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Post by vastar iner on Jan 25, 2024 9:09:39 GMT 1
05 Rainbow - All Night Long 09 Sky - Toccata 07 Roxy Music - Over You 05 Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime 06 Specials - Rat Race 08 Gary Numan - We Are Glass 04 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Could You Be Loved 06 Kate Bush - Babooshka 07 Roxy Music - Oh Yeah (On The Radio) 10 Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day 02 Diana Ross - My Old Piano 05 David Bowie - Fashion 06 Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short 01 Police - De Do Do Do De Da Da Da 04 Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls 05 Keith Michell - Captain Beaky
I remember hearing "Eighth Day" for the first time on Saturday morning show Fun Factory, in a slot presented by Gary Crowley showcasing the charts. Totally blew my mind. Think I was 7 at the time.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 25, 2024 9:03:54 GMT 1
00 Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) 05 No Mercy - Where Do You Go 00 Warren G - I Shot The Sheriff 02 Sash - Encore Une Fois 05 Kula Shaker - Hush 00 Boyzone - Isn't It A Wonder 05 Supergrass - Richard III 03 Blur - Song 2 00 Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die 09 Cardigans - Lovefool 04 George Michael - Star People '97 07 Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli - Time To Say Goodbye (Con Te Partiro) 09 Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony 06 Sash featuring Rodriguez - Ecuador 04 Gala - Freed From Desire 02 Boyzone - Picture Of You 10 Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 01 George Michael - You Have Been Loved 08 Dario G - Sunchyme 05 Oasis - Stand By Me 02 Sash featuring La Trec - Stay 00 Warren G featuring Adina Howard - What's Love Got To Do With It 01 Fugees - No Woman No Cry 08 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 00 Boyzone - Baby Can I Hold You
Bloody hell. sh*te cover central.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 20, 2024 21:13:37 GMT 1
Plenty of cash-in football songs, so it's not that bizarre, even given that this is to celebrate Hull City being top of Division 4 in 1983 so not exactly a towering achievement.
It's more that Harry Amber would have a number 1 by the end of the decade...
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 20, 2024 21:08:22 GMT 1
Sad news from a group which knew its fair share of tragedy...
...this is their masterpiece...
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 19, 2024 1:17:36 GMT 1
RIP Nuneaton Borough. One of the biggest non-league teams when their ground was near the town centre. Plummeted when they sold up and moved to Liberty Way some distance from it.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 26, 2023 10:10:21 GMT 1
This one did have some elements of cheese in it...but then again so does a Big Mac and that's gorge as well.
If there were one adjective to describe that episode though it's "explosive".
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 22, 2023 17:22:39 GMT 1
Threight. Blur opening and Goodier who has come as Gary Davies. Therapy? with an explosive start, EVERY TOTP should start with SOMEthing like this, get the old blood pumping.
Corona. Three monkeys, ten minutes. Live vocals obviously not needed now.
Blue Monday is back in another revamp and a very 1990s Pot Noodle video. For once I am not averse to this sort of a remix, it's not a lazy speed-it-up or a random-dance-beat-with-oooh-yeahs, it's sort of 808-Statied.
Black Grape. A prime example of why you do not need technical perfection, you just need some proper spirit. Wonder if Corona look on this and weep. This is a total shambles and everyone seems to be doing something different, like they've all wandered in from different bands. But it works.
Leftfield. Blimey, producer must have had an absolute ROCKET up his arse after that nadir show, this is making this appointment telly again. The sort of thing that would be buried away on MTV2 at 3.30am but it's in the charts. Brilliant stuff.
Pet Shop Boys. This ...is NOT brilliant. It's basically "Bamboleo" with some vapid electro wibble. And Chris Lowe mentioning designer labels. They basically had three minutes left in the studio so threw any old crap together. Unless it's an experiment. "How crap can we get to have the plebs STILL buy our stuff?" It makes "Agadoo" sound lyrically like "The Whole Of The Moon". Atrocious.
