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Post by vastar iner on Jan 26, 2020 13:24:26 GMT 1
Was gonna check it out but forget all about it. Watached that clip above and that bloke with the masks on mark and sam has stole that idea from Nina Conti. And she nicked the idea from Wayne Dobson.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 20, 2020 18:12:07 GMT 1
Faders 'No Sleep Tonight'
Lead singer/guitarist Molly Lorenne is the daughter of Midge Ure and Annabel Giles.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 16, 2020 22:34:44 GMT 1
Yeah, but quoting Nigel Blackwell is like bringing an AK47 to a fistfight.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 16, 2020 8:43:46 GMT 1
I'm on the drug I'm on the drug I'm on the drug that killed River Phoenix
-"(He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River", TISM
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 10, 2020 21:36:58 GMT 1
Is there anything in them though that you can't get online?
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 5, 2020 13:32:08 GMT 1
Yes. This is an actual gas attack in World War 1, in October 1918, which HMV recorded. And issued as a single.
Even more. It was a charity single. Proceeds going to War Bonds.
The recorder was a chap called Will Gaisberg. He inhaled some of the gas and returned home. Where he got caught in the influenza epidemic. With his resistance reduced, he could not survive. He died a week before the war ended.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 19, 2019 22:55:10 GMT 1
I'm not the biggest fan of Madonna but I love this cover of "Like A Virgin" that Teenage Fanclub did for their "The King" album. I see your Teenage Fanclub and raise you a "Ciccione" Youth...
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 19, 2019 22:52:45 GMT 1
Just imagine instead this year you could have had an "arrows" themed cover of the 1984 Xmas #2: To be fair, we are having an arrows-themed cover...
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 17, 2019 21:58:14 GMT 1
I did the trivia thing in the office today. "Who are the only two acts to have consecutive Christmas number ones?" When I then mentioned that Ladbaby could be a third, literally nobody remembered them last year.
And most of them guffawed when I said their hit was "We Built This City On Sausage Rolls".
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 15, 2019 10:52:45 GMT 1
Exactly 31 years ago today . Goodier and Davies. Bon Jovi starting, they're slumming it, Jon BJ wearing a Guardian Angels t-shirt, they were a thing around that time, vigilantes guarding the New York subway. The song is appalling. The sort of thing even Europe (the group, not the continent) (on second thoughts, the continent too) would have rejected as being substandard.
There's a really cute and enthusiastic girl in red on the gantry with Davies. Petula Clark singing live. She must be cringing inside at the utterly useless remixing work that has shat all over the glorious original. Who the hell thought "yeah, this will make the original better"? Whoever did needs to be forced to feed his entire family into a woodchipper before having his genitals dissolved in acid, so that we can remove his useless genes from the pool.
Chart my b**** up. Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra in at 40, heh. Goodier suggests watching Rattle & Hum is the next best thing to seeing U2 live. Set the bar high, why don't you? Although I will concede "Angel Of Harlem" is very decent.
New Order completely live. Emphasized by Hooky standing there doing eff all. There's a lot of programming going on. This is also rather brilliant. Complex and offbeat.
Chartinos. Erasure. "Stop", which sounds like it hasn't been finished, needs another verse or two rather than just da capo. Shame as there's the makings of a minor classic there.
Breakers. Four Tops, not as good as their sixties peak. Kim Wilde, with something rather lovely and sweetly melancholic. Londonbeat, almost a cappella. This stands out a mile, very different.
Highest climber is Inner City, up 16. At non-Christmas this would be looking good for the top spot. Paris Grey is VERY attractive without flaunting it. Class.
Top 10. U2 vs Inner City for the post-Christmas no. 1? Bros have flopped hard by the standards suspected. Top 3 are non-movers. As I said before, thank God for Cliff Richard. Playout is A-ha, because, well, no f***ing idea.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 12, 2019 20:01:47 GMT 1
I wonder which child of an industry figure will "win" this year.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 9, 2019 20:13:40 GMT 1
OK, her parents did then.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 9, 2019 0:10:11 GMT 1
I bet she even spelt her surname that way so she'd be first in the Guinness Book of Hit Singles.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 8, 2019 12:50:52 GMT 1
Ochty twelvety. Campbell and Keating. And Ver Quo. There seems to be something off with the sound, as it's much quieter than one would expect. Well, as far as three chords go, this is surprisingly appealing. Not Christmassy. Maybe releasing it in the New Year would have done a "Down Down".
Charts and we cut to Angry Anderson at no. 3. Actually I've not got anything against the song, it is what it is, supposedly heartrending ballad that might go a bundle in the States. Anderson looks not so much angry as intensely bored. Intensely Bored Anderson. That's a decent name.
Breakers. Petula Clark, yay, that's one for the teenagers. Great original record utterly ruined by some **** vomiting sh*t beats all over it. New Order's "Fine Time", which is also not very Christmassy but has a Christmas video. Appealingly weird. Inner City with a superior take on Chicago house, this has every chance of becoming an earworm, mix of pop with garage. Erasure in at 7 with a video that looks 3D. Great tune, but needs more lyric. Also reminiscent of "Then He Kissed Me".
Phil Collins with a sixties pastiche. Oh look, he's doing the "let's play everyone in the band" bit again. Dull.
Chartybites again. A-ha are still going. Beach Boys, Four Tops, Petula Clark. An indictment of the utter lack of any imagination in the modern pop world, and the lamestream media's refusal to give promotion to the alternative acts. Humanoid at no. 17? Hm.
Minogue and Donovan at 2. God, record-buyers are MONUMENTALLY thick. Indeed they seem to revel in being sheeple. Proud to do what everyone else does. Proud to have the individuality of a bacterium. Proud to be f***ing cannon fodder of no use to the world whatsoever. We need a f***ing bubonic plague to wipe out their useless asses. This "song" has not one redemptive factor whatever. Minogue's horrid soul-lacerating nasal whingey c*ntstain of a voice being computer-tricked into Dalekesque tones WHICH ACTUALLY IMPROVES IT. And Donovan has the singing ability of a dead hedgehog, and they give him the high notes. Nobody can be buying this for the record because it is not just scraping the bottom of the barrel. It has gone through the bottom and has gone via the earth's core to emerge at the other side. And has carried on going right through the entire universe to find a bottom that physicists thought was theoretically impossible. And somehow gone through that barrier to find hitherto unimaginable depths. EVERYONE WHO BUYS THIS RECORD BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY LIKE IT SHOULD BE EXECUTED. FACT.
I never thought I'd say this, but THANK f***ing GOD FOR CLIFF RICHARD. A proper Christmas record as well.
And the playout is Bananarama because we haven't had enough f***ing SAWmill on this episode.
Is this the most morally repugnant episode ever? Manipulation, payola, bias, utter sh*te, and song-wrecking. Horrible show.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 8, 2019 12:22:02 GMT 1
Pinch and a punch. Brooks and Read, the latter trying to look like a Blues brother. On commence avec Rick Astley, they didn't say he wrote this. Perhaps he did and doesn't want the credit for what is a truly atrocious offering.
Charts. Beach Boys at the US no. 1. Michael Jackson, how weird that the BBC has a hissy fit over Glitter but not over Jackson.
Breakers. George Michael, going all 1920s. Terrible. Angry Anderson, wholooks nothing like you'd expect from the song (was thinking Michael Bolton lookylikey rather than bald metal midget). Cliff Richard, who has amazingly never had a Christmas no. 1, pitching for it with something aimed at the older market. Surprisingly OK. Phil Collins, doing the same "I'm everyone in the video" thing as he did a few years ago. Dull sixties pastiche. More an exercise in creativity than an actual song.
PSB. So, that's two of the breakers from last week being given a full play. Is it basically a cartel to prevent less obvious songs being played? Look at the show this week, all big names with no. 1s behind them. Other than someone who is getting a fuckload of airplay in Neighbours.
And as if to prove the point, Bros. To be fair, entering at no. 2 deserves a play. But nobody is buying this for the song, are they? It's awful. A distinct step down from their earlier efforts. But there is e.g. Humanoid that did not get a play. Whereas Breakers do.
Top 10. Let's skip to the playout. Oh, here's Humanoid. Although nobody seems to be sure how to credit it. But surely this should have been the main show and the paedo should have been the playout? Funny dancing.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 7, 2019 10:03:25 GMT 1
Anastacia looks cute in that get-up.
24/11. Weird map at the start showing who can get Radio 1 in FM and where. May wearing a Christmas jumper and Crane wearing the Mick Jagger outfit from "Dancing In The Street".
Tiffany starts with something that sounds almost identical to "I Can Hear Music" by The Beach Boys in the verses. Chorus is sh*te. Bit cruel to send her out there without a band given that there is a sax break. This might be the laziest song ever written.
Bomb The Bass with Maureen. Tim Simenon is behind bongos for no evident reason. Not a good cover. Trying to be all epic and it does not work.
Chartamundos. Angry Anderson with Scott & Charlene's wedding theme. People really are thick. Deacon Blue, at last some light in the darkness.
Breakers. Jackson. Hype over reality. Pet Shop Boys going back to the talk-through-the-song-and-sing-the-chorus. This is at 7 yet only gets a breaker, but Tiffany gets a full performance? Mental. But this is their best for quite a while. Iron Maiden are in at 6 and ALSO only get a breaker. Why is the BBC favouring Septics over British acts?
Mayo: "The biggest woman's band is..." The Bangles, obviously. "Bananarama." Oh, I must have missed when they played their instruments. Cretin. Pointless cover of "Nathan Jones". The SAWmill evidently getting this on TOTP at the expense of Iron Maiden. Just release the f***ing original.
Chartinos. Chris de Burgh, f*** off, Robin Beck, f*** off, and Hithouse, on the playout rather than the main show with a track that is 1988 but the video is 1978. Haircuts included. It's OK for what it is.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 6, 2019 0:39:47 GMT 1
The biggest-selling single in Australia isn't even a song...
...it dropped off the top of the Aussie charts for 2 weeks in 1983 because of a temporary ban in Victoria, over the X-rated content on the b-side, but returned for another six when the ban was lifted. Making 8 in total.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 4, 2019 0:53:56 GMT 1
Sylvia Fricker wrote it, and did the original recording with her husband Ian, as a sort of Canadian Country/folk acoustic ballad. Crispian St Peters had the UK hit with it, but We Five did the best version, with a constant build to a climax.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 2, 2019 22:20:22 GMT 1
Was a comparative flop for The Belle Stars. Wonder if that's why Stiff decided to let them do their own material for the follow-up. And they very nearly got a deserved no. 1 from it.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 1, 2019 13:31:00 GMT 1
Gary Davies and the tiny Susie Mathis, who was in The Paper Dolls 20 years ago. Claims to have been 7 at the time. That was a little optimistic.
Yazz to start, inching towards the top spot, it's a real old-fashioned chart run. All About Eve, who now have special dispensation to perform live, given the balls-up before. Wow, this is dramatic, dark and emotional. Brilliant stuff. Deserves to be much higher. Like INXS, breaker last week ergo on this week. Charts. And then it's time for Mica Paris. For-Mica. Heh. Wow, this is also really good, a step up from her last one, languid, languorous and enchanting. Not sure about the titfer though. Next up, "Tanika" Tikaram. Oh, it's "holograms". Still makes no sense. Enya off the top, sad times. Minogue going down, good times. Robin Beck is no. 1, because sheeple. Rule of Breakers means Salt n Pepa need to be on, and here they are, with the playout. Did The Fat Boys produce this?
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