Not in Ireland, DD. You wouldn’t want to have been a teenager here before the mid seventies at the earliest. And you could wait another ten years after that if you were gay or female..

There comes a point, if you’re Richard D James, when you’re only going to confuse people if your songs aren’t called things like
ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n] [Σj∈C[i]Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[[n−1]]..

For those who couldn’t do the cinema, Summer Of Soul ***** is on there too.
And Taylor Swift playing the Folklore album in a cabin..

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Thanks for alerting us to the existence of this, mm. My one complaint is that there seems to be something almost anatomical about the crooked lines and topheavy lean of that lighthouse..:

Patriotic Americans, upon being alerted to the fact that dwellers of other countries are not outnumbered by deadly weapons and have available to them affordable healthcare, will simply snort and – Canute-style – […]

Frustrating though it was for the purposes of home taping, I remember having a grudging respect for DJs who spoke over the intros to records but could time it so that they stopped exactly before the singing began..

..joining their Scandi chum Whigfield in the AW 90s pantheon..

Questions of dubious taste aside, what you appear to be implying is that you would prefer our pop chums were all strung out and loaded cos it’s “a lot more fun”.
What happened to “first, do no harm”, Doc?

Good title! I’ve also noticed, with approval, a lot of 80s sounds in contemporary pop. I Will give this playlist the attention it deserves when I have the time…

But isn’t HFW just Harry Hill’s evil doppelgänger (with a wig) and therefore condemned from birth to be a git?

There’s still time, Chris!

This seems to be the orthodox view now – but in what way is the lumbering gloom fest that is ABITW a “disco record”? I’ll allow you that it’s funky by their standards..

Not strictly your fault, HP, but you’ve caused me to look up “mermaids” in the urban dictionary – ew!

Waaaaaay too many tunes for any realistic shortlist – seems to me the best available method is a sort of word association where you say a year and immediately answer with what first comes to mind. Thus…
1990: P […]

Is this the first mention for Foxbase Alpha? Still not noticed anyone mention A House’s best, I Am The Greatest, or – amazingly – Loveless.
‘91 was catastrophic for me personally (although nothing I didn’t event […]

How’s Lodey your pool boy? I’m certain I put 50p on the table first..

Yep. Longevity is often key to racking up the big numbers. If John Aldridge hadn’t popped off to Sociedad for two seasons he would surely have passed Greavesie and been English football’s second most prolific sco […]

Oh yeah, most of the guys on the list did much of their business away from the top flight. I wasn’t making a case that Cloughie ought to be compared to Greaves, just that those numbers jumped out. I just find it n […]

As luck would have it, I was looking up the English league’s all time top scorers just days before Greaves passed and was startled to see Brian Clough’s goal-per-game ratio was 0.92. Even more surprising to me, […]