Paul Craig
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Paul Craig
@paulwcraig1.bsky.social
Father, Grandfather. Music mostly, some political discussion welcome
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#NowListening

Bert Jansch – Jack Orion (Transatlantic, 1966)

Folk
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Just two weeks ago - I visited the D-Day beaches of Normandy - good men sacrificed to rid the world of Nazis - and now the American government is run by NeoNazis - never forgive, never forget
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Jeepers.
Mr. Panofsky almost makes it worthwhile to go back to Twitter.
Almost, but not quite.
🥹😂🤭
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I am once again forced to remind people that if you want to make up a version of me to get needlessly aggressive at, you're welcome to do so, but if you try to involve the real me I'll just block you.
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The bard of Barking
Ideology
YouTube video by Billy Bragg - Topic
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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#365NewToMeAlbums
#NowPlaying

357/365
🗣️ John Martyn
💿 Inside Out

I'm fast approaching the end of another fantastic year of discovery.

Martyn has been one of my favourite new-to-me artists, but still with considerable gaps in my listening.

His jazz-influenced record is next up...
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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John Cale has made a record with someone who wasn't even born when he made Songs For Drella, which for most artists would count as a late-career recording, but for him... long may he roll, is what I'm saying.

youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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cow cubes but it's inside the cube from cube
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Calling your dad at work because you forgot basic math is a bold move.
#CalvinandHobbes #KidLogic
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I'll save you a lot of reading: unless Mamdani starts taking money from Turks and roasting leprechauns - and even then - there is no way in hell Stefanik is going to win New York a year after this election in the city.
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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#ArtistFave15
Scott Walker
#MusicChallenge

8—Tilt

Inescapably country in nature with its jugband style bass, it's almost disarming compared to its mates on the album. But it's false sense of security, because that chorus is utterly harrowing. Strikingly eclectic.

#musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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#Top30TomWaits
Unranked
#MusicChallenge

Ruby’s Arms

The Salvation Army Band horn intro prepares you for heartbreak. But nothing can prepare you for Tom sticking on his railroad boots, nicking a scarf and saying goodbye to Ruby's Arms. Quietly devastating.

#musicsky #nowplaying
Tom Waits - "Ruby's Arms"
YouTube video by Tom Waits
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Scrolling through some scanned photos, I found this picture of my grandma Eirwen (on the right), and her sister Norma. Both used Welsh as their first language and both lived to be 100 years old (Norma got to 101). I think was taken in 1937 or thereabouts. I loved them both so much.
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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13. Parlophone
For one reason only.

(“That’ll be Talk Talk then?”)
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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10. Impulse!
From Mingus to the New Thing - Mr and Mrs Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders et al - its late 60s/early 70s catalogue is matchless.
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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3. Blue Note
Hipster bop, modtastic grooves, Out To Lunch! and my, those sleeves!
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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#MusicInMusic #MusicChallenge

Day 7 - Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title) - The Monkees

Written about a party thrown for The Monkees by The Beatles "The four Kings of EMI" in London in 1967. Also, apparently, "the girl in yellow dress" is a reference to Mama Cass. Two for the price of one!
The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git
YouTube video by OrangeTabbyCat3
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Pierre Poilievre might be even more of an incompetent fuckwit than Maxime Bernier, and I did not think that was possible.
“It’s an historic fuck-up”

Pierre Poilievre’s week couldn’t get any worse, and yet it did.

It will be a miracle if he even makes it to the leadership review.

#cdnpoli
November 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
These are the people that Conservative politicians in Canada have lunch with. And certain leaders don't care.
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I prefer this to the Fairport version.
Jack O’Diamonds
YouTube video by Terry Callier - Topic
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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/7 I apologize, I am in trial and it frays my nerves to the point that I suddenly burst into unprompted statutory analysis
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I'm listening to a Terry Callier mix right now, and as a Beth Orton fan, how did I never not hear this ?
Beth Orton & Terry Callier - Lean on me
YouTube video by tenda berry
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM