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Hi Richard,

#5debutalbums8084

1. REM - Murmur.
2. Tears for Fears - The Hurting
3. Talk Talk - The Party’s Over
4. Yazoo- Upstairs at Eric’s
5. Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret

Powerful, grubby men using their connections to cover their abuse of a trafficked teenage girl.

After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...

Admit it, it would be very funny if the Canadian team won the World Series this year

YouTube video by Evan Edinger How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

So true, so glad I live in the UK

Moving Pictures - Rush

Rush

U2

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Hi folks and welcome to the first round of our new competition to find the best ever debut album. Tonight, we start with #5debutalbums0004 your challenge is to select your favourite five debut albums released between 2000 to 2004. Please reply with artist and album names and the hashtag. Mine are..

#5debutalbums0004

Hi Richard,

1. The Strokes - Is this it?
2. The Postal Service - Give Up
3. Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. The Killers - Hot Fuss
5. Coldplay - Parachutes

Sounds of the 70s

What Is the Magic Number to Retire Comfortably? The dream of retiring comfortably has just become a bit less expensive for most Americans, a recent study shows. Do you have enough socked away?

The Fidelity survey also sheds light on the fact that health care costs are more expensive for 57% of boomers than they anticipated and 43% say Medicare covers less than they thought. With the growing uncertainty about the future of Medicare, those concerns are likely to become even greater.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Listened to the Beatles this morning. Not sure why I don’t listen to them more often as I forget how great they are.

How Jeff Tweedy Made a New Magnum Opus

He decided it was a good occasion to listen all the way through “Sandinista!,” the 1980 triple album by the Clash: a sprawl of brash, style-hopping songs and studio experiments. Soon, the idea of making his own triple album took hold. He jokingly dubbed the new album “Sad-inista.”

Why does it take a BRITISH newspaper to break a story like this? Where the hell is the American media? 🤨

Supertramp

"If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy." - Marc Bolan

The legendary guitarist, singer-songwriter, poet, glam-rock pioneer, frontman & founder of T. Rex, passed on this day, 1977 at 29.

I love London so much. So much.

Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world?

Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

What’s the greatest debut album of all time? Who hit the ground running straight away and delivered an album truly exceptional at the first time of asking? Well let’s find out, it’s time to play #5debutalbums We’ll be splitting the rounds into 5 years periods Pre ‘65, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79 etc….

California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.

Have you heard the good news?

California finished a project that will create tons of clean renewable energy & help prevent evaporation and algae formations while keeping solar panels cooler & more efficient.

This article made my day!

www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.

Some of my new favorite music so far in 2025

Good Old Days 😁

#archaeohistories

Last 4 albums that I’ve listened to: