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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 20m

Now playing: the freshly-dug out new age piano collection continues to come into its season

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 59m

For National Poetry Day, another favourite of mine and brother, Ginsberg knew what he was talking about.

Howl By Allan Ginsberg
Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine
Gotta, gotta be down, because I want it all
It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Now I'm falling asleep and she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke and she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed and my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head, but she's touching his
Chest now, he takes off her
Dress now, let me go
And I just can't look, it's killing me
They're taking control

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Erasures from Institutionalism and Schizophrenia: A Comparative Study of Three Mental Hospitals 1960-1968, G. W. Brown & J. K Wing

A book page with most text erased by Tippex, remaining text reads
omitted remaining
the effect of age, surprising
the keenest and most sensitive
have a higher claim
some
hear began to feel
they had done as much as they could;
or simply that enough was enough

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 55m

1) seen Ambarchi namechecked on here for ages and seriously tempted to make this the point I dive in from the description 2) record label promo images like this grind my gears, it's a pet nitpick - this is an album of "two side-long tracks", THERE ARE SIX CLEARLY VISIBLE TRACKS ON THAT VINYL SIDE

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve been sitting on McCaulkey Caulkin ever since ‘caulk’ was the Wordle about five years ago

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 2h

For National Poetry Day, Frank O'Hara

Poem [“Lana Turner has collapsed!”]

By Frank O’Hara
Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
lana turner has collapsed!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 1h

Now playing: liquid Fris

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes you need to wake up with a shot of the heavy stuff. Always thought "Pastel" was quite underselling an album that goes this hard

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 11h

Spent so many brooding dark evenings in uni libraries letting this wash over me. One of the "wow I'm getting to hear a new album from a vintage artist so late in his career" moments in the 90s that now look preposterous as Dylan then only had about a decade in age over me now - and he's still going!

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 14h

Can’t even put my bloody Halloween decorations up yet in case they’re boring dickheads who’d object (and I have to finish my show notes). Try last year’s if you’re jonesing for some spooky sounds: www.mixcloud.com/rockinrachelroll/haunted-jukebox-14-a-haunted-jukebox-halloween-hop-october-2025

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Haunted Jukebox #14: A Haunted Jukebox Halloween Hop (October 2025) by RockinRachelRoll

Welcome to the second annual Halloween Hop, where the Jukebox is even more Haunted than usual. Singing spooks, wailing witches, and jiving jack o' lanterns await - enter if you dare...

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 15h

Think I've finally found my impetus to get back into going to the gym

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 16h

Rather than pop songs, what the supermarkets should really be playing over the PA is longform, slowly developing drone and sound collage kind of stuff because shoppers would stay in the supermarket to find out what the sound does next, and during that time they’d buy additional stuff.

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 17h

Teatime viewing: the usual highbrow fare

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 17h

I've not listened to all of it yet - most of it, even, it's a double album! - but I'm side-eyeing everyone saying the new Carly Rae Jepsen doesn't have the juice. I'm hearing Minnie Riperton, Kylie, Dolly, Mark Ronson, even some Idler Wheel era Fiona Apple. It's good! It's pop! CRJ's flexing on us!

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 20h

Darling's cello proving a good masseur for a day-long headache that won't budge, so that and only that is on now

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 21h

Loving how this thread of how people's Metal Boxes have fared over the years is still going. My history with the album is quintessentially me: 1. buy the CD with CD-sized metal box circa 1996 2. put the disc into a CD-single jewel case for safekeeping of the metal box 3. lose the box 4. lose the CD

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 21h

I see I already reposted this, so I'm quoteposting purely so I can repost it again

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 21h

Now playing: piano and cello, with that track I always get excited about because they're trying to do an Indian influence but it just sounds like Popol Vuh circa 1983

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 22h

Have I imagined it (can't find the receipts) or didn't something emerge about Chan Marshall in recent months that... wasn't a good look, at minimum? I distinctly remember thinking 'aw, now Cross Bones Style is no longer the hottest music video in history' but it's completely slipped my memory why

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 23h

Specifically the editor is looking to start running video game reviews, so if you are looking for paid work in this area please pitch her! And please RT!

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 23h

Lute time, let's have a lute (and make it arch) (and a bit of chitarrone too)

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now *this* was the era of good ECM artwork, when 3 out of 4 of these (mistook the Garbarek for Andersen's Molde Concert - CD version) are instantly recognisable to me from just partial thumbnails on someone's post

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Definitely don't dig this out enough

Glenn Gould playing Berg, Schoenberg and Krenek

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We need to refill the nor loch bar!!

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Starting to understand just how attached to his jukebox Zephram Cochrane was in First Contact

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ton of work to finish off + headache woken up with won't shift = time to deploy targeted intervention

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

John Lewis ad with a sad ukele cover of the Hofmeister Bear rap

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I realise you guys all lapped it up, and it was good to see a statesperson show true emotional engagement, but, honestly, ”My dad, who lived in Liverpool, was a good man who believed in opportunity for all and voted Labour so England has to own Scotland” is a fucking dreadful argument.

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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When Burnham talks about the Britain his dad loved, there is nothing that is not also true of England, or that would change if the UK broke up

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Mark Smotroff @marksmotroff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One more spin of the jaw-dropping pre-master early mix of Frank #Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention's 1966 masterpiece, Freak Out! This is in the new 60th Anniversary boxed set which I review on Analog Planet (vinyl) and eCoustics (CD/Bluray). #musicsky #music

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pre-dinner viewing: reverting to my happy place of being 14 years old, and realising that no matter how old I get, if I ever meet an Austrian woman I will NOT be able to resist doing the shrimp on the barbie line

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Out and about music: this, on repeat, so got about 25 minutes of it to Co Op and back. Forgot what a great head-clearer this was, and quite how much it utterly, utterly smokes the cleaned-up/half as long version on 20 Jazz Funk Greats

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chris carter - walkabout - the space between (industrial records, 1980)

YouTube video by Wild Zero

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Flute, canyon, crickets, welcome back we missed you from regular rotation

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was about to mute the entire proceedings, would've missed this, the only entertaining commentary

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remembering when for no good reason i pretended to be Nabokov ranking various bears

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I should definitely have more Richie Havens by now than the utterly exquisite ten minutes here, shouldn't I (and of course, Randy Crawford/3-4 mins)

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah this is going on next. Opening track better be in the Gerwig's radar if she gets around to doing TLTWATW or I will be very annoyed at yet another missed opportunity

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sharp turn now to indulge that teenage prog nerd in me that's never gone away. Always think the opening minute of this is clear evidence Phil wasn't the only Zappahead in Genesis

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Right back up to date now with this no-filler AotY contender

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now playing: the Rypdal-Mikkelborg partnership at its most sub-oceanic, no sunlight here but an eerie glow

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tunes all picked for this year’s Haunted Jukebox Halloween Hop (out on Thursday night). Why not give last year’s spooky Snakes and Roundabouts a whirl in the meantime - it’s definitely not as bad as the listener count suggests. www.mixcloud.com/rockinrachelroll/snakes-and-roundabouts-3-october-2025

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Snakes and Roundabouts #3 (October 2025) by RockinRachelRoll

Darkness and death, as well as some slightly more light-hearted monster fun, abound in a Snakes and Roundabouts Halloween special.

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, if you think of Ton Steine Scherben as punk, it kind of works

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My favourite guitar synth album bar none, sorry Pat but Fris is just cooking here

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