My 80s pop history book, #IntoTheGroove: '...tells pop's never-ending story brilliantly.' DAVID QUANTICK 'Like a treasure chest of pop riches.' SAMIRA AHMED 'It reminded me of how much I loved the 1980s.' GIDEON COE 'A delightful, curious compendium.' JUDE ROGERS eandtbooks.com/books/into-t...

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When he finally croaks it, we should get 'Finally Some Fucking Peace' Prizes.

That’s what made it really interesting in 90/92, you’d get some hip hop and dance stuff as well at an ‘indie’ night.

Sheffield! I'm here and ready for my book chat tonight! 🥳🤩

Also featured lower down the charts: - All Systems Go's alleged Acid House version of Pop Muzik (you don't remember it? There's a reason for that) - Heart Throbs: "Too Many Shadows" - Zoot & The Roots: "Sweat & Tears" - They Might Be Giants' debut "Don't Let's Start"

ISTR that in my home town/city/whatever, the alternative clubs put an unofficial ban on Fiesta by The Pogues and Should I Stay or Should I Go for precisely those reasons.

What bothered me about the 96/97 stage of Britpop was how *slow* most of it got. Too much of it plodded.

I love I'm Not in Love as well - it's one of those where familiarity has blunted it somewhat. Also, radio never plays the full version anymore, where you get the Wall of Ghosts on that long fade, which put the fear of god into me as a kid. (A record I remember when it came out.)

Oh my god, so it became an I'm Not in Love for the mid-90s.

I never thought Wonderwall was something you could really dance to anyway. The first album seems to be more suitable for that. Rock n Roll Star, Up in the Sky, Supersonic.

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Why would someone need impersonations of Jimmy Carr?

New podcasts up this week - Nina Conti on Liberation Conversations , Head on the Writers Block on creativity and poetry, and an excerpt from my new book The Future of Jokes - all available here

This Alan Titchmarsh programme has a bit where they just show Adobe Stock landscape footage and music for five minutes. I might pitch a rival show which goes one further and leaves the watermarks on.