Thread by @PickyBastards

Dancing round in PJs to this @ITSTHERAPTURE
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Followed by catchy tunes galore from @Franz_Ferdinand

The first CD I bought from HMV on Market Street shortly after moving to Manchester. Welcome to the North was entirely appropriate. One of the few 2nd albums from the era that wasn't awful
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This macho rocknroll schtick has not aged particularly well
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I bet @Fran_Slater loves this sort of thing
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Back when Later with Jools was still good, this performance by @KTTunstall absolutely wowed me

some best ofs

I mean, it's not awful, but still reminds me of one of the worst gigs I ever went to
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Sunny day sounds from Simian
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Album quiz - who is this by?
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I mistakenly said I'd listened to all the @milesdavis - how could I forget this!
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No albums yesterday because I was busy with Songs for Our Daughter. Here's the @foofighters

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"is that Dave Grohl? I don't want to listen to that. It's @zero7official weather" says @k_lawton3
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Finished yesterday off with this from The Zutons.
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One of @k_lawton3 's. Could be seen as inappropriate for Easter but who cares @faithless
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Still love this from @ladyhawkeforyou
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Bored of 00s debut albums yet? Well tough, here's @foals

MEGA MEGA MEGA is not really a Monday morning album but it's a bank hol so let's go with it. After Dark with @mysteryjets is a tune
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And as it's a bank hol, a traditional play of this (see track 5 open.spotify.com/track/6EU3L1HV…)

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Some more idiosyncratic Scruff plus some cracking collabs
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I heard 'Gravity's Rainbow' a few weeks ago and it wasn't very good. Fingers crossed for the rest of this
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Right enough of that new rave nonsense, here's some old geezer rock
@ledzeppelin
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fave
@wearenypc
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I still have the sleeve insert with NYPC ringtones. Tempted to see if it still works.

I was a bit in love with Tahita until I met her @WHP_Mcr and she couldn't have given less of a shit. Although to be fair would you have talked to this guy?

Gone full stadium by this point @KingsOfLeon
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Bought for 'Heartbeats', stayed for 'Crosses'
@_JoseGonzalez_
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Honestly had no idea I owned FIVE @milesdavis CDs. This guy was cool af
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Jarv & co get all nature-y on this one
@pulp2011
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As well as @smdisco (

https://twitter.com/PickyBastards/status/1246139766195867651?s=19

), this from @ChemBros the same summer was another door in to the world of dance and electronic music
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Impulse buy - it was playing in HMV, I asked what it was and bought it on the spot. Never heard anything about them before or since. Sounds like the lost soundtrack to a psychedelic kids TV show
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Another "when Later with Jools used to be good" discovery
@RaulMidon
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Still not ticked @roisinmurphy off my "must see live" list. Fingers crossed @bluedot still goes ahead this year. For now this will do nicely
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I bought this album twice - the first time was on tape which could have been the first album I ever bought
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The first half is very good
@blurofficial
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More on this underrated beaut tomorrow
@wearenypc
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More albums should have 8 tracks
@ChemBros
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No @bluedotfestival until next year then so here's some more @roisinmurphy
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You better be there @roisinmurphy

King of albums
@StevieWonder
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How to make a dramatic entrance by Justice open.spotify.com/track/4wSmqFg3…
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Uplifting
@Elbow
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I'm being attacked by this berserk desert monster, it's @thedjangos
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Excited for this, not listened in ages. From before the name change
@Santigold
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The sad wedding album
@BatForLashes
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We can call it a classic, can't we?
@lcdsoundsystem
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I wish I was someone just a little more funky
But I'm not so here's @CountingCrows for a Friday night
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I was young don't judge me
@JamiroquaiHQ
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That's better
@pulp2011
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I bought several of the weaker albums on this thread because I heard one song I liked by the band. This album I bought on the basis that I liked one song on the album BEFORE. Listening to it now for what feels like the first time. Generic Jack White album.
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From @Weezer at their poppy best. Couldn't be more different from Pinkerton that came before - I guess that was the point
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Following that with some more singalongable harmonies
@themagicnumbers
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We took this in the car on a long road trip around Scotland so it got listened to A LOT. This is probably its first spin since then. Good memories.
@austratalks
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Grown up @blurofficial. Better than you think
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I got a copy of Sousamaphone and that's why the girls won't leave me alone
@riotjazz
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Just voted for this in our #BestDebutAlbum thread. Top album
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One from @k_lawton3
Sort of country I guess
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And now the @Manics
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Is this too intense for a Sunday night?
@soulwax
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Not my cup of tea these days. Not sure it ever was as an album, but the tunes where they actually sing are still decent.
@qotsa
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Nice to relax and enjoy after the onslaught of the last one. The Small Faces are still pretty underrated I think. One of the best British bands of the 60s
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It's Karen O's head. On a pizza. It's Blitz.
@YYYs
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Led for lunch
@ledzeppelin
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Carrying on the OGR (Old Geezer Rock) theme with @SantanaCarlos. One of my 'top 10 tapes' pickybs.com/2020/04/08/top…
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New album ordered today. Here's the first from @lapsleyyyy
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Final appearance from The White Stripes in this thread
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My wife walked down the aisle to 'One Day Like This'
@Elbow
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"at least 75% live"
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It has their best song, but definitely not their best album
@thestrokes
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open.spotify.com/track/6AzQZJLL…

One from my shortlist for #BestDebutAlbum picks
@Weezer
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Anyone for Thai?
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Similar reassessment of the other @qotsa I own. Stick to the tunes lads.
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Can't say I remember this @Elbow album well
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Unpopular opinion number..erm..I've lost count.

@scissorsisters version of 'Comfortably Numb' is better than Pink Floyd's

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Little sunny soaring pop oddity. Any @Chungkingmusic fans out there?
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The best debut album ever? Find out from next week
@BlocParty
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The most challenging album to listen to from @smdisco, much like eating the delicacies each track is named after. I know I'd rather listen to this than eat hakarl again 🤢
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Would never say I loved @thekillers but this was the soundtrack of uni so felt like something I needed to own
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12 songs, 29 minutes. BAM. It's The Sonics.

Another unfortunate victim of advert music.

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Summery instrumental movie vibes
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Wow I have a shit load of @quanticmusic

The @quanticmusic gig with Spanky Wilson at Sheffield students' union in around 2006 was one of my best ever

Apricot Morning is joy
@quanticmusic
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On this next one (and also Stampede which I don't own) it was the first time I heard @alicemcrussell 's impossible voice. I still don't believe it's real to this day even though I have seen her live at least 3 times!
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Will come back to the rest of Quantic, but time for a break. Here's @thewhipband - Manchester's answer to @wearenypc. I've seen this on some "worst album" lists which is totally unfair. Brilliant live too
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Era defining. Is it boring now though?
Let's find out.
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It's still good but it doesn't excite me in the same way that, for example, Silent Alarm still does, and the lyrics are no match for Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not

The last (but no means least) @roisinmurphy CD off the shelf.
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PS new album soon please

A @k_lawton3 disc this one. First discovered @andreyatriana singing with @si_bonobo👌

The Friday Night Dinner theme tune (and other decent songs)
@MiikeSnow
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Been looking forward to this one
@Elbow
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Thought I had 3 @gilmoreroberts CDs but this seems to be it. Luckily this one is great. Some of their best songwriting and storytelling
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Supporting Quantic/Spanky Wilson at the gig I mentioned yesterday was this guy. @benwestbeech (aka Breach) was an unexpected discovery and helped make the night
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Matt @sciencematt says they are actually good ( pickybs.com/2020/04/12/top…) let's see if I still agree
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Last one from @smdisco
Unique jewel case design and some bangers on the CD too
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Not too bad this one, but all downhill from here on
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If you ever need an 'E' to tune your guitar, track one on this
@OCSmusic
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Loved this when it came out but not listened in years
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Instant reaction: it's a bit c-word*

*Coldplay

Another top one from @quanticmusic . I have added about half of this album to playlists while listening just now
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After the bore-fest of the other album of theirs I own, I've not been looking forward to this. At least it has some songs I remember
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The last of @k_lawton3 's off the CD shelf. Not sure if I've ever listened to it.
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The day so far has been very #BestDebutAlbum focused but time for @jamespspearing to get back to his #LockdownChallenge
Saved the best @ledzeppelin til last

