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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 7h

Now playing, 'night all

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 9h

Another hanging on by the fingernails one for me! Wordle 1,939 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 9h

Had a big soft spot for a cracking mini-masterpiece of doowop since, and it's always a highlight of HJ when you pull out some B-side by some lads who cut like two singles then vanished. Glad so many of those records are in the right hands

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 9h

We had the best music teacher in high school, who taught us the 'ice cream chords' (as C-Am-F-G iirc) and how much doowop was based on that, so we were like... does it all sound the same? And then got shown examples of how much variety could go in a track, vocal arrangements, how it was produced etc

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 10h

Tonight's viewing, haven't seen it in a few years and it's definite all-time top 20 material for me. Sad and funny in perfect balance, and one of the most gorgeous soundtracks ever with a good dollop of Handel's Messiah, what's not to like

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Haunted Jukebox, with Rockin’ Rachel Roll @hauntedjukebox.bsky.social · 11h

It’s a Friday night in October - winds are blowin’, dogs are barkin’, & there’s a chill in the air…perfect conditions for some spooky, kooky RnR/R&B/doo-wop/rockabilly www.mixcloud.com/rockinrachelroll/haunted-jukebox-26-halloween-hop-iii-october-2026 #musicsky #radio #DJ #nowplaying #nowspinning

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Haunted Jukebox #26 Halloween Hop III (October 2026) by RockinRachelRoll

The wait is over! The tomb is open! Get your red-hot dancin' shoes on for the third annual Haunted Jukebox Halloween Hop, and jive with whatever crawled out of it...

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 14h

@rolandbates.bsky.social rather important book spotted in opening scene, and IIRC gets referenced a few more times as the plot progresses

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 14h

Watching this now, not seen it in ages

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 16h

Teatime viewing firmly back in my teenage happy place after the week I've just had

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 16h

Cool, way older than I thought!

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 18h

A group called the "Videos" in the 50s is warping my brain, feels like they should be some sort of mod revival band from the early 80s. "Videos" must've had some other meaning back then, my mind goes straight to VCRs

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 19h

Ah that clears it up - thanks!

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 19h

Even the Trane? Think I had just assumed Impulse were handling that. The others definitely look like cases of 'bet I could find that in 30 seconds on guitars101 losslessly rather than dropping £15 on it'

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 19h

Back on the Womack Sisters album to go into the weekend with. This is so good

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 22h

His face looks like if the 'rock spy' scenes from Return To Oz had been created in a bakery

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 23h

Apparently the duration of the song, played three times, was long enough time for Nilsen to boil a human head and the flesh to detach. Not sure at what temperature though, I’m not Nigel Slater.

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David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social · 23h

Howay lads it's Friday, get yer begetting cocks on!

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 23h

"His banner over me is love" from the horny bit of the Bible, but it's about two guys in a tent in the Sicilian moonlight

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 23h

Sufjan does the entire soundtrack this time

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 23h

If only there was one of us whose bio expressed a belief in repetition, eh

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ok, I think this does the job. A playlist of Joy Division's more unlikely influences. The Tractor and BÖC tracks are small revelations. open.spotify.com/playlist/0mU...

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Extremely Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division's more unlikely influences.

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 23h

It would be funny if the tent was like a tenner off Vinted, as always we need photo evidence

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The four of them should all use the one tent, fuck, and feel too awkward to ever speak to each other again (until Michael and Luis declare undying love for each other about a decade later), this could all be neatly resolved by the application of this 'Luca Guadagnino movie' intervention

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My version of this would be want crowbar, buy first crowbar I see, half-glance at 20 seconds of 'how to use crowbar' instruction video on YouTube before remembering my two favourite cat accounts are due to drop new content, use crowbar, phone parents to say please help, I have destroyed a wall

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Officer, those were just prescription drugs for my squid, he's not been well" "Okay it's not an arrestable offence, but there is a sick squid fine"

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

pffft the one thing I couldn't see was the obvious answer Wordle 1,938 X/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I find Powell a perfectly serviceable rom-com lead, but even that Running Man reboot seemed to stretch his range a bit

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"mithering" is exactly the right word for it

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hail To The Chief might have at least solved point 1, but I'll never know

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I absolutely loved Radiohead from about 1994-2001, after which I was really just left with two questions: 1) nice turn to experimentation lads, but do you fancy making a coherent album with it 2) do you really think the world is this miserable and irredeemable, at least the Manics left room for hope

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Bill Evans dust-off continues with more of that saucy Motian hi-hat & snare

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That was the first version of that song that I heard (got into him off the back of the Unplugged BBC broadcast) and the acoustic arrangement does work beautifully; hearing the original years later was quite something

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Presumably the first anagram of arse cannon to win a Nobel prize

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Will definitely investigate further in due course

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Santiago Jones @santiagojones.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bet Grotbags went like an absolute lorry 🖤

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This used to come across my desk for policy lines a fair bit and yes, it's quite the thing to come out *against*; can't help but think these are specifically RFK JR-era libertarian brainworms crossing the Atlantic via the everything app

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yep I remember having to do that with the PIN in the text

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Still had them: if it starts "This is an important digital letter from NHS Lothian for [first name] with information about your care. Please log in to the following link with PIN....", it's legit

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I had a spam feeling at first but nope, they were genuine appointment notifications when I opened them

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Now for a bit of this one to go up to lunch, which for some reason always evokes St Andrew's Square in my memory. Might well have started listening to it straight after buying in the old Rose Street Fopp

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Irene @derbren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

anyone? anyone? last chance!

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Age yourself with a childhood crush

Yvette Fielding on Blue Peter circa 1986

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Was well up for a bit of Solo Monk after the Barry Harris, but the Monk stash was nowhere to be found (put it somewhere stupid as usual). So the Bill collection is getting dusted off instead, starting at the tippety top

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