The Phonebox Podcast With Emma Conway - 1990...What A Year!: Claire Wetton

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

Did you ever want to know the top 5 films, songs and shows of 1990? WELL LOOK NO FURTHER! Amazing children's writer (and the "best Claire" - as chosen by herself) Claire Wetton is on The Phonebox Podcast today chatting about everything that happened in the year 1990. Spoiler. She may sing the John Barnes rap. Twice. For more of me follow @brummymummyof2 on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok and follow the @phoneboxpodcast account on Instagram for polls and nostalgic fun.If you have any guest suggestions, topics you would like me to cover email [e-mail] and be sure to tag so I can see where you are listening!#90s #1990 #90smusic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the Fizz loyalty program, you get rewarded just for having a mobile plan. You know, for texting and stuff. And if you're not getting rewards like extra data and dollars off with your mobile plan, you're not with Fizz. Switch today. Conditions apply. Details at fizz.ca. Hello and welcome to this very special edition of the Phone Box podcast with me, Emma Louise Conway. It's the end of season five, but don't worry, we'll be back in a couple of weeks. I've already recorded the first episode and it's absolutely brilliant, even though I do say so myself. I've started a new thing at the end of every season.

She doesn't know it, but she signed up for another 10 episodes like this. Beginner deep dive a year in culture. And we're starting off with 1990. And let me introduce, bringing on from the side, Claire Michelle Whetton. Round of applause. Woo! Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.

And the crowd. She's the best one. She's the best one, did you say? Yeah. The best one, what do you mean? The best Claire? Of all the world. Okay, that yeah the best one that would you mean best Claire the best of all the world okay that's all right I thought you meant best sister I was like wrong um she's a children's tv writer she's my youngest sister she's an icon she's a queen she's a legend and

I'd say if you went on mastermind you'd be quite good at the 90s uh well it's difficult though because i wasn't actually born then what year were you born uh 2003 oh my gosh so you're just celebrating being 21 yeah yeah amazing america so you can go and drink in america fantastic so when you're next to america you can have a little drinky pop so what we're going to do is at the end of each season, I'm going to go through the years in chronological order, starting with 1990, and I'm looking at top UK films, top UK, and I've actually done research this time, guys. Sometimes I just Google it and it comes up with some funny answers, but I actually researched it.

And by research, I went to chat GTP and I said, what's all the top things? Gave me the right answers or so it says um UK films UK songs UK TV shows so bear that in mind Claire okay okay it ain't America it's just UK so I thought we would start off with um I've even put it in a in a document aka I copied and pasted it into notes on my phone what would you like to start off with actually films music or tv up to you uh tv please okay tv shows i'm glad you picked that one this is quite an interesting round because this didn't actually come up with the top you know top 10 it just came up with some top shows so i'm just

going to read through five i thought were brilliant and i want you to answer what you thought about them we're going to go in real strong claire with the upper hand oh we always talk about the upper hand literally this week because me and my friends have real relevant cultural chats upper hand and we were discussing how as children we were like when we grow up we're gonna look exactly like on a black man oh yeah i thought you're gonna say when we grow up we're gonna marry one of the mcgann brothers the many brothers me and my friends were talking about the fact that we always thought when we grow up we're gonna be an old lady just like on a blackburn still time we did decide the still time but it's not looking good for any of us to be honest oh she was lovely was she but we need we need the

premise so people who people who's at home might be going but i never watched the upper hand what were they missing out on so it was a common man working class man he married a posh woman no you're wrong is that not what it was no or um i thought he was a nanny i thought he was the nanny and then yeah but he was he was working faster she was posh wasn't she he was working class she was posh he had a rough kid she had a posh kid. I feel like he moved in to be a nanny. Might have done. I think it might have been like a copy of a program in America.

And then they fell in love. They will have fell in love. All I remember is Anna Blackman and thinking, I want to look like that when I'm older. I have told, I think I've told this on the podcast before. I'm not sure if I was with you when I stopped off at a petrol station and saw one of the McGann brothers in the 90s.

Peak McGann brothers. I couldn't tell you which one it was. Oh, no. Who could? Was it Paul McGann? Yeah. Who are the others? Ian.

Stanley. Stan McGann. Lionel. Stan McGann. If there wasn't a Stan McGann. Okay, so the upper hand, let's give it a score out of 10. Seven. Oh, I was was gonna go nine okay this one classic art attack was in 1990 i mean i wasn't a fan to be honest yeah we won you were either like a crafty blue peter art attack kid or a watching people join cults

and be horrifically attacked in biker grove children's ward kid we were that kind of kids yeah i had a thing when i was a kid which considering i work on horrible histories now is um ironic but i used to get really angry about shows that tried to educate me yeah no like i've been at school all day i don't want to be educated show the news round up your bum i wanted to be entertained and i hope that horrible issues does entertain people more than educate them i've got some breaking news claire it doesn't well we try we try if you got stan mcgann in playing Queen Victoria, maybe. Okay, Art Attack.

Does Art Attack still exist? Is Neil Buchanan still with us? Yeah, I think so. Okay, he wasn't cancelled. I don't think Art Attack exists, but I think Neil Buchanan's fine. I feel like he's ageless. Like, Andy Peters, man, I do not understand that man. He is ageless.

When he shows his muscles and he lifts his top up, which is kind of weird, but he's like ageless, isn't he? I was thinking the other day, what would I do if I saw Andy Peters? I was in like a meeting and Andy Peters was there. And I don't think I would be able to speak. Why would you be in a meeting and Andy Peters would be there? I was just, you know.

Just, okay. These are the kind of fantasies I have. What if I walked into a room and Andy Peters was sat there? Other people are thinking of millions, diamonds, Lamborghinis, and you're thinking of maybe Andy Peters might be in a meeting. That'd be lovely. Well, it wouldn't because I would be mute. I'd be like, I would 100% say lift your top up and show me your muscles

and then give me a little squeeze. That's what I'd do. That's a bit of a noise. Attack out of 10? Three. I'm going two. Bag of crap. Sorry, Neil, if you're missing.

Double sorry if you're dead. Apologies. Now, this is a good one. Keeping up appearances. Oh no, it's awful Emma. What are you talking about? It's a good one. It's dreadful. Right, the premise, go. A really annoying woman. Called? Hi, I've seen the bucket.

Or? Bouquet. Thank you. She's got a son called Sheridan, we never see. A husband called Richard, who's very put upon. Onslow. I liked Onslow. Yeah, I liked Onslow.

String vest. Again, it was a posh lady with a common family. Yeah, that was a bit of a theme, wasn't it? Posh lady, common family. She was really called Hi, I hyacinth bucket but she changed her name to bouquet she was like a nosy but i'd say she was the um poster child for the karen oh yes yeah you classed her as a camp what was the plot every week the plot every week with her trying to make sure that no one realizes that her family were rough yeah so the vicar would come over and she'd make like a Sunday lunch. Onslow would turn up probably in a van in a vest.

A bit like national lampoons when they go and visit their cousins and their cousins are a bit rough. With the Fizz loyalty programme, you get rewarded just for having a mobile plan. You know, for texting and stuff. And if you're not getting rewards like extra data and dollars off with your mobile plan, I don't really know National Lampoons. Sorry, I'm going to have to end the podcast now. Stan McGann has just called. He said National L called he said you don't know National Lampoons when they go on

when they go to Wally World and they stop up at the Cousins and the Cousins are all rough no okay out of 10 minus 2 I'm giving it a strong I like the

bucket bouquet I'm giving that a four for that alone and I liked on Vlo's string vest his wife wasn't

called Avalon that was bread wasn't it but I feel it was a similar sort of character wasn't it yeah and she

one of the sisters had a crush on the man who lived next door. Was he a vicar? I think he was the vicar. He was the vicar. I think he was the brother of the next door neighbour.

Did he have floppy hair? I seem to remember him looking like the man out of Darling Brothers of May. Oh, I was good. That was a good one. Okay, next one, Jeeves and Wooster. Wooster, Wooster. Yeah, good. We were probably quite young to be watching that, weren't we?

I think we were young to be watching it. I've read the books and I like the books. Oh, here we go, smarty. I read the books. I haven't seen National Lampoon, but I read Jeeves and Wooster. Get her off the bloody podcast. I'm very highbr the podcast i liked it yeah i think i remember liking it i mean here in lorry what's not to like and i think they're great both icons um so if you had to choose to be in a meeting with stephen fry or andy peters who would it be i think i'd be able to speak to be in a meeting with Stephen Fry or Andy Peters, who would it be? I think I'd be able to speak to Stephen Fry,

but I think Andy Peters. I would just be too starstruck. I don't know why. I like the fact that you think you're like on the same level as Stephen, but I'd have a good chat with him. You'd be like, I've read the book. But Andy Peters, you're like, oh, no, intimidated. That's madness. I think just because he's such a like childhood icon i would i would feel like i

was six again yeah he's he's good okay out of 10 oh well because i can't remember it that much i'm gonna say seven but it probably is better than that okay i'm following it up with something that i think i loved and maybe you hated mr bean Bean. No, I loved it when I was little. Premise of Mr. Bean. Oh, I was just a silly sausage man, wasn't I? He didn't talk. So he was like universally loved. Yeah.

