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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 4h

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 30 - from a place you want to go: Mexico City Someday soon, I gotta see North America's most populous (and perhaps most vibrant?) city. "Terracentric," Rodrigo y Gabriela

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Terracentric

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 4h

That's all for me for #NowHearThis: 30 songs I love that have <750K streams AND I've somehow never posted about on bluesky dot com. Playlist: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... I don't know about you all, but I discovered a bunch of new-to-me songs. Thanks @savemeaseat.bsky.social for running this!

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#NowHearThis - atcl

Playlist • Bill Chapin

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 4h

#NowHearThis Day 30 "Merry" Suddenly, Tammy! (1995) Spotify plays: 2,769 #LancasterPA #PianoPop Stop me if you've heard this one: a guitar-less trio, debuted in 1995, did both snarky piano-rock & gorgeous ballads. This is the latter, and a pivotal component of my "Melancholy Christmas" playlist.

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Merry

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 8h

A cell phone that costs thousands of dollars every month and some people aren’t allowed to buy it and you might die if you don’t have it.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 22h

#5CoverSongsEvens #MusicChallenge Day 5 - "Cum on Feel the Noize," Bran Van 3000 (covering Quiet Riot covering Slade) I think most Americans are more familiar with the hair metal version than the original glam rock version. But maybe everyone should focus on the Canadian indie pop version!

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Bran Van 3000 - Cum On Feel The Noize

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#NowHearThis Day 29 "The Salt Trucks" Great Lakes Myth Society (2005) Spotify plays: 5,615 #Michigan #folk-rock You know I wouldn't let a "songs more people should know" #MusicChallenge go by w/o mentioning GLMS. The opening track to one of my favorite albums, full of Michigan imagery & history.

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The Salt Trucks

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 29 - from a place you've been to I regret to report that I really haven't traveled much outside the U.S. My most recent international excursion include a few days in Devon, and so here is Teignmouth's finest. "Knights of Cydonia," Muse (2006)

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Muse - Knights Of Cydonia (Video)

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#readandplay (815) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶 American actress & singer Madeline Kahn, #botd in 1942.

Madeline Kahn, from a 1989 interview as reported by The New York Times: "Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex."

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#5CoverSongsEvens #MusicChallenge Day 4 - "Quattro (World Drifts In)," Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (covering Calexico) How about some non-English even numbers? For Day 4, it's the Italian word for FOUR. At least I think that's what's going on in the song title.

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Quattro (World Drifts In) by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss from Raise The Roof

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 28 - XYZ: Zimbabwe "Chekudya Chose," The Bhundu Boys (1983) Discovered during #BPHM8285 ... and, by the way, the next round covering black pop music from 1986 to 1989 is about to start up. #BPHM8689

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Chekudya Chose

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 28 "Walk Away" Bree Sharp (1999) Spotify plays: 41,933 #NYC #ByWayOfPhilly #folk-rock Sharp had a brief novelty breakthrough with "David Duchovney (Why Won't You Love Me?)," but this track from the same album proves she could also pen an aching '90s power ballad.

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Walk Away

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I almost forgot about #CountryRockSunday! And next on my chronological playlist is a monumental moment in alt-country, when a 21-year-old Harvard theology major named Gram Parsons started up a country band completely outside the Nashville system. "Blue Eyes," International Submarine Band (1968)

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Blue Eyes

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#5CoverSongsEvens #MusicChallenge Day 3 - "Another Brick In The Wall - Part 2," Luther Wright & The Wrongs (covering Pink Floyd) This is from an album that covers THE WALL in its entirety, & entirely in a bluegrass/country style. Some songs work better than others. This is one of the better ones.

