It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! Today's mood is "fuzzy!"

Post a song/songs that you think fit "fuzzy"! It can be about feeling fuzzy in your brain, or warm and fuzzy in your heart, it can be about being fuzzy, or maybe the history of the song is fuzzy or whatever! The song can itself could sound fuzzy or just remind you of fuzziness. You can interpret the mood any way you want!

There are no wrong answers!

Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "fuzzy".

I’d like to invite you to vote in our 1980s Top Twenty Chart Poll

Match-Up #11
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division v Manic Monday - Bangles

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Since #BandcampFriday is fast approaching, I decided to hasten the release of my new single DOINITRITE (2025 Remaster) (all-caps deliberate…)

https://babumenos.bandcamp.com/track/doinitrite-2025-remaster

Note: While I mentioned earlier that I am closing my PayPal account, I haven’t got round to it yet. Should you feel generous and inclined to help out, your money would still reach me. You are very welcome, however, to get the track for free. In any case I would love to hear, or rather, read your feedback.

(Also, looks like no one has ever tagged their Bandcamp releases with #NoAI​.)

It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! Today's mood is "messy"!

Post a song/songs that you think fit "messy"! It can be about being messy, that you put on when you feel messy, it can be about emotionally feeling messy or about physical messiness or cleaning up or whatever! The song can itself be a mess, or maybe the making of the song has a messy history, or there's a messy story around it. You can interpret the mood any way you want!

There are no wrong answers!

Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "messy".

I’d like to invite you to vote in our 1980s Chart Poll

Repechage. Group One, Match-Up #3
Three songs, matched against each other, one qualifier.

One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head v Down Under - Men at Work

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One of my recent reads was Jon Savage's "The Secret Public" (2024), which I thoroughly enjoyed. The more descriptive subtitle of the book is "How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955-1979)".

The book starts with early pioneers like Johnny Ray and Little Richard and ends with the disco hits of Sylvester and the Village People. In addition to musical artists, managers and producers Savage also writes in depth about the history of the LGBTQ movement(s) in the UK and USA. I found this part of the book equally fascinating.

Although the book is quite long (with the notes section more than 700 pages), it doesn't try to cover everything that happened during these 25 years. Savage has divided his book into five main chapters, each of which mainly concentrates on the events of one year (1955, 1961, 1967, 1973 and 1978). This makes the amount of material in the book manageable, but obviously ends up leaving out many interesting stories. For example, I was expecting that the colourful - and gay - producer Seymour Stein might pop up at some point during the book, but he never did. Luckily Stein's own autobiography ("The Siren Song: My Life in Music", 2018, written with Gareth Murphy) is a fun read and provides quite a bit of insight on these issues as well.

Some of the key people in Savage's book include producers like Joe Meek, managers like Brian Epstein & Robert Stigwood and musical artists like Dusty Sprigfield, David Bowie & Tom Robinson. The career of Andy Warhol is also a major part of the discussion, and not only because of his role as a manager of the Velvet Underground.

At a couple of points Savage is surprisingly careless with his musical history. For example, he mentions (on page 516) that the songwriter-producer Van McCoy joined Scepter Records, "where he worked on hit singles by Ruby & the Romantics, Erma Franklin, Jackie Wilson and Betty Everett", when in fact none of these artists recorded for the label. But while there may be other factual inaccuracies that I didn't spot, I still found his general arguments and the outline of his story quite compelling.

I really liked the way Savage chose to end his book, leaving his characters frozen at the end of 1979. I think we all know what happened next.

For a slightly more extensive review of the book, you may want to read Alex Needham's text in the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/22/the-secret-public-by-jon-savage-review-how-pop-drove-lgbtq-liberation

I’d like to invite you to vote in our Favourite Chart Record of 1993 Poll

First Quarter-Final
Steam - Peter Gabriel v Both Sides - Phil Collins

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I’d like to invite you to vote in our Favourite Chart Record of 1993 Poll

Last 16
Match-Up #1
Creep - Radiohead v Tuesday Morning - Pogues

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It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! This week's mood is "submissive" for no real reason.

Post a song/songs that you think fit "submissive", it can be about submission or feeling submissive, something made as a firm of submission, about a submissive character, or even defiance against being submissive, or any other interpretations you have.

There are no wrong answers!

Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "submissive".

I’d like to invite you to vote in our Favourite Chart Record of 1992 Poll

First Quarter-Final
I Can’t Dance - Genesis v The One - Elton John

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It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! This week's mood is "love" because Valentine's is coming up!

Post a song/songs that you think fit "love", it can be about love, something you listen to when you're in love or want to be loved, something written due to love, or something that reminds you of love!

There are no wrong answers!

Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "love".

I’d like to invite you to vote in our Iconic Musicians of the 1970s Chart Poll

Match-Up #188
Pink Floyd v The Ramones

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I'm Doin' Fine - Day One

https://youtu.be/Fp_LqUcUuEo?si=sgeLNlsngQjeIZry

Mix called TRANSGENDER LOVE, from Aunt B in Charlotte, NC. For listening AND downloading!

LP Giobbi & Danielle Ponder - Is This Love
LP Giobbi & Mascolo - Been Such A Long Time
Msystem & Toxo feat. Dyanna Fearon - Make Your Move
A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
The Blessed Madonna feat. Marbl & Ric Wilson - Blessed Already
Doechii & JT - Alter Ego
Babymorocco & Frost Children - Elle Aime
Nelly Furtado - Ready For Myself
Saweetie - Is It The Way
Fcukers - Bon Bon (Confidence Man Remix)
Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith - Not In Love
Kim Wilde - Midnight Train
Garbage - Song To The Siren
Underworld - Oh Thorn
Midland - Ritual
INXS - Viking Juice (The Butcher Mix)
A Flock Of Seagulls - Some Dreams

#Music #DJset #HipHop #PopMusic #DanceMusic #Rock #TransLove #TransRights

I fuckin love Doechii more every day.

https://hearthis.at/4jzlwrht/transgender-love/

What happened on THAT talk show. 'Secrets' - Meljoann.
#webcomic #popMusic #pop #music

It's Monday so it's time for #MoodMusicMonday! Today's mood is "distraught" b/c *waves hand at world*

Post a song/songs that you think fit "distraught", it can be about feeling distraught or you put on when you feel distraught or to combat it or however you want to interpret it.

There are no wrong answers!

Remember to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "distraught".