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#TOTP

I was four. #TOTP

Careful Edmonds you'll get Yewtreed. #TOTP

That was quite an abrupt link. Was something cut out? #TOTP

Glam Rock really was something else, in so many ways. #TOTP

Weird, but memorable, song. Probably would have been surprised in 1995 that Kylie was the better live singer.
Nick Cave always reminds me of Morbius from the Spider-Man cartoon, though.
#TOTP

JANICE & JOHN! 😍 😍
ROLAND & CURT! 😍 😍
#TOTP

Almost the definition of One Hit Wonder, but on my word what a wonderful hit to have. #TOTP

Oh FFS my telly's crashed.
Seriously.
The music's carrying on but the picture's stuck!
#TOTP

In fact that kiss can't have been as impromptu as the "co-presenter" just before. Which makes it pretty damn iffy, really. #TOTP

Fifty years young, Waterloo is still a banger.
Not sure about the girls in the audience moshing to it, though! #TOTP

I shall try throwing it out the window turning it off and on again, but otherwise it's iPlayer for the rest of the night. #TOTP

We've gone from Mud to Slade and so I repeat my statement from a few minutes ago.
Glam Rock was something else, in so many ways.
#TOTP

Play Alison Moyet #evergreenToot #TOTP

Apart from his two huge mid-80s hits I don't think Eric Carmen had a huge influence at least in the UK, but it's yet another sad entry on the #TOTP roll-call of "oh, they're dead now" on Friday nights.
#EricCarmen

Fourteen-year-old me bought the 12" single of Clouds Across the Moon. You may either applaud or curse me, depending on how you feel about that. #TOTP

Well done everyone. We had some ups, we had some downs, we had some downright crap. But we stuck with it and there were a few gems.
Next week it'll be Christmas 1995. Bring your crackers. #TOTP

I thought that when that young woman from the audience jumped up to stand next to Noel Edmonds, it was some kind of intentional thing as part of the link.
But given how the camera very quickly panned and zoomed to avoid her, I don't think she was supposed to be there! #TOTP

Tune! #TOTP

Play Blancmange! #totp

Pyeeewwwwwwwwwww! Proper #TOTP

Ooh, unexpected Siouxsie! #TOTP

Not one of Elton's greatest. #TOTP

What an excellent Top Ten that was. #TOTP

And now we have more Chaka. But that's OK. #TOTP

Which one's Reggie & which one's Ronnie? #TOTP

What, them again? Is Tonty Ballet behind this? #TOTP

I'm going to go and look at the sky. Nighty night poppers. #TOTP

Read & Vance AGAIN? Truly we are cursed by the #TOTP gods tonight.

Still quite a fan of Galaxy. This is excellent 70s/80s disco funk. #TOTP

KEYTAR KLAXON
Or more precisely: Mouth powered keytar. WTAF?
#TOTP

Right that was the warm-up. Now it's time for the real event. Early-mid-80s, here we come!
#TOTP

"It looks like he's wearing ... a carpet?" says Mrs Losttourist who uncharacteristically has stayed the #TOTP course so far.
And I can't argue with her when it comes to that fashion analysis.

Mrs Losttourist has just thrown shade at Kylie and I regret to inform you all that I will now be getting a divorce. #TOTP

(of course I'm only being mean about them because as long-time listeners will be aware, I am eternally jealous of Martin Kemp, because Shirlie) #TOTP

Dancing ...
#80s #80sMusic #TOTP
With Tears In My Eyes
In The Streets
On The Ceiling
in The Dark

Janice! Shocking! #totp

It's a bit misplaced for a mid-80s edition #TOTP, but Tavares are still first class disco/soul.

This is in my opinion Kate Bush's finest song. #TOTP

That's one hell of a creepy stare you're giving the #TOTP camera, David Cassidy.

Two drumkits! Two drummers! Now who's loud, Mr Loaf? #totp

"Legs are up ... at 18 it's ZZ Top".
👏 Janice Long. #totp

Someone please invent Public Enemy and save east coast hip-hop. #TOTP

"Russ Abbott with Joy Division's Atmosphere".
👏 John Peel. #TOTP

Tavares, Frank Sinatra, JIm Diamond. This is not the 1985 I remember. #TOTP

Well like a fine wine, or a Fediverse full of nostalgic tooters, this week's #TOTP just got better the older it got.
That was a fun evening everyone. Let's do it again some time!

No innuendo in this song or video at all. No sir, nothing to see here, please move along. #TOTP

Party hats and balloons audience Top of the Pops is best era Top of the Pops. It's just a fact. #TOTP

Even Meat Loaf's doing something downbeat. Although Steinman downbeat is raucous stadium rock for most other people. #TOTP

I have to apologise to @…. This is not the dancey cheesey camp 80s #totp pop I promised him.

