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Dave Moore
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Music stuff. Minimal non-music stuff. 20 new songs a week or your money back at: www.otherdavemoore.com
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Knowing this song in a five-second snippet got me second place in a trivia competition
January 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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January 6, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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"Are you ready to go back to NOOZLES?"
January 2, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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January 2, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Including
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
January 2, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Was really hoping for “picaresque” oh well
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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I would definitely read the accosted observer fowl at an AOTY column park
January 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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The Knocks f. Sneaky Sound System: The One

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_MQ1...
My decade was all about family – making one, maintaining one – and so I only have three options for the song that defined my decade. One is inextricable from its surroundings – “On My Own” from Farrah Abraham’s My Teenage Dream Ended, an album about death and motherhood that is as poignant and sad and weird as anything I’ve ever heard. Another is from the second-best mom album of the decade, Flesh Tone by Kelis, “Song for the Baby.” But my song of the decade is the first song I heard after my first son was born, “The One,” by the Knocks featuring Sneaky Sound System. The thing about having kids is that it really wrecks you – I didn’t realize that my entire life, its daily rhythms and boundaries, was being broken down and remade in those first few weeks. I was consumed with a pointless mania, so while he and his mom slept I spent most of my time hacking wooden chunks out of his bedroom door with a boxcutter in a doomed effort to “level it” and putting together an enormous playlist of every song ever featured on the first 50 NOW! compilations – something that I have almost no memory of doing, but which nonetheless currently has 38,000 followers and counting. This is all to say that maybe I wasn’t my most stable or least sleep-deprived self when I first heard “The One,” but whatever it was, I remember thinking, when the chorus hit, that this crass thing, this stupid thing, is right – everything is going fast, and he is everything to me, it is true, he is the one, my number one, and I cried, a good, long, cleansing cry. And then a few weeks later, when I was settling into the new me and sleeping a little more and monkeying with that NOW! playlist for the minor omissions from my fugue state and nursing the wounds on my fingers from the boxcutters, I listened to “The One” again, and you can probably guess by now that I cried again, the very same cry, with snot and everything. And then three years later I had another son, so I listened to it again, just to see what would happen, and I thought, surely this time it won’t – but it did! And I cried again, because he was my number one now, too, the song was still right, because with your kids they’re all number one, you just find more heart to hold it all. Why did this particular song have this effect on me, a song that to my knowledge no one has heard the way I hear it, possibly including the people who made it? Right time, right place, right me? A random twist of neurochemical fate? Maybe it doesn’t really matter – we all get our own private sessions with epiphany, but we don’t control the schedule, something like that. Songs speak to us when we listen and sometimes even when we don’t, and sometimes, if we’re lucky, we can really hear them whether or not we were ready for them — there, I heard it, this was the one, and I didn’t get to choose my vessel any more than I got to choose my kids, but there it is and I love it all the same. Now it’s been five years and it still goes fast, and there is so much to lose, more to lose than you could have possibly imagined. But it’s lovely while it lasts.
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Blues Traveller street team 2k25
December 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Deleting a previous post for misinformation! I must have looked at the wrong artist chart -- this appears to be the correct one
1. Morgan Wallen 2. Kendrick Lamar 3. Taylor Swift 4. Sabrina Carpenter 5. SZA 6. Drarke 7. Bad Bunny 8. Billie Eilish 9. Tyler, The Creator 10. The Weeknd
December 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Wrote a little about this as a soundworld problem — a vocal minority of Pfork contributors, larger after the shakeup, are highly susceptible to art fraud, which the site used to indiscriminately throw out with the bathwater, probably to its credit. It’s like a classical music publication.
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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This was a particularly bad year for groupthink, and I have pretty low expectations around that stuff already. Probably isn't unrelated to all of the moaning about stagnation and cultural decline (or whatever). But again...
Man "drowning" in shallow water meme
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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once again overthinking bandcamp friday
immigration officer meme from the simpsons: "just name your price for nyege nyege tapes"
December 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Was on hold with the Cisco hold music this morning so got to sing this to myself again
December 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Singles time -- I guess this is going under #2025FavSingles?

I will wait on the 20 tracks I am going to share for the PPP #PeoplesPop25 year-end poll AND anything I shared in the #TheTwen2ie5 poll. Here are the Twen2ie5 picks:
Mei Semones: Animaru Nelly Furtado: Corazon (DJ Arana remix) Marina Satti: Epano Sto Trapezi Miya Folick: Fist NMIXX: High Horse Dialebene: K.D.S KIIRAS: Kill Ma Boss Sw@da x Niczos: Lusterka Kristina Dawn: Onehalf And ALT BLK ERA: Run Rabbit Gena Desouza: เข้าใจปะห์ (Do You Understand?)
December 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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OTP
Screenshot of a text exchange. “Did you request” with pic of Mulder and Scully (OTP). Response: “I did”
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#TheTwen2ie5 HMs emailed yesterday. I had 50 mostly different picks from this in my HM list, but decided to only throw points to songs that had already been picked at least once.
