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#12inchTuesday #WasNotWas
Front cover of the 12" vinyl release by Was (Not Was), Tell Me That I'm Dreaming / Out Come The Freaks (Dub). The cover features what looks like a film still from a live gig, showing Sweet Pea Atkinson singing into a microphone on a stand with Don Was wearing shades in the background to his left. Back cover of the 12" vinyl release by Was (Not Was), Tell Me That I'm Dreaming / Out Come The Freaks (Dub). Features track listing, credits - including a remix credit for legendary Detroit DJ Ken Collier - and a photo of the Was (Not Was) band (11 people in total). Also features a quote from Ronald Reagan that's sampled on the record: "Can we who man the ship of state deny it is somewhat out of control."
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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#WeekendSingles Sunday morning ending with some light New Jack Swinging courtesy of Ms. Ross.
Photo of four 7" vinyl singles: 1) S-Express - Theme From S-EXPRESS, cover features the band name logo which was based on London tube station signs, with a red stylized S as background and Express at the front in place of the station name; 2) M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume with artist and title in a graphic design; 3) Midnight Star - Headlines with photos of the band members arranged in a square grid pattern; 4) Diana Ross - Workin' Overtime with artist and title down one side and a headshot of Ms. Ross on the other.
December 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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#WeekendSingles #AlbumAlmanac Not a 2025 LP, had been trying to find a copy for a while. #StyleScott
The front cover of the 2004 Dub Syndicate vinyl double LP No Bed Of Roses, featuring artist, title, and an image of running soldiers with a close up of one soldier's boot in the foreground. Red and white roses are superimposed over the background image at three corners of the cover. The inner gatefold sleeve of the 2004 Dub Syndicate vinyl double LP No Bed Of Roses, featuring a photo of Style Scott and lyrics to the title track on one side, and hands grasping a wire fence and credits on the other side. Images of red and white roses are superimposed around the edges. The back cover of the 2004 Dub Syndicate vinyl double LP No Bed Of Roses, featuring track listing and credits. Images of red and white roses are superimposed around the edges.
December 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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#FallFriday "and their horses loved them too"
Front cover of the 1988 vinyl LP by The Fall, I Am Kurious Oranj. Features a photo with Mark E. Smith in the foreground and dancer Michael Clark out of focus behind him wearing an outfit from the ballet which featured his dance company performing and The Fall playing live. Background image in the photo is the UK Houses of Parliament. The inner gatefold cover of the 1988 vinyl LP by The Fall, I Am Kurious Oranj. One side features photos from the ballet which featured the Michael Clark Company performing with The Fall playing live, the other side is a photo of The Fall with Mark E. Smith in the foreground. Back cover of the 1988 vinyl LP by The Fall, I Am Kurious Oranj. Features the track list and a photo of the members of The Fall except singer Mark E. Smith: Marcia Schofield, Craig Scanlon, Brix Smith, Steve Hanley, and Simon Wolstencroft. The band are arrayed around a giant hamburger bun, with Brix Smith sitting on top smiling.
December 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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#12inchTuesday
Photo of two 12" vinyl singles: 1) Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit, Holger Czukay – How Much Are They?, cover has the artist names above a black and white photo by Angus MacKinnon showing wasteland with a low industrial building in the background; 2) Black Uhuru - The Great Train Robbery, with a photo of band members Junior Reid, Derrick "Duckie" Simpson and Puma Jones liberating a briefcase from the cab of a train.
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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#12inchTuesday #TalkingHeads Great sounding pressing that contains a slightly longer version of the facts rap vs the LP.
Photo of the of a 12" promotional vinyl release of Crosseyed and Painless by Talking Heads. Cover is mostly plain with artist, title, PRO-A-903 catalog number and small image of what looks like a stylus cartridge.
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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RIP #JimmyCliff #MusicSky
Front cover of the 1972 Original Soundtrack Recording LP for The Harder They Come, depicting scenes from the film in stylized art including Jimmy Cliff in a sweatshirt with a star on the front. Inner gatefold sleeve of the 1972 Original Soundtrack Recording LP The Harder They Come, featuring stills from the film on one side (including a headshot of Jimmy Cliff) and lyrics to the tracks on the other side. Back cover of the 1972 Original Soundtrack Recording LP The Harder They Come, featuring the track listing and sleeve notes about life in Jamaica.
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Sunday #WeekendSingles
Photo of four 7" vinyl singles: 1) Voyage Voyage by Desireless, cover with a side profile of singer Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop and her elevated hairdo; 2) There But For The Grace Of God Go I by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, featuring Kid Creole in a mask walking across a jungle set; 3) Smooth Operator by Sade featuring a closeup face shot of the artist with title down the side; 4) The Finest by the S.O.S. Band featuring the title and band's logo in gold bar-like lettering.
