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@didnotchart

Blog about pop’s greatest should have beens just about limping along. More active on https://www.instagram.com/didnotchart/profilecard/?igsh=MWgxeTEzNnFyamNubg== Here for music and chat and fun. https://didnotchart.blogspot.com/

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22.01.2026 18:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@clarewadd.bsky.social on this most auspicious of days, your birthday, can you spot anything wrong in Bandcamp’s recent assessment of Sarah Records?

22.01.2026 11:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In which case, stop what you’re doing and pick up a copy of Zuma. You won’t regret it. Teenage Fanclub may have been inspired by it on occasion

29.12.2025 00:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New songs by new bands in 2025 A sort of best of the year. All new acts, or at least new to me. And all the highest quality, obviously. People Mover - Explaining Cane Tr...

Favourite new songs by new acts this year didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...

13.12.2025 11:28 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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New songs by new bands in 2025 A sort of best of the year. All new acts, or at least new to me. And all the highest quality, obviously. People Mover - Explaining Cane Tr...

Funny you should ask - all the new hits didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-...

12.12.2025 12:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I’m playing the long game. Diabetes 3 eventually.

27.11.2025 16:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I won't be there, but have a good one.

19.11.2025 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I saved £110 by not buying a PSB ticket. Would have loved to go, but that's just too much.
PS Lend me a fiver. Or £110.

19.11.2025 11:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New guitar hero: Peter Morén elevated Robert Forster. Time to go back to those old Peter Bjorn and John records.
#robertforster
#peterbjornandjohn

13.10.2025 08:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People Mover - Cane Trash Baby-I’m-bored vocals, slacker rock simplicity and druggy bliss. Are Brisbane’s People Mover spearheading a dolewave revival? Because this i...

Cane Trash by People Mover is the dolewave revival or slacker rock greatness or simply one of 2025's best records. Because it's Bandcamp Friday: didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/10/peop...

03.10.2025 08:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hi Dear
Hi Dear YouTube video by Jonathan Richman - Topic

"You can't hide that love forever." You could modify that lyric slightly and get a classic album title. @edwyncollins.bsky.social
youtu.be/N1efJLqrnU0?...

02.10.2025 19:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Michael Rother being excellent on Saturday
#michaelrother

23.09.2025 19:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I followed the advice and bought a Redken comb. A bit silly because I never comb my hair. I wash it in punk rock shampoo and let satan have his way.

17.09.2025 08:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Robert Forster eulogises Robert Redford’s hair. “He has access to clear, clean mountain water. This helps hair.”
#robertredford
#robertforster

17.09.2025 08:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sleater-Kinney! Great shout

09.08.2025 20:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Like your style (mostly) but out of contention. Surprised you didn’t say Sportique . Or Spearmint who are in the running

09.08.2025 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Side note: the Guardian’s headline when Steven Norris MP had an affair with: Mr Norris Changes Dames

09.08.2025 17:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you! We’re taking remain undecided to the point of moving on to ‘B’ which we thought would be easier. Just more intense discussion…

09.08.2025 17:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Music fans: settle a pub argument that’s been going too long today. Best 3 bands beginning with ‘S’. No singer songwriters. Bands only. Thanks!

09.08.2025 14:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 1

I have a really busy job so that's that for now.

01.08.2025 11:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - New Threats from the Soul Honky-tonk heartbreak and punch-drunk pop. The sound of summer 2025 (if you drink a lot and are emotionally unstable). If you liked Dancing ...

They used to call this alt country. It's magnificent. Touring the UK this month. Don't miss out. didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/08/ryan...
@toughloverecords.bsky.social

01.08.2025 11:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Publicity Department - Old Master Did you want an English Silver Jews? Good luck! You’re in with this immediate maudlin classic. What was that? “Like the workings of a jumbo ...

Old Master by Publicity Department is my most played British album this year. File next to the Silver Jews.
didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/08/publ...
@safesuburban.bsky.social

01.08.2025 11:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Rhymies - I Dream Watching The sound of a northern English bedsit in 1981 with a cheap keyboard. Actually, no. The sound of San Francisco, 2025. Lauren Matsui of Seabl...

Rhymies debut on the ever reliable @dandyboyrecords.bsky.social
didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/08/rhym...

01.08.2025 11:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
The Pennys There’s an idea that every indie band is a mediation of some variant of the Velvet Underground (I just made up that idea @me if you want). T...

The Pennys - this would have sold 20,000 copies in 1989. It sounds like a classic. didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-... @mtstmt.bsky.social

01.08.2025 10:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
mariin k. - Rose Skin In which mariin k. makes a correction to the idea that the Estonian shoegaze scene is insular by finding fresh ways to create an immediate c...

Want shoegaze with big tunes? Rose Skin by mariin k meets your needs. didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/08/mari... @mariink.bsky.social

01.08.2025 10:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sharp Pins - Radio DDR There’s an idea that every record in the DIY genre is really in the Guided By Voices genre. I get that, and I especially get it when Radio D...

It's bandcamp Friday so I've dusted down the blog for some 5 minute reviews. First up, Sharp Pins with Radio DDR (album of the year maybe) didnotchart.blogspot.com/2025/08/shar...

01.08.2025 10:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Like Primal Scream if they were good

27.07.2025 09:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Some highlights of @glasgoespop.bsky.social so far:
1. V-Twin
2. Stuart Murdoch’s violin compilation tape
3. The Cords filming TikTok dances to @thepastels.bsky.social
4. @thebrogues.bsky.social bringing his milkshake to the yard (don’t ask, you had to be there)
5. A new James Kirk single.

26.07.2025 14:58 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
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Damn straight. Extra £500 (used banknotes) and I’ll chuck in the ep. Glas goes pop can get expensive.

14.07.2025 13:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ll do you mates rates. £3k and I’ll hand deliver it to you in Glasgow next week

14.07.2025 08:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0