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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 8h

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Day 28 / 50

breaking news - flowerovlove (2024)

Sometimes all you want is a sweet love song and this is a doozy, bottling that special feeling of the first days of a new relationship.

youtu.be/zB5gEp2ly8A?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 1d

That caught my ear earlier in this challenge. It must have been in a list. It certainly is a fun track. Onto my HM longlist.

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 1d

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Day 27 / 50

Stuck In The Middle - Greentea Peng (2022)

Smooth and soulful jam about letting go of your negative vibes.

youtu.be/rIG0MabnOaM?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 1d

Love this but it never made my shortlist. Now I shall HM!

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 2d

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Day 26 / 50

For Granted - Yaeji (2023)

It's hammer time. Opens sparsely with introspection gradually building squelchy beats before exploding in a hard drum and bass frenzy. Let it flow.

youtu.be/tfOURyD7ljc?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 3d

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HM 5 / 5

Retributions Of An Awful Life - Heartworms (2023)

Gothic industrial post-punk full of throbbing menace with angular guitars and acerbic vocal delivery of unsettling lyrics.

youtu.be/thC-C_Bk8H0?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 4d

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HM 4 / 5

Microdosing - UNIIQU3 (2021)

Hyper-thrilling house anthem.

youtu.be/yzKB9Ojl3ls?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 5d

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HM 3 / 5

Golden Air - Sun's Signature (2022)

Dreamy.

youtu.be/FN1fTs15jD4?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 6d

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HM 2 / 5

Under The Strikes - Yannis & The Yaw (2024)

An irresistible brass riff with a funky afrobeat backing underpin this song about societal decay that ends with a mournful coda that is a farewell to Tony Allen.

youtu.be/7thfYiUNzT4?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 7d

My first five HMs are tracks that were on my shortlist for October but failed to make the cut, and which someone else picked. (All my HMs are going to be previously picked).

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 7d

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HM 1 / 5

Magnetic - Tunde Adebimpe (2024, US)

Frantic and urgent energy with wonderful buzzing synths. He's been thinking about his time in space.

youtu.be/WWiGeU1WPW8?...

Tunde Adebimpe - Magnetic (Official Video)

YouTube video by Tunde Adebimpe

youtu.be

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 8d

My favourite album of 2022.

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 8d

Love it! I never considered for this challenge because I thought it too unknown, but now you've picked I may HM.

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 8d

Sorry this is a day late Aaron. I will delay the first 5 HMs by a day as a result. This concludes my 25 no-hopers. These have an average number of Spotify streams of 1.5 million. In November there will be 25 aiming for consensus picks. They have average number of Spotify streams of 11.5 million.

Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 8d

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Day 25 / 50

chaperone - Mermaid Chunky (2024, UK)

Eccentric playful outsider-art performance-art synth-pop epic. Shifts from character-voiced spoken word to a hi energy disco beat. Signed to DFA, from the album Slif Slaf Slof.

youtu.be/6vKcEwGoPdU?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 9d

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Day 24 / 50

Juicy Juice - deBasement ft. Marie Davidson (2025)

Raunchy raw hedonistic party banger from the queer rave scene.

youtu.be/bimOyx9eszY?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 11d

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Day 23 / 50

Black Hole - Emma-Jean Thackray ft. Reggie Watts (2024)

Wah-wah P-funky track about about the power of music to elevate mood.

"I'm in a black hole of despair - only the beat can pull me out".

youtu.be/c6Ak75xR6l4?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 12d

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Day 22 / 50

All Comes Down to This - A Certain Ratio (2024, UK)

I've studiously avoided artists from the previous century but this is wonderful with a totally irresistible groove and a lot of squelchy noises. As The Quietus said - their best work since 1982.

youtu.be/r9XI0es77iw?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 13d

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Day 21 / 50

I Was Gonna Fight Fascism - Soccer96 ft Alabaster DePlume (2020, UK)

A droll send-up of excuses for not taking action set to a brilliant psychedelic motorik beat.

youtu.be/ijZbNyVvTmY?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 14d

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Day 20 / 50

The Ick - Panic Shack (2022, UK)

A gang of Welsh girls playing punk-pop with their tongues firmly in their cheeks.

youtu.be/3SoDdD4xAd8?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 15d

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Day 19 / 50

Dollar Bill Bar - Sierra Ferrell (2024, US)

Storytelling country with blue grass influences but really this is an pop song with infectious melodies and clever lyrics, playful and catchy.

youtu.be/e3FQpE99zCo?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 16d

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Day 18 / 50

Lawn - Aldous Harding (2022, NZ)

More indie-folk but much more left-field, almost abstract. Wonderful and compelling. About getting free of a relationship that was only B-sides.

youtu.be/9ylzXnxFpYQ?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 17d

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Day 17 / 50

Crop Circles - Odie Leigh (2022, US)

Warm and gentle indie-folk about a desire for personal change, breaking out of cyclical thoughts and behaviors that my children turned me on to. Apparently it was big on Tik Tok.

youtu.be/i5jTp7j5BTg?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 18d

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Day 16 / 50

dickhead blues - Kara Jackson (2023, US)

Bluesy-folk singer-songwriter with a track that is part doleful affirmation and part embittered diss of asshole lovers, that no longer amuse her.

youtu.be/r7QnY3RVwHE?...

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Stuart Young @drstuey.bsky.social · 19d

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Day 15 / 50

Mindful Solutionism - Aesop Rock (2023, US)

A wordy rap about the dangers of technology. An earworm of a track.

youtu.be/T7jH-5YQLcE?...

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