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Rob Jones 🍁
@clippernolan.bsky.social
· Nov 18
I guess I should write an intro post to pin for new followers. I'm a music blogger, primarily. My blog is thedeletebin.com, a site I've run and written in since 2003 in various forms. But I'm also a marketing and communications writer. So, hello. 🙂
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Orchestra leader Paul Mauriat's "Love is Blue" was an instrumental expression of melancholy at the end of a tumultuous era of the late 1960s. For a new generation, it preserved that same sense of powerful longing. What is the source of its magic?
Paul Mauriat Orchestra Play “Love is Blue (L’Amour est Bleu)”
There are some tunes that communicate an aching sense of nostalgia, even without lyrics. This 1968 orchestral pop cut is surely one of them, with a melody inspired by the French chanson tradition. In doing so, it captured the spirit of those times. It would go on to carry that same spirit of melancholy across generations, too.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Orchestra leader Paul Mauriat's "Love is Blue" was an instrumental expression of melancholy at the end of a tumultuous era of the late 1960s. For a new generation, it preserved that same sense of powerful longing. What is the source of its magic?
Orchestra leader Paul Mauriat's "Love is Blue" was an instrumental expression of melancholy at the end of a tumultuous era of the late 1960s. For a new generation, it preserved that same sense of powerful longing. What is the source of its magic?
Paul Mauriat Orchestra Play “Love is Blue (L’Amour est Bleu)”
There are some tunes that communicate an aching sense of nostalgia, even without lyrics. This 1968 orchestral pop cut is surely one of them, with a melody inspired by the French chanson tradition. In doing so, it captured the spirit of those times. It would go on to carry that same spirit of melancholy across generations, too.
thedeletebin.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Orchestra leader Paul Mauriat's "Love is Blue" was an instrumental expression of melancholy at the end of a tumultuous era of the late 1960s. For a new generation, it preserved that same sense of powerful longing. What is the source of its magic?
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The Monkees Toppermost from @dlew919.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/monkees-the/
The Monkees - Toppermost
The Pre-Fab Four, the Monkees, who at their best created perfect pieces of pop, can stake a claim to be one of the best of the post-Beatles pop bands.
www.toppermost.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Tears for Fears Toppermost from @daveamitri.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/tears-for-fe...
Tears for Fears - Toppermost
Tears for Fears, in the middle of this decadent hedonistic period for pop music, introduced themselves to the public with Mad World, a song dedicated to loneliness, depression and suicidal thoughts to...
www.toppermost.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Tears for Fears Toppermost from @daveamitri.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/tears-for-fe...
"... proud of the man Robert Fripp has become."
Dad Calling Just To Say He Loves King Crimson https://theonion.com/dad-calling-just-to-say-he-loves-king-crimson/
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"... proud of the man Robert Fripp has become."
"That'll learn yuh."
"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"That'll learn yuh."
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Seal's "Crazy" is the product of being in an era when change was about to happen almost all at once. How does the music and lyrics of this, his first big hit, reflect the times? How is it still applicable now? Click through and read on!
Seal Sings “Crazy”
Released at a time when one era was clicking over into another, Seal's "Crazy" offered the best musical ingredients of eras past, while also introducing a new sound for the new decade of the 1990s. How do the music and lyrics tell a story together about tension, change, and what we need to survive?
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November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Seal's "Crazy" is the product of being in an era when change was about to happen almost all at once. How does the music and lyrics of this, his first big hit, reflect the times? How is it still applicable now? Click through and read on!
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3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.
Read CBC's reporting here:
Read CBC's reporting here:
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.
Read CBC's reporting here:
Read CBC's reporting here:
Seal's "Crazy" is the product of being in an era when change was about to happen almost all at once. How does the music and lyrics of this, his first big hit, reflect the times? How is it still applicable now? Click through and read on!
Seal Sings “Crazy”
Released at a time when one era was clicking over into another, Seal's "Crazy" offered the best musical ingredients of eras past, while also introducing a new sound for the new decade of the 1990s. How do the music and lyrics tell a story together about tension, change, and what we need to survive?
thedeletebin.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Seal's "Crazy" is the product of being in an era when change was about to happen almost all at once. How does the music and lyrics of this, his first big hit, reflect the times? How is it still applicable now? Click through and read on!