Dear BBC Four announcer, how do you say "Top of the Pops evening takeover is only halfway through" when "Whoaaa, we're halfway there" was available. #TOTP

This song is an absolute banger and still a dancefoor filler. But remember, boys and girls and everyone else, this is also responsible for the unstoppable force of Stock Aitken & Waterman. #totp

I don't think Nicky Campbell hung around with enough tattooed ruffians in his youth, or he'd have known that HATE is supposed to be on the right hand knuckles (for punching) and LOVE on the left hand (for, err, not punching).
Unless you're left-handed, I suppose. #TOTP

Woo, Gary Davies! #totp

Well that was unexpected. #TOTP

That clickety-clacking noise you can hear is the sound of 200 #TOTP watchers all simultaneously typing "who on earth is Keith Sweat" into their search engines.

Put your mockery fingers away, it's imperial phase PSB at number one. #TOTP

Honestly I have no idea why people look back at 1980s fashion and mock it *cough* #TOTP

Is that an official TOTP plane? BBC budgets were really something back in the 90s eh! #TOTP

We're only two songs into 1976 and it's already completely knocked two entire episodes from 1995 into the also-ran bucket. #TOTP

Tune! #TOTP

Judy Cheeks?
#TOTP

Nobody needed that. #TOTP

Key change. *salutes*
#TOTP

Poor Tori. Couldn't even afford a piano stool. #TOTP

Those giraffes aren't even plugged in etc etc
#TOTP

Sorry 1996 but you're hardly off to a cracking start. #totp

Let's skip 1996 eh.
When do the '97 episodes start?
#TOTP

Bloody hell we're already 10 times better than anything from the 90s. #TOTP

Eyes like potatoes etc etc
What a superb song, though. Imperial Phase Madonna. #TOTP`

The cat just jumped off my lap and buggered off. I think he's fed up wit 1996 as well. #TOTP

I'll be giving '76 a miss (like I should have done with '96) so enjoy the rest of your music, #TOTP-ers.

Oops sorry, missed the first half of this first episode. Stuff happening and all that.
DId I miss much? #totp

Mannequin is an absolutely terrible movie, but the 80s clothes and music make it somehow compelling. #TOTP

Shaggy: "I don't know why the ladies treat me so bad"
also Shaggy: "She caught me butt naked with the girl from next door"
#TOTP

Let's go! #TOTP

Trying to decide if I can be arsed to jump in the car and drive out to the countryside to stare at the sky after #TOTP finishes. I'd very much like to see the aurora and there's far too much light pollution where I live, but also ... it's been a long week and I'm knackered. #Aurora #AuroraBorealis #AuroraUK

#TOTP

Kate! #totp

KEYTAR KLAXON! #totp

Pyyeewwwwwww! Proper #TOTP this one!

I hope there are more #TOTP episodes presented by Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq. They're like an updated version of John Peel and Janice Long.

(Not) feat. Bob Holness. #totp

They've nicked Nik Kershaw's outfits. #totp

Sit down kids, the adults are singing now. #TOTP

Ahhh 80s synth rock. And they said Glam was dead! #TOTP

Thank you all you lovely people. Have a poptastic weekend. #TOTP

Who wants to call into Saturday Superstore to speak to Matt Bianco? #TOTP

Now that dates it. Tom Robinson's drummer wearing an Anti-Nazi League badge on #TOTP.

Hello pop tarts! Having been snookered last week, Top of the Pops returns to our screens in its full two-hour glory tonight.
And what's more it's a whole shiny new year. 1996. The year I left Manchester after 7-8 years and returned to London ... for a bit, anyway.
See you all at 7pm on BBC Four for the music nostalgia fest!
#TOTP #90sMusic

Definitely one of my all-time top three favourite tunes about a nuclear apocalypse. #TOTP

You're not the Who and it's not 1967. Don't smash your kit up on stage, it's stupid. #TOTP

Aged 14 I fell hopelessly in love with Nena purely from that opening shot of her sitting on the #TOTP studio floor looking up at the camera with those big brown eyes.

Tesco Value Pulp.
Menswear anyone? Were they big and famous? I have zero recollection ...
#TOTP

There was a huge number of back injuries and pulled muscles in the school playground the day after this #TOTP episode aired and it was entirely down to the breakdancing you're now watching.

I think this was on either Now 3 or Now 4. Either way I ended up listening to it far more than I really wanted to. #TOTP

Finally, a Wet Wet Wet song that didn't manage to permanently insert itself into my brain. I don't recall this one at all. #totp

Forget Blur and Oasis, it doesn't get much more Britpop than Garbage singing I'm Only Happy When It Rains. And that's no bad thing. #TOTP

There's a lot of Buster Bloodvessel in this performance from Alexei Sayle. In fact are we sure they're not actually the same person? #totp

I know nothing about Samantha Sang, other than that she looks somewhat sinister in this video where presumably she's trying to look glamorous. #TOTP