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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Adam Boult

This week's top five music links

Guardianmusic.tumblr.com is the place where our writers post songs, videos, pictures and other music-related odds and ends they come across during their web trawling.

Here are our top five Tumblr posts from the past week.

1. Olly Murs falls down some stairs

In case you missed the Olly Murs excitement earlier this week …

Here's the video again – in which, in case you haven't gathered, Olly Murs falls down some stairs..

2. Securing your world, one country-rock stomp at a time

G4S, the company famous for failing to sort out security for the Olympics, has been saluted in song, presumably to be played at some ghastly trade fair or other. We wrote about it here and, if you haven't already, you can listen to it here.

3. Gobsmackingly brilliant Dan Deacon video

It's the music video equivalent of Chinese whispers. Dan Deacon and video director Ben O'Brien created a short scene, which was then shown to two collaborators who had to recreate it (props and all) from memory – and whose version was then shown to two more collaborators, and so on. The song is released on 27 August.

4. Kids today and their filthy dancing

Now, concerned parents and moral guardians are getting into a tizz about daggering. But, as this video demonstrates, dirty dancing has long been a cause for concern.

5. It's only a brand new song by the xx

"And it's a blooming lovely one too," says Chris Salmon.

• Seen any good links, videos, songs or pictures you think deserve a wider audience? Send them to adam.boult@guardian.co.uk with the subject line "Tumblr". If we use it and you'd like a credit, include your name, Twitter name or web address.

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