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At heart, a problem solver. Most often that manifests in my work in software engineering, but I like thinking about anything.

Interests: music, media, running, technology, programming, game theory, geopolitics, design, art and the future.
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#Top31DavidBowie

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Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
David Bowie
2016

Almost unsettlingly tense modern jazz.

youtu.be/nFX1y62l9C4
cover art: Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) – David Bowie Styled to look like an old Parlophone single…no particular cover art for the artist, but rather the label.
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Space Oddity
David Bowie
1969

Just a great song, and unofficially speaking for the many shitty acoustic guitar chord-strummers out there: not a bad one to tackle when you’re ready for a little more than G-C-D.

youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo
cover art: Space Oddity – David Bowie A black and white photo – tinted purple – of the artist sitting on a floor, strumming a guitar and singing.
December 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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The NBA Cup should include G-League teams. #basketball
December 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Stay
David Bowie
1976

The rhythm section of George Murray and Dennis Davis does it for me on this track, in particular Davis’ drum fills. Their funky foundation gave Carlos Alomar and Earl Slick space to let loose.

youtu.be/oOhjZJyNOx4
cover art: Stay – David Bowie A photo of the artist, looking slick (and a bit plastic).
December 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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The “Don’t make me tap the sign” meme, with “Don’t connect smart TVs to the Internet” on the sign.
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Lady Grinning Soul
David Bowie
1973

Zipping back 20 years for this enigmatic track from Aladdin Sane. This song sounds almost like it could be from any era, even one that hasn't happened yet.

youtu.be/18d_pLKgMoY
cover art: Aladdin Sane – David Bowie A portrait of the artist, with the iconic lightning bolt makeup over his face.
December 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Jump They Say
David Bowie
1993

A dancy, driving track with a frenetic trumpet solo from Lester Bowie.

youtu.be/xPZWgCLMsW8
cover art: Jump They Say – David Bowie A portait of Bowie’s face, split so that the left side of his face (looking at us) appears on the cover's left, while the right appears on the right.
December 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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What I post from
A vintage radio station studio with lots of knobs and buttons.
December 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Slip Away
David Bowie
2002

Evocative of his soaring 70s ballads, this track brought a bit of nostalgia to an otherwise emotionally unsettled album.

youtu.be/FQrJE56oU7I
cover art: Heathen – David Bowie A black and white photo of the artist, with light glinting on his pupils. The album title is written upside down, in translucent orange, across the bottom.
December 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Bring Me The Disco King
David Bowie
2003

"Don't let me know when you're opening the door
Close me in the dark, let me disappear
Soon there'll be nothing left of me
Nothing left to release"

Jazzy late night jam with a superb piano part.

youtu.be/3I3k9h4KaAg
cover art: Reality – David Bowie An illustration of the artist and several other abstract object in a style suggestive of virtual reality.
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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5:15 The Angels Have Gone
David Bowie
2002

This ranks on account of the interesting songwriting…in particular, how the pieces are never fully formed until it reaches its crescendos.

youtu.be/YK7ketEwLbY
cover art: Heathen – David Bowie A black and white photo of the artist, with light glinting on his pupils. The album title is written upside down, in translucent orange, across the bottom.
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Young Americans
David Bowie
1975

Bowie messing with the Philadelphia soul sound. Luther Vandross had a hand in the unique backing vocal arrangements. Love the offbeat groove.

youtu.be/ydLcs4VrjZQ
cover art: Young Americans (single) – David Bowie A closeup portrait of Bowie, with a glint on his shiny bracelet, and a cigarette just out of view, with the smoke rising on the left.
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
David Bowie • Giorgio Moroder
1982

The original synthy new wave track. Either version could have made the list, but didn’t want the same song twice.

Also notable because while recording he ran into Queen...

youtu.be/sJJjSh7jBSQ
cover art: Cat People (Putting Out Fire) – David Bowie & Giorgio Moroder Mostly a text treatment, with the Cat People movie logo, and a pair of cat eyes from a female face.
December 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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A Foggy Day (In London Town)
David Bowie • Angelo Badalamenti
1998

Another cover, this time of Gershwin. The arrangement they came up with feels like the soundtrack to a foggy day, and night. Talk about ambiance...

youtu.be/wcpP57jxq74
cover art: Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove – Various Artists A green-tinted, black and white portrait of George Gershwin, vertically sliced into strips of alternating inverse luminescence.
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Picture of the staff who operate this Bluesky account.
The main cast of the TV show Max Headroom, a collection of nerds, journalists and professionals with a taste for the absurd.
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Golden Years
David Bowie
1976

TIL this song may have been written for Elvis, but he declined it. It’s a nice little disco and doo wop mashup.