I do. I have a real memory of like on a bonfire night, I was going to see the fireworks and there was Mr Bean coming and us like rushing home from the fireworks. And it was like the best night ever. Fireworks night, home for a brand new Mr Bean. Do you think it was a fireworks edition of, because I reckon Mr Bean in hijinks with sparklers would have been cracking 90s episode.

Absolute high danger. High danger. No. I really like Mr Bean. I had a Vhs of mr bean uh i don't know yeah like mr bean it weren't they weren't called seasons then it would have just been like series one wouldn't we call them seasons now yeah i do seem to think and the kids love mr bean now hilarious think he's really funny can't beat a bit of beat. And when he turns up with the Boyzone video. I don't know.

I love that. You don't remember? I had a picture of you in my mind. And they're all dressed up as Mr Bean. You've made that up. You've dreamt it, little girl. Jesus. I was vowing not to Google this.

Like, Mr. Bean. I'd love it if you found out that this never actually happened. Mr. Bean. It's going to be Boyzone, Picture of You. It's actually come up, Picture of You, in brackets, Mr. Bean. So shove that up your bum hole. I'm going to show you a picture. They were all dressed up as Mr. Bean and they were all saying,

I had a picture of you in my mind oh god never knew it could be so i don't know why i wiped that from my memory oh my god here's an even better picture them walking like all walking like mr bean oh look i am 100 googling that afterwards. Yeah. Maybe Mr Bean in the film. Mr Bean and Boyzone. Oh, what a lot. That would have been a fun day, wouldn't it? Oh, lovely.

Mr Bean. Rowan and Ronan. Oh, what a mouthful. Rowan. Ronan. Rowan. Oh, what? They'd both be looking.

Oh, they'd be in trouble. Okay, so we've covered TV shows. What was your favourite out of all of them? I think they were a pretty bad bunch, to be honest. Oh, I thought I'd pick good ones. Now I'm sad. I mean, they're very of a time, aren't they? There seems to be a lot of, like...

Yeah, of a time, of 1990s. The old boy at the podcast. Yeah, but I mean, like, they were all very, like, class-related and... Mr Bean... It's a different sense of humour. and yeah I think Mr Bean's still going strong okay do you want to do films or do you want to do a music let's save music for last okay I'm gonna do films I'm actually gonna do it a bit different because number 12 which wasn't will never appear probably I thought so the 12th top film of 1990 we're gonna love it we're gonna love it my bottom hurts just thinking about it oh hanky panky nothing like good spanky in dick tracy dick tracy no the 12th top film of uk that's much higher higher than I thought it was going to be, to be honest. Well, Madonna was very big then, wasn't she?

Yeah, Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino. What's the other one? Who's the one that's like Al Pacino? I get the mixture. It was in Rain Man. Robert De Niro. No, he was in it as well. There was Robert De Niro, Al Pacino.

There's three of them, isn't there? Robert, Dustin Hoffman. Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro. You're not telling me they're not the same person. Robert Dustin Hoffman Dustin Hoffman Al Pacino Robert De Niro you're not telling me they're not the same person Robert De Hoffman they're the same person and they were all in it and they all had like prosthetics on so if you've never seen Dick Tracy it is a film about a cartoon character called Dick Tracy who is a crime fighter yeah gangster against gangsters and madonna played breathless mahoney why is this crap in my head i've just i have not said breathless mahoney since 1990

and somewhere i've gone got and i've feasted it from the back of my head. Bethesda Mahoney. Bethesda Mahoney. And then there was a, I feel like there was a homeless child called The Kid. Yeah. Good film. Well, average film, great songs. I feel like we really wanted to like it because Madonna was in it.

Did we actually like it? I don't know, but we still watched it a lot. I like the songs. Oh, the songs were cracking. Panky Panky is a great song. Sooner or later, you're gonna be mine.

Great song. You're gonna be fine. Is that, that's only two? There was a song called, she's a breathless Mahoney, but I can't remember what the rest of it goes like she's breathless for holy no that's not how it went let me pull it up on spotify and we'll i will see if there's any other hits i feel like sooner or later hanky panky um is this going to

be on dick tracy's soundtrack it's on. Do you know later? Two step, you can do a little two step. So now I'm following you. Another great song. Something a bit creepy about that song though. Cry baby. She's supposed to cry baby. Back in business.

I'm going bananas and hanky panky okay bananas i love that one great album dick tracy um so that was just i just put that in because i saw it and i thought that's a bit of us so i'm gonna go down the top five films. Well, I'll just run through what's from ten to five. We won't discuss it. Actually, just make a noise. I'll just sit here in silence. No, just make a noise. I'm not puppeteer. No. If you like it, go woo! And if you hate it, go

bleh. Okay. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Eh. Days of Thunder. Meh. Boring. That's not a raspberry. Days of Thunder. Meh. Boring. That's not a raspberry. Die Hard 2. I've never seen it.

Back to the Future 3. Woo! Gremlins 2. A bit scary. Look Who's Talking. Oh, absolute cracker. Absolute cracker. I haven't seen that in years. I was telling the kids about Look Who's Talking Oh absolute cracker Absolute cracker I haven't seen that in years I was telling the kids about Look Who's Talking

because Ethan is playing Danny in Greece on the West End aka his school we did a deep dive on John Travolta and I was explaining Look Who's Talking he couldn't get his head around the concept Oh we've got to download it and watch it Couldn't get his head around the concept If you don't know Look who's talking is kirsty alley um is the voice of a baby

and john travolta is the voice of the baby or john the fault of the dad of the baby now i'm confused it's kirsty who are the voices of the babies uh kirsty was the mom yes that's it john travolta was the dad who's the voice the voice of the baby is. Was it, was it Stan McGann? Stan McGann. Robert de Hoffman. I can't remember who the voice was. Maybe it was John Travolta as well.

And then like in the second one, was it a little girl? And it was Kirstie Allirsty alley maybe i think you're right i could google it but i'm not going to okay we're going to go down the top five and we will chat about it little mermaid thoughts number five um do you know when i first watched little mermaid no about a month and a half ago what did you think the new one or the old one I think I watched both so you thought it was good

it was good I don't know why I never watched it at the time though it's not my favourite of the Disney films but I know a lot of 90 girls that are like grown up in the 90s really love it yeah I don't know why I never watched it I mean I know a lot of 90 girls that are like growing up in the 90s really love it. Yeah. I don't know why I never watched it.

I mean, Under the Sea is a banger. That's why it's hotter under the water. Rhyming the word hotter and the word water by saying that's why it's hotter under the water. Absolute classic. That's how I write my songs. It's just like, it's a horrible way to do it.'s just like just say it weird and then it will pay off that's why it's hata under the water what okay okay uh out of ten seven okay a total recall i couldn't i couldn't speak on this at all i don't think i've ever seen it maybe next time guys this time, because I don't know how to do it.

But maybe next time, if it's a film like that, I might get a little snippet from Dad to just say his thoughts on Total Recall. Because he'll have some thoughts on that. Add him into the Zoom. No, oh, my God. That'll take weeks. We'll still be doing it, bloody, in a month.

Oh, my God. Can you see me? Total Recall. I think it had Arnold Schwarzenegger in it. Could be wrong. Yeah, I kind of like it. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Oh, absolute classic.

We went to see that at the cinema. Rick Moranis. Oh. The technology. Have you seen that? No, because I think films like that, we would have seen it and been like, oh, my God, this is, like, phenomenal. They'd be like, that's just, because I think films like that, we would have seen it and been like, oh, my God, this is, like, phenomenal.

They'd be like, that's just, like, giant cardboard grass. Well, yeah. Yeah, he wasn't a great dad, was he, Rick Moranis? No. No. I mean, the first time he did it bad enough, but then he kept doing it. I think he made them big, didn't he, in the next one? Yeah, I blew up the baby.

So it was good. I really liked, I think Honey, I Shrunk the Kids was a really, really good, good kids film. I really enjoyed it. I seem to remember we went to the cinema. Because if you didn't go to cinema, well, you wouldn't be seeing it for three years. Yeah. We'd be like, well, that was a 1993 film. so i really loved it out of 10 nine and a half yeah it was a banger what would have made it a 10 um well i haven't seen it in 30 years so i'm it's not like one of my favorite films of all time so but it was good rick if you're listening apologies again rick

if you've passed on i'm sorry for for our loss i think he gave a pattern to be a stay-at-home dad oh lovely well let's hope he was better than the bloody one in the honey i shrunk the kids i won't be trusting him with the baby. Where are the children? I think they're in the box of cereal. He was also amazing in Ghostbusters, Rick Moranis was. Absolutely brilliant in Ghostbusters. I loved it when he was like the little, he got turned into like a little gobbledy werewolf thing, didn't he? Brilliant.

