My back pages

A lot of early posts were written on this old thing,
with a mug of tea on hand

According to Blogger, these are my ten most "popular" posts:

10. Blog mirror? - that fatuous survey
9. That Was The Year That Was: 2017 - end of year rundowns are always popular
8. Oh, I'm sorry - did I break your concentration? - I staged a screening of Pulp Fiction
7. Cryptic-schmyptic - I made a big ol' crossword
6. To Whit, to whoo...? - inexplicably popular account of a weekend away
5. Europe. It's like a different country or something...II - inexplicably popular Belgian Crack
4. That Was The Year That Was: 2015 - as I said, end of year rundowns...
3. That Was The Year That Was: 2016 - ...always popular
2. Don't be a notefold cock - gets a little bump whenever Dave repeats Modern Life Is Goodish
1. That Was The Year That Was: 2014 - ...really, really popular

I should add that these stats are skewed somewhat, since they only take into account traffic after I moved New Amusements wholesale to Blogger, back in January 2014. That skewing, that incompleteness and inaccuracy, is the only excuse I need to dust off these other posts, all of which remain relatively popular(ish). In no particular order:

• Separated at birth V - Danny Alexander and Beaker - self-explanatory
• The good, the bad and the ugly - either the misleading Clint-reference or the girl ("the good") make this popular
• It also makes calls - remains popular for its "evolution of a mobile phone" picture
• If not now, when? - making the best of the end of the world

But sod popularity. These are the posts I'm happiest to publicly proclaim affection for. And yes, that does mean there are other posts I'm equally (or more) proud of, but don't want to invite revisits to. Anyway, here goes, again in no real order:

• This is as good as it gets - in which I reviewed the remastered Gene back catalogue
• C30, C60, C90, Go! - my paean to the joy of compilation tapes
• David Gedge - a top man, clearly - this Wedding Present gig review would, nine years later, make it into a book
• 2001 - beyond the infinite - I wrote quite a lot about the importance of 2001: A Space Odyssey
• How did it come to this? - in which I vent about Trump
• The space race is over - a lament for the NASA of my youth
• Bombay away - in which I subtitle Bollywood for the purposes of satire
• Play well - the joy of sex Lego
• Going back to my roots - an ode to 80s home computing
• Clandestine Classic XLIX - Ask Johnny Dee - a nice retro story, in which I was a royal git
• Derailing my train of thought - this says everything to me about my life
• And of course the "list" posts: best gigs, favourite books and scary films - because, who doesn't like lists?
• And the series: Clandestine Classics, Fantasy Cover Versions and the Amusecasts...

I've enjoyed writing this blog, and hope you've enjoyed reading some of it too. I've also really enjoyed looking back over all these posts, and hope the links above prompt you to read something you missed first time around. And at the risk of being mysterious, you'll see why I'm doing this recap tomorrow...