I do quite like the hot dog suit one, but broadly I agree.

I did know, and apparently Knopfler felt a bit stupid singing it to her given its subject matter.

That is exactly the kind of stuff that should be on this list. In fact half of the list are covers I’ve never heard of, of songs I know well.

The dude abides.

The sitcom equivalent of what Derry’s The Undertones were doing in the late 70s.

It’s up there! ^

Derry Girls is an all-time great, even accounting for recency bias. The video is of course the finale to the first series/season , rather than the final episode, but I was glad to see it because it includes the original soundtrack to Orla’s step routine, Like a Prayer by Madonna. I’ve seen reruns on Netflix in the US…

Agreed - but I was mostly thinking about her performance in An American Werewolf in London. To be honest I think about that, a lot.

I prefer Jenny Agutter as a nurse, personally.

Sister Michael is, of course, the greatest nun ever, but I did enjoy Dolly Wells as Sister Agatha Van Helsing in the Mark Gatiss/Stephen Moffat Dracula.

That’s an understatement.  He stole the entire movie.

“Always a bubblegum band decked out in leather, the Ramones emphasized their featherweight origins with “Rockaway Beach,”...”

It’s very forgiving of you to insert an “or” into Mungo Jerry’s “Have a drink, have a drive” line. In the UK the song was used in a hard-hitting 90s drink-driving advert.

The Cruel Summer video is of particular historic interest because the girls were introduced to cocaine for the first time part-way through the shoot, allegedly by some dockworkers, although there were no working docks in that area (DUMBO in Brooklyn) at that time. Once you know that, the variance in “energy” across…

Steal My Sunshine is ridiculously catchy, and it blows my mind that it is built off such a tiny sample from More More More.

In the UK, Summer has often been all about Europop. Boys (Summertime Love) by Sabrina being an all-time classic of the genre.

It has never made much sense.  The UK jury in 1974 gave “nul points” to Abba’s Waterloo.

I’ve reread Nilus’s post several times now, and I don’t understand your interpretation. I’m assuming Nilus is suggesting (“like basketball in the Olympics”) that the US’s ability to outspend everyone would mean that they would be a shoo-in to win it. Apologies if I have the wrong end of the stick.

It’s genuinely charming that you think anybody in Europe would vote for such an act.

Israel is also in Europe for football purposes, due to the number of Asian countries reluctant to play against them.