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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 8h

Nicely jangling Aboriginal Australian rock gets the vote and GB longlisting here. Very nice!

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 9h

Almost gave Five Star a sympathy vote, but "Dancing On The Ceiling" is pretty undeniable here.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 9h

Did search for it earlier and couldn't see anything. Maybe it gets played more than I assume 🤷‍♂️

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 9h

Have we had Hollywood Beyond before? It sounds very familiar, but doesn't feel like something that gets played much/doesn't seem to be on a soundtrack. It's a banger anyway!

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 9h

Glad Marshall Jefferson was one of my bonuses, because otherwise this would be an impossible choice. I'd have probably have gone for it anyway. Feels a bit rougher around the edges than the other big house tracks of 86. Plus, y'know, big old pianos innit.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, I'm not watching all of these. They're significantly worse than THE CONJURING, even with the advantage of not being Catholic propaganda that whitewashes the reputation of two absolute grifting wrong 'uns.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 10h

This looks great. Not spending 200 quid on it obvs, but it looks like a great bit of film curation.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

Vintage Halloween card, black cat looking at three pumpkin people sat on a marrow, crescent moon, cloudy night sky, little white house in distance. Halloween in red lettering at the top.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 11h

Patrick Wilson's "I definitely had nothing to do with this death and I'm not possessed no sir" acting here is incredible.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 11h

kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 11h

I think it manages some genuine moving moments as well, somewhat unexpectedly(or did, I've not watched it for a while).

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 11h

I loved it at first, but the culture war dickheads got their hands on it and made being a fan toxic as fuck. Plus the quality falls off fast. First couple of series are worth a go though.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 11h

Time for basic scary season fun times with INSIDIOUS 2.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 12h

"The Daleks are murderous psychopaths. They should leave Who alone and make something else for kids. What next, a child friendly version of THE EXORCIST 😡" Facebook having the juice as I knew it would.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 13h

Injecting drugs into my stomach within hours of watching TRAINSPOTTING! The Daily Express was right! Ban this sick filth etc.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 15h

I appear to have double-billed TRAINSPOTTING with Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM this afternoon. Y'know, for funsies.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 15h

Film almost gets an extra half-star for "Dark and Long". Plus Ewan McGregor was a good-looking man in his 20s wasn't he, even playing a smackhead.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 15h

Still my favourite film by my fellow Bangor University alumnus, though much of that may be nostalgia. It's a Danny Boyle film from 1996 so is the most 1996 film that ever 1996'd.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 17h

See, I really dislike 28 DAYS LATER. I find his filmmaking a bit gimmicky. Just piles on whatever new techniques are around at the moment which means his films age like milk.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 17h

Rewatching TRAINSPOTTING for the first time in decades for @evolutionofhorror.bsky.social homework. Interested to see how this meshes with my "Danny Boyle is the most overrated UK director" theory. I certainly loved it when I was 17 years old!

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 18h

Big day on Bluesky for people who hate the Green Party anyway.

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Chipockalips Now! @fragboner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

right about now, the funk soul brother

check it out now, the funk soul brother

right about now, the funk soul brother

check it out now, the funk soul brother

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 18h

And if you saw me nominate "Stratus" by Billy Cobham once, no you didn't.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 20h

Ha! Didn't realise that Underworld scored this (as Freur) and took their new band name from it. Shite British horror for the win again!

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah, the second verse of that Ice-T song is quite something (and meant I was never going to vote for it).

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 20h

It occurs to me a week later through the chemo fog that IN BRUGES is probably an Irish film.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Votes and GB nods for Pato Banton (who I didn't know was going for this long before The Hit) and Mai Tai. Lovely stuff.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Voted for Jamie and Frankie, had to give my bonus to Adonis. Despite this being a golden age for house, I suspect dance music will need as much help as it get, as ever.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Surprisingly easy vote for an opening match. Eric B & Rakim and Salt-n-Pepa are good, but it's always going to be Cameo.

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Peoples Pop Polls: BLACK POP 1986-1989 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#BPHM8689 It's the start of our NEW POLL BLACK POP HISTORY 1986-1989 In honour of Black History Month (UK) Four extraordinary years in Black music history, 256 tracks, one poll - vote for your favourites and cast your bonus votes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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#BPHM8986 Black Pop History 1986 Day 1

Welcome to BLACK POP HISTORY MONTH 1986-1989! This is our annual poll where we take four years of Black music and find the greatest track - who will unseat reigning champion "The Message"? Find out h...

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another one that seems to be missing out on a UK cinema release. Not sure why the bad old days of this shit are coming back.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fucking hell. I know Cleese has been heading this way for a while, but he seems to have completely drunk the Kool-Aid now doesn't he? When the talent dries up, the need for attention keeps going doesn't it? www.chortle.co.uk/features/202...

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John Cleese's Ministry of Silly Tweets : Features 2026 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

John Cleese's Ministry of Silly Tweets - How the comic spreads misinformation on X

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have already discovered from this commentary that the opening credits were filmed just over the Thames from the TASKMASTER UK house. (It isn't mentioned, they just say it was filmed on Putney Common, and the house is in Chiswick).

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Only just noticed, after probably dozens of watches, that the song they sing at the end of "Treehouse of Horror V" ("One" from A CHORUS LINE apparently) is being done at the Tony Awards at the end of the "The Shinning" segment.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

*Once* they're too big to be playing Sidney and Matilda would have made more sense there.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, they're not a band I listen to, but I have nowt against them. Good on 'em.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like, above Massive Attack and Robyn on the bill. Only Phoebe Bridgers (who even I understand is massive) and Doechii above them.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I genuinely have no idea how big bands are unless they're too famous to be playing Sidney and Matilda, so Fontaines DC headlining Primavera comes as a bit of a shock.

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Dan Pop-o-matic (Halloween edition) 👻🧛‍♂️😈 @danpopomatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It took me three. Was just sure it was a different song. I'm going to get run out of town on a rail. A rail mind!

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