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Sam

@samanorac.bsky.social

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La musique avant toute chose. #MDANT ✊🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://ngl.link/samanorac

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Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 4h

It’s a beaut ☺️

Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 4h

I’ll never tire of it ☺️

Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 4h

Still a favourite single to get out and play ☺️

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Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 4h

Still have my original from then…and still play it 🥰

Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 4h

Really underrated, is Joe…never tough enough for the new wave crowd but spoke to a lot of young people

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Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 4h

I can only really appreciate it now…the almost constant discovery of new things to love, to obsess over, and nothing really worried me. Idyllic.

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Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 4h

So innocent, so happy…

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Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 4h

Hooks you, doesn’t it?

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Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 4h

Very clear memory of buying this and sitting on my bedroom floor, my Boots record player in front of me, replaying the song over and over. Really captivated me then, but so many things did. Twelve is such a good age to be x

Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls

YouTube video by JoeJacksonVEVO

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NewWaveAndPunk @punkandnewwave.bsky.social · 20h

Released on this day in 1980: Kilimanjaro, the debut album by #TeardropExplodes
youtu.be/_aZwlQ7tGNU?si…

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Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 19h

I wonder which group/album the compiler was listening to when putting together today’s Connections puzzle?

A grid of sixteen words including Third, Sister, Lovers, Big and Star

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 1d

My GOD this is pleasing to read out loud.

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 1d

This is so, so good…Ice Cube with The Roots fifteen years ago playing “Straight Outta Compton” in rehearsal for the Fallon show

[HD 1080p] The Roots & Ice Cube "Straight Outta Compton" 2010

YouTube video by dmb2much2step

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 2d

I'd somehow missed this, and it's so lovely www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-uq...

Michael Palin's Super 8mm Film - "The Life of Brian" (1978)

YouTube video by Monty Python

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

Delta 5 performing Mind Your Own Business at Hurrah, NYC in 1980. This and other Hurrah concert recordings are available on a pay-to-view basis at artclips.free.fr/PRIVATE-STRE...

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Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 2d

I found myself singing a mashup of The Red Flag and Fly Me To The Moon at the top of my voice in the car today, and do you know what? It felt great.

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Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 3d

😂

Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 3d

Met him in a radio station years ago and he was a proper nice fella. Looks exactly the same now as then…

Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 3d

I’m a big fan…North Of A Miracle is an absolutely PERFECT record 🥰

Sam @samanorac.bsky.social · 3d

Haircut 100 a couple of weeks ago in NYC. Smashing.
Nick Heyward is 65 next birthday 😳

Haircut 100 (Haircut One Hundred) - Love Plus One - LIVE - Sony Hall - NYC - 9/24/2025

YouTube video by Chaim O'Brien

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown