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Post by TheThorne on Jul 21, 2023 11:11:03 GMT 1
While I agree with almost all of your review , is it that we were wrong to label bands from 25 years ago dinosaurs, you can see today that there are bands that are still relevant and in some cases better than they were then. Are Blur and Pulp dinosaurs ? They should be but instead if treating them like Smashie & Nicey we revere Brit pop. Music for example is still controlled by the Smashie & Niceys of now and their taste still defines alternative music such as bands like Idles and fontaines DC.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 21, 2023 17:42:05 GMT 1
It's not whether it's right or wrong - it's just that in rolling 25 year periods from 1960 to 2000 there was a huge amount of change in the music industry. And then it stopped.
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Aug 24, 2023 22:14:59 GMT 1
1995 repeats return on 15th September
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Post by SheriffFatman on Aug 28, 2023 16:07:21 GMT 1
1995 repeats return on 15th September Thanks for sharing, I’d been wondering that. Seems unlikely they’ll be able to fit in all of 1995 in before the end of the year, they’ve got 3 ½ months to fit in 12 months. They would need about half of them to feature R Kelly.
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Post by AcerBen on Sept 2, 2023 12:57:07 GMT 1
To get you in the mood for January 1995, check out the second hour of the new edition of my Back 2 The 90s show, as I'm counting down the very first On A Pop Tip Club Chart, compiled by Music Week. The chart is now known as the Commercial Pop Club Chart. www.mixcloud.com/back2the90s/back-2-the-90s-show-113-02092023/
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Post by SheriffFatman on Sept 22, 2023 6:56:50 GMT 1
I had hoped the return of 1995 might spark a lively re-energising of this thread, last week’s episodes were a bit dull though to be fair. Sleeper were fantastic mind, and the quality of that Human League track was a real shock at the time. Now gritting my teeth in readiness for 7 weeks of Celine Dion.
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Post by o on Sept 22, 2023 10:43:26 GMT 1
I forgot to come and comment about Louise Wener I'm sure Vas will be back slagging everything off very soon...
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Post by o on Sept 26, 2023 10:23:11 GMT 1
Oh and Elastica kicked everything else into touch this week, well apart from Kylie painted into that red dress!
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Post by Mark on Sept 29, 2023 19:18:00 GMT 1
The episode that wasn't shown from 9th February 1995 presumably because the charts are over the R. Kelly video It was presented by the late Gary Olsen and featured Jimmy Nail and Sting perform on each other's songs. Full episode not on youtube but here's a download link wetransfer.com/downloads/00a58e04da7bee957957343305c09d3320230923142138/e997129-2-95: Presenter: Gary Olsen (11) DEUCE – Call It Love (19) JADE – Every Day Of The Week (12) R. KELLY – Bump ‘N’ Grind (video) (and charts) (17) JIMMY NAIL – Cowboy Dreams (2) N-TRANCE – Set You Free (21) SUEDE – New Generation (15) STING & PATO BANTON – This Cowboy Song (NEW) THE GO GO’S – The Whole World Lost It’s Head (1) CELINE DION – Think Twice (via satellite) (TOTP2) ALICE COOPER – School’s Out (clip of TOTP 28-12-72) (and credits)
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Post by Panda on Sept 29, 2023 22:00:15 GMT 1
Tonight they showed the one presented by Keith Allen when he spent the entire episode pretending to be Normski. Anyone know why he did that?
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 30, 2023 9:59:47 GMT 1
OK, these are back. 19/1, the Walrus of Love introduces in the subsonic. Bruno Brookes, ultimate music, ultimate kaos. Someone is having a laugh with the chyron by putting "average age 14" next to "Hoochie Booty". So, in essence, what they are going on about is massively illegal. And they censor Glitter. This is basically EYC. This aping of Septic sh*te is not merely appalling, it is immoral. The sort of person who plays this is the sort of person who would happily have signed up to broadcast under Goebbels.
