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There's no Top of the Pops #TOTP tonight because some people are sitting in a field in Somerset, but of course I'm not going to let a little thing like that stop me from wittering on about Old Time Music.
Anyway I've just relistened (for the first time in about a bazillion years) to Ballroom Blitz by the Sweet. And however much we laugh about glam rock, you can't deny it's a glorious joyful piece of music.
#70sMusic #GlamRock

No Top of the Pops tonight and I'm far too uninterested to watch the Glastonbury stuff. So I'm sitting on iPlayer watching series 1 of Race Across the World.
I've already watched series 4 and 5 as they were being broadcast, so now I'm going back to the beginning to catch up on what I missed.
#TOTP #RaceAcrossTheWorld

And we're back! #TOTP #1987Watch

Well this is quite poor totp'ing. #totp

Love Green Door. #TOTP #1981Watch

Hang about, this isn't more #TOTP.

Hello Poppets. Sorry I'm late. #TOTP

Play Freebird, in full, you cowards.
#TOTP

It's no good, I can't sing along this slowly. #TOTP #1998Watch

I can't. I just can't. #totp

Is the cameraman OK? Is he having a seizure? #TOTP

Tragically, Visage never did support Maquillage on tour. #TOTP #1981Watch

Until now I never knew Will Mellor had a singing career.
Honestly, I wish I still didn't know.
#TOTP

Mrs LT glancing up at the telly: "He looks like that actor"
Me: "He is"
Her: "I didn't know he could sing"
Me: "He can't"
#TOTP

Oops I still know all the words to Solomon Bites the Worm. #TOTP #1998Watch

David Essex dances like the animated zombie corpse of Timothé Chalomet.
#TOTP

I'm reading the latest issue of Classic Pop Magazine (yes, an actual magazine made of actual paper and with actual pages & stuff) and in the contents I see this image.
Well, you know me. There is literally only one thing I can say right now:
KEYTAR KLAXON!
#keytar #totp #80sMusic

The singer appears to be strumming an acoustic guitar, yet I detect no acoustic guitar in the mix. #TOTP #1981Watch

Pants people. #totp

Stuff arriving in the timeline so fast that the favourite button keeps moving while I'm trying to click it. #TOTP #1998Watch

Let's all pick this as first dance at our weddings and hope the guests don't listen too closely to the pre-chorus. #TOTP #1998Watch

Rhyming genius. #totp

Isn't that the second mention of "bedroom eyes" of the night? By 'eck this BBC4 schedule's not just thrown together. #TOTP #1981Watch

So was it in tribute to Ruby Flipper that the stag party guests in Mamma Mia were dancing in flippers to this Abba song? I choose to believe it was. #TOTP #1981Watch

Love the Anadin Sisters #totp

For no particular reason...
Don't perform
Integration by parts.
When you perform,
It flies straight to the heart.
Lemon stream;
Consciousness flows down.
Stop-recline:
Inquistive, twist round.
Don't perform
Vivaldi's Gloria.
When you perform,
It flies straight to the heart:
Tear it apart.
#TOTP

Top of the Pops is not looking very exciting tonight, so I think I will switch off my television and go out and do something less boring instead. Why don't you? #TOTP

Now THAT is what I call a tie! #totp

I'm doing the climbing dance now. #totp

#TOTP

I always thought they were American! #totp

Nice eggs. #TOTP

Looks like a school disco at the back. #totp

Will the next #TOTP be any better?
No
Certainly not
Of course it won't it's still 1998

Can anyone tell me what's going on here? #totp

Jerry Hall?!
#TOTP

Ricky September he ain't. But perhaps that's just as well. #TOTP #1990Watch #DoctorWho

The middle of the great drought* of 1976. #totp
* talent drought

Wait this again? #TOTP

"grafting".
#TOTP

Oh, having a reactivated memory of having the Deacon Blue version of INFILA on some sort of compilation cassette. #TOTP #1990Watch

Bryan Ferry is dancing like he's got a stick up his arse. #totp

I am the walrus
#TOTP

Nobody sounded like Dennis. The cat has just run out of the room. #totp

We only get a Top 20 now? #TOTP

Gloria & the Furries. #TOTP

Guitarist: "I want to be Ziggy Stardust"
Rest of band:
Guitarist: "But as a mime!"
Rest of band:
#totp

Not an actual lighthouse
#TOTP

Please share a thought for the boy band composers who've been out of work for years now. Barren years, while the songs piled up. #totp

Christ no Robbie do we really have to? #TOTP

Hey Mr Sound Man don't touch that dial! #TOTP

Brayn Ferry rocking a very iffy moustache. #TOTP

Hello kids. Cheggers here. Let's Play Pop!
#TOTP
Disclaimer: Not an actual Cheggers. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. This toot was not tested on animals. The value of your pop investment may go down as well as up and you may not get back all the music invested.

The acapella was done well, I'll give them that. #TOTP

Finally!!!!
#totp

I hope the cleaners got paid extra this episode. #TOTP

Which one's The Doctor, and when does he regenerate? #TOTP

Every cloud has a ... Sylvian lining!
#totp

There are some great lyrics on this (as you'd expect) #TOTP

I guess it's true. Everyone was on drugs in the 1970s. #TOTP

Pick an accent, David, and stick with it. That's my advice. #totp

Sorry, don't think I can take any more. See you next week! #TOTP

Alison feels the cold though. Imagine going into a club in that lot!
#totp

Nu Shooz. Did not like then. Do not like now. That is all. #TOTP

Chumbawamba are wearing black and red because of course
#TOTP

Great medical advice from Leo. "Don't let your heart stop beating in time". 🏥 #totp

Jesus that poor young woman looked petrified. Understandably. #TOTP

Ha, great song. And I don't think I've seen this video since 1986. #TOTP

Yeah! Visage.
But I've been on some night trains, and I'm gonna say - they're not all that.
#totp

I'd forgotten just how hilariously filthy this video is. Top marks! #TOTP

Is that Brian May on drums? And a serial killer on the double-necked guitar. #TOTP

Cliff the Spliff.
Sir Richard the Pilchard.
The only way out.
The only way in
He's not a lout,
Where is the bin?
(Don't ask)
#totp

They've got the Stars & Stripes hung upside down. Is that synth in distress? #TOTP

DON'T TOUCH THE AUDIEN... oh who am I kidding. It's the 1970s. That's all they did. #TOTP

It looks like they told her: right, we need a video. Stand here, sing, and dance, and we'll film it. We've got twenty minutes. Top job she's doing too.
#totp #fame

Listen Hamilton we'll do the jokes about the clobber, you just get on and present the music, OK? #TOTP

Someone suddenly shouted at the cameraman "finish your fag & get inside, we've started broadcasting! #TOTP

Whose career lasted longer, Diddy. Yours or Tony Blackburn's?
Yeah ... who's laughing now, eh?
#TOTP

Someone wake me up when the beat gets above 25 bpm. #yawn #TOTP

I do love the 'Nanas with all my heart, but god help us all they went to Stock Aitken & Waterman with Venus and said "do for this what you did for Dead Or Alive".
And SAW did what they were asked to, and thus the SAW Doom Years began. #TOTP

Play Kid Creole! #TOTP

Vance! Stop that! #TOTP

Gertcha! Oh no, wait. #TOTP

No idea about this lot. #TOTP

One thing about watching #TOTP with the subtitles on ... I finally know all the lyrics to this song!

He won't feel the benefit. #TOTP

Dodgy 'tache though, Midge. #TOTP

The lyrics are quite clever, really. #TOTP

Breakup album songs are the best songs. #TOTP

No, I am not getting enough hot chocolate. #TOTP

About as literal choreography/staging as you can get. #TOTP

Fucking hell Daltrey, at least try to keep it in your pants. #TOTP

"A very very clever man from Scotland by the name of Midge Ure" 😂 #TOTP

Well this is a bit special. No snark, just Grace Jones at her imperial best. #TOTP

Again, though, some clever lyrics. Must've been something in the water in the early 80s. #TOTP

I want to be all snarky about the dance routine but it's all actually rather impressive. #TOTP

Paging @…: you can do that post about the trombone solo again! #TOTP

We're so early in the concept of music videos that Tommy Vance referred to the video for Ashes To Ashes as "this piece of film". #TOTP

So all those who did google Sue Wilkinson earlier and found she didn't exactly have a stellar career ... I think we now know why.
#TOTP

That was, to quote the BBC Four announcer, an eclectic music mix. Let's do a load of eclecticism again next week, poppers. Have a great weekend. #TOTP