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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 22:14:37 GMT 1
And we will miss out Cliff's Some People too
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 22:39:27 GMT 1
This was Gary Davies final edition 26/09/1991 before the unfortunate revamp happened courtesy of Andi Peters
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 16, 2019 12:08:24 GMT 1
TOTP 19 March 1987. Powell/Bates. They’re playing Prince’s “Sign O’ The Times” in the background. Nothing like as good as the Belle Stars. But we segue into Mel & Kim, see above. Bruce Willis. Er, say what now? What is the actual point of this? Just artistic egotism? Waste of time, money, and vinyl. Straight to The Mish with “Semolina”. It’s all a bit posturingy. They were going to be The Sisterhood until Eldritch nicked the name. Can’t really be doing with this. Top 40. Terence “Trout” D’arby. Lillo Thomas? Related to Lilo Lill? FGTH at 28. Bubble not just burst, but buried at the bottom fo the Marianas Trench. Billy Idol? Retro. Christ on a f***ing bike, Willis was the highest climber. Back to 15 and Erasure. Looks like Grayson Perry is in the audience. A “really terrific” performance from Genesis. Simon Bates’ definition of “really terrific” is different to mine. Al Jarreau with “Moonlighting”. Ah, that explains Willis. If I wanted to listen to lounge jazz I’d just kill myself first. Boy George is no. 1. WHY? ? This is the absolute paradigm definition of cash-in cover version. It’s the same as the f***ing original. You really need to have been lobotomized to have bought this. Utter drivel. Gash squared. Playout is Prince, with its rather graphic (literally) video. Still not as good as The Belle Stars. Needs more Miranda Joyce.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 16, 2019 18:03:39 GMT 1
I’d struggle to choose between Prince’s Sign O’ The Times and The Belle Stars’. Both brilliant, for different reasons obviously.
In what became one of the biggest shocks in my 40 years following pop music, I found Harry Styles’ one pretty excellent too.
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Post by raliverpool on Mar 16, 2019 19:29:13 GMT 1
I’d struggle to choose between Prince’s Sign O’ The Times and The Belle Stars’. Both brilliant, for different reasons obviously. In what became one of the biggest shocks in my 40 years following pop music, I found Harry Styles’ one pretty excellent too. Whilst I like all three. I think the best single titled Sign Of The Times remains this:
I can't help but a think one Gary Webb from his nice house in (the leafy) Hammersmith took notes .... just as he took from David Bowie's Berlin trilogy; and that Thomas Newman character Mr Jones played in The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Anyway, back on TOTP ... I'm still watching, but it confirms my viewpoint that the Top 40 deteriorated significantly during the second half of the 1980s. Whilst those so called attempt at "music" tying in from the Moonlighting TV series are music war crimes IMHO.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 16, 2019 23:27:07 GMT 1
No Sleep Til Brooklyn by the Beastie Boys and It’s Tricky by Run DMC back to back! Love it! A prime time BBC hip hop take over, I bet a lot of people wondered what the hell was going on!
Straight after that a genuine laugh out loud moment. Simon Bates introduces the Breakers by sincerely announcing “Top of the Pops is all about the new music too”, then they come on and the first one is It’s Not Unusual by Tom Jones 😂
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 17, 2019 0:19:21 GMT 1
2 April. Twenty-four-(eighty)-seven. Curiosity Killed The Cat are in the studio, AGAIN. Anyhoo, Davies & Long introduce first The Pogues & The Dubliners with a rather raucously anarchic tag team version of “The Irish Rover”. When were The Dubliners last on? 20 years ago? This has no. 1 all over it. Better collaboration than sh*t like Skrillex and Cardi B.
Second biggest new entry is Madonna. God almighty, music just doesn’t matter any more, does it? Just f***ing hype. She’s not even that hot. Just filthy. f*** it. CKTC. No ta.
Chart me up, mofos. New entry at 37 from Judy Bowtcher. FYC are climbing to 17 with a Buzzcocks hit. They never had a top 10 in period, maybe they will as writers. This is an OK cover as we go to it after Willis is at 11 again. Not a patch on the original.
Breakerinos. Missed these. Rainmakers to start with looking like Jerry Sadowitz and family. Hm, not bad. Herb Alpert at 33, heh, he’s back. Interesting video. Nice singers. Plane crashing into a building. Preposterous. Whitesnake. By numbers. Even the video is a nothing.
