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@Ricky_McA

3 years

On #InternationalWomensDay , I just need to pay tribute to the kindest, most loving, warm hearted, wisest woman I know.

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@Ricky_McA

9 months

Finally decided to begin properly listening to The Coral, a band I have criminally neglected. In no particular order, I’m currently on album 4. It is absolutely clear they write songs that appear effortless…but that betrays the craft behind them. @thecoralband

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Just wanted to welcome the new addition to our family…this is Annie, our newly born daughter. My wonderful better half is in recovery mode but we are feeling very blessed indeed. Life is good.

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#ManchesterTop15 2.Your Silent Face | New Order More than a nod to Kraftwerk and it dovetails perfectly with the emerging NO sound. One of my favourite songs of all time.

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@Ricky_McA

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#MyFavoriteBands Gene | Olympian | 1995 1. London, Can You Wait? Just astonishing. Is there a finer song from any band in the 90s? Probably not. There is a moment about 1.45 mins in where a great song becomes extraordinary. Thanks @deepblue3378

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#SynthPopSeptember 28.Your Silent Face | New Order A nod to Kraftwerk maybe, but this is my favourite New Order song, and that is saying something. Absolute sonic perfection.

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@Ricky_McA

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#Top15FaveAlbums (chronological) 1.Low | David Bowie | 1977 Side B is possibly my favourite side of any album I own, so there’s that. Then you throw in ‘Breaking Glass’, ‘Speed of Life’ & the mighty ‘Sound & Vision’…what an album. Pick: Sound & Vision

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@Ricky_McA

3 years

Just an observation, but…I don’t remember a Unionist party releasing something like this before, and I don’t remember a party message being this kind of positive. No fear being stoked, no division being sown, no judgement or grievance cast.

Ulster Unionist Party

@uuponline

3 years

📽️PREMIERE🍿 Ulster Unionist Party Election Broadcast 2022 On the 5th May vote Ulster Unionist for #ABetterNorthernIreland 👀Watch the full video on YouTube👇

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@Ricky_McA

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#DebutAlbums90sTop15 7.The Comforts of Madness | Pale Saints Only recorded 3 albums but they made their mark. Goes from dreamy to power-pop via shoegaze and everything else. Still a timeless artefact this one.

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

#ManchesterTop15 4.There is a Light That Never Goes Out | The Smiths Has always been my favourite Smiths track on my favourite Smiths album.

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

With an image, what album have you played the most in your lifetime?

Shane McElligott

@shanemcelligott

10 months

With an image, what album have you played the most in your lifetime? #Japan @istevejansen @barbieri301157 @davidsylvian58 #MickKarn

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@Ricky_McA

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#Top10FaveSongs 2.Your Silent Face | New Order My kids are sick to death of me playing this. Probably my most played song ever come to think of it. New Order’s nod to Kraftwerk among others.

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@Ricky_McA

9 months

What's the biggest dip in quality for 2 consecutive albums:

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@eoin_dempsey

9 months

What's the biggest dip in quality for 2 consecutive albums

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#5albumsFinal Evening @RichardS7370 . For the last ever time, here are my final picks⬇️ 1. Low | David Bowie 2. The Colour of Spring | Talk Talk 3. Disintegration | The Cure 4. Heaven or Las Vegas | Cocteau Twins 5. Automatic for the People | REM Have a lovely weekend folks.

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@Ricky_McA

3 months

My feed is flooded with the most incessant, abhorrent & depressing stories and there isn’t really any escape or let-up. If it wasn’t for the lovely folk in the music corner of this place, I would never set foot in any social media again.

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

#ManchesterTop15 1.Some Distant Memory | Electronic In my top 10, all time favourite tracks. It has a few phases and each one lands perfectly for me. It wasn’t planned but my top 3 all feature the mighty Bernard Sumner.

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@Ricky_McA

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#ManchesterTop15 3.Atmosphere | Joy Division Not the biggest Joy Division fan but what a song this is. So delighted when I watched Stranger Things with children 1 & 2 and this featured. Now they know too😁

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

Just back from the @slowdiveband gig in Belfast. A truly immersive, audio-visual experience. Spectacular and my ears will be ringing for a while. Thoroughly enjoyed the company of some of Twitters finest ( @StevyK1973 , @eoin_dempsey & @clarke371 ).

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@Ricky_McA

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#Top15FaveAlbums (Chronological) 3.Spirit of Eden | 1988 Tough call between this & CoS but this post-rock masterpiece gets the nod. My most played TT album & its influence is palpable on the likes of Sigur Ros. Its glacial tempo & minimalism tick every box. Pick: Eden

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#20FaveBands 5.REM AFTP was the first REM album I owned (12 y/o), then NAIH, then went back to the start. Little needs to be said at this point😀 Best album: Document Best songs: Finest Worksong; Find the River; Leave.

