Ricky McAllister
@rickymca.bsky.social
Husband to Jenny. dad to Ethan, Holly, Micah, Benji & Annie. Man U fan for 40 years but losing interest rapidly. Music/film/coffee fan. Reader of books but a failed novelist. SEN teacher.
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Deleted Scene
🎤 Stumbleine
My better half was due a lie in so an early start with the young uns…after a busy weekend, this album is just the ticket.
Deleted Scene is a gorgeous, ambient slice of electronica/downtempo, the sort I get absolutely lost in. Well worth checking out.
💿 Deleted Scene
🎤 Stumbleine
My better half was due a lie in so an early start with the young uns…after a busy weekend, this album is just the ticket.
Deleted Scene is a gorgeous, ambient slice of electronica/downtempo, the sort I get absolutely lost in. Well worth checking out.
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Deleted Scene
🎤 Stumbleine
My better half was due a lie in so an early start with the young uns…after a busy weekend, this album is just the ticket.
Deleted Scene is a gorgeous, ambient slice of electronica/downtempo, the sort I get absolutely lost in. Well worth checking out.
💿 Deleted Scene
🎤 Stumbleine
My better half was due a lie in so an early start with the young uns…after a busy weekend, this album is just the ticket.
Deleted Scene is a gorgeous, ambient slice of electronica/downtempo, the sort I get absolutely lost in. Well worth checking out.
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
1. Roads | Portishead
Never in doubt.
For 31 years it has been a song that stops me in my tracks, no matter what I’m doing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1j...
Thanks @tansleyjames.bsky.social for hosting. What a decade of music that was.
#MusicChallenge
1. Roads | Portishead
Never in doubt.
For 31 years it has been a song that stops me in my tracks, no matter what I’m doing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1j...
Thanks @tansleyjames.bsky.social for hosting. What a decade of music that was.
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
1. Roads | Portishead
Never in doubt.
For 31 years it has been a song that stops me in my tracks, no matter what I’m doing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1j...
Thanks @tansleyjames.bsky.social for hosting. What a decade of music that was.
#MusicChallenge
1. Roads | Portishead
Never in doubt.
For 31 years it has been a song that stops me in my tracks, no matter what I’m doing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1j...
Thanks @tansleyjames.bsky.social for hosting. What a decade of music that was.
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
1. Goin’ Out West
A glorious satire of a deluded man heading west, believing he is destined for fame. In typical Bone Machine style, it is accompanied by an abrasive, industrial melody.
And it is utterly stunning.
Thanks for hosting @top10nathan.bsky.social.
#MusicChallenge
1. Goin’ Out West
A glorious satire of a deluded man heading west, believing he is destined for fame. In typical Bone Machine style, it is accompanied by an abrasive, industrial melody.
And it is utterly stunning.
Thanks for hosting @top10nathan.bsky.social.
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
1. Goin’ Out West
A glorious satire of a deluded man heading west, believing he is destined for fame. In typical Bone Machine style, it is accompanied by an abrasive, industrial melody.
And it is utterly stunning.
Thanks for hosting @top10nathan.bsky.social.
#MusicChallenge
1. Goin’ Out West
A glorious satire of a deluded man heading west, believing he is destined for fame. In typical Bone Machine style, it is accompanied by an abrasive, industrial melody.
And it is utterly stunning.
Thanks for hosting @top10nathan.bsky.social.
Tonight’s tipple is a Winter 2025 Hazelnut Vanilla Stout by those fine folks of Kinnegar.
It could go either way, but looks very nice. Public Service Broadcasting & this will hopefully make comfortable bedfellows…
It could go either way, but looks very nice. Public Service Broadcasting & this will hopefully make comfortable bedfellows…
November 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Tonight’s tipple is a Winter 2025 Hazelnut Vanilla Stout by those fine folks of Kinnegar.
It could go either way, but looks very nice. Public Service Broadcasting & this will hopefully make comfortable bedfellows…
It could go either way, but looks very nice. Public Service Broadcasting & this will hopefully make comfortable bedfellows…
November 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
2. Tom Traubert’s Blues
Only Tom Waits could throw Waltzing Matilda into a song and get away with it. Gorgeous stuff.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hvFy...
