Mia Murch
@spacetimegothgf.bsky.social
Mia // she/her - they/them The universe cascades in the space between my synapses.
I forgot how excellent an album My Aim Is True is. My respect for Messrs. Bruce and Pete is immense (see the Live Stiffs "Miracle Man" and Side 1 of Armed Forces) but I think this remains my favorite EC record and maybe my favorite New Wave record (w apologies to the Specials, Blondie, Joe Jackson)
October 5, 2026 at 1:13 AM
I forgot how excellent an album My Aim Is True is. My respect for Messrs. Bruce and Pete is immense (see the Live Stiffs "Miracle Man" and Side 1 of Armed Forces) but I think this remains my favorite EC record and maybe my favorite New Wave record (w apologies to the Specials, Blondie, Joe Jackson)
Having my day job be completely uncaring towards my experience as a neurodivergent disabled person is profoundly physically painful, emotionally distressing and morally crushing.
At least I have a wonderful personal mental health support system and CD box sets, TV and comic books to keep me going.
At least I have a wonderful personal mental health support system and CD box sets, TV and comic books to keep me going.
October 3, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Having my day job be completely uncaring towards my experience as a neurodivergent disabled person is profoundly physically painful, emotionally distressing and morally crushing.
At least I have a wonderful personal mental health support system and CD box sets, TV and comic books to keep me going.
At least I have a wonderful personal mental health support system and CD box sets, TV and comic books to keep me going.
I'm delighted by the mentions of Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Barbara Windsor and Frankie Howerd in the recent Bee Gees bonus from @andrewhickey.500songs.com
Refreshing to have someone validate that more genial, entertaining and older audience art has real value.
Refreshing to have someone validate that more genial, entertaining and older audience art has real value.
October 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I'm delighted by the mentions of Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Barbara Windsor and Frankie Howerd in the recent Bee Gees bonus from @andrewhickey.500songs.com
Refreshing to have someone validate that more genial, entertaining and older audience art has real value.
Refreshing to have someone validate that more genial, entertaining and older audience art has real value.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com spotted a familiar name quoted in the Shadows book with a colourful description of Royston Ellis. Fantastic stuff, this. I love the kaleidoscopic writing style. Ropes in Cat Stevens, David Hockney, Angus McBean, Bert Weedon, Pet Clark, Adam Faith, Anthony Newley. (1/2)
September 27, 2026 at 8:45 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com spotted a familiar name quoted in the Shadows book with a colourful description of Royston Ellis. Fantastic stuff, this. I love the kaleidoscopic writing style. Ropes in Cat Stevens, David Hockney, Angus McBean, Bert Weedon, Pet Clark, Adam Faith, Anthony Newley. (1/2)
@andrewhickey.500songs.com learning the Shadows are the same generation and indeed almost the same ages as the Beatles is *blowing my mind*. You mean the guys doing boxsteps backing Cliff on "Summer Holiday" were contemporaries with The Coolest People Alive what made Revolver?? Preposterous.
September 25, 2026 at 10:47 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com learning the Shadows are the same generation and indeed almost the same ages as the Beatles is *blowing my mind*. You mean the guys doing boxsteps backing Cliff on "Summer Holiday" were contemporaries with The Coolest People Alive what made Revolver?? Preposterous.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com any chance of "Cowman Milk Your Cow" in the bonus?
Also, your episodes on Cliff and the Shadows are one of the things helping me through a tough time right now, so thanks for those.
youtu.be/VCUGCCarzi0?...
Also, your episodes on Cliff and the Shadows are one of the things helping me through a tough time right now, so thanks for those.
youtu.be/VCUGCCarzi0?...
Cowman Milk Your Cow
YouTube video by Adam Faith - Topic
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September 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com any chance of "Cowman Milk Your Cow" in the bonus?
Also, your episodes on Cliff and the Shadows are one of the things helping me through a tough time right now, so thanks for those.
youtu.be/VCUGCCarzi0?...
