Tales from 1986, when I was nineteen and just embarking on making my youth suitably dissolute.
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Tag: wikipedia
King Trigger: The River (1982).
Today’s one-hit wonder.
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Links: Wikipedia supports fair use, film archiving, the joys of the B-side.
If I can’t hear music, you can’t either. But that 7″ is amazingly pretty.
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Warner does a deal with YouTube. The record industry is outraged!
Warner has signed a completely expected deal with YouTube, because they do great business with each other and fully wish to continue. The music industry is hilariously outraged that Warner did the obvious deal with a fantastic and essential publicity outlet.
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Links: Ticketmaster, digital property, not liking music, the biggest UK debut album of 2016.
Every nun needs a Synthi.
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“If you think it’s about the music, you’ve already failed.” The pop culture legacy business, and why Kurt Cobain is still a huge star.
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“Duncan” by Slim Dusty is now in Wikipedia.
I was amazed to discover that Slim Dusty’s second-biggest hit wasn’t covered in Wikipedia. Well, now it is ‘cos I put it there.
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The return of the Blobby nightmare.
“It has been named as one of the worst songs ever recorded.”
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Access denied: The media in a world where they aren’t the gatekeepers.
John Herrman at The Awl laments the difficulties of the media in a world where they are no longer the gatekeepers of social knowledge.
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Obscure post-punk good times on Wikipedia.
A small amount of fun this week writing up obscurities for Wikipedia: Operation Twilight (UK branch of Les Disques du Crépuscule) and Factory Benelux
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The past: delete, not notable.
Last week I took The Wolfgang Press in Wikipedia from two paragraphs to a proper article. Yesterday it was on the front page Did
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