Ruby Turner with a cover of “I’d Rather Go Blind”. Another cover. That’s three so far. Great voice, but, again, what’s the f***ing point? Top ten. New entry at no. 1. Oh, look, another cover. The Beatles’ worst single. Recorded by We Need A Hit Single So We’ll Glom On A Tragedy. Who is on it? Nick f***ing Kamen. Paul King. Mark King. Any more Kings? Some woman I don’t recognize. Pepsi & Shirley. Is that Mel & Kim without their hats? They’re at 1 AND 2. Was that Wayne Hussey? Jaki Graham? Gary Moore dressed as a labrador. Mark Kernopfler. Ina guitar off. Kim Wilde with some bloke. Edwin Starr? Someone smoking (Holly Johnson?). Ben Parrot from Curiosity. God, this is dire. Oh God, Pete f***ing Waterman. No wonder it’s sh*t. KATE BUSH!?! WHAT THE ACTUAL!!?? And McMacca of the two thumbs gives two thumbs up because 200 dead is larks. And it’s the playout as a chorus of pop stars not important enough to get a solo have a right laff. Lord Sutch? Su Pollard? I expect Bob “Mule Train” Blackman was busy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2019 1:55:30 GMT 1
Ruby Turner with a cover of “I’d Rather Go Blind”. Another cover. That’s three so far. Great voice, but, again, what’s the f***ing point? Top ten. New entry at no. 1. Oh, look, another cover. The Beatles’ worst single. Recorded by We Need A Hit Single So We’ll Glom On A Tragedy. Who is on it? Nick f***ing Kamen. Paul King. Mark King. Any more Kings? Some woman I don’t recognize. Pepsi & Shirley. Is that Mel & Kim without their hats? They’re at 1 AND 2. Was that Wayne Hussey? Jaki Graham? Gary Moore dressed as a labrador. Mark Kernopfler. Ina guitar off. Kim Wilde with some bloke. Edwin Starr? Someone smoking (Holly Johnson?). Ben Parrot from Curiosity. God, this is dire. Oh God, Pete f***ing Waterman. No wonder it’s sh*t. KATE BUSH!?! WHAT THE ACTUAL!!?? And McMacca of the two thumbs gives two thumbs up because 200 dead is larks. And it’s the playout as a chorus of pop stars not important enough to get a solo have a right laff. Lord Sutch? Su Pollard? I expect Bob “Mule Train” Blackman was busy. That was Nik Kershaw with Kim Wilde
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 17, 2019 11:19:44 GMT 1
16/√16. Long, Powell, and loads of denim. FYC to start, they did make the top 10, congrats to Pete Shelley. Roland Gift's voice is famously unique, and very unlike his speaking voice. It shouldn't work. It somehow does.
Bowie with a new video. Don't remember this. Hm, he seems to be taking a 1950s look, with a very yuppie sound. This is a palpable mis-step. Indeed it's utter rubbish.
Living In A Box. Now this is how to do the yuppie sound. I mean, it's not really any good, but there is a coherence to it. It's not as if they're ostensibly capable of better. It's not someone jumping on a bandwagon because otherwise they will miss it because they don't think they can set the agenda any more.
Herb Alpert. Fascinating video, indeed, in full, the song is rather interesting. Very Art Of Noise-y. Quite like this, unexpected.
Charts. Retro look. Numan going up (rare). Starship. Siffre. Jones the Voice. Heh, Hoddle & Waddle? "Irish Rover" didn't get to no. 1, surprising.
Breakers. Junior, how surprising that the second he releases something it's on TOTP. Flashbacks. Kim Wilde is looking hot though. Junior looks like Urkel. Five Star get the highest new entry, but don't get a sole play. Sixth single from the same album. Suggests their fanbase is pretty young. Bon Jovi. This will get classed as rock even though it's 100% country. Even has the word cowboy.
Eurovision entry. Ricky. Oh, they spell it Rikki. Because larks. Sounds like a bad TV theme. By Go West. Quite a raucous chorus though. They should have let the woman backing singer loose on this, she has the chops.
Top 10. Two covers in the top three. Ferry Aid still at the top. Is it just me, or is there something very distasteful about the choice of song? After all, "let it be" is exactly what the operators of the ferry did with the open doors. What's interesting listening to the voices is they plainly didn't trust Pepsi & Shirlie and turned them down in the mix.
Playout is Madonna with a song with the individuality, distinction, and appeal of a soaked dishrag.
