In case you were wondering, Paul Shane did indeed get the part of Chris Rea's dad.

"I'm sorry, this just doesn't capture the magic of a half hour advert for toys that were just repainted dolls the toy manufacturers found dumped in a skip in kyoto"

Blog update: The late summer of 1986 saw two old Indie number ones swapping around in the top spot, so let's look further below at: Mighty Mighty Toy Dolls Poly Styrene Pop Will Eat Itself Yeah Jazz The Bodines Elvis Costello Camper Van Beethoven Black This Mortal Coil and others...

youtu.be/GOHXp5qZNcs?... I don't know why YouTube recommended this to me but it was exactly what I'd expected from the thumbnail.

The only car to be named after two Pet Shop Boys albums.

Football's BEST VAR Moments

Just thinking about the time Martyn Lewis started belting out Wham Rap! in the middle of News at Ten

The perfection of that last sentence

Explaining to my 22yo that I didn't watch the OJ Simpson car chase because it was at 9.30pm, and if anything happened after the 9 o'clock news then we didn't hear about it until Alistair Stewart told us on TV-AM the next day. Those were the days.

Tfw you're in debt to the mob and they send the Grumbleweeds

I got this in the Resident sale, too. I know it's not for everyone but at least it's possible to add B-sides to a 90s album without turning the sleeve into a technicolor apocalypse.

My big January Sale package from @rvr-recordshop.bsky.social is here.

I've just listened to the Henry's Cat version of Boom Boom Boom by the Outhere Brothers. The good news is that he doesn't do the original lyrics.

OK, it’s not 2016, by 7 days, but I’ve gone through my camera roll and I thought this was the most shareable thing - proof that I was among the first 1,000 people to discover the Beatles.

On the same Now album as a different song with the same title klaxon #forgotten80s

Objectively, Warning Sign should be a bit of a mess but I love it. #forgotten80s

"Hope you can understand" #forgotten80s

Buzz buzz #forgotten80s

Second act to have had a hit with the same song as Bruce Willis, because both he and the Tom Tom Club did Under The Boardwalk #forgotten80s

Once you get to our age, wee-wee hours are a regular overnight occurrence #forgotten80s

Paul Weller's Got A Brand New Pigbag #forgotten80s

www.instagram.com/reel/DTqi3Qs... Meanwhile on Instagram, Greg James was driving a Volvo 240. #forgotten80s

Take hair off yourself. I always sing this when buying razors. #forgotten80s

GASMAN BANTZ #forgotten80s

"I Wanna Do It With You" is Bazza's highest placing single in the UK charts. It's no "Bermuda Triangle", is it? #forgotten80s

Levi Stubbs possibly giving a better performance than the song justifies. #forgotten80s

It's probably a bit mean of me to wish The Beloved had been a one-hit-wonder but I don't like their other big songs. #forgotten80s

Hildegard Of Bingen on #forgotten80s

Blog update: The Smiths "Panic" was, predictably enough, number one in the NME indie charts in August 1986 - a song in which Morrissey discarded wit and lyrical dexterity for brash slogans, accompanied by interviews which made things even worse. indienumber1s.blogspot.com/2026/01/84-s...

Gosh, £17.50 in 1978 is about £100 today. Still, Mike Yarwood AND the Nolan Sisters…

Been looking at one of my presents from my brother and his partner.

Anyway, here's my thread about how all the Gladiators were named after cars.

www.instagram.com/stories/nick... 🥕

Anyone else have an encounter with a total stranger that they will never stop thinking about? I often think about the time I was in a bookstore waiting for a bathroom to open up, and a guy in one of the bathrooms was taking an incredibly loud crap while repeatedly yelling “SIRI, WHAT CITY IS THIS”

Total recall of that whole weekend, before we left I saw a bit of Ireland vs France in the rugby where they'd painted the Lloyds TSB logo on the pitch too late and everyone got covered in blue paint, and when we arrived we found out Man U had won 8-1

Ruin a band by changing one letter: Pink Flood Dire Strains The Damped Badsinger

Why not spend the day singing along with Bill Maynard's 1979 single 'Stock Car Racing Is Magic' - but only after listening to us telling you all about it in the latest PantoSplaining podcast. youtu.be/O8w76GHlLPY?... Linktr.ee/PantoSplaining

There's also that sense of 'time's money' and imagining a group of friends deciding on a pizza order for a few minutes is taking time they could be spending developing a stablecoin or something, rather than part of what being with your friends is about. Ordering a pizza is *part* of pizza night.

I think this is an important revelation for me. There was that old tweet about how being a billionaire must be cognitively equivalent to being kicked in the head by a horse, and this is the same thing. Using genAI is just what it's like to be a billionaire, that's why they can't see its flaws.

I realise this is very heretical in the #TotP community but I think almost all the songs on this 1997 episode are good actually.

I used to get Easy by Terrorvision and Easy by Cud mixed up. Fortunately I like them both. #TotP

Supposedly this Orbital performance is from Later... but it sounds exactly the same as the record (specifically the Industry Standard Edit). #TotP

This Tori Amos album was one of the most disappointing albums I've ever heard #TotP

Has he been stealing jokes from Simon Mayo's bins? #TotP

You should have seen Roy Plomley giving it what for on stage at The Hippodrome Eastbourne #totp #DesertIslandDiscs

WHO TOLD YOU? #TOTP

Mr Mister, not a part of the official Mr Men franchise… #TOTP