Okay, pretty new woman at number three. Oh, sugar, no, pretty woman's at number two sorry julia if you're listening hashtag spoilers it's number two what's number three then that what i got it i got it wrong number three was only the kids number two pretty woman we were too young probably yeah i think the first time i watched it i had no idea what was going on well i should hope not because you would have been like flipping nine so you're a prostitute we wouldn't have watched it then like we wouldn't have gone to the cinema to watch that that would have been no that would have been a 1993 film so you would have been 12 yeah 12 13 um i don't think i've even seen it more recently maybe that i need to put that on my watch list

because people love that film don't they yeah it's it's got some i cut it's got the bit where he snaps the the um the jewels when she goes to get the jewels. That's quite iconic. When she goes into the shops and they won't serve her, that's quite iconic. And she goes back and gets served. Pretty woman. It's an all right film. Julie Roberts is gorgeous in it.

Preferring Steel Magnolias. That's one of my favourites. Have you seen Steel Magnolias? No. I feel like I'm going to be much better at this. From 95 onwards? Yeah, I feel like i'm gonna be much better at this in 90 from 95 onwards yeah i feel like i feel sorry for your listeners because they've got five series to go until i know what any of this is do you know what i know what i'm talking about still magnolias is a lovely film it's got shirley mcclain in who we love dolly parton julia roberts it's very very sad though it's a very sad film but

it is i feel like i did watch that when i was a kid and was just like i don't know what's going on and it's i put on my marion it's very sad okay um i just want you to guess number one just pluck it out of there would you like a clue would you like to guess? I think I know what 1991 will be. Well, good. Well, we'll wait another bloody 11 episodes and then we'll hear that I don't know around Halloween. What would be 1990? Would you like a clue?

Yes, I'd love a clue. What kind of clue would you like? Would you like one of the actors in it? Do you want one of the actors in it? Do you want a phrase from it? One of the actors. Oh, God, thank God, because I couldn't remember a phrase from it. Oh, my God, I was absolutely wracking my brain. You tried one off.

Okay, I'm going to go Demi Moore or Demi Moore. A ghost. Straight in, number one. Ghost. What was the song from Ghost, that Unchained Melody? Yeah, lovely. I think we probably would have waited a little bit longer to see that as well. Yeah, we wouldn't have gone to the cinema to see that.

We probably would have watched that on the telly, so like 95. Yeah. didn't want to do that uh we probably would have watched that on the telly so like 95 yeah cringing in front of our parents whilst they were like rubbing each other up while they were doing pottery demi and patrick not mom and dad um what would i maybe was it unchained melody yeah yeah yeah it was i'll be honest not one of my faves no it's nice though it's nice though i feel like there was a phrase since he never said he loved her did you do he loved her and then whoopi goldberg spoiler spoiler spoiler if you've never seen ghost says he wants to tell you he loves you and she says then i know that you're lying because he would never say that oh god oh no oh what an error new light and then so many more r.i.p patrick swizzle sticks

great and dirty dancing he was just phenomenal can't think of anything else he's been in. Ghost. That's all you need to be in. Ghost and Dirty Dancing. That's more than enough for everybody, really. Okay, we're going to... You what, sorry? Roadhouse. Oh, yeah. Sorry, you big Roadhouse fan. When was the last time you saw Roadhouse? You'd never seen it. I saw it last week. You never, you liar. Okay um okay we're gonna move on to

songs and because we've talked about films it might actually bleed into some of the songs you see you did that quite clever didn't you you did it quite clever okay i'm gonna just mention uh an honorable mention to number six show me heaven by mar by Maria McKay from the film Days of Thunder, which I think was like number 13 or something. Yeah, Days of Thunder was, the film was not good, but the song. The Hours, we sang that. The Hours. There was that and Beverly Craven.

He lights up another cigarette as I pour the wine The heartache And I'm starting to get like Yeah, great Yeah, so I just thought I'd bring that in Just as a little honourable mention Madeira for a power ballad Don't get many power ballads these days

No, I can't think of one recent power ballad don't get many power ballads these days no i can't think of one recent power ballad can you tell you i mean swift they're not power ballads are they they're just like why no um okay number five is a disappointing one sorry killer by adamski that one he did it with seal didn't he i think he bought it out like 25 times a bit like kiss my rose and that's a great song yeah it's a great song but he brought it he has brought it out like seven times killer adamski i don't know why you pull in that face because i think it's a good song where would would you listen to Killer by Adamski? If you were like, I'm going to put a song on, where would you be listening to that song?

