I love Rick Beato’s podcast channel and Ted Gioia’s writing and so was delighted to watch this meeting of minds last night …

🔗🎵📼 Rick and Ted ‘chat’

For your most happy listening pleasure … put me in such a good mood.

🔗🎵📼 The Mariachis with Hugh Cornwell perform Golden Brown

🔗 🎵 📼 Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning

(📸 from earlier today)

🔗 Cigarettes After Sex are playing Madison Garden.

Don’t worry, I hadn’t heard of them either.

🔗 🎵 Apocalypse is their ‘biggie’. (1,233,307,237 streams. Apparently, I must have been under my rock at the time.)

🔗 🎵 📼 Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) - not as many!

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🎵 Years since I listened to this and as it turns out - 50 years old this year. As fresh and moving and as brilliant as it was back then.

At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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Have to say that were somebody to back me up against a wall - put a gun to my head and ask me 🖇️ who my top 10 artists - ever - were, XTC would be on that list.

📼 Just finished watching this

Just lovely and a tremendous trip down memory lane.

📼 🎵 But We Had Music

… via the inimitable Maria Popova

In case you thought that there’s not much variety in music these days … turns out that at the Macro level - you are spot on.

🔗 🎵 Global Album Charts - IFPI

TL;DR

Taylor Swift and Kpop - that’s (just about) it.