@drstuey.bsky.social
Music was my first love and it will be my last. Music of the future, and music of the past.
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HM 1/5
Gold Dust - DJ Fresh (2010)
I can't get enough of that sound.
youtu.be/RNuUgbUzM8U?...
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Day 25/50
On the Regular - Shamir (2014)
Wonderful exuberant colourful bubblegum hip-hop with catchy boastful lyrics and androgynous countertenor vocals. He was only nineteen when he released this.
youtu.be/Lp9GgdCgMXk?...
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Day 24/50
Fuck You - CeeLo Green (2010)
Irresistible, feel-good, buoyant and joyful Motown-channeling
epic. Impossible not to smile and sing along. The MVP of my Fuck You playlist (along with Lily Allen of course).
youtu.be/pc0mxOXbWIU?...
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Day 23/50
You Ain't The Problem - Michael Kiwanuka (2019)
Enough of this self-deprecating attitude - its time for some triumphant joyful self-belief.
youtu.be/ivvs_qL6t_c?...
As we approach the halfway point the numbers looked wrong and so I have just realised I missed a track that was supposed to be 4 days ago. Going to have to have a wee reshuffle and slip in a March song next because that missing track doesn't fit in this space.
22.02.2026 10:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#THETENX5
Day 22/50
New York Is Killing Me - Gil Scott-Heron (2010)
Coda to a career with sparse finger-popping arrangement and raw and ravaged vocals.
My votes for the normal track but here is a dark ambient remix that loses the finger-popping and adds ominous visuals.
youtu.be/c84Wu3NBOQk?...
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Day 21/50
New York - St. Vincent (2017)
Sticking with the melancholy, this time for the end of a relationship or is it a eulogy for the soul of NYC itself? More Annie Clark vote-splitting but this is my favourite for the personal memories it brings.
youtu.be/4TPqUvy1vYU?...
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Day 20/50
Goose Snow Cone - Aimee Mann (2017)
Inspired by a cat called Goose, this acoustic charmer may be a melancholic rumination on loneliness and isolation from an album called Mental Illness but it's not depressing.
youtu.be/fhThS-PJOFE?...
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Day 19/50
Mythological Beauty - Big Thief (2017)
A fragile and tender meditation on young parenthood.
I never realised it was a photo of Adrienne's mother on the cover of Capacity, holding her new born, and it's her in this video too.
youtu.be/ejzzO51e4xI?...
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Day 18/50
My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit (2014)
No hidden meanings here. When life brings you pain, you've got to keep on keeping on and find your own glimmer of optimism in the gloom.
youtu.be/DKL4X0PZz7M?...
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Day 17/50
Baby Luv - Nilüfer Yanya (2018)
Do you like pain?
Lushly effervescent, building layer upon layer with lyrics about detachment and suppressing emotions apparently.
youtu.be/lmmQuNl_8xc?...
Sorry I am a day late. Will do catch up post in 12 hours time.
17.02.2026 07:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#THETENX5
Day 16/50
Better Sit Down Boy - Confidence Man (2017)
Continuing the uptempo party but it is time for the men to take a back seat for a week.
youtu.be/KSCELqWCXe0?...
I almost picked this but went with Matias by himself instead.
17.02.2026 05:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I always think Mdou Moctar should have an asterisk as well: May be affected by contrarian anti-Wet Leg voting.
15.02.2026 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#THETENX5
Day 15/50
Dreams - Beck (2015)
A big bold poptastic funky summer jam inspired by MGMT and mixed to be Top 40 radio-friendly but still with some psych-oddness along the way.
youtu.be/oTM3YPTYNo0?...
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Day 14/50
Them Changes - Thundercat (2017)
Let's have a love song for Valentine's Day.
He gave his heart to you and now he's drowning in pain with a broken heart because you threw it away.
Oh maybe not then.
youtu.be/GNCd_ERZvZM?...
New to me. It's great! Onto the HM list.
14.02.2026 04:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wonderful. Certain HM from me.
14.02.2026 04:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I only just realised I spelled realised wrong.
13.02.2026 10:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ooops I thought I checked.
Obviously I didn't, or I remembered checking another track.
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Day 13/50
We The People.... - A Tribe Called Quest (2016)
Continuing with ferocious politically-charged hip-hop: it felt right to place them together.
I only just released the lyric is "the ramen noodle". I always thought it was "the rhyming noodle". 🥴
youtu.be/vO2Su3erRIA?...
That was great! New to me thanks for the recommendation. Definitely a banger.
13.02.2026 05:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Finally! I was starting to think I would be the only person to pick this. It is so catchy. I love it.
13.02.2026 04:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#THETENX5
Day 12/50
Reagan - Killer Mike (2012)
Of course I am going to vote for this hard-hitting critique of decades of neoliberal pitchmen promoting the war on drugs and the prison-industrial complex.
youtu.be/6lIqNjC1RKU?...
I'll be rolling this peach of a track out too. 😍
11.02.2026 19:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me too.
11.02.2026 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#THETENX5
Day 11/50
Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) ft. Zack De La Rocha - Run The Jewels (2014)
This absolute sledgehammer of a track is the obvious RTJ pick.
youtu.be/PkGwI7nGehA?...
New to me. Wow that is wonderful. HM with a bullet.
10.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#THETENX5
Day 10/50
Nothing is Safe - clipping. (2019)
Inspired by John Carpenter’s film scores, the intro to their horrorcore hip-hop concept album with 70's horror movie credits video.
clipping. is one of the other bands that my teenage son introduced me to.
youtu.be/fIrpLBShe1A?...
