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Steve Parker

@spanky808.bsky.social

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Indiepop / electronic music, photography, Leicester City, Raith Rovers, comics etc Insta: therebelliousjukebox808 New profile picture as I seem to have mislaid the one from Tw*tter. I’m the one on the left… Don’t suck, don’t die.

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Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · Feb 17

Here’s my Favourite “Indie” Songs Of The Year playlist if you’re stuck for something to listen to.

Constantly evolving and capped to 100 tracks to keep it focused, so it usually goes to one-in-one out sometime towards the end of the summer.

#nowplaying

open.spotify.com/playlist/3X3...

Playlist · Steve Parker · 51 items

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Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 12h

Spectacular isn’t it?

Definitely not a conventional love song.

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 22h

Heh. Funny how these things work out!

To be honest I’m winging this one a bit, picking whichever Indiepop tune pops into my head that morning, and hadn’t seen your post until just now :-)

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 23h

Day 8 #80sTop30
#MusicChallenge

PLEASE DON’T SANDBLAST MY HOUSE (1986)
One Thousand Violins

Oh how I need the world
But do you really need me at all?

youtu.be/1-6W86TvE7w?...

Please Don't Sandblast My House

YouTube video by One Thousand Violins - Topic

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 23h

Day 8
#TheTwen2ie5
#MusicChallenge
#BestSongHeardToday

JOYRIDER (2021)
(from JOYRIDER)
Petite League (USA)

LoFi slackerpop from Syracuse.

Starting fights no one thought we could win
Setting cop cars on fire in Brooklyn
This might be our last summer…

youtu.be/rEMGNiEtz0w?...

YouTube video by Petite League - Topic

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 23h

Day 8
#DavidsMonthofMusic
#MusicChallenge

A love song without “love” in the title

THE ONE I LOATHE THE LEAST
The Just Joans

When everyone’s sub-human scum
It’s hard to find some peace.
Thank heaven I found you
The one I loathe the least.

youtu.be/wno0X0Bt3J8?...

The One I Loathe the Least

YouTube video by The Just Joans - Topic

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7
#TheTwen2ie5
#MusicChallenge
#BestSongHeardToday

NIGHT SCULPTURE (2023)
(from BOLTED)
Forest Swords (UK)

A hauntingly atmospheric & immersive electronic soundscape underpinned by a thread of skeletal mechanical clatter.

youtu.be/BZ23ghVDaJs?...

Forest Swords - Night Sculpture (Official Visualiser)

YouTube video by Forest Swords

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7 #80sTop30
#MusicChallenge

JULIE CHRISTIE (1988)
The Driscolls

How could I argue with someone who’s probably right?

youtu.be/jlCVt21SnIw?...

YouTube video by The Driscolls - Topic

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7
#DavidsMonthofMusic
#MusicChallenge

A song related to outer space or the ocean

SEA WITHIN A SEA
The Horrors

youtu.be/v7WAHnZPIX0?...

The Horrors - 'Sea Within A Sea'

YouTube video by XL Recordings

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 2d

Day 6
#TheTwen2ie5
#MusicChallenge
#BestSongHeardToday

VIOLENCE FOR FREE (2023)
(from JBAL RRSAS)
Deena Abdelwahed (Tunisia)

Experimental Arabic techno, melding dark synthetic bass with traditional percussive rhythms into a constantly warping pulsing hypnobeat.

youtu.be/scJa238cShk?...

Violence for Free

YouTube video by Deena Abdelwahed - Topic

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 2d

Day 6
#DavidsMonthofMusic
#MusicChallenge

A song with a pronoun in the title

SHE RIDES THE WAVES
Pale Saints

youtu.be/WF1SUA4sL9E?...

She Rides the Waves

YouTube video by Pale Saints - Topic

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 2d

Day 6 #80sTop30
#MusicChallenge

SIGN ON THE LINE (1987)
The Fizzbombs

Seeing Angus McPake on stage at the weekend as part of Maison D’Etre was one of many highlights from the Edinburgh Indiepop All-dayer, so here’s a buzzy fuzzy highlight from a previous band of his.

youtu.be/IOTvIiDI3TA?...

