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Tom Ewing
@tomewing.bsky.social
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Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits https://freakytrigger.co.uk
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 9h
Pollin’ makes me feel good and it can make YOU feel good too
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Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 10h
I ain't scared of no vote! It's

BLACK POP HISTORY 1982-1985 #BPHM8285 and the second half of 1984

As usual vote in the matches and enjoy your generous serving of two bonus votes!

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Black Pop 1984 Round 1 Part 2
Welcome to the Black Pop History 1982-1985 poll, where we're polling the best Black music of the early 80s to determine the ULTIMATE TRACK of that era. As usual with the Black Pop History polls I've ...
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 6h
This is the group with an actual Bobby “O” production though!
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 6h
Desperately trying to create controversy by saying “Yes and his best story is X-Men/Alpha Flight”
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 7h
Where are the indie voters when we need them??
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 7h
I think “High Energy” is his greatest achievement though and I voted for it

(Apart from the AI reconstruction of the Daleks Master Plan obviously)
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 7h
*Levine vibes intensify*
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 7h
Knowing what happened to him you’d expect “Police Officer” to be a bitter listen but nothing of the sort, still as funny, barbed and joyful as when half my school was trying (and failing) to do the lyrics
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Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 9h
#BPHM8285 Match B21

1 ALEEM! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5beG...
2 ILKARI MARU! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajNV...
3 REBBIE JACKSON! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Sd...
4 SMILEY CULTURE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCPQ...

Vote! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Aleem - Release Yourself - A cream "NIA" record label Ilkari Maru - Black Sky - A cassette inlay with a picture of five Australian Aboriginal men and the track titles on a red background Rebbie Jackson - Centipede - A woman in a black dress sitting on an enormous black couch Smiley Culture - Police Officer - A young man coming out of a police station
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 7h
Not sure any song of my childhood was as effective at awareness raising as “Nelson Mandela” - come to take the piss out of “are you so blind that you cannot see” cos yr a smartarse 11 year old, stay to actually find out who the guy is
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 7h
A Sides a little weak today IMO but very happy to give a vote to “Move Closer”, the definitive song of the school disco slow dance
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h
All we wanted was a chance to talk
'stead we only got outlined in chalk
feet have bled, a million miles we've walked
revealing, at the end of the day, the charade
--D'Angelo

once in a generation? only if that generation is very lucky.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 8h
As J Geils sang “My heart does bleed / Our species cannot interbreed / My angel is a centipede (angel is a centipede)”
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 9h
The final two songs in this are one sardonic Brit away from inventing the Pet Shop Boys
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 9h
Pollin’ makes me feel good and it can make YOU feel good too
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Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 10h
I ain't scared of no vote! It's

BLACK POP HISTORY 1982-1985 #BPHM8285 and the second half of 1984

As usual vote in the matches and enjoy your generous serving of two bonus votes!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Black Pop 1984 Round 1 Part 2
Welcome to the Black Pop History 1982-1985 poll, where we're polling the best Black music of the early 80s to determine the ULTIMATE TRACK of that era. As usual with the Black Pop History polls I've ...
docs.google.com
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 9h
Thoughtful songwriting the first thing I think of when New Order are raised :)

(I think Ian Curtis would be long since very cancelled had he lived)
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 10h
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 14

37. KELLY LEE OWENS - "Melt!" (20, UK)

Doing the #BPHM8285 poll and realising how electronic musicians have been using little arpeggios as hooks for 45 years now and it can still work! (This one is a climate change metaphor fwiw)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kW0...
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 12h
Wolverine fan in 1985 shown vision of Romulus and Daken
Wesley snipes holding a gun crying
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 13h
He had a story, they told it, he should be off happy in Japan turning up occasionally as an old sensei figure
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 13h
one of the outcomes of the lowering of barriers between creators and readers/listeners/viewers is that creators understandably talk a lot about craft which leads readers to deploy a (poor, second hand) knowledge of craft in lieu of actually sitting with their response to the work as a whole
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 13h
need to ask the poll historians if a 97 seed has ever had a shot at the putative champ before! Anyway yeah DOC is a fine album but Pixies is better, into the pac man’s jaws it goes
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 13h
By the 90s ones I was only reading X Factor and crossover season was more like a forum invasion, suddenly a load of idiots rampaged through your comic shouting about bullshit and you picked up the actual story next month
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 13h
Imagine Dragons are firmly anti dragon and make the music they do in order to create a Pavlovian disgust response at the very thought of them
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 13h
“oh also our comic about superhero 8 year olds is going to be in it”
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 13h
It’s easy to mock Claremont for some things but “We’re going to do a story about a successful terrorist attack which the heroes fail to stop and which breaks them physically and mentally for the next year or so” is an amazing flex for the best selling comic in America
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah there’s been heroic efforts to evade its narrative logic which have led to some interesting stories and eventually I decided thats about all I can ask
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 14h
II. The Mutant Massacre has the most interesting structure of any mainstream comics event - lead characters caught by surprise and then running around like headless chickens with no actual win - and it sucks that every other X-Men event is done as a build up to a big heroic fight
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 14h
God Loves, Man Kills is about as good as any other 80s Very Special Episode issue (ie not very), its main positive is that it forced Claremont to start thinking through the mutant meaphor in a bit more depth
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X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 21h
What's an opinion about X-Men that'll get you sent to jail? Is Jean really interesting or really boring? Should Logan have stayed dead? Do you think a certain x-mens outfit is positively horrendous even though people seem to love it?

The Brood Saga is better than Dark Phoenix imo 🤷
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