Tricky. Again, this is the sort of stuff which SHOULD be on. Crap video (and, frankly, Tricky is a completely crap name, after all there's already been Tricky Disco) but the song is brilliant.
Blur. Can see the Beeb is on their side in the battle then. Love this record. Wow, this is a well-constructed episode as well as having some terrific music. What HAS happened?
Awful no. 1 and the playout is TLC's best track yet - and best video, which I genuinely thought was going to be a film soundtrack song, it's so intriguingly put together.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 22, 2023 10:26:25 GMT 1
27/7 and I have a foreboding of evil because the opening thing is Boyzone, a marketing gimmick so cynical and obvious that I wonder if they are a p*sstake.
Boo Radleys with a slight return (heh) to form, there's a bit more of their pre-Wake Up LCD aiming.
And then we plummet to the basement. Bad enough that we have one of Check 1-2 presenting, but now it is the poor man's Little & Little whose marketing team have now decided they are East 17. You really HAVE to be brain-dead to have bought this. Had any kids of mine wanted to buy this, I would have dropped them off at Battersea dogs' home.
Method Man and Mary J Anagram. No. 3 in the US, as if that's a positive. Method Man sounds exhausted. The emotional engagement of a digestive biscuit.
God, McLachlan is annoying the sh*te out of me. Lightning Seeds, who seem to be constantly on the verge of something huge but it never seems to quite happen. This is channelling a 1967 Beatles vibe, with a hint of Christmas about it, and maybe with a bit more of a publicity push it would break with the masses. Really good.
Boyzone exclusive. "So Good". They're not very self-aware, are they? There is not one single redemptive characteristic about this whatsoever. It literally subtracts from the sum total of human achievement. Darwin would have been rewriting.
REM. No, don't remember this at all, maybe at the time I had hurled the telly out of the window in disgust at the Irish Marketing Board. This is...brilliant, it's weird, it's Eddie Kendricks mixed with This Mortal Coil.
"Keep your clubs away from his young, it's Seal." I've never been keen on this one, not sure why this became his big US hit.
Supergrass, because they are no. 1 on the album charts, which gives the opportunity of an outing for "Caught By The Fuzz", which now is even more of a helter-skelter headfuck than it was at the time. What the f*** has HAPPENED to music now? Bloody Sheerans and so on with their anaemic sterilized chemistry lab nonsense. This is raw, dirty, ugly, careering, and ecstatic.
McLachlan has found a guitar, FFS. And almost randomly, Julian Cope. Did someone at the Beeb get a memo about the Worst Episode Ever? Because someone has evidently done their homework to make this one an actual proper show. It's not his best but it's still way better than the top 10 which he will not make.
McLachlan reading the top 10 is like Socrates' Apology - increases the likelihood that someone will condemn him to death. The no. 1 is literally unlistenable. Hole on the playout (which lasts about eight seconds) and I don't think I've ever wanted to punch anyone more than McLachlan as he introduces.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 21, 2023 8:32:51 GMT 1
Of course he is, was on too much of a roll...
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 20, 2023 1:10:16 GMT 1
Personally I would love to see Alfie Hewett win it. Tough call on who will win it though. Actually, objectively it wasn't, there was only one World Champion on the list.
Should have been two but Josh Kerr was presumably too working-class English male.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 20, 2023 1:09:04 GMT 1
Team of the Year given to the biggest cheats in world football. Utter joke decision.
Meanwhile, Red Bull win every World Championship GP bar one. Plainly the team of the year. But Gove was right on experts.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 14, 2023 21:30:43 GMT 1
Selling her body for money.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 11, 2023 20:20:53 GMT 1
The selling point in the Jinny track is not the music or the singing, but that the person fronting it is an attractive woman wearing a bikini top. It's no wonder she cannot keep warm.
