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A Whole Bunch of Good Songs Vol 2

I mentioned last year about the mixtapes my brother used to make. Well, just the other week, my mom mentioned that she still had a bunch of her tapes and that my brother’s mixtapes might be in amongst them and sure enough, I found the very tape that I remember most. Named aptly, A Whole Bunch of Good Songs Vol 2.

I wasn’t entirely sure when my brother put together this tape but given that no song seems to have been made after 1982, I’d say I have my answer. I would’ve listened to this tape probably throughout the ‘80s and it’s interesting to be reminded of songs that I had long forgotten like Snowman (XTC) and Homosapien (Pete Shelley). The lyrics came back to me rather quickly.

I made an Apple playlist and have documented the list of songs here for historical purposes.

Song Artist
Hear That Guitar Ring The Powder Blues Band
Doin It Right The Powder Blues Band
Armageddon Prism
Tainted Love Soft Cell
I Got You Split Enz
Another Nail In My Heart Squeeze
Behind Blue Eyes The Who
A Matter of Pride The Tubes
Power Tools The Tubes
Life Begins at the Hop XTC
Love at First Sight XTC
Respectable Street XTC
Senses Working Overtime XTC
Snowman XTC
Roundabout Yes
Vacation The Go-Go’s
Should I Stay or Should I Go The Clash
Sean Flynn The Clash
Homosapien Pete Shelley
Yesterday’s Not Here Pete Shelley
Can’t Stand Losing You The Police
Message In a Bottle The Police

Alas, I didn't find any other mixtapes that my brother had put together.


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One crime ring scammed 2,000 elderly people of more than $27 million between 2021 and 2023 using tech support/bank impersonation/refund scams. "Victims were in their 70s and 80s," reports the U.S. Attorney's office for California's southern district. Victims were first told they'd received a refund (either online or via phone), but then told they'd been "over-refunded" a massive amount, and asked to return that amount.

But 42-year-old Jiandong Chen just admitted Thursday in a U.S. federal court that he was involved in the fraud and money laundering via cryptocurrency — pleading guilty to two charges with maximum penalties of 40 years in prison and a $1 million fine, plus 20 years in prison with a maximum fine of $500,000 or twice the amount laundered. "Chen, a Chinese national, is the second defendant charged in a five-defendant indictment." And what tripped him up seems to be that "Certain members of the conspiracy also did in-person pickups of money directly from victims..."

And so YouTube enters the story — when the scammers called pranksters with 1,790,000 subscribers to their "Trilogy Media" channel. In an elaborate three-hour video, the team of pranksters lured the scammer to a rented Airbnb where they're staging a fake funeral with a nun. (One of the men acting in the video remembers "we start doing a prayer... I'm holding the scammer's hand in my nun outfit...")

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