DJ Punctum
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"Modern medicine is not a line where you left your fossils." Married to an American so watch it. Co-author of the now completed Then Play Long blog (https://nobilliards.blogspot.com).
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The Young Punctum blog makes it to January 1978. Includes everybody from Wogan to Pere Ubu (the two aren't that far apart, really):
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JANUARY 1978
Notes on Text The above-left photograph is one of Redan Place, Bayswater, London W2. At the Redan Recorders studio which used to exist in ...
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January 10, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Saturday repost.
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I grew up with Rod Stewart as MTV star: "Baby Jane," "Love Touch," the wonderful "Young Turks," like that. He always wanted to sell out. So what? His early work remains beautiful, though. Happy birthday. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/r...
Ranking Rod Stewart albums 1970-1978
I have a lot to say about Rod Stewart’s career, but let me confine to his salad years. Confession: I haven’t heard An Old Raincoat Won’t Let You Down, aka The Rod Stewart Album. B…
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January 10, 2026 at 3:49 AM
I grew up with Rod Stewart as MTV star: "Baby Jane," "Love Touch," the wonderful "Young Turks," like that. He always wanted to sell out. So what? His early work remains beautiful, though. Happy birthday. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/r...
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This Mortal Coil - ‘Song To The Siren’ on C4’s Loose Talk, 1983.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:26 PM
This Mortal Coil - ‘Song To The Siren’ on C4’s Loose Talk, 1983.
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In that special month where I got a transistor radio as my birthday present - here begins the joy and wonder of 1978, which brings New Wave, charisma, elegance and (dare I say it) the best music of the decade. Everything sweeps into focus, at once... #sayhellyeah #notnowbutnow #rollerskatingjams
The Young Punctum blog makes it to January 1978. Includes everybody from Wogan to Pere Ubu (the two aren't that far apart, really):
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
JANUARY 1978
Notes on Text The above-left photograph is one of Redan Place, Bayswater, London W2. At the Redan Recorders studio which used to exist in ...
funthirty.blogspot.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:03 PM
In that special month where I got a transistor radio as my birthday present - here begins the joy and wonder of 1978, which brings New Wave, charisma, elegance and (dare I say it) the best music of the decade. Everything sweeps into focus, at once... #sayhellyeah #notnowbutnow #rollerskatingjams
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The Young Punctum blog makes it to January 1978. Includes everybody from Wogan to Pere Ubu (the two aren't that far apart, really):
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
JANUARY 1978
Notes on Text The above-left photograph is one of Redan Place, Bayswater, London W2. At the Redan Recorders studio which used to exist in ...
funthirty.blogspot.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:26 PM
The Young Punctum blog makes it to January 1978. Includes everybody from Wogan to Pere Ubu (the two aren't that far apart, really):
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
Earl Palmer knocking down the scenery on Larry Williams' "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" - now THAT'S drumming.
January 9, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Earl Palmer knocking down the scenery on Larry Williams' "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" - now THAT'S drumming.
The Young Punctum blog makes it to January 1978. Includes everybody from Wogan to Pere Ubu (the two aren't that far apart, really):
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
JANUARY 1978
Notes on Text The above-left photograph is one of Redan Place, Bayswater, London W2. At the Redan Recorders studio which used to exist in ...
funthirty.blogspot.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:26 PM
The Young Punctum blog makes it to January 1978. Includes everybody from Wogan to Pere Ubu (the two aren't that far apart, really):
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...
Dry Cleaning, KAYTRANADA, The Cribs. Three new albums out today. That's how it's supposed to work, at a maximum. If we can try keeping to that schedule this year it'll be nice.
January 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Dry Cleaning, KAYTRANADA, The Cribs. Three new albums out today. That's how it's supposed to work, at a maximum. If we can try keeping to that schedule this year it'll be nice.
Yet another new SAULT album out today. Don't all rush at once. This ILM post sums them up pretty succinctly:
January 9, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Yet another new SAULT album out today. Don't all rush at once. This ILM post sums them up pretty succinctly:
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I’m sure this world-historic meeting of Bowie and Ferry, who created the UK ‘70s and ‘80s between them, amounted to nothing more than, “How’s the beer?” I rank Bowie’s almighty UK top 40 hits; I have little to say about the classic run. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/r...
Ranking David Bowie’s British top 40 singles
As I assembled this list, I noted my folly. All I wanted to listen to of Bowie’s on what would’ve been his birthday is ★ and the second side of Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). “…
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January 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
I’m sure this world-historic meeting of Bowie and Ferry, who created the UK ‘70s and ‘80s between them, amounted to nothing more than, “How’s the beer?” I rank Bowie’s almighty UK top 40 hits; I have little to say about the classic run. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/r...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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My favorite single by Bowie, done essentially in one take - so much going on!
#MusicChallenge
#Top31DavidBowie
(mostly unranked) I would’ve struggled with a top 100, so this list is my “crème de la crème” 👌
Day 23 - Golden Years ❤️⚡️✨
Reminds me of the ‘Bowie’ nights in Edinburgh nightclubs 🕺💃🏼
#BowieForever
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#Top31DavidBowie
(mostly unranked) I would’ve struggled with a top 100, so this list is my “crème de la crème” 👌
Day 23 - Golden Years ❤️⚡️✨
Reminds me of the ‘Bowie’ nights in Edinburgh nightclubs 🕺💃🏼
#BowieForever
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NEW * Golden Years - David Bowie {Stereo}
YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine
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January 8, 2026 at 10:46 PM
My favorite single by Bowie, done essentially in one take - so much going on!
