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Wiz Ball
@wizball50.bsky.social
Well versed in both the politics of dancing and the art of parties. Songwriter and vinyl bore. Wild #LFC fanatic and chant-crafter. Proud nephew to two beautiful uncles.
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If there's anyone out there who'd like a little more music chat on their timeline, here's a sampling of some of my favourite musos on here, and a few feeds too, for good measure.

If you're on there and you'd rather not be, just drop us a comment or @ me.

#musicsky #music

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November 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
#ArtistFaveLP
Sign O the Times

Apols to the tracks I had to leave off: Strange Relationship, Play in the Sunshine, Forever in my Life, The Cross. All classics. Has there ever been another album this eclectic and yet this consistent?

Thanks to @geodrew.bsky.social & @olgalovesyuri.bsky.social 😘
Prince - The Cross Live | Sign o' the Times 1987
YouTube video by Champagne Supernova
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#NovemberMovieChallenge
#MovieSky
#FilmSky

29: Someone drinking or making coffee in a movie

Mulholland Dr. (2001)
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge

Jockey Full of Bourbon

Waits really is a cinematic songwriter. He writes in scenes and sketches; walk-on parts and character actors. Here it reaches a zenith: with pushed lines and frantic Cuban rhythms that get your heart pounding.

#musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
#ArtistFaveLP
Sign O' the Times
#MusicChallenge

1—Adore

His most soulful track, and one of his best vocal performances, with a middle 8 to die for: the comic timing on “…maybe not the ride” is👌. Might even be my favourite #Prince song full stop. A perfect ender too…

#nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Well, here's a rendition of 'Seagulls Scream Kiss Her, Kiss Her' on uke that verily blew my mind today...
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge

Goodnight Saigon—Billy Joel

"We had no cameras
To shoot the landscape.
We passed the hash pipe
And played our Doors tapes."

#musicsky #nowplaying

youtu.be/qbquhf4OQ6Q
Goodnight Saigon
YouTube video by Billy Joel - Topic
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 gigs you've seen:

Suede
Brian Wilson
Guided By Voices
Tom Waits
The Breeders
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.

David Bowie
Warren Zevon
The Who
Pink Floyd
B-52s
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.

Paul McCartney
Rush
The Police
Metallica
Korn
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge

Such a Scream

A song set to the rhythm of a drunken brawl, or awkward sex. A rhythm you might expect from a reanimated James Brown. It's got such a glorious jerk to it, it could give you whiplash if you're not careful.

#musicsky #nowplaying

youtu.be/joHkc4G2V8s
Tom Waits - "Such A Scream"
YouTube video by Tom Waits
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
#ArtistFaveLP
Sign O' the Times
#MusicChallenge

2—The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

Not a ballad, and not about the famous wit either: this track plays with expectations. Bassy, jazzy and cool, with the Joni-referencing middle 8 the cherry on the fruit cocktail.

#nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl #Prince
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
#readandplay (541)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

California—Joni Mitchell

I'm gonna see the folks I dig
I'll even kiss a sunset pig
California I'm going home

(Only found out recently the exotic sounding 'Sunset Pig' is just a cop on Sunset Blvd.)

#musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge

Runnin' down a Dream
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down,
I had the radio on, I was drivin'
Trees went by, me and Del were singin'
"Little Runaway," I was flyin'

(Del Shannon, natch.)

#musicsky #nowplaying
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Runnin' Down A Dream (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TomPettyVEVO
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
#Top30TomWaits

Martha

A majestic piece of storytelling, told from one side of a phone conversation, so we get but one side of this sad story. Why did they break up? Was it due to his 'impulsiveness'? And what about the enigmatic last line: '*trembling* close to you'?

#musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
#ArtistFaveLP
Sign O' the Times
#MusicChallenge

3—Housequake

You'd think the seismology metaphors would get old, but they never do ('the kick drum is the fault' is a fave.) Without hyperbole, this burning hunk of p-funk really is the baddest jam in the land.

#nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl #Prince
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's nice to see us playing football again. It's been a while.

#LIVPSV #LFC #Redsky
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge

Thunder Road—Bruce Springsteen

"Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays:
Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely."

#musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Reposted by Wiz Ball
Hands up if you'd be interested in a Sonic Youth #MusicChallenge in 2026 🙌

Thinking February or March for this one, if there's enough interest.

RTs appreciated.

#MusicSky
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
#Top30TomWaits

(Interlude)

So I sat down at the piano today to once again try and workout Johnsburg, Illinois. It's... not perfect, shall we say, but for a man of my humble abilities, it's defo sharable.

Apologies in advance for the creaky piano stool.

#musicsky #musiciansky
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
#CatchThePhrase #MusicChallenge | 118

And I don't (So now I do)

Robert Pollard (with Doug Gillard)

#musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
#ArtistFaveLP
Sign O the Times
#MusicChallenge

4—If I was your Girlfriend

It's a topic few male rock icons would broach, so it's a song that still feels ahead of its time even now. The best lyrics #Prince ever wrote, and a beautiful harmonic structure worthy of them

#nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge

Johnsburg, Illinois

A love song completely purged of any shmaltz, leaving just searing honesty and raw authenticity. It's no surprise then that his relationship with Kathleen, the subject of this song, is more than 40 years strong.

#musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge

Mott The Hoople—All the Young Dudes

Oh man, I need TV when I've got T. Rex!

(Also, his brother's back at home with his Beatles and Stones. And there might be a ref to the band Suicide in the first line, though I may be stretching things...)

#musicsky #nowplaying
Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes
YouTube video by Richard Weaver Films
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge

Cold, Cold Ground

A song about death, of the literal kind, or of a dream or of a stage in life. Yet, while resigned, it has this beautiful bittersweet quality. 'When the road's washed out we pass the bottle around'. Strangely uplifting

#musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
#ArtistFaveLP
Sign O' the Times
#MusicChallenge

5—Sign O' the Times

It opens with a killer first line that spins the leaden language of Reuters into pure gold, and sets us up perfectly for what turns out to be his 'What's going on'. Genre-bending brilliance.

#nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl #Prince
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
#MusicInMusic
#MusicChallenge

De La Soul—Plug Tunin'

See that the three will be your thread
But as my man Chuck D said:
"What a brother know?"

#musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM