Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 22hNah, it's in Norman medieval Latin. The thorns and eths were markers of the conquered people. They were still coming around to w back then. 061
Reposted by RichMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 23hThis is a nice idea, but the 'goneth' ruins it. It's so jarring. I wish people would try just slightly harder with this kind of thing. And if there's one place I expect to find sympathy for this pointless peeve, it's here. 5334418
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Off-the-shelf beat, backing, vocal processing, it's all extremely sad. Perhaps it was always intended to be like this, but in the end the product feels like a corporate-mandated mess of a thing. Score: 4/10 open.spotify.com/track/4k8kNO...open.spotify.comHe's on the PhoneSaint Etienne · Continental · Song · 1997 000
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 08/10/202613) Saint Etienne: He's on the phone Oh dear oh dear. This sort of thing was not uncommon, an earnest singer-songwriter having their song utterly torn to ribbons by a record label that clearly had no confidence in them. So despite a mild, low-energy performance, it's been sold as a… rave anthem?static.klipy.cometienneALT: etienne 100
Reposted by RichContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The faster he runs the funnier 🤣Halloween Pet Costume 👻 983441574
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not to my credit, but Through The Dragon's Eye. There was something about the villain melting people that really got to me, having no senses, no mind, no nothing. youtu.be/r_GQjjx_pZk?...youtu.beLook and Read - Through The Dragon's Eye - Episode 1 - The dragon from PelamarYouTube video by Look and Read Memories 000
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I wrote about what I want from Zero Company in the future: www.tumblr.com/unchronology... #zerocompany #starwarstumblr.comPost by @unchronology · 3 images💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · A Zero Company wishlist · So it turns out Zero Company has been pretty successful? And, moreover, pretty dang good; sure it's a blatant X-Com ripoff, but there hasn't been an X-Com… 010
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To be honest, this song would be dull and plodding in any decade. You could administer it as a general anaesthetic, with a tempo that makes andante feel like a brisk jog and instruments that fart rather than parp. Score: 5/10, I guess. How did it go again? open.spotify.com/track/4ozucJ...open.spotify.comStay with MeErasure · Hits! The Very Best of Erasure · Song · 2003 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 01/10/202612) Erasure: Stay with me Aptly, a song with absolutely no staying power. I've had to press play on this to remind me how it goes so often that Spotify now thinks I want to hear the latest Erasure news. The 90s were not a great decade for Erasure. They feel very old, tired and out of place.static.klipy.comErasure A Little RespectALT: Erasure A Little Respect 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's interesting that BB's image as the 'bad boys' of boyband pop was there from the start, albeit in a corporate, not-really-threatening way. It's obviously all very slick and focus-grouped, the Sega to NSync's Nintendo. Score: 7/10. It's alright. open.spotify.com/track/7qD9lD...open.spotify.comWe've Got It Goin' On - Radio EditBackstreet Boys · Backstreet Boys · Song · 1996 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 29/09/202611) Backstreet Boys: We've got it goin' on It's not that uncommon to hear what amounts to a prototype of a hit song, but finding that BOTH can be counted as hits is surprising. This is just Backstreet's Back v 1.0. same sound, same style, same mildly creeper energy. But since that song is great…static.klipy.comBackstreet Boys Dancing to AlrightALT: Backstreet Boys Dancing to Alright 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Is this a dagger I see before me, The handle towards my hand? Come let me clutch- FFFUCK! 010
Reposted by RichLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Patented by Robert H. Keaton in 1936 and updated in 1953, this machine allowed composers and musicians to print uniform, legible musical notes, clefs, sharps, flats, and staff lines before the age of digital music notation software. IG: @steampunktendencies www.instagram.com/steampunkten... 26566104
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No hoods, no cowboy hats, no beanies, nothing fun. You unlock a headband early on, but that's about it I think? 000
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Zero Company is actually pretty great, but I'm severely let down by the paltry number of hats available. There's a couple of pilot helmets (none of the customisable characters get to fly the ship) 1bn clone helmets (you can't recruit new clones until 2/3 in), a salad dish and one pair of goggles. 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Production quality is high, but a misplaced bit of Swing Revival, which never took off in the UK (and barely in the US). Bit ultimately PJ&D were never going to make it with only novelty songs, which is almost a pity. Almost. Score: 8/10, and I'm not sorry. open.spotify.com/track/5W0Tk4...open.spotify.comU Krazy KatzPJ & Duncan · Top Katz · Song · 1995 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 27/09/202610) PJ & Duncan: U Krazy Katz Shit, this is actually kinda great? I mean, it's a joke song, it's ridiculous. You only have to hear PJ's faux-menacing "meow" or the daft call-and-response to get how un-serious the whole thing is. But PJ has excellent flow and the lyrics slide out smoothly.static.klipy.comByker Grove Paintball: PJ's Blinded MomentALT: Byker Grove Paintball: PJ's Blinded Moment 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I admire your optimism. I just want to nail a massive sign up inside Microsoft and Google that reads 'STOP TRYING TO BE HELPFUL AND START BEING USEFUL'. 010
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They've been steadily making Office incrementally worse over the last decade, so I get the feeling this is not going to be pretty. 111
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Something like this, anyway. Lemmings is the 'correct' choice, but I suspect I played more Captain Planet at the time. #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/350...my9games.netMy 9 Games | Shared games picksA shared 9-panel games collage. 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026And then I discovered that she's quite a big name in Australia. I don't know what to make of that. On the basis of this song it certainly comes as a surprise. But then I know what's coming later with Kylie, so maybe Australia was going through stuff. Score: 4/10 open.spotify.com/track/3Jh3ew...open.spotify.comHeaven Help My Heart - Radio EditTina Arena · Greatest Hits 1994 - 2004 · Song · 2004 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 17/09/20269) Tina Arena: Heaven Help my Heart With a performer name like that you'd expect a more expansive song than this tedious slip of nothing. Change the production, and you can imagine it being released back in the 70s or 80s, as 'adult contemporary' or something equally boring. Easy listening maybe. 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026He simply doesn't have the range or the power, and when Robbie Williams joins in at the end he really shows poor Howard up. There's a reason Gary did the majority of leads. Otherwise it's a decent song, with occasionally scrappy production. Score: 6/10 open.spotify.com/track/1WK7eL...open.spotify.comNever Forget - Single VersionTake That · Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection · Song · 2005 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 16/09/20268) Take That: Never Forget This is TT trying to push for their grown up era, with a more wistful song about the impermanence of success. Poignant, considering they were about to be kicked out in favour of Boyzone this very same year. The big problem here is Howard's lead singing. It's… bad.static.klipy.comTake That Waving - Gary Barlow & BoybandALT: Take That Waving - Gary Barlow & Boyband 110
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"they don't make comedy like this anymore" says the production company whose job it is to make comedy like this 031
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The 90s electronic beat is pretty obnoxious, but it's far from the only example on this album. MN8's sounded like nitrogen bubbles popping in your brain. Anyway, this is fine for what it is, if you can stand what it is. I'm not sure I can. Score: 5/10, I guess. open.spotify.com/track/60Pwcn...open.spotify.comWalking in MemphisCher · It's a Man's World · Song · 1995 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 13/09/20267) Cher: Walking in Memphis Well this is pointless. How can you give a rating to Walking in Memphis? It's like trying to rate Happy Birthday. Well, if anyone's got the chops to do a huge power-pop cover it's Cher. She can belt it out confidently, and like Vandross can cast Summon Gospel Choir.static.klipy.comShining Eyes CherALT: Shining Eyes Cher 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026He clearly had enough clout to snap his fingers to summon up a gospel choir, and it's the latter part of the song where he's just singing back and forth with them that works best. They provide energy and joy, while Vandross's verses just sound dull. Score: 4/10 open.spotify.com/track/6ep87j...open.spotify.comPower of Love / Love PowerLuther Vandross · Power Of Love · Song · 1991 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 11/09/20266) Luther Vandross: Power of Love Out of the eleventyhundred songs called Power of Love, this is definitely one of them. Vandross was past his best by 1995, and this feels incredibly out of place at a time when RnB was going through profound changes and pop was moving in a very different direction.static.klipy.comTo4ALT: To4 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's often anxiety driven, so I usually get the same five-second loop on repeat from songs I don't actually know. Which just adds more stress, obviously. 010
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026But it is a rarity: a french-language hit in an English chart. Other than that, it's… fine. It's not her best work by any means, but it's not terrible either. A pretty average 90s romantic pop song, but at least Dion has the chops for it. Score: 5/10 open.spotify.com/track/6mYSph...open.spotify.comPour que tu m'aimes encoreCéline Dion · D'eux · Song · 1995 200
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 10/09/20265) Celine Dion: Pour que tu m'aimes encore A bit like Abba, when Céline Dion competed in Eurovision in '88 it was almost embarrassingly clear she was at a far higher standard than the others, leaving the amateurish warblings of the rest of Europe in the dirt behind her. Anyway, this isn't that.static.klipy.comCeline Dion's Expressive ReactionsALT: Celine Dion's Expressive Reactions 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It feels like there's a story hidden here, either of a poorly-realised attempt to make a black boy band, or a legit RnB group forced into the shape of one and having all their personality scraped away to make them marketable. Anyway, the song's shit. Score: 2/10 open.spotify.com/track/235GPl...open.spotify.comBaby It's youMN8 · To The Next Level · Song · 1995 110
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 09/09/20264) MN8: Baby It's You Yes, they were really called that. This is boy band 101. A song so bland, so empty, so *obvious* it's actually hard to get a handle on. Everything's so workshopped and smoothed down, it has all the presence and staying power of a mayfly's cough. 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The reggae beat and dips into Jamaican dialect aside, the lyrics bring this down. She apparently wants a 'shy guy' not to be a sensitive, caring partner, but more because she wants someone she has more control over and won't look at other women. Well. Score: 6/10 open.spotify.com/track/3ldG6X...open.spotify.comShy GuyDiana King · Tougher Than Love · Song · 1995 200
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 08/09/20263) Diana King: Shy Guy Yeeeah that's more like it! Proper forgotten 90s shit, and a fascinating 'what if' curio. At first it seems like the sort of pop RnB TLC or Destiny's Child would perfect in the latter half of the decade, but King has a fearless will to bring Jamaican influences in. 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Still, that choral sample still hits hard thirty years later and gives the song the gravitas that Coolio didn't have on his own terms. It's a big gothic anthem against gang culture, the kind that plays well with suburban whites who will buy the single while tutting to themselves. Score: 7/10. Tut. 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 07/09/20262) Coolio: Gangsta's Paradise It's always awkward for a rapper to have a proper huge hit, same with metal bands. It takes away some of their cred. And rapping about what a tough gangsta life you have while Snoop, Dre and the like are going strong is a bit much. Coolio did the Kenan and Kel theme!static.klipy.comCoolio - Gangsta's Paradise Music VideoAlt: Coolio wears shades at night far better than Hucknell. 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Its one saving grace is the explosion into life when the chorus breaks into the verse, but that's cold comfort. It's a bloated, flatulent dirge with a ridiculous 'ooga-chicka-oo' sample running throughout the beat to the point of utter irritation. Score: 3/10. And he can thank me for it. 101
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 07/09/20261) Simply Red: Fairground What an absolute farce to start on. A song that dwells in the history of pop like a lead weight exists in the stomach of a camel. Even if you were to forgive the many musical crimes of Mick Hucknell, this one still grates, especially the pompous lyrics.static.klipy.comMick Hucknall Driving Car at FairgroundAlt: Yeah, nothing could ever look cooler than this, Micky! 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Okay, you've talked me into it! You've twisted my arm! I'm going to rate every single song on this 1995 #totp compilation album. Someone has to do it. Or this great nation may fall to ruin. 111
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Not every movie needs to be a Hero's Journey, but *something* needs to change between start and finish. In T'Mando'n'Grog the only progression by the end is that Baby Yogurt is allowed to press dashboard buttons. It's the lowest stakes of any Star War.static.klipy.comMeditating GroguALT: Meditating Grogu 000
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Well, that was The Mandalorian And Grogu. A not-boring time was had, but it had pretty much no reason to exist (besides the obvious corporate one). A mashup of three episodes that never made the regular series, making for a film that says little and achieves little other than the passing of time.static.klipy.comStar Wars: The Mandalorian and Baby YodaALT: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda 100
Rich @rbett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A brilliant speech, brilliantly delivered, from… a cheap Saturday morning cartoon about Peter Pan? Ah, it must be Tim Curry. youtu.be/1VL16yEjGuE?...youtu.beTim Curry As Captain Hook Taunting Peter PanYouTube video by Matropolis 000