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 17, 2019 12:11:51 GMT 1
Boy George is no. 1. WHY?? This is the absolute paradigm definition of cash-in cover version. It’s the same as the f***ing original. No it isn't, but it's similar to Ken Boothe's cover version. The original was by Bread and the song was written by David Gates.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 19, 2019 0:22:30 GMT 1
Yeah, Boothe's cover. Can't be bothered with Bread. My dad likes them. Says it all.
Two three four. Suited Davies. Funf Stunf. Can't be bothered.
Highest new entry. The Smiths. In the studio. "Sheila Take A Bow". Heh, this one is rather poppy and accessible. They're dead popular at school but I'm not really seeing it, Moz is all very sixth form pottery and over-earnest. Meat isn't murder, it's tasty. Give me the Weddoes any day.
Kim Wilde did a smart thing by teaming with Junior, because it is a rule of Top Of The Pops that whenever Junior isn't on the show everyone has to ask "where's Junior?" He really must have naked pics of the producer with a goat. Shame she didn't ensure that the record was any good.
Top 40. Covers at 40, 38, 36, 20; reissue at 37. Spear of Destiny get a big climb. Unexpected dot com. Jones the Voice gets the biggest though.
"We're having an amazing party here tonight", says Alan Partridge. "This could be number 1 next week." Judy Boucher. Bit of lovers rock. Too AOR for my tastes.
Breakers. Starship. Christ alive, this is the same woman from "White Rabbit"? Sic transit. This is HORRID. The lad from Pontypool. This is a remarkable vocal performance. Although he looks like he's stepped from 1974. Delboy shirt, Delboy medallion, perm. Oh, that's it.
Glenn & Chris. Hoddle & Waddle. Well, this is not expected as a single. It's like Tears For Fears. Miami Vice jackets and jeans. Hethethethethetheth. It's not half bad, actually. Stick a name like Duran Duran on it and it would be seen as a perfectly cromulent single.
Top 10. Mel & Kim are going back up. Ferry Aid are, er, sinking. Boucher at 2. No. 1 is...oh God. Fast-forward.
Playout is Terence "Trout" D'arby. Yeah, this isn't bad. Interesting voice, interesting single. Boffo.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 20, 2019 9:35:33 GMT 1
Thirty four. Powell and Wright wearing the BBC logo. We start with...Jesus & Mary Chain? Wow. That's a startler. And it is, by a very long, long, long, way, the best song to have been in full on TOTP this year. This is what it's all about. Edgy, dangerous, difficult, discordant, and utterly, utterly magnificent.
Starship. Oh dear.
Labi Siffre. Yeah, this is better. Exponentially so. Strong message delivered with conviction. It could have been yuppie bland, but the vocals rescue it.
Charts. J&MC have the highest new entry. Hm, are these charts iaccurate? There are a lot of records that leapt up last week and are barely moving this. Siffre, Sly & Robbie, Glenn & Chris, SOD. Conversely, records that were tumbling have stopped their fall (Curiosity, Willis). Herb Alpert has gone back up.
Level 42. Their normal sort of stuff. Decent, nothing special. Album-y.
Spear Of Destiny finally get an outing, albeit only on video, in the breakers. Sparse and harsh. Very out of kilter with the prevailing. As summed up by the Mac following, with something that does not sound like the Mac.
And we go to Jones the Voice in full. Same clip as on the breakers last wik. Great, great performance.
Top ten. Smiths have made it. Starship up 12. God almighty. Boucher still at 2. Not interested in the no. 1 in the slightest.
Playout is Duran Duran. "Meet El Presidente". Little bit of politics there. Shame there's no tune.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 23, 2019 10:38:33 GMT 1
14th May. Davies. First appearance on television for Johnny Hates We Are Only Famous Because Dad Is Mickie Most. Utter, utter, utter, gash.
The Cult at no. 11, their absolute singles peak. Ian Astbury is dressed like Adam Ant and sings incomprehensively. What is this? Country metal?
Europe at 22. God almighty, this is terrible.
Charts. No pic for Mirage. The Fall at no. 30. Heh. Zodiac Mindwarp? Carey Johnson? This is a chart of obscurities. SoD also at their highest position. And Sly & Robbie.
Labi Siffre at 4. This seems to be quite a good chart for Artist Peaks. It's a shame that the show isn't showing more of them.
Breakers. Wet Wet Wet. Well, they're not being pushed for the quality of output. Cameo. What's the actual point? Funny codpiece pendulum in the video.
We cut to Tom Jones. Curse this missing out of alternate weeks because the BBC believes in life after death. At least Jonesy gets into the studio this time. And live. Looking a bit more contemporary. This is actually a really bitter song. "A man's place on earth is decided by birth...something's wrong". Could have been written by Rotten.