(Excuse me while I ponder the alternate timeline where white jumpsuit Elvis sang Bowie songs.)

youtu.be/ApHM1ct4tdM
cover art: Golden Years – David Bowie A portrait of Bowie, shot in profile, with his hair slicked back and a cigarette in his mouth.
December 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Loving The Alien
David Bowie
1984

Underneath the 80s sheen there’s some interesting songwriting. Oh yes, and a video truly made for MTV.

youtu.be/ns2hmyP0mGY
cover art: Loving The Alien – David Bowie A mostly black field, with Bowie in the bottom corner, in front of a bit of the album’s cover art, shaped to look something like a cathedral stained glass window. His skin is blue.
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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If You Can See Me
David Bowie
2013

An insistent, almost nagging track…relentlessly tense, on a knife’s edge, until it just kind of dissolves, fading away with no real release.

youtu.be/wyy0px4duLM
cover art: The Next Day – David Bowie It’s the “Heroes” album cover (a black and white photo of him holding his hands in a particular way), except with a white square covering his face and neck, with the album title in simple black font.
December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Moonage Daydream
David Bowie
1972

"Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah"

youtu.be/RPUAldgS7Sg
cover art: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars – David Bowie A photo of the artist on a city street underneath a sign that says K. West.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Cactus
David Bowie
2002

He puts his stamp on a Pixies tune. There are a couple more tracks from this album coming up on my list.

youtu.be/qFCDKYCevYs
cover art: Heathen – David Bowie A black and white photo of the artist with bright pupils. “heathen” is written upside down in a block font in translucent orange.
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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I’m Afraid Of Americans
David Bowie
1997

Fresh off touring with NIN, here Bowie was messing with industrial influences. Trent Reznor appeared in the video, and helmed a remix EP.

youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo
cover art: I’m Afraid Of Americans – David Bowie Artwork in heavy pen, like a child’s scribble. There’s a representation of the American flag, a body hanging from a tree, and a frightened face in the foreground.
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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I’m Deranged
David Bowie
1995

This one was a great fit in David Lynch's Lost Highway.

(I need more like a top 50.)

youtu.be/IzIXlttNCyo
cover art: 1. Outside: The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper-cycle – David Bowie An abstract blurred photo of the artist, overlayed with smudges.
December 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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#TheTwen2ie5

I posted my entries more or less randomly, so to put a cap on it, here’s the chart in order of awesomeness.

As a kid, used to buy Billboard and look at charts. I thought why not whip up a Hot 100-style template (circa late 1980s)?

open.spotify.com/playlist/1V3...
1 What Kinda Music 2020 Tom Misch • Yussef Dayes 2 Phenomenal 2023 Janelle Monae • Doechii 3 Introvert 2021 Little Simz 4 Eusexua 2025 FKA Twigs 5 Bad Company 2022 Yazmin Lacey 6 Smokin’ Out The Window 2021 Bruno Mars • Anderson .Paak • Silk Sonic 7 Rammana 2025 Salin 8 Nightrider 2020 Tom Misch • Yussef Dayes • Freddie Gibbs 9 Will I See You Again? 2021 Thee Sacred Souls 10 Time Left 2023 Zutomayo 11 Pink Venom 2022 Blackpink 12 Next To Normal 2022 Lucius 13 Pretty Savage 2020 Blackpink 14 时来运转 [Wheel Of Fortune] 2024 Hanggai [杭盖乐队] 15 Tally 2022 Blackpink 16 Break My Heart 2020 Dua Lipa 17 All The Same 2022 Jyocho 18 Kiss Me More 2021 Doja Cat • SZA 19 Edamame 2021 bbno$ • Rich Brian 20 Dopamine [ドーパミン] 2024 Gesu no Kiwami Otome [ゲスの極み乙女] 21 Death & Romance 2024 Magdalena Bay 22 Alentour de lune 2020 La Féline 23 Comin’ Around Again 2024 Amber Mark 24 When I’m In Your Arms 2020 Cleo Sol 25 Green Eyes 2021 Arlo Parks 26 Introverted Soul 2023 Mohini Dey 27 Leave The Door Open 2021 Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars • Anderson .Paak) 28 Tell Me Why 2023 Gotts Street Park • Olive Jones 29 Intergalactic Janet 2023 Ley Soul 30 Flock: Episode 4 2022 Commander Spoon • Miss Angel 31 Cuff It 2022 Beyoncé 32 Soon Not Later 2021 Lady Bee • Dame1 33 The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte 2023 Sparks 34 So Typically Now 2023 U.S. Girls 35 Paper Thin 2020 Lianne La Havas 36 Zombieboy 2025 Lady Gaga 37 Omen 2024 Ella Thompson 38 How Can I Make It Ok? 2021 Wolf Alice 39 Feels Right 2020 Biig Piig 40 Caroline 2021 Arlo Parks 41 Hip Hop Lollipop 2022 Bootsy Collins • Fantaazma • Victor Wooten 42 Over 2024 Thee Marloes 43 Grow Up Tomorrow 2022 The Beaches 44 Telepatía 2020 Kali Uchis 45 New Day 2021 Kiki Vivi Lily • Sweet William 46 Got Me 2021 Laura Mvula 47 Get In Your Head (Malkovich Ya) 2021 Dirty Nice 48 Gospel For A New Century 2020 Yves Tumor 49 5-Watt Rock 2023 Theo Katzman 50 Crush 2024 Billianne “Bubbling Under” (additional 20 honorable mentions) truncated for space.
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Day 50

Crush
– Billianne
📍Milton, ON 🇨🇦
2024

Closing it out with a feel-good song. It’s been fun!

I’ll follow-up with some honorable mentions to Arron, and post my complete list, for the hell of it.

youtu.be/KqMEdJqMG7Y
cover art: Crush – Billianne A closeup photo of the artist, smiling with her eyes closed, tinted to look like an old photo from a photo album, perhaps from the 70s.
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The match in my hand is the key to the door
A simple turn of the wrist will suffice
To open a passage to paradise
I pause, I think about the past in the gloom
The smell of gasoline permeates the room
Everyone has a little secret he keeps
I light the fires while the city sleeps
The pope on the mic.
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM