So, as mentioned before February is a bit different in that I’m skipping forward a year so as to introduce some variety in the selections. However, RadioWorldHistory doesn’t have any of February 1990’s Record Mirror and my collection is missing some issues so the first one is from February 10th. I thought I had a complete collection of RM for this year but I’ve either misplaced a box or misremembered.
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End of the month, going to do something a bit different with February but until then it’s ten from the Club Chart leaning into rarer / more obscure tracks and maybe some anthems, as much comment as I can muster (not much) and with hatred in my heart for Spotify.
And to explain myself on this point, Spotify is a company that has contentised art, stolen from musicians and treated them with contempt while profiting massively from their works. Fuck them. Buy some music from Bandcamp instead.
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I am writing this on January 7th to keep ahead and as of today Mark Zuckerberg is enabling the apocalypse so maybe Spotify has been destroyed by a missile as he declares war on Europe and European Internet companies.
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Ah, here we are again. Same deal, a few tunes off youtube and a burning desire for everyone in Spotify’s management to die horribly.
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Annual post time again, for this year I’ve scanned the Record Mirror Club Chart from 36 years ago.

And if you can’t read my scans, the lovely folk over at World Radio History have the full issue here in PDF.
So, on to the chart, I’m going to pick a few things out and we’ll see if they’re available on youtube. Not ideal, but fuck Spotify. I hope everyone in leadership at that company dies horribly.
Continue reading “Record Mirror Club Chart, January 7th 1989”The Lonely Traveller
Back when I started this, the Internet was a lot more promising. You could assume that your words would be indelibly etched forever into the conciousness of humanity.
The Complete Fantastic Adventures of Adam Ant
This doesn’t need much of an introduction, I’ve written about it before but to get up to speed this was a comic strip appearing in issues of DC Thomson’s (TV) Tops comics in 1982. A full colour series featuring the pop star alias of Stuart Goddard, Adam Ant. Adam travels through time, adventuring in various personas inspired by his glamourous stage presence. I’ve been trying to piece together the various strips for a while, which is not an easy task considering the scarcity of the source material.
A little over forty one years since the last strip appeared, I’ve believe I’ve managed to find every page.

The Coast Is Clear
I’m partial to buying what some what call junk from Aliexpress, so recently I had a need for some cheap coasters and figured I’d have a look there for something suitable. There’s little point in my buying those in Switzerland, they’ll be 10 times the price.
There’s the danger of buying something from Aliexpress that turns out to be a photo or a poster of the item if I’m not careful, especially it seems in the area of toolsets, but that’s part of the thrill I guess. And I realise I’m probably subjecting myself to the whims of big Algorithm feeding into big data for the Chinese Government, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take. And I really needed a Do Not Disturb sign for my office door.
Anyway, I found some vinyl coasters that were a couple of bucks and that’s kind of my thing, so I bought a pack and it’s arrived today.

November 15th 1896, The Phonoscope

“A Monthly Journal Devoted to Scientific & Amusement Inventions appertaining to Sound & Sight.”

As ever, many thanks to the unsleeping scanner of World Radio History for this gem. We’ll get to the charts of the era eventually, but not before some unspeakable horrors and duplicity.
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(This was originally posted in 2019, but with a crappy scanned version of the magazine. Finally got round to revisiting it properly.)
This is the preview issue of LM given away with Crash, Zzap & whatever the Amstrad one was called. Tone is a bit different from the proper issues, but it’s kind of a gateway issue.
