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Revised top ten: Six Sex falls to four, Six Seven drops to seven and eight, and KRZ's remix of "Big Boom" disappears from the Web altogether.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Heard 4 on Dave's list: like Ultra and Pixie Dust, disappointed by Baddies <3 Moliy (tho I <3 "Backie," which makes me a baddy for Backie), am half thru Budots Republic and like it. As my own discovery, of the 3 DH PP Thailand Remix albs/EPs I've heard, I <3 this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiJb...

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🔥 โดนเส้น สงกรานต์ 2026 💦 | #แดนซ์ฮิตในTIKTOK #NONSTOP 🔥 เบสแน่น โคตรตื๊ด | DJ PP THAILAND REMIX

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

TIL that, though Creole from the Greater Antilles differs significantly from Creole from the Lesser Antilles, I can still use Google Translate's Haitian Creole setting to get a sense of the lyrics to Francky Vincent's Guadeloupean Creole. www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Oj...

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FRANCKY VINCENT - Anti Mako(1986) sous-titres

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#CountryRockSunday Guns N' Roses "Down On The Farm" (1993) Per Mike Wood, Neil Young is set to play Farm Aid! Well, Guns N' Roses once performed *this* at Farm Aid. (Is punk not country but posting 'cos of Farm Aid and Axl's fraught Indiana Pentecostal past.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8sl...

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Down On The Farm

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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I previously thought "and no message could have been any clearer" was "and no mustache could have been any clever" which obviously makes no sense.

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bradluen @bradluen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Meanwhile over there we're still trying to sort out 1996, this time with a guest post from @koganbot.bsky.social covering Korean disco, Korean [unclassifiable], New Zealand ersatz Pavement, and Courtney Love being first on the Fleetwood Mac re-evaluation: bradluen.substack.com/p/1996-e-pak...

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1996: E-Pak-Sa, Roo’ra, Garageland, Hole

Some poll suggestions from Frank Kogan

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The post that mentions *me*.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This absolutely nails the generally stupid Conventional Wisdom re Em & Taylor. @otherdavemoore.com and I got the crap bullied out of us on I Love Music for writing about (obv sexy) Taylor, Miley, Ashlee, Marit et al., meanwhile imbeciles at Jezebel etc. were calling Taylor anti-sex.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This and responses and subthreads is one of the great threads ever, and it mentions me!

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Posted my '96 ballot on Brad's comment thread. Recommend you all participate in Brad's '96 poll. bradluen.substack.com/p/1996-poll-...

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"For a fitting commentary on Hollywood's preoccupation with love, you have only to go back to Shakespeare and consider how his beautiful Titania worshiped an ass as passionately as a Garbo or Dietrich ever loved a Gable or a Montgomery." --Andre Sennwald, "Morning After A Dream," NYTimes 13 Oct 1935

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#CountryRockSunday Ashley Monroe "Siren" (2021) Ashley Monroe has drifted as far out-of-category as the Holy Modal Rounders and Big Star while not making nearly as big a deal out of it. The sound here has a drift, sad happy refusing to land. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0be...

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Ashley Monroe - Siren (Official Audio)

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Brad's 1996 poll, deadline Sep 30. Am endeavoring to ensure every song on my singles list is an actual single: released as such or has a video or is played as if it were a hit or is E-PAK-SA's "Young Man" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyk7...) and is in an EP medley. bradluen.substack.com/p/1996-poll-...

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1996 poll: Announcement and voting thread

Tell me what you really really want

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anybody know anything about this? I found the very good first 11 seconds on a vid by TikTok dancers. The rest – at least voice and lyrics – seems generated by AI. Not terrible, but doesn't live up to the beginning. @otherdavemoore.com @jelbugle.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhC6...

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Ruins摇 (律动氛围版)

YouTube video by One叶儿 - Topic

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

No budots for "Ring of Fire" or "Jolene." A "Hotel California" and a "New Kid In Town" (!), tho not that good. Surprisingly few "Cotton Eye Joe"s. Gobs and gobs of "Achy Breaky Heart," tho the only one I could tolerate was this, which barely cooperates w/ the orig. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGID...

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ACHY BREAKY HEART - BUDOTS DANCE | (,Dj Bernard Remix)

YouTube video by Dj Bernard Remix

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Why is ESET antivirus blocking Wikipedia? WTF? Does anybody know anything about this?

