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Kaye Ross @kaye.zone · 11/03/2026

Hall of Fame blunt rotation

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 02/03/2026

I know this wasn’t your intention but now I desperately want a Twin Peaks themed Animal Crossing-like

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 02/03/2026

Listened to less albums in February than January. Here are the highlights music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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February 2026 Listening by Zach Hoskins on Apple Music

Playlist · 14 Songs

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 02/03/2026

Same!!!!! 41 years on the planet, conscious of both movies for at least 35, had no fucking idea

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 22/02/2026

2026 Concert No. 2: Joey Valence and Brae at 9:30 Club. Super fun show/crowd, and we weren’t even the oldest people there (though it was close)!

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 20/02/2026

Decided to resuscitate my (other) comatose Bluesky account with a thread revisiting Prince’s second-to-last studio album, which is still among my least favorites but maybe more interesting on an intellectual level than I gave it credit for

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 19/02/2026

Listening to Hours again after reading @bowiesongs.bsky.social’s chapter on it and it’s as I suspected/feared: I like this way more at 41 than I did at however old I was the last time I gave it a chance

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 17/02/2026

Watching Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and Jojo just told the bad guy to “drown in the sea of history,” shit’s cold af

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 13/02/2026

Trying one again this year to keep some kind of record of the music I listen to (we’ll see how long I can keep it up!) Anyway, here’s a playlist of what I was listening to in January. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

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January 2026 Listening by Zach Hoskins on Apple Music

Playlist · 25 Songs

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 12/02/2026

First concert of 2026 on the books! First time seeing Nine Inch Nails. Great show, and some of the most interesting stage design I’ve seen since Kendrick’s Damn tour.

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Probably my favorite photo of Joe Walsh eating corn and mashed potatoes

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 10/01/2026

I know Running Gun Blues isn’t a well regarded Bowie cut but I’m just realizing it kind of invented the Viagra Boys

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 06/12/2025

Pleasantly surprised by how much “Dirtbag Wings” they allowed on the new comp (Hi Hi Hi, Junior’s Farm, Helen Wheels et al.)

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 03/12/2025

I shan’t be sharing it (and this is the last year I’ll actually have one), but I checked my S****** W****** out of morbid curiosity to see my “listening age” and it was even older than I predicted 😬😬😬

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 03/12/2025

Glad to see others talking about this. Some of those 1964 performance scenes looked like clips from Beatles Rock Band on the Wii! Guess my impatience paid off when I bought a second-hand DVD set after watching Get Back

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 29/11/2025

Wow I do NOT like the AI upscaling in the Beatles Anthology remaster

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 23/11/2025

Literally became a Beatles obsessive because of Anthology when I was 10 (though my best friend who’d been Beatle-pilled earlier greased the wheels). You’re right that it isn’t a generational trait exactly but I do think we were well positioned to reap the benefits of older culture

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 20/11/2025

I know complaining about social media is passe but pretty much every day on here I read a hot take so smug I should be owed reparations

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 20/11/2025

The argument against just seems like “young people bad”

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 16/11/2025

To the point that Debra straight-up cops the hook from Win!

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 14/11/2025

As a lifelong catalogue music sicko, it’s tiresome and I’m consistently shocked by how many “legit” music critics are eager to toss past culture into the wastebin. Like I get that nostalgia is a regressive impulse, but is the best alternative really treating art as a capitalist parade of novelty?

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 13/11/2025

There are probably other Prince eras I would give the slightest edge to musically, but this is the one I feel most aligned with philosophically. Looking forward to reading your full take on it!!

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 13/11/2025

Anyway, here’s a video I took of Geese playing TV Eye and the kids going absolutely nuts for it (as they should)

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 13/11/2025

I’m 41 and so many of the shows I go to are full of jaded old dudes with their arms crossed. Being in proximity to exuberant youth made me feel like an elder statesman, but also took me back to when I was 18 seeing the White Stripes for the first time.