But the woman fronting it is Carryl Varley, and not the singer of the song, which is why she is having to mime, and also why I would not have had it on the show. She's basically sold her body and soul for fakery. I think the epithet applied is appropriate.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 10, 2023 13:58:50 GMT 1
20/7. Fake T**t with an exclusive, oh God. Gayle Tuesday pops out of the Whatever Happened To? file and we start, because WE HAVE NOT HAD ENOUGH f***ing DANCE sh*te IN THE LAST YEAR, with Corona.
Dana Dawson, BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT HAD ENOUGH R&B OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS. And this song is utter gash. Nice pins though. We can see the selling point of the very estimable Ms Dawson.
Paul Weller. Kick out the style, bring back the jam. Running through cornfields, perhaps chasing Theresa May. Oh Jesus, he's gone all middle-aged.
Soul II Soul, Shaggy, both repeats. Also both dance/r&b. I repeat the comment above.
Um, how come U2 are on when they peaked a month ago?
Diana King, again dance, again a repeat.
Exclusive for the middle-aged housewives, the utter cynicality demonstrated by having a boys' choir at the start. God almighty, this is beyond atrocious. White f***ing suits. The refugee from Back To The Planet vaguely emoting through incomprehensible lyrics with an air of "nobody actually cares what this song is about or what it sounds like, there are merely a load of brain-dead teenagers who want to rip the last threads of this outfit from me".
The number 1 is somehow worse and the playout is, um, dunno beause Tuesday garbled through it at massive volume and at 100mph. Sounds like "Cantaloop" but it's more dance.
That...could be the Worst Show Ever.
Not merely because the musical selection was utterly atrocious. It's also that, yet again, the producer's idea of running a show was abysmal. Far too many repeats.
And now the elephant in the room. Racism. I make it that there were 10 acts on the show. 7 were black. That is basically a gigantic over-representation of the population, and an over-representation based on eligible songs. And 2 of the white acts date back to the 1970s so there is definitely a deliberate policy of excluding young white acts. Deliberate? Yes, there was no reason for not including Gene, for instance. Or Lightning Seeds (OK, not so young) or PJ Harvey. And someone properly planning out the programme to attract the biggest possible audience by widening the genre pool would have included Black Crowes and Belly.
But instead...repeats of Shaggy's cover version and Soul II Soul from last week. As well as a COMPLETELY needless repeat of U2. And there is no need for an exclusive for an act which RCA is going to pay yet more millions to plaster over every possible medium incessantly over the next month.
You know...
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 10, 2023 13:34:46 GMT 1
13/7. Well-known pop expert Dale Winton introduces the show. Jinny, who is extremely obviously miming. So she can be filed under "Talentless Whore".
Because we have started with dance, Idiot Producer continues with dance. MN8 at the numerically determinative 8. Oh God, this is dreadful.
A film advert from Seal over the charts. This is nowhere near his best. Can't work out how this one became such a gigantic success. Probably middle-aged housewives thinking "ooh, it's soooo in touch with emotions".
Cast, who are to Oasis what Oasis are to the Stone Roses. Hey, guys, there's a bandwagon over there, why not jump on it? Music for people who think they are alternative.
Because we haven't had enough r&b alread, we get Brownstone, which I think is a repeat, but given so much of this guff sounds identical it's difficult to tell.
Video exclusive from Hole. Given Courtney Love's entire career is based on a throwaway Cobain comment, it's quite astounding, and worrying, that this is very obviously the best thing on the show by a distance which is normally measured in megaparsecs. Of course Daisy Chainsaw did all of this much better and with much more tang of authenticism but this is like finding a fresh iced mochachoccacino in the Empty Quarter.
Edwyn Collins, a repeat. And Supergrass, who seem to have entered their "Shiny Happy People" phase. Not very good.
Seriously, would there be any logical or rational objection to reviving the death penalty for people who buy the Outhere Brothers? Having that DNA propagated down the generations is harmful.