#MusicChallenge
2. Tom Traubert’s Blues
Only Tom Waits could throw Waltzing Matilda into a song and get away with it. Gorgeous stuff.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hvFy...
November 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
2. Tom Traubert’s Blues
Only Tom Waits could throw Waltzing Matilda into a song and get away with it. Gorgeous stuff.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hvFy...
#MusicChallenge
2. Tom Traubert’s Blues
Only Tom Waits could throw Waltzing Matilda into a song and get away with it. Gorgeous stuff.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=hvFy...
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
2. London, Can You Wait? | Gene
The majestic cornerstone of my favourite album of the 90s. The gear change around the 1 min 40 mark makes a great song extraordinary.
#MusicChallenge
2. London, Can You Wait? | Gene
The majestic cornerstone of my favourite album of the 90s. The gear change around the 1 min 40 mark makes a great song extraordinary.
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
2. London, Can You Wait? | Gene
The majestic cornerstone of my favourite album of the 90s. The gear change around the 1 min 40 mark makes a great song extraordinary.
#MusicChallenge
2. London, Can You Wait? | Gene
The majestic cornerstone of my favourite album of the 90s. The gear change around the 1 min 40 mark makes a great song extraordinary.
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
3. Vapour Trail | Ride
Perfection. And those strings at the end.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7shA...
#MusicChallenge
3. Vapour Trail | Ride
Perfection. And those strings at the end.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7shA...
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
3. Vapour Trail | Ride
Perfection. And those strings at the end.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7shA...
#MusicChallenge
3. Vapour Trail | Ride
Perfection. And those strings at the end.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7shA...
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
3. That Feel
How wonderful to finish the chaotic, dark Bone Machine on such a note of triumph. My favourite closing track to a Tom album.
#MusicChallenge
3. That Feel
How wonderful to finish the chaotic, dark Bone Machine on such a note of triumph. My favourite closing track to a Tom album.
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
3. That Feel
How wonderful to finish the chaotic, dark Bone Machine on such a note of triumph. My favourite closing track to a Tom album.
#MusicChallenge
3. That Feel
How wonderful to finish the chaotic, dark Bone Machine on such a note of triumph. My favourite closing track to a Tom album.
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
4. Jockey Full of Bourbon
Features strikingly in Jim Jarmusch’s excellent Down By Law (also stars the great man himself). To my ears, this is quintessential Tom Waits.
#MusicChallenge
4. Jockey Full of Bourbon
Features strikingly in Jim Jarmusch’s excellent Down By Law (also stars the great man himself). To my ears, this is quintessential Tom Waits.
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
4. Jockey Full of Bourbon
Features strikingly in Jim Jarmusch’s excellent Down By Law (also stars the great man himself). To my ears, this is quintessential Tom Waits.
#MusicChallenge
4. Jockey Full of Bourbon
Features strikingly in Jim Jarmusch’s excellent Down By Law (also stars the great man himself). To my ears, this is quintessential Tom Waits.
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
4. A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld | The Orb
18 minutes of pure bliss. The story is that this gets played on loop in heaven.
#MusicChallenge
4. A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld | The Orb
18 minutes of pure bliss. The story is that this gets played on loop in heaven.
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
4. A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld | The Orb
18 minutes of pure bliss. The story is that this gets played on loop in heaven.
#MusicChallenge
4. A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld | The Orb
18 minutes of pure bliss. The story is that this gets played on loop in heaven.
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
5. Leave | REM
The highest placed synth siren song on my list. My favourite song by REM was always going to feature at the business end.
#MusicChallenge
5. Leave | REM
The highest placed synth siren song on my list. My favourite song by REM was always going to feature at the business end.
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
5. Leave | REM
The highest placed synth siren song on my list. My favourite song by REM was always going to feature at the business end.
#MusicChallenge
5. Leave | REM
The highest placed synth siren song on my list. My favourite song by REM was always going to feature at the business end.
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
5. Hang on St Christopher
The one where Tom decided to sing through a bullhorn.
It’s a bit bonkers, but wonderfully so.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-3KJ...