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 13/11/2025

Went to see Geese last night and it warmed my heart how much (and I mean this affectionately) first concert-ass behavior was going on. Singing whole songs back at the band. Crowd surfing starting three songs in, with hearty applause after each surfer. A rapturous reception for the opening act (!!)

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

It's Neil Young's birthday so today we celebrate his incredible music and his long prolific career and we overlook the weird Jamaican accent he uses on part of "Cortez the Killer" on the Live Rust album.

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 12/11/2025

I don't have an informed opinion on that new Wuthering Heights movie but kicking off the soundtrack with a Charli XCX/John Cale collab feels micro-targeted to my household specifically

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 12/11/2025

Honestly the more I think of it, most musicians are dorks straight up 🤷‍♂️

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 12/11/2025

Especially weird because the original art was great… but I guess kinda culturally insensitive? Still seems like they could have done SOMETHING else

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 12/11/2025

I enjoy the post but yes, Ramones (any lineup) are much more accurately four dorks (some derogatory, some non-derogatory) than four cool people

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 12/11/2025

Was gonna say KISS disproves the Cheap Trick example, then remembered one of the ones I was counting as “cool” wore kitty cat makeup and sang easy listening songs sooooo never mind, the model holds

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 12/11/2025

Help I’m doing this for every band I can think of

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 12/11/2025

I’m gonna say Robertson dork, Helm and Danko cool, Hudson and Manuel dorks but in a cool way

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 10/11/2025

I regret to announce that my sister came up with a great podcast idea

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 31/10/2025

Texting my wife the important things

Text message that reads "Why have I never even talked about being rolling thunder revue bob Dylan for Halloween"

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Rest in peace to Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley, a man who seemed less repulsive than at least two of his bandmates

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

A post on ILX a little earlier about D’Angelo and this strikes me as so very correct. - www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSe...

I played through the discography today and was struck by the way "Playa Playa" and "Ain't That Easy" open their respective albums — in both cases, rather than making some hurrah of reintroducing him, they kind of drop in media res into D'Angelo's workshop, like you can feel it all taking shape around you, and eventually the murk resolves into grooves, and he's just there, doing the thing. Almost like the albums conjure him, or his essence precedes his presence.

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Dance / Music / Sex / Romance @princesongs.org · 14/10/2025

Ended up going way deeper on Sheila E.'s "The Belle of St. Mark" than I expected to (or, frankly, than it probably deserves), including a brief detour into the Venetian Carnival imagery that started popping up in Prince's aesthetic universe circa 1984. princesongs.org/2025/10/14/t...

Cover of the 12" single for Sheila E.'s "The Belle of St. Mark"

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 09/10/2025

“You guys like Ratt?” in a Dylan voice is definitely a vocal stim in my house

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The part of Orwell's 1984 that everyone forgets is how human music has been replaced by soulless, machine-generated pop songs. The AI attempt to take over the film and music industries is an attack on the human spirit. Boycott AI actors. Boycott AI bands. Support human artists.

“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.”

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 01/10/2025

I’m finally bearing down to finish Persona 5 and playing the third act nine months into Trump’s second term is… definitely interesting!

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 14/09/2025

A fun thing they could do on the Outlaw Tour is have the headliners swap setlists, like I wanna hear Bob Dylan sing Soak Up the Sun

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 13/09/2025

Today my 13yo sat down next to me while I was watching the Monkees and the questions he asked (“is this a Beatles song?”) made it clear he has no framework through which to interpret the Monkees. Not that he should, obviously! But this exactly is why boomers/gen x/millennials fear gen z/alpha

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 12/09/2025

Biggest pleasant surprise about Silksong so far is it’s basically Bloodborne

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 11/09/2025

My official hot take about the ATWIAD reissue

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 11/09/2025

This is (sort of) encouraging; the trailers I've seen have been dire and I was starting to worry it would be a bomb. But some recent in-character interviews have been pretty funny (I love the idea that they resent DiBergi for the original doc--very realistic touch). Still waiting for streaming tho

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Eldritch DeBarge @dystopiandanceparty.com · 11/09/2025

This headline reads like a "beer before liquor"-style mnemonic

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