Bill Drummond suggests taking the top 10 on your 13th Birthday as a start point - having a quick look at what was in the charts on my birthday they're pretty much all songs I know pretty well
Interesting, I just looked mine up, and 8 of the 10 I couldn't pick out of a police line up.
Ah now, 7/10 I COULD pick out.
Bill Drummond suggests taking the top 10 on your 13th Birthday as a start point - having a quick look at what was in the charts on my birthday they're pretty much all songs I know pretty well even though I wouldn't put any of them on a list of my favourites - but they might be much more engrained in my thoughts that songs I've preferred to listen to since.
That's a weird one - 8/10 I could start singing immediately. But then no 2 was Slade 'my oh my' and no 10 (going down) was Cliff Richard 'Please don't fall in Love'. I'd no idea Slade were still charting in the 80's and I'm not sure I've ever heard either of those two tracks.
But if you're a teenager now is there anything in our culture that has the same saturation as 'a pops song' had when we were young?
I don't think there is anything like the common experience that there was a few decades ago. Top of the Pops meant pretty much everyone knew the big hits. Artists/tracks get huge now without me having any awareness of them at all.
Radio 2 for me today, which normally I would argue is better, but it started immediately with sixpence none the f*cking richer
Just revisiting some older threads, and catching up on this one, Radio 2 may be playing them regularly because, and I only found out a week or so ago, but they’ve got back together, they’re touring and there’s new music in the offing!
That’s something to look forward to for 2026! 🤣