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Post by vastar iner on Apr 11, 2024 20:32:12 GMT 1
I couldn't tell you what my favourite Cocteau Twins track is. Today though it is this one...
...the last track on the last album they ever made. It's as if they had won music for ever and nothing else was needed.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 7, 2024 10:35:03 GMT 1
I wonder what the Most Forgotten Hit is? Maybe there's something that made the charts and is buried away on Spotify with zero streams...
From a UK perspective, maybe "The Big Hurt" by Toni Fisher? One week at no. 30 in 1960.
But it was big in the States, going top five. It's quite unusual - melodramatic and torch-songy.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 5, 2024 21:46:04 GMT 1
WHY HAS THIS PEEL SESSION NOT RECEIVED A PROPER RELEASE
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 2, 2024 8:02:08 GMT 1
00 3T – Anything 10 Bluetones - Slight Return 05 Robert Miles - Children 00 Mark Snow - The X-Files (CLASSIC example of sheeple) 10 Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life 00 Peter Andre featuring Bubbler Ranx - Mysterious Girl 10 Underworld - Born Slippy 00 Robbie Williams - Freedom 04 Los Del Rio - Macarena 00 3T featuring Michael Jackson - Why 00 George Michael - Spinning The Wheel 04 Kula Shaker - Hey Dude 02 East 17 featuring Gabrielle - If You Ever 02 Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart
That's quite a Marmite set. I didn't remember the George Michael one at all. On listening to it...no wonder.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 2, 2024 7:59:57 GMT 1
Is this the best year ever for UK #1s? I think it might be. 1968?
06 Village People - Y.M.C.A. 10 Ian Dury & Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 05 Blondie - Heart Of Glass 03 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive 02 Bee Gees - Tragedy 02 Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes 10 Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric 07 Blondie - Sunday Girl 03 Anita Ward - Ring My Bell 10 Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays 04 Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore 10 Gary Numan - Cars 03 Police - Message In A Bottle 10 Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star 00 Dr Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman 00 Lena Martell - One Day At A Time 08 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Part II 04 Police - Walking On The Moon
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 23, 2024 10:32:18 GMT 1
-OK - Girls@Play, Girl Thing, Cleopatra, TSD, Frank, 21st Century Girls, Tommi. What does that say to you about dull unimaginative landfill Spice Girl ripoffs?
-There's too many of them?
-That's one way of looking at it, another way of looking at it is, people like them, let's make some more of them.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 23, 2024 9:04:13 GMT 1
“I’d like to thank the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who thought that I was finally ready to walk in the footsteps of Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, all of whom got stars before me for some f***ing reason” 😆 😆😆 They forgot about Dre.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 22, 2024 16:28:27 GMT 1
Anyone who is a sucker for the Hal Blaine missed beat and the Wall of Sound would love this...
...and, if you don't, then there's prime Wendy James.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 22, 2024 10:13:53 GMT 1
When did the first McCartney song get to no. 1?
Answer: 1947.
Topped the Billboard Airplay listings - and was named in honour of the one-year-old daughter of the attorney of songwriter Jack Lawrence. The attorney was one Lee Eastman...
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 19, 2024 14:54:37 GMT 1
I tend to do them as I'm watching them on the pooter, but it was way easier with the iplayer rather than faffing about with separate windows/tabs/whatever.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 3, 2024 21:42:51 GMT 1
Home areas of every Briton nominated for a body of work:
London:
J Hus Little Simz Raye Arlo Parks Central Cee Dave Dua Lipa Fred Again Jessie Ware Olivia Dean Chase & Status
Headie One & K Trap Jungle Yussef Dayes Last Dinner Party Rolling Stones Romy Casisdead Cleo Sol Sault
Essex:
Blur
Scotland:
Young Fathers Calvin Harris Barry Can't Swim
Leicester:
Mahalia Sekou
Somerset:
PinkPantheress
Southampton:
Caity Baser
Yorkshire:
Bring Me The Horizon
Fix Factor:
Becky Hill
Cambridge:
Charli XCX
Walsall:
Jorja Smith
I mean...that's just racist, isn't it? 95% of the country completely ignored. Nothing from Wales, nothing from Northern Ireland. Nothing from Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, East Anglia, Northumbria. Best hip-hop category 100% London.
