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Scot/Canadian, pop-culture bobbins, etc, etc. For some reason running a Crowded House song bracket challonge.com/3utr3rxn

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 8h
One of the nice things about Celebrity Traitors is how easily and without fuss absolutely everyone uses Bella Ramsey’s they/them pronouns. See how easy it is not to be an asshole?
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 7h
You call him a Minotaur, I call him Half Man, Half Brisket x
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 14h
The last match for this week in the Best Crowded House song bracket is one that I have no idea which way it'll go: 29. Never Be the Same - The first song on side B of Temple Vs. 36. Can't Carry On - Another oddity to the tracklist of the Au & NZ release Vote here - forms.gle/iNMAod3FUi...
Graphic for #29 seed, Never Be The Same, based on the Temple of Low Men cover with an image of a Crowded House logo on a t-shirtGraphic for #36 seed, Can't Carry On, based on the debut album cover with a black and white photo of the 4-piece Mullanes lineup.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 14h
It was one of the more predictable matches this round and, sure enough, "Fall at Your Feet" wins! ("Twice if You're Lucky" did get 2 votes, which is not bad considering the competition here!).
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 14h
36. Can't Carry On - TIL that this was always on the tracklist of the AU & NZ release, and they didn't get "I Walk Away" - not even on the CD (which is where the rest of the world got "Can't Carry On"). Weird... Also weird - Neil's vocal track on its own
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Crowded House - Can't Carry On - Vocal Track Only
This is the vocal track ONLY so there are a lot of empty stretches. I could have removed the empty spots, but maybe someone will want to play along and have Neil sing for them :) If you just want Neil singing in your ear, here you go.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 14h
29. Never Be The Same - "My feeling about that song is that there was something slightly not quite right about it. It had a blemish and I don’t know why but it had more potential. It’s a good melody but I don’t know if we nailed it on the record.”
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Crowded House - Never Be The Same (live in New York City, 2010)
Crowded House playing the rarely performed "Never Be The Same", live at The Bowery Ballroom, New York City, 20th July 2010. Fan footage. Song originally on the 1988 Crowded House album "Temple Of Low Men". See over 200 videos and stream all Neil's albums in full at http://www.neilfinn.com Website -
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 14h
The last match for this week in the Best Crowded House song bracket is one that I have no idea which way it'll go: 29. Never Be the Same - The first song on side B of Temple Vs. 36. Can't Carry On - Another oddity to the tracklist of the Au & NZ release Vote here - forms.gle/iNMAod3FUi...
Graphic for #29 seed, Never Be The Same, based on the Temple of Low Men cover with an image of a Crowded House logo on a t-shirtGraphic for #36 seed, Can't Carry On, based on the debut album cover with a black and white photo of the 4-piece Mullanes lineup.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 14h
I've avoided it partly because the band have never really been behind it, but mostly because of the involvement of paedophile Jonathan King 🤮
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 14h
Over the last 20 years or so, I've embraced my love for Genesis, particularly the early stuff with Peter Gabriel. However, I've never actually listened to "From Genesis to Revelation"! So today's release of the band approved deluxe version is [ahem] a "revelation" open.spotify.com/album/6ubyJL...
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From Genesis To Revelation (2026 Mix) - Album by Genesis | Spotify
Genesis · album · 2026 · 17 songs
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 16h
Still a couple of hours left in this match. Surprisingly, it's looking like it's not going to be a complete wipeout. Can the underdog pull back some more?
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Match 9 in round 2 of the Best Crowded House song bracket today, and there's a *very* clear favourite here: 4. Fall at Your Feet - it's the #4 seed for good reason 😘👌 Vs 68. Twice if You're Lucky - the plucky Intriguer track that could* Vote here - forms.gle/Lt8uMg7vRe...
Graphic for #4 seed, Fall at Your Feet, based on one of the CD single coversGraphic for #68 seed, Twice if You're Lucky, based on the Intriguer cover with a still from the video of an illustration of an animated teddy bear in a snow storm
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New CH is definitely a different animal compared to the 80s/90s version, but he's never been one to stay still. I like that he's always experimenting and changing things up, but it hasn't always worked for me. He still makes more hits than misses though 😁
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Don't Stop Now is the better of the two here, but I just can't with the whole album, and not because of the subject matter. Every song for me feels like disparate bits of melody jammed together in the wrong combination (that goofy arpeggio-bridge bit in She Called Up is just so wrong in my ears) 😞
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another victory for the higher seed in this match - Don't Stop Now isn't stopping yet (sorry, not sorry).
