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It’s an empty Beatles reference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderwall_Music

I’m guessing the reason that The Cure (debut LP from 1979) is on this list is that it was made by an american, that first heard them because of “Friday I’m in Love”?

Oh, of course…but why the car? Because there’s a car bomb, IRA-style?

I’d love to understand this joke, could someone explain?

And with locked grooves, metal machine music for instance has a loop on the innermost groove on side D so it can be played infinitely. There’s also records with only loops made with locked grooves.

One band pressed the sound of a C64 BASIC program onto vinyl that could be recorded onto tape and loaded with the c64 tape deck. All sorts of shenanigans.

Everybody I’ve spoken to

It must be so rare that this man encounters an expert on anything these days, at least that is not in an adversarial position towards him.

“Spotify managers defended PFC to staff by claiming that the tracks were being used only for background music, so listeners wouldn’t know the difference […]”

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

(PFC = “Perfect Fit Content”, i. e. Fake Artists)

I have a feeling this quote exemplifies the attitude the management of these platforms have towards their end users, though it’s seldom this explicitly formulated.

Fraktur typefaces are today most often seen on evil record covers and in quaint Bavarian restaurants.

That’s why it’s the “foot” clan. The ninjas in Daredevil were called The Hand.

Edit: and I just remembered, it’s Master Splinter because “Stick” was Daredevil’s sensei.

Who could be surprised when the actual title of the site is clickbait to begin with?