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Dummy NeoDB Spotify Douban Discogs
8.7 (6 ratings) Portishead genre: Electronic
release date Aug. 22, 1994 publisher: Go! Beat / London
Dummy is the debut studio album by English electronic music band Portishead, released on 22 August 1994 by Go! Beat Records.

The album received critical acclaim and won the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularising the trip hop genre, and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s. Dummy was certified triple platinum in the UK in February 2019, and had sold 920,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of September 2020. Worldwide, the album had sold 3.6 million copies by 2008.
Café Bleu Spotify
The Style Council
release date Jan. 1, 1984 publisher: Polydor
Jan. 15, 2026 listened
Crossing genres like soul, jazz, funk & rap, it scores some misses but also some awesome hits, like My Ever Changing Moods.
Jazz SophistiPop UK PaulWeller Soul
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Question master Jimmy Carr is joined by Jonathan Ross, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Ryan, Nick Mohammed, Roisin Conaty and Lou Sanders, as they battle it out to see who knows the most about the year that's been.
High Hopes (1989) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
High Hopes
director: Mike Leigh actor: Phil Davis / Ruth Sheen
other title: Belle speranze / Grandes Ambições
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.
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The Wedding Present genre: Indie Rock / Post-punk / Pop-punk / Noise Pop
release date Oct. 23, 1989 publisher: RCA
The Wedding Present's second studio album—and first "proper" album for RCA—came soon after the Ukrainian John Peel Sessions / Українські Виступи в Івана Піла folk music side project.

Technically speaking, only one single was taken from the album, "Kennedy", which provided the band with their first Top 40 hit, reaching #33. In early 1990, The Wedding Present re-recorded "Brassneck" with Steve Albini, which reached #24 in the UK charts. The single and its B-sides were later included on U.S. release of the album, and are also included on the Singles 1989-1991 compilation. The US CD version contains the Wedding Present's cover of "Box Elder", an early song by then unknown American band Pavement. A remastered CD version, released by BMG Camden in 2001, also features the B-sides of the "Kennedy" single, including a cover version of the Tom Jones hit "It's Not Unusual".
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The Divine Comedy
release date Aug. 31, 1998 publisher: Divine Comedy
Jan. 12, 2026 listened
'National Express' never fails to bring joy to my heart, but the whole concept album impresses, too.

But then what do you expect when a chamber pop songsmith like Neil Hannon sits in a flat in Clapham listening to Jacques Brel, playing pirate games on the Playstation & musing on the end of the 20th century? :)
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (Miniseries) (2004) NeoDB Douban TMDB
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Season 1 part of TV Series: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
director: Richard Ayoade / Paul King actor: Matthew Holness / Matt Berry
In the 1980s horror writer Garth Marenghi wrote, produced, directed and starred in Darkplace, a groundbreaking series set in a hospital and exploring the depths of the author's imagination. At least that's what Marenghi and his publicist/co-star, Dean Learner, claim in modern-day interviews which both bookend and interrupt the episodes. In fact the show is cheap, chiché'd, full of gaping plot holes and startlingly misogynist. Garth Marenghi is a creation of comedian Matthew Holness, who won a Perrier award with the character at the 2001 Edinburgh festival. Written by Richard Smeltzer.
Event Horizon (1997) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Event Horizon
5.6 (13 ratings) director: Paul W. S. Anderson actor: Laurence Fishburne / Sam Neill
other title: Punto di non ritorno / O Enigma do Horizonte
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
Night and the City (1950) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Night and the City
director: Jules Dassin actor: Richard Widmark / Francis L. Sullivan
other title: I trafficanti della notte / Foragidos da Noite
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
Scala!!! (2024) IMDb
Scala!!!
director: Jane Giles / Ali Catterall actor: John Waters / Adam Buxton
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
Dec. 28, 2025 to watch 1984-1989 the Scala was my local cinema!

Trigger: watching The Ladykillers (1955) & recognizing the Scala as someone leaves King's Cross Station
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