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I'm Tom. Music geek, leftish, sub-optimally organised librarian, optimist - Pompey FC, Hampshire CCC and KC Royals fan, so needed! Musically all over the shop. Tile courtesy of the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow. Watching Rafferty turn into a serial.
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If you've followed me recently because I'm in a couple of music Starter Packs, thank you! But please let me manage any expectations - I'm genuinely just a bloke who posts songs he likes, usually within themed 'music challenges', and enjoys other people's contributions. That's pretty much it...! :-)
Short but undoubtedly sweet, this runs for five days starting on Monday 1st December. Power pop enthusiasts, please spread the word and join in! Non-power pop enthusiasts - please spread the word and join in and become power pop enthusiasts!

#5DaysOfPowerPop
#5DaysOfPowerPop
#MusicChallenge
UPDATE/CHANGE:
This challenge is now being hosted by
@lee-coursey.bsky.social!
Thank you, Lee! 🎸
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It's been brilliant seeing/listening to all the #5CoverSongsBlackFriday choices - thank you so much to everyone who's joined in by posting, commenting and sharing.

Next month we're gettin' meteorological with it - please share and take part!

#5CoverSongsWeather
#MusicChallenge
#NewMusicChallenge
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Many thanks to @bwodotbc.bsky.social for #MusicInMusic, and @lagrume.bsky.social for #NotKnownEnough this month - two brilliant challenges! And, of course, thank you to everyone for sharing - so many inventive choices in the former and deserved bigging up in the latter!
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Day 5: Please, please, please be upstanding for the National Anthem.

The Caulfield Sisters - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
song.link/y/FTJ85vt3E7Q

#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want by The Caulfield Sisters
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November 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Day 30: Okkervil River - Plus Ones

My favourite musical references song, adding one (hence the title) to 'number songs' ('TVC15', '96 Tears', 'Eight Miles High', etc.) and using those ideas to weave the song around. Both brilliant and brilliantly clever.

song.link/y/ZRoi3wQ0lcY

#MusicInMusic
Plus Ones by Okkervil River
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November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Day 30: The Fat Lady Sings

A band I post regularly to try to keep the fire burning! Just two albums; this is the beauty of loss and longing in their only UK singles chart entry, although Ireland valued them more highly.

Drunkard Logic
song.link/y/zSWt8aPlqlE

#NotKnownEnough
Drunkard Logic by The Fat Lady Sings
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November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Day 4: Mastodon covering ZZ Top, with a song describing either the best position to be in on Black Friday, or the worst position to be in on Black Friday...

Mastodon - Just Got Paid
song.link/y/ZG-Wu1R3g_Q

#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
Just Got Paid by Mastodon
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November 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Day 29: Wondermints - Arnaldo Said

Arnaldo being Arnaldo Baptista, founder member of Brazilian psychedelic rockers Os Mutantes.

"Run and hide, Arnaldo said,
Mutantes out to get you..."

song.link/y/0gntESY1KbY

#MusicInMusic
02 Arnaldo Said -- Wondermints - Bali by Phil W
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November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Day 29: James Blackshaw

An absolute genius on the 12-string acoustic guitar.

Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death
song.link/y/D1S9mF8Ns5Q

#NotKnownEnough
James Blackshaw: Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death by Bowlegs Music Review
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November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Day 3.

"But it doesn't matter 'cause I'm packing plastic,
And that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic,
And I am a weapon of massive consumption,
And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function..."

Hein Cooper - The Fear
song.link/y/7WP1eLbvDIg

#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
Hein Cooper covers Lily Allen 'The Fear' for Like A Version by triple j
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November 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Day 28: Crash Into June - Pete Ham

I know I've posted this a zillion times, but it's perfect here - a song about trying to work out what a song you once heard on the radio is, titled for Badfinger's singer, and sung by a band named after a Game Theory song.

song.link/y/wwjnP8jKvyA

#MusicInMusic
Pete Ham by Crash Into June
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November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Day 28: Young Guv

Ben Cook: not a rapper (and now back to just 'Guv' to avoid that assumption!), nor the post-hardcore punk that you might expect knowing that he was guitarist in Fucked Up. Instead - sunny, crunchy, infectious power pop.

