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Brian Collins

@bhcphd.bsky.social
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He/Him. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦Writing a new book on the metamodern music and mythology of #KGLW. All opinions are mine. Pro-democracy, anti-fascist. Do not comply in advance. Am I supposed to have a fake name or something?

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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
#vinyl #nowspinning Godflesh- Streetcleaner. This is not as compelling as I remember finding it when I bought the cassette back in 1990 or so. The Melvins and Neurosis both did it better. But heavy times call for heavy music. And side two, track two, is pretty great.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#vinyl #nowspinning “Brain Telephone” by Frankie and the Witch Fingers. This early effort was a fun record. But it pretty much sticks to the script of 60s garage rock and pop psych. Data Doom is a much more enjoyable and accomplished album.
A record on a stand above a record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
#nowspinning #vinyl “All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985.” I am happy to see Bandcamp banning AI slop from its service. Meanwhile, Spotify will be further reducing the ability of artists to make money by opening the floodgates. Listen to some real robot music made by humans instead.
A record album on a record stand above a record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
#nowplaying #vinyl Sweet Sensation- Take It While It’s Hot. Found this one in the $5 bin at the record store. The fact that the $5 bin has replaced the $1 bin as the bargain bin is outrageous, but whatever. From the cover, I thought it would be Latin freestyle. It is and it’s great! Abolish ICE.
A record sitting on top of a receiver, sitting on top of a record shelf.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
#nowplaying #vinyl Viagra Boys- Welfare Jazz. I finally stopped spinning their latest LP long enough to get to the other three.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
#nowplaying #vinyl #kglw the record looks great and sounds great, but I’m not sure about excerpting a single song from a long multi-song jam. Big fig wasp sounds kind of wonky in the way it has to fade in and out.
A vinyl copy of king gizzard and the lizard wizard live in Europe ‘25 and a record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#caturday also #NoKings
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#nokings #ohio #kglw Athens, Ohio today.
No kings protest sign
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
#caturday
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl Sungazer, “Against the Fall of Night.” I’ve never been much of a jazzbo but I got turned onto this Brooklyn fusion duo by chance when I was pulling up a kglw song that also happens to be the title of their first album- “Perihelion.” this one came out last August and it’s amazing.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl “Summer ‘75.” I was born on the very last day of that summer. Hits recorded *not* by the original artists that I got at a flea market for $1 last weekend. Great nostalgia here: “Brandy” & “Wildfire” (always associated with Mom), & the whole concept of a re-recorded top 40 is 🤯.
Summer 75 Lp with a record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
They want to know if it’s still #caturday.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Dio tour T-shirt from 1987
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl Motörhead, “On Parole.” The 2020 double-LP reissue. Picked this up at a flea market last for a mere $5. Pretty great.
A vinyl copy of Motörhead on parole with a record player and some other record
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
#WorldGothDay #nowplaying #vinyl As I’ve been selling a few dozen of my not-in-heavy-rotation records to move to a new house, I’ve been regretting selling my old Christian Death vinyl (Only Theater of Pain & Ashes) when I left Chicago 15 years ago. Just got this one for the first time though!
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
She’s shocked that it’s #caturday
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl #musicsky Windbreakers, “The Disciples of Agriculture.” Killer jangle pop featuring Mitch Easter. Happy Mother’s Day and don’t look for this one on Spotify.
The windbreakers, the disciples of agriculture LP next to a record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl #vinylsky Frankie and the Witch Fingers, “Data Doom.” This is like when somebody wakes you up by pushing you and your bed off the roof of a 30 story building. Real good.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl The Residents, “Not Available.” This is what it’s all about.
A record by the residents and the record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl Everybody just calm the funk down. It’s James Brown, “Hot Pants.”
A James Brown record and a record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl The Allman Brothers, “Idlewild South.” An impulse purchase with store credit because it is remastered and 180g. Haven’t heard it in a long time and never owned it (was more of a ZZ Top & James Gang guy), but it sounds great and reminds me what I like about the last #kglw album.
Record and record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Must be #caturday
Two cats running in a room
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
It's been awhile, and nobody kept asking about it, so here's another all #vinyl mix featuring a Croatian synth-pop cover of "Mad World," a Krautrock rarity, a live cut from Frankie and the Witch Fingers, a #KGLW demo, and the result of a criminal investigation. www.mixcloud.com/Cagey_el_UU/...
track listingtrack listing
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl #cincodemayo “Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989.” A truly underappreciated musical subgenre to go along with my tacos this evening. Stay free, Mexico.
Back Up: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980​-​1989 loTacos on a plate
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl “Cologne Curiosities-The Unknown Krautrock Underground, 1972-1976.” It’s half past time to stop fucking around.
A record player and some records
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl Sextile, “yes, please.” I’m not sure if the Happy Mondays reference is deliberate, but definitely a throwback to electronic party music of the 90s. I loved “Push”, but I need to give this one a few more listens. It’s their first since they sadly lost a founding member to overdose.
A record player and some records
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl The Teardrop Explodes, “Wilder.” Is there any musician who’s a harder nut to crack than the Archdrood Julian Cope? I’ve read his books but passed on “Floored Genius” a bunch of times. Then I saw this on a record-buying binge in Columbus and the price was right. Track 1 is cool!
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Rainy #Caturday
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl Shudder to Think, “Pony Express Record.” Finally, after 30 years, this minor masterpiece *just* got a vinyl release. You can keep your Fugazi. This is the pinnacle of Washington DC in the naughty 90s. I remember, I was there (intermittently).
Records and record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl Alex Chilton, “Like Flies on Sherbert.” This is the best thing he ever recorded, with “My Rival” and “Alligator Man” being the standouts. Change my mind. You can’t.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl Frankie and the Witch Fingers, “Live at KEXP.” I was really excited about getting this one on record store day, but it didn’t come to my local shop. Just picked it up this weekend. I saw them over the summer and it was great, even though it probably gave me Covid.
Records and record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, “LAMF Revisited.” I just picked up this slightly warped picture disc this weekend. I’ve never actually owned the original album so the 1984 remixes are good enough for me.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
What’s up?
2 cats
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl The Soft Boys, “I Wanna Destroy You.” Those harmonies! Those lyrics! A+
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl X-cetera, “Summer 2000.” Just released for the first time by the Numero group, this amateur tween girl group caught lightning in a bottle 25 years ago. If you have to ask, you won’t understand.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Soundtrack. Finally available for the first time courtesy of waxwork records in this awesome-looking “hand-poured” (?) vinyl. This company got on my radar when they put out a 3-D vinyl edition of Friday the 13th 3, including the killer disco theme.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl The Vapors, “New Clear Days.” Power pop is good for the soul. Nothing else on here as catchy as the hit, though.
NEW CLEAR DAYS
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
He is risen, the other guy is not. Damned humidity messing with my sourdough schedule.
Loaves of bread
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
#protests #50501 Athens Ohio
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
#vinyl #nowplaying The MC5, “Kick out the Jams.” I used to get frustrated by the sound quality and wished there were studio versions. Now I get it. It takes five seconds to decide whether you are part of the problem or part of the solution.
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl new remastered picture disc of The Cure, “The Head on the Door.” A #recordstoreday purchase. Killer album.
Record player
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#caturday Evie!❤️❤️❤️
Evie the cat
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#handsoff #protests
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Miami Sound Machine, “Primitive Love.” Still in the shrink. Can I interest anyone in some Latin Freestyle? #nowplaying #vinyl
Miami sound machine record
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
#caturday bird-warning collar for if Mario sneaks out
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
#caturday
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
#nowplaying #vinyl the wind breakers, the disciples of agriculture. With Mitch Easter. Jangle pop for your ass.
A vinyl copy of disciples of agriculture by the windbreakers
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Brian Collins @bhcphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“They got a name for the winners in the world. I want a name when I lose. They call Alabama the Crimson Tide. Call me Lens Diffuse(r).”
Kari Lake
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