damn, they're still anthologizing Clarence Day? did someone pick up a standard midcentury anthology and slap a few newer stories in there to fill it out

if it is an official rule change it’s very much for the worse

I have too many projects on the boil already, I will not make an alternate list that weights the first three quarters of the twentieth century properly, I will not make an alternate list that weights the first three quarters of the twentieth century properly, I will not make an alternate list that w

tying it back to the other topic of this thread: after growing up entirely ignorant of secular music, my introduction to the Beatles was from the worldly girls who were a year or two ahead of me in high school in 1993

unsurprisingly Between the Buttons was my favorite Stones album for years, like a set of bitchy Evelyn Waugh stories set to soul-jazz grooves

i have some inchoate thoughts about how the brief Swinging London fad for music-history revival was part of an effort to make pop function more like film and literature, where historical recreation is part of the standard toolkit, but having to please a youth audience made it unsustainable longterm

a screencap from rebecca's least sexualized music video gets me bsky autolabeled, no wonder the brazilians left

oh hey Alè Ayiti

and then i was too busy listening to global music in 2020 to notice if there was a pop world cup that year 😔