Ben
@didnotchart.bsky.social
Blog about pop’s greatest should have beens just about limping along. More active on https://www.instagram.com/didnotchart/profilecard/?igsh=MWgxeTEzNnFyamNubg== Here for music and chat and fun. https://didnotchart.blogspot.com/
New guitar hero: Peter Morén elevated Robert Forster. Time to go back to those old Peter Bjorn and John records.
#robertforster
#peterbjornandjohn
#robertforster
#peterbjornandjohn
October 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
New guitar hero: Peter Morén elevated Robert Forster. Time to go back to those old Peter Bjorn and John records.
#robertforster
#peterbjornandjohn
#robertforster
#peterbjornandjohn
Cane Trash by People Mover is the dolewave revival or slacker rock greatness or simply one of 2025's best records. Because it's Bandcamp Friday: didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/10/peop...
People Mover - Cane Trash
Baby-I’m-bored vocals, slacker rock simplicity and druggy bliss. Are Brisbane’s People Mover spearheading a dolewave revival? Because this i...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Cane Trash by People Mover is the dolewave revival or slacker rock greatness or simply one of 2025's best records. Because it's Bandcamp Friday: didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/10/peop...
"You can't hide that love forever." You could modify that lyric slightly and get a classic album title. @edwyncollins.bsky.social
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Hi Dear
YouTube video by Jonathan Richman - Topic
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October 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"You can't hide that love forever." You could modify that lyric slightly and get a classic album title. @edwyncollins.bsky.social
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Michael Rother being excellent on Saturday
#michaelrother
#michaelrother
September 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Michael Rother being excellent on Saturday
#michaelrother
#michaelrother
Robert Forster eulogises Robert Redford’s hair. “He has access to clear, clean mountain water. This helps hair.”
#robertredford
#robertforster
#robertredford
#robertforster
September 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Robert Forster eulogises Robert Redford’s hair. “He has access to clear, clean mountain water. This helps hair.”
#robertredford
#robertforster
#robertredford
#robertforster
Music fans: settle a pub argument that’s been going too long today. Best 3 bands beginning with ‘S’. No singer songwriters. Bands only. Thanks!
August 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Music fans: settle a pub argument that’s been going too long today. Best 3 bands beginning with ‘S’. No singer songwriters. Bands only. Thanks!
It's bandcamp Friday so I've dusted down the blog for some 5 minute reviews. First up, Sharp Pins with Radio DDR (album of the year maybe) didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/08/shar...
Sharp Pins - Radio DDR
There’s an idea that every record in the DIY genre is really in the Guided By Voices genre. I get that, and I especially get it when Radio D...
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August 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It's bandcamp Friday so I've dusted down the blog for some 5 minute reviews. First up, Sharp Pins with Radio DDR (album of the year maybe) didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/08/shar...
Some highlights of @glasgoespop.bsky.social so far:
1. V-Twin
2. Stuart Murdoch’s violin compilation tape
3. The Cords filming TikTok dances to @thepastels.bsky.social
4. @thebrogues.bsky.social bringing his milkshake to the yard (don’t ask, you had to be there)
5. A new James Kirk single.
1. V-Twin
2. Stuart Murdoch’s violin compilation tape
3. The Cords filming TikTok dances to @thepastels.bsky.social
4. @thebrogues.bsky.social bringing his milkshake to the yard (don’t ask, you had to be there)
5. A new James Kirk single.
July 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Some highlights of @glasgoespop.bsky.social so far:
1. V-Twin
2. Stuart Murdoch’s violin compilation tape
3. The Cords filming TikTok dances to @thepastels.bsky.social
4. @thebrogues.bsky.social bringing his milkshake to the yard (don’t ask, you had to be there)
5. A new James Kirk single.
1. V-Twin
2. Stuart Murdoch’s violin compilation tape
3. The Cords filming TikTok dances to @thepastels.bsky.social
4. @thebrogues.bsky.social bringing his milkshake to the yard (don’t ask, you had to be there)
5. A new James Kirk single.
Waiting for the @allodarlin.bsky.social listening party? Label boss @fikarecordings.com is in the pub so may be an unreliable commentator. Trust in Mike @slumberlandrecords.com for words of wisdom tonight
July 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Waiting for the @allodarlin.bsky.social listening party? Label boss @fikarecordings.com is in the pub so may be an unreliable commentator. Trust in Mike @slumberlandrecords.com for words of wisdom tonight
Subway Sect promo poster for Nobody’s Scared from the John Peel collection now at auction tinyurl.com/5bjnuz87
July 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Subway Sect promo poster for Nobody’s Scared from the John Peel collection now at auction tinyurl.com/5bjnuz87
New Jonathan Richman album. jonathanrichman.bandcamp.com/album/only-f...
