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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'll be delighted to be involved again this year and you'll be truly missed in the future. I always really look forward to #vinylsanta and the work you've done on this is very much appreciated ❤️

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm discussing music elsewhere on Bluesky, but I also want you to know that today I replaced the tap on our kitchen sink which involved taking all sorts apart under the sink and putting it all back together again. It's not leaking or anything. I feel like an actual grown up now.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I considered getting a portable CD player and a Bluetooth thing but figured that it would be more trouble than I could deal with at 6.30 on a cold morning so I didn't bother.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It does that. You don't really like it until BAM it's one of your all time favorites.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I miss having a CD player in the car. It's not exactly a lot of hassle to get a CD onto the USB stick or to stream it, but it's not quite the same as grabbing a CD on the way out of the house.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For me, the car is the place that I do this most. I make a point of listening to at least one album at least twice every week.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is exactly it. It's to do with the value we place on it. That was worth a good few pints of Black Sheep. There was no way I wasn't getting my 7 pints out of this CD. Now that most music is essentially free (or costs relatively less) we're not as invested.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In case you were wondering... £12.99 was a lot of money in 99. I bought it on the strength of the single version of Waiting for a Superman (which is on the CD as a bonus track). I wasn't going to be getting another CD any time soon, so I was determined to like it. It worked.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I totally agree. Music certainly doesn't get the attention that it did. Spending time to really get to know an album can be rare these days. One of my favorite albums I bought on CD when I was skint and didn't like at first. I listened to it repeatedly until it made sense. Not sure I'd do that now.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We lived a short walk from Lark Lane from 2001 until 2014 and used to go in a lot. It's had a lick of paint in recent years but looks just the same apart from that. I'm going to make a point of popping in next time I can.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I haven't been to Keith's in years. I bet they do. That place never changes.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I bought this when I was 12. I didn't really know what to make of it and so I didn't really spend much time with it. It survived a few culls of the collection and I'm pretty glad about that. What a record.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A couple of examples here

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seriously though, I agree. I really like a live album. Even those dodgy bootleg tapes with the luminous photocopied card sleeves from the 90s.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I didn't love like albums.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I haven't listened to this in such a long time but I read the feature in Mojo last night and decided to return to it. Such a good album.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nothing happens at all

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Don't believe the hype ❤️

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lots of Del Amitri #weekendsingles here. I'm going to see them again next month so I thought I'd dig these out.

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Audio Obscura @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

#BandcampFriday Released back in June, Dream States is the sound of a piano dreaming, of synths in REM sleep! An ambient and electronic soundscape across 88 keys! I think its rather lovely. I still have CDs available. Support grass roots artists! audioobscura.bandcamp.com/album/dream-...

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Dream States, by Audio Obscura

12 track album

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah. I saw them love last year. Would recommend

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm sorry, track 3 is called what again?

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That's such a good album

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Other tapes are fine. The B side on this one actually still works!

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah. That's properly knackered. Past the point of no return knackered. How has that happened?! It was fine last time I played it.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As is turns out, I'm not. It's knackered. How did that happen? I've tried the old wind and rewind trick. Still not working. All wobbly and no treble. Glad I made an MP3 of the B side when I got it as that's not available anywhere else.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the Kit providing the entertainment on #cassunday Really looking forward to their new stuff in the new year

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'd totally forgotten just how gorgeous this @thisisthekit.bsky.social album is.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sefton Park Palm House, Liverpool, on the way to the pub and on the way home from the pub.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It was doing some lovely stuff here in Liverpool earlier

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An excellent book. I'm not far off finishing it myself

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This would have been quite the night.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Baffling artwork, but perfect cooking Sunday dinner music

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah. I had the bag. No idea where that went but the protection CD in the picture came in the bag, I think. The big cardboard sleeve is empty. I lost that CD after I took it to Galaxy 105 to play it on a Saturday afternoon show I was covering. I had both, lost one.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I know of that but I've never actually listened to it. It's on the list!

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For me, that was a real grower. Not an album that's immediately striking but that lives in your head and rewards repeated listens. In fact, that's on the list to return to now.

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If I'm posting Massive Attack #weekendsingles then maybe I should post this as well

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Matt @omatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I thought I should unbox that Bug Powder Dust I posted in my #weekendsingles. That Dust Brothers remix is early Chemical Brothers, and very good it is too.