"Whine and grine" - Prince Buster

From the jeans commercial.

Be glad it's not the Steve Miliband. Or the spaceman one. Or that crap Genesis wannabe band.

#PrinceBuster #TOTP #Levis

"I get lonely" - Janet Jackson

This was number five in the weekly chart. I don't think I've heard it since 1998.

You could ask tomorrow, and I still don't think I'll have heard it since 1998.

#TOTP #JanetJackson

"La primavera" - Sash!

Hard lines to the contestant on Ten to the Top this morning, who confused this song in Italian with the French-language "A common frog".

Still, it's good to see that Pan's People have a European counterpart.

#TOTP #Sash #TenToTheTop #OneForTheDads

"All that matters" - Louise

"Don’t care who’s wrong or right, don’t care too much for pride, the love between us is all that matters."

Louise oozes sincerity throughout this MOR softie that desperately wants to be "Torn" but is more "Crumpled".

And is this the message we really want to be throwing to our Pop Kids? Sometimes, you've got to fight for what you believe.

#TOTP #Louise

"Corpses" - Ian Brown

There's a very old-fashioned framing to this performance, extreme close-ups of Brown, occasionally cross-faded with other shots. All very reminiscent of The Old Grey Whistle Test circa 1973.

#TOTP #IanBrown

"All I want is you" - 911

Zoe's introduction - spinning round while she's lying on top of a grand piano, then panning to the band - was more interesting than the previous performance.

Zoe's introduction was also more interesting than this performance, of wallpaper paste set to a plinky-plonky tune and released as a CD single.

#TOTP #NineOneOne

"Move on up" - Trickster (I think) (and charts)

"It's like that" - Run DMC vs Jason Nevins

I've peeked ahead at one of next week's Mystery Years. There are reasons why it's going out after the watershed, but even though it contains some of the greatest crimes against popular music, it's more interesting than this beige edition of #TOTP.

Princess Jayne Middlemiss is 11 minutes out: this episode went out on Good Friday (and may not have gone out at 7.40, because of the Good Friday Agreement).

"Let me entertain you" - Robbie Williams

More energy in the opening ten seconds than in the whole of the last episode.

Is it me, or does this sound like D-Ream's final hit "Shoot me with your love"?

https://song.link/gb/i/1364023708

#TOTP #RobbieWilliams #DReam