tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post4472466469620846928..comments2024-01-17T21:12:13.934+00:00Comments on Sweeping The Nation: The only chart that counted: 1991Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-59944698006943286392010-12-19T14:30:00.897+00:002010-12-19T14:30:00.897+00:00Another Blooming Christmas is of course the theme ...Another Blooming Christmas is of course the theme song to the animated adaptation of Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas, which was shown on telly for the first time this Christmas. In fact my mother loves that cartoon, but still doesn't know its name and so constantly refers to it as, yes, Another Blooming Christmas.Steve Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870981671564008402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12340983.post-16060703189202193412010-12-19T13:36:19.391+00:002010-12-19T13:36:19.391+00:00Ah, the delusion that 'being played over the g...Ah, the delusion that 'being played over the goals montage' is 'doing the theme for Match of the Day' once attacked me, when a bloke-from-band-I'd-roughly-but-fairly-reviewed did rather too much coke and burst into a wine bar (perhaps the last surviving wine bar in Britain) to tell me I knew fuck all about music because he'd just had his song signed up by the BBC to be the new theme to Match Of The Day.<br /><br />I might have known fuck all about music - and, strangely, even less about football - but I was pretty certain the chances of the parping MOTD theme being replaced by some generic Isthmian Premier guitar rock was low. But he was bigger than me, and off his chunk on coke, so I kept my counsel.<br /><br />I was right, though.Simon Hayes Budgenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.com