Excellent thread, this. Apropos of a sidebar, it was iMac's Low review (which I can quote verbatim to this day) which made me seriously want to become a music writer.
50 yrs ago today on the same street corner waiting for the same lift I read CSM's NME review of Station To Station. Even from the review it sounded outside of everything and it was. Ice cold impassioned, brittle, coked up and already Germanic before we all knew where that was headed.
50 yrs ago this week I reckon when I stood on the corner of Ashley Down Rd reading the NME review of Helen of Troy while waiting for 'Nick with the motor' to give me a lift to Bower Ashton for our weekly Art History lecture and seminar. Lukewarm as I recall. Fools.
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January 8, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Excellent thread, this. Apropos of a sidebar, it was iMac's Low review (which I can quote verbatim to this day) which made me seriously want to become a music writer.
The best thing ever written about this album, apparently according to David Bowie, who read it. Number 6 as the Thinning White Duke and the 16-year-old me in a pallid Alasdair Gray ripoff cameo appearance:
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David BOWIE: Scary Monsters And Super Creeps
(#238: 27 September 1980, 2 weeks) Track listing: It’s No Game (Part 1)/Up The Hill Backwards/Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)/Ashes T...
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January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The best thing ever written about this album, apparently according to David Bowie, who read it. Number 6 as the Thinning White Duke and the 16-year-old me in a pallid Alasdair Gray ripoff cameo appearance:
nobilliards.blogspot.com/2013/02/davi...
nobilliards.blogspot.com/2013/02/davi...
When I was a boy, I wrote things about music for my own amusement. They weren't intended for anybody to read.
Now I'm an old man, I find I've ended up doing precisely the same thing.
So much for progress.
Now I'm an old man, I find I've ended up doing precisely the same thing.
So much for progress.
January 8, 2026 at 8:23 PM
When I was a boy, I wrote things about music for my own amusement. They weren't intended for anybody to read.
Now I'm an old man, I find I've ended up doing precisely the same thing.
So much for progress.
Now I'm an old man, I find I've ended up doing precisely the same thing.
So much for progress.
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A decade after Bowie’s death, we honor him by looking for no present or future Bowies. The time for generalism is gone: every Instagram/TikTok account is a genre. Thanks to @bowiesongs.bsky.social @djpunctum.bsky.social for helping me reconsider ★. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/i...
I know something is very wrong: David Bowie in 2026
Ten years and two days ago, SPIN published my review of ★. An excerpt: This assumes, of course, that one cares about new work from David Bowie, whose ten-year silence was among the shrewdest moves …
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January 8, 2026 at 1:32 AM
A decade after Bowie’s death, we honor him by looking for no present or future Bowies. The time for generalism is gone: every Instagram/TikTok account is a genre. Thanks to @bowiesongs.bsky.social @djpunctum.bsky.social for helping me reconsider ★. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/i...
"The country you are located in (sic) is not supported."
PSA: This free iHeart channel alternates between full AT40 episodes from the 70s and 80s and if you need a break please enjoy liberally
January 7, 2026 at 8:58 PM
"The country you are located in (sic) is not supported."
A good chart for somebody to do next January is the unpublished immediate post-Christmas BMRB chart w/e 3 Jan 1981, which was unchanged from the published one a week before except Happy Xmas (War Is Over) was number one rather than Grandma.
January 7, 2026 at 7:48 PM
A good chart for somebody to do next January is the unpublished immediate post-Christmas BMRB chart w/e 3 Jan 1981, which was unchanged from the published one a week before except Happy Xmas (War Is Over) was number one rather than Grandma.
No the Equals fucking didn't do any of that, I was there, shut up, youngsters.
January 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
No the Equals fucking didn't do any of that, I was there, shut up, youngsters.
Bloody hell.
Jonathan Romney pays tribute to Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr, whose uncompromising vision reshaped the possibilities of cinematic time and space
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Béla Tarr obituary: Hungary’s slow-cinema visionary
Jonathan Romney pays tribute to the Hungarian auteur whose uncompromising vision reshaped the possibilities of cinematic time and space, most famously in his seven-hour magnum opus Sátántangó.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Bloody hell.
You're half a day early by Greenwich Mean Time standards, rock 'n' roll fans.
January 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
You're half a day early by Greenwich Mean Time standards, rock 'n' roll fans.
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Awful news, really hope this is treatable. #nufc
Our former player & manager, Kevin Keegan will undergo treatment after being diagnosed with cancer having been admitted to hospital for further evaluation of ongoing abdominal symptoms.
King Kev. We're with you every step of the way. Hoping for a full and speedy recovery 🙏🖤🤍
King Kev. We're with you every step of the way. Hoping for a full and speedy recovery 🙏🖤🤍
January 7, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Awful news, really hope this is treatable. #nufc
We're not rich bastards who can afford to subscribe to multiple television channels, thanks.
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
We're not rich bastards who can afford to subscribe to multiple television channels, thanks.
"I'm scared by the news." Go and be scared somewhere else then. I'm here to be cheered up.
January 7, 2026 at 6:58 PM
"I'm scared by the news." Go and be scared somewhere else then. I'm here to be cheered up.
Could you good people out there also please stop writing tediously about great albums and thereby stopping others from listening to them? Phrases like "heralded a new pop sound" make you sound like a bot and I'm interested in what human beings have to say, old-fashioned decadent that I am.
January 7, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Could you good people out there also please stop writing tediously about great albums and thereby stopping others from listening to them? Phrases like "heralded a new pop sound" make you sound like a bot and I'm interested in what human beings have to say, old-fashioned decadent that I am.