Can I Just Call U
song.link/y/CsjiyRNasUo

#NotKnownEnough
GUV - "Can I Just Call U" (Official Audio) by Run For Cover Records
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November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Day 2: Linda confirming Tom Petty's assertion that it's the hardest part. And Dean Parks shines on mandolin and guitars.

Linda Ronstadt - The Waiting
song.link/y/4jkI8tA8Ckk

#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
Linda Ronstadt - The Waiting by Dimitris 004 & daughter - Plus channel
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November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Day 27: Jungle Brothers - Doin' Our Own Dang

"Well, my family sets all the trends,
From Soul II Soul on to Loose Ends,
A&R men sign groups like them..."

And it's an all-star joint featuring Monie Love, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Queen Latifah!

song.link/y/0G9NTpB4pnE

#MusicInMusic
Doin' Our Own Dang by Jungle Brothers
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November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Day 27: Remember Remember

Obviously I should have thought to have chosen them earlier in the month...! Excellent Reichian post-rock from a Glasgow band on Mogwai's Rock Action label whose three albums (2008-2014) are highly recommended.

song.link/y/0rT9SWlei6U

#NotKnownEnough
White Castle by Remember Remember
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November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My list of additional #TheTwen2ie5 HMs for your delectation! In the 'spirit of the game' I've gone with 40 songs that had at least one other vote, and just a final five that haven't had any love yet but I still wanted to mention, even though they effectively won't exist vote-wise!
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Day 26: They Might Be Giants - Twisting

"She doesn't have to have
Her dB's record back now..."

"She doesn't have to have
Her Young Fresh Fellows tape back now..."

I'd want both back!

song.link/y/j0jNgo6Ar4Q

#MusicInMusic
Twisting by They Might Be Giants
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November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Day 26: Elephant Sessions

If names like Shooglenifty or Frigg (no, I'm not making them up) make your ears light up, this is definitely for you. If not, there's something about funky Scottish folk that makes perfect cold winter night listening.

For The Night
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#NotKnownEnough
For the Night by Elephant Sessions
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November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Day 50: SAULT - Wildfires (2020; UK)

Take off your badge,
We all know it was murder.

12 points, please.

song.link/y/GRC4Ac6IB1w

#TheTwen2ie5
Wildfires by SAULT
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
If you saw my earlier post where I said early posting starts tonight, please ignore it - I got my dates muddled!

Early posting starts TOMORROW, Nov 25th, at 6pm Eastern Time, 11pm UK time.

#5CoverSongsBlackFriday
#MusicChallenge
The time is rapidly approaching for #5CoverSongsBlackFriday, get in the mood by eating a leftovers sandwich & trampling neighbors for a Tickle Me Elmo!

I’m going to try to track and playlist as many of these as I can to get us through Mariah season so join in!
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#readandplay
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Day 49: Haim - Relationships (2025; US)

Este, Danielle, Este, Este, Alana and Este. Not to forget Este. Did I mention Este?

song.link/y/dOI_QTmK8Ks

(Plus Este.)

#TheTwen2ie5
HAIM - Relationships (Official Video) by HaimVEVO
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November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Day 48: Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I'm Sorry (2024; US)

Keeping @idca.bsky.social company with this one, it's a beauty of a song that goes out to my niece, who four days after getting her first car drove from London to Nottingham to see Gracie live.

song.link/y/uxjhN_Donfw

#TheTwen2ie5
Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I’m Sorry (Official Music Video) by GracieAbramsVEVO
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Day 23: Ian Dury and The Blockheads - Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 3

A list that includes Buddy Holly, 'Good Golly Miss Molly', Elvis and Scotty, Rico, and John Coltrane's soprano, all of which I heartily endorse.

song.link/y/CIMNXogXnvE

#MusicInMusic
Ian Dury and The Blockheads – Reasons To Be Cheerful, Pt. 3 (Official 4K Music Video) by Ian Dury & The Blockheads
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November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Day 47: Fucked Up - Cicada (2023; Canada)

In which the band sound so much like Hüsker Dü (and that's a reason for loving it so much - exactly the type of melodic hardcore that ticks all my boxes) that they should be billed as Fücked Üp.

song.link/y/w7uwUDhgiCo

#TheTwen2ie5
Cicada by Fucked Up
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November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM