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  Hey karaj muzikamantoj! This Friday the 6th is #alternateFridayMusic and the cue is: #protest There's plenty of great protest music to choose from and if you're looking for some fresh, current protest songs, Matt Ward reviews 10 albums with protest songs on them every month from all over the world - and you'd be surpised by some of the artists in those lists. Upcoming words: #fortnightFridayMusic 13th Nov: funk 27th Nov: butterflies 11th Dec: sexy #alternateFridayMusic 20th N...

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  Hey karaj muzikamantoj! This Friday the 30th is #fortnightFridayMusic and the cue is: #perspiration Break out whatever makes you sweat and give it a spin this week Upcoming words: #alternateFridayMusic 6th Nov: protest 20th Nov: covers 4th Dec: sillySeason #fortnightFridayMusic 13th Nov: funk 27th Nov: butterflies 11th Dec: sexy @dgar@aus.social @fc@universeodon.com @Bishopjoey@writing.exchange @electric_gumball@mastodon.social

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  Even more #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #remix I couldn't choose which version was best, so I'll leave it up to you to choose which version you prefer: Crass - So What (If It's Reggae?) (Neale Muldowney Remix) or Crass - So What (CHRØMATIKA remix 2022) Another classic punk track re-imagined. The latter remix has a great video to go with it 🎶 I'm just a person, a human being! "No you're not, you're a part of the machine!" "You'...

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  It's still #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #remix I think the title speaks for itself: Crass - Fight War Not Wars - Dub Revolutions Remix) A classic punk track re-imagined in 2022 @dgar@aus.social  @electric_gumball@mastodon.social @Bishopjoey@writing.exchange @fc@universeodon.com 2/4

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  Hey it's #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #remix If you're of a certain age from certain countries, the theme song from "Are You Being Served?" was part of your youth: Regurgitator - Are U Being Served) The 'gurge remixed this in into a classic track in 1999 and I still think it's a banger in it's own right, whether you are familiar with the TV show or not @dgar@aus.social  @electric_gumball@mastodon.social @Bishopjoey@writing.exchange @fc@univ...

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  Hey karaj muzikamantoj! This Friday the 16th is #fortnightFridayMusic and the cue is: #loop ♾ Whether you're into looped beats, fractals like a Sierpinski triangle, repetitive artists or loopy ones or anything that comes to mind, let your freak flag fly in loops this week There are no wrong interpretations 😀 Upcoming words: #alternateFridayMusic 23rd Oct: remix 6th Nov: protest 20th Nov: covers #fortnightFridayMusic 30th Oct: perspiration 13th Nov: funk 27th Nov: butterflies @dgar@...

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  I can't believe that no-one put this up for  #alternateFridayMusic so I'm dipping in again, because it's just sitting there. You pour heart out writing a plaintive rock / love song in the 70's, even going so far as to name it Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again replete with Renoir references. The song's a hit, the band's a success and you take it on the road... ...and you're met with #vitriol by your fans. every time you play the song. Even in the year you died, t...

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  Yet more #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #vitriol I'm doubling down on a bonus Oils track because the more I researched this cue, the more the vitriol built up: Midnight Oil - Blossom and Blood I'll let these lyrics from 1985 do the talking: 🎶 You the mothers who sent your sons Wipe away your tears For those who fought and those who fell Become our sons as well You the warriors with your words Throw away your spears You talk of times of peace for all And then prepa...

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  Even more #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #vitriol It makes me angry that this song from 1979, is still word for word relevant: Midnight Oil - Stand in Line Video is a live performance from their iconic 1985 "Goat Island" gig which 14 year old me was gutted that he was too young to go to 🎶 Oh get down, getting down, so much money in the ground For the people who don't deserve it now It's a circus, we're the clowns, everybody knows, They take away some...

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  It's still #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #vitriol Taken the time to look into the mirror and laugh at rock stars who've bitten off a little bit more than they can chew? Wouldn't mind something you can sink your teeth into? I'm taking it up a notch: Ground Components - On Your Living Room Floor This track still resonates and punches 20 years later. 🎶 It's not always about, what's bigger and better It's not always about, driving faster 🎶 When #...

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  Hey it's #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #vitriol Sometimes you just want to do drugs, set cars on fire and go out partying. For those of you pining for that simpler life, Hänsel has you covered: Hänsel - Bock auf Bass (ich hab kein Geld) Hop onto the Hänsel u-bahn... @dgar@aus.social  @electric_gumball@mastodon.social @Bishopjoey@writing.exchange @fc@universeodon.com 1/4

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  Hey karaj muzikamantoj! This Friday the 2nd is #alternateFridayMusic and the cue is: #vitriol 🜖 Sometimes when you don't dare give up, you've got to give it a little bit of vitriol.Perhaps you know an artist who went that little bit harder than others?Maybe you're just a fan of the crystals made by metal sulfates and you've been waiting for a chance to unleash your stash of songs about crystals? This is the week for those songs. There are no wrong interpretations 😀 Upcoming w...

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  Hey karaj muzikamantoj! This Friday the 2nd is #fortnightFridayMusic and the cue is: #buzz What's buzzing in your brain? Is there a bustle in your hedgerow? Are you still buzzing from a recent show or have you just not come down from the weekend yet? Share the feelings this week! Upcoming words: #alternateFridayMusic 9th Oct: vitriol 23rd Oct: remix 1st Nov: protest #fortnightFridayMusic 16th Oct: loop 30th Oct: perspiration 6th Nov: funk @dgar@aus.social @fc@universeodon.com @Bish...

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  It's still #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #bleak I'm bringing more bleak from the 90's dancefloors: Sonic Animation - The Nothingness (Chaos in a Box Remix) By now you should have mentally checked out on the week, so join me on the dancefloor for this glorious remix: 🎶 It slaps me hard across the face I walk along, look up and down I seem to think A hole, a hole is all I'd find I find the bridge to step across and rise above The hole, the hole that I have...

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  Hey it's #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #bleak I'm bringing the bleak from the 90's dancefloors: Sonic Animation - Love Lies Bleeding There's a funny video clip for the radio edit but I prefer the longer album version. Sometimes you need a little help to deal with the bleak moments in life: 🎶 I'm feeling speedy, I'm feeling slow, I'm feeling seedy I'm feeling greedy, I'm feeling happy, I'm feeling shite I'm feeling you You'...

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  Hey it's #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #bleak I'm bringing the bleak from the 90's: Sonic Animation - The Nothingness Step into the nothingness: 🎶 A nothingness, a hole, a hole A hole is what I find with you Forget it for a while and then I'm fine A hole, a hole is what I find I dig and dig and leave you be I've tried it all A hole, a hole is all I find I came so close, I'm pushed away And left to be A hole, a hole is all I found Should I reach...

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  Hey karaj muzikamantoj! This Friday the 25th is #alternateFridayMusic and the cue is: #bleak Let's get miserable together this week 🤣 Upcoming words: #fortnightFridayMusic 2nd Oct: buzz 16th Oct: loop 30th Oct: perspiration #alternateFridayMusic 9th Oct: vitriol 23rd Oct: remix 1st Nov: protest @dgar@aus.social @fc@universeodon.com @Bishopjoey@writing.exchange @electric_gumball@mastodon.social

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  Hey karaj muzikamantoj! This Friday the 18th is #fortnightFridayMusic and the cue is: #chocolate Time to dig up the tracks that evoke those chocolate sensations for you. Whether it's dark and bitter, creamy and smooth, salty or anything in between Upcoming words: #alternateFridayMusic 25th Sep: bleak 9th Oct: vitriol 23rd Oct: remix #fortnightFridayMusic 2nd Oct: buzz 16th Oct: loop 30ht Oct: perspiration @dgar@aus.social @fc@universeodon.com @Bishopjoey@writing.exchange @electric_g...

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  Dance time for #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #parody This Molvanian entry for Eurovision may have been disqualified but it lives on forever in our hearts and on our dancefloors: Zlad! - Elektronik Supersonik The Cold War never ended but lives on in this melodic fusion combining hot disco rhythms with cold war rhetoric. Grab your cosmic guitars: 🎶 Hey baby ride with me away We doesn't have much time My blue jeans is tight So onto my love rocket climb Inside tank of f...

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  Even more #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #parody This R.E.M. one's thick with in jokes from 1993, particularly Australian ones: The Late Show - Everybody Hurts R.I.P. Peter Brock who makes a guest appearance. It was a line ball to go with Tony Martin's cutting take down of R.E.M.'s Stand - in particular Michael Stipe's lyric writing. Definitely one for the music nerds. @dgar@aus.social  @electric_gumball@mastodon.social @Bishopjoey@writing.exchange @fc@u...

