Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #VendrediLecture
9: #fridaythe13th
8: #WindowFriday
7: #bayrou
6: #FensterFreitag
5: #onthewater
4: #JukeboxFridayNight
3: #thegameawards
2: #unknownholidays
1: #totp
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #VendrediLecture
9: #fridaythe13th
8: #WindowFriday
7: #bayrou
6: #FensterFreitag
5: #onthewater
4: #JukeboxFridayNight
3: #thegameawards
2: #unknownholidays
1: #totp
That was seasonally variable - am out next week, so see you all whenever #totp
I hope you all have a great weekend and week, they weren't great episodes this week but hopefully they will be better next week #TOTP
#totp well that 15 minutes was, I'm not really sure what.
Missing next week again due to Xmas night out.
Have a good 'un
"Don't talk just kiss" - Jocelyn Brown
Attention, most regrettably, is on the blokes providing the backing vocals. Lads, whoever you are, there's a proper legend in the studio. Show some respect!
"You showed me" - Salt-n-Pepa
The group followed up "Let's talk about sex" with this radically reinventive Turtles cover.
It's a move, similarly ballsy to when they followed up "Push it" with a "Twist and shout" remake a few years earlier.
"Too blind to see it" - Kym Sims
"No man in the world!", and all the pain of the last three minutes dissolves away.
Proper commercial house music of the time: big piano intro, obligatory rap break, top-drawer vocals.
"We should be together" - Cliff Richard
Taken from his Christmas album "Together with Cliff Richard".
Written by Bruce Roberts, who wrote Donna Summer and Babs Streisand's "No more tears".
Cliff's last two festive singles made number 1, and - however much he dresses the set with armchairs and fireplaces and Christmas cards that aren't even plugged in - this will not be a big hit.
"Running out of time". Digital Orgasm, if you believe the single.
Another entry from the Big 1991 Book of Faceless Dance Acts. They were, apparently, Maurice Engelen, Nikkie van Lierop, and Oliver Adams.
Maurice went on to form Praga Khan, and apparently this tune bears more than a few similarities to his later work "Infected with a poison".
Be careful what you wish for.
Play KLF!! #TOTP
"Everybody move" - Cathy Dennis
See, her last single "Too many walls" was a very clever love song. And we know that she can sing, and write killer pop songs.
So why does this tune sound like something Five Star would turn down as too basic?
With those strobes and that much dry ice, don't think we're in 1980 any more, folks.
You know I have the feeling that if he'd lived, Lennon might have gone wrong as he got older. I can picture him on Twitter 8 years ago urging everyone to vote for Brexit. #TOTP
"Imagine" - John Lennon
Taken from 1975's "A Salute to Lew Grade", and Lennon's last public performance.
Our first Mystery Year was 1980. More follows...
OK gotta bail on the last one tonight. Next time folks, have a good one #totp
"Super trouper" - ABBA
The video. When we saw this clip in 2015, we thought it would be ABBA's last week at number one, ever; "Don't shut me down" had other ideas.
I cannot remember if Swap Shop gave away Anni-Frid's blue jumper with the white flowers, or just sent out the pattern.
OK we had a bit of a reprieve there. It looked dangerously like they were about to play all of St Winifred's School Choir for a moment. #TOTP
Is he getting greyer as the episode goes on his skin looks a bit grey now too #TOTP
"Runaway boys" - Stray Cats
Welcome to the top ten for Brian Setzer and his band.
The through-line from Showaddywaddy to this outfit is obvious. And this explains why Leicester's finest confined themselves to crisp adverts ever after.
I'm not sure that quiff's properly plugged in...
See if you wanna do rock 'n' roll, do it rockabilly style like the Stray Cats rather than the shit that Showaddywaddy and that other lot were doing. #TOTP