M10 show, week # 52

 

So this week, we're at a year's worth of posts, though actually more than a year in time, and...

Elvis:  Ichhh!  What're ya doin', boring the audience ta death?

You of all people should be happy, because I just had to bring in our old friend Nardole today!

E:  Hey, Noodle!  What're you doing here?

N: I'm sure I don't know...

Well, after what I just saw, I thought you might could use to be around some old friends...

E: What, what'd ya see?

Before I mention it, first we have two debuts this week, and we really should play the first.  Nardole, how about you do the intro?

N:  Something tells me this might be the ONLY pleasant part of this visit... At any rate, this debut comes from the Smashing Pumpkins, off their Atum 1 disc...at #10, this is Beyond The Vale...

 

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E: Awright, out with it!

Well, I was looking about the "Lists" feature on Comic Book Resources, and there was Nardole, right in between Rose Tyler and River Song...

E:  That's a pretty good place ta be, ya ask me!  So what's the catch...

Um... it was #9 on a list of "the most hated Doctor Who characters"...

E: WHAAAT?

N: Hated?  I wouldn't have thought anyone even cared...

Well, keep in mind it was just the opinion of this one writer...

E: What did she hate about him?  I always thought he was kinda cuddly...

N: SIR!  The hands, please!

She claims, " Given his jarring childlike charisma, Nardole often came off as dull to fans of Doctor Who."

 

E: "Jarring childlike charisma?"  Even I know ya can't have charisma an' be dull!  You don't worry about this, Noodle! She don' know what she's talkin' about! I once had some jerk call one a' my concerts, "a depressingly incoherent, amateurish mess served up by a bloated, stumbling and mumbling figure who didn't act like "The King" of anything, least of all rock 'n' roll."

N: And, was it?

E: How should I know?  I was so drugged up th... I mean, of course not!  I was just havin' some troubles sleepin' is all...

Maybe you should intro the other debut...

E: Well, if ya think I won' mumble... #9 is new stuff by a guy whose been around a long time, just never here.  This is called, Rebels Without Applause, and it's by Morrissey...

 

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Nicely done!  I should mention that our poor shiny-topped friend here isn't the only one that got bad news... This week's Billboard Hot 100 put's Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas back at #1....

N: If I might ask, how does that constitute 'bad news'?

Because it officially ties her with Cher for oldest woman to hit #1, at 52 years old!

E:Haw! I bet she's lovin' that!

Of course, she was just 24 when she recorded it... Cher was 52 when Believe came out. And Carey's song took twenty-five years to actually hit the top, due to various, since-rescinded rules. The last time Cher hit the chart was Song For The Lonely, which hit #85 in 2002 when she was...

E: 85?

Actually 56...

N:  The two of you certainly went the long way around for THAT bit...

I agree, and I am certainly ashamed of myself...

E: Yeah, right...

...So let me end this with  the rest of the M10.

8- Smalltown Poets up 2 with Christmas Time Again... 

7- Up one for White Reaper and Pages...

6- Up 3 for Lucius and Muse...

5- Down 2 for the #1 song of 2022, and the new #2 all-time, Broken Bells and Love On The Run...

4- Down 2 for the #2 song of the year and the new #11 all-time, Lucius and The Man I'll Never Find...

3- Up 3 for Joji and Die For You...

2- Up two for the Four Seasons and Sleeping Man...

...and remaining at #1....

 

 ...Talk and Run Away To Mars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, that prolly put us on this year's naughty list... see you next week!