Not sure if in the 90s there was a worse band than these. #totp

It's a bit blowy here in Stafford. Current greenhouse damage is one window out and a plant pot turned over. That's down playing it but much more damage is expected.

There is a James Patterson book where he shoe horns in product placement. Its very jarring. Then I see the caption under this BBC news story of a man trying to recreate a cud album sleeve. You will have to expand it to see the detail.

#nowplaying Home Thoughts by Clifford T Ward. Run out of superlatives to describe this.

Orville Peck on #totp

Popbitch talking this week about front row seats at Abba Voyage, I mean technically there is a front row of seats.

Can't call them "mothers" any more, because of woke

Rounding error

I do think Sugababes have an entire show in them. #girlbandsforever

Same as bloody last week. #totp where is the challenge.

Is this a story? Man makes a compilation tape. Other man plays it. BBC News - 'I wrote an album after finding my late uncle's mixtape in loft' - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#nowplaying A nice bit of Fugazi

If you had to describe someone as a couple of wrong uns. You might struggle. Unrelated Eric Clapton and Pete Townsend are now on BBC2

When Buffy Sainte Marie released The Big Ones Get Away in the early 90s. I was the person that bought it. I remain a fan of the song. Its now playing on BBC2. I am giddy.

I am 100% prepared to fight anyone that criticises Pussycat. #totp

Vernon Kay is weathering well #totp

God I loved Babybird. So damn much. #totp

Anatomical udders

So how are NFTs doing these days? Still massively popular right?

Wrote this a year ago, about a month after Kristofferson's death. It holds up, I think. (For sure, his ironic anthem "The Law Is for Protection of the People" will be in my personal No Kings playlist today.)

Albums I had for my birthday ranked vs the expected rank. Out of 10. (Expected/Actual) Zach Top.Aint In it for my health. (8/3) Dwight Yoakam. Brighter Days (7/8) Fugazi. Repeater (8/9) John Turner. This Country Music Thing. (7/9) Dierks Bentley. Burning Bridges (8/3) Doors. Waiting for the sun(7/7)

It is completely beyond me how someone who shamelessly parades their wares as a Springsteen tribute act can win a major music award.

A story in three parts

One Dead, Many Disgruntled After RedWest Weather Cancellation. This is the headline of an article I read today. It reads as if the disgruntled have more importance over the death.

Not sure if this is peak middle age, but descaled my kettle yesterday (hard water area) and its like new. Surprisingly wife, daughter and grandson were not impressed.

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social I see the guardian are talking about your programme regarding the essex witch trials, have you ever listened to Darren Haymans album The Violence, it uses those trials as the concept for it.

Starting the day off well. #nowplaying Fugazi.

Current obsession is Labi Siffre and his album Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying. Initially it caught my eye as there is a track called Cannock Chase on it, but this album is beautiful. A real joy.

Listening to popular songs by Abba or Take That is not a guilty pleasure. They are legitimate pleasures. Singing along to a proletarian choir singing The East Is Red as you think about the terrors of the Cultural Revolution is a guilty pleasure.

I feel at times Catatonia are over shadowed a little by Mulder and Scully and Road Rage. #totp

Top Gun. Lost. The Wire. That last one seems to piss people off.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Peaky Blinders 2: Electric who am you?

“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian” “Jimmy Carr?” “No, she went of her own accord”

@undercoverdave.bsky.social a trip to London planned next May?

The best song of 1998. Beastie Boys. #totp

Aaron. Fucking. Carter. I bet Mike Loved approved this shit. #totp

Ultra, a bit pitchy, with regret you wont be going to the live finals. #totp

1998 was definitely the year of acts trailing off and heading towards the end of their chart life. #totp

Always feel that Frank Skinners singing style was more suited to being in The Pooh Sticks or St Christopher rather than this. #totp

Not prime Lionel this. #totp

No one really batted an eyelid when she won rightly won Eurovision. What happened to us? #totp

I dont remember this Tima Arena tune but as adults 10 ywars ago might say. Its a banger. #totp

I cant recall how much I disliked that Fat Les song at the time but I think it ranked as slightly better than You Get What You Give. #totp

A solid of its time start for #totp Fat Les

I took a look at the acts playing the Riyadh Comedy Festival and every single one I thought yeah, of course they would play, of course. Maybe Jimeoin, but playing for that regime can only help his career right? rsf.org/en/reign-ter...

ASDA was named after it's founders: Agnetha, Senny, Djörn & Anni-Frid

BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’