Wicked Dreamer

when the Thanks is Giving (about to watch To Wong Foo for the first time)

Got the new album from Aussie instrumental soul band Karate Boogaloo today. I’m really digging this album, I recommend it if you’re into laid-back organ/guitar heavy soul grooves.

got some great new indie soul records from one of my locals last weekend! @coleminerecords.bsky.social

One of my locals, Listen Records, had an anniversary sale just over a week ago and my dad & I got some good albums (and a cool new tote) out of it!

Finally picked up the Womack Sisters’ album today along with their new “Chauffeur” 45 (and a reissue of an obscure Curtis Mayfield cover). Also got the new Kelly Finnigan compilation two weeks ago and forgot to post it. @daptonerecords.bsky.social @coleminerecords.bsky.social #vinyl

The week ending August 18, 1979, Detroit R&B vocal trio The Jones Girls earned US #OneHitWonder honors when their classic disco/Philly soul single “You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else” spent the week at #38 on the US #Billboard #Top40 before dropping the following week. #OneHitWondered #MusicSky

a local shop was having a Canada Day sale today, including 25% off used records by Canadian artists, so I got a couple Anne Murray records and a great 12” single I was looking for!

my dad & I went down to one of our local record shops for #GlobalBeatlesDay today, got some goodies along with a copy of George’s solo opus “All Things Must Pass” (and Corey Hart’s debut bcuz that was just $5)

Explain your @ / handle Wu-Tang name generator, the same place Donald Glover got the Childish Gambino alias from.

got the new Olivia album & “eternal sunshine deluxe” on 💿!

#AlbumADay (350) The Cars “The Cars” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My 3rd favorite album of 1978

some of the great records I’ve bought over the last two weeks

Been a while since I’ve heard Pure Heroine in full… I remember hearing “Royals”, “Team” & “Tennis Court” everywhere back in 2013/14 (that last one mostly because of all the GTA V that I played then 😆)

Clarence’s version of Patches is one of my favourite hits of 1970 and Back Door Santa (which later became the backdrop for Christmas In Hollis) is an underrated holiday jam! RIP Legend

“Faith” by George Michael & “Dream Into Action” by Howard Jones, two albums I’m pretty sure she can sing front-to-back

Got the new @theesacredsouls.bsky.social 45 today! @penroserecords.bsky.social

Lemonade: 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋.2/10 Happy happy 10th to one of the best albums of the 2010s (and one of my personal favourites)! favs: 6 Inch, Pray You Catch Me, Don’t Hurt Yourself, Daddy Lessons, Freedom least fav: if I had to pick one… uhhhhh ig Sandcastles?

my full #RSD haul; the Bruno Mars compilation & Ghost Funk Orchestra live record I was after plus two more I meant to pick up last week! @coleminerecords.bsky.social

listening to #AT40 on my 📱 (or I will be when it starts) as I wait in line for #RSD I got the Bruno Mars compilation at my first stop, hoping to get the Ghost Funk Orchestra live LP at my second.

Just had a listen to “Move Like This”, the only Cars album I don’t have. It’s one of their weaker albums but it’s still pretty good, definitely better than I expected from a band that hadn’t put out anything in over 20 years at that point. 7.3/10 favs: Keep On Knocking, Sad Song, Blue Tip worst: 🔜

Absolutely stacked list through and through!

This is the way to report his passing. He was instrumental to the birth of hip-hop but by many credible accounts, was also a monster. May his victims know peace.

“DNA” by Kendrick Lamar was a US #4 hit in 2017. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #kendricklamar #EveryHitSongEver

32 years ago today, Stampy the Elephant went on a rampage throughout Springfield, including through the Democratic and Republican conventions as well as a peanut factory. #TheSimpsons episode “Bart Gets an Elephant” first aired on March 31, 1994.

“Heartbeat City” marked a more glossy, synth-driven direction for the Cars (which I believe had a lot to do with working with Mutt Lange) and I think it really works! The five top 40 hits this album spun off are all fantastic and overall, I’d call it their best record since their debut. 8.1/10

Got a few new 45s that dropped today! The 2nd @daptonerecords.bsky.social 45 from Detroit singer Napoleon Demps & two 45s of songs recorded in the mid-70s from the @coleminerecords.bsky.social reissue imprint Remined, from Detroit group the Barrino Brothers & the late Ghanaian musician Ebo Taylor.

Got the new 45 from Say She She, featuring two of my favourite songs from their album”Cut & Rewind” album last year!

an underrated bop from Neil Sedaka’s ‘70s comeback era. RIP Legend. youtu.be/1PYtoKH3Vhg?...

Cochemea’s “All My Relations”, probably my favourite instrumental LP from @daptonerecords.bsky.social , of the ones I’ve heard, turned 7 this week and today they dropped a new 45 featuring my favourite song on that album on the a-side! (alongside an outtake from his latest album on the b-side)

I was half-expecting something in English. I was not expecting Die With a Smile to be remade into a hot salsa song, nor was I expecting it to be this good.