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Post by vastar iner on Nov 5, 2017 10:58:38 GMT 1
23 September. Steve Wright, looking like a berk, and Andy Peebles. We start with Bronski Beat. Somerville's voice gets on my tits but this is a good track.
Next up, Bowie, highest new entry at 17. This sounds a bit...dull. Like he's told "do a single" so he does one.
Now his erstwhile labelmates Queen, waiting for the hammer to fall. This is even duller. Lazyass rawk.
Nik Kershaw. This is him trying to be serious but it also sounds all aimlessly meandery. God, this is a lazy show. Every song has the 4.55pm Friday feel. Can't think of anything to do, so just do something.
Los chartos. Stephanie Mills? Animal Nightlife, not Magnet. Sade with her smooth hot potato. Adam Ant at no. 28 with an absolute stormer and we get to see it!!!! Yay. When was the last time Mr Goddard was in the stoodio? G2S? This is such a brilliant single, it has a glorious mess of production building to a climactic implosion.
Charts. Freddie Mercury, "Love Kills". Oops. OMD at 21 with "Tesla Girls". Not enough physicists in songs. Level 42 on again. Can whizz to the top 10. Depeshay. Huey Lewis & The News at no. 2 and Wonder at the top with the video featuring a piece of toast. Mercury on the playout. Can't summon up the energy to critique this, it's back to Kershaw again.
They're getting worse. We're now getting 1 good song per episode. No wonder I had given up on mainstream music.
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Post by suedehead on Nov 9, 2017 20:58:42 GMT 1
John Peel and Tommy Vance are the hosts for this episode from November 1984.This was to be Vance’s last show, In other words, it’s rock off Tommy.
Nick Heyward gets the opening spot. He’s looking a littler older. About 14. Oh, and an early appearance of a pointless rap.
The Chicago song we’ve all forgotten has been dropped along with the Kane Gang. That’s a shame as it means I can’t say ”Ah, they’re back on, The Kane Gang”.
The Human League are up next. As with the Nick Heyward song, this is not one of their best. It seems that Peelie disagrees with me.
Anyway, it’s on to some rubbish with Billy Ocean.
Chart bit.
Some class from Murray Head. He’s even live in the studio. Not sure that was a good idea in truth.
Another chart bit. Peel’s headwear is best ignored.
Shakin’ Stevens still hasn’t gone away.
The chart rundown ends with Chuck-Up Khan still at number one.
We end with a Never Ending Story.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 11, 2017 13:17:55 GMT 1
4.10.84. Skinnerbate. Starting with Bronski Beat. Tintin on lead vox. They've got to be disappointed only to go up 1 place after going from 22 to 7. Would have been expecting a top five.
Next up Ric "Mr Paulina Porizkova" Ocasek's penned "Drive". The Cars are one of the few acts (till now) to have made their chart debut in the top 10. I think this was because they were one of the first picture discs. It's a step up from their previous oeuvre. Dark and brooding. Lyrically simple, which makes it work better. And Paulina is in the video. Which is nice.
John Waite. Somerville eschewed a mike in toto; Waite is studiously ignoring his. vas bored now.
Phil"ip" Oakey. Bates introduces this as together. Don't know if he refers to Oakey and Moroder or has forgotten the rest of the song title. This though is f***ing brilliant. There's a 1981 feel to it, and that's a very good thing. Remember when computers were the future? Oakey in the video though looks like he hasn't washed in a while. Trying to be all 1957 greaser. He's pulling it off in the same way as Rodney Trotter did with Nervous Nerys.
We've had one song with simple lyrics. And now we have Culture Club singing how war is stupid. I can see where Des'ree got her inspiration from. Can't see Jon Moss. Perhaps he's refereeing somewhere. Or maybe there's been a tiff with George. What the eff is going on with girls dancing wearing number trousers? The screaming bit (Helen Terry?) is the best bit in the song. Rest of it is a bit nursery rhyme.
Paul McCartney with something dull. Another film theme. They're doing that thing where they act a bit over the top of the song. Another dull one.
Chart time. Has Dio in caps as if it's an acronym. The Stranglers are next up, suddenly looking very out of time, like a dads; band at a wedding. Yet this is the second-best song this week. Not sure Burnel needs a hat.