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@Ricky_McA

9 months

#DebutAlbums90sTop15 4.Lazer Guided Melodies | Spiritualized Ladies & Gentlemen… gets all the plaudits and rightly so. I still think this is their best album though.

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@Ricky_McA

9 months

#DebutAlbums90sTop15 8.Nowhere | Ride Wouldn’t be right to leave this out, would it?

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@Ricky_McA

4 years

@samuelluckhurst Of the opinion Ole would be a good director of football. Has bought fairly well and he understands the United way and gets the ethos of the club. He just doesn’t have the ability as a manager to get us there unfortunately.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

Defining teen albums for me:

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@deepblue3378

1 year

Defining teen albums for me:

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@Ricky_McA

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#Top15FaveAlbums (Chronological) 4.Hats | The Blue Nile | 1989 Some of the most beautifully heartbreaking music you will ever hear. An album of cities and the rain. And love too. Picks: Headlights on the Parade; Saturday Night

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

#DebutAlbums90sTop15 12.Reading, Writing & Arithmetic | The Sundays Such a lovely band, with such a lovely pure sound. Come back Harriet…we miss you.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

What’s a perfect album that came out when you were 21?

Richie Rouse

@Richie_Rouse

1 year

What’s a perfect album that came out when you were 21?

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@Ricky_McA

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#Top10FaveSongs 8.Waves | Slowdive It maybe isn’t one of their signature songs, but this was the one that made me sit up & notice their genius. Remains my favourite SD track.

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@Ricky_McA

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#Top20LongSongs 14.The Same Deep Water As You | The Cure 9.19 A disproportionate number of my favourite Cure Songs clock over 6 minutes. This magnificent, sprawling & atmospheric stunner features possibly my favourite RS vocal.

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@Ricky_McA

8 months

#Top10FaveSongs 7.Roads | Portishead Three great albums but they never came close to bettering this IMO. A real “beauty in the pain” kind of song. Stunning.

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@Ricky_McA

2 years

Does anyone else really want to like an album that everyone else seems to love, but can’t quite get? This is the one for me. Have worked really hard a number of times to get it, but seem to be missing something. Am I a philistine? Is it time to give up or persevere?

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@Ricky_McA

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#Top10FaveSongs 9.Vapour Trail | Ride The glorious 4 min (original) closer to Nowhere is the sort of song that makes me want to stick my hands in the air & jump around like a halfwit. The guitars chime, the drumming is wonderful & the strings mournful. Sublime.

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@Ricky_McA

6 months

#NowPlaying Strange Times | The Chameleons Knew comparatively little about it & held off listening until the 2024 remaster was in my hands. It’s magnificent. Swamp Thing is the big one…but Tears, Soul in Isolation & In Answer are the kind of songs that take my breath away.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#MyFavoriteBands 15.Your Love, It Lies Olympian | 1995 A great example of their gift for combining romantic verses with anthemic choruses.

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@Ricky_McA

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#Top15FaveAlbums (Chronological) 7.Grand Prix | Teenage Fanclub | 1995 First TF album I bought & as a 15 y/o, songs like ‘Sparky’s Dream’, ‘Neil Jung’ & ‘Verisimilitude’ blew me away. The catchiest, most joyously melodic music I can think of. Pick: Sparky’s Dream; Neil Jung

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@Ricky_McA

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#DebutAlbums90sTop15 2. Blue Lines | Massive Attack They have never made a bad album and they set their stall out with this debut. Astonishing stuff. The the coolest band in history? Absolutely.

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@Ricky_McA

9 months

#DebutAlbums90sTop15 3.Dummy | Portishead You can recognise a Portishead song within the first 1 1/2 seconds and they still sound like no one else. In “Roads”, we got not only one of Portishead’s best songs, but one of the best songs by anyone.

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| Ricky |

@Ricky_McA

10 months

#DebutAlbums90sTop15 15.Definitely Maybe | Oasis People still love Oasis. I can’t listen to them now and find the Bros Gallagher completely insufferable. However…I was a TOTAL obsessive from 1994-1998. Had the hair, the trainers, the combats. The works.

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

#ManchesterTop15 8.The Cedar Room | Doves Never any other choice for these guys. Everything I love about Doves is in this song.

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@Ricky_McA

2 years

@SoVeryBritish Chinese food in a box. That is still on the bucket list.

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

#2023Top15Songs #My31of2023 1. It’s Just A Bit Of Blood | Bdrmm “Radiohead being devoured by My Bloody Valentine” is how this has been described. Sounds just right. A sensational track from one of the very best new bands around. It is something else.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#MyFavoriteBands Gene | Olympian | 1995 5.Olympian The epic title track which goes from gorgeous melody to singalong chorus.

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@Ricky_McA

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#Top15FaveAlbums 8. It’s A Wonderful Life | Sparklehorse | 2001 Saw S/H live in 2006 a few years before Mark Linkous passed & his band are very dear to me. This is their most focussed album, jam packed with loveliness (aside from a bonkers Tom Waits collaboration). Beautiful.

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@Ricky_McA

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#2023Top15Songs #My31of2023 8. Andalucia Plays | Slowdive Everything is Alive is superb & has all the Slowdive shoegaze loveliness we could want. The hazy gorgeousness of this track stood out from first listen and remains my favourite.

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@Ricky_McA

8 months

#Top10FaveSongs Grass | Talk Talk My listening comfort blanket. Only tend to play it after a hard day at work, or if I have stresses with the kids. So I listen to it a lot😁, in a dark room if I can…

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@Ricky_McA

7 months

#Top15FaveAlbums (Chronological) 11. In Rainbows | Radiohead | 2007 The perfect Radiohead album. Unmistakably Radiohead, but superb experimentation in percussion & rhythm set it apart. Pick: Weird Fishes; Reckoner

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

#DebutAlbums90sTop15 11.Moon Safari | Air What’s not to like? Still love this (and them). “Ce Matin La” has always been a favourite. A nice balancing act between accessible pop songs & successful experimentation, with Gallic flair.

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@Ricky_McA

9 months

#DebutAlbums90sTop15 6.Just For A Day | Slowdive One of my favourite bands now and the debut has all their hallmarks. Waves remains my favourite Slowdive song & the rest ain’t bad either.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#20FaveSoloArtists 15.Kate Bush A genius by any definition. If she only ever made Hounds of Love she would be here. Has there ever been a more mind blowing Side B in music history than The Ninth Wave? Pick: Cloudbusting

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@Ricky_McA

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#DebutAlbums90sTop15 14. A Catholic Education | Teenage Fanclub Still going strong after all these years. One of the bands I have listened to for the longest (30 years +) so had to include this. All the elements I love are here.

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@Ricky_McA

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#ManchesterTop15 14.Slide Away | The Verve Traipsing through my teenage years for now. As much as Urban Hymns was HUGE for me as a 17y/o, this remains the song from Ashcroft et al that has stayed with me.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#20FaveBands 3.The Cure A band I put off listening to for far too long. Judging a book by its cover & all that. The opening notes of Plainsong told me I was a fool. Best album: Disintegration Best songs: Pictures of You; A Forest; Closedown.

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

#ManchesterTop15 11.Sound | James Final pick from my teenage years. Little between this and Born of Frustration, but I loved Sound more in my formative years so it gets the nod 😁

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@Ricky_McA

9 months

Repost with your favourite album from the 90's. Mine:

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@MBushwacker77

9 months

Repost with your favourite album from the 90's. Mine:

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#SynthPopSeptember 4.Electricity | OMD I’m no expert but I own a couple of their albums and this is the OMD song I have loved more than any other.

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@Ricky_McA

3 months

#Top10QuestionSongs Morning folks. Kicking off with this gem from Replicas… 10. Are ‘Friends’ Electric? | Tubeway Army

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#NowPIaying Laughing Stock | Talk Talk When I got my turntable, I made a list of the albums I wanted on vinyl. There was only one on my list & it was this. Picked it up yesterday from the lovely @first_vinyl . It’s the 2016 Euro press. Doesn’t matter..it is still astonishing.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#RadioheadAnthology The Bends | 1995 Monumental for 15 y/o me. Quickly eclipsed Definitely Maybe as my favourite album in 95 but unlike Oasis, they have remained part of my life since. 1. Planet Telex 2. Fake Plastic Trees 3. My Iron Lung 4. Street Spirit

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@Ricky_McA

7 months

#Top15FaveAlbums 13.Diamond Mine | King Creosote & Jon Hopkins | 2011 An album intrinsically linked to place…an elegy to life on the coast. This is an understated, melancholy masterpiece & full of unhurried, delicate charm. Pick: John Taylor’s Month Away; Running on Fumes

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@Ricky_McA

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#Top10DebutAlbums (Post 1990) 1.Olympian | Gene | 1995 Never miss the opportunity to post about this album. Such a special album personally and if anything, I love it more now than I did in 1995. Pick: London, Can You Wait

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#SynthPopSeptember X | Ultravox Perfect snapshot of the New Romantics. My favourite track on Vienna, possibly my favourite Ultravox song. Maybe 🤔

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

#ManchesterTop15 7.View From A Hill | The Chameleons They are a band deserving of much more of my time. Have this song on a free compilation & have always loved it. So atmospheric with a superb coda.

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@Ricky_McA

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#ManchesterTop15 6. My Sad Captains | Elbow What a lovely celebration of friendship. Have always found this a wonderfully moving listen. Guy’s voice soars and lyrically it is just lovely.

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

#DebutAlbums90sTop15 10. Suede | S/t It isn’t my favourite Suede album (hello Blue Hours) but they emerged fully formed and were on fire with their debut.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#TopTitleTracks Day 17 The Cure | Disintegration Sure why not? Finest album by TC, what a song (as roughly 97% of the world’s population have already said).

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#21stCenturyGold 2020 Punisher | Phoebe Bridgers My favourite album of the last decade and for me is head and shoulders above everything else. Can’t put into words how much I love Punisher. Pick: Chinese Satellite

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@Ricky_McA

3 months

#ABCsOfAugust Day 1 Alone in Kyoto | Air Never miss a chance to post about this perfect closer to Talkie Walkie.

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@Ricky_McA

21 days

My top 10 bands. Would love to see yours. 10. Epic45 9. Sparklehorse 8. Okkervil River 7. There Will Be Fireworks 6. Lambchop 5. Talk Talk 4. The War on Drugs 3. Teenage Fanclub 2. Gene 1. Radiohead

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@TheExtremeMusi1

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My top 10 bands. Would love to see yours. 10. LCD Soundsystem 9. Arctic Monkeys 8. The Pogues 7. Radiohead 6. Wolf Parade 5. The Rolling Stones 4. The Beatles 3. Vampire Weekend 2. Arcade Fire 1. The National

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@Ricky_McA

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#ABCsOfAugust Day 3 Soul In Isolation | The Chameleons This astonishing song is a 7 minute tour-de-force and to my ears is their finest song. It blows me away each time I play it.

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@Ricky_McA

7 months

#Top15FaveAlbums (Chronological) 2.Rain Dogs | Tom Waits | 1985 Everything wonderful about Tom is here. The rockers, the ballads and the bonkers. The best in school in each category is on Rain Dogs. Pick: Jockey Full of Bourbon

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#bestalbums2023 bdrmm | I Don’t Know Heard it described as ‘Radiohead being devoured by My Bloody Valentine’. It is by turns quiet, (very) loud, ambient & shoegaze-y. It sets off in many directions but they all coalesce to make a complete piece of work. Pretty astounding.

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@Ricky_McA

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#DebutAlbums90sTop15 1. Olympian | Gene No other choice😁The album I have played possibly more than any other. It has long been a very special album to me. Would probably feature on account of “London, If You Wait” alone. Thanks @barryma40000659 Have a good one folks.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#TopTitleTracks Day 3 Gene | Olympian The Smiths comparisons always followed them but Gene are a band I feel are every bit as good if not better, and I remain more fond of. Loved this when it came out and still do.

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@Ricky_McA

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#MyFavoriteBands Gene | Olympian | 1995 3.Sleep Well Tonight The mighty Sleep has come to represent everything I love about Gene…anthemic, rousing chorus, crescendo et al. First song I heard by them & still love it. Always will.

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@Ricky_McA

10 months

#NowReading Just finished my 1st novel of the year and it was typically superb stuff by @donwinslow . If this trilogy is to be his swan song, then it is proving to be a great and fitting way to bow out. Crime writing (or any for that matter) of the highest order.

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@Ricky_McA

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#TartanTop10New 10.King Creosote & Jon Hopkins | Bats in the Attic A album so fragile and tender it is barely there, Diamond Mine is a little heard gem. This is a really poignant track about the curse of growing old.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#TopTitleTracks Day 10 Cocteau Twins | Heaven or Las Vegas Easily in my top 5 albums of all time, so an obvious yet entirely deserved pick this morning.

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@Ricky_McA

1 year

#SynthPopSeptember 3.Small town Boy | Bronski Beat Their signature tune probably (and an very obvious pick) is still an anthem with emotional honesty front and centre.

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@Ricky_McA

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#5albums80s3 Evening Richard et al, here are my 5: 1. What Does Anything Mean, Basically? | The Chameleons 2. Actually | Pet Shop Boys 3. Reckoning | REM 4. Security | Peter Gabriel 5. Songs From the Big Chair | Tears for Fears Have a good weekend folks. @RichardS7370

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#Top15FaveAlbums (Chronological) 6.Olympian | Gene | 1995 My favourite album of the 90s. A perfect debut. Picks: London, Can You Wait; Olympian

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#ManchesterTop15 5.Near Distance | Puressence Inexplicably missed this band until last year (courtesy of @plc69 ). First song from their first album (very obvious). It shifts gears pitch perfectly throughout. Stunning.

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#ManchesterTop15 13.Going Down | The Stone Roses “The Complete Stone Roses” played on loop in my late teens & I always loved this song. It also featured in “A Room for Romeo Brass” by Shane Meadows. If he uses your song, it means it is quality.

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#ABCsOfAugust Day 21 Mr X | Ultravox Never miss an opportunity to post my favourite Ultravox song from my favourite Ultravox album.

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@Ricky_McA

3 years

@NaturalistDara @liveotherwise @TheBullyingDr These excerpts make for pretty appalling reading. That is also a massive understatement. These passages are arrogant and shameless in their mockery.

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#ABCsOfAugust Day 2 Superstar | Beach House Probably the best song ever recorded by Beach House (or anyone for that matter). This gets played on loop in heaven apparently.

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#NowPIaying Coral Island | The Coral | 2001 I have been working my through The Coral’s discography and finally arrived here. Second time through & it has the feel of a magnum opus. 19 years after their debut and as their 10th album, it is breathtakingly intricate/inventive.

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#SynthPopSeptember 25. Tinseltown in the Rain | The Blue Nile A song about love and cities. For The Blue Nile the future is unwritten and this song is endlessly uplifting. Their best song? It’s certainly up there.

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#Top15FaveAlbums My top 15, chronologically. This was a lovely challenge to take part in @girlshirl1 It was wonderful to read such a varied, informative & interesting top 15 from so many. As always, lots of take always. Thanks all.

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#NowPlaying Iechyd Da | Bill Ryder Jones After a particularly tiring week at work, nothing better than relaxing with a Hazy IPA & a bit of Bill. Just the most beautiful album. That 1-2 of ‘If Tomorrow Starts W/out Me’ & ‘We Don’t Need Them’ is simply stunning. @BRyderJones

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#MyFavoriteBands Gene | Drawn to the Deep End | 1997 6.Where Are They Now Melancholy with hints of anger underneath, there is a surging chorus and gorgeous phases of guitar work. Love this album too.

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1 year

Name an album you love that not many people will have heard.⬇️ (Nervously waiting for Music Twitter to point out that a million people know this album, and that I don’t know what I am talking about)😬

Richie Rouse

@Richie_Rouse

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Name an album you love that not many people will have heard.

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#Top15FaveAlbums (Chronological) Singles | Future Islands | 2014 Synth played with utter conviction. It isn’t all about Herring: Cushion’s bass playing channels Peter Hook & Welmers tinkles the ivories with the best of them. It’s perfect. Picks: Light House: Dream of You & Me

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#SynthPopSeptember ’s My Life | Talk Talk Love both sides of Talk Talk and little needs to be said about this one.

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#20FaveBands 2.Cocteau Twins The first time I put on HOLV, I was swept away by this unique band. Most of the time I haven’t the foggiest what EF is singing about, but I feel it deeply. Best album: Heaven or Las Vegas Best songs: Wolf In The Breast; Pur; Frou Frou Foxes.

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#ABCsOfAugust Day 4 Youth | Daughter Their debut is a fine album & this standout track is a perfect entry point for new listeners. The cascading melody builds perfectly: Daughter are masters at moving a song through phases.

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#2008Top20 3.Fleet Foxes | White Winter Hymnal A song that unfolds in a few different directions…and each one lands perfectly.

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#NowPlaying Once again, find myself going back to @BRyderJones As has been made abundantly clear, Iechyd Da is a masterpiece. Don’t mean to be hyperbolic, but the 1-2 punch of “If Tomorrow Starts Without Me” & “We Don’t Need Them” are up there with the best songs in a decade.

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#Top15FaveAlbums 9.Illinois | Sufjan Stevens | 2005 For me, still the best album released this century. Unparalleled imagination in lyrics, and arrangements, this is astonishing in both ambition & execution. Picks: John Wayne Gacy, Jnr; The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades

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#AlbumArt15 9.Cocteau Twins | Heaven or Las Vegas Like their music for me…I don’t know exactly what it is about, but know that it is beautiful.

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#ABCsOfAugust Day 16 We Carry On | Portishead When it comes to Portishead, ‘Roads’ is usually my go to, but this menacing number from Third has always been mesmerising to my ears.

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