Older Brother Sam

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Billy Joel - 52nd Street Listen to 52nd Street on TIDAL

The music: tidal.com/album/126848...

A black Audio-Technica turntable is shown playing a black vinyl record with a red Columbia Records label. Standing upright behind it is the album cover for Billy Joel’s 52nd Street. The cover features a photograph of the artist leaning against a brick wall in an alleyway, wearing a blazer and jeans while holding a trumpet. The artist's name and album title are printed in white, blocky sans-serif text in the top-right corner against a dark background. The turntable’s clear plastic dust cover is propped open against a light purple wall.

122. Billy Joel - 52nd Street

I feel like Billy gets a lot of flak lately & I get it, it can seem schmaltzy. But - I like it, & always have. To wit: I've had this album since probably…1980? Pretty heavy stuff for a kid. 😂 Funny to see the Piano Man holding a horn on the sleeve. Good alley pic, tho!

THAT IS WHAT I AM SAYINGGGGG 😂

Yeah, good get! Congrats!

Michael Jackson - Thriller Listen to Thriller on TIDAL

The music (as if you couldn't already hear all the songs in your head 😄) tidal.com/album/178180...

An Audio-Technica turntable is shown playing a black vinyl record with a dark Epic Records label. Standing upright behind it is the iconic album cover for Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The cover features a photograph of the artist reclining in a white suit over a black shirt, with his name and the album title written in gold cursive script in the top-left corner. The turntable’s clear plastic dust cover is propped open against a light purple wall.

121. Michael Jackson - Thriller

So wait - Side 1 *starts* with Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', then has The Girl Is Mine *and* Thriller? And THEN Side 2 starts with Beat It and Billie Jean? 😮‍💨 This thing is PACKED with hits. PACKED. This is my sister's old #vinyl, I'll give it back if she wants.

Dude was in his early-mid 20s when he wrote & recorded it. Fuckin' wild. Great tune.

"Telephone Man" (Meri Wilson) - Classic Song of the Day Today’s classic song of the day is a bona fide novelty song, all about a young lady’s dalliance with the guy installing her new telephone. (That was a thing back when Bell Telephone had a monopoly in ...

I was a kid then too (1977 apparently! 😄) so I guess I *might* have heard it on the radio in L.A. (probably one of the wacky morning shows) but once we moved to Colorado I only would have heard it on Dr. Demento. 🎩

classicsongoftheday.com/telephone-ma...

A black Audio-Technica turntable is shown playing an opaque gold vinyl record. Standing upright behind it is the album cover for INXS's Shabooh Shoobah Rarities. The cover is a solid flat metallic gold color with a black-and-white photograph of a person holding a dog offset to the middle right. The band name and album title are printed in black serif font at the bottom. The turntable's clear plastic dust cover is propped open against a light purple wall.

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Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! Listen to Look Sharp! on TIDAL

The music (expanded version includes b-sides "Don't Ask Me" and "You Got The Fever") tidal.com/album/360016...

A black Audio-Technica turntable is shown playing a black vinyl record with a white A&M Records label. Standing upright behind it is the album cover for Joe Jackson's Look Sharp! The cover is a high-contrast, black-and-white photograph focusing on a pair of white side-lace Denson winklepickers worn with dark trousers, standing on a paved surface. The artist's name is in the top-left corner in sans-serif all-caps lettering, and the album title is in the bottom-right. The turntable's clear plastic dust cover is propped open.

120. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!

Hell of a debut - One More Time, Sunday Papers, Look Sharp!, Got The Time AND Is She Really Going Out With Him? Come on. "A lot of the tracks are first takes & there are no overdubs" WHAT. Wild. ISRGOWH? is one of the key songs of the 70s. My #vinyl is an 80s repress.

You must really hate that song. 😂

I would come to loathe any sound associated with on call calls.

I'm quite sure that the only place I've heard that song before was the Dr. Demento show. 😂

Oh buddy. 😂 Luckily you don't have my phone number so I don't have to worry if I'm one of those people. 🤣 (Not that I wouldn't share my number with you, just saying it's one less thing for me to have social anxiety about. 😂)

INXS - Shabooh Shoobah (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Listen to Shabooh Shoobah (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) on TIDAL

The music is all on the Shabooh Shoobah 40th anniversary deluxe edition, including the Extended Mix of "To Look At You" that was left off the 2023 @recordstoreday.bsky.social vinyl edition. (I'm not making a special playlist, just go listen to all this fantastic music. ☺️) tidal.com/album/255898...

119. INXS - Shabooh Shoobah Rarities

Contains the 3 of the 4 excellent mixes from the Dekadance EP, including "Black and White," with it's sweet music drops that just leave the tasty bass. It also includes some live tracks from the US Festival and other outtakes. Cool gold #vinyl, too. 😎

Since "Mr. Telephone Man" is already taken, I'll choose one of me & @sirnemo.bsky.social's ELO faves - "Telephone Line"

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Thanks for following along on this year's #MWE! I found some good stuff to listen to (as always) from others who were taking part - so fun to see what people are listening to and liking (or…not 😄).

Thanks again to @imgarysuarez.bsky.social for creating MWE & starting this wild annual coaster! 🎢 🙌🏻

#MWE 28: Elvis Presley - How Great Thou Art

Another Christian album. Again, I am not religious. But Elvis sure was! The A side is like listening to side two of Elvis' Christmas Album - slow songs about God & whatnot. B side has more hopped up tunes, more in his usual bluesy style. But lots of God.

#MWE 27: The Beach Boys - Holland

Interesting name for an album with a suite called "California Saga." 😄 Oh, it's because some of it was recorded in Holland. 😂 I'm mostly used to more "traditional" Beach Boys, so this feels like a departure. But I'm not mad about it. It's just different.

the mixtape is superior to the playlist precisely because of its limitations: what selections from the maker’s music collection can fit on a C-90. & it was a labor of love, pushing record, stopping just in time, over & over. not to mention intricately thought-out cover art on the insert

#MWE 26: Honeyglaze - Real Deal

Not sure where/how I put this on my list, but I'm glad I did! Very 90s indie feel with some math rock undertones in there. I'm only 3 songs in and super digging this. Ends heavy but will go into rotation once Feb is over. Looking forward to checking out their debut!

Yeah, but with a little punk mixed in, classic rock wasn't that visibly weird or chaotic back then, I feel like. 😄 I mean, it *was* but in a different way? 😂

#MWE 25: Geese - 3D Country

Feels like a successor to Ween. Good tight musicianship playing hard rock but a looseness & chaos that feels like a middle finger to any establishment you've got. 😄 Not usually my thing I feel like but I ended up enjoying this quite a bit! 🕺🏻🤘🏻 tidal.com/album/443964...

Thanks for this as well! Looking forward to when I can spend some time listening and just being instead of having other things pulling my attention.

Éliane Radigue, French composer and musique concrète legend, dies aged 94 The Paris-born artist reinvented the synthesizer through meditative and feedback-drenched sonic explorations

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Very intrigued. Sad to read of her death but what a long, interesting life she led. tidal.com/album/127590...

I didn't even catch a ton of the lyrics, some here and there. I was just vibing on the music and his voice. 😄