Del Franklin

🎧 The Listening Log
One bloke. One blog. One album at a time.
Track-by-track takes, musical nostalgia & new noise.
Long-suffering supporter of Cambridge United

[Del Franklin @delfranklin]

The holiday is over. Brazil already feels strangely unreal, the rain has returned to Salford, Bowie is asleep in the back seat and work emails are multiplying somewhere in the distance.

Soundtrack today includes Black Lace and Royal Blood. https://t.co/esQqWiWmuW

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Jason Donovan unexpectedly gets the afternoon started before Graham Central Station, Charli XCX, Tom Waits and Mozart take over.

There is beer, sunshine, a growing awareness that the holiday is nearly over, and a lengthy battle with a Figaro title that a https://t.co/zCYTH27Ijs

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An overcast Saturday morning spent with John Lennon, Erasure, Sepultura and Frankie Knuckles, plus the sudden realisation that Frankie has been dead for over a decade and somehow nobody thought to mention it.

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New Listening Log entry from Brazil.

BB King soundtracking a family morning in Rio Claro, Ken Dodd causing mild moral concern over breakfast, Karen Dalton making me want an early beer, and Duke Ellington transporting things back almost a century.

The in https://t.co/Rwrq2eHYFo

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Trying something slightly different on The Listening Log this week.

A wander through modern Spotify discoveries featuring vocoder overload, overblown promotional write-ups, The Avalanches, and growing concern about what exactly happened to pop music.

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New entry on The Listening Log.

A Tuesday morning in Manchester spent drifting between 4Hero, Red Simpson, Dead Can Dance and Charli XCX while mentally preparing for the long journey to Brazil next week.

Sometimes music just mirrors the strange mood of https://t.co/lcWsDlZ6Ik

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Football promotion, new Stones music, election-night background noise and the strange calm of a quiet office after a chaotic week.

This latest Listening Log drifts from Crewe away days to Keith Richards riffs and political exhaustion somewhere in between https://t.co/XSHClK0Bbg

[Del Franklin @delfranklin]

Saturday’s been on my mind all week, so naturally the songs step in.

Motörhead set the tone, a Peel session surprises, Cinder Well drifts past, and Tony Bennett restores a bit of order.

A listening log shaped by football nerves and small moments of calm https://t.co/cfEbQF5tHS

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Cambridge United 3–0 Barrow.
Job done… but one massive game to go.
Crewe away. Promotion on the line. https://t.co/dHA1qevAAQ

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Orbital to Whitesnake to dub via Manchester’s (and Salford!) strangest roads.
Traffic, football landmarks, and basslines doing their job.
Another properly chaotic listening log. https://t.co/Z82U1Ks635

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From Bernard Manning to Dolly Parton…
Comedy chaos, forgotten Duran Duran, and early Dolly cutting deep.
This playlist really has no idea what it’s doing. And that’s the point. https://t.co/TrIuLbmVBX

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From Marvin Gaye to Steve Jones, a bit of classical calm, and Dave to round it off.
Friday mood, cleaner eating, clearer head, and music doing its usual job. https://t.co/bE7pIU1PDj

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Falling back into Pet Shop Boys ahead of the gig in July.
Relentless is a strange, hypnotic mini-album that swaps pop for atmosphere.
Deep, down and dirty! A classic I originally missed. https://t.co/hLIfAIZDws

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Long drive home after Cambridge United 4–0 Notts County.
From Elton and PJ Harvey to Coltrane and complete playlist chaos.
Football high, motorway miles, and music somehow holding it all together. https://t.co/yudCvqZaeK

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Manchester sun = chaos on the roads.
Thankfully Pete Shelley, Sweet Female Attitude and Black Uhuru keeping things level.
Music 1, humanity… still trying. https://t.co/TswqB7D4wU

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Late goal conceded. Again.
Cambridge United lead, miss chances, sit back… and pay for it in the 91st minute. Radio voices cracking, fans deflated, automatic spots gone.
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Storm Dave howling outside, herbal tea instead of biscuits, and Guy Mowbray and Alan Shearer keeping me company on BBC One.
There’s something about football being on in the background that just settles everything. https://t.co/lIxrHTYlUx

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Late drama, a gut-punch equaliser, and eight minutes of pure chaos… football really does know how to test your sanity.

Still third. Still in the fight.

Roll on Cheltenham away and a massive one at home next week. 🔵⚽ https://t.co/k51uEOZSeh

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John n Yoko, Cowley n Sylvester, Robert Allen Zimmerman & Stephen Patrick. https://t.co/43Jc0PDDqY

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Made it halfway through Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops last night.
Didn’t want to turn it off.
Felt odd when I did. https://t.co/CBZBWvvRDN