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OFFICIAL VERSION Brick in The Wall pt 2 by Luther Wright & the Wrongs

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 27 "Apart From This" Mountaineers (2003) Spotify plays: 60,174 #Wales #IndieRock #ElectroPop Well, it turns out I could have used this for today's W prompt for #WorldAtoZ. This group released 3 EPs and one full-length in less than 3 1/2 years, and nothing since :(

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Apart From This

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 27 - W: Wales "MWY," Adwaith (2024) Welsh-language indie rock for ya. MWY = MORE, if lyricstranslate.com is to be believed.

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Adwaith - MWY

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 26 (catching up) “Pity Dance” DM Stith (2009) Spotify plays: 83,527 #NYC #IndieFolk #BaroquePop Stith got his start working w/ My Brightest Diamond before getting signed to Sufjan Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty label. Hi stuff is all about *texture* & is a bit spoooky.

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Pity Dance

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How I learned about Indigo Girls, Stereolab, Fruit Bats AND The Flaming Lips.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 26 - V: Venezuela “Baro,” Nil Lara Lara was born in Miami to Cuban parents but spent much of his childhood in Caracas, and incorporates Venezuelan folk traditions and instruments (like the cuatro) into his music.

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Baro

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#5CoverSongsEvens #MusicChallenge Day 2 - “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Chris Cornell Yes, the version we’re all familiar with is also a cover, but as covers of covers go, this is pretty good.

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Chris Cornell - "Nothing Compares 2 U" Prince Cover

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#5CoverSongsEvens #MusicChallenge “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” Vandoliers Supporting the old math proof that an even number plus an even number is always an even number. 500 + 500 =1,000

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I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 25 "There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve" A.C. Newman (2009) Spotify plays: 96,236 #BrooklynByWayOfVancouver #IndieRock And we're down below 100K plays! And, surprise! If you like The New Pornographers, you'll like their leader and primary singer-songwriter's solo stuff.

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A.C. Newman - There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve...

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am nothing if not predictably alt-rock guitar-pop oriented.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#readandplay (812) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶

Quote attributed to American actress, sex symbol, and bon mot specialist Mae West (1898-1980): "I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign."

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 24 - U: Ukraine "Landslide," Electric Rime (2025) I nominated this for last year's #PeoplesPop25 end-of-the-year poll, and it connected with enough voters to get to the finals despite being the track with the fewest streams in the whole durn competition.

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Electric Rime - Landslide (Official Lyric Video)

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 24 "Discarded" Uncle Tupelo (1991) Spotify plays: 103,684 #BellevilleIL #AltCountry I'm the rare UT fan who thinks STILL FEEL GONE is their best work: more polished than their debut, branching out with folk & country instrumentation, still retaining the punk edge.

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Discarded

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New Best Album of 2002 Bracket discourse just dropped.

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One impeachment trial a month until he's gone. Make the Senate a permanent court while Trump holds office. Be clear about "It will be this way until we've run out of worthy crimes" so everyone's clear about the gig. Make John Roberts loathe his work.

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Only a few days away from early Day 1 posting for #5CoverSongsEvens, our second chapter that’ll go 0-100 before you can get eight miles high. Are your choices adding up? #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Numbers

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 23 - T: Turkey "Love Buzz," Gaye Su Akyol (2023) Another discovery from my research as a team manager for #PWC26. I ended up fielding a different, more surf-rock-y Gaye Su Akyol song nominated by another poll participant, but I love this Shocking Blue/Nirvana cover.

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Gaye Su Akyol - Love Buzz (Official Audio)

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 23 "Misfits & Mistakes" Superchunk (2007) Spotify plays: 119,878 #ChapelHillNC #AlternativeRock Originally released for the end credits of AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE COLON MOVIE FOR THEATERS, then on a 2009 EP, then as the title track of a 2023 singles collection.

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Misfits & Mistakes

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Get a load of Building Inspector Dredd over here.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A reminder for you Cover Songs Fanatics out there: In less than *checks clock* 64 hours, you—yes, YOU—can start posting for #5CoverSongsEvens. I coulda rounded down to 63 hours, but an odd number didn’t feel right.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 23/09/2026

New chvrches song means one thing: I regret to inform you that we will win. pitchfork.com/story/chvrch...

