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I am loving her outfit. Swishy skirt plus what looks like armour plating. Win. #TotP

@penwing@wandering.shop Ah, that was Sex (barn) On Fire. Though I’m assuming “Sex Barn, Sex Barn” got sung a few times in the Warrington Guardian offices.

So this is definitely the show where the 80s become the 90s. Early rave made on a half-broken Atari ST in a sec? #TotP

YEEEEESSSS! #TotP

Dancing here is giving me photo-Jamiroquai vibes #TotP

Goths in hot weather alert #TotP

@girlabtvillage@mas.to It’s because they had a massive beef with S Club 7. Couldn’t be in the same building or there’d be a knife fight #TotP

I had a childhood fear of robot impersonators, which was bad as it was the 80s and they were everywhere. But somehow comically horny ones in jockstraps are a lot less scary #TotP

What is going on with that keyboard? #TotP Keytar on a cable?

Oh gawd, they’re not even going to get up from their stools, are they? #TotP

Thought that was Chris Morris for a beautiful second #TotP

Lost track for a second there, are these the Hanson Sisters or something? #TotP

This is so dull. Can we at least bring back the pervy robot-impersonator from last time. Least that was funny, and had a Gary Numan sample. #TotP

Its too early for ironic Keytar you fool Sash #TotP

Hey Watergate, Asia is a big continent to piss off #TotP

Hallelujah, it’s a bit the fag end of Big Beat but I’ll take it #TotP

Due to a course of antibiotics I’ve not been able to drink alcohol from June until now. Thank gawd, just in time for all the Craig David repetition #TotP

OK, some actual adorable weird Indie on #TotP that isn’t about a car, what is this, 1995?

So why did dance music stop using daft random samples? Oh, yeah, this #TotP

TUNE! The glitter and eyeshadow is just the icing on the cake. Or something. #TotP Disappointingly not on Now 8

“Needle in the Groove” by Jeff Noon is set in a future Manchester where the streets are named after Manchester recording artists. I suspect this was mainly so he could have “A Street Called Gerald” #TotP

“Pseudosatisfacton baby” just about works as a lyric unlike “why tolerate this numismatical polity?” (Nik Kershaw “Radio Musicola”) #TotP

Is it me or does it look like the bass player has been inflated? #TotP

James Brown trying to make Safety glasses trendy? Good on him #TotP

This is very much a video. Well done to everyone involved #TotP

10 years before this Dance Music was some weirdos from smallish towns, two keyboards, an Atari ST, and several kids TV samples. Professionalism is a bad thing #TotP

I was studying in London at this point. It was also meh. #TotP

In 13 years Julian Cope will end up back on the #TOTP stage wearing nowt but a sack https://youtu.be/J2w6UKeoDZQ?is=wW_oy4fxs9Hn9FVI (IMHO a great TOTP moment)

Looking a Wikipedia Andreas Johnson’s subsequent career has involved entering Melodifestivalen a lot and releasing several albums, one called “Mr Johnson, your room in on fire” #TotP

Who are this lot? Swear I saw them playing a caravan park in East Yorkshire a few years back #TotP

I feel that a love song to a car may be the final death of Britpop #TotP

I think I see why Garage isn’t really a thing any more #TotP

Did not expect to see a song referencing Milton Keynes. It’s no @warringtonruncorn@mstdn.social though #TotP

Boring geographical fact, this #TOTP includes singers from Widnes (Mel C) and Warrington (Kerry Katona). Bit between Manchester and Liverpool reprezent

Nice of Alex Kingston to pop over while painting her front room #TotP

Headless guitars for reggae klaxon #TotP

I did not expect the Charlatans to be going through a dressing like an 80’s banker phase #TotP

Is this actually a love song to a Piano? Takes all sorts #TotP

And here are the men! Men with smallish saxophones! #TotP

DONT PLAY TOPLOADER YOU BASTARDS #TotP

TONE CHANGE KLAXON! #TotP

Star Trekkin by The Firm. Not The Fall. #TotP

This song came out three years •after• Being Boiled by the Human League. And, y’know, Joy Division #TotP

One of the first records I bought was Now 8 (yes I’m old) which this was on, and now I’m getting weird flashbacks to being nine. The good news is I once helped win a music round at a pub quiz which we normally failed at because most of the tracks were from Now 8. Basically a huge chunk of my head is Now 8. Help. #TotP

Looking at Wikipedia Andreas Johnson’s subsequent career has involved entering Melodifestivalen a lot and releasing several albums, one called “Mr Johnson, your room is on fire” #TotP

I think history remembered the correct tune about the silver Jubilee. And not this pseudo-Reggae shite #TotP

Chaka Khan in my mind will always be associated with her Wild West shootout with the Bee Gees #TotP #OKThatOneIsObscure

Actual tune! #TotP

Just looked up and found that the fantastic singer on "Love Can't Turn Around" Daryl Pandy sadly died in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Pandy Might have to look up his solo album #TotP https://youtu.be/LDtbXxemnPw?is=7ZXeNXa17jlsRAB3