So it can't be a "Brit" award. Just rename them Cockney Awards and the rest of the country could safely ignore this biased self-congratulatory incestuous circle-jerk.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 22, 2024 11:09:24 GMT 1
One of the most forgotten hits ever is "Waterloo". I bet there's zero chance that you can hum it, let alone sing it.
Yet it was a no. 1 US country hit, and minor top 30 hit here, for Stonewall Jackson.
I believe there was some Scandinavian quartet who stole the song title at a somewhat later date.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 16, 2024 16:42:13 GMT 1
31/8. Michael Bolton, oh dear, that's not an encouraging start.
Dale Winton presents, erm, what?
We hear "I Feel Love" in the background but it's actually New Atlantic with an old song, because, as I set out above, dance music ran out of imagination, skill, ability, interest, originality, and talent a long long long time ago.
De'lacy. This is actually OK, almost sounds like three tracks mashed together, and great vocals.
Michael Jackson with a song that I hope he didn't address to an 11 year old. This would have been awful in 1974, let alone now. Wetter than a drowning haddock.
The Rembrandts, with the theme of a show about six impossibly attractive New Yorkers who live a billionaire lifestyle without any visible employment, but with whom we are meant to sympathize because of their love life failures. Irritating.
Christ alive, they've made up an excuse to have the five worst people on the planet. "You have a gun with ten bullets and in front of you are Boyzone, Gadaffi, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong-Il, Teodoro Obiang and Sese Mobutu. Whom do you shoot?" You know the answer. No need for Bleating to say they're live, we can tell that from his pathetic meandering up and down what passes for a vague approximation of a musical scale in the vain hope that somewhere he will hit the right note, even if by accident.
Montell Jordan. I am literally losing the will to live.
Echobelly. Thank GOD. Shame it wasn't Sleeper, given who is presenting, but this is actual proper shouty MOXIE. Ribena in the desert.
Now, not only is Michael Bolton utter gash, but his song is basically "All That She Wants". Or maybe "The Sign" given they are identical. Which total cretin greenlit THIS for the show?
Blur do something Oasis have never done, i.e. successfully defend the no. 1 position. Playout is Scatman John, video by Wubble U, it seems.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 16, 2024 15:50:31 GMT 1
No idea at whom that is aimed, I NEVER swear unnecessarily.
24/8, milkfloat but it's not Benny Hill, it's Blur SPOILER ALERT DUDES. Jarvis introduces Clock, who demonstrate their levels of talent by having the rapping live but the singing mimed. This is one clock which should be put back in autumn and never ever ever let out again.
Charlatans. It's the Charlatans. Sounds exactly like the Charlatans.
Madonna. Stealing the spotlight from someone who deserves it.
Xpansions. This was rubbish before, it's rubbish now. This is dance music, everyone. So unimaginative that they are already re-issuing stuff that's 5 years old. Image if the Beatles re-issued "She Loves You" in 1968. It's a terrible genre that acts as a bucket for the terminally untalented. It's the same six seconds over and over and over again. Godawful and the idiots are lapping it up. The programme planning is once more terrible. The most exciting and media-friendly chart week for ages and a) they spoil it from the off and waste the chance to get new interesting fresh stuff before a curious public.
Losers. I don't think Noel is really lead vox on this.
Bjork. Yes, brilliant, but was on last week. See above on terrible programming.
Diana Ross. Terrible. This could be literally any female vocalist. It's as if Motown threw it at her from the office bin because she was complaining about a lack of choons. She's doing her damnedest with it but you can't polish a turd.
Could almost say the same thing about the Michelle Gayle thing afterwards. She's REALLY going for it but dance music has disappeared up its own fundament so far that it's now sampling the sampling. The shark was jumped long ago.
Blur no. 1, and the RCHP on the plahout - they are not my thing but surely they should have been on the main show as a touch of variety instead of bloody Xpansions...
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 14, 2024 18:01:05 GMT 1
17/8. Bjert is in New Yert and will be doing a single. Show is being presented by Wendy "who?" Lloyd and on commence avec Moist. Susie Dent's least favourite word btw. I've never seen what's wrong with it, it's a perfectly cromulent word. Other than I now realize I've been confusing Moist with Moose for the last 25 years. Quite like this. Not particularly inspired or special, sounds a bit like a slower Stiltskin, but it'll do. Early sign of emoticon on a long-sleeve tee.
