“The Cabinet of Doctor Weststein” by Westbam. Best cut price album (50p!!) I’ve ever bought.

The back flipping dog robot toy was such a cliche in the late 1990s-early 2000s in the UK that there was a BBC2 ident which parodied it. youtu.be/mFeMYMmtuxU?...

Nice choice. I always thought it was the best of their John Leckie produced albums.

… And getting there *before* the snow falls.

(And electricity.)

More like Biggus Dickus. youtu.be/HrcbCW4y9Dw?...

I personally never found this character funny, which was annoying because he was all over TV for a while.

There were a number of music-centred movies in the 1980s that effectively were musicals but didn’t have the characters burst into song. This scene from Beat Street is such an obvious musical number. youtu.be/I6RykLmK2Rw?...

Their first single “Donna” (Which got to #2 on the UK singles chart!) sounds like The Muppets doing doo-wop, but apparently it was Frank Zappa influenced.

Me too. Hope you’re having a lovely Christmas time. :)

Also, the artist behind this was a sort of internet celebrity before this song hit #1 in the UK singles charts. Here’s a really interesting summary of that dynamic in this article. popular-number1s.com/2014/02/04/w...

If it’s mint and milk chocolate, I can understand. But mint and decent dark chocolate can be quite a class combination in moderation. I refer you to After Eights in the UK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_E...

That’s not as wacky as it sounds. I remember from his autobiography a bit where he references rap during the recording of the album “Oh Mercy”, and adds as an aside that he followed developments in rap, and has even worked with Kurtis Blow on something.

I was going to say Mark E Smith of The Fall, but that might actually make the group a bit more fun, so I’ll instead suggest Lou Reed.

As someone who is Scottish, and has seen every possible Scottish Bagpipe engage with every possible music genre: it has probably already happened before I was born (in 1971)!

Hope I’m not being too pedantic here, but The Muppet Show was actually made in the UK for the ITV channel via the regional ITV broadcaster ATV, and then sold to US TV. So it actually reflects a lot of UK sensibilities from the time.

I’d say Sesame Street is more representative of the US.

:) But not by that much!

Well, if you want to do it the Tailwind way with all its problems, only with even more HTML bloat!

I started web dev at a time when you had to use <font>, <table> tags and image maps to style pages, and I was thankful when CSS came along, allowing you to centralise styling of web pages.

I have to be honest, I’ve never seen the point of Tailwind. If the styling is so atomised that you have to use loads of class names that each effectively equate to a single directive of CSS, why not just do the styling in CSS, and save on HTML bloat?