@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterLove it or hate it, there's no getting away from the fact that BBC Four has decided to give us not one, not two, not even just three but three-and-a-quarter hours of Top of the Pops tonight.
So gird your loins pop kids, for better or worse it's going to be a #TOTP marathon.
@smashtie@mas.toOo ooo oo ooooo! #totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaAnother chooon #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterRE: #TOTP hashtag for those who follow it.
This is when it all began, back in 1963.
@smashtie@mas.toYes!!! Loved this tune. #totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaThat was... jarring. #TOTP
And triggers an unnecessary cover klaxon.
@smashtie@mas.toAlways loved those boots!! #totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaKeytar klaxon! 🚨
#TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toWho knew Claudia could sing like this? #totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaNot an unnecessary cover.
#TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toGames without frontiers. Very Olympics. #totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaOh-oh! Tune. Cheese. Lovely
#TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toI'm watching the men's ski half pipe, and listening/watching #totp, imagining that the athletes are listening to this music in their earbuds as they do a 16 at 5m above the lip.
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaPrefer the Kylie & Kermit version. #TOTP
@smashtie@mas.to"Let me hear you make decisions without your television/ai bot" #totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaTwo covers that do something different in a row #TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toI am the rain, he is the sun, and now we've made a rainbow. Awwww. #totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaDid they ever tell you how they got these scars?
#TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toSong demonstrating how the end of the world would be because of a biggest dick contest. I hated it. #totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaI hope you're all singing along at home, as requested by Robbie #TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toCarrie doesn't live here anymore... Is what Cliff said to the police when they came inquiring about his missing ex-girlfriend... Hmm. #totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaThe tom-toms might not be plugged in, but appreciate the live singing.
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterThat's your lot.
#totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaWhat could Celine Dion's big hit of 1998 possibly be?!
Probably sank without a trace.
#TOTP
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaIt's now feeling like the worst bits of Jools' Hootenanny with the fake Chrismas cheer and "what do you hope for in 1991"
#TOTP
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaProbably should watch Ghost again at some point.
Not sure if I've seen it since the cinema! But that seems unlikely.
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNow: The Damned with "Eloise"
#totp
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaThe Quo seem surrounded by a large amount of white powder.
#InsertJokeHere
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNow: Public Image Ltd with "Rise"
#totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNow: Depeche Mode with "Stripped"
#totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNow: Survivor with "Burning Heart"
#totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNow: Diana Ross with "Chain Reaction"
#totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNow: Paul Hardcastle & Carol Kenyon with "Don't Waste My Time"
#totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNow: Billy Ocean with "When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going"
#totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNext episode (4/4) is from 20th February, 1986. Presented by Janice Long and Mike Read.
#totp
@smashtie@mas.toBye fer now! #totp
@smashtie@mas.toStraight to lift muzac. #totp
@smashtie@mas.toLots a wailing going on. #totp
@smashtie@mas.toBalls. Small Shiny Balls. #totp
@smashtie@mas.toTwelfth, 38 points. Not bad. #totp
@smashtie@mas.toI don't know what she's talking about. #totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterWell slap my thighs and call me Susan, who could ever have predicted this? I'm shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!
#Wrapstodon #Wrapstodon2025 #TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toShe sounds a _lot_ like Heather Small... #totp
@smashtie@mas.toHer _head_ is a mirrorball! Get it?! Amazing. #totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterTune!
#TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toApparently Mansun split up in the process of recording their fourth album. #totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterSing up, Lindy! #TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toThe guys sitting on the sofa have mirror balls too. You can tell my how they are sitting. #totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterSinéad 💔
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterAll Hot Chili Peppers. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterYikes, ear plugs needed! #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterThis hive mind is at it again. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterPure filth coming up, lads.
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterBig horns section. Obviously.
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterDouble denim sequins. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterThis isn't even a Christmas song! #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterDespite Lydon being a dick, I do like PIL. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterMere seconds of Games Without Frontiers 😩
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterThat was not the worst two hours I've spent today. Thank you everyone. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterSo they'll play "I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker" but banned Ebeneezer Goode.? #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterThis is not just a KEYTAR KLAXON. This is a KEYTAR UP FRONT & LEADING KLAXON.
#totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterWe've been a bit lacking in the Top of the Hats contest so far, though, so this was welcome. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterKim Appleby's solo career might not have gone very far but her commentary was great on the SAW documentary. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterEveryone else sings "Eloise!! Give me cheese!!!" right? Right?
Just me & my wife, then. Oh well.
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterMe & Mrs LT just did a perfect lip sync to "I will attack .. and you don't want that".
We got the power! #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterSoupdragons bloke quite clearly did not want to be in the studio, and very very much did not want to be interviewed. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster @losttourist@social.chatty.monster"Coming up we have Boney M and the Human League"
Please tell me they're performing together. I'd pay good money for that.
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster"Fook's sake, a bit too much charlie, I can't remember the fookin' words. Hang about, what if I just get the audience to fill in for me".
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI do have something of a soft spot for sweet little pop songs with razor sharp lyrics.
And The Beautiful South are one of the masters of the art. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI've never seen Rocky whatever-number-this-was but I assume that Mr Stallone, the plucky American underdog, ultimately triumphed against the evil Soviet boxer?
#TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toThis is rubbish. #totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterMy only Rocky trivia is that I have been to the cemetery in Philadelphia where Adrian's grave can be found.
Yes a real grave in a real graveyard for a fictional character.
#TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toWell I just turned on #totp, and I'm just a little confused about which decade we are doing.
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterTop of the Coke Hats. #TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toLess than more than this #totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterMore top of the hats. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterEarplugs, it's Anthea! #TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toStop means stop, I already said the safe word. #totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterTop of the (fake) hats. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterWas the roof leaking in the #TOTP studio in December 1988? Everyone's going for a Top of the Hats look.
@smashtie@mas.toAnyone who wears their guitar that low is overcompensating. #totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterMerry 80s Christmas, pop fans!
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterYazz, of course, does it wrong.
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterKEYTAR KLAXON!
S'Express to the rescue. #TOTP
@smashtie@mas.toI love Sebadoh, but I kind of need to get a skateboard out. And that would be a bad idea. Knees much more fragile these days. #totp
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI'm not your dad, Anthea. And no. Never enough. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterEven nearly 40 years on, I have synth envy here. #TOTP
@smashtie@mas.to @losttourist@social.chatty.monsterApparently Paul Hardcastle was near skint when he made "19". Looks like he's put the royalties to good use.
#Fairlight #FairlightCMI #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterRobin Gibb and Anthea Turner have near-identical hairstyles. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterWe know, Marti. It was all over the front pages of the tabloids. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster"He's my best mate ... I had him painted holding a pint of beer" #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterA Fairlight and a Korg Emulator II? Don't mind if I do, Mr Lowe. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNeeds more Adrian Edmondson bursting in yelling "Fies My Soul?"
#TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterWell that was festively fantastic (or perhaps festively frightful). Anyway, till the next time poppers. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterNot so pointless cover klaxon. Tiffany's version is sufficiently different and funner than the original to stand on its own. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterJust be glad I corrected the typo before I pressed enter, otherwise I'd have been wishing a Merry Christmas to all the poop fans. #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterBELINDA! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Did I mention that I saw her at the Manchester O2 a few months ago? Did I? Did I? 😆 #TOTP
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterSo the key question: when dancing to The Only Way Is Up, do you thrust your fist in the air on the word "up" or on the beat immediately afterwards?
#TOTP