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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 15h

Great thread.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 17h

The story of how Rush (the band) saved my life.

In 1991, I was going through that high-school phase where you like Rush because some of your friends do. I really liked one song in particular, and it came on the radio one day as I was driving home.

But I couldn't remember the song's name.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 17h

You're right; they didn't. This was a 2009 idea of what seventies Britain was like. I recall it as a very colourful period. Just not the sort of colours 21st-century people like (since they don't really like any).

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 18h

I'm just not going to bother with it at all. It's the only option they understand.

Karen Mulreid @beatingblog.bsky.social · 19h

No no. No, we won't be doing that. We won't be brushing the last two years under the carpet just because there is a current ceasefire. This is appalling, Israel should not be allowed to participate until Palestine is free and Netanyahu is behind bars for war crimes, where he belongs.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 19h

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 19h

Some extra notes on the late Kaleb Horton, plus a dive into Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ conflicting visions of who their journalism is for.

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-measur...

It bothers me there isn't an independently reported obituary yet, some kind of arm's-length acknowledgement of this life and its conclusion. The death was already deeply painful for those who knew Kaleb, his family, his loved ones; the survivors have assembled some small literary pyres to push back the void. But as a fellow writer, when I think about the idea of a talent passing unrecognized by our culture's remembering machines, I see something that scares me. Here there once lived a man who awaits the stranger's appraisal.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 18h

"Post you from a different era." Sorry, 21st century, I only speak English.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 22h

Found and promptly blocked that loudmouthed Observer clickbaiter here. Stick to the old place, wah wah look-at-me-ists.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

Are these the folk who used to be in Sutton? Hopefully they'll encounter a more tolerant populace one stop up the railway line. Not really my beat - it's within striking distance of me but I have a well-documented problem with trains at the moment - but good luck to all involved.

Tom Berry @bezza.bsky.social · 1d

💥 Bravo Danny! 💥
The new shop is going to be even more fab than the old one. Please come along and show your support. Would love to see some of you there because:
1) Independent records shops are ace
2) Danny is ace
3) There is an ace pub opposite
4) I live a 7 min walk away. Ace.

Looking For The Magic Records @lookingforthemagic.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to say that we’re moving to our very own premises! We’ll be opening our new shop in Carshalton at midday on Sat November 1st. We’ve had such a special time at the Sound Lounge & we now have the opportunity to move to a bigger space which means we’ll have more racks & loads more cool stuff! 🚀

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Dr Tom May @dreamcargoes.bsky.social · 1d

Exploring #TheWednesdayPlay's Legacy At 60 returns with Dennis Potter's Alice, broadcast sixty years ago to the day. A fascinating, overlooked drama concerning Charles Dodgson's life, the Liddells & the creation of Alice in Wonderland:
maysbritain.home.blog/2025/10/06/e...

Exploring The Wednesday Play’s Legacy At 60 – 03:01: ‘Alice’ (BBC1, 13 October 1965)

The Wednesday Play (1964-70, or 1965-70) was a landmark BBC drama series, following ITV’s lead with Armchair Theatre (ABC & Thames, 1956-74) in amplifying working-class voices. Canadian m…

maysbritain.home.blog

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

Shouldn't take that long, I would expect...a generation from now, kids will be asking their parents "what was a Conservative Party?"

Berin @berinfw.bsky.social · 1d

23k more members and we beat the Tories!

How quickly can we beat the conservatives?

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Lower Bills.

Protect our NHS.

And invest in our communities.

Let's make hope normal again.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

CORRECTION: it peaked at 17 (not 18).

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 2d

Down six to #32 (peak 18), Star Sound with the novelty's-wearing-thin "Stars On 45 Volume 3," the one with all the famous intros. A generation later this would be considered a bootleg mash-up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQJI...

Stars On 45 - Stars On 45 Vol. 3 • TopPop

YouTube video by TopPop

www.youtube.com

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

Update: I didn't get very much in the way of sleep last night/this morning and am consequently far too tired to go out today without possibly having another accident. Therefore, one more day of rest and I should hopefully be OK for going in tomorrow. As you were...