Sometimes, I write fiction. I'm writing a scene with a villainous character and a character who's leading a resistance against him. A few years ago, I would have agonized by wondering "how is she going to fool him?". These days the answer is simple—flattery, and making an idea seem like it was his.
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Sometimes, I write fiction. I'm writing a scene with a villainous character and a character who's leading a resistance against him. A few years ago, I would have agonized by wondering "how is she going to fool him?". These days the answer is simple—flattery, and making an idea seem like it was his.
Time for some classic Doctor Who - *Death to the Daleks* (1974) - Third Doctor and Sarah Jane.
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Time for some classic Doctor Who - *Death to the Daleks* (1974) - Third Doctor and Sarah Jane.
It's pretty hard to find an instrumental track that you heard in 1984 but don't know the name of it. But I did remember it was by the 1982 edition of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and that it started with a cool acoustic bass riff. Discography list by year->bass player (Charles Fambourough)->voila!
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It's pretty hard to find an instrumental track that you heard in 1984 but don't know the name of it. But I did remember it was by the 1982 edition of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and that it started with a cool acoustic bass riff. Discography list by year->bass player (Charles Fambourough)->voila!
Hey! Whatever happened to the person Elroy said has an operating brain chip and was recovering nicely? Are they still recovering nicely?
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Hey! Whatever happened to the person Elroy said has an operating brain chip and was recovering nicely? Are they still recovering nicely?
RIP, Gilson Lavis, drummer in Squeeze, among other roles. The opening beats in this tune alone make him a legend.
Squeeze - Up The Junction
YouTube video by SqueezeVEVO
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November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
RIP, Gilson Lavis, drummer in Squeeze, among other roles. The opening beats in this tune alone make him a legend.
Tonight's movie is *Siberia* (2018) starring Keanu Reeves as an American businessman in Russia in the middle of a bad deal with bad people. In a parallel universe, this movie came out in 1974 with Michael Caine, Ursula Andress, and Peter Ustinov. It's got a 1970s suspense thriller vibe so far.
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Tonight's movie is *Siberia* (2018) starring Keanu Reeves as an American businessman in Russia in the middle of a bad deal with bad people. In a parallel universe, this movie came out in 1974 with Michael Caine, Ursula Andress, and Peter Ustinov. It's got a 1970s suspense thriller vibe so far.
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Songwriter Bill Callahan putting out records under the name Smog presents this song that balances literary opposites; sex and death. It also has something to say about human experience and the difference between social convention and our inner lives.
Smog Play “Dress Sexy at My Funeral”
Sex and death; the eternal opposites. Here on this tune by songwriter Bill Callahan operating under the moniker Smog, the contrast has social implications - and comedic moments, too! What comes out of the contrast between sexuality and mourning? What does it say about the human condition?
thedeletebin.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Songwriter Bill Callahan putting out records under the name Smog presents this song that balances literary opposites; sex and death. It also has something to say about human experience and the difference between social convention and our inner lives.
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NEW post: "Nic Jones’ brilliant solo work has cemented his legacy as one of the greatest artists in English folk music, his contribution to the genre immeasurable."
@pangurdubh3.bsky.social picks 10 tracks from the albums of #NicJones
www.toppermost.co.uk/jones-nic/
@pangurdubh3.bsky.social picks 10 tracks from the albums of #NicJones
www.toppermost.co.uk/jones-nic/
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
NEW post: "Nic Jones’ brilliant solo work has cemented his legacy as one of the greatest artists in English folk music, his contribution to the genre immeasurable."
@pangurdubh3.bsky.social picks 10 tracks from the albums of #NicJones
www.toppermost.co.uk/jones-nic/
@pangurdubh3.bsky.social picks 10 tracks from the albums of #NicJones
www.toppermost.co.uk/jones-nic/
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Adam Ant is 71 today. Hard to emphasise how seismic this was in playgrounds across the country in 1980. For a period he was as big as any act has been. Was he the perfect pop star? I think so. It couldn't last but if you were there you'll never forget it.
youtu.be/Rm9drIwmmU4?...
youtu.be/Rm9drIwmmU4?...
