@1717pete.bsky.social
He/him Living in Wollongong, NSW, Australia, in a relationship, proud to be woke, love a wide range of music (no, not all kinds!), working with a Landcare group to restore a small patch of bushland, growing local natives in our own backyard
Cover version of the day - not sure if some students didn't know the song or just didn't want to be a part of it :) www.themusicman.uk/school-sing-...
@garybutler.bsky.social Word of the day: SCAPABOBIDIDDYWIDDILYDOOBAPBAPAPHOBIA - the fear of freestyle jazz.
Word of the day: SCAPABOBIDIDDYWIDDILYDOOBAPBAPAPHOBIA - the fear of freestyle jazz.
Seen elsewhere, I'm still chuckling....
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@garybutler.bsky.social Three quarter cover version of the day (well, there's only one Beatle in it). Apparently filmed at an Oompa Loompa convention www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFw...
@garybutler.bsky.social
Surely quality is more important than quantity?
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I can operate the controls in my car without looking, I don't want to be scrolling through menus to change the vent settings. Tech for the sake of it, not because it is really necessary. Unnecessary complexity.
😠I can operate the stereo and the air con and the vents without looking. I really don't want to have to scroll through menus to do it
Let them eat cake
And there is probably not much overlap between the two groups 😀
Interesting, I always wondered. It's interesting how things are done a certain way for a particular reason, but when the reason goes away, things are still done the same way. As someone once said, tradition is the only hold the dead have over the living. www.bustle.com/articles/762...
These young people are great - and I like their taste in music 😀https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgdBBphqaoo
@garybutler.bsky.social Cover version du jour (I don't think I've posted this one before, but even if I did, it deserves to be listened to again www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUeY...
![Photo of Neil Sedaka from 1974 Fun fact about Neil Sedaka - I never knew this, I thought ABBA wrote all their own songs. "In late 1972, producer Stig Anderson approached Sedaka to write the lyrics for a single by a new Swedish pop quartet then known as Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid. Sedaka agreed, on the condition he liked the song. Anderson, who had co-written the Swedish original with lyricist Björn Ulvaeus and composer Benny Andersson, intended to enter "Ring Ring" in the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest and believed with strong English lyrics it had the potential to become an international hit. He sent a tape of the song together with a rough translation to Sedaka, who within days returned original lyrics, co-written with Phil Cody.[30] The song was entered into the Swedish Eurovision selections on February 10, 1973, but placed third. The band, renamed ABBA, made "Ring Ring" the title track of their first album, released on March 26, 1973. The single, credited to Andersson, Ulvaeus, Anderson, Sedaka and Cody, reached number 1 in Sweden and Belgium, and charted in the top 5 in at least four other countries.[31] Sedaka later said that ABBA's "songwriting and production are in a class by themselves.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zqog2zk7megrpxbac27po33h/bafkreigv3fw4wulsihhkmzyg2nees76srjfvw3cdmiccvjifhbjy3pldo4)
RIP Neil Sedaka, he was singing and writing songs longer than I've been alive. Fun fact in Alt text.
Ricky is a class act - I don't know why they keep asking him back :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDY_...
RIP Neil Sedaka. Not really a personal favourite but a huge figure on the music scene for many years. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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When Chris Bailey from the Saints was on the Australian music trivia quiz show Spicks and Specks, he described the Sex Pistols as "Britain's answer to the Monkees"
The sex pistols were a boy band to help sell clothes. Yeah, I said it.
I really hope he doesn't sign up to this nonsense, it's just another Trump scam.
Happy 59th Birthday, Kurt...
Bring on Nuremberg 2.0