Highest new entry from The Original. "I'll have Incredibly Misleading Names for $500, Alex." Well, this is lyrically inspired.
Shiva over the charts. Now, there's a tragedy about this. The reason why we are not seeing Louise Dean miming to the song on the video is that this clip is from footage shot for other media. Because by this time the poor girl has been killed by a hit-and-run driver. Hence the video focuses on her having fun as a requiem to her. Lloyd only mentions this at the end, which was the wrong place to do it, especially given that Deuce now have a song called "On The Bible", when God has just been proved to be a tw*t.
By the way. The man who killed her was drunk. Failed to stop. Had no licence. Had no insurance. And he got given a six year sentence.
Deuce is rubbish of course. Guru (not Josh) with Chaka Khan is also rubbish. Khan sounds terrible.
Bjork on the other hand is of course brilliant.
JX is not. WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY too much landfill dance on this show. Controversial opinion: they shouldn't have ANY of it on. This is the wrong environment for it. Does anyone actually LISTEN to it rather than go out clubbing to it? There's no depth whatsoever in this or anything like it. There are about four notes and three words and no tempo or key change.
I an basically soot to the playout because we have Oasis with "Rockin' All Over The World" and the music-murderers before we get to the other half of the big chart battle. "Country House" is so much the better record that I feel ashamed at betraying my working-class roots. But then again the Mancs sold their soul for Arab gelt so they can eff off.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 14, 2024 12:45:29 GMT 1
Not sure how many more of these I will do, given the BBC has decided that people do not want to watch big-screen stuff on big-screens, so will only allow people to watch a visual medium on the tiniest screen possible. Apparently it is too expensive to keep the iplayer going, they'd rather throw millions to Lineker to spout clichés on Match of the Day as part of his entry-level antisemitism course. f***ing ****s.
Talking of f***ing ****s, the first thing on 10/8 one sees is Boyzone. God, I utterly, utterly, utterly detest these talentless, music-murdering f***stains. I would specifically repeal the Human Rights Act prohibition on torture against these and W***life and instead make it compulsory. The Hitlers of music. Bet Lineker loves them.
Anyway, the show. I'Anson making bland seem like Iggy Pop. Mary Kiani, don't remember this because there's nothing to remember. Ash, with Tim Wheeler nearly touching his guitar, it's a bit by numbers. TLC, seen before.
Then Julian Cope, dressed as a motorway with a Neu! t-shirt on. Unlike Lineker, this IS worth the licence fee. I'm getting hints of Free in there as well.
Tina Arena. Well, I suppose it's nice for the swot at the local comp to swank her talent show entry, but not sure TOTP is the right environment.
Suggs. Not sure why this is a solo thing given that it sounds exactly like Madness. It's still almost the best thing on the show, even though it's a cover and it's 10 years out of date.
Madonna, who has re-created a bondage version of Celebrity Squares, minus Willie Rushton. Is this even a song? There were more engaging things on Pages from Ceefax.
Boyzone. (not allowed)
Playout is Felix, with the Binatone preset, it seems.
God, the young are w**k.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 12, 2024 20:37:15 GMT 1
Didn't know it had come back, will take a shufti.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 11, 2024 12:16:23 GMT 1
"The one with the best nads gets his armpit licked." -Butt-head
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 3, 2024 12:34:21 GMT 1
I wonder if this would count on Pointless if the category were 10cc Hits?
This is Hotlegs - basically 10cc without Gouldman - who are considered one hit wonders in that particular guise. They were put together with comedian John Paul Joans (who had adopted that name BEFORE Led Zep was a thing) by Joans' manager with a view to writing a Christmas single. Something of a misjudgment given that Joans' stand-up was apparently scabrous and political, and the common comment about him is "10 years ahead of his time".
But they got a hit single out of it. Interrupted by missing a chart week after Peter Green "persuaded" RAK Records to change the label...
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 2, 2024 15:45:55 GMT 1
raliverpool will be able to give chapter and verse, but Bowie had been too successful with Let's Dance, and follow-ups were unimaginative cash-ins on the same theme. So he went back to basics with the Tin Machine project. Much-derided now but it re-sparked Bowie's imagination for the 1990s. And this was a BLOODY GREAT single.
Feckin dodge video though.
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