"Is the world mad or is it me?"

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Sunday 6.45, BBC1 Songs of Praise: "Toyah Willcox discusses the spiritual side of skateboarding" (I'm quoting the C-FAX preview).

OK, I can count four elements here whose evolution (as per this tableau, anyway) must surely puzzle if not disgust their early fans: skateboarding, the spiritual, Toyah and Songs of Praise. (And maybe BBC1 makes five: the soft whirr you hear beneath yr feet is Lord Reith's bones...)

Any takers for nuttier, more upsetting, baffling or entertaining pop-cultural/social, er, collisions that have ambushed you recently?

― mark s, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I did hear The Avalanches' "Since I Left You" being played on Radio 2 within three hours of Vera Lynn. Will that count?

― R "P" C, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Everytime I switch on my PC. Brian Eno 'designed' the Start-Up sound. Strange, so habitual I hardly noticed it. But now I know it's obvious.

― K-reg, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still think the weirdest thing was hearing Suede on KTU, which is basically the "guido disco" station on Long Island, aka the sort of freestylin' beats you haven't heard since probably the 80s (if you're lucky).

― Ally, Monday, 7 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

J. Mascis on the clothes show circa 92, then seeing Jeff Banks looking scruffy in Leeds station and trying to bum fags off him. Also the image of Brian Ferry in a hjack scenareo earlier this year. He looked like the side of the frame was holding him up.

― K-reg, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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