Christopher McBride

Captain of music blog The Metaphorical Boat, occasionally write elsewhere. Battenberg enthusiast, did a marathon, went on Mastermind.

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@philytaggart The Cure at Belsonic by a mile.

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@DrMatthewSweet Victoria Coren-Mitchell is long overdue a chatshow, think she'd get the tone right.

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@neontaster I bought “Roottrees” off your mention. Didn’t think that researching a family tree on 90s internet could be so much fun.

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Battenberg.

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"Bette Davis Eyes" is long overdue a major revival in the cultural zeitgeist. I'm surprised the Stranger Things and the like didn't make use of it.

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@janhopi Thom Yorke literally did burst into tears after recording the vocals for “Fake Plastic Trees”.

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@JeremyDuns I’d say that at least 10 years is fine, 15 perfectly alright.

[stuart murdoch @nee_massey]

Random favourite lines from songs
“Had a dream last night, I wanted to lick your knees”

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Another song to add to the list of “songs everyone knows but don’t know the name/artist”. Di-Gue-Ding-Ding by Michel Legrand from 1964 is currently used in ad for Nationwide -

https://t.co/3xxPa8syUV

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@RolandOrzabal_ “Sparky’s Dream” by Teenage Fanclub.

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@tvark THAT'S EVEN WORSE! IT MUST BE STOPPED!

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@Joshstrangehill I sometimes forget that Hans Moleman’s name isn’t Ralph Melish, as that was written on his ID in an airliner episode.

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@edwest Turns out they made a documentary about it - https://t.co/J7IuQhsaPM

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@edwest In 2002 I believe the day before the WC final the two lowest ranked teams in the world played a match. Montserrat were one of the teams.

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Not a movie, but “Sunchyme” by Dario G can never be used again thanks to the final episode of “Derry Girls”.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

What song did a movie basically steal forever?

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“Lowrider” by War (aka the Marmite song) is now a terrace chant I see. #worldcup2026

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Nice nearing a snippet of “Lost Weekend” by @Lloyd_Cole in the ITV football coverage again.

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FINALLY a podcast about Belfast’s great music/ice hockey stadium.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Next week on @TheRestHistory: THE ODYSSEY!

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@LeahLibresco He also lost “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” to Pandora’s Box/Celine Dion for the same reason, although he eventually did record a version of it. Don’t think he ever did “Total Eclipse” though.