On my way to a Seal concert. No, I don't like it. Sorry, Adamski. I don't like it. I do like Kiss by Rose, though. If that song came on when you're walking around Tesco's, would you not shake your shoulders a little bit? Nod your head.

The way it's going to... Yeah, yeah. I probably would go, oh, this is Adamski. Yeah, but then I'd be like, oh, God, it's on the radio all the time. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. Okay, but number a dumpster. Yeah, but then I'll be like, oh, God, it's on the radio all the time. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. Okay, but number four, though, we've gone literally from Emma's despair to Emma's number one chef kiss true love forever.

Ice Ice Baby. Ice Ice Baby. Ice Ice Baby. Yeah. I knew you were going to say that. Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice. baby i knew you were gonna say that ice ice baby by vanilla rice can we all take a moment to remember that he actually follows me on x formerly known as twitter he does follow about 107 000 people but he doesn't follow me but have you ever mentioned vanilla ice maybe do you know what i

will tonight see whether he follows me i think if you mention him in a positive fashion he follows you he felt and maybe he started that off as a goodwill thing and now like 12 years into social media he's like jesus christ this has really got out of hand this has really got out of hand so he does follow me um however i don't actually go on x because I think it's a crazy, scary place. But it's a brilliant song. It's my party trick. There's been many a night out. I've been there and I've shocked people.

Shocked people by knowing all the words. Yes, me too. One of my favourite memories was on holiday and there was some people who were, they were angry that me and my boyfriend at the time had won the quiz and they were calling us nerds. It was a really weird holiday. And they, as a joke, put me down to do Vanilla Ice on the karaoke. And I was like, oh, no, this is going to be so embarrassing. Knowing secretly that I knew all the words.

And I got up, turned away from the screen and just blew the whole hotel everyone was like on the chairs dancing oh it was great I'm going to rewrite your herstory here they were sat amongst each other and went she's a right nerd what song do we think she would know and they're like well guarantee vanilla rice guarantee and they're like put it down let's see if she gets up this is this is this is it this is a litmus test if she knows all the words she she is 100% you got up and the reason they were cheering because some of them had actually bet on it and they actually got quite a considerable amount from the bookies it funded the rest of that holiday it was it was a great night it's like a netflix film i think you should write a whole um

film about that plot about you overcoming being a nerd by singing all the words to vanilla ice okay number three i'm gonna give you the artist and i'm gonna try and get you to guess what you think the song might be. It's Elton John. It's not Candle in the Wind. Is it Made in England? Oh my god no but I wish it was. That's a great song. Sacrifice. It's not one of his best is it?? Slash Healing Hands. Don't know that. I don't know that. Sacrifice. I feel like he had... Was he going through like a black suit?

I feel like he was going through like a black suit kind of era. No, it's not a great song. But if it came on in the car on Heart 90s, I would sing it. Oh, well, I would sing anything. Yeah, I would sing, well, we know you'd sing Vanilla Ice. Number two, and she sadly is no longer with us, Nothing Compares to You, Shanae No Corner. Oh, that's a really good song.

That is absolute top class. If I was at a karaoke and somebody got up to do that in a really good voice, I'd be on my feet cheering. I was about to say, I have done it at karaoke, but no one got on their feet. So obviously I wasn't perfect. Awkward.

Awkward. No. I have definitely done that at karaoke. That was a really good song. Okay, number one. Guess what it is based on the films we talked about. It's obviously Unchained Melody, isn't it? It's Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers.

And I am going to say I like it. Oh, yeah. I remember I was in primary school and we used to sing it in the playground, like, for months. Yeah. It's easy to learn. It's a really easy song to learn. Lots of good key changes. No.

Oh, that was like they were reincarnated in my bedroom then. Lots of good key changes. Great song. A bit sad. Yeah, I like that one. That was a worthy number one of 1990 Yeah And it's probably going to come up again with Robson and Jerome Isn't it

In a future episode Don't bloody spoil it for everybody But yeah I think it is They were alive as well I think it's that with I think they sing it we're up on the roof yeah unchained melody up slash up on the roof robson direct we won't talk about it too much what a funny time of our lives they were robson and jerome what's better nothing compares to you

or righteous brothers righteous brothers you think yeah they're very good songs aren't they Nothing compares to you or Righteous Brothers. Righteous Brothers. You think? Yeah. They're very good songs, aren't they? Yeah, yeah. Number 10 was... When we did it last time and the top songs of the whole of the 90s, there was some absolute dross in there. No, yeah, we did.

