Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Is the lowest the drums have ever been in a mix? open.spotify.com/track/3Wwy5w...open.spotify.comPipelineThe Chantays · Pipeline · Song · 1963 020
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Four Seasons single which, judging by the lyric, should have been labelled Touch The Rain, Child. What appeared was more inadvisable… 010
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026More predictive text capers. I typed “jejeune” and what came out was “leftovers”. 000
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Nice of the late Liam Payne, formerly of One Direction, to offer to redesign my website. It was Charles Windsor a couple of weeks ago. These scambots need to try harder! 010
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Predictive text typing becoming increasingly random and bonkers. During a recent write, the word ‘value’ came out as ‘’bakery’ and the word ‘famous’ was rendered as ‘gangrene’. And the word ‘write’ in the sentence above just showed up as ‘wee’. I can’t be getting THAT ham fisted at the keys can I? 020
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Sign of aging: having an erotic dream about someone off The Repair Shop. 000
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Wordle 1,903 6/6* 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Too close! 110
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026New band, I note, calling themselves The Guest List. They may live to regret that. Not as much as Closed For Private Party did, perhaps, but still…The jokes will wear thin. 010
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026If there is a God, I’d like to thank him sincerely for the greengage. 000
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026In other seasonal news, press release declares “Vince Guaraldi Trio’s ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ becomes best-selling jazz album of all time, certifies 6x platinum.” 010
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Am I right that someone on here was looking for these on vinyl? In my local store. Can arrange for them to be put aside. 032
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I think the Wind one may be the original as it was a year earlier. 110
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Awesome tune. Did you know there are several other versions? youtu.be/su5--o81-NQ?... youtu.be/PMAaQYDGjYU?... youtu.be/lcBXxPukQoE?...youtu.beCool Heat – “Groovin’ With Mr. Bloe” (Forward) 1970YouTube video by 45rpmMike 110
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Enjoying Blue sky because unlike every other social media platform, there isn’t an AI Amish man with a banana mashing life hack every six posts. 010
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Wordle 1,850 6/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Always the last place you look… 010
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Meanwhile on Discogs, one dealer hasn’t fully grasped the terms of his trade: “The vinyl is mint as I only played it on day of release.” 120
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026He’s arguing the fish isn’t beefy enough, completely missing the idea that black pop made this way was a whole new thing. 210
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026In the June 1970 edition of Films and Filming this ad appears for the Carry On franchise. But Carry On Comrade never appeared. I’m assuming it became Carry On At Your Convenience, which was about a strike at a lavatory factory. (The follow up to Carry On Loving was Carry On Henry.) 010
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Talk Talk’s The Party’s Over. “Maybe it’s synthy stuff.” 010
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026YouTube keeps offering me a record collector who shows off what he’s bought at car boot sales but, apparently, knows fuck all about music. “Don’t know anything about this…(says this a lot)…but I recognise that logo. Love. So, yeah, Love’s the name of that group.” Drives me nuts. 110
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Thank you. But I can’t take all the credit. Huge tram of contributors and helpers. Done too quickly, and lots I’d do differently now. But yes seems to broadly hold up. Pat Gilbert’s Fourth Edition is good if you can find one. 000
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Yes I had U & Y in 2,3&4 and got it at 5. Three instances of one letter is always tough. Its Connections where I sometimes stumble, whenever it’s NFL players or yesterday with US use of “draft” (we spell breeze “draught”), shoulda still seem it though. 110
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Writer, publisher and reader should all be ashamed of themselves. 000
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Wordle 1,838 6/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Only three possible, I think, and I chose them in the wrong order… 120
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Do you know Young Man With A Horn, the novel based on Bix Biederbeck? Protagonist dies in an ambulance at the end. The last line is: “There was a difference” Worth the price of entry! 000
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Didn’t they make all their records during the post-punk melody drought? 110
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Might be my favourite film of all time. I was shocked by how much it made me feel. And sci-fi is just the medium. It’s so much more than a space movie. 010
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I’d forgotten this. It’s great. Loved Smoke City around the same time too. 030
Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Q: What do you call a butterfly that wont come out? A: A party pupa 040