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#CountryRockSunday The Holy Modal Rounders "Interlude 2" (1968) The Holy Modal Rounders looked at the 1920s not for Music Of The Past but for visions and adventure. Now on their fourth album they create a coalition of sounds that go in all directions at once. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgU5...

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Interlude 2

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ana Caranina Motanarorn "Canopy Of Green" (2026) Lotsa high-pitched voices (some raised electronically) on my top singles list. Don't know how much this is because it's my taste and how much simply reflects the genres I'm currently enjoying. Either way, it's a thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn6C...

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TikTok Viral Trend | CANOPY OF GREEN - Ana Caranina Motanarorn 💃🔥 #tiktok #trending #dance #viral

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Shanae "Shadae Freeshtyle" (2024) Shanae freestyles over Sade's "Like A Tattoo," gives it a funny title. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPYw...

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SHADAE FREESHTYLE

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

MC Mr. Bim, MC Myres, DJ Ruan SG, DJ Bozo "Velho TBT" (2026) Good, spare favela funk track; has a lot more plays on SoundCloud than on YouTube – I don't know if that's a thing, different favela funk scenes having more presence on one platform than the other. soundcloud.com/djbozo_ofici...

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VELHO TBT - MCs MR BIM , MYRES - DJs BOZO , RUAN SG

CONTRATE PARA SEU EVENTO ( DJ BOZO ) +info ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ OFICIAL ▆ ▅ ▄ ▃ ▂ ▁ ︻╦╤─ CLICA EM SEGUIR !!! Instagram: @djbozo57

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"You will have a fair picture of the merriment when you are told that Mr. Haley, the Napoleon of the show, is perishing of thirst when a rainstorm descends on the barn and deposits a gallon of water on his head." --Andre Sennwald, "The Girl Friend," New York Times, September 28, 1935

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#CountryRockSunday Dolly Parton, "Down From Dover" (1970) Where Dolly Parton was on the social landscape – poised between traditional and progressive, with an instinctive feel for each – made her the perfect person for this dark, great song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecPC...

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Down from Dover

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Okay, Exhibit 4 (I'm not doing these in order), Oh My Girl's "Windy Day" (2016), which has a conventional form: verse-chorus, verse-chorus, acapella break, 2nd half of verse, chorus. So what's hitting me about it is psychological, that it *feels* disparate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJqh...

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[MV] OH MY GIRL(오마이걸) _ WINDY DAY

YouTube video by 1theK (원더케이)

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Like Miss Jane Withers, who brought ineffable delight to us last season by demanding a machine gun for Christmas, Edith [Fellows] is nobody's lamby pie. A venomous brat, she hates people on sight and is never happier than when she is kicking her dog or going on a hunger strike Andre Sennwald 9/17/35

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Spoonie Gee "I'm All Shook Up" What Teddy Riley was doing back in 1987 – beats that dance around the beat. (And of course what Spoonie Gee was doing, one of the all-time great rappers and lyricists, pings back and forth among complex and contrary emotions.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=163D...

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Spoonie Gee - I'm All Shook Up Tuff City records 1987

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Elvis "We" if there ever was one, was oppositional, while Dolly's "We" was hypothetical, contingent, but not opposition: a simple refusal to believe she couldn't cross any social barrier. But contingent, can be dismantled even before it's built. "Down From Dover" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecPC...

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Down from Dover

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#CountryRockSunday Don Williams "Down The Road I Go" (1974). Country itself rather than country rock but fits for me in that it achieves the easiness that Eagles and such could only wish for – tho in this instance, it's easiness that eases its way into heartbreak. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6MI...

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Down The Road I Go

YouTube video by Don Williams - Topic

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Andre Sennwald, "'The Broadway Melody of 1936,' With Eleanor Powell, at the Capitol Theater," New York Times, September 19, 1935

Andre Sennwald, "Broadway Melody of 1936." "It seems that only five years earlier Mr. Taylor was pinning his fraternity pin on Miss Powell amid lyric vows of constancy, but now he not only fails to recognize her but cannot even remember the pin. This is probably the most remarkable lapse of memory since the Seabury investigation, but Miss Powell makes good anyway by pretending to be a fictitious Parisian star whom Mr. Benny has boomed in his column."

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This was my People's Pop Poll ballot for the best 10 of the final 40 for 1996. (The best song in the tournament was LeAnn Rimes's "Blue," but it didn't make it out of Round One.)