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

Now figuring out how to go out tomorrow. Am thinking of getting a taxi to work. I'm not right yet.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody has ever satisfactorily figured out exactly what these lyrics mean - this old ILM thread made a valiant attempt:
www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSe...

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Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine your working day was like a 6Music DJ. Someone messaged to say that spreadsheet is 'giving them life'. One email followed by another email? I'm 'on fire' today. Someone said that report was just what they needed on a day like today. A new starter can't believe my meeting went so well.

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

The Diamond album, when it came out as four boxed 12" singles. That's my idea of a Spandau box set...

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

I'd like television that makes me laugh to return, if that's possible.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

I want television to stop trying to exclusively close some gap between itself and film, and do what I think the medium does best: tell fascinating stories which allow performances to breathe, emotions to be drawn out and spaces to be examined. 34/

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

Now figuring out how to go out tomorrow. Am thinking of getting a taxi to work. I'm not right yet.

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

I think I don't want deluxe reissues with pedantic and ponderous liner notes spelling out everything that happens on each track and completely destroying the magic. Back to band/artist pic on the front, track listing on the back and you work the rest out for yourself.

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Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social · 1d

Bought OTD in 1972: another proper 1967 psych album. Doesn’t have a first class rep but so what - it’s charming, tuneful, inventive and light. Look At Me I’m You is mundanity transformed by musique concrete, Frozen Dog rocks, People of the Royal Parks a protest against a more regimented time. Dig it

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Aka Brompton Will @billydods.bsky.social · 1d

This week’s listening.

Albums listened to this week by: Pinkpantheress, Mr(DJ Kicks mix), Stax compilation, The Hanging Stars, Haai, Music of the Nile, Khalid, Blawan, Park Jiha, Telepathic Fish ambient compilation, Hilda Gudnadottir, The Chamber Brothers, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe, Feeo, Hollie Cook

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Jon Arnold @jonarnold.bsky.social · 1d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 12

AS IT WAS by HARRY STYLES (2022)

The uncertainty of the post-pandemic era in under three minutes: the question of how to carry on against the music insisting you haven’t got the time to answer the question on anything bar instinct.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=H5v3...

Harry Styles - As It Was (Official Video)

YouTube video by HarryStylesVEVO

m.youtube.com

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

That's it for Retro Pop Punctum for this week - back with another historical Top 40 in a fortnight (L's got the Sunday off next week so I'm taking a break)! Keep asking questions and bye just now!

DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

And at number one, up 7 massive places, staying there for 4 weeks & saving the nation from Birdie hell, it's...Hatfield and the North (sort of); the other Dave Stewart + Barbara Gaskin with their "reimagining" of Lesley Gore! Video features Thomas Dolby as "Johnny":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUlc...

Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party

YouTube video by 80rec

www.youtube.com

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

And at number one, up 7 massive places, staying there for 4 weeks & saving the nation from Birdie hell, it's...Hatfield and the North (sort of); the other Dave Stewart + Barbara Gaskin with their "reimagining" of Lesley Gore! Video features Thomas Dolby as "Johnny":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUlc...

Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party

YouTube video by 80rec

www.youtube.com

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I did warn you - MERCIFULLY getting stuck at #2, it's "The Birdie Song" by the Tweets. Incidentally, I have it on good authority that one of these feathered people is David "Isn't She Lovely" Parton:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROaD...

Birdie Song - The Tweets - TOTP - 1981 [Remastered]

YouTube video by TopOfThePopsFan

www.youtube.com

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

Another overlap with Joyce's Dubliners; listen to this then read "A Painful Case." I did at the time and, wow...

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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 1d

Up one to a peak of #3, Godley and Creme with the bizarre and seemingly entirely uncommercial but who can second guess the public "Under Your Thumb." A splendidly overwrought TOTP performance here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ85...

Godley and Creme - Under your Thumb

YouTube video by cosycorp

www.youtube.com

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