100 Gecs f. Charli XCX, Rico Nasty, Kero Kero Bonito: Ringone (remix) (2020) Aidan Noell, Nancy Whang: Sharevari (2022) Ana Frango Eletrico: Electric Fish (2023) Anna Erhard: 170 (2024) Ava Max: Kings & Queens (2020) Badger & TFace: Canva (How?) (2025) Baiuca: Vai Tu (2023) Bizarapp & Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions #53 (2023) Brennan Wedl: Fake Cowboy (2024) Delaporte: Súbete la Radio (2024) DJ Kawest: Konpa Paradise 2 (2024) EMJAY: Boss (2025) Fizzler, Steps: Pacman (2022) Ice Spice: In Ha Mood (2023) Indravathi Chauhan: Oo Antava Oo Oo Antava (2021) JADE: Angel Of My Dreams (2024) Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew: The Spark (2024) Kate NV: Plans (2020) KH: Looking at Your Pager (2022) LIA LIA: I'm A Moth (2022) Lil Nas X: MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) (2021) Lil Yachty: Poland (2022) Malu Magri: Cabeça-Inferno (2024) Marina Satti: Zari (2024) Melenas: Bang (2023) MILLI: พักก่อน [Pakkorn] (2020) MOLIY, Silent Addy, Skillibeng, Shenseea: Shake It To The Max (FLY) - Remix (2025) Myaap: Fairy (2025) NewJeans: Ditto (2023) Nia Archives: Baianá (2022) Nia Archives: Off Wiv Ya Headz (2023) Rema: Calm Down (2022) Reyna Tropical: Cartagena (2024) Rico Nasty: Teethsucker Yea 3x (2025) Rihanna: Friend Of Mine - from the Smurfs Movie Soundtrack (2025) RXKNephew: American tterroristt (2020) RYUtist: 君の胸に、Gunshot (2024) Sahra Halgan: Sharaf (2024) Samantha Crain: Ridin' Out the Storm (2024) Skrillex & Nai Barghouti: XENA (2023) THÉA: QUI FERA TAIRE LES KIDZ FUCKED UP?? (2025) Theodora: Kongolese Sous BBL (2024) Victoria Monet: On My Mama (2023) YENA: NEMONEMO (2024) Zuchu: Amanda (2025)
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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we did it
Screenshot of Lily Allen's "Pussy Palace" in the Singles Jukebox, with a score of [6.88] and a controversy index score of 0.69
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The Jukebox blurb:
David Moore: Remember when new songs used to get released to file-sharing sites in 30-second snippets that looped over and over again in some kind of conspiracy to… I mean, what was even the goal there? Was it simple trolling, or could you “follow” people on Limewire or whatever? I don’t remember! God, I really can’t remember. What would someone have thought of this song showing up on Napster in 2000? In that sense it is “futuristic,” I guess, how no one in 2000 would have had any idea what the hell this was or who it was for. It reminds you that this is the future, the one we couldn’t have imagined. This song would have made Kid A sound like Shania Twain. (Shania Twain sounds weird now. It’s so much! Remember when you could just do that? Be Shania Twain?) Why is this song making me think about the year 2000 so much? Is it because time itself has become a shapeless loop, making “@ MEH” the perfect song IN THESE UNCERTAIN TI — wait, hang on, is this what Playboi Carti usually sounds like? This sounds wrong, right? I don’t remember him sounding like this? There’s so much I can’t remember! The song just started again for the tenth or eleventh time in a row since I started pecking at this blurb — I deleted a whole section on the digital blorrrrrrps of a poorly-ripped MP3 and when people used to record from their soundboard so you heard their IM notifications throughout the song, but hey I guess it’s back in now — and I still haven’t parsed a single word in this song. I don’t have any idea what this song is, it’s like I’m hearing it 20 years ago. What will things be like 20 years from now? What are things like now? Have things always been like this? No… no, things were different, once. [6]
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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OK now I have
November 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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(13 is) The Magic Number
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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billy woods otm about 3-year-olds (great interview)
toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-...
In my mind I was always like, no way I’m going to have kids and cater to what they want to eat, to the extent that they’re like, “I just want french fries.” (laughter). With my first child it worked out, but my second child was more picky and around 3 years old, his diet shrank considerably. I found it all frustrating and annoying. A lot of times you’re like, “I want this child to get enough nutrients to be healthy,” but you also think, “I want to get through the day.” He’s 3 years old, so it’s hard to make rational arguments. You can’t say, “Hey, if you don’t do X in the future, you’re not getting Y.” The future to a 3 year old is an amorphous idea, at least to my 3 year old (laughter). Right now he’s into particular types of rice and pasta and french fries and pizza, and he’ll occasionally eat meat or fish. He’s always been on the no-vegetable diet—you gotta trick vegetables into things. Ridiculous. I always thought, “Nah, we’re not doing that.” But I will say, I’m still a believer in not doing that, but I need him to get old enough where you understand what the future means.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Er….
Middlestream This is the key argument in my third A-pop installment. I argue that through the aughts and into the ‘10s, mainstream American pop music lowered its commercial ambitions en masse in the pre-streaming era as record industry profits collapsed. At the same time, indie music, which had always operated as an uneasy “sidestream” to mass culture, started to converge with what was left of the mainstream. This convergence process arguably peaked between 2009 (the year of GAPDY, an acronym of the five indie albums predicted to win in various music critic polls that year) and 2011 (the year Spotify launched in the US). After the convergence, what you get is less distinction between what is indie and what is mainstream. I call the compromise a middlestream, which is where lots of semipopular music, including windowpane (see below), thrives.
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM