Tim Jones

The Three Degrees - Dirty Ol' Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0atv9v2nNww #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight#Soul

"This is an instrumental, and it's dedicated to our drummer's underwear" Fairport Convention - Dirty Linen (live, 1976): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efg1hgSCqJU #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight#folk #folkrock

Following "The Hippopotamus Song" posted by @Kay@mastodon.nz, here is a song about an unconventional raccoon - major points for use of Latin nomenclature: "Getting down and dirty with a Procyon lotor Got no people skills but he's good with motors" The Sneepers - Guardians Inferno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MMMe1drnZY #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight #disco

Ruby and the Land of Birds is an exciting adventure novel for middle grade (8-12+) readers from Wellington author Latika Vasil. I really enjoyed it - check out my review! https://www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/2026/09/25/bool-review-ruby-and-the-land-of-birds-by-latika-vasil/ In Wellington, the book is available from Unity Books Wellington, the Children's Bookshop, Marsden Books and Aurelia Books - you can also buy it from Latika's website, which is linked in my review. #books #nzbooks #middlegrade @bookstodon@a.gup.pe

" I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay / And how it stuck to the tires after the summer rain / Will power made that old car go" Lobo - Me And You And A Dog Named Boo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTbBvPoxUkk #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight

But 1977 was also the year punk hit Dunedin. I was too chicken to go to a proper punk gig, but I was willing to get punk-adjacent. From 1981: The Clean - Tally Ho! (Live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-sFDVT16i4 #JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist

Time to get some dinner! I'll be back after the intermission with the post-modern followed by the modern eras. In the meantime, and with an excellent introduction from C. Montgomery Burns: The Simpsons - Let's All Go To The Lobby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeS3eTn6CIs #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight

From Uzbekistan: Robiyaxon Havas Family Musical Group - Yak Khanda Kun Ey Gul | یک خنده کن ای گل : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmXiBs5fhig #AWiderWorld #JukeboxFridayNight

2026 Something from the year I was born. "And then along came Jones Tall, thin Jones Slow-walkin' Jones Slow-talkin' Jones Along came long, lean, lanky Jones" The Coasters - Along Came Jones (1959): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q51Y5U5EPck #JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist

The video shows David Bowie through the years. The song is an underrated classic from the Diamond Dogs albu. David Bowie feat, Mike Garson (piano) - Rock'n'Roll With Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-VfSperta8 #PianoMusic#JukeboxFridayNight

Some jazz piano now! First in a fusion context: Kari Band with Ai Kuwabara (piano) - Jamrica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT0Fyep1KsA RIP Mikio Fujioka. #PianoMusic#JukeboxFridayNight

Classical piano into rock piano: Miyako Watanabe - Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata (extract) + Lovebites, Dystopia Symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvVbyA7RVGQ #JukeBoxFridayNight#PianoMusic

Thelonius Monk - Straight, No Chaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6buuH8Q4T0 #PianoMusic#JukeboxFridayNight#jazz

Still 1976. Next to Studholme Hall was a house where some of the cooler Studholme students lived. They had parties! They had stereos! They had blackout curtains and lava lamps! And I got to hear things like this for the first time... Far out. man! Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (live, 1971): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWR-aI1qtEU #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight

Igor Levit (piano) - Beethoven, Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9 - piano transcription by Franz Liszt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV80lICVTMs #PianoMusic#JukeboxFridayNight

I've never lost my childhood love of classical music - moving to Wellington in 1993 allowed me (when finances allow) to see more of it. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra became Sibelius specialists: Hilary Hahn and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius Violin Concerto (2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpbTHQn7RP8 #JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist

At age 10: Jimmy Shand and his Band - Mairi's Wedding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCptMS8IZvA #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight

At age 12, thanks to Athol Fricker and the portable record player he brought to our fourth form class: Deep Purple - Speed King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDyO7jTIKDc #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight

Not much metal from me tonight - must put that right! So I'll close with two more songs about dust ... firstly, some sensible public health advice from Lovebites: Lovebites - Don't Bite The Dust (live, 2001): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHnKGEj1CMc #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight #PowerMetal

"Are we the ones, the ones to blame? We are mortals of shadows and dust" Arch Enemy - Shadows And Dust (live, 2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRauwroGNig #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight #MeloDeath #DeathMetal

From Kazakhstan, with throat-singing. I really like this one! Hassak‬ - Amanat (Аманат): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRXAJ1d9wYg #AWiderWorld #JukeboxFridayNight

From across the Davis Strait in Greenland: Nanook - Ingerlaliinnaleqaagut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-fckkHG7M #AWiderWorld #JukeboxFridayNight#Greenland #KalaallitNunaat

Fast forward to 1976. I'm 16, in my first year at Otago Uni and living in Studholme Hall. All I have to play music on is a transistor radio. And the local pop/rock radio station has a *really* restricted playlist that mostly functioned as aversion therapy. But I still like this high-rotation song from 1976: Boston - More Than A Feeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QK8RxCAwo #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight

2019 Chthonic, and even more so BABYMETAL, have opened my ears to a whole lot of Asian and in particular Japanese rock and metal bands, plus some idol groups. My favourite group of the last 10 years really blew up in 2020 during lockdown with their live performances released every Friday, but this is from the prelapsarian 2019. Nemophila - Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFnEYhbEAqg #JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist

From Thailand: Bodyslam - ความรัก: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZp9BOjvD7o #AWiderWorld#JukeboxFridayNight

Underworld - Dirty Epic:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM8gz3dXCQg #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight#Electronica Caution: video contains some rapid transitions