#MusicChallenge
5. Hang on St Christopher
The one where Tom decided to sing through a bullhorn.
It’s a bit bonkers, but wonderfully so.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-3KJ...
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
5. Hang on St Christopher
The one where Tom decided to sing through a bullhorn.
It’s a bit bonkers, but wonderfully so.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-3KJ...
#MusicChallenge
5. Hang on St Christopher
The one where Tom decided to sing through a bullhorn.
It’s a bit bonkers, but wonderfully so.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-3KJ...
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Blurring/Guided Imagery
🎤 Mo Dotti
Some post-dinner clean-up noise with this fine pair of EPs by Mo Dotti. After the day at work, a sonic assault on the senses is entirely appropriate.
💿 Blurring/Guided Imagery
🎤 Mo Dotti
Some post-dinner clean-up noise with this fine pair of EPs by Mo Dotti. After the day at work, a sonic assault on the senses is entirely appropriate.
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Blurring/Guided Imagery
🎤 Mo Dotti
Some post-dinner clean-up noise with this fine pair of EPs by Mo Dotti. After the day at work, a sonic assault on the senses is entirely appropriate.
💿 Blurring/Guided Imagery
🎤 Mo Dotti
Some post-dinner clean-up noise with this fine pair of EPs by Mo Dotti. After the day at work, a sonic assault on the senses is entirely appropriate.
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
6. Downtown Train
Second highest ranked song from the superb Rain Dogs, still (just about) my favourite Tom album.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=P6j8...
#MusicChallenge
6. Downtown Train
Second highest ranked song from the superb Rain Dogs, still (just about) my favourite Tom album.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=P6j8...
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
6. Downtown Train
Second highest ranked song from the superb Rain Dogs, still (just about) my favourite Tom album.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=P6j8...
#MusicChallenge
6. Downtown Train
Second highest ranked song from the superb Rain Dogs, still (just about) my favourite Tom album.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=P6j8...
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
6. Goin’ Out West | Tom Waits
Bone Machine is one of my 2 favourite TW’s albums, so a song from it was always going to feature high on my list. The high point of a stunning, chaotic, percussion heavy album.
#MusicChallenge
6. Goin’ Out West | Tom Waits
Bone Machine is one of my 2 favourite TW’s albums, so a song from it was always going to feature high on my list. The high point of a stunning, chaotic, percussion heavy album.
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
6. Goin’ Out West | Tom Waits
Bone Machine is one of my 2 favourite TW’s albums, so a song from it was always going to feature high on my list. The high point of a stunning, chaotic, percussion heavy album.
#MusicChallenge
6. Goin’ Out West | Tom Waits
Bone Machine is one of my 2 favourite TW’s albums, so a song from it was always going to feature high on my list. The high point of a stunning, chaotic, percussion heavy album.
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
It’s not a pick but rather just a post about the best acceptance speech I’ve ever heard😁
Worth a watch if you have a few minutes.
“Songs, uh, are really just interesting things to be doing with the air.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gTLE...
#MusicChallenge
It’s not a pick but rather just a post about the best acceptance speech I’ve ever heard😁
Worth a watch if you have a few minutes.
“Songs, uh, are really just interesting things to be doing with the air.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gTLE...
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
It’s not a pick but rather just a post about the best acceptance speech I’ve ever heard😁
Worth a watch if you have a few minutes.
“Songs, uh, are really just interesting things to be doing with the air.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gTLE...
#MusicChallenge
It’s not a pick but rather just a post about the best acceptance speech I’ve ever heard😁
Worth a watch if you have a few minutes.
“Songs, uh, are really just interesting things to be doing with the air.”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=gTLE...
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Dots & Loops
🎤 Stereolab
Their 6th album was the first to land in the charts I believe…it followed Emperor Tomato Ketchup but to my ears it manages to be more accessible than that yet more experimental. They were firing on all cylinders with this.
💿 Dots & Loops
🎤 Stereolab
Their 6th album was the first to land in the charts I believe…it followed Emperor Tomato Ketchup but to my ears it manages to be more accessible than that yet more experimental. They were firing on all cylinders with this.
