Jose Lopes
@jsl3.bsky.social
Music melomaniak, physics/chemistry/engineering teacher, green tech professional, thermodynamics expert but only if you pay me. Climate change mitigation as a mission these days
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One of the greatest songs of that amazing year 1987
RIP Sly Dunbar.
Boops (Here To Go) * Sly and Robbie, UK No. 12, 1987.
Boops (Here To Go) * Sly and Robbie, UK No. 12, 1987.
Sly And Robbie - Boops Here To Go [1987] Official Music Video Remastered @Videos80s
YouTube video by 80's 90's Music Video's Remastered @Videos80s
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January 26, 2026 at 5:11 PM
One of the greatest songs of that amazing year 1987
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The amount of times I've picked up a record purely because the sleeve notes read 'Bass - Robbie Shakespeare, Drums - Sly Dunbar'
RIP Sly, and thank you.
RIP Sly, and thank you.
Legendary drummer Sly Dunbar dies at 73 - Jamaica Observer
Sly Dunbar, the legendary Jamaican drummer who gained fame as a member of the production duo Sly and Robbie, has died. Observer Online understands that Dunbar passed away suddenly at home on Monday mo...
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January 26, 2026 at 4:57 PM
The amount of times I've picked up a record purely because the sleeve notes read 'Bass - Robbie Shakespeare, Drums - Sly Dunbar'
RIP Sly, and thank you.
RIP Sly, and thank you.
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My 30 favorite freestyle tracks. What's amazing is how (a) perennial this stuff remained on Miami dance playlists well into the '90s (b) how tracks like "Summertime Summertime" didn't suppress the thick Puerto Rican accents (c) awesome "Jealous Fellas" still sounds. wp.me/pzXeC-kVJ
Fascinated by the way you make me feel: the best freestyle tracks
A hopeless list, especially if you lived in South Florida.
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January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
My 30 favorite freestyle tracks. What's amazing is how (a) perennial this stuff remained on Miami dance playlists well into the '90s (b) how tracks like "Summertime Summertime" didn't suppress the thick Puerto Rican accents (c) awesome "Jealous Fellas" still sounds. wp.me/pzXeC-kVJ
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It's Saturday repost time!
It's Young Punctum blog time, and this week it's the hits and whaddya-mean-they-weren't-even-singles-let-alone-hits of March 1978. The penultimate chapter, no less:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/marc...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/marc...
MARCH 1978
Notes on Text Nottingham Forest went out of the 1978 F.A. Cup in the sixth round, beaten 2-0 by West Bromwich Albion. The Cup was eventu...
funthirty.blogspot.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:52 AM
It's Saturday repost time!
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Today I rank what I think are the best Billboard #1s of the 1980s. Fusing Latin rhythms, Mediterranean melodies, post-Clinton electrofunk, and hits of nascent hip-hop became the decade’s most pronounced contribution to the history of dance music. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/t...
The best #1 dance tracks of the ’80s
I’ll consider the previous decade yesterday. Let me begin with the decade when I came of age. Some of these hits were unknown to me — Anthony and the Camp’s “What I Like,” come forward. To the exte…
humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Today I rank what I think are the best Billboard #1s of the 1980s. Fusing Latin rhythms, Mediterranean melodies, post-Clinton electrofunk, and hits of nascent hip-hop became the decade’s most pronounced contribution to the history of dance music. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/t...
albums to listen this weekend, 4 the last 14 from 2024 of a very long list, about 8 from the remaining 32 from 2025 and PVA and Just Joans. Oh time won't give me time
January 23, 2026 at 9:02 AM
albums to listen this weekend, 4 the last 14 from 2024 of a very long list, about 8 from the remaining 32 from 2025 and PVA and Just Joans. Oh time won't give me time
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#NowPlaying - if only "BRITPOP" had been like this/had the basic decency to let it get to number one:
open.spotify.com/album/4SWvyd...
open.spotify.com/album/4SWvyd...
Spotify – Web Player
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January 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
#NowPlaying - if only "BRITPOP" had been like this/had the basic decency to let it get to number one:
open.spotify.com/album/4SWvyd...
open.spotify.com/album/4SWvyd...
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It is my wife's birthday and we have had a very nice day out (boo for crappy public transport but yay for all else) and at her request I am now going to post this week's Young Punctum blog update, featuring the hits and other sounds of February 1978:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/febr...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/febr...
FEBRUARY 1978
The most notable thing about this month was that there wasn’t much school. There was a strike of petrol tanker drivers going on that mon...
funthirty.blogspot.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:48 PM
It is my wife's birthday and we have had a very nice day out (boo for crappy public transport but yay for all else) and at her request I am now going to post this week's Young Punctum blog update, featuring the hits and other sounds of February 1978:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/febr...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/febr...
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Well, a very happy birthday to the magnificent @agincourtgirl.bsky.social!