Also, your episodes on Cliff and the Shadows are one of the things helping me through a tough time right now, so thanks for those.
youtu.be/VCUGCCarzi0?...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com the Bob Stanley Bee Gees biog is the first book I've actually finished in a little bit. His writing and yours share a quality I really appreciate: you can make a song, album or artist I ordinarily wouldn't think twice about seem the coolest or most interesting thing ever
September 23, 2026 at 1:08 AM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com the Bob Stanley Bee Gees biog is the first book I've actually finished in a little bit. His writing and yours share a quality I really appreciate: you can make a song, album or artist I ordinarily wouldn't think twice about seem the coolest or most interesting thing ever
@andrewhickey.500songs.com spinning that Clapton/Gibb P.P. Arnold album and it's really great -- really appreciating the Gibbs as songwriters for other artists as I'm deep in the Stanley book - Barbra, Dionne, et al
And now that I'm on a Bee Gees kick I hear them and their productions *everywhere*!
And now that I'm on a Bee Gees kick I hear them and their productions *everywhere*!
September 22, 2026 at 3:47 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com spinning that Clapton/Gibb P.P. Arnold album and it's really great -- really appreciating the Gibbs as songwriters for other artists as I'm deep in the Stanley book - Barbra, Dionne, et al
And now that I'm on a Bee Gees kick I hear them and their productions *everywhere*!
And now that I'm on a Bee Gees kick I hear them and their productions *everywhere*!
@andrewhickey.500songs.com looking forward to a possible excerpt of "Meaningless Songs (in Very High Voices)" in the bonus... (1/4)
September 15, 2026 at 2:03 AM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com looking forward to a possible excerpt of "Meaningless Songs (in Very High Voices)" in the bonus... (1/4)
@andrewhickey.500songs.com fascinating side road from Richard Perry's first group the Escorts: shortly after they formed they asked a young singer called Goldie (a Hungarian Holocaust survivor) to join them and had a regional #1 (1/7):
youtu.be/VcPRhhwp6kA?...
youtu.be/VcPRhhwp6kA?...
September 5, 2026 at 2:12 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com fascinating side road from Richard Perry's first group the Escorts: shortly after they formed they asked a young singer called Goldie (a Hungarian Holocaust survivor) to join them and had a regional #1 (1/7):
youtu.be/VcPRhhwp6kA?...
youtu.be/VcPRhhwp6kA?...
@andrewhickey.500songs.com wow, Richard Perry co-produced Safe As Milk? No wonder it's such a good record.
September 4, 2026 at 2:28 AM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com wow, Richard Perry co-produced Safe As Milk? No wonder it's such a good record.
@andrewhickey.500songs.com am listening to the Banana Splits bonus and got to the bit about that Gene Pitney-written track and hadn't heard of the "more famous song of the same name", and thus had to pause and watch Tessie O'Shea tear it up on the banjo...neat! :)
August 30, 2026 at 4:49 AM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com am listening to the Banana Splits bonus and got to the bit about that Gene Pitney-written track and hadn't heard of the "more famous song of the same name", and thus had to pause and watch Tessie O'Shea tear it up on the banjo...neat! :)
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We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
August 26, 2026 at 1:34 AM
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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I spent a long time reporting on people w wealth & fame & protections they bring. often the excuse was "But I was injured in *these* ways." You don't think a poor child growing up in the South, a woman in country music, knew fear, want, rejection?
Did she use that as an excuse to hurt & hoard? NO.
Did she use that as an excuse to hurt & hoard? NO.
August 25, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I spent a long time reporting on people w wealth & fame & protections they bring. often the excuse was "But I was injured in *these* ways." You don't think a poor child growing up in the South, a woman in country music, knew fear, want, rejection?
Did she use that as an excuse to hurt & hoard? NO.
Did she use that as an excuse to hurt & hoard? NO.
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you can build a bunker for you and your retainers & you can hoard your power & fame, you can worship nothing but ambition or status and stand by while people you might be able to help--in big ways or small ways--go without.
Or you can be Dolly.
All these things are choices. She made good ones.
Or you can be Dolly.
All these things are choices. She made good ones.
August 25, 2026 at 7:01 PM
you can build a bunker for you and your retainers & you can hoard your power & fame, you can worship nothing but ambition or status and stand by while people you might be able to help--in big ways or small ways--go without.
