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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 7h

Like The Lonesome Jubilee, I bought this album when I was far too young to understand it, but years later realised just how good it really is.

#MusicBrownlow @musicbrownlow.bsky.social · 7h

Your #JasonDunstall89Medal Top 21

Number 17 (17* votes)

Cosmic Thing - The B-52’s

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The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RHINO

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 7h

I'd do that thing where I say "i wish I'd found this album sooner", but no, it obviously found me at exactly the right time - in an extremely rural petrol station - because I am absolutely loving it.

Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 7h

Wasn't expecting to have a sniffle cleaning the kitchen on a Sunday morning but here we are, hey? youtu.be/imHkz5nD6gs

Chappell Roan - Kaleidoscope (Official Live Performance)

YouTube video by ChappellRoanVEVO

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 1d

3 - Cosmic Thing
2 - lovebuzz
1 - Rhythm Nation 1814

Honourable mention: about half the list.

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 2d

I was a bit young at the time but I remember Joey being a hit. I guess I was more properly introduced to it by that radio version of Tomorrow Wendy on the station I listened to a teenager, then finding the album.

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 2d

That would explain the big change in the ARIA charts then - anything more that 2 years old has been shoved over into its own chart as of last month. So the massive runs of Riptide, Mr Brightside, Someone You Loved etc are over. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Australian music struggles on the charts, so ARIA is changing the rules

Old hits are being moved out to make space for new Australian music on the charts as ARIA implements new rules aiming to give homegrown talent a fairer chance at reaching the pointy end.

www.abc.net.au

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 2d

That song would probably have to be in something set in the time and place of the original song, but yeah.

Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 2d

I've been playing this a lot lately actually. When they were touring it here with Andy Prieboy, they did a radio session where Andy and Johnette did this, and it was a hell of an introduction to the song for me youtu.be/kI8DPkeGPBU

Tomorrow Wendy (live) - Andy Prieboy feat. Johnette Napolitano

YouTube video by andrew

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 2d

You know i never even noticed those

Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 2d

@flemishdog.bsky.social thank goodness for modern tech that allows corrections, but nothing screams analog TV like a completely bananas combination of aspect ratios.

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 2d

@flemishdog.bsky.social speaking of aspect ratios, i was looking at a superjesus music video from 2003 on the bonus DVD that came with the CD (how 2000s), and it was 2.33:1 letterboxed into a 16:9 frame, then horizontally squashed to 4:3.

A still from the music video of Stick Together by the Superjesus. Originally composed with a 2.33:1 aspect ratio, it has been letterboxed to fit into a 16:9 frame, then that frame has been horizontally compressed to have a 4:3 aspect ratio.

The same still from the music video of Stick Together by the Superjesus in its original 2.33:1 aspect ratio.

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 3d

Ahhhhh. So shoot 4:3, protect for vertical. Jeez, talk about back to the future.

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 3d

It absolutely blows my mind that now that "widescreen" is normal, that there's now 4:3 adverts all over the shop.

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 4d

It's the "you know together we're glowing" line from Golden that gets me every damn time.

Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 4d

Not just in my head, but forever in the real world bsky.app/profile/only...

Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · Aug 28

There's only one thing worse than a 128 kbps mp3 download from 2008, and that's one where the independent artist accidentally reversed the polarity of the vocal in the right channel. So it completely disappears in mono, or breaks your brain in stereo.

Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 6d

Hey I know where that is.

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 8d

I came for the three songs Nirvana did, I stayed for the instrumentals. Aurora Borealis, now there's a tune.

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 11d

It's certainly a bright one out there tonight. youtu.be/jzAnAYYqkoA

Shine on Harvest Moon

YouTube video by The Pied Pipers - Topic

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 17d

I understand that I am years late to the party, but i was paying for petrol the other day and heard those magical octave jumps in Pink Pony Club properly for the first time.

I am now more than making up for the time I didn't know it. youtu.be/GR3Liudev18

Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by ChappellRoanVEVO

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 18d

Oh geez, this could be half the list for me again. So let's have the ones that got the shit played out of them on hot nights.

3 - Adore
2 - Ocean Songs
1 - To Venus and Back

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 18d

Sitting up with a warm drink trying to get tired after visiting ghosts of the past today. And driving past something I'd never seen or heard of being built before, but seeing it today and realising I'd seen it in a dream a few months back.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 18d

It’s not all bad

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 18d

My goodness I'm feeling this today, after visiting some of those ghosts. You put it into words so well.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 18d

The thing about visiting places from childhood is it’s like a geographical haunting. Moments long gone, slipped away, but the place is still there

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Red McKenzie's Music Box @onlyapaprmoon.bsky.social · 25d

"Nobody's gonna wear the black bars, just make em all too tall"

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