I guess my sincere end-of-year list would also have one or both of "Euro-Country" and "Take a Sexy Picture of Me" by CMAT on, although again this is massively and rudely overreaching my lived experience (which is to say: I'm not Irish). Although at least I can't miss the point as hard as this guy.

End-of-year list time makes me sad about how disengaged with music I've been of late. Off the top of my head mine would be a one-song list with just "The Giver" on it, and I recall enough of the Discourse to know that is not a morally sound list for me, specifically, to be making.

If she needs love to feel strong, how can she say that knows that she can get through this (life after love) because she knows that she's strong? Something about this just doesn't add up #TOTP

Less "Falling in Love Again", more "Exactly the Same Song Again" #TOTP

If You Tolerate This Record, Your Children Will Be Better #TOTP

Bluesky still doesn't have polls so I can't do my "But which is better, Touch or Go?" gag #TOTP

Seal & I are coinvestors in an attraction that tells the history of pop music through miniature dioramas, but no one has been coming because they say the coverage of rap isn't good enough. We're never gonna survive unless we get a little Jay-Z.

I went to the Imperial War Museum to see their exhibition on the 'emergencies' in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus today. www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...

"Can you put on that song from yesterday's #TOTP with all the trumpets?" "Would You?" "OK sure, I asked you but whatever"

Just think: no "Believe" by Cher, no "The Boy Does Nothing" by Alesha Dixon. #TOTP

It's current UK album chart toppers Aerosmith #TOTP

Xenomania starts here #TOTP

Kele Le Roc was the title of the French dub of Bocchi The Rock #TOTP

From the Swedish sing to "The Sweetest Thing" #TOTP

Front row of the audience are so into this I think they might be plants #TOTP

Must be getting chilly. The Heaton’s on. #totp

My stock answer for "what would your specialist subject on Mastermind be" is "the French Revolution", so somewhat distressing for that to be a round on yesterday's episode and for me to do blindingly poorly on it at home.

The new Charli XCX/John Cale one ("House") sounds like it should have a co-writing credit for Hans Zimmer

Get out of here with your ripoff you unFrench swines #TOTP

POP FACT: the "dum-dum da da dum dum" bit is for the radio edit, the real version is just hardcore swears #TOTP

Manson kindly repeating "talk of the town" at the end of that track in case you were struggling to work out that it sounded like Pretenders #TOTP

Ironically for a Bee Gees cover there are a lot of very irritating high-pitched noises on this track #TOTP

I really like the bit where they all pretend they're sitting in a rollercoaster. It's very wholesome #TOTP

That movie left me with a lot of nagging questions. Are we ever going to get to see these protagonists get old and pass the torch to a new generation of heroes?

That 4 The Cause performance reminiscent of the California Dreaming sketch on The Sketch Show #totp

Incidentally if you were disappointed by the lack of dance music in those 1998 Popses then the boy Autobahn has you covered (from several weeks ago) youtu.be/xE7geYxr6F0?... #TOTP

Hands inside the vehicle at all times, those watching at home #TOTP

OK the lyrics to "Rollercoaster" might not be up to much but it is very lovely musically #TOTP

Republica fulfilling the legal requirement for a 90s London rock band to name check the Westway #TOTP

H is letting the side down with respect to dress here, he looks like he just popped into Uniqlo five minutes before the episode #TOTP

Don't worry guys. To save us all I've hidden the nuclear codes in this tightly screwed on jam jar.

Oh, we can't have James Bond star in this one? Here comes Jiddy Bond with his new girlfriend, Jixie, to take on Bucanneer "Blowfish" Blofeld on his pirate hideaway. In fact, why stop there? Bring back Pierce Brosnan as an aged former James Bond who sits in a rocking chair and talks about FPS games.

Fire Emblem support conversations like "I hate you and I'm looking forward to killing you, you despicable worm" "The feeling's mutual, toerag" and then *ping* you're now official best friends!

Reading this list in order greatly amused me when I hit #10.

I have heard and enjoyed it a large number of times but because I am A Bit Dim it's taken me noticing that Yazz has a badge with a rainbow pattern on it to realise what "Stand Up For Your Love Rights" is, presumably very obviously, getting at #TOTP

It's Britney! Oh wait #TOTP

Am I playing Parappa the Rapper? #TOTP

"Crush" by Jennifer Paige feels like it _should_ be a 10cc-style "it's not like I like you or anything baka!", but I think she genuinely actually doesn't really like him #TOTP

Alisha's Attic, like Martika's Kitchen, is presumably located within Susan's House #TOTP

📧 Years before Google, “Gmail” was a fan email service on Garfield․com; perfect for anyone who hates Mondays. It vanished like lasagne into Garfield's belly, but pawprints remain on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ web.archive.org/web/20000815... 🧵 #Wayback1T #WebHistory

I had just finished watching "The Anniversary" (thanks to @dirtyfeed.org making me think I ought to watch all of Fawlty Towers at some point) when someone messaged me with the news that Prunella Scales had died, which seemed oddly apt as an episode choice.

It's a week of second-place finishers being touted as the real winners by a sympathetic BBC News, so I expect the day to end with the news that Heather Humphreys has won "the moral Presidency"

If "One Lifetime Of Drums" was the official song of the whole Olympics, why were they only showing American athletes, and if it was the Team USA anthem why did we have to put up with it over here? #TOTP

Can't hear "What Can I Do" without thinking of the Milton Jones joke (to a revolutionary before the firing squad: "Any last requests?" "I think only of the cause!" "Very well...") #TOTP

I also enjoy listening to sound, Alda and I have so much in common #TOTP

Partner: "I think when you're clean-shaven, you look like Ronan Keating, and when you have a beard, you look like Kurt Cobain." #TOTP

In that final shot of Sash smiling at the camera he somehow looked like the most German person to ever exist #TOTP

I could kind of see "To the Moon and Back" as a Duran Duran single #TOTP

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Sad to announce that I have not had a callback for the position of UNESCO's Director of Social Media.