Or you can be Dolly.
All these things are choices. She made good ones.
Or you can be Dolly.
All these things are choices. She made good ones.
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I'm sure she got advice on her image, on how it might be better to reject her LGBTQ audience. She didn't. She knew what it was to be powerless & poor & she didn't want *anyone* to live that way. A lesson for people w aspirations to public life: Hurting others doesn't have to be part of the equation.
August 25, 2026 at 6:57 PM
I'm sure she got advice on her image, on how it might be better to reject her LGBTQ audience. She didn't. She knew what it was to be powerless & poor & she didn't want *anyone* to live that way. A lesson for people w aspirations to public life: Hurting others doesn't have to be part of the equation.
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every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
August 25, 2026 at 6:53 PM
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.
August 25, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.
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August 25, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Fuck, really?
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Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.
Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video.
📷: Getty
Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.
Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video.
📷: Getty
August 25, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Fuck, really?
@andrewhickey.500songs.com that thing you talk about with remixes is a thing in jazz too -- I'm fairly sure the most readily available version of Kind Of Blue in stereo is a 1996-7 remaster of a 1992 remix, and the most readily available mono version is a remix from 2013. The mind boggles.
August 14, 2026 at 11:17 PM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com that thing you talk about with remixes is a thing in jazz too -- I'm fairly sure the most readily available version of Kind Of Blue in stereo is a 1996-7 remaster of a 1992 remix, and the most readily available mono version is a remix from 2013. The mind boggles.
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SELLERS & MILLIGAN MIXTAPE
pod.link/1569929507
Brace yourselves for a couple of instances of "What was he THINKING?" as we put together fantasy compilations of some rarities & curios from the recording careers of the two ex-Goons. Includes Muppets, Wombles, a dead mouse and Spike doing Status Quo
pod.link/1569929507
Brace yourselves for a couple of instances of "What was he THINKING?" as we put together fantasy compilations of some rarities & curios from the recording careers of the two ex-Goons. Includes Muppets, Wombles, a dead mouse and Spike doing Status Quo
August 12, 2026 at 6:34 AM
SELLERS & MILLIGAN MIXTAPE
pod.link/1569929507
Brace yourselves for a couple of instances of "What was he THINKING?" as we put together fantasy compilations of some rarities & curios from the recording careers of the two ex-Goons. Includes Muppets, Wombles, a dead mouse and Spike doing Status Quo
pod.link/1569929507
Brace yourselves for a couple of instances of "What was he THINKING?" as we put together fantasy compilations of some rarities & curios from the recording careers of the two ex-Goons. Includes Muppets, Wombles, a dead mouse and Spike doing Status Quo
@andrewhickey.500songs.com the main podcast feed can't be played on various apps right now, seems like? Is anything up on the backend?
August 6, 2026 at 3:23 AM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com the main podcast feed can't be played on various apps right now, seems like? Is anything up on the backend?
As a disabled person, having the impact level of my disability suddenly escalate as a result of a probable comorbidity is viscerally terrifying in a way that's difficult to express
August 2, 2026 at 9:34 PM
As a disabled person, having the impact level of my disability suddenly escalate as a result of a probable comorbidity is viscerally terrifying in a way that's difficult to express
Still working my way through this (on Episode Three) but Sophie and Norah's conversation about the former being "sorry for existing" hit like a truck, and Bums is a delight. Cheers to @sararoseg.bsky.social, @andrewhickey.500songs.com and team on a truly titanic achievement :)
Five autistics walk into an autism support group - before immediately realising what a stupid fucking idea that was. And that’s before the mysterious earthquake and useless magic powers.
It’s a Superpower?? Chapter One is out!!
allmylinks.com/itsasuperpower
It’s a Superpower?? Chapter One is out!!
allmylinks.com/itsasuperpower
August 1, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Still working my way through this (on Episode Three) but Sophie and Norah's conversation about the former being "sorry for existing" hit like a truck, and Bums is a delight. Cheers to @sararoseg.bsky.social, @andrewhickey.500songs.com and team on a truly titanic achievement :)