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  Time to unleash Billy Taylor with I wish I Knew If you lived in the UK in the late 20th you might recognise this as the theme to a long running movie review TV show called Film , eg Film 85, hosted for a long time by the witty and acerbic Barry Norman. Billy Taylor wrote the song as an instrumental as it is played here, but later words were added to make it about civil rights, memorably sung by Nina Simone under the title I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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  Freddie and the boys (ie Queen) playing Bohemian Rhapsody at Live Aid in Wembley, 1985. I love the way he crosses his hands when playing the main piano theme, just as we were all taught never to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbvyNnw8Qjg #PianoMusic #JukeboxFridayNight

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  #JukeboxFridayNight #PianoMusic David Bowie with his cover of the Rolling Stones’ Let’s Spend The Night Together. It’s got so much more energy than the original, and also stunning piano by the incomparable Mike Garson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXo7wMwDJA8

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  This one’s just plain #Dirty Content warnings, easily offended etc. Frank Zappa with Bobby Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUq_T_Bhau8 #JukeboxFridayNight

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  A change in mood for me (I don’t normally post country. Or Western.) Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris. This is the version with Mark Knopfler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE_sUN_M7p0&list=RDJE_sUN_M7p0&start_radio=1 #Dirty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  So @jeridansky@sfba.social has already posted one by Steely Dan - thanks Jeri - here’s another favourite of theirs, Do It Again When you know she's no high climber Then you find your only friend In a room with your two timer And you're sure you're near the end Then you love a little wild one And she brings you only sorrow All the time you know she's smiling You'll be on your knees tomorrow, yeah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Yuu7RC2n0 #Dirty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  The King of Pop with Dirty Diana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUi_S6YWjZw #JukeboxFridayNight #Dirty

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  Remember the one hit wonder Mud with Tiger Feet? Here they are on Top of the Pops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQfidTOTsLo #Dirty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt You get to meet all sorts in this line of work Treachery and treason, there's always an excuse for it And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it Dire Straits with their atmospheric song Private Investigations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9K27HvhDxA #Dirty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt You get to meet all sorts in this line of work Treachery and treason, there's always an excuse for it And when I find the reason, I still can't get used to it Dire Straits with thir atmospheric song Private Investigations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9K27HvhDxA #Dirty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  You, you have your own special way, Of turning the world so it's facing The way that I'm going. Don't ever Don't ever stop. Your Own Special Way by Genesis Part of my personal soundtrack, for reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykaEysI4KYA #PersonalPlaylist #JukeboxFridayNight

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  @futzle@old.mermaid.town kiwi. Same as pavlova. You can have Russell Crowe though.

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  Seems like no-one has posted this yet: Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky? He got an ice pick That made his ears burn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbV16XOk404 The Stranglers with No More Heroes. Check out Dave Greenfield's amazing keyboard solo, another good 'un we lost to Covid. #History #JukeboxFridayNight

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  One from David Bowie - the Bewlay Brothers from his album Hunky Dory. Hard to understand even by Bowie’s standards, it’s possible that it was about the artist’s relationship with his brother, who suffered from schizophrenia. And my brother lays upon the rocks He could be dead, he could be not, he could be you He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature … Oh, and we were gone Kings of oblivion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO9JBM1ufA8 #Royalty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  One from David Bowie - the Bewlay Brothers from his album Hunky Dory. Hard to understand even by Bowie’s standards, it’s possible that it was about the artist’s relationship with his brother, who suffered from schizophrenia. And my brother lays upon the rocks He could be dead, he could be not, he could be you He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature … Oh, and we were gone Kings of oblivion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuDp6UhkUaI #Royalty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Then there’s Herman’s Hermits with I’m Henery The Eighth I Am - a witty premise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1GS6gu1FgY #royalty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Hawkwind want to make you royalty Kings of speed, kings of speed We're gonna make you kings of speed The song title is Kings Of Speed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saHImVyouGQ #royalty #JukeboxFridayNight

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  #JukeboxFridayNight #birds Jeri has already posted Prince’s When Doves Cry - good on you, Jeri. Here’s the version by Quinton Tarver from Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film Romeo+Juliet, featuring very young Leonardo di Caprio and Claire Danes. (If you’ve never watched it, run not walk. Luhrmann brings the bard alive.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvOCyUbyPS8

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  What’s this sculpture, really?

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  Adventures in AV, chapter 1. In which I as a tech who knows nothing about AV have to try to make a video recording set up usable by civilians

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  Of course, there’s always Africa by Toto Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY #JukeboxFridayNight #Waiting

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  Another song about #waiting for #JukeboxFridayNight Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0

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  Another song about #Waiting, for #JukeboxFridayNight Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood. If you don’t know the link, listen to the lyrics :) R18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yem_iEHiyJ0

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  There’s a scene in the film Chariots of Fire where runner Eric Liddell, played by Ian Charleson, reads this verse from Isaiah: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Here’s the film theme music by Vangelis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo As a personal link, this was filmed in part at my college on the day we all returned for the start of term. Gett...

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  #HotOrCold #JukeboxFridayNight Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot I mean, she was steaming The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy (CW misogyny) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta3yktdiqqe

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  Classics friends: if I were going to read one modern translation of Odyssey, as a total classics civilian, should it be Emily Wilson or Stephen Fry?

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  InternetNZ election - boosts welcome. The voting tokens for the INZ election are out. The list of candidates with their statements is online at https://internetnz.nz/governance-and-reports/our-board/board-elections/2026-board-elections/ The remainder of this post advises how to vote tactically should you so wish. INZ uses a form of STV (*). Voters are asked to rank candidates from 1 to n, where n is the number standing. You do not have to rank all candidates. Clearly, if you want specific pe...

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  This book is amazing. It’s written by a Scottish prof of literature, who happens to live in NZ, about a prof of literature in Scotland. Well-written and keeps you guessing. Great character development. CW for most things, it’s a crime novel after all.

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  Back in the early 90s I was the NZ govt’s first ICT advisor, working for the Minister of ICT. A concept in vogue then was the Negroponte Switch, broadly this was the notion that phones shouldn’t be wired and TVs should, which was the opposite of the situation as it was then. Now, many of us don’t have what we have come to call landlines, and all streaming and some live TV is delivered over fibre. (I watched the rugby game tonight over fibre, for instance.) Seems Mr Negroponte was right!

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  Southern Pinwheel Galaxy aka NGC300 or Caldwell C70. Shot from my garden last night. #Dwarf3 #astrophotography