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Video game music, like film scores has different requirements from the mainline of popular music. I was thinking of picking the Gameboy RoboCop music but that feels like it’s outside the parameters of the challenge both in terms of release format (ROM cartridge) and structure (infinite loop)

33. Masayuki Tanaka - Katamari On The Rocks (2004)

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Iconic!

Nice! Dungeoneer and Blacksand are formative in my RPG playing, right up there with the D&D Red box

It really does doesn’t it!

A big black slug in Piccadilly Manchester

Was going to pick City Hobgoblins (Grotesque being my Fall entry point thanks to Macclesfield library’s CD collection) but unsure whether it was a B side or a double A side

32. The fall - I am Damo Suzuki (1985)
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31. Armand Schaubroeck Steals - Ratfucker (1978)

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30. electrelane - greater times (2007)

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i listened to the record a lot at the time. And then for the first time in more than a decade when thinking about my picks but beyond the singles it just didn’t work for me any more, I didn’t even really get any of the nostalgia buzz I had expected.

Same. See also Severance which everyone says is worth the slog but which I can’t believe is better that feeling of giving ourselves 6 hours of our life back.

29. fugazi - smallpox champion (1993)

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YouTube video by People Make Games We Entered the World of Microsoft Excel eSports & Got Our Asses Beat

While you wait this is a good short film on the subject from a few years back … youtu.be/N2QC6VQXo8U

28. guns 'n' roses - mr brownstone (1987)

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After six years of collecting, I've finally assembled a complete set of Isotype Institute-illustrated NEW DEMOCRACY books with the addition of "Full Enjoyment".

Here are some favorite details from each ...

Interesting that they’re circles whereas in think later artists would typically use lines

27. Minutemen - Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs (1983)

at the other end of the spectrum duration-wise though at ~1:30 positively expansive by the standards of the rest of the record

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quantity has its own quality

Of the three recordings the 2003 CD release is the definitive one imo, but suspect that’s because it’s the first one i heard. The remaster sounds too clean to me and the Jerusalem version feels like more of a practice run

26. Sleep - Dopesmoker (2003)

My contribution to yesterday’s song length chat.

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Is that Brussels? if so, one of my all time favourite museums♥️

80s, 90s period drama following a group of characters who move through early home computer/ bbs/ web companies. Office drama with deeply flawed central characters. I’d give it a try if you can find it on streaming

Have you seen ‘halt and catch fire’? it never really found its audience but as a big Mad Men fan I really enjoyed it

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5. Madonna - Where’s the Party (1986)

nice! i like the move to vanilla js, feels like a big step towards making Observable work within my broader workflow. looking forward to trying out the desktop app when i get back from vacation (ambivalent about the ai stuff but understand this is par for the course at the moment)

The pub ‘The Duke of York“ the sign for which is a portrait of disgraced royal Prince Andrew

Not the only business in that bit of town that could do with a change

A 70s(?) alfasud a sitting in the London sun, a shade lighter than British racing green

Yeah I’m firmly in the cars are terrible camp but also my phone is full of pictures like this

with you on the Alfa ♥️

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4. Iggy Pop - Some Weird Sin (1977)
there’s a couple of massive non-singles on this record but this is the one tack that pops most often into my head

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3. Prince - When You Were Mine 1980