¿tiene ritmo?
@quanticmusic
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Glad I have taken the time to reassess @KingsOfLeon. Like with The Strokes I wouldn't be that interested if it came out today but have mostly enjoyed listening again
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Just two more from the shelf to go and they're both crackers
Here's @digitalism
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And an incredible 196 CD albums later, we've reached lovely Lungs
@florencemachine
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Which means I've reached the end of the shelf. Next up "the box". Expect loads of Kitsuné compilations, some even crapper second albums from 00s indie bands, and this bunch:

pickybs.com/2019/11/24/top…

Right, I've emptied the box. There is, and I cannot stress this enough, a shit load more. Some I cringed at as I picked them up. Others I know are forgotten gems. Luckily/unluckily we're not going anywhere for a while
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I'll begin with a gem. This is a brilliant compilation of lesser known US psychedelia from the late 60s
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Ok. So I have 5 Muse albums to get through. The first two I reckon will be ok. But the others? eek
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Update on "the box"/"the pile". I have 5 categories:
1. shit
2. probably shit
3. good
4. CD singles
and
5. Lol

https://twitter.com/PickyBastards/status/1254862799685038083?s=19

Now that I've listened today's #BestDebutAlbum albums, it's back to #LockdownChallenge

Pleased to have got Muse out the way.

Next another artist from a dark rawk past @BiffyClyro. They couldn't sound more different now!

Still one of the best support bands I've ever seen @TheTingTings
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Up next for your consideration The Cooper Temple Clause. Are they shit, probably shit, good, or Lol ? (see

https://twitter.com/PickyBastards/status/1255168791882891266?s=19

for details of categories)
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You know what I'm really enjoying it. Feel like there is (weirdly) a Massive Attack influence going on.

Cat 3

This TCTC chat gives me a nice segue in to cat 4. For a while I got really in to buying CD singles. Some gooduns in there! More on these tomorrow
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Parva later changed their name and went on to be massively successful. Points for anyone who knows who!
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Saw Sons and Daughters a couple of times and was lucky enough to meet them @nightanddaycafe. Great band
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Around the same time as this from @Manics I went to Camden market in a revolutionary fervour and bought a Che Guevara tshirt. Pretty sure I had no idea who he was
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Like me you probably thought we were done with Muse. Well, no. Soz. New Born was one of those songs where I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard it. If you must know I was in the shower. Track 3 'Piano Thing' is fun if you're a piano nerd.
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This was another 'remember where I was' moment. Again not an exciting place. In the back of the school minibus on a long journey home
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POW
@TheHives
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One for the two other Ikara Colt fans out there @GuyP @grahamcox1991
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I usually had to ask for the more obscure singles when I went in to @DavidsMusicLGC on a Saturday afternoon. Not so with @KingsOfLeon - it was clear they were going to be a big deal!
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Superfantastich
@Franz_Ferdinand
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I think this was my first ever purchase from @PiccadillyRecs. Late of the Pier another great lost British band
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Track 3 the @metronomy remix of The Bears are Coming is sick

And the band Parva later became? @KaiserChiefs
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The Music EP rainbow. The Walls Get Smaller (track 2 on the blue one) they always played live but doesn't exist on any other studio recording as far as I know. Amazing instrumental that builds and builds and builds
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And with that it's full circle back to The Cooper Temple Clause and the end of this enjoyable singles/EPs interlude
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A morning spent with @benkweller
Weezer influenced rock-ish singer songwriter with a touch of americana. Any fans out there?
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Must have nicked this off @jackspearing at some point
@respektor
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Bonkers
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If you crowdsurfed to The D4 at a venue that no longer exists does that make you old?
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Quick break from the box for this new arrival by @lapsleyyyy for @k_lawton3 's birthday today
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The singles stand out but I barely recognise the rest of this album. Not a fan of the production either
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Today is a @kitsune day
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Some bangers on @kitsune 5
I'll pick one out for you: Data - Aerius Light open.spotify.com/track/0kuJG2AE…
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Harder to pick a fave from @kitsune 6 but I've gone with A-Trak - Say Whoa
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open.spotify.com/track/2Sl75K7N…

What happened to @kitsune 7?

Had to listen to @kitsune 7 on Spotify (open.spotify.com/album/0YkipGjp…) because I couldn't find it. But while searching I found these @k_lawton3 CDs!
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And this is my pick from @kitsune 7 open.spotify.com/track/2xJTZtvb…

After 3 @kitsune compilations back to back I'm in need of a different sound. Here's @ArcticMonkeys
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James when will you learn not to buy albums after hearing one song you like? Chilean punk/funk anyone?
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A few months ago @Fran_Slater told me what 'Secret Smile' was really about and it's put me right off
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Still kind of fun I guess
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8
@kitsune
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My pick from this edition open.spotify.com/track/7ALqVmv5…

Disque neuf
@kitsune
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selection from 9
open.spotify.com/track/2nKFzjXQ…

And finally number 10, the best one! Such a great series of compilations, not sure why I stopped buying them after this @kitsune
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Hard to pick just one favourite but here's one of the best open.spotify.com/track/2lKJVKwX…