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Chvrches Return With First Song in Three Years

“Roses” tees up a new phase based on “the most coherent vision we’ve had,” the trio says

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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cities should be paying people to bike. Cities should be buying people e-bikes. Cities should be rewarding people for convincing neighbors to ride bikes. Every trip by bike is a net financial gain socially. And it compounds, the more people who do it.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 22 "Caramia" Indigo Girls (1997) Spotify plays: 130,101 #Atlanta #FolkRock Not the first Indigo Girls song to have electric guitars or string arrangements, but it is probably the most *epic* and least "folky" thing the duo ever recorded. Emily Saliers KILLING it.

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Caramia

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 22 - S: Spain "Bring a Little Lovin'," Los Bravos (1968) I see that @lagrume.bsky.social already shared Somali singer Sahra Halgan—who is indeed excellent and you should listen to her—today, but I just happened to have an emergency backup S waiting in the wings.

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Los Bravos - Bring a Little Lovin' (Actuación TVE)

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My knowledge of "I, Claudius" is limited to and entirely informed by "Monsterpiece Theater." I should probably watch the real thing! Though I'm not sure how it could possibly live up to this.

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Classic Sesame Street - Monsterpiece Theater Me Claudius Full Version HQ 1979

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

era of remote work means there are more people who live in LA that work for San Francisco employers than those who live in Marin County

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 21 - R: Russia "Революция," ДДТ (1988) Mrs. ATCL introduced me to DDT, describing them as akin to R.E.M. Not that they're particularly jangly, but they started as an underground '80s alternative rock band and by the '90s were one of the biggest acts in the country.

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Революция

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 21 "Just How Lonely" Southern Culture on the Skids (2000) Spotify plays: 131,956 #ChapelHillNC #CountryRock I have a single SCOTS song in my library from the band's 43-year history, and it's this lovely, up-tempo heartbreaker feat. Mary Huff on lead vocals.

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Just How Lonely

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ghouls. Absolute ghouls. The lot of them.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well @levin.bsky.social chastised me today for my lack of participation in #CountryRockSunday (thank you, Elana!), so I'm going to go through my Alt-Country 101 playlist in chronological order, which at 1 song a week oughta last us ... 2 1/2 YEARS!!? "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight," Bob Dylan (1967)

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Bob Dylan - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Official Audio)

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well, hell, I forgot to embed the dang song! #NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 20 "Amazing" Mellowdrone (2006) Spotify plays: 151,877 #LA #AlternativeRock

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Amazing

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#NowHearThis #MusicChallenge Day 20 "Amazing" Mellowdrone (2006) Spotify plays: 151,877 #LA #AlternativeRock No idea where I discovered this group—satellite radio maybe?—and I probably would have forgotten about them by now if my buddy at the time hadn't boosted the playcount in my music library.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#MusicChallenge #WorldAtoZ Day 20 - Q: Quebec "Le blues d'la métropole," Beau Dommage (1975) Never heard of this group prior to running #20GreatCanadianSongs last year, but if you judge by Canadian commemorative postage stamps, they're on a level with The Guess Who, Rush & The Tragically Hip.

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Le blues d'la métropole (2008 Digital Remaster)

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People are rightly offended by the noxious racism implied by this tweet by a department of the United States government. But spare a modicum of offense for the graphic design decision to create contrast for the text by applying a gradient that makes it look like the crowd is dissolving into rust.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#HomeMadeMusic #MusicianSky Here's a demo of a song I wrote about The Great Thumb Fire of 1881, a monstrous firestorm that burned more than 1 million acres in less than a day and killed 100-300 people. My band never got around to recording it despite a few attempts.

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A Most Peculiar Day (demo)

One one day in September of 1881, more than a million acres in Michigan's thumb burned in a horrific firestorm. (To put that in perspective, that's just slightly less acreage as burned in California d

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