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
68. Twice if You're Lucky - Is Neil wearing the same shirt he wore in the 90s in this clip from '08?? Good song. Doesn't stand much of a chance here though...
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Crowded House - Twice If You're Lucky (Live at Leigh Sawmill Cafe 2008)
Crowded House performing an early version of "Twice If You're Lucky" at Leigh Sawmill Cafe, Sunday 24th February 2008. Video taken from fan footage. Thanks to L. Marlow. Audio recorded and remixed by Roundhead Studios. A studio version was released on the album "Intriguer" in 2010. Hear more of this
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
4. Fall at Your Feet - "The chorus was written in Melbourne. It had a different verse that went, ‘Fly away little bird, fly as fast as you can, don’t get in the way of this approaching man because he’s insane...’”
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Crowded House Live Finsbury Pk London 1994 Fall at your Feet
Crowded House-Live London- June 1994 (Finsbury Park). FALL AT YOUR FEET
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Match 9 in round 2 of the Best Crowded House song bracket today, and there's a *very* clear favourite here: 4. Fall at Your Feet - it's the #4 seed for good reason 😘👌 Vs 68. Twice if You're Lucky - the plucky Intriguer track that could* Vote here - forms.gle/Lt8uMg7vRe...
Graphic for #4 seed, Fall at Your Feet, based on one of the CD single coversGraphic for #68 seed, Twice if You're Lucky, based on the Intriguer cover with a still from the video of an illustration of an animated teddy bear in a snow storm
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just over an hour to go in this match that will send a Time on Earth track to the 3rd round...
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Match 8 today in Round 2 of the Best Crowded House song bracket, and it's an all Time on Earth matchup: 24. Don't Stop Now Vs. 41. She Called Up Vote here - forms.gle/Vryf18Yr53...
Graphic for the #24 seed, "Don't Stop Now", based on the single cover.Graphic for #41 seed, "She Called Up", based on the single cover.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fair. It feels like a lot of the production around then. It was a sound apparently.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What was going on in the UK at the end of the 80s? There seemed to be a lot of twangy semi-acoustics paired with drum machines...
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Going from the Primitives to Transvision Vamp, my '88 listening found another album missing from the @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social masterlist: Westworld's "Beatbox Rock 'n' Roll". Worth a listen for "Everything Good is Bad", but the rest of the album has its charms open.spotify.com/album/6xUWqy...
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Beatbox Rock 'n' Roll - Album by Westworld | Spotify
Westworld · album · 2016 · 12 songs
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You're not the only one who struggles. I can see an appeal to it, but it's nothing compared to Loveless. It's not bad, it's just not what they would go on to be.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
After yesterday's upset win by a lower seed, "Mean to Me" shows why it's a top 10 seed, knocking out "Black and White Boy".
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm getting too passive-aggressive when I have to post about Time on Earth, but the only song that I kind of like on the album went out in a tiebreak last round.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
41. She Called Up - it's another song from Time on Earth.
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She Called Up
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore She Called Up · Crowded House Live from the Artists Den: Season One ℗ 2014 Artists Den Records Released on: 2008-07-22 Auto-generated by YouTube.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
24. Don't Stop Now - It's a song from Time on Earth... which is an album they released.
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Crowded House Live 2007 (12/21) Don't Stop Now
Live performance of Crowded House obtained from a new YouTube friend from Down Under. Please view, rate, and comment. I love hearing from you! Plenty of other CH videos on my channel. Check 'em out! Thanks!
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Match 8 today in Round 2 of the Best Crowded House song bracket, and it's an all Time on Earth matchup: 24. Don't Stop Now Vs. 41. She Called Up Vote here - forms.gle/Vryf18Yr53...
Graphic for the #24 seed, "Don't Stop Now", based on the single cover.Graphic for #41 seed, "She Called Up", based on the single cover.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Last chance to vote on this match...
