Dave Moore
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I saw a fly going to Miami
2026 Mix 05: A quick one while he's away—sneak preview of my '10s ballot, Latin American alt-pop, Caribbean hits, and my occasional reminder that Baby Queen is good
www.otherdavemoore.com
New mix while he’s away: EMJAY, Pigeon, FLVCKKA, MiiMii, Spice, neo-Italodisco, and a 15-minute Afro-salsa jam from 1984, and emotional ambush from 2014
www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-saw-a-fl...
www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-saw-a-fl...
We’re doing NIE bangers so I’ll just plug my blawg.
www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-saw-a-fl...
But the NIE song of the week (the source of a remix I shared) is Bongo Maffin’s 1999 kwaito classic “Mari Ye Phepha”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wdvR...
www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-saw-a-fl...
But the NIE song of the week (the source of a remix I shared) is Bongo Maffin’s 1999 kwaito classic “Mari Ye Phepha”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wdvR...
Mari Ye Phepha - Bongo Maffin (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Lord Jason Kisogloo
m.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:14 AM
We’re doing NIE bangers so I’ll just plug my blawg.
www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-saw-a-fl...
But the NIE song of the week (the source of a remix I shared) is Bongo Maffin’s 1999 kwaito classic “Mari Ye Phepha”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wdvR...
www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-saw-a-fl...
But the NIE song of the week (the source of a remix I shared) is Bongo Maffin’s 1999 kwaito classic “Mari Ye Phepha”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wdvR...
#TheTenX5
Day 10
Azealia Banks f Lazy Jay: 212 (2011/2012)
Another convenient alphabetical cusper for a single I associate with the year after it was technically released! Would guess there’s already a ruling on wish year it goes to.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv...
Day 10
Azealia Banks f Lazy Jay: 212 (2011/2012)
Another convenient alphabetical cusper for a single I associate with the year after it was technically released! Would guess there’s already a ruling on wish year it goes to.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv...
February 10, 2026 at 12:08 AM
#TheTenX5
Day 10
Azealia Banks f Lazy Jay: 212 (2011/2012)
Another convenient alphabetical cusper for a single I associate with the year after it was technically released! Would guess there’s already a ruling on wish year it goes to.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv...
Day 10
Azealia Banks f Lazy Jay: 212 (2011/2012)
Another convenient alphabetical cusper for a single I associate with the year after it was technically released! Would guess there’s already a ruling on wish year it goes to.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv...
"My Humps" is not about humps, it's about -ump. But "Pump It" is not about -ump -- it's actually about pumping it (louder).
February 9, 2026 at 8:50 PM
"My Humps" is not about humps, it's about -ump. But "Pump It" is not about -ump -- it's actually about pumping it (louder).
would say I like it when I get the cage special...but not on a Monday
February 9, 2026 at 8:38 PM
would say I like it when I get the cage special...but not on a Monday
OK, drafts are actually good. Still want polls though. (...Do I? I kind of like the shift to forms now, but I bet polls would make it easier for the pollrunners and to bring in new voters...)
February 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
OK, drafts are actually good. Still want polls though. (...Do I? I kind of like the shift to forms now, but I bet polls would make it easier for the pollrunners and to bring in new voters...)
It's that time again
The Pop Excellence K-pop singles list is back for another year! We’ve put together a good set of songs (despite what sometimes felt like active sabotage from the K-pop industry to prevent it) and are starting today with some honorable mentions for 2025.
Our Favorite K-pop Singles of 2025: Introduction and Honorable Mentions
Welcome back to another year of the Pop Excellence K-pop list, where I organize a group of writers and K-pop fans and tackle tough questions such as: What was the best K-pop music of the year? How …
popexcellence.wordpress.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM
It's that time again
#TheTenX5
Day 9
Rebecca Black: "Friday" (2011)
Wrote a lot about this song when it came out.
cureforbedbugs.com/post/1331740...
The most recent comment on YT noting it is Friday is from 9 days ago. Song's better without the rap.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVs...
Day 9
Rebecca Black: "Friday" (2011)
Wrote a lot about this song when it came out.
cureforbedbugs.com/post/1331740...
The most recent comment on YT noting it is Friday is from 9 days ago. Song's better without the rap.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVs...
February 9, 2026 at 12:20 AM
#TheTenX5
Day 9
Rebecca Black: "Friday" (2011)
Wrote a lot about this song when it came out.
cureforbedbugs.com/post/1331740...
The most recent comment on YT noting it is Friday is from 9 days ago. Song's better without the rap.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVs...
Day 9
Rebecca Black: "Friday" (2011)
Wrote a lot about this song when it came out.
cureforbedbugs.com/post/1331740...
The most recent comment on YT noting it is Friday is from 9 days ago. Song's better without the rap.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVs...
