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Rena MJ 🕸️🕯️ @renamj.bsky.social · Aug 23
A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89

I did a thread on this years ago on Twitter so I thought I would bring it here. This is a compilation I discovered in the early 2010s and I'm going to post each song from all 12(!) discs.
A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89
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@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social Another 2001 resource if you want to get a head start on the next tournament:
Other Music Staff Top 10s for the Year 2001
othermusic.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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woj.bsky.social
six seven
bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 5h
The Best Album of 1989 is

Pixies, DOOLITTLE
On a brown background is a monotone photo of a small monkey. The monkey has a halo and is surrounded by three numbers: 5,6 and 7. The picture of the monkey has a green outline of a box around it, and within that box are green lines that make a bunch of connected shapes: squares, rectangles, circles, triangles, stars, trapezoids. etc.
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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There will be a wrap-up newsletter tomorrow or the weekend, and I’ll talk about contest winners and the timeline for the upcoming Best Album of 2001 tournament. (Spoiler: probably won’t rev that up until Jan.) Until then, everyone enjoy your Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving-adjacent day!
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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In honor of the Mirror Universe Best Album of 1989 final, I present to you a DC for SKID ROW by @lanna.bsky.social. (Technically, it’s for Jodi Bongiovi’s self titled, which that was knocked out in Round 4 by Nitzer Ebb, BELIEF, but there’s a bit about SKID ROW at the end.) Enjoy!
Despite the many times I watched the band lip synch the song, there was going to be a second shoot. The director had a vision: Jodi would see herself in a young fan (my sister), and she would flash back to her own childhood playing music. I thought it was a cool idea, especially since I had been asked to take place. We filmed in Long Island, I think, at someone's house. It was a big house and they had a big pool, and every kid who was there to be filmed was related to someone: the director's kid, maybe, Jodi's kid, for sure. There might have been one kid who was an aspiring actor, but also probably somebody's kid. We had been asked to bring "70s clothes," as it was a flashback. I didn't know anything about the 70s except that it was dated and that's where disco came from. My mom found an old peasant blouse of hers from back then and that was my "costume." It was the best we could do. The other kids-Carissa, and Tristan (who I remember because those names were amazing, I didn't know any Carissas or Tristans in real life, just an endless stream of Mikes, Jens, and Michelles) and everyone elselooked better, and they were playing Jodi and the band. I wasn't sure what I was there to do, and I felt so much bigger than the other kids, age-wise and size-wise. Of course they'd never put a fat kid in the video, I thought as I watched them do take after take of the kids pretending to play instruments, having a good time. Finally, it was my time. I think they'd forgotten about me, so I was given something simple to do: pull a wagon with lemonade in it and hand a glass to Carissa. I guess the director thought it was nostalgic, lemonade. Afterward, we got to play in the pool for a little bit. Tristan climbed a tree and I think someone said, "Film that" " and they did. 3 And that was it. We had to wait ages for the album to release and the video to drop -okay, probably not, but it felt like it. I was both thrilled and resentful, as I'd barely got to do anything but I might still end up famous! Or, more importantly, the child of a famous person. My dad kept eyeing this old monastery-or at least that's what he said it had been -to buy as a house when he hit it big. We were camping in the Pine Barrens when the single dropped (something we only did about twice, since I hated camping). They played it first at the shore, because the band was from the shore, so we could barely get the station, but my dad told us when it was going to debut. We kept the radio on as much as we could, but the static was driving everyone nuts. Finally, it played! "Somebody to Love" by Jodi Bongiovi. This was it! This was the beginning of the big time! Afterward, my mom or aunt shut off the radio and we toasted marshmallows over a fire and my cousin scared the crap out of them by jumping out from behind the fire in the hockey mask he'd secreted into his bag. Good times. The next morning, we tried the radio while we were cleaning up the site. The song played again! We were in shock. One time when they said they would debut it was one thing, but on purpose the next day? The station must've liked it! Maybe people were requesting it! Maybe this was it! Later, we got a VHS of the video I may still have to this day, or maybe my mom does. My moment of fame is barely a moment, with only the side of my face visible. The "vision" did not work, mostly because the video was in black and white periodically, not just in the flashbacks. One day, my dad called to tell us to turn on MTV. There was Kurt Loder, talking about Jodi! We watched Remote Control. They showed the video in two different episodes! No one got the answers right. I never saw the video on MTV proper, although I hear it was pushed and they did show it (why else would it have been a question on Remote Control), but nothing took off. I spent my childhood waiting for my dad to become famous. This was maybe the end of the optimism around it. As to why I wanted to post this with Skid Row, there was a time when they were rising to fame that my dad hung out with them-as he'd hung out with many other Jersey and New York musicians before they hit their zenith. Every time he did this, I wasn't there, in part because I didn't live with him and when he was really busy, my mom was more likely to host us half-sisters than he was. But my sister could brag about meeting "Dave" and "Rachel"-I seethed that she got to be on first name basis with famous people and I didn't. I remember once we were at Six Flags (with convenient benches for my dad to nap on after a late night as it took an hour or two to get on any major ride) while we waited in line for the brand-new Scream Machine. The people in front of us were wearing fresh new Bon Jovi/Skid Row tour shirts. We know them, I thought, excited. And soon, it would be my dad's band on on the shirt of the person ahead of us in line. That never happened. But you know what? | still like both albums- Skid Row and Jodi Bongiovi. They remind me of 1989. They ARE 1989: The big ballads. The big hair. The egos, the ambition. The fame machine that they were so willing to give themselves to. My dad never got famous, not the way he wanted. But for a moment, that machine opened up to him and he threw himself in. Unfortunately, it then spit him out. But hey, Sebastian Bach was on Gilmore Girls, so uh, that happened.
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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He is risen
The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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it's the healthiest thing we can do for the internet!!!

