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Tom Ewing

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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 · 1d

New set of polls - we’re into 1983, the shoulder pads are widening and the beats are getting spikier

Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 1d

In 1983... a POP POLL I should turn to be! #BPHM8285

It's BLACK POP HISTORY 1982-1985 and we are in '83!

8 matches (and two bonus votes) await your choice

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Black Pop 1983 Round 1 Part 1

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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ceej @ceej.online · 14h

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah I use desktop to do the poll tiers, I have often longed to know the numbers without having to do that tho

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1h

Wait how do you do it inside the app?

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1h

It’s just ex fans playing it to hone their critiques at this point

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1h

That’s not the whole story though is it, you also explicitly encouraged people to listen to THE END OF THE INNOCENCE

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 1h

Fear I may be a Yallah vote splitter

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 2h

Her single with them this year is amazing

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 2h

That whole EP has gone, TAP is my pick too tho

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

#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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 3h

One of the problems with “no bad reviews any more” discourse is that it’s made people go “right then!” and have a very self satisfied go

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 3h

This Zazou Bikaye could be from the last 15 years when this kind of fusion got fashionable again - a real gem

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 3h

This is a stacked group - was almost convinced not to vote Weekend cos I think the Todd Terry Project cover is even better, but it’s too good, one of the great “on a mission” bangers. Bhundus got my bonus, Nona and Prince Charles would have scored in most other groups

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Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 1d

In 1983... a POP POLL I should turn to be! #BPHM8285

It's BLACK POP HISTORY 1982-1985 and we are in '83!

8 matches (and two bonus votes) await your choice

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Black Pop 1983 Round 1 Part 1

docs.google.com

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 3h

If you don’t know (to vote for Mtume), now you know (to vote for Mtume)

(I like the other Cybotron track better tbh! I would like to drive a cosmic car!)

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 3h

There are two famous songs about having a racist friend and this is the less good one :(

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 6h

Ordered this after chatting about it with @ava.foxfort.net - of course I had to order the original welcome-to-my-crystal-shop cover

A copy of Intervention by Julian May - an eagle flies through a diamond crystal in front of a mountain range

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 7h

Your hating will not alter my love for Von Dutch but it’s very funny that when Beg For You* was in the polls everyone went oh no she’s just taken a good song and done nothing with it

*also good!

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19h

I mean very obviously part of the appeal was younger audiences imagining that these songs they knew now could resonate with them at the end of *their* lives, a projection of an imagined future self onto this ancient saurian creature, like guaranteeing the test of time

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19h

(”American Recordings“ that should read - the late Rubin LP series)

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19h

The thing that strikes me about him (from my v cursory knowledge) is that the line he was really walking was the one between outlaw and kitsch performance of same, like a wrestling heel, and the best American recordings are absolutely no different - somehow profound and mawkish at the same time

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19h

The problem if anything is that he’s TOO cool - he’s known as an icon and the American Recordings series preserved him as a granite carved legend granting his blessings to alt-rock

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