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Stuart Young
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Music was my first love and it will be my last. Music of the future, and music of the past.
Thanks Aaron for hosting the challenge, I will try to be more ready for #TheTwen2ie5
August 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#ALL50RTS Day 50

1. Age of Consent - New Order (1983)

Don't tell me about the birds and the bees.
August 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
#ALL50RTS Day 49

2. Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground (1969)

Sometimes I feel so happy, sometimes I feel so sad.
August 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 48

3. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens (2005)

A family favourite.
August 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 47

4. Nocturnal Me - Echo & the Bunnymen (1984)

whatever burns burns eternally
August 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 46

5. Into the bonuses, and I am catching up a day.

Pastime Paradise - Stevie Wonder (1976)

Absolute brilliance.
August 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 45

6. I'm Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground (1967)

Sticking with the drug dealing theme, for the final song that connects to the previous.
August 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 44

7. Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield (1972)

Sticking with the drug dealing theme, here is the utterly peerless funky classic with iconic percussion, iconic guitar, lyrics delivered in three-syllable bursts in that heavenly falsetto and that wonderful ... sting.
August 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 43

8. Night Of The Living Baseheads - Public Enemy (1988)

Sticking with the zombie theme, here's my vote-splitting pick from the greatest album of all time, but once again, today I discover that this WAS a single, and I stuffed up in my research, but it is too late to change. OOOOPS.
August 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 42

9. Zombie - Fẹla And Afrika 70 (1977)

Scathing critique of the army and the oppressive military government set to funky Afrobeat rhythms that would become hugely popular with the people but lead to a tragic crackdown.
August 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 41

10. Ghost Rider - Suicide (1977)

He's screaming the truth - America is killing it's youth.

So ahead of its time with its buzzsaw minimalist repetitive pulsing rockabilly synths.
August 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 40

11. Werewolf - Fiona Apple (2012)

Could've been one of a dozen Fiona Apple songs but I went with the one that ends in a minor key. Nothing wrong with that.

This is starting a mini-horror movie segment.
August 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 39

12. Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana (1994)

Such an astonishingly powerful song. Whenever I listen to this I am struck with immense sadness about what could have been.
August 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 37

14. Into The Light - Siouxsie and the Banshees (1981)

I am still ill so I can't think of anything to say about this track except that John McGeoch rules and what on earth are they wearing in this photo.
August 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 36

15. Everybody Loves the Sunshine - Roy Ayers Ubiquity (1976)

An iconic much sampled lazy hazy languid groove of bees and things and flowers.

I can find no proof this was a single, (except for 40 years later), but I suppose maybe it was. Not changing my list now.
August 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 34

17. Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes (1983)

Yeah it could have been other tracks from the ultimate adolescent angst and mixtape source album but I'm going with this one. Brash ramshackle energy from Milwaukee's indie buskers.
August 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 33

18. Wandering Star - Portishead (1994)

Has everything eligible from Dummy been nominated? More vote splitting here.

A bit late because I am sick. Tenuous connection? er ... camels wander a lot?
August 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 32

19. Needles in the Camel's Eye - Brian Eno (1974)

A relentless drum beat and an equally relentless "snake guitar" riff, plus one of the most iconic musical stops in all of music history. Opening track to his debut album setting the scene for future songs built around rhythms.
August 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 31

20. Oh! You Pretty Things - David Bowie (1971)

From someone who is so pretty when they're unfaithful to a whole load of pretty things who drive their Mamas and Papas insane.
August 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 30

21. Bone Machine - Pixies (1988)

Sticking with machinery, this is a song for Carol.

Clanging drums.
Bassline.
Raw stinging guitar.
Music stops with vocal hooks.
Vocal howls.

Repeat.
August 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 28

23. Dance Yrself Clean - LCD Soundsystem

Such an astonishing build of tension and explosive release into a powerful euphoric groove.
August 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 27

24. Hallogallo - Neu! (1972)

As another poster said this is the definitive Motorik track. Insistent, pulsing, a masterpiece of rhythm, pre-dating post-rock, visionary and incredibly influential.
August 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#ALL50RTS Day 26

25. Brakhage - Stereolab (1997)

And we are back with, what to me at least, is another iconic and instantly transportive opening to a song. The Groop are certainly the band that I own the most albums.
August 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
#ALL50RTS
HM 5/5

Sometimes It Snows In April - Prince And The Revolution (1986)

Lets have something else melancholic for the final HM.
July 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
#ALL50RTS
HM 4/5

Tears In The Typing Pool - Broadcast (2005)

This is both a near miss and a HM. A mesmerising dreamy melancholic wonder. RIP Trish.
July 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM