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Mike Bennett

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Lawyer (State Appellate Defender), CHIRP Radio DJ (Sat. 9AM-Noon CDT at https://chirpradio.org), music & sports geek, politically aware, aging jock. http://habloennui.blogspot.com/

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · Jul 1

Here's a list of my favorite albums midway through 2025.

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2025 Mid-year Top 20 (and more)

I ranked 20, without lots of thought, and then listed a bunch of other records that I've really like so far this year. Another terrific year...

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 1h

We grew up so poor we could only watch '4 and a Half Dalmatians'.

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 2h

Another great ad from this masterful communicator. Question: when does the NYC mayoral election actually come to a conclusion? 2026? 2027?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 22h

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 4h

Night of the Living Dead
Nosferatu
Get Out
The Blair Witch Project

Gabriel Hardman @gabrielhardman.bsky.social · 18h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

The Shining
The Seventh Victim
Alien
Onibaba

Brian Schirmer @brianschirmer.bsky.social · 18h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Alien
The Thing
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (‘78)
Cure

Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 5h

Man, that is so needed when every day is just a doom scroll. We have the ICE shitshow here in Chicago, a terrible Supreme Court, a Congress that is letting the president usurp its power, a worsening economy...ugh. I can't hide from it, but I'm glad I can find comfort in song. 3/fin

Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 5h

The strumming, jangling guitars and steady rhythms are relaxing. The songs are sung with feeling. It sounds really good. And one song just hit me. Track 3 is called "A Line to the Stars", and it just hits some musical sweet spots for me. It makes me feel optimistic and hopeful. 2/x

Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 5h

I'm listening to the new album from New Zealand vets The Bats (it's called Corner Coming Up). They are kind of adjacent to The Chills, and like The Chills, have found a way to navigate a fairly narrow musical path and find little nooks and crannies that keep new efforts from just being xeroxes. 1/x

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 7h

How bizarre is it that the folks who struggled with social interactions as adolescents now control the mechanisms by which people interact, socially?

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 13h

The lead track:
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Melony - Wearing Shades On Rainy Days

YouTube video by Snam65

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 13h

The latter half of the '90s was a great time for power pop fans (Fountains of Wayne, The Posies, The Shazam, Superdrag, Splitsville, et al). My favorite LP from all this was from this Swedish trio, Melony. Hooks galore.

Blonde woman in light blue top with white pants and shows, standing behind a large '60s car, parked on some grass with tall trees behind it. The album cover for Satisficition by Melony.

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 1d

This was the first Prince album I ever owned. Not his best, but I still love it.

Minneapolis Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social · 2d

On this date: October 14, 1981. Prince released “Controversy.” It was his fourth studio album.

Album cover of Prince’s “Controversy” LP, which features an photo of him wearing a purple jacket with newspaper headlines in the background.

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Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social · 2d

I always think of BLACK MESSIAH as the ultimate "album that comes out in mid-December and just destroys all the publications that already put out their year-end lists" album.

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 2d

D'Angelo is dead at age 51 after a private battle with pancreatic cancer

D’Angelo Dead At 51

Terrible, shocking news: The great soul artist D’Angelo, one of the most gifted and mythic musicians of his generation, has reportedly passed away. TMZ reports that pancreatic cancer was his cause of ...

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to the president of the United States, they no longer line up outside my kids' school before the day starts; they let students in right away. The perimeter of the school and nearby streets are dotted by parents and neighbors, to protect from federal secret police who might snatch children.

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 2d

It could be another tribute for Clarence Ewing.

Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 2d

This is valid, but I will say that both the 1985 Bears and the Jordan-era Bulls weren't just winners, but charismatic teams full of characters. Even if the Bears had managed another title, the '85 team would still have a special place.

Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 2d

I own 16 of the 50 on that list. Two of those 16 were my #1 albums of those particular years (Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul and Beyonce), and The Hold Steady and Frank Ocean were pretty high in my rankings. (Hmm...maybe CHIRP should do its own list).

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most one-sided officiated games I've seen in a long time.

Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 2d

If Caleb was patient, and he had time, he would have seen DJ over the top in single coverage.

Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 2d

The OPI on Loveland earlier was weak too.

Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 2d

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GOMS (mariners 90s theme remix), by chongthenomad

track by chongthenomad

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Asher Perlman @asherperlman.bsky.social · 3d

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 3d

What a thorough article! The album has such a great mix of vintage and newer performers. I DJ at a community radio station and never thought I’d ever get to play a new Hudson Brothers track.

Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 3d

But those were good movies. As someone who enjoyed the Dick Tracy strip (Max Allan Collins was writing at the time the film was released), this was a horrible adaptation, which just saw a freak show, and somehow made a freak show boring. It's not even in the same league as Dark City.

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Mike Bennett @mrhonorama.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder what Kelce's family thinks of the song "Wood".

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 3d

Taylor Swift, Caitlin Clark and the Kelce family are in attendance at tonight's Chiefs-Lions game.