Also, we did the Christmas ones and they were terrible. It was like Bob the Builder and stuff. But I actually just looked looked number nine claire was world in motion ah get your john barnes rap going do i know it all go how's it start you got to do to play they'll always hit you and hurt you defend or attack there's only one way to beat them and that's around the back so catch me if you can because i'm an england fan i can't remember the we're playing for england england was oh how topical oh my god are we a new show this is really topical because it's the euros in it and and i will sing that every time

england play um i think even in like 50 years when i'm really really old if england come on i'll be singing world in motion do you think if you were on your deathbed you're like in your you know nearly 100 and it was the euros of the world cup and you were just sleeping and it came on do you think you'd sit bolt upright and do the whole John Barnes rap? It's John Barnes playing. It's John Barnes playing. Where's Gary Lineker? I really like

World Demand Motion. Also Vogue was on it and W Good to Me. What happens to football songs? Do they still do them? Because that, I mean that and I suppose they just do three lines every year don't they oh my gosh we could do a whole episode about football songs me and me mom and me dad and me nan and a bucket of indoloo oh no that's a good one as well i was wrong that was a good one

okay there's four then isn't that and two of them's like so there's world do you know what let's just do it now there's world in motion there's me and me mama me nana me gran and a bucket of indolude na na na and then there's david bedeel and frank skinner there's only three songs that wouldn't be a whole episode we've covered it we've just done it we've just done it all great is there are there any more world emotions the best one I think world emotions

a very classy one isn't it let me just I've just turned on my phone and straight I'm back at bloody being and being in boyzone

rolling and rolling okay let me just quickly look what would I type in football songs English football songs oh English me and me mama

me dad and me English football songs the 10 best English football songs. Oh, English football. Me and me mama, me dad and me. English football songs. The 10 best English football songs. Oh, no. Oh, no, we don't know these. Derby County. Number three, Derby County. Steve Bloomer's watching.

I don't think that's what the songs I was looking for. No, it's England rather than English. Okay, England football. We should have got a Stephen Arndt song. Three Lions, Vindaloo, we're on the ball, we're on the ball. That's Ant and Dick.

All together now, all together now. That's what it says, 1991. I know that it was a football song but it's not really, is it? Vindaloo 2. That's it, really. World in Motion. I think we covered it.

Alden. Sweet Caroline. That's not a football song either, is it? Okay, so if you had to pick out the top program, I'm going to go, so the upper hand will say the upper hand was the top program.

Yeah, I was disappointed with the program. Sorry, I can't help but rewrite history. So we've got the upper hand was the top program, the top film was Ghost

and the top song was Righteous Brothers. Put them in order of Snog, Marry, Kill. What? Oh, God. Offerhand TV, Righteous Brothers song, Ghost Film, Snog, Marry, Kill. Okay. okay i'm gonna um marry the upper hand just because it's one of the mcganns in it and they

had a nice house so if i got into that that family i'd have a nice house my mom would be on a blackman yeah yeah i think they had a rose voice Royce. Lovely. Yeah. Then I've got this. Do I want a Snug Swizzle stick or one of the Righteous Brothers? I don't know what the Righteous Brothers look like. Well, they're like, weren't they from like the 60s or something? It was an old song, wasn't it? Yeah. So I suppose I'm going to have to Snug Swizzle.

See, I would kill him because he's a ghost already. Yeah. Yeah, quite literally. Well done. So you're going to snog Swizzles, and sadly, you're going to kill the Righteous Brothers. No, and that was my favourite out of all of them. Yeah, that's why I don't understand your logic.

It doesn't make no sense. I'm thinking about actually who am I marrying, who am I snogging. But it's not, you're taking it too far.'s just literally what's your best one what's your middle one okay so you're gonna marry the righteous brothers you're gonna snog patrick swizzle sticks and you're gonna kill um one of the magans yeah understood capisce i understand i just thought i would do it literally oh don't okay well that was the 1990s covered what do we think so far we're just the 1990 it was an overall um give it a grade i'm gonna go b b minus maybe yeah c plus oh

quacking music quacking music tv was a disappointment Films were all just Slightly out of my reach at that age Yeah apart from Dick Tracy Yeah which even that I think I found it a little bit scary It was a bit scary their faces were really Funny looking weren't they Right guys we will come back