Charts again. Adam Ant at 13. Wonder if Ad did the drum skin he starts in front of? Space cowboy outfit. Again no need for a mike. Love this song.
Top 10. Can't remember what was at no. 1. It's not Michael, he's at 11. Oh, it's Stevie Wonder of course. Perhaps willingly forgotten. Our playout is the prophetic "Love Kills" by Freddie Mercury.
Hm. Quite a star-studded show. But I bet hardly anyone remembers the particular songs.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 11, 2017 13:39:20 GMT 1
Onze dix. Reid looking like a zebra crossing and TV on TV. They appear to be drunk. We start with Kim Wilde who has no chart numbers next to her name. Suspicious. She also seems to be wearing a Forbidden Planet life jacket. This is...terrible. Oh, Kim. It has taken you a year to come up with this? This is a Friday 4.55pm song. It just exists.
Sade with Smooth Hot Potato. No ta.
Wham! at no. 3 with George Michael's worst song titled "Freedom". Sorry, this is only being bought by obsessed pre-teens. Godawful. His songwriting has gone backwards since the early days.
Stephanie Mills. That's a name we have not heard from in a while. Listening to the song I can see why.
Paul Young tearing a playhouse down. He's using the mike. Retro. This though is yet another terrible song. This is a dreadful episode.
Charts. Thank f***. Musing whether Andy McCluskey should have called Atomic Kitten Tesla Girls. Depeshay. 35 is Alison Moyet and we go back to her. Oh, no, it's her worst single so far. Including her Yazoo days.
Charts. Style Council. Oh, no, no, no. Like Michael, Weller has been going downhill rapidly in recent output. This can be filed next to Sade in the yuppie dinner party file.
The number 1 is Wonder, still, Read and TV are on these new finagled mobile phones, possibly, and we play out with Bruce Springbok and one of his deservedly forgotten obscurities. Ooh, nice girl in shirt on the dancefllor for about 2 seconds.
Well.
That was f***ing gash.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 12, 2017 10:40:09 GMT 1
18/10. Long and Davies. We start with Spandau Ballet. "Highly Strung". They should be. f*** me, these bands are getting lazier and lazier. This again is just a pointless three minutes of vague noise. It is almost as if it were released today, there is not one thing memorable about it and I doubt the band could hum it now if asked. This is not music you are meant to listen to, at best it is something you hear.
Paul McCartney. Can't be bothered. Other than to point out how cheap the production of this one sounds. We follow him with Julian "I wonder how he got a record deal?" Lennon "ah, now I see". It's basically TFF's "Change" sung by John Lennon.
Chakha Khan. Highest new entry, for no reason at all as this is crap. John Waite is no more interesting than it was last time.
Charts. Feargal Sharkey at 40, on the Madness label Zarjazz. Got some publicity for that. We stop at 26 for Maltloaf's "Modern Girl", which is something of a very short song title for him. Meh, it's Maltloaf. You know what you're going to get. It will get more and more operatic to the peak.
More chartiness. Back to 23 for U-vox. This starts at a gallop. Midge is using guitar as a prop. This is quite fun, isn't it? Sounds a bit like a theme to a BBC programme about computers. Easily the best thus far.
Charts again. Oh God, Wham! are no. 1. Eff this ess. And the playout is the song that's been underpinning the links throughout - Oakey and Moroder. Is it any coincidence that the two best songs are basically 1981 throwbacks? No. No it isn't.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 12, 2017 12:31:08 GMT 1
八十一。 Bates and Skinner. New number 1? Limahl and Mandy (Newton), who "sings quite well", damning with faint praise, perhaps because she's not actually the singer. Hello, the graphics have changed, it's now italic Clarendon. Another film theme. IIRC this was the best thing about the film. It's not bad at all. Needs more production oomph. Limahl close dancing with Mandy. Is he trying to dispel the Gambaccini thing?
Status Quo up next with a beyond pointless Dion cash-in. We know what the original song sounds like, we know what Status Quo sound like, so we do not need this song to show what a Status Quo version would sound like. Video is them driving around London on a flatbed performing and the reactions of the passers-by. Even that's not original.