Only Frozen Sky Anyway, by Jonathan Richman
12 track album
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June 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New Jonathan Richman album. jonathanrichman.bandcamp.com/album/only-f...
New playlist feature on bandcamp (at last). So I’ve started with Fog Pop, the sound of young San Francisco. Kicks off with scene anthem Slow Torture of an Hourly Wage by @glenndonaldson.bsky.social
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Fog Pop Or Not: hymns of melody and misery by Did Not Chart
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May 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
New playlist feature on bandcamp (at last). So I’ve started with Fog Pop, the sound of young San Francisco. Kicks off with scene anthem Slow Torture of an Hourly Wage by @glenndonaldson.bsky.social
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@carsmilesteve.bsky.social Relevant to your interests petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Recognise the production and serving of cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Following the UK’s ratification of UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, we call on the Government to recognise production and serving of traditional British cask a...
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May 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
@carsmilesteve.bsky.social Relevant to your interests petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
It’s only the greatest fucking rock’n’roll band in the world (or one of them). Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band. New album coming on @toughloverecords.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It’s only the greatest fucking rock’n’roll band in the world (or one of them). Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band. New album coming on @toughloverecords.bsky.social
Grant McLennan, who died 19 years ago today.
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The Go-Betweens - Apology Accepted (Whistle Test 13/05/86)
YouTube video by mrdisposablerazor
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May 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Grant McLennan, who died 19 years ago today.
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May 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Hannah Botting (Common or Garden) is joined by Bill Botting (bassmaster general of @allodarlin.bsky.social) to play The Go-Betweens’ Apology Accepted @fikarecordings.com
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Hannah Botting and Bill Botting: Apology Accepted
YouTube video by Did Not Chart
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April 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Hannah Botting (Common or Garden) is joined by Bill Botting (bassmaster general of @allodarlin.bsky.social) to play The Go-Betweens’ Apology Accepted @fikarecordings.com
youtu.be/SKYNH4zmP80?...
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Route one jangle punk played fast and to the point. They may only know the Shop Assistants and Talulah Gosh but that’s enough. Magnificent. @madridpopfest.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Route one jangle punk played fast and to the point. They may only know the Shop Assistants and Talulah Gosh but that’s enough. Magnificent. @madridpopfest.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.bsky.social
@fikarecordings.com I hope you have your copyright lawyer on speed dial
March 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
@fikarecordings.com I hope you have your copyright lawyer on speed dial
Bob Mould on fire last night launching excellent new album Here We Go Crazy. I accidentally pressed the ‘heavy metal rock star’ filter. @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Bob Mould on fire last night launching excellent new album Here We Go Crazy. I accidentally pressed the ‘heavy metal rock star’ filter. @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social
Birdie, who do a lot of good work for charity, @betseytrotwood.bsky.social raising money for LA fire support
March 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Birdie, who do a lot of good work for charity, @betseytrotwood.bsky.social raising money for LA fire support
Rob Sevier of @numerogroup.bsky.social is DJing in this Hackney bar. The sounds are as sweet and spot on as you’d want on a Friday night. Maybe this beaut next youtu.be/s1RlR5bJLns?...
Southside Chicago
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February 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Rob Sevier of @numerogroup.bsky.social is DJing in this Hackney bar. The sounds are as sweet and spot on as you’d want on a Friday night. Maybe this beaut next youtu.be/s1RlR5bJLns?...
No months are ever dry when you have an @edwyncollins.bsky.social beer mat.
January 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
No months are ever dry when you have an @edwyncollins.bsky.social beer mat.
Hive mind: pub debate of what the H in Jesus H Christ stands for is inconclusive. It’s not “halibut” or “henry” because god invented the hoover. You tell us.
December 27, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Hive mind: pub debate of what the H in Jesus H Christ stands for is inconclusive. It’s not “halibut” or “henry” because god invented the hoover. You tell us.
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals youtu.be/gaalbpNEQPM?...
Waiting For the Christmas Light
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December 25, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals youtu.be/gaalbpNEQPM?...