I was in a band called 'Nil By Mouth' in Year 10 and we covered 'Big Me'. Early Foos is still alright. Their sound has not progressed at all over the years mind!
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Bandages, etc.
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From forgotten depths of 'the box' came @SherylCrow. Don't think it's mine but love it all the same. A tape from the car when we were kids
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Another ace compilation, this time from @Hot_Chip
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Getting this out the way before we move on to anything decent
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Sometimes BBC Sound Of gets things really wrong. Exhibit A:
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Ok back to the good stuff. Anyone else own/ever heard this?
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Feels like a one hit wonder but I think he had a few albums. Anyone know?
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Compilation of the day, Atlantic GOLD. Where Scorsese gets all his soundtracks from
@AtlanticRecords
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This @goldfrapp CD is scratched AF. Shame as I was looking forward to it. Let's see if it plays!
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about half of it worked. I'll stream the rest of Black Cherry
open.spotify.com/album/65BnZsIX…
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Sunny Saturday. Time for MASSIVE REGGAE
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Difficult second album?
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Late afternoon, late night, whatever. Good tunes for any time
@si_bonobo
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Tried to be Fatboy Slim. Failed
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Like the first album, it's decent. Just not something I ever think to listen to these days
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Last one from The Music
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Meanwhile in #LockdownChallenge land, it's @SantanaCarlos

Don't remember this at all. Really getting the dregs now
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The most unnecessary of all special editions, the Kaiser Chiefs board game. May also contain an album.
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While we're on a theme of large boxes that don't fit into CD racks, here's this. May contain better music than the last one.
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RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY
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Different album, same 1 song trick
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Avoided listening early in the #BestDebutAlbum tournament as I knew it was coming up in this thread. Impactful on release sure. Fun and rebellious when you first hear it aged 15 or whatever. Am I bothered now? No
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A band I wish I'd seen back in the day
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For a complete contrast to everything else, some Chopin. Back when I used to actually practice the piano I could play a couple of these. Mostly insanely difficult though.
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This is a brilliant compilation. So 90s. Bjork, Massive Attack, Portishead, Neneh Cherry, Soul II Soul, Tricky to name a few.
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I remember two great songs from this, let's see about the rest
@turinbrakes
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Other than the fact that it's so scratched it's unlistenable, I wouldn't believe that this belongs to @k_lawton3
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As promised, here is the one CD in the "Lol" category. InfernOtoriuM were a band from school and we all rocked out to their tune 'Robot King'
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Listen here, if you dare

After this there is only the Top 10 Shittiest left, plus a bunch of others I don't really want to listen to that were on the shitty shortlist
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pickybs.com/2019/11/24/top…

eugh
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You know what, this Starsailor isn't actually too bad. Really don't remember it but not as horrid as I feared.

Weezer covers
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Lots of love for Scottish music on here at the moment. Nobody has mentioned these guys though. I wonder why not?
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There's a joke in Flight of the Conchords about New Zealand and the 1970s being the same thing. This is one of the reasons why
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It's strange when a band has made two of your favourite albums, and also two of the worst you own. Their 364747th album is out now. They really should have stopped after this one
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There was one more place that CDs live that slipped my mind...the car. Many a long journey we have belted our falsetto together to this from @londongrammar

Bleed American was the most controversial inclusion in my shitty Top 10 (pickybs.com/2019/11/24/top…) so before we get in to the countdown proper there is a three album Jimmy Eat World problem to deal with 😬
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Listening to these and feeling 16 again is exciting in a way but mostly terrifying, depressing and regretful

Ok let's get shitty.

It's time for Trucking Songs

pickybs.com/2019/11/24/top…

On disc 2 there is a female artist. Must be a mistake

Oh god, is this really happening?
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It's on in the background and to be honest I'm not really listening

My brother described this as "dogshit"
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His relationship to "real" hip-hop is summed up in his own lyrics

"Ciga-cigar right from Cuba-Cuba
I just bite it
It's for the look I don't light it"

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When you look at the chorus written down it looks ridiculous

As if to spite me, 'Drops of Jupiter' was also on Trucking Songs, so now I have to hear it again
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it's The Darkness
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Hopefully today is the last day of my #LockdownChallenge. Kicking off with Hard-fi

SHIT I THINK I'VE GOT THE BORRELS, ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET TESTED FOR THAT?
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You're supposed to go out on a high. Instead, we have this
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And that's @jamespspearing 's #LockdownChallenge DONE

Stats and playlist on their way