Highest new entry is Depesh Mode. Wow, they've gone very starkly industrial. TOTP does not seem to be their natural home. Not many songs with "blasphemous" in the title, or the chorus. This is far more ambitious than anything they've done before. Very good indeed.
Alison Moyet, dull, can't be bothered. Billy Ocean next up, when was the last time he had a hit single? And it's topped three US charts, apparently. I'm glad for him, he was denied a no. 1 in 1976 by bad timing, so it's nice that he gets a no. 1 after all. But this really is blando dando, isn't it?
Talking of which, Chicago. I've never understood how this load of utter sh*te was popular Stateside. Then again so were Hall & Oates.
Charts. Everything is going down. Other than The Dazz Band. "Agadoo" is re-climbing. The new "Relax". Numan is climbing, he hasn't done that for a year. Everyone wearing white suits. Numan in white facepaint with blue trim. This is actually really good. Is that Billy Currie on drums? This is dark and industrial, there's something of the Futurist about it. Or even fascist. That looks like Amanda Parsons of Hatfield & The North on backing vox. Wow. I don't recall hearing this one at all befire, but it's genuinely brilliant. Laibach meets OMD.
Charts, shmarts. Nothing here interesting. Other than Jim Diamond at 13. Nice car at 11. We go to Eugene Wilde. Any relation to Kim? Er, no. This is ultra-bland. None more bland.
New no. 1. Throw a vehicle. Christ. And ZZ Top playout so we do not get to see their motor.
So, the two best songs are from acts that were big in 1981. QED.
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Post by TheThorne on Nov 12, 2017 13:47:53 GMT 1
4.10.84. Skinnerbate. Starting with Bronski Beat. Tintin on lead vox. They've got to be disappointed only to go up 1 place after going from 22 to 7. Would have been expecting a top five. Next up Ric "Mr Paulina Porizkova" Ocasek's penned "Drive". The Cars are one of the few acts (till now) to have made their chart debut in the top 10. I think this was because they were one of the first picture discs. It's a step up from their previous oeuvre. Dark and brooding. Lyrically simple, which makes it work better. And Paulina is in the video. Which is nice. The main reason was the song was being used on a montage for starving children in Africa that was being shown an awful lot.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 12, 2017 13:57:20 GMT 1
That was why "Drive" came back into the charts in 1985. I'm talking about "My Best Friend's Girl" from a few years before.
In a fun example of a malgorithm, the OCC's link to that single is a Disney Pixar puzzlebook with a car on the front.
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Post by TheThorne on Nov 12, 2017 14:03:13 GMT 1
That was why "Drive" came back into the charts in 1985. I'm talking about "My Best Friend's Girl" from a few years before. In a fun example of a malgorithm, the OCC's link to that single is a Disney Pixar puzzlebook with a car on the front. oh yeh this is 1984
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Post by o on Nov 12, 2017 14:48:37 GMT 1
Anyone know which canal Louise was filmed on, I was amazed there was a usable canal in 1984!
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 12, 2017 16:03:54 GMT 1
The year Alfonso de Albuquerque conquers Malacca. Read and Brookes. We start with Matt Bianco. Nobody ever answered the question why are they so sh*t. I think the caller had a fair point. Basia is babelicious, obvs, but my God, this music is atrocious. I can almost smell the Ferrero Rocher. Bloody hell, does this ever end? Didn't Rachel Stevens do a song identical to this?
Duran Duran at 2. So we get to see another ludicrously expensive video. I will give them credit for deciding that it was better being globetrotting super-agents than scruffing it up in Brummagem nightclubs. But I'm not sure there is anything to this video, other half-robots in a Mad Max world. Windmills? WTF? Looks a bit like a swastika. This is though a brilliant single.
Slade. Heh, it's gone very Midlands. Well, they had a Christmas hit last year, so why not pitch for it again? The scarves are out. It's just not as good as "My Oh My". Again the Scots feel with the tartan and the bag-guitar.