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Dots & Loops
🎤 Stereolab
Their 6th album was the first to land in the charts I believe…it followed Emperor Tomato Ketchup but to my ears it manages to be more accessible than that yet more experimental. They were firing on all cylinders with this.
💿 Dots & Loops
🎤 Stereolab
Their 6th album was the first to land in the charts I believe…it followed Emperor Tomato Ketchup but to my ears it manages to be more accessible than that yet more experimental. They were firing on all cylinders with this.
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 The Best Of…
🎤 Soapkills
Well @plc69.bsky.social and @vgbpw1.bsky.social … I took the liberty of attempting to join your club. Assume you are open to new members?
💿 The Best Of…
🎤 Soapkills
Well @plc69.bsky.social and @vgbpw1.bsky.social … I took the liberty of attempting to join your club. Assume you are open to new members?
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 The Best Of…
🎤 Soapkills
Well @plc69.bsky.social and @vgbpw1.bsky.social … I took the liberty of attempting to join your club. Assume you are open to new members?
💿 The Best Of…
🎤 Soapkills
Well @plc69.bsky.social and @vgbpw1.bsky.social … I took the liberty of attempting to join your club. Assume you are open to new members?
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
7. Come On Up To The House
Glorious finale to the quite brilliant Mule Variations. First Tom album I bought, and still a Top 3 TW album now (IMO).
#MusicChallenge
7. Come On Up To The House
Glorious finale to the quite brilliant Mule Variations. First Tom album I bought, and still a Top 3 TW album now (IMO).
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
#Top30TomWaits
#MusicChallenge
7. Come On Up To The House
Glorious finale to the quite brilliant Mule Variations. First Tom album I bought, and still a Top 3 TW album now (IMO).
#MusicChallenge
7. Come On Up To The House
Glorious finale to the quite brilliant Mule Variations. First Tom album I bought, and still a Top 3 TW album now (IMO).
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 A Bridge To Far
🎤 Midlake
This is getting a serious amount of airplay. Some critics are setting this alongside Van Occupanther (it’ll be 20 years before I’ll know for sure) but either way, it is by some distance their best since that album.
Will be a big hitter in AOTY lists.
💿 A Bridge To Far
🎤 Midlake
This is getting a serious amount of airplay. Some critics are setting this alongside Van Occupanther (it’ll be 20 years before I’ll know for sure) but either way, it is by some distance their best since that album.
Will be a big hitter in AOTY lists.
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 A Bridge To Far
🎤 Midlake
This is getting a serious amount of airplay. Some critics are setting this alongside Van Occupanther (it’ll be 20 years before I’ll know for sure) but either way, it is by some distance their best since that album.
Will be a big hitter in AOTY lists.
💿 A Bridge To Far
🎤 Midlake
This is getting a serious amount of airplay. Some critics are setting this alongside Van Occupanther (it’ll be 20 years before I’ll know for sure) but either way, it is by some distance their best since that album.
Will be a big hitter in AOTY lists.
Show us the last four albums you listened to.
#last4albums
Favourite American acts of the 21st century edition.
#musicsky
#last4albums
Favourite American acts of the 21st century edition.
#musicsky
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Show us the last four albums you listened to.
#last4albums
Favourite American acts of the 21st century edition.
#musicsky
#last4albums
Favourite American acts of the 21st century edition.
#musicsky
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Shore
🎤 Fleet Foxes
Probably listening to Fleet Foxes more than any other band at the minute (possibly along with Midlake). This is a such a beautiful album…perfect for a sunny, Sunday morning, coffee in hand.
💿 Shore
🎤 Fleet Foxes
Probably listening to Fleet Foxes more than any other band at the minute (possibly along with Midlake). This is a such a beautiful album…perfect for a sunny, Sunday morning, coffee in hand.
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
#NowPlaying #NP
💿 Shore
🎤 Fleet Foxes
Probably listening to Fleet Foxes more than any other band at the minute (possibly along with Midlake). This is a such a beautiful album…perfect for a sunny, Sunday morning, coffee in hand.
💿 Shore
🎤 Fleet Foxes
Probably listening to Fleet Foxes more than any other band at the minute (possibly along with Midlake). This is a such a beautiful album…perfect for a sunny, Sunday morning, coffee in hand.