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  It's still #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #parody Every city has had a band like this. This was the one #Melbourne had: The Late Show - No More Melbourne Clichés 🎶 We went down to a place, I think it was Captain Cook's Cabin. We're not all that sure But at least it rhymes with Moorabbin We've just run out of Melbourne clichés oh nooo, oh nooo ... 🎶 @dgar@aus.social  @electric_gumball@mastodon.social @Bishopjoey@writing.exchange @fc@universeodon.com #aus...

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  Hey it's #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: #parody Italian-Australian Santo Cilauro let's us in on some: The Late Show - Things Wogs Would Never Do The song doesn't kick in until after 1 minute. Part Dylan, part something else, some of the lyrics here have aged unexpectedly well: 🎶 I don't eat curry, I don't eat jam I don't drink cider and I don't like spam I've never tasted Vegemite tin spaghetti or Activite I don't go camping in a Kombi...

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  Even more #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 Well now history is a pack of lies, as any fool can tell. So when I got down to Hobart town I told my story well. But do you think they would believe one word I said? For they thought that I was covering for my mates still at large. Said they'd be roaming in the bush so wild and free and back to old Macquarie Harbour they sent me: liar A true tale of horror in the most beautiful place in the world. You should visit all the places named in this song: Wedd...

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  It's still #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 Thought that you, could pretend. The walls are closing in. I didn't suspect anything at first. You were quicker than, the rest. You let me down. I read your book. Now your dreams will not exist. I caught you in my yard. You're a: liar I missed them in their heyday but when I was 19 in about 1990 I bought this cassette and played it in my 1964 Holden until it was worn out: Sunnyboys - Liar 🎶 So you see me and it's true I'll never be the...

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  Hey it's #alternateFridayMusic 🎉 and the cue this week is: liar ...and then you meet me and your whole world changes, because everything I say is everything you've ever wanted to hear, so you drop all your defenses and you drop all your fears and you trust me completely. I'm perfect in every way 'Cause I make you feel so strong and so powerful inside. You feel so lucky but your ego obscures reality and you never bother to wonder why things are going so well. You wanna know wh...

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  Hey karaj muzikamantoj! This Friday the 7th is #fortnightFridayMusic and the cue is: #giggle Wrap your laughing gear around this week's selections. Upcoming words: #alternateFridayMusic 14th Aug: kinky 28th Aug: liar 11th Sep: parody #fortnightFridayMusic 21st Aug: brass 4th Sep: popcorn 18th Sep: chocolate @dgar@aus.social @fc@universeodon.com @Bishopjoey@writing.exchange @electric_gumball@mastodon.social

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  Hey! It's #fortnightFridayMusic & the cue is: #thunder Sometimes songs don't age badly, society does. Lyrically, they foresaw the future in this banger, probalby my favourite of theirs: TISM - Thunderbirds Are Coming Out Shot in one take, the video features 30 bands from the Melbourne scene in 1998 miming to this song. It's not only funny but also now a nostalgic snapshot. Of all the bands in this video,on #TISM and the Ringwood Secondary College Choir & Orchestra are th...

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  It's still #fortnightFridayMusic & the cue is: #thunder How do you make a world-wide hit? Plaguarise a children's song and add quirky lyrics about a place most people have never been: Men At Work Down Under "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree" never sounded better: 🎶 Traveling in a fried-out Kombi On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said "Do you come from a land down under...

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  Hey karaj muzikamantoj! This Friday the 17th is #alternateFridayMusic and the cue is: #flirting Whether you're flirting with lovers, danger, death or the truth, I reckon you've got a song for that. Upcoming words: #fortnightFridayMusic 24th Jul: thunder 7th Aug: giggle 21st Aug: brass #alternateFridayMusic 31st Jul: breaking up 14th Aug: kinky 28th Aug: liar @dgar @fc @Bishopjoey @electric_gumball

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  Hey karaj muzikamantoj! This Friday the 10th is #fortnightFridayMusic and the cue is: #wild Dig into the wilder side of you musical tastes and let's get into it! Upcoming words: #alternateFridayMusic 17 Jul: flirting 31st Jul: breaking up 14th Aug: kinky #fortnightFridayMusic 24th Jul: thunder 7th Aug: giggle 21st Aug: brass @dgar @fc @Bishopjoey @electric_gumball