Simon Smith

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Day 17.

Rosalia & J Balvin - Con Altura (Spain/Colombia 2019 single)

Video very much representative of a typical party in my private jet.

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Day 16.

Ezra Furman - Lousy Connection (US 2015 single)

“So I've been working on this letter to Congress regarding some things that I think they should address. Showed up in court wearing an Indian head dress. Somehow I think maybe the message was lost”

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Terry Scott in Carry On Matron

One for the Brits, ironically.

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Day 15.

Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (US 2013 single)

Huge drama. Miley in her undies. Weird hammer licking. Good job Donald Trump wasn’t watching.

(My serious point is that Britney would have been locked up for this. Charli won’t. Miley pushed things forward.)

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Day 14.

Burial & Four Tet - Nova (UK 2012 single)

Burial’s ’kind of ghost of two-step’ sound subtly mutated into a ‘kind of ghost of all those ambient-y rave-y remixes I used to love in the early 90s’. Very nice.

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Very much not a black guy in the 70s :)

Really?! Thanks for the heads up.

See also Curtis Mayfield on TOGWT.

Weirdly, the first Fall album I absolutely caned… on the car tape player. Not representative of anything. But which album is?

YouTube video by Paul Lockhart Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers (Old Grey Whistle Test 1972)

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Yeah, I’ve got an irrefutable legal argument. You don’t know her though. She goes to another school.

Badly prepared. I could be his advisor if he wasn’t such a fascist.

Goodwin should have gone Cigarettes And Alcohol.

I’d vote for 3 but 1 would win. Landslide.

Tracy 4 Leader?

Honestly. Frame this.

The dog appears to be developing a talent for abstract expressionist art. Either that or it’s a primitive self-portrait.

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Day 13.

Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX - I Love It (Sweden 2012 single)

It’s basic, sure. But… wait for it… I love it.

And I’m very definitely ‘from the 70s’.

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Also… at the risk of sounding like a shallow man. She’s beautiful. There’s something about not hating people that improves your skin tone. The far-right are statistically more likely to be ugly.

(Not a serious comment. Forgive me.)

Queen. 🫅

Have you seen games live? Is it easier to understand what is happening when you are actually there?

Why was it unpopular? It is literally impossible to see what is happening on TV. Golf has sorted it out.

There was also the Turkish guy. But l think he was more cool than hot.

Hah! Actually, quite similar.

Fancying foreign people is just one of the many reasons why racism is ridiculous.

I know. Teenage me would have been outraged. :)

If Geffen had said all copies of Sister or Daydream Nation had to be physically destroyed, then that would have been evil. But they didn’t.

Sometimes major labels are good things.

It’s not very cool to say this is the best period SY. This is the best period SY.

Ok. So the big problem with ice hockey on TV is it’s impossible to see where the puck is. Must be a tech solution to this.