Adam & The Ants - Antmusic
YouTube video by AdamAntVEVO
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Adam Ant is 71 today. Hard to emphasise how seismic this was in playgrounds across the country in 1980. For a period he was as big as any act has been. Was he the perfect pop star? I think so. It couldn't last but if you were there you'll never forget it.
youtu.be/Rm9drIwmmU4?...
youtu.be/Rm9drIwmmU4?...
Songwriter Bill Callahan putting out records under the name Smog presents this song that balances literary opposites; sex and death. It also has something to say about human experience and the difference between social convention and our inner lives.
Smog Play “Dress Sexy at My Funeral”
Sex and death; the eternal opposites. Here on this tune by songwriter Bill Callahan operating under the moniker Smog, the contrast has social implications - and comedic moments, too! What comes out of the contrast between sexuality and mourning? What does it say about the human condition?
thedeletebin.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Songwriter Bill Callahan putting out records under the name Smog presents this song that balances literary opposites; sex and death. It also has something to say about human experience and the difference between social convention and our inner lives.
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Recents: Sandy Denny, Penny & Sparrow, Marcus Miller, Leo Kottke, Rain Parade, Stray Cats, Billy Mackenzie, Death Cab, East River Pipe
@rusky.bsky.social @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social @marcfagel.bsky.social @dlew919.bsky.social @pangurdubh3.bsky.social @mikepress.bsky.social
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@rusky.bsky.social @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social @marcfagel.bsky.social @dlew919.bsky.social @pangurdubh3.bsky.social @mikepress.bsky.social
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October 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Recents: Sandy Denny, Penny & Sparrow, Marcus Miller, Leo Kottke, Rain Parade, Stray Cats, Billy Mackenzie, Death Cab, East River Pipe
@rusky.bsky.social @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social @marcfagel.bsky.social @dlew919.bsky.social @pangurdubh3.bsky.social @mikepress.bsky.social
www.toppermost.co.uk
@rusky.bsky.social @paulwonvinyl.bsky.social @marcfagel.bsky.social @dlew919.bsky.social @pangurdubh3.bsky.social @mikepress.bsky.social
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I've started playing *The Outer Worlds 2*. It's really well done so far. But it is kind of exhausting. I've amassed so many side quests by now that I've lost the thread of the story. ☹️
November 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I've started playing *The Outer Worlds 2*. It's really well done so far. But it is kind of exhausting. I've amassed so many side quests by now that I've lost the thread of the story. ☹️
"Boy, that sure was a mistake infecting all those monkeys and then crashing the van while transporting them, right?"
"Huge mistake, dude. Colour me embarrassed. "
"Oh, hey. How are the tiger infections coming along?"
"Right on track."
"Huge mistake, dude. Colour me embarrassed. "
"Oh, hey. How are the tiger infections coming along?"
"Right on track."
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"Boy, that sure was a mistake infecting all those monkeys and then crashing the van while transporting them, right?"
"Huge mistake, dude. Colour me embarrassed. "
"Oh, hey. How are the tiger infections coming along?"
"Right on track."
"Huge mistake, dude. Colour me embarrassed. "
"Oh, hey. How are the tiger infections coming along?"
"Right on track."
This all the day through, gentle friends.
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This all the day through, gentle friends.
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A modern country music supergroup inspired by The Highwaymen of the 1980s, The Highwomen reference the band and their title song in kind. What else comes out of the comparison? What does this song say about heroism, myths, gender, and disparity?
The Highwomen Play “Highwomen”
Why are some heroes lauded as immortal, while others are forgotten or remain invisible? The Highwomen's 2019 cover song meets answer song poses that very question, and calls out the country music establishment in the subtlest of ways at the very same time. What else is at work in this song to inspire us and make us think?
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October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A modern country music supergroup inspired by The Highwaymen of the 1980s, The Highwomen reference the band and their title song in kind. What else comes out of the comparison? What does this song say about heroism, myths, gender, and disparity?
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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