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YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic California Girls (Stereo)

People are going to post their favorite Brian Wilson moments all day, so here's my pick: The intro to "California Girls." Just a compositional masterpiece; in my brain it has beach sounds (buoys, seagulls) as part of the track and I'm always surprised it doesn't when I actually listen to it

i wouldn't take the advice of the person who has so run the green party's comms strategy into the ground, at any rate.

sticking your nose up at the annoyed lefties is a strategy that works if you're the established party of the centre-left, but i'm not sure it works if you're a party nominally left-of-labour who only recently cracked double digits in a poll for the first time.

any drippy eulogy you write that doesn't emphasise his complicity in some of the worst atrocities in decades is worthless and useless to everyone and you should cram the sentimentality over the old racist up your own arse.

re: joe biden.

a quote long-misattributed to the late, great bette davis goes a little something like "my mother told me never to say ill of the dead. only say good."

joe biden will soon be dead. good.

starmer has stated that he would like to debate farage at the next election.

the reason he's saying this now is fairly obvious. he wants to ensure a lab-reform tussle so a bunch of libs and greens feel like they have to support him. the issue is you'd still be voting for a racist. so.

I honestly think taking two hours out of my day to listen to this record has bummed me out.

The results are in: A disappointing 18 uses of the word "whiskey," although he does also reference different kinds of whiskey, often.

He may be getting tired of whiskey: The LP's biggest whiskey song, "Whiskey in Reverse," says he wishes he could go tell his younger self to drink anything else

i have to believe israel will not survive the passage of time. that it will crumble beneath its own depravity.

There are two contemporary Christian artists on the charts right now, and one of them has the worst fucking song I've ever seen chart in history -- extremely bad signs

You spent the whole time thatpeople like us were rightly criticising starmer for being awful as just being bitter Corbynites mad that our guy wasn't in charge anymore.

Now Morgan Mcsweeney has unlimited power to destroy the country that you gleefully gifted him because you ignored that criticism.

The one where the winner doesn't strip my disabled relatives of their PIP.

We have to break the narrative that forcing trans people into third separate but equal spaces somehow isn’t discrimination. It very much is discrimination

maren morris has convinced me. i need the singer-songwriter gals to stop working with antonoff. let antonoff retire to his lovely home with the lovely margaret qualley. let her win the bread and the oscars.

society no longer needs you dude x

Personally? I voted for Plaid, and I got the outcome I wanted there.

But ultimately, nobody asked you to dismiss the concerns folks (rightly) had. Would be one thing to hold your nose. Another to be so loudly incorrect about things that now materially affect many, including those you lectured.

It is very interesting.

It's probably because I wasn't the one lecturing the prescient folks warning of this eventuality about pragmatism.

The amount of good done is about equal. I wasn't the one trying to condescend folks into voting for Farage-lite, though, so maybe my "bad" column is clearer.

"Imperfection" certainly is one way to describe it.

That is fine. You can content yourself with having papered over all of the warnings, and I will content myself with pointing that out.

In the end, the good we actually achieved with those actions is about equal.

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YouTube video by Ministry of Sound Basshunter - Now You're Gone | Ministry of Sound

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I’m so bored of half of you on here. If you supported Labour during the election, people are going to be mad at you for the things they’re doing. Why is it that you’re all happy to blame Tory voters for bad Tory shit but when Labour go insane you’re all like “well I fail to see how I’m responsible”

Unnecessary. Some humility would be lovely from you, though.

lots of those vulnerable people said this years ago. cranks and lunatics at the time, of course.

now that it is too late, you hear them.

would you like my applause?

every day I mourn what could've been with #survivoruk. The first time the UK had a good season of that show and it gets watched by nobody and is immediately canned. #survivor #survivor48

those of you asking "who?", get on the hate train now, this is the Imagine Dragons of 2025

Alex Warren's "Ordinary" at #1

hell

Coco Jones' "Why Not More?" is fabulous. Demonstrates so much promise (and her voice is *gorgeous*). Surely has to establish a foothold for her going forward. If she tightens up the writing she might really be the gold-standard this decade. 7.5/10.

being followed by @willkirby.bsky.social is my reminder that bb fanfic season - i mean, #bb27 - is nearly upon us once again

"A Complicated Woman" by Self Esteem is one of the most horrendous albums to drop this year. Veers hard btwn self-absorbed to shallowly maudlin to obnoxious. Production is bland and sometimes even unfinished-sounding. "69" one of the worst songs this decade.

British #music press love it though.

these two are basically mario and wario #cbbuk #bigbrother26

also people responding like this is the most evil post ever made on here too... maybe the bar is genuinely just much lower on here.