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Selena - Dreaming of You

Selena - Dreaming of You

by ScoopMeister on Mon, Aug 4, 2025

At least we have some variety with this project

The previous albums on this project have led me to the conclusion that there’s (probably) no such thing as music that’s actually interesting. This fact appears to be doubly true for the year of my birth, Anno Domini 1995. With that in mind, I’ve gone for a slightly different strategy and chosen an album which hopefully makes up in interesting context what it lacks in interesting content: Dreaming of You, the fifth and final album by Mexican-American singer Selena.
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Anne Murray - There's a hippo in my tub

Anne Murray - There's a hippo in my tub

by ferday on Tue, Jul 29, 2025

There's a unicorn in my Vortex

It’s quite easy to pick a bunch of really intense, popular, progressive, or otherwise important albums in 1977, some of which are no doubt well known amongst the Vortex. But another aspect of music is its ability to uniquely soundtrack our lives, which of course is the reason that it holds a unique power to bring up nostalgia over basically all of the other arts, but also to give us association with powerful memories or feelings even outside of nostalgia per se.
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Goldicot Culls The Week - XV

Goldicot Culls The Week - XV

by Goldicot on Tue, Jul 22, 2025

Load me a demon lung

What was supposed to be a weekly column of timely reports on current events has become a sporadic smattering of recollections of bygone days with month-long latency. Silver linings on dark clouds be what they are, there is freedom in failure, and an infinity of gestation awaits in the wake of a missed deadline. Perhaps this ephemeragraphy grows greater in import with increased temporal distance. Or perhaps the limits of a dimension are constant, no matter your relation.
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Oasis - What’s The Story (Morning Glory)?

Oasis - What’s The Story (Morning Glory)?

by Aker on Mon, Jul 21, 2025

Are you team Noel or team Liam ?

This Birthtopster malarkey has fallen at a good time. Oasis are shit but I’ve grown to like their musty stench; we all sniff our hands from time to time. I’m going to see (or, at the time of this being sent out, have just seen) Oasis in Manchester for their “Noel Gallagher Existential Post-Divorce Crisis Reunion Tour.” The brothers have gaffer-taped the multiple holes in their upturned bucket-hat flotation device of a relationship, presenting the façade of harmony on stage.
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