Fires and EBTG. This is dreary. Sorry, Trace, you're capable of so much better, and leopardskin print is trash to the max.
Ini Kamoze over the charts. We've gone from immoral through dreary to irritating. A burr in your shoe. Positively painful to endure for more than a couple of seconds.
Sleeper making their debut so to celebrate we have Brookes blathering about some nonsense over the guitar opening. This is great fun though. And yes, I fancy Louise. But it's the sort of singalongachorus that Blur would write for Elastica. Hints of sixties in the production and is the drummer also in the Lightning Seeds? Also has anyone noticed how much Louise blinks?
Human League. Funny drum. Heard on a podcast that if you talk to Phil Oakey, it's almost literally all about music, he is extremely muso.
Barry White. Can't be bothered with going back 15 years. Celine Dion, newly wed apparently. Jennifer Rush rediviva.
Top 10. Had forgotten Rednex were still NOBODY IS BUYING RECORDS AFTER CHRISTMAS number 1.
Brookes runs out of time to yell changesontheshownextweek because we have Sweet on the playout because a) the BBC would rather promote its own programmes than music and b) THIS IS BY A LONG WAY THE BEST THING ON THE SHOW. Only Sleeper get close, really.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 30, 2023 12:30:48 GMT 1
26/1, introduced by Eternal (Kellé, call me) after the Wildhearts do their Jimmy the Geordie thing. We start with The Real McCoy, who are miming, KEEPING IT REAL. God, this is awful. What is there about this load of Eurowank that people think is worth buying as opposed to the rest of the Eurowank? I could churn this sh*t out in one toilet break. And the audience appears to have a cumulative IQ of seven.
We segué into Deuce, but you would be forgiven in thinking this is the exact same record, and, basically, the entire audience who is not interested in dance has turned off. Appalling programming. I get the impression that this is a test for the blonde to see if she can cut it as the Morrissey of the group before pinging her out to a solo career. She's failing, her vocal qualities are not dissimilar to a foghorn.
Simple Minds over the chart. They couldn't be bothered to record a new single so they just basically did a mashup of their previous ones.
Oh Buddah, MORE dance.
So skip straight through to Let Loose. With "One One Stand", apparently. Jesus, Eternal, ONE JOB. This is NOT boyband fare despite the congenital morons screaming their pathetic lungs out. This is actual proper music, I definitely and defiantly like this. SHUT UP AUDIENCE AND f***ing GROW UP. It not only builds up to the chorus but it also builds separately throughout the song.
Green Day, which is punk in the same way as a fright wig from a fancy dress shop. Can't stand this sort of music, just pale imitation, but this is a superior example of it, it gets almost towards Therapy? on a bad day. This though should have been up at the top between the dance records.
The Wildhearts. Am guessing that this is basically meant to be a celebration of Newcastle winning the title in a few months' time. One of them is dressed as Kiss/Zal Cleminson (SAHB)/Monkey (the Adicts) so very original. Nevertheless it's pretty good, albeit the rough edges knocked well off.
"This song was a big hit in 1983" followed by "Nicki French's new song". Eternal, are you LISTENING TO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING? Anyhoo, this is outrightly repugnant. If you want to release the song again, RELEASE THE ORIGINAL RATHER THAN CURLING OUT A GODAWFUL COMPUTER DRUM OVER THE TOP. Anyone who buys this should be locked in a cell and forced to listen to Bonnie Tyler for a week FOR THEIR OWN GOOD. Who the ACTUAL HELL is BUYING this? Who could think "you know, this is a great song, and I'm not going to look out the original because obviously operatic music is something to which one has to rave"? And the backing singers can eff off too, they're not fooling anyone.
Rednex are still no. 1, and the playout is...ugh...The Osmonds. But...at least it's "Crazy Horses", the second-best Osmonds track.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 30, 2023 20:41:02 GMT 1
Desmond. Luther Van Dross. Oh God, we're going to have some yuppie crap. SexKylie introduces M People. You know, I'd rather listen to Kylie. At least Heather is singing live, but evidently her knitter ran out of wool before finishing her cardy.
