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Post by thehitparade on Dec 19, 2016 1:39:28 GMT 1
I had the impression that the Jason Donovan song was intentionally written that way so it would be a Christmas hit but wouldn't make a direct reference that would seem dated in the new year.
Two songs that entered the Top 10 in consecutive weeks in January 2005: 'Filthy/Gorgeous' by Scissor Sisters "All the people you meet want to open you up like Christmas" 'Wires' by Athlete 'I've seen Christmas lights reflect in your eyes'.
Also, 'Brick' by Ben Folds Five starts "6am, day after Christmas..." and later mentions selling some gifts but is not at all festive in tone. Apparently it's about taking his girlfriend to an abortion clinic. 'Prettiest Eyes' by the Beautiful South also mentions "60 25th of Decembers, 59 4th of Julys".
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Post by thehitparade on Dec 17, 2016 14:24:25 GMT 1
Think I'm going to have to find out who Car Seat Headrest are, then.
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Post by thehitparade on Dec 12, 2016 0:57:37 GMT 1
Boring Bob Grover is on both Piranhas hits, but he's only given individual credit on Zambesi. He's not really Gary Glitter's brother, as you probably knew but I'm sure he'll appreciate the clarification.
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Post by thehitparade on Dec 6, 2016 22:35:22 GMT 1
Well, if we're talking about songs written by Kenny Young, how many people know the first version of this famous song to make the UK Top 40?
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Post by thehitparade on Dec 5, 2016 0:14:26 GMT 1
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Post by thehitparade on Dec 4, 2016 17:26:30 GMT 1
Been listening to a lot of R.E.M. lately. This was one of the six Top 40 hits they had in 1991, and probably the least-remembered now.
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Post by thehitparade on Dec 4, 2016 13:21:31 GMT 1
The version of Love Me Do that charted in 1982 was the album version with Andy White on drums. I think the Ringo version was an extra track on the 12" single.
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Post by thehitparade on Dec 3, 2016 21:07:15 GMT 1
There doesn't seem to be any official explanation of the Mike Smith episodes not being shown, but the thinking seems to be that he didn't want them reshown: apparently they weren't repeated on UK Gold either. I'm not sure whether his estate could legally stop the repeats or whether they're just being respectful.
I think we can rule out anything Yewtree related to Smith anyway. We'd have heard at least rumours of it by now.
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Post by thehitparade on Dec 3, 2016 13:34:38 GMT 1
The other guy from the Pretenders had already been fired before he died though.
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Post by thehitparade on Dec 3, 2016 0:51:44 GMT 1
Google Play have some reductions on Beatles catalogue: single albums for £4:99, doubles (and 1) £7:99.
Meanwhile, Amazon.fr have a load of vinyl LPs for ten Euro each (which is cheap these days) and are offering a 10% discount code.
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 30, 2016 18:14:24 GMT 1
I heard the Beyoncé album because I happened to be on a free trial of Tidal when it came out. Of course this meant I was also on there when Prince died so I was able to try out some of his old albums.
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 30, 2016 17:59:03 GMT 1
Ah, but the point is that until about ten years ago, or 15-20 if you were less law-abiding, your most likely way of hearing an album was if you bought it so you probably wouldn't hear anything non-mainstream unless you were interested enough to invest money in or somebody made a point of playing it to you.
Nowadays I could hear almost any of the albums mentioned in this thread without having to commit any more than the time. Of course the downside of this is that we don't listen as deeply and there are so many albums, even ones I own, that I've only listened to once which probably isn't enough for a full appreciation. In fact there's one album in these lists which I have MP3s of and haven't listened to at all. For reference, I count 12 albums in this thread so far that I've heard. There are others I'd be interested in hearing but there are some you'd need to pay me a small or even a large amount of money to listen to.
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 30, 2016 17:14:24 GMT 1
Obviously the trouble with trying to pick our favourites is that we non-professionals aren't likely to have heard more than a tiny proportion of the albums on offer. Although at least the barriers to hearing an album you're curious about are much lower than before.
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 29, 2016 23:32:54 GMT 1
I hate when they put songs on Xmas compilations just because they were #1 at Xmas even though they were nothing to do with Xmas! Why is 'Super Trouper' on there? That wasn't even a Christmas Number One, it peaked in early December.
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 29, 2016 23:12:53 GMT 1
A fair bit of consensus there, as you'd expect. Do you think the NME writers wanted to put Leonard Cohen in there but marketing told them he didn't fit the target demographic?
Sting in the Rolling Stone list is a bit of a shocker. I don't even think that would be one of Sting's Top 40 albums of the year.
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Post by thehitparade on Nov 4, 2016 14:48:20 GMT 1
Time for another slice of July 1982 style Top Of The Pops with Simon Bates doing the honours in a live show. Irene Cara is still at number one. Just when you wanted a Yewtreed episode. Not sure what the buff bloke with his top off is all about. In case you didn't know, that episode almost wasn't shown for a different reason - it had to be reconstructed with off-air recordings because the version in the BBC archives had silent Simon Bates links. Add your own punchline, etc.
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Post by thehitparade on Oct 7, 2016 10:18:17 GMT 1
Do you really like that Peter Sarstedt song or did you just post it for a laugh? A-hah-hah.
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Post by thehitparade on Sept 23, 2016 18:35:03 GMT 1
I'm a non-licence-payer so no longer allowed to use the iPlayer.
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Post by thehitparade on Sept 10, 2016 0:05:27 GMT 1
I'm not allowed to watch TotP any more, so I'm not sure which Bucks Fizz song everyone's talking about. But I reckon it might be My Camera Never Lies which is a pretty good one, though not quite as good as the Chas & Dave song. Ebony & Ivory is really only a bit rubbish, but it seems worse because it's by people capable of so much better (and indeed it's at the end of one of the better Paul McCartney albums).
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Post by thehitparade on Aug 4, 2016 21:21:53 GMT 1
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