The Fizzbombs - sign on the line

YouTube video by thomas carpentier

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 2d

This was one of the first couple of dozen tunes I put on my longlist, and it was never in any danger of missing out.

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 3d

Day 5
#TheTwen2ie5
#MusicChallenge
#BestSongHeardToday

BOOK (2021)
(from AUDIO DRAG FOR EGO SLOBS)
Gustaf (USA)

Mesmeric metronomic post/art.punk from New York. Decent video too.

youtu.be/orRE8cp36rw?...

Gustaf - Book [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

YouTube video by Gustaf

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 3d

Day 5
#DavidsMonthofMusic
#MusicChallenge

A song that reminds you of a specific holiday

PROFESSIONAL WIDOW
(Armand Van Helden remix)
Tori Amos

The soundtrack to a particularly memorable (well, broadly speaking, a lot of the detail is “missing”) nineties week in Ibiza.

youtu.be/VZgI_dz9SQY?...

Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand Van Helden Remix)

YouTube video by Wayne Calvert

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 3d

Day 5 #80sTop30
#MusicChallenge

GOOD THING (1988)
The Vultures

After yesterday, there was only one thing it could be today.

youtu.be/l6dknJ5-tYs?...

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 4d

Cover for EXTRICATE by The Fall

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 4d

Lande on stage at the Edinburgh Indiepop All-Dayer tonight.

Lande Hekt onstage in a stripy top wielding a black guitar.

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 4d

Ah, excellent, thank you!

I can’t claim to have seen them that many times, but it must be well over 20 though by now. Up there with The Fall and Throwing Muses / Kristin Hersh as my most seen artists.

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 4d

Oh wow, that was something I never thought I’d ever get to see.

Excuse the dodgy photo, but over on the right in the purple top is Janie from The Vultures, joining one-off (?) supergroup Maison D’Etre for a cracking version her lost Eighties Indiepop classic GOOD THING.

Terrible Live Photo of Maison D’Etre on stage at the Mash House.

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 4d

Heh. I love it when something like that happens, and that’s a particularly good one :-)

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 4d

Heading out into the wind-fuelled chaos on the railways for what might well be the Gig Of The Year.

Flier for the Edinburgh Indiepop All-Dayer.

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 4d

Day 4 #80sTop30
#MusicChallenge

THE BIG BLACK PLASTIC EXPLOSION (1988)
The Groove Farm

youtu.be/9pjsVLHc2do?...

The Big Black Plastic Explosion (It’s Alright It’s Alright)

YouTube video by The Groove Farm - Topic

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 4d

Day 4
#DavidsMonthofMusic
#MusicChallenge

A debut single

CAN’T BE SURE
The Sundays

Absolutely smitten with this from the first hearing of the chiming guitars & swooping soaring vocals.

It’s good to have something to live for you’ll find
Live for tomorrow

youtu.be/yARVs1ZNLjU?...

The Sundays - Can't Be Sure

YouTube video by TheSundaysVEVO

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 4d

Day 4
#TheTwen2ie5
#MusicChallenge

80 DAYS OF RAIN (2021)
(from GOING TO HELL)
Lande Hekt (UK)
Bonus: 12 pts

A resigned & melancholic indiepop tune linking a collapsed relationship (“can’t do this again”) with a collapsing climate (“there are no fish left in the sea”)

youtu.be/2DIjyECbzQ0?...

80 Days of Rain

YouTube video by Lande Hekt - Topic

Steve Parker @spanky808.bsky.social · 5d

Day 3
#DavidsMonthofMusic
#MusicChallenge

A song by a solo artist with a one word name

THE CUT
Benga

Dark & dramatic dubstep from the excellent DIARY OF AN AFRO WARRIOR album.

youtu.be/yNXUHAztYnI?...

Benga - The Cut

YouTube video by TheDubMasterx