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Post by vastar iner on Nov 10, 2019 11:18:00 GMT 1
18/8. Mayo and Read. Yazz coming up later. Which means that tiny tuneless terror is not no. 1, good times. We start with Aztec Camera, whose cred Read instantly destroys by saying he saw them gigging. This starts off really dark and brooding, then goes a bit ska, which doesn't really suit the song. It's something of a missed opportunity; this could have been epic with more sympathetic production work.
They are playing Minogue even though she's a non-mover. Whoever bought this song because they liked it needs to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Charts. Jane Wiedlin. Ooh, are The Go-Go's making the charts bit by bit?
Chris Rea. By numbers.
Breakers are back. Status Quo, well, it was OK ten years before. Van Halen. This is woeful. Big Country with a new sound that is emphatically not an improvement.
Fairground Attraction. Aww, this has embiggened the show. Looks like Scotland is saving the day.
Charts. Nothing special. Iglesias & Wonder. This is the musical equivalent of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Top 10. All About Eve get a top 10 despite (because of?) the TOTP balls-up. Brother Beyond still going up? REALLY? Yazz is very obviously loving being no. 1, bantering with Read and Mayo.
Playout is Robbie Robertson. You'd think a legendary member of the legendary Band would get a more prominent thing than the playout. Instead of the poison midget.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 10, 2019 10:44:07 GMT 1
Picking on stars whose only purpose was to look good and who would be thrust in front of any old sh*t is like shooting fish in a barrel.
What I will mention along those lines however is when Channel 4 was doing a sitcom about a boy band (James Corden in the Gary Barlow role), they needed to do a "single" for the in-show universe, and decided to find the worst record ever to use in the show. They came up with "A Little Bit More" by Dr Hook.
And between shooting that and the show coming out, 911 had a hit with it.
It is however illustrative of the sheer stupidity of whoever was buying these records that there was a market for them. Falling for the most hackneyed promotional lies and tricks.
On a moreserious note, this one particularly got on my tits, as it was from an act of real artistic credibility and integrity, and they did what amounted to a straight cover version solely for the $$$$.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 3, 2019 12:39:03 GMT 1
11/8. Brookes and Liz Kershaw who looks like she is cosplaying Cruella. Mica Paris and Will Downing, bit of jazz lite, not keen, bet it goes down a bomb with the cheese fondue and Beaujolais.
All About Eve. Technical difficulties with the soundtrack last week, so they're back, and fortunately went up And leaving nothing to chance as Julianne is singing live. Fair enough.
Chart me up, bitches. Meh. Breathe. Also meh.
Highest new entry is Iron Maiden. Fittingly at no. 6. Will it drop to 66 next week? Sounds like their last one, frankly.
Tanita Tikaram. Just left school. Quite sweet. Not sure she is anywhere near playing that guitar. Reminiscent of "Come On Eileen".
Charts. Julia Fordham creeping up, she should get a play. Brother Beyond also going up and they do get a play. God, this is sh*te. Pretty boy can't sing for toffee. Another SAWmill disgrace.
Top 10. Minogue is NOT NUMBER ONE, hahahahaha. Yazz video, which was done on nearly zero budget. Playout is that godawful BVSMP.
Curate's egg.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 3, 2019 11:29:56 GMT 1
4 and its double. Long and Goodier. Minogue starting with a new entry at no. 2. Is this the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of music? There is no justification for this whatsoever. Terrible, godawful, tinny, computerized voice over an artificial background of a song that patently does not need to be covered in the first place. I want everyone involved in this grotesque parody of marketing eliminated instantly. Other than Minogue in that dress, I can find a use for her. Nobody who buys this should ever be allowed out of a f***ing cell.
Fairground Attraction. This is a contrast in nearly every respect. Sweet Latin-tinged song with a powerful vocal that is in sympathy with the music. Needless to say it did not enter at no. 2.
Charts. Wee Papa Girl Rappers going down. Did they get a play? To Voice Of The Beehive. Tracy very sparkly. Camera focusses on her more than on Melissa. This is feckin brilliant. This is everything pop should be. Dynamic, upbeat, singalong, vivacious. Magnificent.
Kim Wilde. See above.
The Funky Worm. Well, it's not a novelty track, it's a bit of housey-housey music. Weird name for a serious track. Bassist is doing the Wilko Johnson bit. Gets very boring very quickly.
Charts again. Per Long, Julianne Regan has a wonderful voice. Let's hope we hear it tonight. No, we're not. Are they protesting at not being able to perform live? It's a nice song. Hang on, everyone's cheering. Oh, now they're miming. Well, someone f***ed up there. The irony though about someone having a nice voice yet being silenced...
Top 10. Yazz & the PP holding the Minogue atrocity off the top. Thank God. At least for one week. Yazz is still thrilled. Two thumbs up. Heh, she's nearly in tears. Means a lot to her. S-Express on the playout, shame they're not in the studio, they also seem to enjoy Ver Pops loads.
Well, that picked up after the absolute worst possible start.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 26, 2019 0:20:38 GMT 1
^ Foggy was briefly a Tiswas presenter, which added to the stock of hitmakers on the programme; The Four Bucketeers themselves, which included John Gorman of The Scaffold, and Den Hegarty of Darts.
For some reason ATV wouldn't let the Tiswas crew use the Tiswas name on their hit single, and the BBC took the fun out of it by barring them using water on their TOTP performance.
Sally James...be still my heart.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 19, 2019 15:21:33 GMT 1
Let's get straight back on the horse. 28 to the 7 to the pops. Davies and Campbell. And we zoom into this bright exciting and dynamic new era with Shakin' Stevens and a song that's already been a hit four times already. Feck's sake.
Next up is...oh, for God's sake, is this the kids of New Edition? BVSMP with more godawful tinny synthshite background. And even their rapping is computer-enhanced. They can't even keep their rhymes up for one verse before running out of breath. This is horrid. Absolutely gut-scrapingly dreadful.
Charts. VOTB are back. The Funky Worm? Novelty single? Siouxsie & The Banshees, with Siouxise on video and in the studio. Looking amazing in dazzleship 2 tone. And this single is...startling. Astounding. All broken up jazz and surreality. This is almost like The Sugarcubes. And that's a Very Good Thing Indeed. Wow wow wow wow wow.
Breakers are back. VOTB at 37 with something rather brilliant. This is making up for last week's. Love Melissa's utter lunacy. All About Eve. This is rather sweet. This run of good songs comes to a screeching halt with Steven Dante. Back to speed though with Julia Fordham, who looks absolutely stunning in plain white. There's something languid and languorous about this one, it's slow and soothing.
Back to the regular show. Pat Benatar? Not heard from her in a while. I suppose this just about counts as rock if you squint hard enough. It's OK, fills a gap. Could do with being a LOT more raucous in the chorus.
Next up are Yazz & The Plastic Population, without Coldcut. At 10, big climb. Yazz is so upbeat, I've seldom seen anyone enjoy having a hit record so much. Looks like she's outgrown her clothes. Fun.
Top 10. Big leap for S-Express. Also Kim Wilde. Top 5 are non-movers. Could have done with some Vamp. I'd much rather Salt & Pepa at the top than the execrable Medeiros. Playout is Fairground Attraction with a Spanish theme, unexpected and something of a grower, the song seems to get more certain of itself until it finally knows what it's doing at the bridge. Yes, I like this one.
Lot of focus on 30-40 this week, the programme benefitted because of it. Infinitely better than the previous week's.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 19, 2019 14:49:53 GMT 1
21/7 =3. Powell and, er, Crane. Europe's most successful TV show, apparently. Didn't take long for the cretins at the BBC programme planning to totally f*** it over. S-Express in at 20. Heh, Sonique. Mark Moore is step-brother to Stephen Moore, who was in the charts a few years back. Nice keyboardist.
Def Leppard, who are no. 1 in the US dance charts, apparently. Hm, maybe Powell was referring to S-Express. Meh ballad, blatant chart bait.
40. Dull. EBTG. Ditto. Mac Band. Tritto. Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers. Zigmundo sounds like he is singing live, as it's not very good at all. Michael Jackson, also not very good either.
Kim Wilde. God, she just gets hotter. Shame about the song, which sounds like a typical cheapass SAWmill lowest common denominator production.
Interesting that there are no breakers. Have they dropped that? It was far too much double-dip. Finishing with Medeiros, God almighty, and George Michael, with his leftovers.
That was a very poor show. Only the opening track was worth paying attention to.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 13, 2019 17:04:15 GMT 1
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich may have had comedic elements in their performances, but I cannot fathom how anyone involved with them could have thought that this was a good idea. Was the lead track of an EP which managed to miss the EP chart despite nobody really bothering with it any more.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 13, 2019 10:59:47 GMT 1
72. Mayo and Long. Communards to start, looking and sounding like a Price Waterhouse staff band. Sorry, this may be a positive message, but the song is terrible. Quite like the girl on keyboards though. Dolores lookalike. Is June Miles-Kingston pregnant?
Up 16 to 16. The Mac Band. Disappointingly this is not The Macc Lads. What the f*** is that dance? This is also terrible. Despite the musicians in the video it has all the soul of a rusty robot. I cannot be doing with this.
Today's charty prongs. That looks fairly dull as well, other than Wee Papa Girl Rappers. We cut into Everything But The Girl with Michael Schumacher on lead vocals and Terry Christian on guitar. This is a long overdue hit but they seem to be going the UB40 route of doing covers because their own material won't make it. This is very worthy and technically accomplished but also very dull.
Breakers. Debbie Gibson looking cute in noir. This is a bit different, it could almost be a Diane Warren ballad rather than her upbeat teenpop. Little Debs is growing up. Magnum, whose career revival is rather startling. Eric B & Rakim, is that the first time they've been in a video? PE-lite. And Natalie "I only have a career because my dad was a legend" Cole. Who is buying that sh*te?
INXS. Wow. This has come out of nowhere. This is fecking brilliant. I've been on that bridge. The weather was similar. I've seen that graveyard too. Think it is the Jewish cemetery. So different to their pop-rock and it absolutely works.
Chartbites. Cuts to Eighth Wonder. Very disappointing song. It's SAWmill style at its worst. And Patsy isn't dressed like a whore like in the promo shot. Sad times.
Top 10. New no. 1. Glenn Medeiros. What? Jesus f***ing Christ, this is horrid. Absolutely dreadful. There is not one single redemptive factor about this whatsoever. People who bought this should be arrested for music-cide. Or forced to listen to literally any other record ever to realise that there is proper music out there. ****, ****, ****, ****, ****.
Playout is Transvision Vamp. Yay, punky. Hang on, I might need some me time.
Wow. They should have replaced the scheduled programme with just repeating that for half an hour. This is basically an orgasm on 45.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 11, 2019 18:42:07 GMT 1
Starting out as a backing group for Lennie Peters, who would take a sesquidecade before topping the charts with Dianne Lee, and when Peters tried his luck solo, guitarist Mike Felix took over lead vox and they called themselves the Migil Four. My-gil. After Mike Felix and bassist Gilbert Lucas. Adding a saxophonist turned them into the Migil Five and under that name they got their two chart successes.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 6, 2019 10:13:33 GMT 1
Thirty six. Powell in shorts. Dear God. We have Matt Bianco, apparently. Oh God. Hazell Dean, who is in miniskirt and big shoulders. Absolute SAWmill by numbers including the shmutter.
Springsteen on video. Slower and more thoughtful than his recent output. Really, really good. Gay couples in the video, that's way before its time, don't remember that.
Tracy Chapman. I get the feeling I ought to like this, but I don't. Too same-y, just relentless grind and hard work.
Charts. Glenn Medeiros, who? Up to 7, Salt & Pepa, this is good stuff, sassy and sexy and dirty and funky in all the good ways.
T'Pau. Carol Decker looking more seductive now than rock chick. Great verses and build up to the chorus, but the chorus needs perhaps something else to kick it over the edge. Otherwise impressive.
No. 2, pushing for the top of the charts next week, insider knowledge? Chubs & the Fatties. This is, well, not pretentious. Bit of fun, I suppose we need something like this from time to time.
Top 10, before we get Bros at no. 1; for a group that is supposedly the biggest thing since The Beatles, they've not had THAT much chart success, it's not exactly been obliteration.
Playout is Medeiros. Christ on a f***ing bike, that's ATROCIOUS.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 6, 2019 9:34:02 GMT 1
19/6. Reid and Davies.
Sabrina. I remember a letter on Points Of View a few days later. "Top of the Pops had the most disgusting display, a braless young lady from Italy displaying her fruits for all to see. Why was the BBC complicit in such a display of soft pornography?
PS My husband loved it and asks if you can repeat it."
It's actually quite demure compared to what has happened since, indeed Wendy James would be basically in underwear.
Erasure. What the frig is Bell wearing?
Charts. A rarity - a non-mover at 40. Nick Kamen for reference.
Sisters Of Mercy, having apparently had a bad video shoot in India. Eldritch gets around, doesn't he? Smart lad, get the record company to pay for exotic holibobs. Bit dull but Davies likes it, lol.
Breakers. Fat Boys at 19. lolwut? Eurythmics with a big riser thanks to a song that has gone under the radar somewhat. A-ha, they've plainly given up, haven't they? Sade, well, she's found a tune at least.
Studio. Matt Bianco. God almighty, of all the desirable comebacks I would have had them somewhere near the bottom of the list, between bubonic plague and genocide. f***'s sake.
New entry at 2, Bros. Wow, they're still missing the top. Not sure though that this one will miss out.
Top 10. Morrissey goes up, a rarity, but not enough. Three Beatles songs in the top 10. Oh, that's cos two of them are the same feckin record. The Timelords, woo. A decent no. 1 for the first time in a while.
Playout is The Pasadenas. Think they might have deserved a proper play. More so than Matt fecking Bianco. Something of a throwback, something of The Delfonics or late Temptations about it. Not bad, could do with more of a funk kick.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 6, 2019 8:51:36 GMT 1
Tears by ? & The Mysterians. Mayowell. Well, they don't censor the Glitter-heavy sample of The Timelords, aka The JAMMs, aka The KLF. Quite right too, this is magnificent. Twin flying Vs and choreographed drumming. No idea why they keep cutting to the video (maybe they couldn't get Ford into the studio). Has number 1 written all over it.
Five Star with their new raunchy image. Looks more cosplay than raunch. Also sounds rubbish.
VotB make it to the studio. Melissa gets to mime lead vox. At least for the start. Another terrific song. Perfect indiepop. Melissa is channelling her inner Strawberry Switchblade.
Charts. Wonder/Jackson dropping without making the 30. You'd think that would have been a couldn't miss. Perhaps people are looking at the song rather than the artist.
Mica Paris. Disappointing that she's wearing a US-flag style jacket. Don't ape the Septics, Meesh. Carve your own story. Although this is dull. So probably not worth it.
Breakers. The Neph get onto Ver Pops. Hahahaha. We're going alternate songs, good/bad/good/bad/good. If this goes up will they get a proper play? Sabrina. Well, that continues the trend, but there's a couple of things about this video that draw my attention to it. Powell sounds vaguely disgusted. James Brown. This breaks the run as it is merely OK.
Maxi Priest. Live. Good move, he has such a sweet voice, silksmooth. Helps to elevate the song, which does not benefit from an exciting production, to say the least.
Charts. 12, Morrissey, and he's appearing. I think this would have been a better opening single for him than "Suedehead". Wearing a Smiths t-shirt, lol. This single is, well, for want of a better word, lovely. Even though the lyrics are coalblack depressing. It's such an uplifting tune and the contradictions turn it into an epic. Mayo even thinks it's a number 1. Hm.
Top 10. Aztec Camera creeping up. No. 3. They'd be no. 1 if it were not for a cheap stunt and a cheap stunt. Playout is Erasure, doing Cirque du Soleil. Whoever had the video obviously got no further than the first word of the songtitle. Erasure by numbers, really. OK, nothing special, not unpleasant.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 4, 2019 17:09:26 GMT 1
Shame, that was one of THE great singles, perfect driving accompaniment.
Wonder whether it would have been a bigger hit had BMRB not totally lost control over the weeks when it was peaking. Its run of 39-29-19 was a good momentum-building start, but then it dropped to 24, before rising to 11, dropping again to 20, and then peaking at 9.
Not the only record that had a bizarre run over this period; The Dooleys went 22-19-23-13-19 and The Adverts 27-19-25-18-23.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 22, 2019 22:24:09 GMT 1
I listened to the ten part documentary on Radio 2, a repeat of one from 1984ish.
What I found fascinating was that the first half was utterly brilliant. Every song was outstanding, even the non-hits, worth listening to again and again and again.
And after about 1974 it all turned to ratshit. Instead of perfect pop or dark social realism, we had dull, mainstream, saccharine/lachrymose balladry that I was fast-forwarding repeatedly. The nadir might have been when Rick James was being presented as a bright new sound of funk, doing a pale imitation of what Parliament and Sly Stone had been doing a decade before, and, even at its best, close to unlistenable. Only Stevie Wonder was doing interesting stuff in the seventies and even that was vanishing. By the last programme I was hardly listening to anything.
In a sense Motown grew up with its audience - and forgot how to create anything exciting.