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November 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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onetrueposter.bsky.social
I always say this but there are always newcomers: Spotify's listed release dates are completely untrustworthy
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Folks, Giving Tuesday is around the corner and this is my yearly PSA that while you may be annoyed with nonprofits raising money that day, please be kind especially this year. It's been BRUTAL trying to raise money in 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Kicking off Thanksgiving weekend with a cold. 🤧
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The Best Album of 1989 Round 7 Match #128 - THE FINAL MATCH TO DETERMINE THE BEST ALBUM OF 1989

#1 Pixies, DOOLITTLE
vs.
#3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING

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The Best Album of 1989 Round 7 Match #128 - The Final Match: Pixies vs. De La Soul
This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Wednesday, November 25th, 10am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will be declared The Best Album of 1989. The losing album will be named The Se...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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here you go

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Best Album of 2001 Master-ish List
Hi, and welcome to the Master-ish List! For the sake of continuity and your own personal health (so Alana doesn’t lose it on you), please use the following format: Band, ALBUM Bands with The in the na...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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It can only ever get dumber
Matthew Belloni @MattBelloni I teased this last night in What I’m Hearing but now confirmed: Paramount WILL release Rush Hour 4 after prodding from Trump on behalf of Brett Ratner. Distribution deal. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar is lining up financing. Get ready for the dumbest possible state-controlled media.
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The Best Album of 1989 Round 7 Match #127 - THIRD PLACE MATCH
#2 Beastie Boys, PAUL'S BOUTIQUE
vs.
#4 The Cure, DISINTEGRATION

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The Best Album of 1989 Round 7 (Third Place Match) Match #127: Beastie Boys vs. The Cure
This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Tuesday, November 25th, 10am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will be declared the Third Best Album of 1989, while the losing album will be na...
forms.gle
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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TOMORROW! Witness the battle of champions as #3 seed, De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING takes on #1 seed, Pixies, DOOLITTLE to determine once and for all The Best Album of 1989! Vote here when the match begins at 11am CST!
On a brown background is a monotone photo of a small monkey. The monkey has a halo and is surrounded by three numbers: 5,6 and 7. The picture of the monkey has a green outline of a box around it, and within that box are green lines that make a bunch of connected shapes: squares, rectangles, circles, triangles, stars, trapezoids. etc. Black and white photos of three young Black men, arranged in a circle as if you are on the ground and they are looking down at you from above. The background is very bright yellow. There are hand drawn flower shapes in blue and orange arranged around them.
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The Best Album of 1989 Round 6 (Semifinal) Match #126
#2 Beastie Boys, PAUL'S BOUTIQUE
vs.
#3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING

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The Best Album of 1989 Round 6 (Semi-Final) Match #126: Beastie Boys vs. De La Soul
This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Monday, November 24th, 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto the finals to determine the Best Album of 1989. If you haven’t hear...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social
So a while back I was commissioned to do short bios of various rock stars, and they were just about universally total psychopaths, with the huge exception of Freddie Mercury. A lovely man who did good by his wife, his lovers, and his cats.
pinknews.bsky.social PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 3d
Today (24 November) marks the passing of Freddie Mercury, lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. He remains regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music.

📷 Getty
Freddie Mercury performing on stage with a quote from 'Freddie Mercury: A Life, In His Own Words' (2006) overlayed, stating his fearless attitude towards death.
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
renamj.bsky.social
R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff, the soundtrack to The Harder They Come is a reggae touchstone (I still need to see the actual movie 🤫).
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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antlervel.vet
The real and true story of why Police Squad (the TV series Naked Gun was based on and easily the funniest tv show of its time) was canceled is legitimately insane and one of the most egregious examples of TV malpractice I’ve ever heard:
ABC announced the cancellation of Police Squad! after four of its six episodes had aired in March 1982. The final two episodes were aired that summer. In an interview for the DVD release of the series, Nielsen said ABC entertainment president Tony Thomopoulos asserted Police Squad! was canceled because viewers had to pay close attention to the show in order to get much of the humor: "the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it"
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Also not many Warhol/Paul Morrissey-adjacent people left, someone better check on Joe Dallesandro.
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Udo Kier's first and only post on Twitter 💯
Udo Kier on Twitter: "film should not be streamed on netflix. envelop yourself in the darkness of the movie hall and submit to the artist's visioon."
March 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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willowcatelyn.bsky.social
Live the sort of life that has everyone saying "that guy was weird and awesome" when you pass away.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM