefree material girl but as the decade closed, she was thinking about faith and family. The title track, and the accompanying video in particular, caused a huge fuss at the time, but looking back on this now shows that this is actually from the (small c) conservative viewpoint of someone raised in the catholic faith with all of the associated iconography.

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  #JukeboxFridayNight #Royalty Has to be Nat Johnson and Your Majesty! https://youtu.be/jD8NHuGqyHM

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  #1001Albums Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized https://album.link/i/1502476612 I’d been looking forward to this one since hearing Spacemen 3 on this list recently. This was effectively Jason Pierce’s solo project after his previous band broke up, featuring various musicians as the band evolved. His girlfriend at the time was keyboard player Kate Radley and they were in the middle of a relationship breakdown during the recording, which is reflected in several of the s...

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  #DailyHaikuPrompt #FreshPeach Old tree stands alone Bearing a single fresh peach Object of wonder

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  #TuneTuesday #WaitingSongs 21 Days by John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett https://song.link/i/581175153

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  #1001Albums Live in Japan by Deep Purple https://album.link/i/65041635 As much as I like Deep Purple, I’m not really sure why this album is on the list. It’s notable for being a raw, live recording, straight from the mixing desk to a basic eight track recorder with no overdubs or post production polishing, so it should be as close to what the crowd of fans in Tokyo and Osaka heard on the night as it’s possible to get.

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  #DailyHaikuPrompt #MilkyWay Pocket money saved Milky Way and a Beano Saturday well spent

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  #1001Albums Can't Buy a Thrill by Steely Dan https://album.link/i/1440496279 If you want an example of why this list of 1001 albums is biased toward white, male rock stars you just have to see that there are four Steely Dan albums on here (and a crappy Donald Fagan solo effort) and only two from Dolly Parton. How many middle of the road yacht rock albums by bands named after steam powered dildoes do you need in your life? Sod this, I'm listening to The Grass is Blue instead.

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  #DailyHaikuPrompt #Pack Dungeon delver's pack Stuffed with supples, then emptied To make room for gold

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  #1001Albums Heroes by David Bowie https://album.link/gb/i/1347894082 Picking a favourite Bowie album is a little bit like being asked to name your most loved child. For me, the Berlin trilogy is like a set of triplets - they all have their quirks and individual personalities but they also have a unique bond between them. If Lodger is the cheeky outsider and Low the introspective, arty one, then Heroes is the confident middle child that gets the balance right.

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  #DailyHaikuPrompt #Grasshopper Deep in the long grass Playing fiddle with his legs Noisy little bug

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  #1001Albums Pacific Ocean Blue by Dennis Wilson https://album.link/gb/i/457508820 Fun fact! Dennis Wilson was the only one of the Beach Boys who could surf! He was also the only one who got involved with Charles Manson, but that’s not quite so much fun.

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  #DailyHaikuPrompt #Sail We set sail today Under skies of polished bronze Endless wine dark seas

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  #1001Albums Talk Talk Talk by The Psychedelic Furs https://album.link/gb/i/211437898 The first thing to say is that this band are neither psychedelic nor furry - what they are is a fairly standard post-punk/new wave band with some good wall of sound production by Steve Lillywhite and effective use of saxophone as a sort of droning background honk underneath Richard Butlers nasal vocals. That makes it sound worse than it is, but it did give me a bit of a Proustian rush for the early 80s.

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  #DailyHaikuPrompt #Flurry My toughest rival On Words with Friends, the mighty Alice McFlurry

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  #1001Albums Ju Ju by Siouxsie & The Banshees https://album.link/gb/i/1440764567 Interesting to compare and contrast this album with Talk, Talk, Talk by The Psychedelic Furs that the random generator gave me yesterday. Both albums are from 1981, both described as Post Punk but listening to them one after the other shows that they are very different in tone and feel.

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  #DailyHaikuPrompt #Glade #Chestnuts Shady forest glade Neath the spreading chestnut trees Where love conkers all

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  #TuneTuesday #JumpUpAndDown Jumping Someone Else's Train by The Cure (https://song.link/gb/i/1444157483)

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  #ThursdayFiveList #FantasyWorld Let’s get fantastical! Wintersmith (feat. Sir Terry Pratchett) by Steeleye Span (https://song.link/gb/i/730915854) The Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin (https://song.link/gb/i/580708179) The Fountain of Salmacis (2007 Stereo Mix) by Genesis (https://song.link/gb/i/294810995) Grendel by Marillion (https://song.link/gb/i/691334133) Dragon Song (Live) by Hawkwind (https://song.link/gb/i/1617368065)

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  #ThursdayFiveList #SciFiTunes Let’s get cosmic! Where's Captain Kirk? by Spizzenergi (https://song.link/gb/i/1494967784) Another Girl, Another Planet by The Only Ones (https://song.link/gb/i/301745101) I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper by Sarah Brightman & Hot Gossip (https://song.link/gb/i/454441759) International Rescue by Fuzzbox (https://song.link/gb/i/642246596) We Have a Technical (Live) by Gary Numan (https://song.link/gb/i/317397239)

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  #ThursdayFiveList #HereComesTheRain I wish! Sheffield Shanty II by Monkey Swallows The Universe (https://song.link/gb/i/1086969455) I Love a Rainy Night by Eddie Rabbitt (https://song.link/gb/i/284147810) God's Camera by John Otway (https://song.link/gb/i/260041914) The Fall of the House of Usher: Arrival (1987 Remix) by The Alan Parsons Project (https://song.link/gb/i/1434894770) Rain (2022 Stereo Mix) by The Beatles (https://song.link/gb/i/1643396627)

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  #DailyHaikuPrompt #Cocoon It’s time for a change She wraps herself in fine silk Reborn in moonlight

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  #1001Albums Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock https://album.link/gb/i/158571524 Purists would say that there is no place in jazz for new-fangled gizmos like synthesisers before taking a toot on one of their funny cigarettes. Meanwhile Herbie Hancock is merrily flicking the vees at those snobs and coaxing other-worldly squelches and bloops from his keyboards and building them into a fifteen minute jazz funk track …