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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 25d

🚨 NEW!🚨

🚨2000 Part 1🚨

Jumping forward (temporarily) to the new millennium, here's the first three hours of music and speech from the year 2000, A year many of you will actually remember.

Free to stream, and available as a podcast to supporters on Patreon.

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Cover image for 2000 - a man DJs on the floor of a room, his face obscured.

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 21m

Berets?

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent thread, agree with a lot if it, I would add though that we had a particularly high standard of TV drama in the UK which did not survive this shift, and this is why the 100 Greatest TV Shows lists which act like TV started in the 90s USA are particularly annoying to read.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 12h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 15h

Roisin is such a disappointment.

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 15h

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 15h

#TheTwen2ie5 day 12

Kate Nash - GERM (UK, 2025)

I confess, I did not know that Kate was still recording in 2025, let alone that she would come out with this anti-TERF banger, and a banger with footnotes and sources too! YT comments full of furious TERFs too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Mo...

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 18h

Just editing a collage on the 2000 US presidential election and it really feels like the beginning of the end for the USA as a democracy, more so than 9/11, 2008 financial crisis, Trump's elections, covid or anything else.

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

#TheTwen2ie5 day 11

Charli XCX - Girl, So Confusing featuring Lorde (UK/New Zealand, 2024)

Not the track from Brat/BAICDBSB that I play most, but definitely the one most suitable to put in a time capsule of the early 2020s, a new kind of artistic dialogue emerging.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q3K...

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

Well, when I was 12 we had this "young enterprise" thing at school where we all had to start a business, and I tried to sell chestnuts, and nobody bought them because they said they were "horse chestnuts" and didn't understand the difference. Sold one bag to my form tutor and he put it in the bin.

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

I've never heard of it before, always up for an unfunny late 80s Hollywood comedy though.

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

RIP. I had no idea that Manhattan Murder Mystery was a sequel to Father of The Bride.

She was further Oscar-nominated for her roles as activist Louise Bryant in Reds (1981), a leukemia patient in Marvin's Room (1996), and a dramatist in Something's Gotta Give (2003). She was known for her roles in dramatic films such as Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Interiors (1978), and Crimes of the Heart (1986), as well as comedic roles in Manhattan (1979), Baby Boom (1987), Father of the Bride (1991), its 1995 sequel, Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), The First Wives Club (1996), The Family Stone (2005), Finding Dory (2016), and Book Club (2018).

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The Oscar-winner best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and The Book Club, has died Diane Keaton, one of the best-loved film stars of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 79 in California. The news was confirmed by People magazine. Further details are not available at this time, and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson. Continue reading...

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

Are you absolutely sure world leaders aren't laughing at you though?

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

Peeled 103, barely made a dent, think we have more than a thousand here. Fingernails are suffering. Brought it on myself.

A lot of unpeeled chestnuts, 103 peeled chestnuts 🌰

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

No squirrels in the garden to speak of since we got the dog.

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, I got chestnuts.

Me, in my dining room, with a large pile of chestnuts, which we picked today from [location not disclosed].

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

The quality of the shivving in our jails is clearly not what it was.

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 1d

We do need to separate the art from the artist, so I have to say, if we look past his appalling crimes, his music was also shit.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 2d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 2d

#TheTwen2ie5 day 10

Jodie Harsh - Hectic (UK, 2023)

A hyperpop-adjacent club house banger from the UK's biggest drag queen DJ, which got played a few times on Radio 1 and then apparently went completely unnoticed - well, not by me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-x-...

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 2d

Oh definitely Leominster.

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 2d

For people who aren't journalists, why would we want to waste our time following political "content" (ugh) of people we fundamentally disagree with? Is that what you think social media is, the obligation to listen to every crackpot, bigot and bore?

Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 2d

I just don't want to follow people who post stuff I don't like, whether that's politics or prejudice or just being a bore, life is too short to waste on that.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 3d

A friend just died of leukemia, was in his early 50s. I was going to record a desert island discs thing with him later this month. Saw him 11 days ago and he didn't look like he was about to die.

Enjoy yourself, friends, it's later than you think.

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 3d

Like all of the best diss tracks it also works as self-criticism.