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Tom Ewing
@tomewing.bsky.social
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Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits https://freakytrigger.co.uk
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 13h
More 1983 polls - can the Rock Steady Crew (& others) prevail??
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Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 15h
I don't care about those other polls, just be good to PPP -

It's #BPHM8285 time and the second half of 1983 in the

BLACK POP HISTORY 1982-1985 poll

You have until Tuesday night to get this done!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Black Pop 1983 Round 1 Part 2
Welcome to the Black Pop History 1982-1985 poll, where we're polling the best Black music of the early 80s to determine the ULTIMATE TRACK of that era. As usual with the Black Pop History polls I've ...
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 10h
I like to think something of his spirit is in every pair
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 10h
(Also getting some new reading glasses, to my horror I discover they are hand crafted by Father John Misty)
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 10h
My new glasses are made by ELTON JOHN EYEWEAR, I'm determined to claw back my poptimism cred
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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 10h
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 11h
She always does fairly well and this is a real banger but she is up against a perennial hipster choice and two big nostalgia beasts
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 11h
Not a tough one for me this - “Love Wars” way ahead of the others, the half mumbled vocals are so well done, really gives the recording it’s tense, paranoid edge
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 11h
The riddim under Zunguzungetc is deathless, ie ragga artists were still having hits off it years later - totally addictive and gets my vote despite the nostalgic joys of the Rock Steady Crew (”Digital!”)
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 11h
Hashim perhaps unfortunate to land in the As but it‘s the hardest electro track I know - strips back the faffing around and just goes for it
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Anthony Cougar Miccio @anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 12h
In Please Kill Me Ficca or Lloyd talks about seeing & hearing them at Elektra, and how it made him realize how Television would never give the label what they wanted. Case in point - imagine the relative salability of Marquee Moon if the cover was a hot lady on a Cadillac in graveyard.
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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 12h
Read part of the Bill Janovitz Cars book - stray thoughts:
- didn't realize how much of Ocasek's poetry background bled into Cars lyrics ('orangy sky', 'psilocybin pony')
- the band hates the first album's cover to this day, but I think it fits - glossy, archly faux-erotic, and slightly unsettling
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 12h
Has there ever been sleeve art that matches the sound of the record better than that fucking enormous Zeppelin on the SOS Band?
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Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social · 13h
It will be a crime against comics if @pigeonface.bsky.social's THE ECSTASY OF JENNY D doesn't get funded. Just 12 hours to go so please spread the word! (And if any of my followers with big following numbers can repost I would be eternally grateful.)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pig...
The Ecstasy of Jenny D - New original comic by Pigeon!
Bridgerton meets the dancing plague in this surreal tale of sisterhood, repressed queerness and divine intervention.
www.kickstarter.com
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 13h
More 1983 polls - can the Rock Steady Crew (& others) prevail??
peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social
Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 15h
I don't care about those other polls, just be good to PPP -

It's #BPHM8285 time and the second half of 1983 in the

BLACK POP HISTORY 1982-1985 poll

You have until Tuesday night to get this done!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Black Pop 1983 Round 1 Part 2
Welcome to the Black Pop History 1982-1985 poll, where we're polling the best Black music of the early 80s to determine the ULTIMATE TRACK of that era. As usual with the Black Pop History polls I've ...
docs.google.com
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ceej @ceej.online · 1d
damn. hoping it at least signifies something
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah I use desktop to do the poll tiers, I have often longed to know the numbers without having to do that tho
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 14h
Wait how do you do it inside the app?
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15h
It’s just ex fans playing it to hone their critiques at this point
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15h
That’s not the whole story though is it, you also explicitly encouraged people to listen to THE END OF THE INNOCENCE
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15h
Fear I may be a Yallah vote splitter
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15h
Her single with them this year is amazing
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15h
That whole EP has gone, TAP is my pick too tho
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15h
Keeping a close eye on where the Arooj votes are going before I decide on which gets the HM
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15h
This is on my OTHER favourite label, the Scando jazz/folk/improv heads at Hubro Records. Trust the owl!!

More poptimistic sounds will be sneaking into this list in the next few days, I swear
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15h
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 10

41. FRODE HALTI et al - “Quarantine Quilt” (20, Norway)

I think a lot of people have a “got me through lockdown” song in their list - this is more a souvenir of it I can vibe with, a collaborative piece of improvised folk to conjure back a strange time

youtu.be/lI_ezmreS3U?...
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The Best Album of 1989 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 17h
A close up of Dr. Manhattan from WATCHMEN. He is saying, “A regular album and a compilation contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there’s no discernible difference. Music and enjoyment are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?” Behind him, Silk Spectre looks embarrassed.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 17h
I read it as a teen too! Then forgot it for years until I was suddenly reminded of it a while ago by the “ghost” scenes in Interstellar
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