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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 4h

Oran "Juice" Jones, beautiful deep feeling in the singing, brutal thoughts. (Gets my vote.)

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 4h

Marley Marl touches everything with excitement.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 5h

Still resent Elvis Costello and Sheryl Crow for spelling "everyday" as one word (adj that means "commonplace") rather than "every day," adj "each of them" that modifies the noun "day," which is what they really meant. Winston Reedy, delicate voice, more comfortable than orig; I like each in dif way

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 6h

Notice the artists in NY and Trinidad show more deference to the measure bars than those in Ivory Coast and Cameroon. The Cameroonian Les Vétérans are my bonus nom, the melodies and rhythms running snaking curves around each other.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 11h

MC Anderson da Rima, Lucas Ação, MC Evinho, Black do Recife "Já Tô Indo Sem Calcinha" (2026) Like this even more, tho not as chaotic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM5J...

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Já Tô Indo Sem Calcinha

YouTube video by Black do Recife - Topic

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 11h

Dbelly, Lucas Ação, Black do Recife, MC Evinho "Meu Vicio" (2026) Like this for being more chaotic than usual - vocals not leading into next vocals, beats and voices not supporting each other, at least not obviously - and the chaos sounding good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKcr...

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Meu Vicio

YouTube video by Black do Recife - Topic

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 15h

"THUNDER OVER ASTORIA. Hecht and MacArthur Turn to Political Satire in 'Soak The Rich'" --Frank S. Nugent, New York Times, October 27, 1935

"So you're a disciple of Karl Marx?" The "bah" was not heard but it was there. "Karl Marx is bourgeois."

Muglia hesitated. Someone called "Cut!" and Mr. Stander, with a slightly apologetic grin, turned to the sad-faced Mr. Hecht.

"Ben," he said, "that 'Karl Marx is bourgeois" has too many s's. And should I say 'bush-wah' or 'bour-shwah'?"

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My calling DJ Weng contemplative doesn't mean I have an opinion as to what he's contemplating. In 1964, when Aristotle Onassis was visiting Los Angeles, a newspaper photo found Onassis paused outside the Buster Keaton residence, the caption being, "Aristotle Contemplating The Home Of Buster."

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

DJ Weng Regotio "Gipaibog Raka" (2026) DJ Weng is steadier and more contemplative than his budots compatriots. His album, Team Lata-lata Power Budots Volume 1, could make my EOY list. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_sT...

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Gipaibog Raka

YouTube video by Weng Regotio - Topic

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#CountryRockSunday Wanda Jackson "Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues" (1966) Yodels refracting in the moonlight, Wanda singing like a new breath of air. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPt...

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Wanda Jackson - Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues (1966).

YouTube video by mrblindfreddy9999

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Under the able management of William K. Howard, the film preserves its sense of humor without disturbing its omnipresent air of mystery." --Andre Sennwald, New York Times, Oct 26, 1935. "William Powell as the Star of 'Rendezvous,' a Spy Melodrama Now at the Capitol Theatre"

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Realizing that my use of "AC" is idiosyncratic: Wikip tells story of easy listening format evolving into adult contemporary, whereas my version has AC as something different from easy listening that ends up replacing it, is something of a spillover from rock, folk, & soul as their audiences grow.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Who is Teddy? I have a To Do list on my computer that I haven't updated since June [the fate of To Do lists], and on it *twice* is the instruction "Read Teddy." But I have no memory of who this "Teddy" is. Might he be one of you?

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Leo is a citizen of Peru (and USA and Vatican City).

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the U.S. we got to buy U.K. punk singles at import prices! Good investment of resources, I still believe.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, I've had Spotify for years, tho free ver. so I have to put up with ads.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trouble w/ Malcriada's own YouTube upload of "Six Seven" is that on the end it adds a minute and a half of credits w/ boring music underneath. Real song is just 2:44 [and should be 1:58--ed.]. Anyway, I use this truncated pirate upload for mixes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tzr...

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Malcriada, Niños Goticos- SIX SEVEN (Video oficial + letra corregida)

YouTube video by 울고 있어요_

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

& Nash and James Taylor and Carole King and soft rock and lite rock and love songs, w/ Eagles and Fleetwood Mac and Elton John managing to whomp their way onto AC and Top 40 and FM. [Don't really know how good my memory is here, tho, or even how attentive I was to radio by then.]

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Beyond the obvious challenges of funk, disco, metal, glam, and punk, there's adult contemporary, which was the other late '60s radio format to challenge Top 40 (tho may not have gotten its name til later) & also siphoned off a lot of rock; so where once you had Mantovani, now you had Crosby, Stills

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Capital-P Prog may be a usage I got from you, btw. Zep may be most interesting for being the art band that crossed to the working class. Anyway, this whole landscape loses its shape/gets reconfigured '73-'76 as rock becomes just plain culture rather than counter-culture.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, a *lot* of the bands on U.S. FM were British (counting the Jimi Hendrix Experience as British). By '68, Cream and Hendrix define "rock" way more than Stones & Beatles do, & don't know which U.S. bands do much of the defining. Capital-P Prog is overwhelmingly British (Yes, ELP, King Crimson).

