Inspired by the Milky Way Soul episode with pro wrestling legend @the305mvp.bsky.social, this week on BYR2K I take my best stab at identifying the sampled songs that make white people go "OH MY GOD, IT'S [NAME OF RAP SONG]!!!!!" Welcome to Vanilla Extracts open.spotify.com/episode/0Qsc...

173. Vanilla Extracts

Beyond Yacht Rock 2000 · Episode

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If you didn’t get the GCSE results you hoped for today, well done for even taking them at 45 years-old that’s an achievement in itself

I have a bra for my eyes.

"on a steel horse i ride" motorcycle? no, it's a literal robot horse made of steel, like a comicstrip in the beezer in 1969

Gem of the day, Sue Pollard waving at Blair and Brown through the window of Granita when they were having that talk www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘Paul McCartney asked for my autograph!’ Su Pollard on Hi-de-Hi! and her amazing celebrity encounters

Even after half a century in the limelight, the actor can still surprise. Who’d have guessed she went clubbing with Freddie Mercury? Or that she watched Blair and Brown strike their fateful deal at Gr...

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we should get a bank holiday for this

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 5d ago

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Grunge.com is using “yacht rock” to mean “any song” and destroying its journalistic integrity. If this is the world we’re living in, when yachtrock.com is up and running we’re declaring the best grunge solo of all time to be Tony Hinnigan’s tin flute on Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will go On.”

Grunge@grungehq.bsky.social · 5d ago

The 5 best yacht rock solos of all time include Terry Kath's guitar on Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" and Phil Kenzie's saxophone on Al Stewart's "Time Passages."

This doesn't even warrant being top story in the 'politics' section, but this is the main story of their entire news website. No 'Reform claim', just the BBC relating a press release from a party with a handful of MPs as a fact. This is GB news stuff.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d ago

This Reform press release is currently the lead story on the BBC News website

If you are on Bluesky and you don't subscribe to a few basic blocklists (Spectator Garden Party, Very British Bigotry would be the ones I recommend) you risk having your stuff screenshot by the worst people in the world and shared on X for malicious purposes. Block them & forget them.

we should get a bank holiday for this

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 5d ago

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Pretty much everything you need to know about the British Right in two images.

This morning I'm thinking of Johann Hari, caught in a major plagiarism scandal and a few years later getting to publish a book blurbed like this

The British press have committed another murder but because they didn't actually wield a knife they will get away with it and live to kill again . And again. And again.

I only got the Welsh one at first (also I was walking and not easily able to look at my phone so it was rather confusing)

NEW MIX UP - 1951 Part Two - Somewhere There's Music An immersive three hour collage of 1951, free for you to stream, featuring a cornucopia of incredible music and many other sounds. Come and listen! centuriesofsound.com/2026/08/14/1...

I always remember August 14th.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 7d ago

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I don’t visit last.fm that often these days, but I’ve had an account since 2003. Why is my “top track” something I’ve never even heard of?

finally fucking finished 007 first fucking light

Didn't he do all the Stiff Records artwork?

In a proper society, the only rational response to a 65-year-old man saying that would be pity.

She’s named after Nicole Kidman’s character in Batman Forever (Chase Meridian) and Buzz Lightyear’s catchphrase. I am not making this up.

Ricardo Autobahn@ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 2w ago

I learnt to drive in a Chase Infiniti.

It’s just taken me two hours to get from Bristol to Cardiff on the train. 👍👍👍

Here's a playlist of 10 beautiful compositions, productions and remixes by William Orbit, featuring tracks by Blur, Madonna, Torch Song, All Saints, Propaganda, Bass-o-Matic, One Dove and Malcolm McClaren (photo by Evapix) ▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/61F...

Remembering William Orbit

Playlist · andychislehurst · 10 items

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digging the new mountain goats long player