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One for all and all for one,
It's a pretty story.
Sharing everything with fun,
That's the way to be.

Hi, I'm Paul. Pleased to meet you.
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valleyguitarist.bsky.social
I'd like to teach the world to sing, but organising everyone's calendar is a fucking joke
February 18, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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#MusicChallenge
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic

Day 18: A Song That Feels Cold

'Snowed In' - Tim Rose

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Snowed In
YouTube video by TIM ROSE - Topic
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February 17, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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bowiesongs.bsky.social
40 now. "Yesterday's faded, nothing can change it/ Life's what you make it."
Talk Talk, Colour of Spring sleeve of Colour of Spring
February 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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audacityofdespair.bsky.social
Yes. Damn.
February 17, 2026 at 12:17 PM
pgj.bsky.social
Ah yes, pancake day.

Guess which idiot has ended up with lemon in their eye
February 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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magstheobscure.bsky.social
Goodbye Jesse Jackson. You were somebody
Sesame Street - I Am Somebody
YouTube video by LittleJerryFan92 *RETIRED CHANNEL*
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February 17, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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#MusicChallenge
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic

Day 17: A song that feels claustrophobic

'Love Like Anthraz' - Gang Of Four

"And I feel like a beetle on its back
And there's no way for me to get up"

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Gang of Four - Love Like Anthrax (Damaged Goods EP)
YouTube video by samuraiinCfede
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February 16, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 16: A song you disliked at first

'Sailing On The Seven Seas' - OMD

I detested this song at the time. It seemed so basic and silly and throwaway.
Now I recognise it for the glam rock stomper it really is and absolutley love it.

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Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas
YouTube video by OMDVEVO
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February 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt
Print featuring the silhouette of a bare hedgerow under a purple sky filled with birds flying in group formation
February 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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ianboudreau.com
Always striking to me how reactionaries treat "culture" as immutable, something totally static. They think it's like an inheritance, something with set bounds passed down from parent to child and never changing - Instead of the ongoing collective experience of people in a place and time
February 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 15: A song that always makes you cry

'Adoration' - Cranes

People, places, memories, tears.

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CRANES - Adoration
YouTube video by Phen Phuin
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February 14, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 14: A song about missing someone

'When Will You Come Home' - Galaxie 500

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Galaxie 500 - When Will You Come Home (official video)
YouTube video by A Head Full of Wishes
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February 13, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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birmingham81.bsky.social
Happy birthday to Peter Hook. Here he is on Tony Wilson's The Other Side of Midnight in 1989 performing an unreleased New Order tune, The Happy One. The full video is at youtu.be/5UGNcyuKWv0
February 13, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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memorialdevice.bsky.social
God, YES! 🙏
February 13, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 13: A song with complex production

'I Believe In You' - Talk Talk

There's a reason why 'Spirit Of Eden' is so reverered by audiophiles and musicians. It's a beautiful and wondrous achievement.

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I Believe in You [Official video] - Talk Talk (HD/HQ)
YouTube video by TheRover98TB
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February 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 12: A song with beautiful harmonies

'Near Wild Heaven' - R.E.M.

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Near Wild Heaven
YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic
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February 12, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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josie.zone
I don't know how much of this bit was George Lucas vs how much of it was Alan Dean Foster, but uhhhhhh IT HITS PRETTY HARD IN 2026
Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambi- tious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic. He promised to reunite the disaffected among the people_and to_ restore the remembered glory of the Republic Once- secure in office he_ declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears, Having exterminated through treachery and deception the Jedi Knights, guardians of justice in the galaxy, the Imperial gov- ernors and bureaucrats prepared to institute a reign of ter- ror_among_the disheartened worlds of the galaxy. Many used the Imperial forces_and the name of the increasingly isolated Em- peror to further their own personal ambitions
February 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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andylewis.bsky.social
You can play this record to someone who knows absolutely nothing about the 1960s, soul music or dancing, and within a couple of bars they're moving like a being possessed. -
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 11: A song that sounds unlike anything else

'It's A Kid's Word' - Disco Inferno

Samples triggered by real instruments. Textural and metatextual. Vulnerable but aggressive. An abstraction that adheres to all pop music structures.

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It's A Kid's World
YouTube video by Disco Inferno - Topic
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February 10, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 10: A perfect song for dancing

'Electric Boogie' - West Street Mob

This is my "bring me out of a coma" song. Just can't help moving to it.

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West Street Mob - Electric Boogie
YouTube video by Tobias Wittmann - wittinobi
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February 10, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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keithnavratil.bsky.social
Posted this chart last December. Thought the more recently launched jangle pop feed might appreciate it.

#JanglePop #MusicSky #VinylCommunity
keithnavratil.bsky.social nav_er_mind @keithnavratil.bsky.social · Dec 3
Jangle all the way!

These Rickenbacker ringleaders’ superpower was refusing to play the part of the traditional guitar hero.

#VennDiajams #CirclesOfSounds #5DaysOfPowerPop
#NowSpinning #VinylCommunity #MusicSky
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky

Day 9: A song that feels underrated

'Manhattan Skyline' - A-ha

If I had to explain to an alien what pop music was and describe everything it could do....I would play them this.

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a-ha - Manhattan Skyline (Official Video)
YouTube video by a-ha
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February 9, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

8: A song that made you explore an era of music

'Wondrous Place' - Billy Fury

I'd been led to believe that British pop music was a barren wasteland before The Beatles.

This track sparked my curiosity about the years '56-'63 in the UK

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Billy Fury - Wondrous place (HQ)
YouTube video by TheOldrecordclub
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February 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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glittertooth.bsky.social
Learning to draw really just takes lots of time and practice. But when you say that a bunch of people are like "if that was true, then I could do it!" And then you're like "yes" and then they're like "see? that's why you're lying!!" and then they continue to not practice because they don't like to
February 6, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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skipbolden.bsky.social
“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”
~ François Truffaut
February 7, 2026 at 1:56 AM