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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 20h

New 'What if?' video up now! This week, in an alternative 1994, Lisa Loeb ditches coffeehouse folk to take the Trip-Hop scene by storm! #lisaloeb #triphop youtu.be/5WdiiVxSfOk?...

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Lisa Loeb - Stay (Trip Hop Version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Companion video, discussing how, aside from his one GIANT hit, Belgian-born Aussie, Wally 'Gotye' De Backer has crafted a fascinating and multifaceted musical career for himself, and celebrating the genius of another Belgian-born great - jazz guitar legend, Django Reinhard youtu.be/CmYIn-LMDs0?...

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Gotye and Django: Creating an unlikely pairing of Belgian-born sounds!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New 'What if?' video up now! This week, in an alternative 1937, Wally 'Gotye' De Backer forms a Gypsy Swing duo with a young New Zealand emigré named Kimbra and takes the Paris jazz scene by storm! #gotye #gypsyswing 🎸 youtu.be/mu_whMs2BCk?...

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Gotye featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know (Gypsy Swing Version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks mate! Really appreciate your kind words!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ha ha, not quite! Honestly, I just dive in without planning things out too much and see what seems to work. Sometimes it’s a total breeze, sometimes it’s a bit challenging, and occasionally it doesn’t work at all. Always good fun though!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New 'What if?' video up now! This week, in an alternative 1972, Don Henley tries to convince his band to record a new country-rock tune he's written, called 'The Boys of Summer'... #donhenley #coubtryrock 🎸 youtu.be/vU0zUl31d9E?...

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Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer (Early Eagles style version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New 'What if?' video up now. This week, in an alternative 1968, a chance booking on a TV variety show leads to the Jimi Hendrix Experience becoming Lulu's backing group! #lulu #60smusic 🎸 youtu.be/WmjqPoj4mqY?...

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Lulu - Love Loves To Love Love (Jimi Hendrix Experience style Version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Companion video, discussing how Blink's breakthrough arguably marked the point at which Pop-Punk established itself as a self-contained genre, and celebrating the Descendents, whose pioneering blend of hardcore fury and sunny surf-pop foreshadowed modern pop-punk. youtu.be/aRabbO5_LoQ?...

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Shaping and reshaping West Coast Pop-Punk, with the Descendents & Blink-182!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New 'What if?' video up now. This week, in an alternative 1982, Blink-182 shake up the LA punk scene with their heavily Descendents-influenced surf-pop-punk sound! #punk #blink182 🎸 youtu.be/WIKqLAY-C8U?...

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Blink-182 - What's My Age Again? (Descendents-style '80s LA Punk version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Companion video, discussing how a trio of Anglo-Aussie brothers rose through the '60s beat boom to become the unlikely faces of disco, and appreciating Rush's unique fusion of hard rock and prog complexity - an alternative musical path for high-voiced mid-'70s trios! youtu.be/wJ_0ikn7O84?...

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Imagining The Bee Gees ditching Disco and taking the Rush route!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New 'What if?' video up now. This week, in an alternative 1975, the Bee Gees resist the sparkly allure of Disco, and instead, embrace Rush-inspired progressive hard-rock! #beegees #hardrock 🎸 youtu.be/r8VNjdlgrAU?...

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Bee Gees - Night Fever (Rush-style Progressive Hard Rock version)

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Companion video, discussing the art of making music in a garage, from the raw beat groups of the '60s to the '90s garage-rock revival that brought The White Stripes to prominence, just as the NY garage-house sound was migrating across the Atlantic to mutate into UK garage! youtu.be/wvGA7kFCmMU?...

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Garage Music: From teen punks to 2-step!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New 'What if?' video up now! This week, in an alternative 2001, Jack and Meg White decide to abandon 2-piece garage-blues in favour of 2-Step beats! #whitestripes #ukgarage 🎸 youtu.be/2xX8P4WztJ8?...

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The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (UK Garage version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Companion video, discussing how the inspired addition of Ronnie James Dio reinvigorated Sabbath for a new era, and how a group of UK '60s rockers rejected US influences and dug into their own county's folk tradition to find inspiration for a new sound! youtu.be/bDWcz67k-4E?...

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From riffs to reels: Imagining a Folk-Rock Black Sabbath!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New 'What if?'video up now. This week, in an alternative universe, after parting with Ozzy, Black Sabbath reemerge with Ronnie James Dio on vocals, and a surprising new folk-rock direction! #blacksabbath #folkrock 🎸 youtu.be/Suo1uS4JUq4?...

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Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules (Folk-Rock Version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If anyone’s looking for a way to kill a few hours over the weekend, I highly recommend a Coyote Vs Acme/Tony double bill (or ‘CoyoTony’, if you like).

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thanks for sharing this with me - definitely some food for thought there!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Companion video, discussing the highs and lows of the Euro-dance legends' career, and celebrating the B-52s, whose iconically kitschy image sometimes overshadows a unique and highly influential sound! youtu.be/8d_R2d5n78c

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B-52 Unlimited? Giving a '90s Dance banger a high-camp New Wave makeover!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New 'What if?' video up now! This week, in an alternative 1981, Ray Slijngaard and Anita Doth storm the Netherlands' New Wave scene with their their heavily B-52s-indebted spiky, surfy, campy post-punk sound! #2unlimited #newwave #musicsky 🎸 youtu.be/NzC0blDZ2gU?...

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2 Unlimited - No Limit (B-52s style New Wave version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Companion video discussing how Benito Ocasio's inclusive take on Reggaeton massively expanded the influence of LATAM music on the global scene, and how Santana's pioneering blend of blues-rock and Latin-jazz made them their generation's Latin American cultural ambassadors! youtu.be/We_0YqHFNuM?...

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Bad Bunny, Santana, and the mainstreaming of Latin-American music!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New 'What if?' video up now! This week, in an alternative 2026, Santana step in for a poorly Ricky Martin, and save Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show with the power of Latin Rock! #badbunny #musicsky 🎸 youtu.be/sYnOOi-W3Io?...

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Bad Bunny - NUEVAYoL (Santana-style Latin Rock version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Companion video, discussing the unique combination of factors that make XG the ultimate 21st century retro-futurist pop machine, and how Electroclash made icy old-school electronica the hot, new sound of the early 2000s! youtu.be/_2SORABp2Tg?...

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XG, Electroclash, and the joy of Retro-Futurism!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New 'What if?' video up now! This week, in an alternative 2023, X-Pop sensations, XG find themselves in urgent need of a new producer, and turn to Electroclash legend, Miss Kittin! #xg #musicsky 🎸 youtu.be/XdHMuIi8Qq4?...

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XG - X-Gene (Electroclash Version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Companion video, discussing Starship's '80s reinvention as bastions of MTV-friendly soft rock, and looking back to their roots in era-defining psychedelic pioneers, The Jefferson Airplane! youtu.be/kPo1HuEuKgk?...

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From flight to orbit: The 60-year saga of The Jefferson Airplane & Starship!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New 'What if?' video up now! This week, in an alternative 1985, Starship reject corporate rock, and transform their slick '80s anthem into a trippy throwback to their Jefferson Airplane roots! #musicsky 🎸 youtu.be/5EsvYq0Af50?...

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Starship - We Built This City (Acid Rock/Jefferson Airplane-style Version) - Not AI!

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Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Me, going on about the author and his series of crime books that I’ve dedicated so much of the last few years. A lovely opportunity to revel in it!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Companion video, discussing how these mainstays of the electronic music scene somehow almost completely slipped under my radar, and celebrating how the bleak, brutal brilliance of D-Beat emerged from early '80s Stoke to revolutionise the international punk and metal scenes! youtu.be/8gAz5vYF-Y4?...

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Taking Disclosure from dance beats to D-Beats!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ooh, you’re in for a treat! It’s not all gold - some of his humour is pretty gross and misogynistic, but a lot of the satirical stuff still hits, and loads of the music is phenomenal! I strongly recommend checking out One Size Fits All and Roxy & Elsewhere, but there’s SO much good stuff!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

New 'What if?' video up now. This week, in an alternative 2013, critically acclaimed dance duo, Disclosure, discover the power of the D-Beat! #punk #musicsky 🎸 youtu.be/mI7PU-r1EKw?...

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Disclosure - White Noise (D-Beat Punk Version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

RIP to a rock n’ roll legend - the great Freddy Cannon! youtu.be/4pgbJaKemic?...

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Freddy Cannon Tallahassee Lassie

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Companion video, discussing how Evanescence overcame unlikely origins and some serious teething troubles to forge an influential metal legacy, and celebrating the campy, catchy chaos of Euro-Dance! youtu.be/64v8NXIybp4?...

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Giving Evanescence a Euro-Dance glow-up!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New 'What if?' video up now. This week, in an alternative 2002, Evanescence adopt a bold new direction after discovering the German techno scene! (P.S: I didn't realise until I'd made this that were already several dance versions of this song. Oops.) #musicsky youtu.be/1_skFyUcO4g?...

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Evanescence - Bring Me To Life (Euro-Dance Version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Ha, the footnotes, dear God, the footnotes!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Companion video , discussing how Robyn's singular artistic vision has endured through ever-shifting trends, influencing everyone else in the process, and acknowledging the genius of ABBA, whose perfectly-crafted sound put Sweden on the pop map in no uncertain terms! youtu.be/Uc1volOt4z4?...

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Robyn and ABBA - the pillars of Swedish pop!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Definitely not, which is presumably why only the first scene stuck in his memory, where it’s melded with all the Fox News that he watches through a dementia haze, so he now thinks it’s real.

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

New 'What if...' video up now. This week, in an alternative 1977, Benny and Björn lend their production skills to an up-and-coming young singer called Robin Miriam Carlsson, changing the pop landscape forever! #robyn #abba #musicsky 🎸 youtu.be/N21oZ2jXdYQ?...

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Robyn - Dancing On My Own (ABBA-style/70s pop version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Companion video, discussing how the Hermits' cheeky take on the Brit-beat sound made them an unlikely Transatlantic smash, while simultaneously, the raw aggression of The Kinks' early sound laid the groundwork for metal, punk and more! youtu.be/5TPcUypKyTc?...

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Herman's Hermits & The Kinks - Two sides of the '60s British Beat Boom!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

New 'What if?' video up now! This week, in an alternative 1966, Herman's Hermits attempt to cast off their chirpy, lightweight image with a raw new sound, cribbed from The Kinks' early singles! #musicsky #60smusic 🎸 youtu.be/1x-k4m4q2T8?...

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Herman's Hermits - No Milk Today (Early Kinks-Style Version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Companion video, discussing the spectacular rise and sharp fall of the Goss twins' 80s pop phenomenon, and appreciating the singular path that Ron and Russ Mael have cut through the music scene for the last 50+ years! youtu.be/h-IJ5UyApKs?...

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Bros & Sparks - two very different pairs of brothers in pop!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New 'What if?' video out now! This week, in an alternative 1974, the Goss brothers take inspiration from the Mael brothers, and start their own quirky, Sparks-style art-glam band! #bros #sparks #musicsky youtu.be/LMYdcWjEIKU?...

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Bros - When Will I Be Famous? (Sparks-style/ Art Glam Version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Companion video, discussing how the duo went from being child actors to light entertainment mainstays via an unlikely diversion into pop-rap, and looking at the musical evolution of Dr Dre, from '80s Electro DJ to architect of G-Funk! youtu.be/0QxwG6HeKyM?...

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Giving the UK's favourite Geordie jokers some G-Funk swag!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New 'What if?' video up now (a bit earlier than usual, due to a scheduling cock-up on my part)! This week, in an alternative 1993, Dr Dre seeks for new protégés, and finds them, in the unlikely guise of Ant & Dec! #musicsky #hiphop youtu.be/OxdKHNtJRR8?...

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PJ & Duncan AKA (Ant & Dec) - Let's Get Ready To Rhumble (Dr. Dre-style version) - Not AI!

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Morgan Brown @morganlbrown.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Companion video to my Vince Clarke-style electro-pop reinterpretation of 'To Have and To Have Not' by Billy Bragg is up now, celebrating two figures who emerged from the UK's post-punk scene and quietly made a huge impact on the pop landscape! youtu.be/-Y69FtiKQU8?...

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Billy Bragg & Vince Clark - unassuming giants of the UK Post-Punk musical landscape!

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