12 Points: Quad City DJs - "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)" [and nine more selections]

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Chuck Eddy @chuckeddytor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

3600 words on O.G. rock critic Dave Marsh, who passed away on Friday — a whole lot of them by me, a whole lot of others by him, some of them with both of us yelling at each other, occasionally with Robert Christgau chiming in. Rest in Pugnaciousness, Dave.

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Dave Marsh, 1950-2026

Dave Marsh and I both came of age in the Oakland County, Michigan suburbs, northwest of Detroit — Waterford Kettering, the high school he graduated from in 1968, used to regularly play sports against ...

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The Singles Jukebox @singlesjukebox.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Interested in joining our team and writing about new pop music? We are taking applications: thesinglesjukebox.com/the-singles-...

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The Singles Jukebox is looking for new writers – The Singles Jukebox

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Perhaps the identifying hallmark of his method is its apparent absence of accent in the climaxes, which are upon the spectator like a slap in the face before he has set himself up for the blow." --Andre Sennwald "The Roxy Presents Alfred Hitchcock's New Picture, 'The 39 Steps,'" NY Times, 9/14/1935

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Whorfian hypothesis Top 40 Black Power hard copy New York minute

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Describe your music taste with only three artists. Frédéric Chopin Tekashi 6ix9ine Jefferson Airplane

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Latest news from Vĩ, who's changed most of her links (for who-knows-what reason): www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZnr...

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YouTube video by Vĩ World

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#CountryRockSunday Nazareth 3-parter: "Morning Dew" (1971) Scottish metal band, took their name from the Band's "The Weight," heard a North America of desolation, dust, and protest but also of musical expansion and experiment; here a Bonnie Dobson song. 1/3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXXW...

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Nazareth - Morning Dew - 1971

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Celebrating the start of #PPP96 playoffs w/ my '96 playlist, "He Was Dancin' With A Train (the Choo Choo Train)." I used the airport ver. of "Naked Eye" to segue from rave to rock. If you thought my Korean nom was flabbergasting, you should hear my *other* Koreans. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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He Was Dancin' With A Train (the Choo Choo Train), Rockin' 1996 - YouTube

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#CountryRockSunday Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint "Tiny Montgomery" (1972) Like Dylan's ver., this is basically taking the piss, but does so in its own way: a Chuck Berry chug w/ saxes & slides that wave their arms like 7-year-olds telling jokes at Show And Tell./1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHJ9...

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11 Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint / Tiny Montgomery

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Taken by Photek's pretty skitter and Reece letting prettiness sidestep the skitter. Bass-D & King Matthew take a while to get to the hook and then the worm – er, the sample; want more propulsion from the underlying thud, but in several more plays this'll be lighter and better. Not ready to vote.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Haven't read the Beatles histories, am wondering if the "beat" in "Beatles" exclusively meant rhythm, or if it was also a reference to the beats, as in "beatnik." @dubdobdee.bsky.social

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DJP @djperry1973.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I think the only people I would have had earnest “who is better, Placebo or Squirrel Nut Zippers” conversations with in 1996 are all participating in this poll

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Attention @levin.bsky.social. Favorite train song. Robert Johnson and Elvis Presley are strong contenders, but there are many, quite a few that I'm not immediately thinking of. Chuck Berry stuck inside of Mobile with an off-schedule train comin' two miles out.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"There began, almost at once, the business of turning Grafton into filmic atmosphere, of turning its natives into extras, its police department into bedlam and its automobiles into the back alleys where they wouldn't disturb the sound men." --uncredited, "Crisis In New England," NY Times, 1 Sep 1935

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Honest answer: The Stooges Funhouse Raw Power But on The Stooges I never listen to "We Will Fall" (10 mins. of side 1), I skip last third of Funhouse, and for Raw Power it's the Bowie mix BUT also need that mix's remasters to really *hear* "Penetration," and "I Need Somebody" is still a dead spot.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#CountryRockSunday Lacy J. Dalton "Over You" (1985) Dark voice, deep hard pain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-swu...

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Over You~Lacy J. Dalton

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Remember, if your team is ranked too low, it's not because the author hates them. It's because the author hates you." --Letter to the Athletic NFL regarding their pre-Training Camp power rankings (American football). Will take this to heart when I assemble my EOY music lists.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Trouble is I keep running her new stuff invidiously against the Taylor I know, ages 16, 18: "I start a fight 'cos I need to feel something," "I don't know who I'm going to talk to now at school," "This is a song I wrote about a guy who cheated on me and shouldn’t have, because I write songs."

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