It's interesting to compare the Motown Chartbusters of 1985 from volume 1...
Mary Wells - My Guy Diana Ross And The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go Diana Ross And The Supremes - Baby Love Martha Reeves And The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run Diana Ross And The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright) Four Tops - Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud To Beg Jr Walker And The All Stars - How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Diana Ross And The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There The Temptations - Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted Diana Ross And The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On Martha Reeves And The Vandellas - I'm Ready For Love The Temptations - (I Know) I'm Losing You Stevie Wonder - A Place In The Sun Four Tops - Standing In The Shadows Of Love Marvin Gaye And Kim Weston - It Takes Two Diana Ross And The Supremes - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
...to volume 8...
Diana Ross - Upside Down Teena Marie - Behind The Groove Diana Ross - My Old Piano Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out Smokey Robinson - Being With You Diana Ross - It's My Turn Michael Jackson - One Day In Your Life Charlene - I've Never Been To Me Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - Endless Love Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me Michael Jackson - Farewell My Summer Love The Dazz Band - Let It All Blow The Temptations - Treat Her Like A Lady Commodores - Nightshift DeBarge - Rhythm Of The Night
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 20, 2019 23:47:11 GMT 1
Maybe they could try a self-censorship rule next year? Ban anyone from London? If you replaced "London-based acts" with "white acts" the award would be condemned as racist.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 8, 2019 13:00:28 GMT 1
Et finalement. To get up to date. 2/6. A "private party", apparently at the cricket club, looking at Powell. Also Campbell.
Starts with Aswad, a breaker, so see above.
Desireless. She's well named. Europap. Would have sounded dated in 1982. I wonder if her nickname is "bog brush". Very, very, very poor indeed.
Charts. Shall we go through the songs that have not been played but should have been? Kim Wilde's "Hey Mr Heartache", Status Quo's "Who Gets The Love", and Smanfer Fox' "Naughty Girls", just in the thirties.
Are they doing this show in the corridor? Anyway. Tiffany at no. 23 with the musical equivalent of genocide. They may as well have stamped CASH IN all over the screen. f*** this sh*t.
Next week's show. Timelords taking their own medicine. This is really entertaining and fun. I suppose there's little enough Glitter in it to allow them to play it. Voice Of The Beehive, with a gloriously wonderful perfect pop song, although Tracey isn't allowing Melissa much time on the vox. Heh, Woody. Five Star trying to vamp it up. Meh, not buying it.
Aztec Camera with a repeat performance. See above.
Charts again. Style Council going down, serves them right. O'Neal, "The Lovers". Brass Construction, "Movin' 88". Heart, Ofra Haza, Gibson, Hothouse Flowers all stalling after a performance.
Rod Stewart. Sounds like he's got Simple Minds behind him. This isn't bad, although it doesn't play to his dirty bluesy voice particularly strongly.
Very disturbing bantz between Campbell and Powell about getting naked. Top 10. Houston is at 10 but hasn't been on. Aztec Camera might sneak a no. 1. After all the top 3 are stalled.
Playout is Carlisle who has thereby been on a lot.
Odd show.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 8, 2019 12:32:13 GMT 1
26/5. Steve Wright in rubber gloves. On his own? No, Mark Goodier is on the other side of the studio. Different dates? Debbie Gibson. Ooh, a breaker. What a surprise. This is just OK.
LA Mix. I wonder if that car's number plate is genuinely LAM 1X? God, Les Adams has genuinely just died. Claire "Emmerdale" King in the video. "Going to be top 10 next week." Midweeks?
Ofra Haza. Yay, another breaker. This is a good record though.
Next week's show. Climie Fisher. Video has a high babe quotient. More like their first single than their second. Aswad. Quite sweet reggae that's so soft it barely qualifies. Video is similar to loads from about 8 years before of "let's do the show right here". Style Council. Same ol.
Next. Hothouse Flowers. Guess what? That's another 100% record.
The charts are also suggesting that the performance is coming too late - there are a few, again, going down after being on the programme. They're basically a week behind with performances. Incidentally I note that for instance Scritti Politti have gone up twice and haven't been on (maybe this week) because the constant repeats squeezes out other tracks.
Mica Paris. Apparently this is taking on the Septics at their own game with sweet soul music. I find it dull. It is yuppie music all over again. Shame, she seems to have quite the talent.
Oh, and here we go with SP. I'm not a fan of theirs at all, but I quite like this single. Has an understated melancholy.
Top 10. People are still buying the Anfield Crap? Well, the Childline thing is having some good effect, it's keeping the talentless Aussie from the top.
Continuing the charting footballers, the Jambos on the playout. Somewhere a couple of Swedes are listening to this and writing the words "listen to your heart" to this tune.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 8, 2019 9:54:39 GMT 1
19/5. Who will be on? Guessing Liverpool, Carlisle, Sprout, Minogue, B.
Bates and Davies. In the studio we have Derek B. Oh quelle surprise. And we start with Prefab Sprout. Two down straight away. Wendy looks a bit lost just doing backing vocals. Couldn't they have given her at least a keytar? Great track.
Minogue. Tick.
Charts.
Derek B. Tick.
Next week's show. Heart. They're letting the brunette sing this one. It's basically "Alone" with new lyrics. Ofra Haza. Bit of chartbound world music. This has been no. 1 in Germany. Guilt? Anyhoo, I do like this one. Blue Suede Views said it means "I'm not a toilet". Wonder if they met Sisters Of Mercy? Hothouse Flowers, they're popular in Europe by the looks. Another excellent single. Crap name though. Debbie Gibson with cheapass video.
Studio. Aztec Camera with a BIG leap. Quite right too. This is a rockin' and rollin' number. Deserves to be huge.
Charts. Starturn went down. Got on just in time.
Belinda Carlisle. I'm 4 for 5. This is a bit meh. Different and slower than her usual stuff.
Charts again. A lot of what was on last week has gone down, interesting. New no. 1 and they're playing both sides. Billy Bragg and Carla Teevee. Live vocal. Literally nobody is buying the single for this. We get five seconds of WWW, which is too much.
Playout is Liverpool FC. 100% accuracy. That's fairly depressing. And I wish someone would end the career of that cowardly thug McMahon.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 8, 2019 9:24:41 GMT 1
12/5. Mayo and a very bad Cockney impersonation from Read. Because we're starting with Charlie Higson making his TOTP debut a few years after top tenning in the indie charts. Also a chap called Lance. Performance is studio but there are lots of clips of the video in the corner. Lance ain't doing much. Credited to Harry Enfield although perhaos it should have been credited as Loadsamoney to reflect it not being a solo outing. It hasn't aged well.
The full "Alphabet Street" video. It looks curiously low budget. Perhaps that's the US filming.
Charts. Ofra Haza, another indie hit from a year back making it big. Primitives down, shocker. Aztec Camera back in. Studio, and another of last week's breakers gets a proper play. The Adventures. It's a tremendous cut, with a real epic feel to it, but the TOTP party atmos is not conducive to showing it to its best. "Terrorism, depression, damage, destruction..." "WHOOOO!!!! YEAH BABY!!!!" Also they've got the Deacon Blue thing of not letting the girl sing.
Who is next? Narada. Right. That means this programme, so far, has just been last week's breakers. I've said it before, but this breaker policy needs another look as it cuts down hugely on the acts getting an outing. If they're worthy of breakerdom they're worthy of a full play. I'm also calling it now. Last week's playout will get a full play. Oh, this is dire.
The breakers. Or next week's show. Anfield Rap. This should not be in the charts because the only people buying it should be in Liverpool. After all, no music lover is going to buy this. So it is at 13 because of gloryhunters who couldn't find Liverpool on a map of Merseyside. Belinda Carlisle, OK. Derek B, this now comes across as parody. And Prefab Sprout with something rather amusing as well as totes amazeballs.
And I was right. Star Turn! This is...amusing. Spoonplaying on Ver Pops. Elvis/ABC lame suit. Live vocals. Tony Blackburn. This HAS held up well. "He's not affiliated", nice callback.
Charts part 2. Oh God, Minogue has ANOTHER one? She should have remained a one hit wonder. Wet Wet Wet with "We Need A Number One Hit So We Will Do A Cheap Hideous Cover Version And Say It Is For Charity". What is the f***ing POINT of doing something that Joe Cocker had already utterly knocked out of the park? Just give the money to charity. And Billy Bragg is going to guarantee himself a hit when he can't get one himself.
Top 10. New Order close to the top. But Fairground Attraction right there. Alas it will only be the one week because guilt.
Playout is Minogue. I'm not denying I would not have fun times with her, but this is so f***ing robotic as a single.
Well. Show played some good music, but, for almost the entire part, was last week's show on repeat. Very, very, very bad scheduling.
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