I think the main highlight on the show is the cute girl with dimples standing next to Winton at the end, and the playout is even more r&b from Soul II Soul (and which is better than the stuff on the main show). We're not quite in Hades yet, but this is not dissimilar.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 3, 2023 13:07:18 GMT 1
7/7. Outhere Brothers introduce the show as number 1. Oh dear sweet God, we've gone from the animals to the vegetables. Wendy "who?" Lloyd introduces Diana King who has a vague resemblance to Pob. Bit of ragga, nothing outstanding. It's no Sophia George.
Shaggy and Rayvon with a cover. Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiist. I wish for deafness.
Wifebeater on the video with a re-issue. No, there is absolutely no reason for this whatsoever.
Vic & Bob with a cover, basically what I said before.
Jesus H Christ, Michael Jackson AGAIN? With ANOTHER exclusive? No, no, no, no, NO, NO. This is wetter than wet paper at the bottom of the Marianas Trench being used by a wet squid as a wet wipe on its wet mouth. This man is meant to be a genius? Only to morons.
D:Ream. Another repeat. I'm almost wishing for the next song to be total dogshit because this is definitely heading towards WORST EPISODE EVER territory. Basically NOTHING on so far should have been put on.
Amy Grant who can't be arsed to turn up to fake her cover. Yep, another useless and pointless choice.
tw*t and Twatter at no. 1. Playout is Heavy Stereo. THIS IS LITERALLY THE ONLY THING WORTH LISTENING TO AND IT'S ON THE f***ing PLAYOUT.
That could well be the worst episode ever. It's not just the lack of any scintilla of quality in anything before the credits. It was appallingly planned. THREE repeats, THREE covers, ONE re-issue, an exclusive from someone who has not been off the show in about twelve f***ing years, started off with three dance acts thus putting the majority of the audience off.
I would have lined it up as follows:
Ugly Kid Joe (exploding start) Diana King Van Halen (bit rocky) Dubstar (different type of dance) Ned's Atomic Dustbin (indie) Jaki Graham (soul) Swervedriver (shoegaze) Del Amitri (for the Scots)
Incidentally, I note, as a spoiler alert, the All 4 One exclusive barely makes the top 40, and the Jackson one IS A B-SIDE. Whoever chose those for the show is also subhuman scum.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 3, 2023 12:40:49 GMT 1
29/6. Have The Ramones ever been live on TOTP before? Goodier has obviously been filming a Werther's Original advert. Now, what's worse than a stupid unimaginative boring shitstain needless cover version? When the stupid unimaginative boring shitstain needless cover version is of a song that was released 4 years ago. Everyone who bought this needs to be dismantled slowly and painfully. Those who produced this should be put in the Hague for ecocide. Everyone involved with this atrocity is subhuman scum. And the producer should have said to Wankstain Records that playing this on the BBC is a sackable offence because there is a public duty not to perpetuate some filth.
Jeremy Kwee with the same rubbish he always puts out.
Duran Duran with a cover version of "White Lines". Is this the first time this song has ever been on TOTP? Not entirely sure about this. It's brave at least. But the Durannies should be beyond this, it comes across as trying too hard to be relevant.
Exclusive from All 4 One. Oh GOD. This makes Guys & Dolls sound like Cannibal Corpse. WHY IS THIS A f***ing EXCLUSIVE? ARE THERE NOT BRITISH ACTS DOING INTERESTING THINGS? CHRIST ON A BIKE. This is positively EVIL. Oh, and, guess what, it's a cover.
Edwyn Collins, the best thing on the show so far AND IT IS A REPEAT PERFORMANCE.
Menswe@r. THEY WERE ON LAST WEEK.
Outhere Brothers. Basically what I said about Clock. One bomb and immunity from prosecution, that is all for which I ask.
Ramones. Aaaaaaand...it's a cover. f***ing HELL. The Ramones only have one song, albeit it's a quite good one...so what ought to be an iconic moment is a COVER? And...we have THE MOST AWKWARD SEGUE INTO A SECOND RAMONES SONG IN THE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING. Christ, who thought THAT was a good idea? Anyhoo, at least this one is a bit more oomphy.
