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The Stooges by The Stooges
The debut album from The Stooges. Not a favourite of mine but it’s still worth a listen every now and again. It’s one of those “formative” albums I think — being described as “proto-punk” on wikipedia. The short run-time (about 34 minutes) works great for me as a short-sharp punch of energetic music. 488/500
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Back to Mono (1958–1969) by Phil Spector
A large collection of songs produced by Phil Spector between 1958 and 1969. A lot of them I recognised from their covers by other artists over the years, along with the many that have since been used / lifted for adverts. I absolutely loved this whole collection. I enjoyed delving into the late 50s and…
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Heart Like A Wheel by Linda Ronstadt
A breath of fresh air after the previous album in the top 500 list. 490/500
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Harry’s House by Harry Styles
well. I made it to the end. Honestly didn’t care for most of it. But the last song “Love of my Life” wasn’t too bad. 491/500
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How I share videos on my website
The standard way nowadays, to share a video online, is to post an embed link to youtube. This then displays that video in what’s called an iframe — an embedded website within the website you are on. What this allows youtube and parent company alphabet (read: google) to do, is to track you whilst on…
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Carole King – It’s too late video (BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971)
Video Size: ~37mb – Watch out if you’re not on wifi. A great performance of the song.
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Nick of Time by Bonnie Raitt
Somewhere, on a desert road in U.S.A, is a dusty drinks bar about to erupt into a fight. This album playing on the jukebox. I got vibes of my distant memories of the film Road House. No sure how accurate that is. Favourite Songs: Love Letter Real Man The Road’s my middle name 492/500
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Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica
Nice, wholesome 60s music. Featuring a bunch of songs I, and no doubt most people, have heard throughout their lives. Favourites: (The Best Part Of) Breakin’ Up 494/500
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Nightflight to Venus by Boney M
Funky as f*ck. I took a sidestep from my top 500 album countdown with this absolute banger of an album (maybe it appears higher on that list) Every song is golden. I can’t believe ive been enjoying the song Rasputin all these years without hearing it in the context of the album. The opening song…
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II by Boyz II Men
495/500 Hot on the heels of Shakira’s album earlier, comes Boyz II Men’s II album. Pretty chill this one. It seemed to melt into the background as I was working. All in all pretty relaxing. Would recommend.
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Donde Estan Los Ladrones by Shakira
496/500 If you’d have told me, a week ago, that I’d be listening to a Shakira album I’d have laughed at you. However, as this is in position 496 of the Top 500 Albums as decided by Rolling Stone magazine, it has entered my ears. And you know what? Even though I don’t understand a…