If it's not too late": Born to Run, Mamma Mia, Eighteen With A Bullet, Love Hurts (the Jim Capaldi version)
29.06.2025 18:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@nickparkhouse.bsky.social
Cinema lover, dogfather, PlanetParky proprietor, Managing Editor at Go.Compare, contributor on @whichdecadetops.bsky.social. Views always my own, usually pro-terrible pop
If it's not too late": Born to Run, Mamma Mia, Eighteen With A Bullet, Love Hurts (the Jim Capaldi version)
29.06.2025 18:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This is one of those songs - and I absolutely appreciate I am in a tiny minority on this - that I cannot abide. Have to instantly turn it off the second I hear the first couple of bars (see also Toploader, Simply Red's 'Stars')
24.06.2025 19:26 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0...oh, and I love Levon from MATW as well ๐ฅฐ
16.06.2025 07:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I have always loved The Camera Never Lies from 1988's Reg Strikes Back album ๐ฅฐ
16.06.2025 06:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0someone's finally brought him a higher love
#mbe #birthdayhonours
Betty, Is It Over Now? from the 1989 vault and the long version of All Too Well ๐
12.06.2025 22:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If the reports in India of a sole survivor are true, this would be the deadliest accident with a single survivor in aviation history (previously was 1/157 in a Northwest flight in 1987) ๐ฅ
12.06.2025 15:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There is hardly a day goes by - even four years on - that I don't think about the travesty of Ove Os Pa Hinanden not making the final. The best Eurovision song in *years* ๐ญ
04.06.2025 22:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel Disco Connection - Isaac Hayes Movement Greatest Love Of All - Whitney Houston Klubbhopping - Klubbheads You're All I Have - Snow Patrol Girls Like - Tinie Tempah ft Zara Larsson
Which Decade Results, aka Through Mrs Tempah's Keyhole.
My househunting hunch has been checked and verified, and yes, it was HER.
Also contains class conflict, generational shaming, and a crypto metaphor for the ages. (23 minutes)
shows.acast.com/which-decade...
Don't think enough has been made of the 'two Ranis' gag in Saturday's #DoctorWho
02.06.2025 13:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Interesting that lots of reviews have been critical of Final Reckoning's first "exposition hour". I had no issue with that - it reminded me of a good Bond film - but I found the underwater sequence slow and inert. After that it's obv just everything you want from blockbuster cinema #finalreckoning
31.05.2025 21:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0...although without all this rigmarole we'd never have had Is It Over Now? so there is that
30.05.2025 16:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Colossal Waste of Effort (Taylor's Version)
๐คฃ
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
I absolutely love Elton but find a lot of his singles to be a solid 7 or 8/10 meaning there's no real standout one multiple people might choose. Means a fantastic back catalogue but will always be beaten by a lesser act with one 10/10 banger ๐ฅ
29.05.2025 18:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I don't consider it 'lost' - is more 'elevating to the third quartile'. Why would you want what you love to be the same as everyone else? ๐คฃ
26.05.2025 21:14 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#1C000LEST
#MusicChallenge
Day 50: tramps like us
Left this to last as I am off to see the Boss again tonight. Have been to 100s of gigs, and honestly don't believe there's a better song to hear live than this ๐
Bruce Springsteen
"Born to Run"
1975
โญ๏ธ 11 points โญ๏ธ
youtu.be/IxuThNgl3YA?...
#1C000LEST
#MusicChallenge
Day 49: posting my top song today (for reasons). Thought it was just me who loved this, so THRILLED to see it on the list. A soaring anthem for the aftermath of a terrible moment in LGBTQIA America ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
MUNA
"I Know A Place"
2017
โญ๏ธ 12* points โญ๏ธ
youtu.be/-t5gGm3NWU4?...
Hi Aaron. Yes, I have an 11 and the 12* to come ๐
18.05.2025 12:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#1C000LEST
#MusicChallenge
Day 48: an empty land
Hit 2 billion streams this week, mainly thanks to Gen Z and TikTok. Not my favourite Keane record, but sounds as good today as it did 20 years ago ๐ณ
Keane
"Somewhere Only We Know"
2004
โญ๏ธ 12 points โญ๏ธ
youtu.be/Oextk-If8HQ?...
Is 'popwashing' a thing ๐คฌ
17.05.2025 23:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0#1C000LEST
#MusicChallenge
Day 47: make love not war
This has been one of my all-time favourite songs for 35 years and is a genre I adore: melancholy lyrics over an upbeat pop song
Erasure
"A Little Respect"
1988
โญ๏ธ 12 points โญ๏ธ
youtu.be/x34icYC8zA0?...
#1C000LEST
#MusicChallenge
Day 46: in that case, i'll have rum and coca-cola
Pulp
"Common People"
1995
10 points
youtu.be/yuTMWgOduFM?...
Anyone would think I had deliberately planned that ๐ ๐ ๐
15.05.2025 21:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0#1C000LEST
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Day 45: for about 10 years this was my absolute favourite song of all time. Soaring, magnificent, defiant
McAlmont & Butler
"Yes"
1995
โญ๏ธ 11 points โญ๏ธ
youtu.be/POIIGYt5RlE?...
...and artists who cover songs you love generally ruin them, right? Not so with this excellent version by *checks notes* Taio Cruz ๐ฎ
youtu.be/d7XcyOZ4Kb8?...
#ArtistFave15
#MusicChallenge
My very favourite Keane (and my all-time #1) song is...
1. Everybody's Changing, 2004
Arrived at one of those pivotal life moments and so has enormous personal resonance. Also my favourite niche genre: melancholy lyrics/upbeat melody ๐ฅฐ
youtu.be/RSNmgE6L8AU?...
#1C000LEST
#MusicChallenge
Day 44: Has a song ever done so much in 117 words? And the line Bob Stanley says is the greatest in the entire pop pantheon:
And I need you more than want you/And I want you for all time
Glenn Campbell
"Wichita Lineman"
1968
โญ๏ธ 11 points โญ๏ธ
youtu.be/Q8P_xTBpAcY?...
#ArtistFave15
#MusicChallenge
My second-favourite Keane track is...
2. The Lovers Are Losing, 2008
Have loved this since the very first time I heard it. Ought to have been a huge hit ๐ฅฐ
youtu.be/CXH5yL8bDbU?...
@keaneofficial.bsky.social
#1C000LEST
#MusicChallenge
Day 43: bonus time!
Am a real Boots obsessive ๐ have met Vic a few times, been to some tiny gigs, and even met her mum once ๐ Love love love this absolute banger ๐ฅฐ
Little Boots
"Remedy"
2009
11 points
youtu.be/iP1o6hUqiTc?...
#ArtistFave15
#MusicChallenge
My favourite 15 Keane songs @keaneofficial.bsky.social
3. You Are Young, 2012
As with many of the band's songs, the lyrics of this just hit me at the exact right time of life - a beautiful love song to a growing child ๐ฅน
youtu.be/rLFBBZD6ogU?...