For another episode of The years of the 90s At the end of the next season. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Let us know if you want us to do an interim episode. I was thinking maybe we could do like summer songs of the 90s or something because there's got to be some bangers there. Yeah, I feel like 91 was the year I started secondary school

and I feel like I've got a much better memory of 91. Okay. So 91, stay tuned. started secondary school and I feel like I've got a much better memory of 91 okay so well 91 and then you and then you'll pull out Mr Bean dancing with uh E17 and I'll be like what Mr Bean I can't believe you don't remember Mr Bean dancing with boys then right guys I love you lots I will be back literally in I think about two and I'll take two weeks little break and then I'll be back with another episode of the phone box podcast please do go and follow me on um instagram i've got a phone box podcast instagram account where we do polls and then i've got brummie mummy of two where i do just everyday life and i will leave you with a little story my sister does know this story and if you listen to the end of this podcast there's probably four of you one of them will be

my dad and he unfortunately he's already heard the story i was on i was on this morning yesterday and there was numerous 90s icons we had kat deely off of smtv and cduk we had ben shepherd what was he off in t4 we had jill halfpenny from biker grove she walked past me gorgeous she's another one that i think i'll go mute with oh jill halfpenny just because she's from biker grove and i wish she'd like just really is the essence of childhood to me i said hello but she doesn't know me that was really weird she just walked past and i just went, hello. And she went, hello. And I bet she thought, what an idiot. You're famous, so she must be used to it.

Yeah, she looks just like she's in a bike ride. Then Linda Barker was on it. I was like, what are you stepping back in time? Finally, I was sat getting my hair and makeup done. Who walks in? Knock on the door. Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen. Sits down.

Now, Grandad Rog says, I was unkind about Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen's changing rooms on an episode, but I don't remember that. So let's scrap that. Sat next to me. Hair. It's like magic hair. Almost like he could do a whole film like Tangled about his hair. I've never seen such hair. There was lots of a whole film like Tangled about his hair. I've never seen such hair. There was lots of it. Girth. Salt and pepper hair. Gorgeous. Sat down. I was quaking,

quaking in my chubbub shorts. Somebody popped my head in. Lawrence, can you get you anything? There was a pause and he looked and he just said yeah an OBE and for me that was the best interaction I could have ever imagined with Lawrence the rolling bone yeah an OBE I'd like to think that that he's made that joke roughly eight times a week yeah every time someone asks him for anything every time somebody asks him for anything lawrence can you get anything yeah an obe are i cackled because you know what there was there was nobody else really in the room so he was playing to his audience i just thought it was fun he wasn't in front of like 50 people there was just me and a makeup woman and just made a little joke and i thought thanks He had a lovely suit on.

And also, guys, let's get him an OBE. Petition. Let's get LLB an OBE. Oh, my God. I'm going to start a crowdfunder. LLB. Oh, what they're called. Petition.

I know. What they're called. The thing where you get money from people. Yeah, crowdfunder. But what do we need money for t-shirts oh t-shirts okay I thought we're getting an OBE but we're just getting t-shirts t-shirts LLB for OBE and there's going to be t-shirts and I'm also going to get us likeicas of his hair made. They'd be incredibly expensive. And we're going to look like the 118 guys.

But we're both going to be dressed up as Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen. Lovely. I think this has got legs. I think by the end of the 1990 season, so this is in like another 10 seasons, we could have got it. We could have got it we could have done it people power everyone who listens to your podcast llb obe sends a little letter to

would it be the king the king just send just simply send a postcard the front the king buckingham palace the back llb the number, and a kiss. Pop it in the post. It's no harm in trying. Let's just see what happens. It's no harm in trying. They can only say no. They can only say no. Right, guys, I will see you in a couple of weeks.

As I said, go and follow me on social media. Claire, please lead us off. I want you to do the John Barnes rap again, but I want you to slowly get quieter so we can, like, trail off. I can't remember what the first line is, though. Jesus Christ, man. Get Google. Have you got your phone?

No, I'll put it. It's on charge in the other room. I'll do it then. You can join in. Yeah, you do it. I'll join in. You do it. My friend Ruth will be very disappointed in me.

I'll do it. Here we go. Okay, the but do it at the right time. You can be slow or fast, but you must get to the line. They always hit you and hurt you, defend and attack. There's only one way to reach them And that's around the back So catch me if you can Because I'm an

England man Don't know the rest Oh gosh, you're getting so And what you're looking for I don't know And what you're looking at Is the master plan We ain't no hooligans

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