January 16, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Well, a very happy birthday to the magnificent @agincourtgirl.bsky.social!
this is the real The Lux www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHm1...
Charli xcx - Wall of Sound (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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January 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
this is the real The Lux www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHm1...
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new newsletter about how i’m staying sane sort of www.humbleoffering.com/something-to...
January 12, 2026 at 8:55 PM
new newsletter about how i’m staying sane sort of www.humbleoffering.com/something-to...
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The Young Punctum blog makes it to January 1978. Includes everybody from Wogan to Pere Ubu (the two aren't that far apart, really):
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
JANUARY 1978
Notes on Text The above-left photograph is one of Redan Place, Bayswater, London W2. At the Redan Recorders studio which used to exist in ...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:26 PM
The Young Punctum blog makes it to January 1978. Includes everybody from Wogan to Pere Ubu (the two aren't that far apart, really):
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
funny that the best album from the girls from Lets Eat Yadayada is a solo album that mimicks the best of Jane Wiedlin.
January 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
funny that the best album from the girls from Lets Eat Yadayada is a solo album that mimicks the best of Jane Wiedlin.
hibernating due to a very busy working week, full of bureaucracy pressed from leadership to "start the year with accountability". Capitalism surrealism
January 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
hibernating due to a very busy working week, full of bureaucracy pressed from leadership to "start the year with accountability". Capitalism surrealism
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Haven't updated my 1999 playlist in ages, but here it is anyway. As ever, half very familiar, half not so much. #totp www.tunemymusic.com/share/xXkB0Z...
1999 Singles: We've Come A Long Long Way Together
justlewis70 shared this playlist with you. shared via @tunemymusic
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January 2, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Haven't updated my 1999 playlist in ages, but here it is anyway. As ever, half very familiar, half not so much. #totp www.tunemymusic.com/share/xXkB0Z...
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A galaxy here; pulling this way and that but towards the future as ever and in particular the collective experience, though there is alienation and oddness and defiance too. Nostalgia? Nod at it and push on #noboringoldfarts #standingontheoutside #andsoyoudotheimpossible
The Young Punctum blog reaches December 1977, the end of a remarkable year (despite the impression you might have got from last week's TOTP rerun). It was Christmas, so strange things made themselves commercially known. Lots of long abstract content here:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/dece...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/dece...
DECEMBER 1977
It snowed. Note on Text I couldn't find the exact 45 mix of "As Time Goes By" on YouTube; that was a curious blend of semi-random di...
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January 2, 2026 at 11:05 PM
A galaxy here; pulling this way and that but towards the future as ever and in particular the collective experience, though there is alienation and oddness and defiance too. Nostalgia? Nod at it and push on #noboringoldfarts #standingontheoutside #andsoyoudotheimpossible
I won't talk about things that almost killed me because 1)none of your damn business 2) they were all more than twenty years ago and I don't want to remember those.
I'm starting the year with the same desires, same hopes,
health and happiness. With music of course
I'm starting the year with the same desires, same hopes,
health and happiness. With music of course
January 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I won't talk about things that almost killed me because 1)none of your damn business 2) they were all more than twenty years ago and I don't want to remember those.
I'm starting the year with the same desires, same hopes,
health and happiness. With music of course
I'm starting the year with the same desires, same hopes,
health and happiness. With music of course
this used to play at RTP1 (PT public channel) before a program about experimental Physics in prime time. Those were the days
This is fantastic: the Droids, French Synth group, playing their classic Do You Have The Force on RAI TV in 1978. We included this track on the Caroline True Do You Have The Force comp www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiYf...
The Droids - The Force
YouTube video by Marc Al
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January 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
this used to play at RTP1 (PT public channel) before a program about experimental Physics in prime time. Those were the days
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Punctum review of this year in music. Contains potentially controversial content and careful editing of a certain pop star's name to avoid trolls. No EoY list as such but there are the Punctum Awards!:
abracagaga.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
abracagaga.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
THE WRONG PEOPLE SAY IT OUT LOUD, BUT IT CAN BE BETTER IF WE SAY IT: 2025 IN REVIEW
Thurston Moore appears to have been the straw that's broken this particular camel's back. Three days ago he posted a list of the "350 Be...
abracagaga.blogspot.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Punctum review of this year in music. Contains potentially controversial content and careful editing of a certain pop star's name to avoid trolls. No EoY list as such but there are the Punctum Awards!:
abracagaga.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
abracagaga.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
checking and relistening t more than 40 individual tracks I bought from 2025 albums, one song each. This is...interesting and a moment of self-revelation
January 1, 2026 at 11:41 AM
checking and relistening t more than 40 individual tracks I bought from 2025 albums, one song each. This is...interesting and a moment of self-revelation
around the world, around the world #HappyNewYear
January 1, 2026 at 12:20 AM
around the world, around the world #HappyNewYear