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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 1d

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 5h

#90sTop30
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Day 4

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Nirvana – In Utero (1993)

One of my favourites from the Nirvana album which for me has best stood the test of time

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Nirvana - Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Live And Loud, Seattle / 1993)

YouTube video by NirvanaVEVO

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 1d

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Day 3

Someone Always Gets There First
Bennet – Super Natural (1996)

An earworm of a single from a somewhat underrated band

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Someone Always Gets There First

YouTube video by Bennet - Topic

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Would help if I used the right hashtag... #5debutalbums1014

Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Another one up for consideration for my #5debutalbums0014 list - angry garage rock, with Bloodsports and Nothing being the real standout tracks

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more psychedelic candidates for my #5debutalbums1014 - excellent all through although I'm not sure they've ever surpassed the glorious opening track

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 2d

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Day 2

Skin Grip
Pitchshifter – Industrial (1991)

Some peak early industrial metal - love the way the riff gradually builds here

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Skin Grip (Remastered)

YouTube video by Pitchshifter - Topic

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Another one up for consideration for my #5debutalbums0014 list - angry garage rock, with Bloodsports and Nothing being the real standout tracks

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 3d

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Day 1

How Do
Sneaker Pimps – Becoming X (1996)

I first heard this as incidental music on ‘This Life’ and phoned the BBC, who put me onto the production company, to find out who it was - life before Shazam…

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How Do

YouTube video by Sneaker Pimps - Topic

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 4d

The new GBV album out today nicely fills the gap between #80sTop30 and #90sTop30 music challenges

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Thick Rich And Delicious

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Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social · 4d

You might think a Rowntree's Easter catalogue could have nothing to do with #Halloween, but that's because you haven't seen the two-sided chocolate twin face egg of 1932. A bargain at 1 shilling.

1932 advertisement showing an unsettling Easter egg moulded to look like the head of a baby, on one side the baby is laughing and on the other side it is crying.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 4d

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween...
#halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

The Womble and The Clanger in the style of The Omen and The Exorcist

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 5d

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Day 30

Isla De Encanta
Pixies – Come On Pilgrim (1987)

As always huge thanks to @tansleyjames.bsky.social for a great challenge

I will never tire of that scream - here’s a live version of them in their absolute, unmatcheable pomp

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Pixies - Isla de Encanta (live 1990 RARE)

YouTube video by einzack

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 6d

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Day 29

Chief Barrel Belly
Guided By Voices – Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (1989)

My entry point to the Pollard-verse, with a riff that goes everywhere unexpected

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Chief Barrel Belly

YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 6d

That’s my assumption but might be one for @richards7370.bsky.social to rule on

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 7d

Another contender for #5debutalbums1014 from the band that later gave rise to, amongst others, The Tubs and Ex-Void - hooky, fuzzed out punk/jangle/shoegaze noise or, as one review put it “the sound of five people going mental in a room in South Wales”

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 7d

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Day 28

Shit For Brains
Bastards – Exploding Man EP (1989)

Simply one of my favourite riffs of all time.

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BASTARDS - Shit For Brains

YouTube video by NorthernFly1

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 7d

First up for my #5debutalbums1014 shortlist is from Kvelertak - I'm by no means a metalhead but this is an absolute blast from start to finish - hard not to see it making my final 5

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 8d

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Day 27

Give It Up
Talk Talk – The Colour Of Spring (1986)

‘Talk Talk’ was one of the first singles I ever bought, but this for me is their finest album

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Talk Talk - Give It Up

YouTube video by Delia Sciascia

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 9d

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Day 26

I’ll Never Forget You
Husker Du – Zen Arcade (1984)

Pure scorched earth fury, from the second truly great hardcore double album to be released on this day in 1984

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I'll Never Forget You

YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 9d

I went for debut studio album but probably one for @richards7370.bsky.social to give judgement on? If I’d gone for Minor Threat it would have been even more complicated 🤪

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 10d

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Day 25

I Got You
Split Enz (1980)

Just a great pop song

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Split Enz - I Got You (Official Video)

YouTube video by Split Enz

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 10d

Evening Richard - my picks for #5debutalbums8084

1: REM – Murmur (5 pts)
2: Violent Femmes – S/T
3: Bad Brains – S/T
4: Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
5: Husker Du – Everything Falls Apart

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 11d

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Day 24

Order Of Death
Public Image Limited – This is What You Want…This Is What You Get (1984)

Forever linked in my mind with the film Hardware

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Hardware - The Order of Death - Public Image Ltd - PiL

YouTube video by Plastic Tolstoy

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 12d

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Day 23

Wonderful Subdivision
Drunks With Guns – S/T (1987)

Riffs in which a third chord seems the height of sophistication, vomited-up vocals, superbly dumb lyrics - it can only be the utterly wonderful Drunks With Guns

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Drunks With Guns-Wonderful Subdivision

YouTube video by bjp877

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 13d

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Day 22

Garlands
Cocteau Twins – Garlands (1982)

A wonderful bass riff against a wall of feedback and those unmistakable Liz Fraser vocals

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Garlands

YouTube video by Cocteau Twins - Topic

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