Taylor Swift content via Xgau in 1999: "I’m not even convinced the teenpoppers will self-destruct when their target demo graduates from high school. All these showbiz kids memorize Behind the Music. Isn’t it possible that...one of them will figure a way out of its cycle of eternal recurrence?"
February 8, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Taylor Swift content via Xgau in 1999: "I’m not even convinced the teenpoppers will self-destruct when their target demo graduates from high school. All these showbiz kids memorize Behind the Music. Isn’t it possible that...one of them will figure a way out of its cycle of eternal recurrence?"
Curious abt Taylor Swift's Dashboard Confessional timeline. My guess is she listened to them pretty early. May want to subtly tweak my conspiracy theory from "Complicated" to "Screaming Infidelities." Which btw would sound like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2r...
Joanna Pacitti - Screaming Infidelities
YouTube video by sophie1258910
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Curious abt Taylor Swift's Dashboard Confessional timeline. My guess is she listened to them pretty early. May want to subtly tweak my conspiracy theory from "Complicated" to "Screaming Infidelities." Which btw would sound like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2r...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2r...
I have started replacing “slop” with “spam” and find it a useful distinction. Automated content production is often malicious junk — and it’s the “malicious” that most concerns me, not automation or junk.
February 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I have started replacing “slop” with “spam” and find it a useful distinction. Automated content production is often malicious junk — and it’s the “malicious” that most concerns me, not automation or junk.
Theodora can't keep getting away with this (putting out very good songs that don't sound like her other very good songs)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVx...
Des mythos
YouTube video by Theodora - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Theodora can't keep getting away with this (putting out very good songs that don't sound like her other very good songs)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVx...
#TheTenX5
Day 8
Throw your wallets in the sky for **11 POINTS**
Nadia Oh: Taking Over the Dancefloor (2011)
Best version is the 6-minute extended album cut, but I have to share a viral time capsule.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=39w8...
Day 8
Throw your wallets in the sky for **11 POINTS**
Nadia Oh: Taking Over the Dancefloor (2011)
Best version is the 6-minute extended album cut, but I have to share a viral time capsule.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=39w8...
February 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
#TheTenX5
Day 8
Throw your wallets in the sky for **11 POINTS**
Nadia Oh: Taking Over the Dancefloor (2011)
Best version is the 6-minute extended album cut, but I have to share a viral time capsule.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=39w8...
Day 8
Throw your wallets in the sky for **11 POINTS**
Nadia Oh: Taking Over the Dancefloor (2011)
Best version is the 6-minute extended album cut, but I have to share a viral time capsule.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=39w8...
2026 Albums I Like (ranked-ish)
Vayda: Don't Lose the Groove EP
Juky San: ĐẪM TÌNH
Poppy: Empty Hands
PVA: No More Like This
Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost to Kindness
Imarhan: Essam
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Djy Ora: The SGIDONOLOGIST2
Lia Larsson: Dunka
Plash: I Live Alone
Vayda: Don't Lose the Groove EP
Juky San: ĐẪM TÌNH
Poppy: Empty Hands
PVA: No More Like This
Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost to Kindness
Imarhan: Essam
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Djy Ora: The SGIDONOLOGIST2
Lia Larsson: Dunka
Plash: I Live Alone
February 7, 2026 at 7:32 PM
2026 Albums I Like (ranked-ish)
Vayda: Don't Lose the Groove EP
Juky San: ĐẪM TÌNH
Poppy: Empty Hands
PVA: No More Like This
Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost to Kindness
Imarhan: Essam
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Djy Ora: The SGIDONOLOGIST2
Lia Larsson: Dunka
Plash: I Live Alone
Vayda: Don't Lose the Groove EP
Juky San: ĐẪM TÌNH
Poppy: Empty Hands
PVA: No More Like This
Yumi Zouma: No Love Lost to Kindness
Imarhan: Essam
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic
Djy Ora: The SGIDONOLOGIST2
Lia Larsson: Dunka
Plash: I Live Alone
Kesha put her mom's album out (a compliation of work she's done since the '80s) on her label back in December. Finally getting around to it. It's good!
Pebe Sebert: s/t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5AW...
Pebe Sebert: s/t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5AW...
1945
YouTube video by Pebe Sebert - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Kesha put her mom's album out (a compliation of work she's done since the '80s) on her label back in December. Finally getting around to it. It's good!
Pebe Sebert: s/t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5AW...
Pebe Sebert: s/t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5AW...
A few days ago I told someone I'd never understood the "life gives you lemon" expression because you need sugar to make lemonade and she said "I think *you're* supposed to be the sugar" and it was like I was Bruce Willis at the end of the Sixth Sense.