Top 10. Starship. Ugh. Playout is Zodiac Mindwarp. Well, this is a bit out of nowhere. At least they're not taking it too seriously. I am however reminded of The Gospel According To Spinal Tap.
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Post by o on Mar 23, 2019 12:35:57 GMT 1
Was Broken English Coming on strong a reject Stones song, or did they just enjoy sounding like them? Very Undercover of the night.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 13:15:53 GMT 1
Was Broken English Coming on strong a reject Stones song, or did they just enjoy sounding like them? Very Undercover of the night. The lead singer of Broken English sings with a Stones tribute band these days
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 23, 2019 17:44:18 GMT 1
21. Powell and Bates. Looking like they should be in a media lawyer practice. Marillion with "Incommunicado". Fish in a Stewart tartan suit and a fish tie. I suppose Fish is one of the few names that's not as bad as Derek William Dick. Were his parents congenitally stupid? I dunno, this is a bit meh. Like speed prog.
Wet Wet Wet making their debut. Screaming girlies. FF.
Charts. Already? Just realized that when The Fall were at no. 30 TOTP didn't play them. f***ing ****s. They played f***ing Europe. The BBC has always been a f***ing EEC traitor. Fall down one so they won't get played. Oh, and look, Europe went DOWN five. So nobody was interested in Europe at all yet the f***ing BBC f***ing played the f**kers. We have a pic for Mirage now.
Stop at 11 to play Cameo, who were on last week. Like WWW. Waste of my time and theirs.
Breakers. Donna Allen. sh*t. Johnny Logan with the Eurovision winner. THIS IS WHY WE VOTED OUT. THIS IS COMPLETE, TOTAL, AND UTTER sh*t. Springbok with "Born To Run". Bloke on piano plainly wasn't the real one. We get the Spurs Cup FInal song even though literally nobody outside north London gives a flying sh*t about it.
No. 10 is Whitney Houston. Singing life apparently. Straight in. She is live. Give her credit for that. No credit for the song, which is cliched rubbish. Marillion were the highest new entry at 6. Wow.
Starshit are still no. 1. We play out with the Mac's tribute to "Cloudbusting".
That was a TERRIBLE show.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 28, 2019 14:14:50 GMT 1
They’ve started saying I Want Your Sex on the chart rundown, it was just I Want for the first couple of weeks. They must have realised how stupid they sounded.
That interview with Genesis was cringeworthy. “You do a lot of work for charity, is that something you all agree with?” Hard hitting stuff...
Great to see It’s A Sin at number one, sheer brilliance.
Who in God’s name thought Shakin’ Stevens would be more appealing if surrounded by topless oiled-up hunks? Desperate stuff. “If you’re wondering what A Little Boogie Woogie is, Shaky tells me it’s a dance, simple as that”. Not as simple as you.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 29, 2019 0:19:50 GMT 1
Five six. That theme tune is REALLY getting on my tits. Davies promising Pepsi & Shirlie (oh joy) and Wet Wet Wet (ditto).
Erasure, "Victim Of Love". Andy looks like the world's most pathetic football hooligan. This is a bit weak.
U2. How did they suddenly become the biggest thing in the US? I'm not buying it.
Top 40. ABC. About time. The Jones revival continues apace. Oh God, it's all so dull. Pepsi & Shirlie are at 10. This is poor. Can't be bothered.
Breakers. Jody Watley. Woeful. Suzanne Vega. Now this is brilliant. Poignant and thought-provoking. John Farnham has got a hit in his homeland after nearly 20 years in the biz. Anthemic. Beastie Boys. They're not very good, are they? Just shock value with no depth.
Wet Wet Wet. God no. Top 10. New no. 1. Whitney Houston. Oh dear. Playout is Samantha Fox.
God almighty. What a terrible show. A minute of Vega and that was about it.
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Post by Robbie on Mar 29, 2019 1:00:03 GMT 1
The edition that should have been shown tonight (Thursday), the one originally broadcast on 16/07/87 was pulled at the last moment because of technical problems. The guy in charge of BBC4 replied to a tweet by saying they (presumably the BBC4 tech guys) are going to look at the edition in the morning to see if they can show it tomorrow night instead:
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Post by Robbie on Mar 29, 2019 1:21:01 GMT 1
^ Strangely, someone at Digital Spy is reporting that the edition that should have been shown is on Sky's version of iPlayer though it isn't on the BBC's own iPlayer.
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