Read with a guitar himself, no reason why. We however go to another film theme. Seem to be a lot lately. Someone had the good sense to film 1984 in 1984. Bit of a forgotten Eurythmics hit, but it is a good one. I've got an Ingsoc t-shirt. We watched the video at school for GCSE English. Not sure the teacher knew that Julia got full frontal. I certainly was at attention. Slight controversy as to this song though. Eurythmics were never meant to be scoring the film but Virgin foisted them on the producer.
The D in PhD. A great example of a song where the performer makes a difference. It's a dull and cliched ballad but Diamond delivers it with such emotion and verve that he somehow makes it into a triumph. It is at 3? A shot at the top spot then. Just had a shiver down my back thinking how Mariah Carey would have done that. Oh God, only dogs would have been able to hear the chorus.
The Dazz Band. They should all be wearing white. Never heard this. They have clips of sports in their video for no evident reason. This is basically an instrumental. I quite like this, it's rather pleasant. Works well without major league vocals.
I've no idea what the hell is going on between Brookes and Read. Are they drunk? Charts. Alvin Stardust at 31? With Slade in the charts, how long before a Glitter comeback? Temptations at 26? Blimey. We go back to see Shane Fenton. This sounds like a Shakin Stevens out-take. Indeed it probably would have sounded a bit twee and anaemic in 1956. Still, he's enjoying himself.
Charts again. Nik Kershaw gets the HNE at 17. Girl on the show wants to go down. O rly? HNE means Kershaw is in the studio. There's a lot of puzzlement going on right now as to what the answer to the riddle is. Well, it's basically random lyrics with no meaning at all. Interesting at any rate. His best single since his debut. Again a Scots-influenced bit in it.
Bunga vehicle is still no. 1. Who is buying this? We finish with Pointer Sisters' Crunchie advert. Meh.
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Post by suedehead on Nov 12, 2017 16:12:10 GMT 1
Charts. Thank f***. Musing whether Andy McCluskey should have called Atomic Kitten Tesla Girls. Depeshay. 35 is Alison Moyet and we go back to her. Oh, no, it's her worst single so far. Including her Yazoo days. Not a good idea. At least with them being called Atomic Kitten I could try and forget that Andy McCluskey was in any way responsible for them.
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Post by vya on Nov 12, 2017 19:21:57 GMT 1
Anyone know which canal Louise was filmed on, I was amazed there was a usable canal in 1984! Someone elsewhere online suggests it was on the Grand Union Canal in Southall, which looks plausible to me (and Google Streetview) in terms of the setting - road running alongside, a grassland known as "The Common" (which we see the sign of in the video) and the style of housing, etc.
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 12, 2017 20:11:07 GMT 1
Pedantically speaking, Ric Ocasek was married to somebody else at the time Drive was released.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2017 14:02:44 GMT 1
Unfortunately we jump from 29th November to 20th December this week. 6th December was co-hosted by Mike Smith 13th December is fine apart from the aforementioned GG performance so that is a big gap. You would have thought it would be quite easy to edit out one performance.
06/12/84 (Gary Davies & Mike Smith) Big Country – “Where The Rose Is Sown” (29) Thompson Twins – “Lay Your Hands On Me” (30) (video) Shakin’ Stevens (with Hank Marvin) – “Teardrops” (5) WATCH Murray Head – “One Night In Bangkok” (16) (video) Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus – “We All Stand Together” (9) (video) Alison Moyet – “Invisible” (24) Spandau Ballet – “Round & Round” (23) Frankie Goes To Hollywood – “The Power Of Love” (1) (video) The Kane Gang – “Respect Yourself” (21) (audience dancing/credits)
13/12/84 (Peter Powell & Steve Wright) Black Lace – “Do The Conga” (13) Wham! – “Last Christmas” (2) (video) Paul Young – “Everything Must Change” (17) Kool & The Gang – “Fresh” (11) (rpt from 29/11/84) Madonna – “Like A Virgin” (5) WATCH Tears For Fears – “Shout” (32) (video) Gary Glitter – “Another Rock ‘N’ Roll Christmas” (22) WATCH The Toy Dolls – “Nellie The Elephant” (16) WATCH Band Aid – “Do They Know It’s Christmas” (1) (video/credits)
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Post by o on Nov 13, 2017 14:47:02 GMT 1
Going to miss out on Big Country's performance And thanks for that Vya.
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