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
Our second Mystery Year was 1991.
It's Christmas, so there's Top of the Pops almost every night next week.
Monday is Christmas 1985, then the 1978 episode we've all seen a million times before on Tuesday.
Wednesday has 2002, Thursday's got 1993, and next Friday gives us the joys of 1989 and two more Mystery Years.
And two more weeks of this to follow!
Whatever you're doing this weekend, #TOTP hashtag, have a fabulous one!
Seeing that clip of the New Kids on the Block and there was a bit where one of them was on a bike, wearing a Public Enemy top, and I thought, yeah, why not let the #TOTP crowd see that I too was as cool as one of the NKOTB lads back then. Cooler, even. I had a choc ice.
"Don't let the sun go down on me" - George Michael and Elton John
The moment George introduces his special guest: [chef's kiss]
A full concert from George is next on BBC4.
BBC2 tomorrow has a documentary about the song "Last Christmas". It may not be Whamageddon-avoidant.
"Martika's kitchen" - Martika
We've speed-run my crush on Martika in the past four months: from "Toy soldiers" to the song she was destined to make: playful, funky, intensely memorable, sexy and even more playful than one dare imagine.
Written by Prince, after he'd had a riffle through young Martika's diaries, the title track from her second album has lots of double-entendres, always room to put another one in,
We're still waiting for album three, 'Tika.
More breakers! "Mysterious ways" from U2, following up their number one single.
"If you go away" - New Kids on the Block. Yes, that sounds like a very good idea.
Needless to say, we don't need to see any more of these.
Breakers! "The Joseph mega remix" from Jason Donovan, promoting his residence in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in London.
"Bare necessities megamix" - Uk Mixmasters. This turned up on the next #TOTP.
"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.
@neonbubble
If it's not on video it never happened.
Hand her the phone
"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.
At last, a song I can properly sing along to and throw shapes while my wife rolls her eyes in my general direction.
Cliff Richards seems to be on a holodeck.
"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.
Who did Cathy Dennis annoy in the wardrobe department to get handed that colour combination outfit?
"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.
"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...
"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.