Jon Arnold

The Marvel Timeline incarnate.

All good, it’s not your fault at all.

All of Us Strangers is my favourite film of the decade by a long way - after that I had to track back through his career.

That last shot leading into the credits married to that song is a moment that I keep thinking about and going back to.

Yeah, I’ve had the same thing, though with different numbers.

Not sure there’s a director currently working with the mastery of every aspect of cinema as Haigh: every choice he makes is so revealing of his characters.

The Three Doctors “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” When I was a lad, and the universe less than half its present size, we all saw The Three...

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In which a Time Lord’s stamina is severely tested in all sorts of inventive ways.

YouTube video by NicolaRobertsVeVo Nicola Roberts - Beat Of My Drum

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BEAT OF MY DRUM by NICOLA ROBERTS (2011)

Small x xenomania: Nicola kicks off her solo career with the addictive, futurist genre mashing that made the best of Girls Aloud so compelling.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_BG...

The notable former pupils section on Wikipedia is absolutely barren, used to have some guy who was an extra in Black Hawk Down. So it might even be me, and I’m pretty much a nobody.

Mark Labbett off The Chase did some supply teaching there though.

It’s the Eternal Cycle of Bond.

YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - We All Go Back To Where We Belong, Kirsten, 2011

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WE ALL GO BACK TO WHERE WE BELONG by R.E.M. (2011)

One last turn and wave before they headed into the sunset. Leaning into the emotion of an ending was absolutely the right call.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpwd...

Which are the five McCoy stories you absolutely need in your life? No particular order. Go!

Delta and the Bannermen
Remembrance of the Daleks
The Happiness Patrol
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Ghost Light

The Also People or Conundrum, depending on my mood. Also very fond memories of sneaking reads of Revelation when I should’ve been revising for exams and going straight through Original Sin in one sitting on first read.

YouTube video by ChildishGambinoVEVO Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video)

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THIS IS AMERICA by CHILDISH GAMBINO (2019) (11 pts)

Audacious in how it uses musical genres as a storytelling tool, and unsettling in its confrontation of what seem to be permanently unresolved American issues. One of the decade’s great videos too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOj...

YouTube video by Stormzy STORMZY - VOSSI BOP

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VOSSI BOP by STORMZY (2019)

How to seize your moment in style.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ClY...

#PeoplesPop25 FINAL FIFTY Welcome to THE WORLD CUP OF 2025! Throughout January and into February we'll be polling the best tracks of 2025 until we reach an ultimate winner. This is the FINAL FIFTY - fifty tracks which have co...

#PeoplesPop25 THE FINAL FIFTY

It's time to VOTE for your favourite finalists in the

WORLD CUP OF 2025

Take your time, choose 12 tracks and rank them if you can, then fill in the results on this ballot - you have until first thing Tuesday!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It’s a right pain around the turn of the decade isn’t it?

Always think that the early days of the challenge are maybe about at least getting everyone else thinking about possible picks. I may very well pop a vote Ill Manors’ way in the HMs if things look promising.

YouTube video by planbuk Plan B - She Said

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SHE SAID by PLAN B (2010)

One of the smartest albums and changes of direction of the decade: meta concept meets genuine songwriting chops.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjh...

YouTube video by BillieEilishVEVO Billie Eilish - bury a friend

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BURY A FRIEND by BILLIE EILISH (2019)

What does the monster under the bed want? Gleefully none-more-goth horror pop, all the more terrifying for the hazy nightmare production.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUHC...

YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

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CALL ME MAYBE by CARLY RAE JEPSEN (2011)

The thrill of putting yourself out there, with no time to even think of rejection. Probably the most uncomplicated pop joy of the decade.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNa...

493: The Black Archive - The Ark Hot off the presses, the latest publication from Obverse Books's Black Archive series has been released this week. Philip Purser-Hallard takes a look at Paul Erikson and Lesley Scott's The Ark, and h

👁️NEW EPISODE!👁️

Philip Purser-Hallard joins us to discuss his latest #DoctorWho Black Archive from @obversebooks.co.uk - The Ark.

on.soundcloud.com/w0GSMXhcEeT3...

YouTube video by MARINA MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - Hollywood [Official Music Video]

Day 5 of #TheTenx5 and seeing as it’s just down the road from here it’d be rude not to nominate…

HOLLYWOOD by MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS (2010)

A manically joyful paean to the skin deep only glamour of the US. ‘Actually my name’s Marina’ is utterly withering.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1VT...

Ahem, #gally1 is the official hashtag

I don’t honestly know!

YouTube video by JohnNewmanVEVO John Newman - Love Me Again

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LOVE ME AGAIN by JOHN NEWMAN (2013)

Urgent and thrilling, but what pushes it into the list is the genius Morse code bit leading into the chorus.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfih...

See you on the other side of the pond!

YouTube video by My Chemical Romance My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na [Official Music Video]

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NA NA NA (NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA) - My Chemical Romance (2010)

Gerard Way synthesises his careers with a record even more shamelessly comic book than The Black Parade, right down to speech bubble lyrics. Gloriously ludicrous from the title down.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=egG7...

Gold outline and white text on red background with events from February 1986, in the style of Janet Jackson’s Control album sleeve: Text on left: After a Funeral / Gemma Arterton / Black Venus / The Bourne Supremacy / Boy George on The A-Team / Car Trouble / Castaway / Charlotte Church / Control / Dear John / ‘Digging Your Scene’ / Every Second Counts / Farrington of the F.O. / Figures of Enchantment / F/X / Halley’s Comet / Hannah and her Sisters / Frank Herbert RIP / The Hitcher / ‘The Honeythief’ / Hot Metal / ‘Hounds of Love’ / King of America / ‘Kiss’ Text on right: ‘Love Comes Quickly’ / ‘Love Missile F1-11’ / Mir / Dandy Nichols RIP / 9 1/2 Weeks / No Surrender / Olof Palme RIP / Pixar Studios / Poguetry in Motion / Pretty in Pink (film) / Salvador / ‘Sheep’ / ‘Stripped’ / TTV / ‘Trumpton Riots’ / The Ultimate Sin / You Again? / You Should Be So Lucky / Frank Zappa on Miami Vice (C) WWT JSL MMXXII

Because Control is 40. #WhenWasThings

Janelle will, of course, be back later. Very likely *much* later.