@hoopshooley.bsky.social
Banging on about music and Welsh stuff...
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Welsh music: https://baraffwndl.wordpress.com/
On the turntable for today’s #VinylSaturday selection:
- Steely Dan: Pretzel logic (1974)
- Julie Tzuke: I am the phoenix (1981)
- 10cc: Sheet music (1974)
- Bruce Springsteen: The River (1980)
#NowPlaying
- Steely Dan: Pretzel logic (1974)
- Julie Tzuke: I am the phoenix (1981)
- 10cc: Sheet music (1974)
- Bruce Springsteen: The River (1980)
#NowPlaying
July 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
On the turntable for today’s #VinylSaturday selection:
- Steely Dan: Pretzel logic (1974)
- Julie Tzuke: I am the phoenix (1981)
- 10cc: Sheet music (1974)
- Bruce Springsteen: The River (1980)
#NowPlaying
- Steely Dan: Pretzel logic (1974)
- Julie Tzuke: I am the phoenix (1981)
- 10cc: Sheet music (1974)
- Bruce Springsteen: The River (1980)
#NowPlaying
June 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Brian Wilson, Pop Auteur and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/a...
#RIP
#RIP
Brian Wilson, Songwriter and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82
A hitmaker elevated and burdened by the label of genius, he transcended the breezy surf genre to create complex harmonies and intricate soundscapes in the studio.
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June 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Brian Wilson, Pop Auteur and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/a...
#RIP
#RIP
Today’s rainy #VinylSaturday selection / record fair haul:
- Linda Lewis: Not a little girl anymore (1975)
- Count Basie: Basie picks the winners (1965)
- Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA (1984)
- Henry Mancini: Charade (soundtrack) (1963).
- Linda Lewis: Not a little girl anymore (1975)
- Count Basie: Basie picks the winners (1965)
- Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA (1984)
- Henry Mancini: Charade (soundtrack) (1963).
June 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Today’s rainy #VinylSaturday selection / record fair haul:
- Linda Lewis: Not a little girl anymore (1975)
- Count Basie: Basie picks the winners (1965)
- Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA (1984)
- Henry Mancini: Charade (soundtrack) (1963).
- Linda Lewis: Not a little girl anymore (1975)
- Count Basie: Basie picks the winners (1965)
- Bruce Springsteen: Born in the USA (1984)
- Henry Mancini: Charade (soundtrack) (1963).
Firecracker of a show tonight. Song after song after song pop pop pop pop from the 39-year-old @throwingmuses.bsky.social back catalogue. A great night. (With added cello.)
May 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Firecracker of a show tonight. Song after song after song pop pop pop pop from the 39-year-old @throwingmuses.bsky.social back catalogue. A great night. (With added cello.)
Today’s #VinylSaturday selection:
- Wings: Wings at the speed of sound (1976),
- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella sings Gershwin, vol. 2 (1959),
- Julian Cope: My nation underground (1988),
- Gladys Knight and the Pips: All I need is time (1973)
#NowPlaying
- Wings: Wings at the speed of sound (1976),
- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella sings Gershwin, vol. 2 (1959),
- Julian Cope: My nation underground (1988),
- Gladys Knight and the Pips: All I need is time (1973)
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May 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Today’s #VinylSaturday selection:
- Wings: Wings at the speed of sound (1976),
- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella sings Gershwin, vol. 2 (1959),
- Julian Cope: My nation underground (1988),
- Gladys Knight and the Pips: All I need is time (1973)
#NowPlaying
- Wings: Wings at the speed of sound (1976),
- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella sings Gershwin, vol. 2 (1959),
- Julian Cope: My nation underground (1988),
- Gladys Knight and the Pips: All I need is time (1973)
#NowPlaying
Day 2 @focuswales.bsky.social: guitars ‘n’ stuff at the Rockin’ Chair: Public Order, @melysmusic.bsky.social, Ballsy, Tara Bandito. 👍
May 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Day 2 @focuswales.bsky.social: guitars ‘n’ stuff at the Rockin’ Chair: Public Order, @melysmusic.bsky.social, Ballsy, Tara Bandito. 👍
Diwrnod cyntaf gwych yn @focuswales.bsky.social / Excellent first day @focuswales.bsky.social - Cyn Cwsg, Seazoo, Malan and Muireann Bradley yr uchafbwyntiau / the highlights.
May 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Diwrnod cyntaf gwych yn @focuswales.bsky.social / Excellent first day @focuswales.bsky.social - Cyn Cwsg, Seazoo, Malan and Muireann Bradley yr uchafbwyntiau / the highlights.
