POP CRAZED PATREON PEOPLE, COME AND SUCKLE AT OUR BONUSY TEATS: Hit The Fucking Play Button is BACK, and we're tucking into the Crop Of The Flops segment on The Two Ronnies from Jan '82. TUCK IN, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS! patreon.com/chartmusic

There's nothing like a Halloween stew.

Pop-Crazed Youngsters: get this in your tab. Simon's involved...

On the 9th anniversary of our first episode, the Pop-Crazed Patreon People are getting the recording of our live show at the London Podcast Festival last Saturday. RING-RANG-A-DONG, Pop-Crazed Youngsters! www.patreon.com/chartmusic

Ah man, your lot are SKILL. youtu.be/z3r1gP8APn4?...

Thank you @chartmusictotp.bsky.social , @davidstubbs.bsky.social @simonprice.bsky.social for a great show , haven't been able to shake off the thought that Bruce Hornsby looks like an 80s version of Aussie cricketer Marnus Labuschagne without wanting to fuel the pre-Ashes hype #TOTP #ashes

It's still there!

Pop-Crazed Youngsters, ASSEMBLE;

We're ready.

NEARLY THERE: we're LIVE AND DIREC' at the London Podcast Festival on Saturday at 4.30, and there's still tickets available. Come and see us try to get through an episode of TOTP in 90 minutes, and join us in the pub after... www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...

Outfit for Saturday’s @chartmusictotp.bsky.social gig at London Pod Festival. I’ll have copies of the ‘TOTP: A Zombie Whodunnit zine’ available, ft. bits from Chart Music’s @simonprice.bsky.social + Al Needham. On the merch table, or look for my stupid jacket in the pub after. #totp #topofthepops

@chartmusictotp.bsky.social YOU BUNCH OF WANKERS!

Job for pig wanker general ?? @chartmusictotp.bsky.social

@chartmusictotp.bsky.social I was recently on the excellent website, BoardGameGeek, looking for a game I once had called Sorry! Imagine my surprise when I discovered they'd made a spin-off game... boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/53...

Finally, one of the weirdest music TV clips - as discussed in our episode with @simonprice.bsky.social - has resurfaced. Gary Numan on Jim'll Fix doing Music For Chameleons while a haunted child circled him slowly in an electric car with torches for headlights. youtu.be/ZBa5BsaB2kI?...

Oh God, and look what's on at ten past ten;

Well, fancy that; the episode of Top Of The Pops we've just covered is on BBC4 tonight at 9:30...

Want to know who is to blame for the demise of TOTP? @bubblegumzines.bsky.social has the answer in zine form. Includes contributions from @chartmusictotp.bsky.social people - out now pop kids!!

With the latest episode in the books, we are running like BASTARDS at our new live show at the London Podcast Festival. We're getting close to selling out, so the time for fannying about is getting shorter. FLAGS AND BALLOONS, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS! www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...

CHART MUSIC #76 FINAL PART: We bring this devastating episode of TOTP to a close with the sight of Zoo being sidelined, the fertility rite of our age, and deeply erotic encounter from 1985. TUCK IN, POP-CRAZED YOUNGSTERS;

By the way, we can't stop fantasising about a duet beween her off Orange Is The New Black - seen here in Nolan Sister incontinencewear on David Essex Apostraphe Showcase - and Eric Smallshaw. What suits best - You Don't Bring Me Flowers? Lucky Stars? Bonnie and Clyde?

CHART MUSIC #76 PART THREE: chocolate guitars, RoboSheena, and ACTUAL NOT VERY CONVINCING BUM-SEX...

It’s been a rough couple of days but thank Christ for @chartmusictotp.bsky.social and David Essex introducing me to Barbara Rosenblat. youtu.be/aMukz_YxU2o?...

Our massive video playlist for CM #76 starts like this;

CHART MUSIC #76 PART TWO: The horrifying tale of John Peel's near-death experience at Santa Pod Raceway, plus TOTO FLIPPING COELO;

I swear the last 9 years and 75 and a half episodes were just foreplay to get us ready for Al, Taylor and David to do ('do' being the operative word): 'John Wayne Is Big Leggy' by Haysi Fantayzee I mean, that's a pop-crazed youngster's fever dream, isn't it?

Have we all had our tea, then? Good.

CHART MUSIC #76 PART ONE: There's a GLORIOUS episode of The Pops awaiting us, but first we have a bleak stare at the grimmest video artifact of the Eighventies...

@chartmusictotp.bsky.social Zoo wanker Fookin' Bunteh is Bunty Bailey who was in the Take on Me video, one of the quincy punks in 80s US horror Dolls, and auditioned for Tasha Yar (eventually Denise 'granddaughter of Bing' Crosby) in Star Trek Next Generation. We nearly had a Zoo Wanker in Trek.

Hey, we chipped into this - a forensic examination of the murder of Top Of The Pops - and we're so glad we did, because it's SKILL. You need to mix it into your Pop-Crazed diet...

@chartmusictotp.bsky.social Punch at Bernard Manning's World Famous Embassy Club

We're getting some lovely feedback from the Pop-Crazed Patreons about our latest episode. Everyone else gets it on Monday...

Floid Pearce, run free.

Pop-Crazed Youngsters, ASSEMBLE! We're doing the London Podcast Festival for the 4th year running on Sat September 13th, and we want to see your cheeky little faces staring back at us. Book NOW! kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...

Given the high tensions between the yute dem and The Man at this year's #glastonbury, I feel as though we need a cool head, and experienced hand, at the tiller to ease the hostility. Put your hands together for our saviour, Paul Nicholas (cap doff @chartmusictotp.bsky.social)

This needs to be read out in n Al’s voice as on @chartmusictotp.bsky.social

We're back, but we're taking care of the Pop-Crazed Patreon People first with NEARLY FOUR HOURS on the first episode of The Tube. Oof!

A higher class of bathroom graffiti in Manchester.

FAO @chartmusictotp.bsky.social

Rock Expert Taylor Parkes;

Catching up on the bonkers 1975 episodes of ##TOTP and too many talking points* but Typically Tropical's lead singer (below) looks like a 1970s Neil Finn from Crowded House * the 10/04 ep actually is discussed at LENGTH on @chartmusictotp.bsky.social #6 open.spotify.com/episode/4ZIh...