The Kunt Gang still no. 1. Foo Fighters on the playout with a live clip which knocks seven shades out of everything else.
God, that was grim.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 1, 2023 21:13:41 GMT 1
22/6. Mayo dressed as a comedy schoolboy for some reason. Haddaway & sh*te are on, presumably solely to annoy me. Well, I can FF, so eff you BBC.
Mike Plus The Mechanics. Paul Young (not that one) seems to have discovered 1978 hair-wise. Not my cup o' char, but I can understand why it's on.
The charts are backed by Baby D, with a video presumably done at the same time as their last hit as it's identical. This is actually way more interesting as a song, a sort of proto-drum and bass cover, wish it had been a slightly better source material as this comes close to Portishead going commercial.
D:Ream looking happy to be back, not bad, but again a very retro sound, more early eighties than mid-nineties.
M People, with a song that has been so overplayed it's impossible to give it a fair report. Best I can say is I didn't like it at the time for being Disney.
Amy Grant complaining about too much parking. Evidently never been to Birmingham. I take the heretical view on Joni Mitchell - I've NEVER got her - and doing a cover version of a song with the same lyric about 47 times is ludicrous.
Bon Jovi, and I've forgotten it already.
Bob gets a) a credit and b) more to do as he and Vic tag team with EMF for another cover. Although the Meff seem something of an afterthought, they're not as involved as the Stuffies were. It's fun enough but...what's the point?
With the ****s at no. 1, that means that we've had half the show as being covers. Menswe@r, a classic of who you know, show that Britpop is already jumping the shark on the playout.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 29, 2023 23:25:40 GMT 1
And people think television is better now than ever.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 29, 2023 15:55:04 GMT 1
15/6. We start with a spaceship and Michelle Gayle's midriff. Wet Wet Wet, with something that sounds as if Kenny Rogers would have shaved off his beard to record. Hal Blaine drumbeat but there's not much here. Like the sort of song someone writes for a storyline in a soap opera for a band formed by the characters.
Outhere Brothers. Genuinely want to know who is buying this. So I can have them deported to an early grave. It's just horrid. Same thing over and over and over again. Surely you have to have been LITERALLY lobotomized to like this?
U2, repeat.
Bitty McLean. I wonder what original composition he has come up with? Oh, surprise surprise, it's a cover. Of The Carpenters, who were dogshite to start with, music for people who think they like music but who actually have never heard anything other than The Carpenters. f*** me, this is Outhere Brothers territory.
Edwyn Collins. Now this is an unexpected kick-up. The bloke from Orange Juice with a hit out of nowhere. What's the equivalent today? Lead singer of a band that was big in 2011 having a first hit for a while? *looks at the chart that week in 2011* Calvin Harris, Jason Derulo, Shitbull, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry...IT'S THE f***ing SAME. God alMIGHTY, this is the WORST century for culture in recorded history, surely?
Hottie from Eternal completely totally and utterly surprises Gayle with a sales award before we get Paula Abdul, who presumably was expecting a much bigger hit with her Pointer Sisters meets Ofra Haza thing. That this is the second best thing on the show so far is an indictment of the show.
Bad news for East 17: Mortimer's talent has run out. This is a three monkey ten minute job.
The no. 1 can f*** off. And so can Chemical Brothers, Bluetones, Skunk Ananise, and other British acts who could have done with the airplay of being on TOTP, because instead the British Broadcasting Corporation has cleared the end of the programme to show Michael Jackson YET AGAIN because they've got an exclusive for a video which is allegedly the most expensive ever made but is, basically, lipsyncing while on a PS2. Classic example of when you have no imagination at all but in order to persuade the thickos to buy something keep throwing more and more and more money at it with vapid cliché. Sums up his career.
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