I’ve been watching an old Jools Holland DVD from 2002 called ‘Later… Louder’. It provides a three-hour time capsule of some of the loudest performances recorded on the BBC’s flagship music programme, Later… With Jools Holland, during its first ten years on air.

Several things I found disconcerting.

Firstly, the discovery that Jools Holland was in his mid-30s (and not technically an old hasbeen) when he began presenting the show.

Secondly, All My Life, the lead track off Foo Fighters’ fourth album, was released almost two decades ago. In my mind, that album is still marked in the ‘recent releases’ category (indeed, the idea that Foo Fighters have been going for almost a quarter of a century is pretty hard to get my head around).

Thirdly, the idea that anyone could ever have liked At The Drive In.

These issues aside, and having fast-forwarded through The Hives, The Von Bondies, The Datsuns, B.R.M.C and every other band of that insipid vintage, I thoroughly enjoyed my trip down Holland memory lane.

I’ve been enjoying music DVDs more and more of late. What I like about them is how they don’t auto-suggest other videos outlining flat-earth conspiracy theories, talkRadio explaining how we’ve all surrendered our liberty, or Jacob Rees-Mogg quoting Thatcher in the Commons to much mirth. DVDs are great at not doing this, and it’s very refreshing.

Rather like Foo Fighters, DVDs have been around since the mid-90s. They carry only a few gigabytes’ of data – enough to contain a few hours of medium-resolution live music performance. Contrast this with YouTube, where 500 hours of fresh video is uploaded every minute, and it could be argued that the DVD is a rather limited, if not totally obsolete way of accessing music videos.

Except that there’s something to be said for being offered curated highlights of Jools Holland, rather than all 22,000 hours of it. ‘Later… Louder’ contains fabulous footage of The Cardigans performing My Favourite Game in 1999. Also featuring on that episode were The Mavericks, The Pretenders, American hip-hop group Gang Starr, Steve Earle with the Del McCoury Band and Gay Dad. It’s a stern reminder of why I used to video Later… rather than watching it live.

Something else worth considering. My Favourite Game wasn’t actually the best song that night. As far as my time-addled memory can recall, The Cardigans’ version of Hanging Around was one of the all-time great Later… performances – so good that it has been imprinted in my mind these past 21 years.

A few years ago they unearthed footage of the legendary ‘lost’ Jan Molby goal for Liverpool against Manchester United in 1985. When I say legendary, this is no understatement. There was a TV strike on the day of the match, meaning that the usual cameras were not present at Anfield for this most famous of footballing rivalries. For thirty years, Liverpool fans deferred to an age-old oral tradition to ensure that Molby’s goal was not lost in the sands of time.

I’ve watched the footage, and it’s a great goal. But the memories of it were even better.