MN8. Oh Jesus, there are now Ultimate Kaos tribute bands? And why are they wearing Star Trek quilts? This is beneath contempt. Eff off from my pooter.
Kamoze with the charts, he can eff off too.
Scarlet. "It's nuthing laak to uzz..." It's a typical overwrought build-up MOR ballad that Celine would kill for. The sort of thing that should never leave the Radio 2 midnight playlist. And I f***ing LOVE IT. This is amazing. Everything about it is so wrong but somehow put together it is so so so so so so right. It swoops, it soars, it challenges the status quo from the deepest darkest parts of Ul, it is utterly breathtaking. Audience seems stunned into silence, thank Buddah. Alas it is cut somewhat short because we need to see f***ing Vandross with a f***ing Heatwave cover. He can f*** RIGHT OFF.
That Kelis barnet suits Kylie, frankly. REM looking like they've been dressed by a hurricane going through a Marie Stopes charity shop. There is a bear for some unknown reason with TOTP on its arse. And a couple of hotties. The song? Way darker than recently, more Darkly Evil People. I like it a lot. Two great things on one programme? Been a while.
Perfecto Allstars f***ing up Pigbag. JUST RELEASE PIGBAG YOU WANKSTAINS
Can FF through the no. 1. Ooh, Go-Go's next week. Closing out with Annie Lennox, who gets more of a focus than the no. 1. Which is quite right. This performance though is stupid. Shame, it's a poignant song ruined by absurdist theatre. It does not work with this sort of song. Would work better with Green Jelly.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 1, 2023 9:03:13 GMT 1
16/2. Wait, what? Elastica giggle an intro with Donna looking as if a journo had said she was hot so cut her barnet off. Still would though. Goodier promises a "good" show, which is an interesting tempering of expectations, but being as we cut into Alex Party I doubt even Jack Dee could say "this is the best music programme evaahhhh!!!" without bursting into bitter and sardonic laughter. Not sure how best to sum this up on one word. Awful? Depressing? Reprehensible? Scarlet. See above. Bloody bloody love this. Gloria Estefan. The creative well for her ran dry after about two minutes of her first single. This is indeed a cover of the Love Affair classic, but "cover" in this instance is the same sort of context as the Mafia covering an informer with concrete. This is one of the worst things humanity has ever inflicted on humankind. It subtracts from the sum total of human achievement. It is the very definition of sociopathic evil. And TOTP is playing this. Producer Vastariner would not only have banned this from being played, but he would have summoned the label head to tell him in person that we will never play a single record by anyone on his label ever again as a penalty for deliberately trying to do to music what the Taleban does to it. Vanessa Mae, who is allegedly a great violinist, but this patheti attempt to turn classical music into something raveable is about as good as her skiing career. There are only two possible of this that should ever be on TOTP. One (by Sky) has already been on and the other is the theme for Once Upon A Time...Man.
"Keep watching for that Elton John video exclusive...now here's MN8". Is Goodier actively trying to drive the audience away? I'd rather watch the testcard.
The Elton video exclusive is for "Believe", which I don't recall, perhaps because it's basically "The One". Good video though.
Annie Lennox with another self-sabotaging performance. Why the eff is she dressed as Minnie Mouse at a conference?
"One great song after another." Well, one great song so far. We get another that is at least decent with Elastica. Annie looks ill.
After the anaemic no. 1, TOTP self-sabotages again by having The Supremes on the playout. It's basically telling the record-buying audience YOUR PARENTS HAD FAR MORE APPRECIATION OF MUSIC THAN YOU, YOU BRAIN-DEAD CRETINS.