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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DEUS LITTLE ARITHMETICS
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(I'm not going to list the books since it's a potential plot spoiler for most of them)
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Best Crowded House Song bracket is a surprising mix of seeds today: 9. Mean to Me - 1st track or 4th track on the debut album Vs. 73. Black & White Boy - a Together Alone track that feels underseeded Vote here - forms.gle/YKfDCka8Q8...
Graphic for the #9 seed, Mean to Me, based on the back cover of the singleGraphic for the #73 seed, Black and White Boy, based on the Together Alone cover with a black & white photo of the 4-piece band
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I keep reading books about parasitic mind-controlling funghi - at least 4 in the last year or so!
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm remembering all sorts of things via this playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/3Lk...
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NME 1988 singles of the year
Just missing Achorage by Michelle Shocked
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I don't think I've seen anyone boosting The Primitives' "Lovely" for @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social 1988 tournament? Or is everyone taking it as a given for a nomination? It's really bloody good open.spotify.com/album/7dkhew...
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Lovely - Album by The Primitives | Spotify
The Primitives · album · 1988 · 15 songs
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's high on my list!
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The next best thing to being there, and all the more poignant since Paul's passing ❤️
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I DON'T KNOW!!!! I have nostalgia, but I don't know if I have *that* much nostalgia 😂. I also saw Maiden that year, so 7th Son is a lock for me, but Magnum has definitely not aged as well...
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oof. I'm falling down the '88 rabbit hole of 16-yr-old me's very odd music tastes. Now I'm listening to Magnum's "Wings of Heaven", an album that I know I loved at the time (I saw them on this tour - my 2nd concert I think?). It's... something? At least I remember it open.spotify.com/album/1gcxz4...
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Wings Of Heaven - Album by Magnum | Spotify
Magnum · album · 1988 · 8 songs
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In my 1988 study for the next @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social, I'm fairly sure I had this Bulletboys album on tape at the time, but I have zero recollection of anything on it... open.spotify.com/album/09MGCF...
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Bulletboys - Album by Bulletboys | Spotify
Bulletboys · album · 1988 · 10 songs
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Elsa Lanchester was the daughter of a socialist firebrand and a posh woman who ran away with him to become a left-wing vegetarian who refused to marry on principle, and who also once worked as a secretary to Karl Marx’s daughter…
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here's a good interview with Tim Finn about last week's release of the Chrissy Amphlett (Divinyls) e.p. themusic.com.au/features/tim...
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'We Were Meant To Create Something Special Together': Tim Finn On His Lost Collaboration With Chrissy Amphlett
While fossicking through a stack of two-inch reels in the garage of his Melbourne studio, Tim Finn found a box containing long-lost recordings of songs he created alongside Chrissy Amphlett. The 'Some...
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It was all based on Spotify play counts - maybe Apple or Tidal listeners are more into Together Alone? 😂
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Unfortunately for B&WB, the seeding for it's opponent does feel appropriate...
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Agreed - It's not like HITR isn't a great song, but I think there's a lot going on in Love This Life that gives it a broader appeal.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's an upset to the seeding in this match, as "Love This Life" defeats "Hole in the River". I'm going to take this as a good sign for Temple's chances in the @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social upcoming 1988 tournament 🏆
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
73. Black & White Boy - There's a great audio clip on Neil's site where he talks about the song. It's partly about Paul, and partly inspired by poet Sam Hunt's name for the Finns' dalmatian, Lester.
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Crowded House - Black and White Boy — Neil Finn website
Audio interview with Neil Finn about the making of Together Alone.
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
9. Mean to Me - The track that opened the debut album (if you're in Australia or NZ), and the song that opened the Farewell to the World concert in '96
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Crowded House- Mean to me live 1996
Crowded House- Mean to me live 1996 sddney
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Best Crowded House Song bracket is a surprising mix of seeds today: 9. Mean to Me - 1st track or 4th track on the debut album Vs. 73. Black & White Boy - a Together Alone track that feels underseeded Vote here - forms.gle/YKfDCka8Q8...
Graphic for the #9 seed, Mean to Me, based on the back cover of the singleGraphic for the #73 seed, Black and White Boy, based on the Together Alone cover with a black & white photo of the 4-piece band
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HackAaaaaghoMiru @akaomiru.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm only just on my way home, so now is as good a time as any to remind people to vote in this match.
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