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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 20m

Never released in the UK and barely reissued in the States, perhaps for that very reason. But it’s got Down From Dover on it, one of the least funny songs of all time.

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 25m

This is an excellent album and I own an actual copy, look:

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Sal Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social · 43m

no thread context needed, really

Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 2h

general vibe of bluesky is "shit at PE"

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 2h

I really love that book, I must read it again soon.

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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 4h

Lots to enjoy here ("it is hard not to see the name of Clark’s first television series, Petula Clark’s Pets Parlour, as a sly dig at George Orwell’s Animal Farm") ... if not the music.

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 6h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

www.patreon.com/backlisted

INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3h

It’s awful, isn’t it? As you can tell, I was thrilled.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 3h

Another Wednesday morning delight from @iammilliam.bsky.social. An Easter egg filled study of a musical oddity. Thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social I have both heard of and read Hapworth 16, 1924, but I know there are other references that have escaped me. Sign up. These alone are easily worth it.

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 6h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks Gordon!

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 6h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 4h

“Who controls Tony Hatch controls the future. Who controls the present controls Tony Hatch.”

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 4h

The Clocks Are Striking Thirteen (Do You Know Where Your Baby Is?)

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 5h

Reader, I hooted.

Beware the savage lure
Of Pet Clark’s rotogravure.

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 6h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, thanks Kevin! It’s just great to be able to write different types of essay depending on mood and material. I started this and within about half an hour thought, oh right, there are dozens of jokes in here. I caught most of them.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 5h

Petula Clark phoned me once and I told her how much I like Downtown. It was the wrong thing to say ("I have made other records, you know"), but I told her.

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 5h

I remember you saying, Ian. (I remember buying or trading CD-Rs of this stuff 20 years ago. Box sets like this would have cost a lot more then too. So the fag end of the 1960s retains its appeal for those of us still smoking.)

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Mart @martriley.bsky.social · 5h

By the time I got to ‘fuck this shit, thinks Petula Clark’ I was laughing out loud. Excellent work!

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 5h

“We can’t be certain this is exactly what happened.” I was crying.

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 5h

Tracklist here. www.cherryred.co.uk/come-join-my...

Various Artists: Come Join My Orchestra: - The British Baroque Pop Sound 1967-73, 3CD Clamshell Boxset

Come Join My Orchestra covers British baroque pop’s formative years and its integration into a wide variety of genres, ranging from Johnny McEvoy’s exquisitely sculpted take on traditional pop balladr...

www.cherryred.co.uk

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 9h

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14h

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 6h

Not going to lie, few things this year have afforded me more pleasure than the opening few paragraphs of completely irresponsible speculation.

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you. I think this one is very funny, immodestly enough. x

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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social · 6h

Hugely looking forward to this one! Worth being a Backlisted patreon member just for the INVENTORY! 😊

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 6h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 6h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

www.patreon.com/backlisted

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Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 7h

For £20 for 80 tracks and an informative little book, I can turn a blind eye to the carpet. Also, looks much better when you are on LSD.

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