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Post by Panda on Oct 1, 2023 9:28:15 GMT 1
*searches for the mute button*
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 1, 2023 17:03:55 GMT 1
23/2, Glam Metal Detectives (I LOVED THAT SHOW) as the bumper and Peter Cunnah eking out his 15 minutes of fame.
Can FF the start as it is the Imperfecto Nostars needlessly molesting pigs. And can FF through the second as it's the 1990s version of Cheese & Crackers rhyming seven with heaven because nobody has ever thought of that before. This is like the Play Away cast being asked to improvise something about transistors.
Bon Jovi with something that will doubtless make the rock chart even though it is 100% country. Elastica go on the again in consecutive weeks, which is unfair. Dan Abnormal on keyboard. He then pops up because Blur are on next with something that sounds more Elastica than Elastica, it's actually for once great fun and for once we have an act enjoying the experience (this is evidently the era in which TAFKATAFKAPrince was writing Slave on his cheek).
Exclusive is Madonna seemingly in a laboratory testing out fluid dynamics before it all goes Buddhist torture chamber. It's not very Madonna, it's FSOL or Death in Vegas even. It's actually surprisingly good. This would not be a hit had it not been Madonna. I mean that as a compliment.
A welcome back to the top 40 for one of Scotland's finest. Ooh, let me guess. Altered Images? Ultravox? SAHB? Shop Assistants? BMX Bandits? Orange Juice? Errrr...Del Amitri. OK, this is a definition of the word "finest" of which I had never heard. It's Del Amitri. What can I say about Del Amitri? You know what Del Amitri sound like, this sounds like Del Amitri. If you like Del Amitri, you will like this. If you don't, you won't. There is no progression in Del Amitri. Del Amitri must always sound like Del Amitri has always sounded. This is like sending a food critic to review tapwater. Or that time when Jezza reviewed the Vauxhall Vectra.
It's fascinating that they're followed by a fake band (note Doon McKichan from The Day Today, Phil Cornwell of Gilbert the Alien voice, and Sara Stockbridge from my innermost fantasies) that sound way more exciting. At least briefly, given that it is a television theme there was not much beyond the actual theme itself, they should have written out a full song.
The playout is a rather odd choice; The Stranglers with "Go Buddy Go". The song itself basically a fifties rock and roller with Burnel belting something out and the uplift from the keyboards. But this was basically a compromise b-side turned into an aa-side because the mainstream media objected to the mammarial nature of "Peaches", which was the commercial driver. Quite a bold choice from someone to pick that one out, bit like a secret track
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Post by TheThorne on Oct 1, 2023 17:30:51 GMT 1
Glam Metal Detectives totally passed me by, I vaguely recognised the song. Still didn't watch a lot of TV in 1995.
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Post by raliverpool on Oct 1, 2023 18:41:52 GMT 1
Glam Metal Detectives totally passed me by, I vaguely recognised the song. Still didn't watch a lot of TV in 1995. The Glam Metal Detectives was great, but probably suffered for being to clever clever and possibly ahead of its time.
Director Peter Richardson of The Comic Strip Presents fame set up a TV comedy satire show which was like a channel hopping experience of 1990s satellite cable TV with about 8-10 different sub elements to it of different genres written & acted by the 6/7 different actors/comedians.
As for the track, it was written & produced by Trevor Horn & Lol Creme (10cc/Godley & Creme) and featured the late Jeff Beck on guitar as (I know from listening to Lol Creme on the Rockonteurs podcast) with the potential to pick up where The KLF left us with Sigue Sigue Sputnik meets Fuzzbox as the blueprint.
Sadly, the public reaction to it (the show & the record) was WTF and it was dropped after one series.
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Post by o on Oct 2, 2023 13:01:40 GMT 1
wtf was my reaction now!
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Post by raliverpool on Oct 2, 2023 19:22:41 GMT 1
WTF you say. If you like WTF.
Just watch episode of 1 of (obviously) Series 1.
I think it is fair to say The Fast Show took notes and dialed down the strangeness/surreal/weirdness to make something far more successful,
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