Day 13
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
MERRY (1992)
Magnapop
High-velocity Michael Stipe-endorsed alt.pop
youtu.be/VJLwUS-DBUA?...
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Day 13
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
MERRY (1992)
Magnapop
High-velocity Michael Stipe-endorsed alt.pop
youtu.be/VJLwUS-DBUA?...
Day 13
#NewWaveNovember
#MusicChallenge
MY SHARONA
The Knack
The archetype of the US strand of New Wave.
youtu.be/bbr60I0u2Ng?...
Nice one, I had that (and LIVING BY NUMBERS) on my longlist but they didn’t quite make it.
13.11.2025 08:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Day 37
#TheTwen2ie5
#MusicChallenge
#BestSongHeardToday
BALLAST (2022)
(from the OBJEKT #5 ep)
Objekt (Germany)
Hefty-yet-streamlined acidic minimalistic Techno experimentalism.
youtu.be/EOUosOTdYXU?...
Nice one. So many good tracks across those.
12.11.2025 20:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Day 12
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
JACK (1991)
Moose
youtu.be/cwyAjghdNsM?...
Day 12
#NewWaveNovember
#MusicChallenge
MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL
XTC
Another band where I had a lot of options and so have fallen back on the song where I first became aware of them.
youtu.be/n-X3Wy-svIY?...
Day 36
#TheTwen2ie5
#MusicChallenge
IT’S NOT EASY (2024)
(from DESTINATION)
Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu (Ghana)
Percussionist Sackey & his band blend the traditional music of Ghana with Afrobeat bass grooves into an irresistibly funky horn-powered jazz/funk fusion.
youtu.be/XoSXGD0dwxM?...
Day 11
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
WINONA (1992)
Drop Nineteen
Swirls of hazy guitar under laconic vocals.
Sure it’s been done before, but when it’s done well it can still be magical.
youtu.be/_4oCboj39jo?...
Day 11
#NewWaveNovember
#MusicChallenge
PRIVATE IDAHO
The B-52’s
youtu.be/BxHyliIspkA?...
Day 35
#TheTwen2ie5
#MusicChallenge
#BestSongHeardToday
EXPERT IN A DYING FIELD (2023)
The Beths (NZ)
Chiming lyrical indiepop from New Zealand, they’re excellent live too.
How do you know?
It's over when you can't let go?
youtu.be/-KACt6YhOyY?...
It is an incredible tune.
10.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have a very bad feeling about this…
10.11.2025 21:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Day 10
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
EVERYTHING FLOWS (1990)
Teenage Fanclub
youtu.be/Nj-HgIxh6P0?...
Day10
#NewWaveNovember
#MusicChallenge
THE MAN WITH THE LIGHTBULB HEAD
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Hints of prog & psychedelia here, but still has strong New Wave credentials. I remember this as being a favourite of Anne Nightingale on her Sunday evening Radio 1 show.
youtu.be/MVA9tVqZaks?...
Day34
#TheTwen2ie5
#MusicChallenge
ONE LOST MOON (2024)
(from MOON 1)
Five Green Moons (UK)
Justin Robertson’s long made innovative genre-hopping music in various guises, most recently ambient-dub soundscapes, echoing Sabres of Paradise, PIL & the ON-U Sound roster, as FGM
youtu.be/wYD0IT56aJc?...
A can of Irn Bru: Winter Bru (“Spiced Ginger & Cinnamon flavour”)
What a time to be alive.
#NowDrinking #IrnBru
I very much doubt that we’re the only people reading this who can identify with having done just that!
#GoingDeafAgain
The CD of the first “proper” album (“SNOG”) by The Popguns on Midnight Music from 1991. An abstract brown/gold cover image of leaves/clouds (maybe?). Plus the STILL A WORLD AWAY and XXX EP CDSingles.
I remember all the good times
Like you say I’m bound to do.
Do you think it all just vanishes…?
#NowPlaying
#ThePopguns
Day 9
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
DREAMS BURN DOWN (1990)
Ride
Another mini epic, a firestorm of scorched-earth guitars, monolithic drums and lyrical despair.
We fill up our days and nights
We fill up the gaps in our empty little lives
But we know that we are doomed
youtu.be/tsmHP3ce010?...
Day 9
#NewWaveNovember
#MusicChallenge
JUST WHAT I NEEDED
The Cars
I don't mind you comin' here
Wastin' all my time
Cos when you're standin' oh so near
I kinda lose my mind
youtu.be/Z5-rdr0qhWk?...
Day 33
#TheTwen2ie5
#MusicChallenge
#BestSongHeardToday
GIRL CLOUT (2021)
(THE SUMMER I GOT GOOD AT GUITAR ep)
Fresh (UK)
An exhilarating two minute blast of righteous fury and infectious energy from the London EmoPunks.
youtu.be/yYUTzw3-NUc?...
Flyers vs Notts Panthers at the Kirkcaldy Ice Centre. Scoreboard hangs over the ice with players from both teams and shows Panthers 1-0 up on their way to a 4-1 win.
Good night out watching Fife Flyers, despite them going down 4-1 to Nottingham Panthers, including playing without a keeper for a while as they went into the last few minutes 3-1 down.
Suspect I might be a jinx as they’ve lost each of the three games I’ve been there for over the last 18 months!
Well that’s something, and no mean feat ;-)
I did have TAMAGOTCHI & SOUR PUNCH in mind too, but particularly enjoyed this one when I saw them live (went to see Ringo Deathstarr largely as these were the support!) and that swung it.
Walked into that one didn’t I? ;-)
08.11.2025 22:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I see you what you did there… :-)
08.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0NEW SHOW ALERT 🚨
Had a rare bit of spare time today and so to celebrate a years passing since the last #TheSquelch show I’ve cobbled together Episode 9
It will be premiered tonight from 9pm GMT on Mixcloud live
Feel free to sample the electronic beats 🎧👇
www.mixcloud.com/everythingin...
Will miss that live as we’re out at the Ice Hockey tonight, so that’ll be one for catch-up tomorrow.
08.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Day 8
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
LAZARUS (1993)
The Boo Radleys
A huge monolithic epic of dubby beats, swirly guitars and euphoric horns.
youtu.be/tyiTJAB6pZo?...
Day 8
#NewWaveNovember
#MusicChallenge
THROUGH BEING COOL
Devo
youtu.be/8IVLUiZ-MhU?...