From a festival in the Faroe Islands: Eivør Pálsdóttir - Tròdlabùndin (Trøllabundin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsl-KHGe4Kk #AWiderWorld #JukeboxFridayNight

2011. My music tastes had become quite ossified - I only listened to new music when it was by bands I already liked. Then I realise that YouTube allows me to try music before I buy! My first "discovery" is Warpaint, whose first couple of albums are in the sweet spot between King Crimson-style prog and post-punk. Warpaint - Beetles (live in Belgium, 2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdDYpw38xeU #JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist

"All we are is dust in the wind" Kansas - Dust in the Wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight

And now for Part 2 of "A film so old you had to stand up for the national anthem before it started!" I'd made it to 2005, but I need to scoot back to 2001, when my first book (short story collection "Extreme Weather Events") was published: Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Every Day I Write The Book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1d4r9awjKE #JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist

"You wanna have me You watch me like TV You wanna hold me Collect me like rubies Talk about me like a movie You're so dirty" Helium - XXX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCPfYcLuYkk #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight

2025 My personal playlist continues to grow, backwards as well as forwards in time. Something new: Jennie - Starlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su84kZAEepM #JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist

A quick trip into the ozone layer! Here's O-Zone from Moldova via Romania with their massive, and much-sampled, hit from 2003: O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnopHCL1Jk8 #AWiderWorld#JukeboxFridayNight

I'll move on from 1977 soon, but I discovered so many genres of music and favourite bands that year! Including the coolest band of them all... ABBA - Take A Chance On Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-crgQGdpZR0 #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight

More from Thailand, and more ozone! Nene Royal is a 16-year-old singer and guitarist from Phuket, Thailand who recently won the latest season of "America's Got Talent" - by playing rock music extremely well. Ozone is her band. Nene Royal and OZONE band - Naka Market, Phuket, Thailand, August 16 2026 - "ซมซาน (Som San) - LOSO”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRCTlalqMRc #AWiderWorld#JukeboxFridayNight

1977 ... punk, funk, new wave, soul... I bought a soul and early funk compilation cassette that included this song: Johnny Johnson & the Bandwagon - Blame it on the Pony Express: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OnILb6Rhbk #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight

2013 / a lifetime A sincere punk pastiche by a comedian, melancholic and funny at once, with guests from the Sex Pistols, Sleater Kinney, and beyond - the story of my life (except for the famous guests)* and a perfect set of chords to finish on. Ian Rubbish and the Bizarros - It's a Lovely Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7iF1pPwq_w #JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist *Names have been changed to protect the nonexistent

2016 Though I loved soul and funk, US hip-hop never really grabbed me. But UK hip-hop did. Little Simz - Wings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13NHScCeMrk #JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist

No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1977! But that was the year I bought a Goldring mono cassette player and discovered my favourite band of all time, King Crimosn - starting with their most famous song, 21st Century Schizoid Man, which @Kay@mastodon.nz has just posted. "I Talk To The Wind" is the second song on the album that invented progressive rock - but if was first recorded by the pre-KC trio Giles, Giles and Fripp, with Judy Dyble on vocals Giles, Giles & Fripp feat. Judy Dyble - I Talk to the Wind (audio only): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfqXh5s4t4k #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight

"They say that all is fair in love and war But people don't know what they're fighting for Playing dirty, playing the game An' then tomorrow start all over again" Girlschool - Play Dirty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgoMAHvQXgw #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight

From their album, "The Dirt of Luck", and featuring gardening in the good old dirt: Helium - Pat's Trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3HuDsHyK8 #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight

John Denver & the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Take Me Home, Country Roads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQicl2mOPpI #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight

At age 12, also thanks to Athol Fricker and his portable record player - coming from a home where rock and pop were never played, this sort of thing blew my mind in 1972: From their 1970 debut album ...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble Uriah Heep - I'll Keep On Trying (audio only): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7hdJEh7-8c #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight

From Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut: The Jerry Cans - Mamaqtuq: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DueVqYKWQxE #AWiderWorld#JukeboxFridayNight

Time, forward! It's 1988, and I'm living in a housing collective in Dunedin (an early co-housing arrangement). The first rock music I ever listened to was what was called heavy metal in 1972 - Deep Purple, Uriah Heep - but I regard myself as far too mature for #heavymetal now - I'm an activist, an intellectual, and in general very pretentious and I only listen to bands approved of by the New Musical Express. Then a flatmate's boyfriend introduces the rest of us to the album of which this is the title song, and the metal is again within me. Thanks, Eddy! Metallica - And Justice For All (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbokBTEBEOE BTW When I do poetry readings, one of the poems that works best is about listening to Metallica during the Gold Guitar Awards in Gore. #JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist

2014, Via a video Doris Yeh of the excellent Taiwanese metal band Chthonic made with three very young performers, I discover BABYMETAL - and after much initial WTF-ness, realise I like them. This was the song and performance that clinched it - it's the first-ever live performance of their song "Road of Resistance". The video quality isn't great, but this is the performance that's on my personal playlist. BABYMETAL - Road of Resistance (first performance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht_F3Cn0nVg #JukeboxFridayNight#PersonalPlaylist

2005, and for a mercifully brief time, our eight-year-old son is obsessed with this song, which is in no way an earworm: Crazy Frog - Axel F: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE #PersonalPlaylist#JukeboxFridayNight

Time for some boogie-woogie! Professor Longhair and the Meters - Tipitina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj6AXu7_psY #PianoMusic#JukeboxFridayNight

To finish, the glissando (keyboard slide) that launched a thousand dances. ABBA - Dancing Queen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s #PianoMusic#JukeboxFridayNight

Iggy Pop & The Stooges - Dirt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF-q_JdcCD8 #Dirty#JukeboxFridayNight