i had to ask our joe if the top forty still existed the other week. i wasn't being arsey or facetious, i genuinely didn't know if it was still the nation's favourite rundown. i suppose as you get older, things like the top forty, which for many years had operated on the very outskirts of my peripheral vision, lose their purpose and disappear from view altogether. i don't wanna get all 'weren't spangles brilliant' on yer arse, but despite there being tons and tons more stuff around these days, some of the things that were once the most precious get moved to the back by sheer virtue of their own lack of staying power. they get replaced by' power stuff', with longevity and meaning and focus. and that.

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