Jon Arnold

YouTube video by PongoVEVO Pongo - UWA (Official Music Video)

##TheTwen2ie5 Day 8

UWA by PONGO (2020)

One of the great joys of the People’s Pop Polls was someone remembering this from the 2020 poll and propelling it to a Golden Beat later. Light, but propulsive.

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I don’t blame you at all, I’d do exactly the same in the circumstances.

Sorry that this happened to you Marcello. How are you doing after it?

Planet of Fire “Fire! I want you to burn!” I wound up with a VHS copy of most of Planet of Fire in early 1990. It was an unlikely choice for only the sixth story I had even...

For paid subscribers, but with a taste and the option to opt in, it‘s Planet of Fire over @ psychic paper. buttondown.com/cooray_smith... (There are also links to unpaywalled pieces further up this feed.)

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

From The Sublime - Issue Four We're back. And it's about time. (And a bunch of other stuff...) | Check out 'From The Sublime - Issue Four' on Indiegogo.

We're just under halfway with 19 days left. It's going to be a long shot, but who knows, maybe we can come close.

Pre-order Issue Four now. The closer we get, the more chance we have of making it happen.

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Mindless Jerks artwork for Hitchhiker's Guide TV series drawn by KJD (c) Pearce Studios Ltd. 1980.

Paula NM Jennings (Worst Poet) artwork for Hitchhiker's Guide TV series drawn by KJD (c) Pearce Studios Ltd. 1980.

#OTD 45 years ago (7 Oct 1980) according to my diary, I drew these images for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC TV series. Douglas Adams as both the ad exec and as Paula, the worst poet in the universe. I was 19 years old and having fun.

Coming soon: THE GRAHAM WILLIAMS YEARS - The DNA of Doctor Who Our second title in a range of beautiful large-format books focusing on the creative team behind BBC Television's DOCTOR WHO!

Oooh this is being kickstarted this coming weekend! Whoop! www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...

YouTube video by Sounds of Crenshaw Terrace Martin - Pig Feet (feat. Denzel Curry, Kamasi Washington, G Perico & Daylyt)

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PIG FEET by TERRACE MARTIN & DENZEL CURRY ft KAMASI WASHINGTON. G PERICO & DAYLYT (2020)

None more 2020: a history of the fury that burst out in the lockdown era via rap and jazz. Funnily enough, not the only righteous record from 2020 on my list.

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Happy birthday Arron!

YouTube video by CorinneBaileyRaeVEVO Corinne Bailey Rae - New York Transit Queen (Official Music Video)

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NEW YORK TRANSIT QUEEN by CORRINE BAILEY RAE (2023)

One of the more startling changes of direction this decade, but watching her support Stevie Wonder on one of the hottest days of the summer, it made absolute sense as a development.

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Black Pop 1982 Round 1 Part 1 Welcome to the Black Pop History 1982-1985 poll, where we're polling the best Black music of the early 80s to determine the ULTIMATE TRACK of that era. As usual with the Black Pop History polls I've ...

OK let's do this! #BPHM8285 NEW POLL!

BLACK POP HISTORY 1982-1985

Hip-hop, pop, disco, post-disco, soul, electro, black rock, reggae, and a host of global musics, nominated and voted on by YOU

Vote in the matches, use your TWO bonus votes, deadline Friday!

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We’re rebranding with brilliant new artwork and a terrific logo for The Hamster Book Club - you’ll be seeing art for Benny, Ace, Compassion, Sam and more! In January, the Book Club will become its own podcast with fresh interviews, lots of exciting new episodes and all the old eps transferring!

It’s singularly unhelpful in getting anything done if you treat anyone who’s not 100% with you as non-player characters.

hey boss no I didn’t see your email while i was at home because my laptop doesn’t work out of office hours and won’t start to do so until you offer it a competitive salary

Episode 3:1 – “Twin Peaks” with Steve Palace Twin Peaks was a ground-breaking, surrealist murder mystery created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, which ran in its original television form from 1990 to 1992, before switching to Lynch’s pre…

The October Club Podcast is back! In this first episode, I'm discussing the iconic TV and Film series Twin Peaks with Steve Palace. Sit back, put your feet up and listen... but don't drink that coffee! There was a fish in the percolator. Sorry.

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YouTube video by Little Simz Little Simz - Introvert (Official Video)

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INTROVERT by LITTLE SIMZ (2021) (11 points)

Simz’ dramatic statement of intent, grappling with the personal and the issues of the pandemic affected world.

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YouTube video by WetLegVEVO Wet Leg - Wet Dream (Official Video)

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WET DREAM by WET LEG (2021)

An early Brat summer, with the energy and irresistible hooks giving it the edge over the purer filth of Chaise Longue.

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All Of Us Strangers, Sinners, Summer of Soul

With Sabrina she’d squeeze every ounce of filth out of that. Taylor… everything is overplayed and all the innuendos feel forced. It’s just not convincing.

It’s like the end of Actually Romantic, it just seems *weird* rather than the power move it’s clearly meant to be.

Doctor Who — The Three Doctors, by Terrance Dicks

OMG Omega!, and other learned thoughts on the novelisation Doctor Who - The Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks 0tralala.blogspot.com/2025/10/doct...

Cover of INTO THE GROOVE: THE 1980s: THE ULTIMATE DECADE IN MUSIC HISTORY by Justin Lewis (me) 'An epic compendium of stories and trivia from the 80s music scene'

OUT NOW, my month-by-month guide to 1980s pop, from ABC to XTC, and from Madonna to Neneh. #IntoTheGroove, published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social.

Facebook comment from Film is Fabulous to Justyn Adderley: "Thanks. As mentioned by Sue Malden at our RECOVERED event in May, we are aware of several missing episodes of Doctor Who (Sue stated one of two, but there are more than this) in private film collections in the U.K. We are liaising with the individuals about cataloguing and preserving their entire collection, including the missing Doctor Who episodes, and ensuring that copies are returned to the BBC. We expect to make a detailed announcement shortly."

From the Film Is Fabulous Facebook page:

Glad to introduce you to it! That’s the real joy of these challenges for me.

Thoroughly enjoyed this - an eloquent, impassioned counterargument. And yes, I did enjoy the reading out of the best bits at the end.

It’s not so much losing minds as pure undiluted ignorance. Living in Belfast in the Brexit years was a real eye-opener on that score.

YouTube video by A. G. Cook - Topic Britpop

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BRITPOP by A.G. COOK (2024)

A cursed term reclaimed and refurbished with added lightness for the hyperpop era.

We might be hearing from the vocalist later…

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Yeah, one to leave strategically late if possible I think. Going early was deliberate for me to maybe get people thinking about it.

YouTube video by Soccer96VEVO Soccer96 - I Was Gonna Fight Fascism (feat. Alabaster dePlume)

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I WAS GONNA FIGHT FASCISM by SOCCER96 feat ALABASTER DE PLUME (2020)

The despair of the terminally online skewered while the music and the world spirals into madness around them.

Dies it make a difference? Yeah, it does.

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This is apropos of a thread about what publications lose when they lose older culture writers and only have young ones. All I'll say about that is that learning about cultural history is a lifetime's work, and if you do this for a living, there's no shame in not knowing, only in not trying to learn.