Suddenly It's Tuesday

  Well, here we are at the finishing line: 91 days, 15 posts, approximately 24,000 words and 13 hours and 16 minutes of glorious music later... I know that most will be keen to get straight to the final order, so I'll keep the acknowledgements to the end. Here are the final playlists: Wedding Present Spotify Top 100 Complete TWP YouTube Playlist (in reverse order) 10 Interstate 5 (Single, 2004) I didn't include 'On Ramp' (track 1 on the UK version of Take Fountain ) as a separate song on this list because [a] it's two minutes of ambient noise and can't really be ranked alongside 'proper' songs and [b] for me, it deserves to be included as part of the full 'Interstate 5' experience (the link to the whole thing is here ). Although Interstate 5 itself (a 1400 mile highway that runs from the Canadian border to Mexico) makes no more than a cursory appearance in the lyric, it's an appropriate title: the song has an epic, expansive quality that s...

  Part 12 saw the biggest controversy arise thus far, and I have to confess that I really didn't see it coming... I thought that placing 'Dan Dare' in the top 40 might raise a few eyebrows; I suspected that some would see it as too much of throwaway, insubstantial moment to warrant such a lofty position. But it turned out that its ranking wasn't the problem. This is what I said: I may get some stick for placing this 100-second instrumental b-side (and a cover of one of TWP's own songs to boot) so highly, but 'Dan Dare' is just so joyously infectious and uplifting that I think it warrants its place in the top forty. A lyric-free (although David does contribute some 'aaaaahhhhh's) surf-rock reimagining of 'Dare', it fizzes along with winning exuberance.  What I hadn't banked on was that so many TWP fans had never realised that 'Dan Dare' was an instrumental version of 'Dare'. I had always thought that everyone knew that thi...

  Happy new year to you all and best wishes for a much improved 2021! I predicted in the last post that the failure of 'What Have I Said Now?' to make the top 40 would be the most controversial aspect, and so it proved, although it didn't provoke quite the level of vehemence I expected. Trawling back this evening through the responses on here, Facebook and Scopitones, I estimate that the comments have fallen roughly into: 70% 'can't argue with that'; 25% 'I'd have had xxx a bit higher/lower'; 5% 'are you mad and/or deaf?!?' Which is actually rather better than I expected... But more importantly, I've been really impressed with the thoughtful and civil responses, which says I lot, I think, about your average TWP fan. Anyway, onwards into the heady heights of the top 40! YouTube Playlist (223 - 21) Spotify Playlist (21 - 100) 40 Don't Laugh  (B-side of Nobody's Twisting Your Arm, 1988) The typical GB -era guitar blend of frantic-sc...