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Oooooh. E-40. Minimalist beat. You can’t go wrong.

Set countdown timer for 30th of March. “Revenue Retrieving”. Two albums. “Day Shift” and “Night Shift”.

Still the rapper doing the most with rapping? Most probably.

The best musician biopic of all-time is “Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys”. It is.
You know that bit at the beginning when they first hear their song playing on the radio? ON THE RADIO! IN A CAR! That shit can still happen in 2010:

Nice to see The Rangers getting some. The kid Langston has been the nicest dancer I’ve seen in a while. The kids are alright.

I was dreading the task of writing an end-of-decade list. After putting it off for a bit I laboriously compiled a list of about 150 songs that I love from the last ten years. Making the list did bring up some excellent songs I’ve not listened to for ages, so I may do some follow up posts just highlighting some forgotten, unsung or muchsung tracks. We’ll see.

I decided to pare the list down to just ten tracks. I thought it would be impossible, but in reality the ten pretty much picked themselves. I only quibbled slightly on points of “what is my favourite on that album?”. The ten I’ve ended up with has maybe three or four tracks that appear on some of the other lists I’ve read around the internet but still feels comfortably personal as a whole. Without further ado, here it is. Five here, five in part two.
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Gotted some nice bits of vinyl recently. A couple of nice moody soundtracks from two of the masters. Everyone needs the UN Resolution on Racism on vinyl right? Bottom right is a UK HMV copy of an Impulse comp that has a bunch of tracks unreleased elsewhere on vinyl. Gooduns.
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