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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 3m

I may have to Take 5 on that.

Sorry.

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 5h

See all you reprobates at 7pm #TOTP

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 5h

Sadly, due to the fact that @spraypopmusic.com are playing tonight in Manchester (go watch them, they’re good) @ricardoautobahn.co.uk will miss the last song of the night Spin That Wheel (Turtles Get Real) #TOTP

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 5h

Indeed it is

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 5h

Finally, back to 1990 and so many artists that I cannot fit them all in. Honourable mentions to an awful version of Have You Seen Her by McHammer, PSB being brilliant, Blue Velvet freaking any David Lynch fans out and 6th form arty type, Maria McKee being number 1 #TOTP

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 5h

1986 starts with The Bangles making culturally insensitive statements about walking. THE VIDEO FOR EVERY LOSER WINS IS ON. Julian Cope’s telling everyone to shut up. Sound advice, tbf. Paul Young and Howard Jones are very much filler. Her Madge is No 1 and Paul Simon brings up the rear #TOTP

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 5h

Next up we go one better by having the first two performances be repeats, 5ive and Pras (again). There’s an unnecessary cover of Teardrops, The Supernaturals filling a gap, certified paralegal Charli Baltimore is around, Cerys does her Welsh Marge Simpson thing, and the Spice Girls are No. 1 #TOTP

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 5h

1998 first bring us Pras and Co. live from a fortnight ago. Ultra Naté with a song even she’s forgotten. Peter Andre is on, so make sure the contrast on your TV can cope. We also have the first of four 1998 appearances from ersatz ABBA, Ace of Base. Mr. Hat is number 1 #TOTP

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 5h

It’s Friday, it’s 7 o’clock, it’s time for me to be a bit of an arsehole about what’s on #TOTP tonight.
It’s truly the mixiest of mixed bags.

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 5h

Friday

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 14h

Closedown

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 20h

Young? Young? One of them is Gary Sparrow with a badly fitted moustache, someone with an actual combover and a guy so much embarrassed that he’s hiding his face!