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whereas in my time and place (U.S. but several years before ABBA), "progressive rock" was the broad term the FM rock stations applied to themselves, incl Rolling Stones, Neil Young, James Gang, Big Brother, while one g "Prog" was included in it but specifically meant Genesis, ELP, Yes, and the like.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Brisket is very difficult to cook well; needs lots of cooking so dries out, all the yumminess being transferred to the surrounding broth. So if there's somewhere you can get brisket that's moist and tasty (like at the Bagel Deli on Hampden Ave in Denver), it is kind of a big deal.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of 'em is mine, of course. I'm changing my middle name to "Not On Spotify."

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's the singles longlist (under constant revision) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Ongoing Singles 2026 - YouTube

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

Key figure would be lead singer ('87 version of the group) Jeanette Jurado, who is Mexican American from east L.A. - "Mexican" of course is not definitive one way or another: I tend to think of Caribbean dark skin as mostly African, Mexican dark skin mostly indigenous, but I hardly know.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A philosophical cult that was self-consciously derived from and in opposition to the sophists, though actually, few members of the sackSOPHonist cult had read any of the sophists.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was actually easy for me in the '60s not to hear well-known songs. Had many months where I listened to something other than Top 40. "Ode To Billie Joe" had been around for six months before I heard it. (And it was very good.)

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Skim of album: mostly songishness more than songs; think that's a good feature, such tracks might end up landing from pretty good to very good. But 3 (consecutive) best tracks don't even know from songs, "Look At Me Now" song cut down, "Ba Ba Ba" just blips n bops n dreamspeak, then a wordless skit.

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Shake It Off," "Lose Yourself," "Lavender Haze," "Christmases When You Were Mine," "Forever & Always," "Tim McGraw," "You Belong With Me." Actually do hear a lot of delight, even if it's delight that delights in its moroseness. [Haven't listened to "Babylon" or "Cleveland" yet; will do so.]

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Frank Kogan @koganbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At this point I would describe myself as someone who hardly knows Taylor Swift's oeuvre, but will stand up for "Red" and "You're Not Sorry" as great pieces of music, if not songs to hum while walking down the street. After that, "Should've Said No," "Look What You Made Me Do," "Innocent"...

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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

YouTube video by DJ PP THAILAND REMIX

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

Have heard none of these, will bookmark (hadn't realized the No Na was out, though my To-Do List clearly marks its release date as Sept. 18).

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

Also figured out that, tho the "Pa palè ba mako pa palè kon sa" chant in "Anti Mako" differs in words and meaning from my *previous* Francky Vincent nomination's Atomic Dog interpolation, both owe a debt to "Soul Makossa." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oZa...

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Francky Vincent - Switch on the light ( CLIP ORIGINAL ) 1985

YouTube video by VIKING DE MUSIQUE

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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

YouTube video by chris92190

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

So, whatever the actual title is, pt.wikipedia is simply wrong about what the *records* say that the title is.

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

pt.wikipedia has a whole paragraph about the various titles, though fails to notice that "Ejigbô" is all over the actual records and doesn't explain its choice of "Elegibô (História de Ifá)" as the entry's title. I'd go with the album and "Ejigbô." I wonder how it was registered for copyright.

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

Ah, but pt.wikipedia has the parentheses around "(História de Ifá)" while the Brazilian album, Margareth Menezes (s/t, 1988) has it around "(Ejigbô)"! "I Can't Get No (Satisfaction)" "I'm Not Your (Stepping Stone, Or Whatever)" I'm not even going to get into "(Memphis Blues Again)"

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

Pronunciation IPA(key): /è.d͡ʒì.ɡ͡bò/ Proper noun Èjìgbò Ejigbo (a town in Nigeria) Derived terms Eléjìgbò [Don't know if the accent grave on the o is definitive, since I recall the circumflex on some of the records.]

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

Thank you for showing up to help!

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

Ah yes, I could've done a simple Internet search! Thank you everyone. Seems uncertain as to whether there's an accent grave or a circumflex on the o. But what Dan originally got (and Tom put on the spreadsheet) seems to match the Brazilian alb: "Uma Historia Da Ifa (Ejigbo)"

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

Google Translate refuses to have an opinion on the meaning of either "Ejigbô" or “Elegibô" Calling @magnets321.bsky.social, @felzm.bsky.social, and @lucazm.bsky.social - we need your help! See upthread: we're wondering the actual title of the Margareth Menezes song.

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

#CountryRockSunday UK Subs "Down On The Farm" (1982) The original version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfTe...

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Down on the Farm

YouTube video by UK Subs - Topic

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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

YouTube video by Guns N' Roses - Topic

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

Though I got the words wrong first time I heard it: "I'm starting with the man in the *middle*; I'm asking him to change his ways." Thought it interesting that he'd criticize the centrists, the uncommitted, the go-betweens.

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

This is self-interest, of course; but would like to see more from Africa and the Caribbean. Also, Miami bass, and acid house. (That pretty much takes care of my ballot.)

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