@jasonpfinch.bsky.social
Turku-based academic (Professor of English, Åbo Akademi U), London-born -- books, cities, trams, metros, old VWs, jazz, blues, hip-hop, THFC, England cricket, STL Cards
St. Louis today. Hi from U. City!
12.10.2025 01:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great album.
12.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Massive record.
12.10.2025 01:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Choon.
10.10.2025 04:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Massive Prince-y Twin Cities stuff in #5debutalbums8084 -- if you've seen the film Purple Rain as many 💜 times as I have you'll know Morris Day as our boy's adversary.
youtu.be/wAEtfP7W6eI?...
My little gang used to worship them c. 1988-90. I saw them in 1991 I think on the Rollercoaster tour at the Brixton Academy with JAMC on the same bill. Incredible night.
10.10.2025 03:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Big artist when I was dope-smoking in Birmingham, UK, late 1980s.
10.10.2025 03:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don't think I've ever heard that debut EP so I'm very intrigued either way!
10.10.2025 02:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ah, I took that as an EP.
10.10.2025 02:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Great singer and a big part of my eighties.
10.10.2025 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Originally from Ferguson, MO, not far north of where I am now.
10.10.2025 02:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At my secondary school, aged 11-14, they were godlike in status.
10.10.2025 02:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fantastic track from the debut album by the group I judge as best rock band of all time (ahead of Can, Sab, VU). Always loved Kim's vocals.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5O...
#5debutalbums8084
#sonicyouth
Go Wild for me
08.10.2025 04:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Lots I've never heard here -- I was mostly a TotP-watching kid rather than an album-buying one until the summer of 1984 (when I was fourteen).
Brilliant Trees and A Walk Across the Rooftops are all-time beloved albums for me though. I'll be listening to more of these!
Yep.
06.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please post more!
06.10.2025 01:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes! Love it.
06.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi Rich -- completely missed that it was this week :( greetings from St. Louis and back again next time. Thanks as ever, mate.
05.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Most of them are too anaesthetised to do it.
02.10.2025 05:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Poor thing.
02.10.2025 04:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I will! Thanks, John.
02.10.2025 04:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Deeply true I think. They tend to steer clever and fortunate younger people towards exactly that ... but 35 years ago in the UK they did exactly the same. Investment banking and management consultancy then.
02.10.2025 03:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0About half way in fact :)
02.10.2025 03:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Des Moines is on my list and I think closer than the Twin Cities in MN.
02.10.2025 03:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Could be, John. Anyway, I'm looking forward to another dive in (and greet you from UCity, MO, now Stateside!).
02.10.2025 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm sure this is true. Listen to little Petey.
02.10.2025 01:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mikey boy.
02.10.2025 01:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A true classic but one that's always left me a tiny bit cold. Time to return to it!
02.10.2025 01:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0all fascists are losers in their own way, but pete hegseth and stephen miller exemplify the two dominant archetypes and failure modes: the douchey-jock family annihilator, and the creepy-dork school shooter
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