February 7, 2026 at 4:51 AM
A few days ago I told someone I'd never understood the "life gives you lemon" expression because you need sugar to make lemonade and she said "I think *you're* supposed to be the sugar" and it was like I was Bruce Willis at the end of the Sixth Sense.
My interpretation of why this works is that Taylor Swift's music has always been a combination of pop-punk/emo and rap, masquerading as things that are...not that.
Today I found out about the existence of Taylor More Swiftly, a ska punk supergroup that only covers Taylor Swift songs. "The new Oizone" some people (me) are saying.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpiH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpiH...
Taylor More Swiftly - You Belong With Me [Cover]
YouTube video by Taylor More Swiftly
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:21 AM
My interpretation of why this works is that Taylor Swift's music has always been a combination of pop-punk/emo and rap, masquerading as things that are...not that.
#TheTenX5
Day 7
HyunA: Bubble Pop! (2011)
My personal fave HyunA from the '10s is probably "Roll Deep" but I am happy to coalesce around "Bubble Pop!" (and if my kids got a vote they would likely also coalesce there.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9C...
Day 7
HyunA: Bubble Pop! (2011)
My personal fave HyunA from the '10s is probably "Roll Deep" but I am happy to coalesce around "Bubble Pop!" (and if my kids got a vote they would likely also coalesce there.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9C...
February 7, 2026 at 12:19 AM
#TheTenX5
Day 7
HyunA: Bubble Pop! (2011)
My personal fave HyunA from the '10s is probably "Roll Deep" but I am happy to coalesce around "Bubble Pop!" (and if my kids got a vote they would likely also coalesce there.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9C...
Day 7
HyunA: Bubble Pop! (2011)
My personal fave HyunA from the '10s is probably "Roll Deep" but I am happy to coalesce around "Bubble Pop!" (and if my kids got a vote they would likely also coalesce there.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9C...
Every day for 30 years I have learned the lesson "if you eat a bunch of sugar without giving yourself a bunch of insulin first your blood sugar will spike" and then the next day I have unlearned this lesson
February 6, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Every day for 30 years I have learned the lesson "if you eat a bunch of sugar without giving yourself a bunch of insulin first your blood sugar will spike" and then the next day I have unlearned this lesson
Love having a cosmic gift for the most useless things imaginable
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Love having a cosmic gift for the most useless things imaginable
#TheTenX5
Day 6
Breathe Carolina: Blackout (2011)
This song is extremely dumb but I haven’t stopped thinking about it since it came out. Decadewise it’s the end of the beginning, as another dumb song once said
m.youtube.com/watch?v=h2S3...
Day 6
Breathe Carolina: Blackout (2011)
This song is extremely dumb but I haven’t stopped thinking about it since it came out. Decadewise it’s the end of the beginning, as another dumb song once said
m.youtube.com/watch?v=h2S3...
February 6, 2026 at 12:19 AM
#TheTenX5
Day 6
Breathe Carolina: Blackout (2011)
This song is extremely dumb but I haven’t stopped thinking about it since it came out. Decadewise it’s the end of the beginning, as another dumb song once said
m.youtube.com/watch?v=h2S3...
Day 6
Breathe Carolina: Blackout (2011)
This song is extremely dumb but I haven’t stopped thinking about it since it came out. Decadewise it’s the end of the beginning, as another dumb song once said
m.youtube.com/watch?v=h2S3...
#TheTensX5
Day 5
Best Avril Lavigne song? (Probably not?)
Avril Lavigne: What the Hell
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQmE...
Day 5
Best Avril Lavigne song? (Probably not?)
Avril Lavigne: What the Hell
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQmE...
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM
#TheTensX5
Day 5
Best Avril Lavigne song? (Probably not?)
Avril Lavigne: What the Hell
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQmE...
Day 5
Best Avril Lavigne song? (Probably not?)
Avril Lavigne: What the Hell
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tQmE...
New mix while he’s away: EMJAY, Pigeon, FLVCKKA, MiiMii, Spice, neo-Italodisco, and a 15-minute Afro-salsa jam from 1984, and emotional ambush from 2014
www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-saw-a-fl...
www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-saw-a-fl...
I saw a fly going to Miami
2026 Mix 05: A quick one while he's away—sneak preview of my '10s ballot, Latin American alt-pop, Caribbean hits, and my occasional reminder that Baby Queen is good
www.otherdavemoore.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
New mix while he’s away: EMJAY, Pigeon, FLVCKKA, MiiMii, Spice, neo-Italodisco, and a 15-minute Afro-salsa jam from 1984, and emotional ambush from 2014
www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-saw-a-fl...
www.otherdavemoore.com/p/i-saw-a-fl...
We also did this Joe lol
Lovage, MUSIC TO MAKE LOVE TO YOUR OLD LADY BY
February 5, 2026 at 1:49 AM
We also did this Joe lol