🔴 Contra2025 - NEW YORK

Bands/Artists from New York & songs about or mentioning New York

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#mixcloud #200th #playlist #newyork

#nowplaying as it’s my ‘Double Nickels’ birthday. 🎶👌

YouTube video by Contraflow The Fall - Sons Of Temperance

“Punk art person was you my son
You're an androgynous piece of slop
Roll up! Sons of temperance
Voila! Sons of temperance”

The Fall - Sons Of Temperance #FallFriday

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YouTube video by The Fall - Topic Pumpkin Soup and Mashed Potatoes

“Parmesan carrots with mushrooms
Frankly that I've never been keen
It's pumpkin soup and mashed potatoes
That's for my Hallowe'en tea”

The Fall - Pumpkin Soup and Mashed Potatoes
#FallFriday #Halloween

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Paging @davidkbruce.bsky.social on the off-chance he’s not already all over this. Assume you’re on the guest list for the Newcastle gig David?

YouTube video by The Fall - Topic Masquerade

“And again
The fifty percent interest
Ran out today
In Bolton”

The Fall - Masquerade
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by The Fall - Topic Room to Live

“I've been down that street before
It just makes meat out of the soul
There's a D.H.S.S.S. Volvo estate
Right outside my door
With a Moody Blues cassette on the dashboard”

The Fall - Room To Live
#FallFriday
#RIPJohnLodge

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YouTube video by qashak The Fall - Gentlemen's Agreement

“Your brain is software
Your brain is Game Boy
It's filled with excretement
And your short-term memory
Will fleetingly remember
Our gentlemen's agreement”

The Fall - Gentlemen’s Agreement
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by Webbie The Fall - Powder Keg (John Peel 14th October 2004)

“Take me back to town, Mark
Don't you know, the town is a powder keg”

With Peel intro; the last time John played The Fall on his show.

The Fall - Powder Keg
#FallFriday

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See you there @davidkbruce.bsky.social! 👍

The local chippy knew exactly what to do when I said I wanted the fish like the USA #RyderCup team and the chips like the USA fans.

🐟 battered!
🍟 extra salty!

Delicious 👌

YouTube video by The Fall - Topic Terry Waite Sez (Remastered)

“Terry Waite says
What are those trees
Painted white jobs
Silvered something”

The Fall - Terry Waite Sez
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by magus26 Ride - Drive Blind (Live 1989 Snub TV)

Agreed, I’ve still got several on VHS tapes and still have a VHS player! So many instant hooks, recall being blown away on first hearing this Ride track. The no-nonsense female presenter was perfect as well.

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YouTube video by The Fall - Topic The $500 Bottle of Wine

“They're all fat gits and they get on our tits
That's all you get most of the time
For all the life in crime
The $500 bottle of wine”

The Fall - The $500 Bottle of Wine
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by rp61productions The Fall - Two Librans (Promo)

“Two Librans high and low in mind
To Oprah Winfrey
She studied bees”

The Fall - Two Librans (Promo)
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by chriskyle20 The Fall - My New House

“Sometimes I think I'll ring Swine-Tax
And go back to my flat”

The Fall - My New House
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by The Fall - Topic The Wright Stuff (Live)

“It was symbolic to a point
But nowadays, eccentric lad
Who keeps flawless, plastic women's bosoms”

The Fall - The Wright Stuff (Live)
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by The Fall - Topic Bourgeois Town

“Get on a train
To get out of town
Sat opposite a politician with his head held down
Walk back streets
To fresh air
I meet a journalist with no money for beer
I'm in a bourgeois town”

The Fall - Bourgeois Town
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by m0ggieboy Mark E Smith reads the football results

“Tottenham Hotspur postponed West Ham United 1H”

As the Premier League is upon us for the 25/25 season this warrants another viewing.

MES reads the final scores with Ray Stubbs overseeing the proceedings.
📺 👌
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by The Fall - Topic Deer Park (Live, John Peel Session, 15/9/81)

“Say have you ever have a chance to meet
Fat Captain Beefheart imitators with zits?
Who is the King Shag Corpse?
Have you been to the English Deer Park?”

The Fall - Deer Park (Peel Session)
#FallFriday

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a man wearing headphones is sweating while sitting in an airplane . ALT: a man wearing headphones is sweating while sitting in an airplane .

Never in doubt! 😅

YouTube video by Geoff Caves Mild Man Jan & Mark E. Smith - Fistful Of Credits

“Taking a left
Going back down south
To the Halifax”

Mild Man Jan & MES - Fistful of Credits
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by kogler The Fall - "Bo Demmick"

“For the CD that you hold in your hand is a construction of a left-sided mind”

The Fall - Bo Demmick (great live version , Oslo 2006)
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by Mouse on Mars - Topic Cut the Gain

“Some town unknown
At a traffic circle a man in a yellow helmet pulled up to me
I said ‘you don’t look like no goddamn singer songwriter to me’”

Mouse On Mars feat. Mark E. Smith - Cut The Gain
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by Webbie Long Fin Killie and Mark E. Smith - The Heads Of Dead Surfers (John Peel, BFBS 6th May 1995)

“I am the fire in your dead lungs
I am the fire in the airwaves
A & R man's dream!”

With intro and post track comments from John Peel!

Long Fin Killie & MES - The Heads of Dead Surfers
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by Vibracobra23 Redux The Fall - Idiot Joy Showland (Peel Session)

“California has Disneyland
And Blackpool has a Funland
And Flanders had no man's land
This place idiot show bands”

The Fall - Idiot Joy Showland (Peel Session)
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by The Fall - Topic Groovin' With Mr Bloe / Green-Eyed Loco Man (Live, Peel Session)

"Say goodbye to Glastonbury, I got a rabbit skull"

The Fall - Groovin’ With Mr Bloe / Green-Eyed Loco Man (Live, Peel Session)
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by Sean Razavi the fall - pilsner trail

“Choo choo pilsner trail test
Hit me in the diaphragm
And I'll still eat me breakfast”

The Fall - Pilsner Trail
#FallFriday

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YouTube video by karager23 The Fall - Mike's Love Xexagon

“Good vibrations, man
When I died - love was all around
When I died - love was in the air”

The Fall - Mike’s Love Xexagon

#FallFriday
#FuckMikeLove
#RIPBrianWilson

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YouTube video by Mark Brown The Fall : Insult Song (Alternative Version)

“Often on the beach they would play for ever and ever
In the sandy surf of L.A. County
One day they put their sandals on
And decided to go in to Rochdale
They were pretty outta sight”

The Fall - Insult Song (Alternative Version)
#FallFriday

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