Doctor Blind

I've always loved Frightened Rabbit “It's Christmas So We'll Stop”. It was released at Christmas in 2008 and sadly failed to chart (though it made No3 on my personal chart that Christmas- beaten to No1 by Ladyhawke's festive BANGER “My Delirium” !), but it's a beautifully melancholic and wistful track that beautifully sums up the time of year for me: 'And life might never get better than this, with the perfect excuse for our natures to change' The only Christmas track to make my Christmas No1 was Mew in 2003 with “She Came Home For Christmas”.

Anyone else enjoying the Lady Mone PPE scandal? @1736445023997096320 She's getting hosed down by the Twitter community notes rn !!

Doctor Blind Chart - 17th December 2023 TW - LW / Artist / “Song” / (Peak- if not current) 01 - 07 deary “Fairground” *New #1* 02 - 03 Everything Everything “Cold Reactor” 03 - 02 Fat Dog “King of the Slugs” (02) 04 - 01 Brimheim “Literally Everything” (01) 05 - 05 Maruja “One Hand Behind The Devil” 06 - 09 The Chemical Brothers “Goodbye” 07 - 04 Jessica Winter & Jonathan Snipes “All I Need” (01) 08 - 10 Nadine Shah “Topless Mother” 09 - 06 Evian Christ ft. Bladee “Yxguden” (03) 10 - 16 Tiga & Hudson Mohawke ft. Jesse Boykins III “Silence of Love” 11 - 15 Dawn Richard “Babe Ruth” 12 - 08 A Beacon School “Jon” (01) 13 - 20 Shygirl & Cosha “Thicc” 14 - 19 Björk & Rosalía “oral” 15 - 11 MGMT “Mother Nature” (04) 16 - 25 Sufjan Stevens “Will Anybody Ever Love Me?” 17 - 13 Porij “You Should Know Me” (13) 18 - 21 Bill Ryder-Jones “This Can’t Go On” 19 - 28 Enola Gay ft. Mount Palomar “terra firma” 20 - 12 Glasser “Easy” (09) 21 - 14 Underworld “denver luna” (08) 22 - 29 Teeth Machine “Shiny” 23 - 26 CASISDEAD “Venom” 24 - 34 boygenius & Ye Vagabonds “The Parting Glass” 🎄 25 - 18 Heartworms “May I Comply” (18) 26 - 23 Suzy Clue “Remember Me” (23) 27 - 17 Vegyn “Makeshift Tourniquet” (02) 28 - 36 cell m8 “stay. x” 29 - 38 Iglooghost ft. Marina Herlop “Collision Data” 30 - 33 Kristy Harper “U” 31 - 39 Memphis LK “Black And Blue” 32 - 22 PinkPantheress “Capable of Love” (05) 33 - 45 El Perro del Mar “Kiss of Death” 34 - 37 The Smile “Wall Of Eyes” 35 - 24 C. Duncan “Just Like Clockwork” (24) 36 - 46 Leon Vynehall “Duofade” 37 - 49 Bolis Pupul “Completely Half” 38 - NE Waterbaby “Butterfly House” *Highest New Entry* 39 - 27 bar italia “worlds greatest emoter” (17) 40 - NE Lucy Rose “Could You Help Me” *New Entry*

gr12Lfo4dO4 MV for “Goodbye” // Top 10 this week on the Doctor Blind chart // biggest hit for the Chems on my chart since “The Darkness That You Fear” (#4). <3

Even at the time many economists were quite rightly arguing against it, if you remember interest rates were at historic lows, and so many were arguing that the obvious move would have been to invest heavily in infrastructure (energy, transport etc.) and maintain support for vital public services. It was a choice motivated by ideology with no thought to the devastating consequences that it would have on the most vulnerable in society. Osborne had enough money to throw at property investors to cook up mind-numbingly stupid policies like 'Help To Sell Buy' (I was so angry I almost threw a TV out of a window when that policy was expanded in October 2013), but not it seems basic provisions for those who were less fortunate than he and his Eton buddies. If you look at basic indicators of economic health such as productivity, wage growth etc. you see a flatlining since 2010 and the Tories took over. We are in "managed decline". Everything is in decay. Just look at the recent COP summit, the UK representative flies nearly 7,000 miles to vote in some pointless Tory party psychodrama, and I'll bet they hardly noticed they weren't there. Because the UK is now becoming an irrelevance on the world stage. Cameron gambled on the future of the UK to keep his party from breaking apart, fucked off when it didn't go his way, and despite all this, he's allowed to just swan back in to the Lords with no democratic vote and play at being Foreign Secretary. Johnson may be a useless, lazy slob but my hatred will forever be reserved for Cameron and Osborne. The architects for everything we have now.

@1734199894867394947 Zugzwang. *.*

Would definitely be here for a Utopia win, and Maruja going Top 10 would be an excellent result - the sax is so good on that. It's a difficult instrument to play/control so well.

No mention of yunè pinku 😔 she played one of the best live gigs I went to this year, released a fantastic EP and had a recent solid Boiler Room in Stockholm. Surely 2024 is her year? Mind you Peggy Gou first made my personal chart Top 10 in March 2018 so maybe we have to wait another 5 years..

eUSzjjdjC98 Mew “She Came Home For Christmas” Originally No76 in December 2002. Re-released and peaked at No55 in December 2003. My introduction to the band was actually with “Am I Wry? No” but this solidified my love for the band.

*Sunak is doing worse than the Tory polling nadir* — just 59% of voters who backed the Tories under Boris Johnson are sticking with them under Sunak — that’s down from 74% in Aug 2022 — and even worse than 63% after Truss’ mini-budget — the Tories under Sunak are in “dire straits” says @jamesjohnson252 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202...ers-study-finds worse than Liz Truss !! *.*

Yes, I completely agree with you ref AI 'art'. It's soulless. Also: AI at it's current level merely reflects back to us what we've already produced, and so it is pretty pointless. I expect it's just a novelty at the moment that will hopefully pass.

I agree with a lot of the concerns you have raised, however I don't pay for Spotify less on a moral stance but more out of practicality. This is because I don't like it that Spotify can at any point take a song down or change it. For example Shygirl's “BB” - which samples the Spice Girls “Viva Forever” was changed when the sample couldn't be cleared - but having bought the digital single from iTunes I'll always have the proper original copy of it, at least for as long as I can hang on to the file. There are also many songs that I love that I can't access on Spotify, the proper versions of them I mean. Like others, I like to support the artists that make music I love through buying physical copies, attending tours and buying merch... though I appreciate this isn't always possible to survive on or become viable for smaller to medium size bands. Could perhaps a way to address some of the issues be met by a UBI or UBS in the future? I think that we probably need to start having a serious debate about a post-work society brought about by increasing automation, and look at how we prevent the slide into increasingly meaningless jobs (see: David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs). All of this talk about post-work reminds me I still need to read Fully Automated Luxury Communism ! Or we could all join TIDAL...

I see that having incited the hatred, and arguably created the conditions that led to her death, the Fail are now apparently running a podcast to follow the murder trial. It's also called 'Brianna Ghey: The Trial' when she's not on trial at all. Grim. Likewise I've tried to avoid this, I did tho manage to persuade someone at work who is usually quite progressive but was anti the GRA reforms that the Scottish Government tried to bring in last year, to bring them around by explaining that had they existed already they would have prevented the final injustice to Brianna, which is of course being misgendered on her death certificate.

Thanks Callum, solid job on the hosting. I lost Summericia, East Rukahavian and Greenfroze from my vote this month. Thanks to those who pointed deary, a somewhat overlooked single from earlier this year that I picked up on after they recently supported Slowdive. It kinda reminds me of the trip-hop/dream pop adjacent movement that followed the pioneering artists of Portishead/Massive Attack/Mazzy Star in the mid 1990s, def the same sort of vibe and melancholia that I get from it.

Doctor Blind Chart - 26th November 2023 TW - LW / Artist / “Song” / (Peak- if not current) 01 - 02 Jessica Winter & Jonathan Snipes “All I Need” *New #1* 02 - 01 A Beacon School “Jon” (01) 03 - 03 Evian Christ ft. Bladee “Yxguden” 04 - 06 MGMT “Mother Nature” 05 - 08 Brimheim “Literally Everything” 06 - 04 Vegyn “Makeshift Tourniquet” (02) 07 - 05 PinkPantheress “Capable of Love” (05) 08 - 15 Everything Everything “Cold Reactor” 09 - 13 Underworld “denver luna” 10 - 16 Fat Dog “King of the Slugs” 11 - 07 Yergurl “Hard” (06) 12 - 17 Floating Points “Birth4000” 13 - 19 Glasser “Easy” 14 - 10 Yaeger “Ciao” (10) 15 - 20 p-rallel ft. Deto Black “Go” 16 - 09 Sampha “Only” (04) 17 - 22 bar italia “worlds greatest emoter” 18 - 11 TVAM ft. MONA “Costasol” (03) 19 - 31 Maruja “One Hand Behind The Devil” 20 - 25 Porij “You Should Know Me” 21 - 30 Nadine Shah “Topless Mother” 22 - 12 yeule “inferno” (09) 23 - 32 deary “Fairground” 24 - 14 DJ_Dave “React” (02) 25 - 40 The Chemical Brothers “Goodbye” *Fastest Climber* 26 - 34 Dawn Richard “Babe Ruth” 27 - 36 Heartworms “May I Comply” 28 - 18 SCALER “Loam” (05) 29 - 35 Tiga & Hudson Mohawke ft. Jesse Boykins III “Silence of Love” 30 - 38 Bill Ryder-Jones “This Can’t Go On” 31 - 26 UKAEA ft. Dali de Saint Paul “Habibi” (26) 32 - 21 El Perro del Mar “In Silence” (14) 33 - 24 Sufjan Stevens “So You Are Tired” (01) 34 - 46 Suzy Clue “Remember Me” 35 - 23 Karma Kid “The Gates Will Open” (09) 36 - 28 George Riley “Elixir” (04) 37 - 49 C Duncan “Just Like Clockwork” 38 - NE Björk & Rosalía “oral” *Highest New Entry* 39 - 48 DJ HEARTSTRING & Narciss “Why Can't We Live Forever?” 40 - 50 Rachel Chinouriri “The Hills”

Also really enjoying this, the dramatic strings in particular. <3 Dropping the single on her 58th birthday too!

Amazing set! Loved the cameo from David Balfe, remix of a Doctor Blind #1 from 2021. *.* Tracklist @ 1001tracklists

of those not yet mentioned: Ryuichi Sakamoto </3 sadly lost earlier this year Andrew Weatherall (influential DJ but could use/cite his remixes of Primal Scream for Screamadelica like “Loaded”) Loleatta Holloway - I mean, for “Love Sensation” ALONE Diane Charlemagne - Manchester vocalist on 90s classics “Inner City Life” (DnB) and “The Key: The Secret” MF DOOM - iconic rapper/producer Tony Allen - one of greatest ever drummers, was in The Good, the Bad & the Queen - so maybe “Herculean” from them? I was gonna say Carol Kaye too, but thankfully she's still alive!

Doctor Blind Chart - 12th November 2023 TW - LW / Artist / “Song” / (Peak- if not current) 01 - 01 A Beacon School “Jon” *5 weeks at #1* 02 - 05 Jessica Winter & Jonathan Snipes “All I Need” 03 - 02 Vegyn “Makeshift Tourniquet” (02) 04 - 13 Evian Christ ft. Bladee “Yxguden” 05 - 04 Sampha “Only” (04) 06 - 03 TVAM ft. MONA “Costasol” (03) 07 - 06 Yergurl “Hard” (06) 08 - 12 PinkPantheress “Capable of Love” 09 - 11 yeule “inferno” 10 - 07 DJ_Dave “React” (02) 11 - 09 Karma Kid “The Gates Will Open” (09) 12 - 08 SCALER “Loam” (05) 13 - 19 Yaeger “Ciao” 14 - 21 El Perro del Mar “In Silence” 15 - 10 Sufjan Stevens “So You Are Tired” (01) 16 - 25 Brimheim “Literally Everything” 17 - 31 MGMT “Mother Nature” 18 - 24 Underworld “denver luna” 19 - 15 Florentino ft. Shygirl “Pressure” (15) 20 - 14 George Riley “Elixir” (04) 21 - 28 Big Thief “Vampire Empire” 22 - 27 Sprints “Up And Comer” 23 - 17 Tems “Me & U” (17) 24 - 33 Everything Everything “Cold Reactor” 25 - 35 Floating Points “Birth4000” 26 - 16 Overmono “Blow Out” (07) 27 - 18 Memphis LK “Closer To You” (18) 28 - 37 p-rallel ft. Deto Black “Go” 29 - 40 Glasser “Easy” 30 - 43 bar italia “worlds greatest emoter” 31 - 23 DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man “Now U Do” (02) 32 - 46 Porij “You Should Know Me” 33 - 20 Eartheater “Pure Smile Snake Venom” (07) 34 - NE Fat Dog “King of the Slugs” *Highest New Entry* 35 - NE UKAEA ft. Dali de Saint Paul “Habibi” *New Entry* 36 - 36 KETTAMA “Fly Away XTC” (07) 37 - 22 Jorja Smith “Falling Or Flying” (19) 38 - 29 Hoodie x James K “Scorpio” (01) 39 - 26 Maruja “Zeitgeist” (13) 40 - 30 SoFTT “Kiero K Me Kieras” (05)

Congratulations to Pedro Sánchez who has seen off a challenge from the right and been confirmed as PM of Spain again. *.* In doing so they had to grant an amnesty to people involved in the Catalan independence movement during the past decade. https://www.politico.eu/article/pedro-sanch...prime-minister/

'soon' Well it took over a year this time around, but it was still satisfying to see her getting sacked again. Hopefully that's the last we'll ever of see this dangerously unhinged and woefully incompetent politician in the British Government or any prominent position of influence tbh.

@1725275096749613427 Latest YouGov still has a 23 pt lead for Labour, albeit both leading parties losing ground overall; and a 47 pt lead among the 25-49 age bracket!

The single- “Fly Away XTC” now deservedly gets a music video. nEppZ3ghoQ4

Congrats Dandy! That's a very solid Top 2 in what was an incredibly strong contest. Very pleased also to see Neliönoir chalk up a Top 5 - “Literally Everything” really grew on me over the contest. Thanks for the entertaining hostings Harve. You are very welcome! That message from Gaza broke me too </3