La Costeña Salsa de Habanero

Orangina

Four drawings of bottles

Fanta

Checo

One Direction

Blankety Blank, Play Your Cards Right, Pop Quiz

The Uniqueen

Cocteau Twins, the Double-A farm team of the Minnesota Twins

Even German TV is anticipating the haircut: “Magical corner gives hope for a visit to the hairdresser!” (Forza West Ham, obviously)

The Cult

My local Aldi measuring out how much grit to use on the whole icy pavement and car park

The Wonder Stuff

Pitch dimensions are just a serving suggestion, anyway

Praia dos Ingleses, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil Based on a photo I took from a hotel balcony in 2008. I had a good time there.

Depeche Mode

The Cure

Dead or Alive

Pretty decent month in 1979 at Eric's Club in Liverpool

The Sun Always Shines on TV got to number one in the UK 40 years ago this week

Supergrass

Radiohead

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Coldplay

Status Quo

Covid lockdown began in the UK 2,120 days ago, on 26 March 2020. Same length of time in the Beatles timeline goes from the debut single release (5/10/62), to recording While My Guitar Gently Weeps (25/7/68). It will never not blow my mind how much the Beatles did in such a short space of time.

Soft Cell

Trio

The Smiths

Sometimes your brain just needs you to do things so you can clear some space that's being taken up by the thought of doing it, doesn't it?

Curiosity Killed the Cat

Yazoo

Echo & the Bunnymen

Elvis, Mel & Kim, Enya

Shout out to all the players who will get transferred or traded before their month on the team's official calendar comes up

"LFO," LFO, Warp Records, WAP 5, 1990

Gonna spend the next few hours commenting "who's here in 2026?" on every music video on YouTube.

Happy new year + feliz año nuevo + frohes neues Jahr

If you really wanna hate your day, get Don't Worry Be Happy stuck in your head and have it mutate into the "so I wake in the morning and I step outside" bit of the 4 Non Blondes song. The perfect dogshit medley.

The gap between Bing Crosby's White Christmas and Wham!'s Last Christmas: 42 years The gap between Last Christmas and today: 41 years

Feliz Navidad, Frohe Weihnachten, Joyeux Noël, Buon Natale, Feliz Natal, God jul, Wesołych Świąt, and Happy Christmas

The Heavyweights of British Christmas Music: Slade, Shakin' Stevens, and Wham!

Ride

Elastica

A bit mad that someone with that name used "Robbie" as his showbiz name

The Stone Roses

McAlmont & Butler

Lush

PJ Harvey

Blur