Today’s #VinylSaturday selection:
- Björk: Post (1995)
- Paul Simon: One Trick Pony (1980)
- Various Artists: Slipstream - the Best of British Jazz Funk (1981)
- Roxy Music: Greatest Hits (1974)
#NowPlaying
- Björk: Post (1995)
- Paul Simon: One Trick Pony (1980)
- Various Artists: Slipstream - the Best of British Jazz Funk (1981)
- Roxy Music: Greatest Hits (1974)
#NowPlaying
March 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Today’s #VinylSaturday selection:
- Björk: Post (1995)
- Paul Simon: One Trick Pony (1980)
- Various Artists: Slipstream - the Best of British Jazz Funk (1981)
- Roxy Music: Greatest Hits (1974)
#NowPlaying
- Björk: Post (1995)
- Paul Simon: One Trick Pony (1980)
- Various Artists: Slipstream - the Best of British Jazz Funk (1981)
- Roxy Music: Greatest Hits (1974)
#NowPlaying
BLOG: 'I'm Still Here': the Silencing of a Revolutionary Music - jessejamesbolero.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/i...
#FilmOfTheWeek
#FilmOfTheWeek
March 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
BLOG: 'I'm Still Here': the Silencing of a Revolutionary Music - jessejamesbolero.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/i...
#FilmOfTheWeek
#FilmOfTheWeek
Top New Orleans music incoming on the recent Mardi Gras episode of the Funk & Soul Show. Quality. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@craigcharles.bsky.social
@craigcharles.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Top New Orleans music incoming on the recent Mardi Gras episode of the Funk & Soul Show. Quality. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
@craigcharles.bsky.social
@craigcharles.bsky.social
‘I’m Still Here’, well deserving of its #Oscar nominations. Fernanda Torres is brilliant. Yes the brutalism of the Brazilian military dictatorship but also what a mother will do for her family. Not the easiest watch obviously but the best film I’ve seen for ages. #FilmOfTheWeek
March 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
‘I’m Still Here’, well deserving of its #Oscar nominations. Fernanda Torres is brilliant. Yes the brutalism of the Brazilian military dictatorship but also what a mother will do for her family. Not the easiest watch obviously but the best film I’ve seen for ages. #FilmOfTheWeek
MUSIC BLOG: Some words about "Wales: 100 Records" by Huw Stephens, a fascinating trawl through recordings by Welsh artists and about Wales through the decades: baraffwndl.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/1...
(English translation below the Welsh)
(English translation below the Welsh)
19. ‘Wales: 100 Records’ by Huw Stephens
Pwy sy ddim yn hoffi rhestr? Yn y llyfr hwn mae’r darlledwr Huw Stephens wedi dewis cant o enghreiffiau sydd, yn ei farn e, yn adrodd hanes recordiau Cymru dros y degawdau. Wrth gwrs, mae Ste…
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February 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
MUSIC BLOG: Some words about "Wales: 100 Records" by Huw Stephens, a fascinating trawl through recordings by Welsh artists and about Wales through the decades: baraffwndl.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/1...
(English translation below the Welsh)
(English translation below the Welsh)
Today’s #VinylSaturday selection:
- The Temptations: Greatest hits (1986)
- Edward H. Dafis: ‘Sneb yn becso dam (1976)
- Happy Mondays: Loose Fit 12” (1991)
- Suzanne Vega: Days of open hand (1990)
#nowplaying
- The Temptations: Greatest hits (1986)
- Edward H. Dafis: ‘Sneb yn becso dam (1976)
- Happy Mondays: Loose Fit 12” (1991)
- Suzanne Vega: Days of open hand (1990)
#nowplaying
February 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Today’s #VinylSaturday selection:
- The Temptations: Greatest hits (1986)
- Edward H. Dafis: ‘Sneb yn becso dam (1976)
- Happy Mondays: Loose Fit 12” (1991)
- Suzanne Vega: Days of open hand (1990)
#nowplaying
- The Temptations: Greatest hits (1986)
- Edward H. Dafis: ‘Sneb yn becso dam (1976)
- Happy Mondays: Loose Fit 12” (1991)
- Suzanne Vega: Days of open hand (1990)
#nowplaying
My best albums of 2024: jessejamesbolero.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/b...
Best albums of 2024
[Not much time on your hands? See my YouTube playlist which includes one track from each of the album selections below. The tracks below are different from those on my YouTube playlist. Just so you…
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February 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
My best albums of 2024: jessejamesbolero.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/b...