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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In celebration of Tina Weymouth's birthday. Have posted a few before, and there's one double appearance to even the numbers up. #WeekendSingles #TinaWeymouth #TalkingHeads
Photo of four 7" vinyl single releases by Talking Heads: 1) Love Goes To Building On Fire, cover with a black & white photo of Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, and Chris Frantz with Byrne slightly in front; 2) Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town featuring a black & white photo of the same three band members plus the newly added Jerry Harrison (Byrne again at the front); 3) Psycho Killer with a shot of a torso and arms in a white T-shirt; 4) Pulled Up, with a photo of a man dangling upside down through the top of what looks like an elevator/lift with another man looking up at them. Photo of four 7" vinyl single releases by Talking Heads: 1) Don't Worry About The Government (B-side of Pulled Up), with a 1950s photo of a Yankees baseball player lounging on a chaise longue next to an old TV, laughing; 2) Take Me To The River featuring a photo of Pastor Al Green's Full Gospel Tabernacle Church; 3) Life During Wartime, cover with a graphic patterned design; 4) I Zimbra, with photos of four slightly different propeller engines. Photo of four 7" vinyl single releases by Talking Heads: 1) Cities featuring a graphic multicolor patterned design; 2) Once In A Lifetime with a mottled pattern and central sun-like glow; 3) Houses In Motion showing a destroyed building; 4) Life During Wartime (Live) with a family looking like they're headed for the beach while a tank emerges from a suburban house behind them. Photo of two 7" vinyl single releases by Talking Heads: 1) Burning Down The House with a central blue circle surrounded by four photos of a chair in different non-upright positions in each corner; 2) This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) featuring nine photos of hands, elbows, and forearms in a grid pattern.
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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French promotional poster for The Man Machine. Part of the Florian Schneider collection that was recently auctioned. www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/... #Kraftwerk
French promotional poster for the 1978 Kraftwerk LP The Man Machine, featuring dummy/robot facsimiles of each band member standing in grey slacks, red shirts, and black ties: Ralf Hütter, Karl Bartos, Wolfgang Flür, Florian Schneider.
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Sunset in Philly last night. If you look closely, there's an arc of a flock of birds flying above the building in the middle. #Philadelphia
A photograph of sunset in Philadelphia on the evening of November 17, 2025, taken from the Market Street Bridge over the Schuylkill River. An arced line of a flock of birds is just about visible in the reddening sky.
November 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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#12inchTuesday #SixSedRed #CindyEcstasy #RickHolliday
Photo of the only release by Six Sed Red, the 1984 12" Shake It Right / Bang 'Em Right. Cover photo features a headshot of Cindy Ecstasy with half of band partner Rick Hallidays face visible behind her.
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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What movie do you consider perfect?

#filmsky 📽
Image of one of the promotional posters for the 2024 film All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia, showing the characters of Malayalis Prabha (played by Kani Kusruti) and Anu (played by Divya Prabha) in a scene where they inspect a new fangled rice cooker shipped to Prabha from her husband in Germany.
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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#WeekendSingles @wrongtom.bsky.social available here: rongorongorongo.bandcamp.com/album/someth...
Photo of four 7" vinyl single releases: 1) Steve Wonder - Living For The City / Visions, in a white sleeve with artist, titles and a small headshot of Stevie Wonder wearing shades and a cap; 2) Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It), cover has a background NYC skyline and yellow diagonal stripes across; 3) Tony Tuff - Fire Burn in no sleeve with a drawing of a baseball player as part of the GG's Records label; 4) Wrongtom meets Desta Zion - Something Else / Here Comes That Dub Again on the Rongotone label with an image of part of the Casio MT-40 keyboard.
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Crown Heights Affair – Say A Prayer For Two, Wasp synthesizer from 1978 (not counting records).
Photo of the distinctive yellow & black Wasp synthesizer made by Chris Huggett's company Electronic Dream Plant. The case is black plastic with a touch-sensitive keyboard.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Old street art piece from Broome St in NYC that reminded me of the film Jacob's Ladder, don't know the artist and not able to decipher what looks like a signature top left. #StreetArt
Wheatpaste street art posted on a wall in Broome Street in New York City, depicting a shirtless barefoot man in black pants leaning to one side with elbows against his sides and lower arms splayed with palms upward.
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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#12inchTuesday #JungleBrothers @junglebrothers.bsky.social
Photo of the picture disc vinyl 12" version of the 1997 Jungle Brothers release Brain, produced by The Roots. Disc contains a photo of group members Nathaniel "Afrika Baby Bam" Hall, DJ Sammy B, and Michael "Mike G." Small (who has his eyes closed and a hand against one side of his face).
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Share a TV series from the 1960s that you love. 📺

Guessing probably the only TV series to include casual references to leather queens and gay marriage in 1969. Also features the Borehamwood fish & chip shop my family used to get takeout from on Fridays, masquerading unconvincingly as a cafe.
Promotional image for the TV series Department S, showing the logo and tagline "Inexplicable... Baffling... Illogical" with headshots of three of the actors underneath: Peter Wyngarde as Jason King, Rosemary Nicols as Annabelle Hurst, and Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan. Series also starred Dennis Alaba Peters as Sir Curtis Seretse, and ran for 28 episodes 1969-70.
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.....
Front cover of the Billy Preston LP A Whole New Thing, showing Billy ready to welcome someone into the back seat of a plush white 1958 Bentley - Billy is sat on the far side looking out toward the camera, the near side rear door is open. Back cover of the Billy Preston LP A Whole New Thing, with a photo of a white 1958 Bentley taken from the back at right with the rear door open and Billy's hand visible in the middle of a heart shaped arrangement of red flowers.
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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#WeekendSingles
Photo of four 7" vinyl singles: 1) Wire - Outdoor Miner, cover picture of a leopard behind vertical prison bars; 2) Wire - Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW, cover drawing of the view from a window seat on an jet plane showing the back edge of the wing and a map of land underneath; 3) Folk Devils - Hank Turns Blue featuring what looks like a blurry live on stage photo tinted blue; 4) Howard Devoto - Cold Imagination, cover with a narrow image of the artist's right eye and forehead as if peering around the edge of the frame. Photo of back covers of four 7" vinyl singles: 1) Wire - Outdoor Miner, with credits and a photo of man in a black suit body surfing on a small table; 2) Wire - Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW with B side title Go Ahead above a map outline; 3) Folk Devils - Hank Turns Blue with credits; 4) Howard Devoto - Cold Imagination, with lyrics to both the A and B side (Out Of Shape With Me). Photo of the Wire - Outdoor Miner white vinyl 7" single.
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Cribbed from the Old New York FB page.
A black and white photograph of the Five Spot Cafe at 5 Cooper Square in New York City in 1957, appropriated from the Old New York Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=942384821254108&set=a.491677929658135. Photo shows the front window, with "Five Spot Cafe" across the top in what looks like neon lettering and promotional materials on a shelf at the base including an ad stating: "Thelonious Monk Appears Monthly at the Five Spot."
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Inspired me to finally track down on vinyl. Thanks to Scissor Sisters drummer Paddy Boom on @discogsofficial.bsky.social for the lovely copy: www.discogs.com/user/Boomand...
Front cover of the 1981 US vinyl release of the original soundtrack to Franco Rosso's 1980 film Babylon starring Brinsley Forde. Cover photo is a still from the film showing Forde's character Blue running from a car full of plain clothes police in South London. Cover text states: Babylon The Original Soundtrack Featuring Aswad, Dennis Bovell, Cassandra, Michael Prophet, I-Roy, Yabby U. Bottom right is a "Loaned for Promotion" stamp.
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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#12inchTuesday #Japan
Front cover of the 1982 12" vinyl release European Son by Japan. Artist and title are across the top, with a central black & white polaroid photo of singer David Sylvian in shadow smoking a cigarette in front of a framed window with light pouring through it. The photo is superimposed over a background image of a map of Germany. Back cover of the 1982 12" vinyl release European Son by Japan. Contains individual polaroid style photos of the band members: Mick Karn, Steve Janssen, Richard Barbieri, Rob Dean, and David Sylvian, along with track titles and credits: European Son (Extended Remix) Music & lyrics by David Sylvian. Produced by Simon Napier-Bell and Japan. Remixed by Steve Nye. Original version on the album 'Assemblage.' Alien Music & lyrics by David Sylvian. Produced by John Punter. Taken from the album 'Quiet Life.' Images of the front covers of the LPs Quiet Life and Assemblage are in the bottom right corner. According to Steve Nye, Mick Karn rerecorded his bass for the remix of European Son.
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Sunday octet of Haigs #WeekendSingles
Photo of four 12" vinyl single releases from Paul Haig: 1) Blue For You in an Interference Records company sleeve with multicolored stripes; 1) Running Away, cover is a headshot of a woman looking at the camera with long hair partially covering her face; 3) Heaven Sent, cover a painting of faceless female figure in couture; 4) Never Give Up, cover a drawing of a partially clothed female figure. Photo of four 12" vinyl single releases from Paul Haig: 1) Justice, cover is a blurred headshot of a woman looking at the camera; 2) Big Blue World, small photo of a space rocket launch against a blue background; 3) The Only Truth, with artist and title in yellow and blue chessboard squares; 4) Heaven Help You Now, cover photo of the right side of Paul Haig wearing shades, singing into a microphone, and playing guitar. Price sticker over his right eye.
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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One way of making a 7" single in Norwich in 1982: local sponsorships. Image from @discogsofficial.bsky.social, Terminal Fun - Great Moments / Twist And Survive. #MusicSky
Photo of the information sheet that came with the 1982 7" vinyl single release by Terminal Fun, Great Moments / Twist And Survive. Text starts "Terminal Fun shop at" and shows the names of local businesses in Norwich UK that helped sponsor the making of the record: Quality Shoe Repair, Cookes band instruments, Audiotime (Anglia), Urry Video, and Benkson (personal stereo radio and cassette players). "Thanks are due to the above sponsors without whom this record would not have appeared." Also lists bandmembers: Carole Bush - Vocals, Paul Day - Guitars & Vocals, Pete Sparrow - Drums Vocals & Mini Moog, Paul Rayner - Bass. Produced by Joe Bull & Terminal Fun for Projected Image.
November 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM