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The best band you've never heard.
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Mar 4 • 30 tweets • 8 min read
The MD guide to the 20 greatest torches of our youth. In order.

Number 30

Army Surplus. Image Number 29

The hand-cranked cramp inducer Image
Feb 6 • 30 tweets • 8 min read
The MD guide to the 30 greatest post punk album openers of all time. In order.

Full Spotify playlist link in number 1 🙏

Number 30

Radiohead - Planet Telex Image Number 29

The Fall - Psykick Dance Hall Image
Dec 2, 2023 • 31 tweets • 9 min read
The MD guide to the 20 finest albums of 2023.

In order.

Number 30.

Vince Clarke - Songs of Silence. Image Number 29

Everything but the Girl - Fuse
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Sep 28, 2023 • 61 tweets • 13 min read
The MD guide to the current top 60 worst people in the UK. In order (that aren’t in jail)*

*many of them should be

60. Jim Davidson Image 59. 'Baroness' Kate Hoey Image
Oct 12, 2022 • 51 tweets • 14 min read
The MD guide to the 50 greatest things in our bathroom cabinet. In order.

Number 50

A tin of plasters ImageImage Number 49

Rust nail clippers Image
Aug 2, 2022 • 30 tweets • 7 min read
The MD list of the 30 greatest British TV comedy characters. In order.

Number 30

Louis Balfour. Great. Image Number 29

Margo Leadbetter Image
Aug 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Walking around cities at night.

Single band soundtracks

Glasgow: Blue Nile
Liverpool: Bunnymen
Manchester: Joy Division
Sheffield: Human League
Bristol: Massive Attack
Leeds: Sisters
Edinburgh: Fire Engines

? Dublin: early U2 😉
Jul 17, 2022 • 40 tweets • 11 min read
The MD guide to the top 40 photography memories of our youth list. In order.

Number 40

The mini slide viewer. Visiting relatives with glowing tans: 'And now onto box 16...' Number 39

The perspex photo cube. Favoured grandchildren to the front.
Jan 15, 2022 • 33 tweets • 8 min read
The MD guide to the 30 greatest money boxes of our youth. In order.

Number 30

The telephone money box.

In theory: contents + line rental = bill

In practice: 7p, 2 Green Shield stamps and an Esso World Cup coin Number 29

Buzby
Dec 22, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
The MD Top Ten people of 2021 list.

In order.

10. Tyrone Mings

People may have forgotten about his Priti Patel tweet. We haven't. The MD top ten people of 2021 list.

9. Chris Packham. He's not perfect, but who is? None of the people on our list are saints. But he's absolutely relentless. Often against vicious opposition. He will not be silenced or intimidated.
Dec 20, 2021 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
Prize and giveaway details for the party tomorrow!

(thread)

t-shirts from 1 of 100 and 14 Admirals 🔥 Test pressings of Heavenly Remixes 1&2
Dec 19, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🎄MD Virtual Christmas Party🎄

Tuesday 22nd, 6-9pm, hosted by our friends @thesociallondon

🎵 Banging playlist

🏆Prizes for photos of the best MD Community retro outfit, food & drinks

Entry price: please donate whatever you can to either

Depher @Depheruk Or @MindCharity x Pets welcome. The more the merrier x
Nov 27, 2021 • 82 tweets • 21 min read
🔥Here we go: the MD guide to the 80 greatest Christmas presents of our youth list. In order (pt.2)🔥

Number 80

Our very first Chocolate Orange Number 79

Speak & Spell
Nov 23, 2021 • 51 tweets • 13 min read
The MD guide to the 50 greatest Fisher Price toys of our youth. In order.

Number 50.

The electric cooker hob.

With glowing red rings. Number 49

Rock-A-Stack
Nov 19, 2021 • 51 tweets • 15 min read
The MD guide to the 50 greatest christmas presents our (and our sister's) youth. In order.

Number 50

The strangely alluring and enduring shop till. Number 49

Crossfire. Couldn't pick a knife and fork up on boxing day due to the finger blisters.
Nov 17, 2021 • 41 tweets • 14 min read
The MD Top 40 worst Christmas presents of our youth list. In order.

*This thread is not a sneer at people who had little. It is a glorious celebration of their love and inventiveness. Number 40

40 Embassy. In Christmas wrapping. We were 12. We were expecting Top Trumps. Turns out we'd got them by mistake. Managed to smoked 4 before they were confiscated.
Sep 21, 2021 • 51 tweets • 13 min read
The MD guide to the 50 greatest perfumes and aftershaves of our youth. In order.

Number 50

Giorgio - Beverly Hills.

Banned from some NYC restaurants in the 80s. Number 49

Paco Rabanne
Sep 20, 2021 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
The MD guide to the 20 greatest tinned horrors of our youth. In order.

Number 20

Heinz Turtle Soup (genuine) Number 19

Australian lager
Sep 14, 2021 • 59 tweets • 18 min read
The MD guide to the 60 greatest things found in the back of our cupboards. In order.

Number 60

A tin of Marvel. Consistency of the Great Barrier Reef. Would immediately be arrested for possession of crack cocaine in the event of a police raid today. Number 59

A small tin of oil
Sep 4, 2021 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
The MD guide to the 20 greatest dubiously acquired items of our youth. In order.

Number 20

The School Custard Jug Number 19

The Cable Drum
Aug 23, 2021 • 72 tweets • 20 min read
The MD guide to the 70 greatest orange things of our youth. In order.

Number 70

The Cream Cracker tin Number 69

The RCA record label