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Post by vastar iner on Sept 5, 2023 0:01:26 GMT 1
09 Meat Loaf - Dead Ringer For Love 08 Japan - Ghosts 08 Bananarama with Fun Boy Three - Really Saying Something 07 Tight Fit - Fantasy Island 06 Scotland World Cup Squad - We Have A Dream 10 Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf 01 Shalamar - A Night To Remember 07 Imagination - Music And Lights 08 Hot Chocolate - It Started With A Kiss 04 Kids From Fame - Hi-Fidelity 10 ABC - All Of My Heart 00 Shalamar - There It Is 06 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) 08 Clannad - Theme From Harry's Game 09 Madness - Our House
That's a great compilo right there. Just take a Shalamar out for the commercial release.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 30, 2023 12:04:28 GMT 1
Art duo Komar & Melamid created a single based on opinion polls as to the most popular elements to a song. They came up with some sub-Disney Flack/Bryson shlock.
Of course, the real joy is when they did the exact opposite for the b-side...
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 26, 2023 22:16:59 GMT 1
A glorious track from Maria Nayler. Although inaccurate in at least two respects.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 15, 2023 12:40:52 GMT 1
Other than, as we look at it, the ball is struck from the left hand side of the offside player, and goes to the right. Where the half-cropped Swedish player is.
So therefore in the line of sight.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 15, 2023 12:20:50 GMT 1
She's plainly in the line of sight. In a straight line between the goalie and the ball when it was struck. This was 100% FIFA protecting the big money.
Unfortunately the commentary in the game was Dumb and Dumber and neither noticed.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 15, 2023 11:37:25 GMT 1
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 10, 2023 0:11:58 GMT 1
Progression of the biggest legitimate wins in competitive football, starting from the first round of the first-ever FA Cup: Date
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| Competition | 11.11.1871 | Upton Park
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| 10.01.1871 | Hitchin | 0 | - | 5 | Royal Engineers
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| 25.03.1873 | Queen's Park
| 7 | - | 0 | Dumbreck | Scottish Cup
| 10.12.1873 | Royal Engineers
| 7 | - | 0 | Maidenhead | FA Cup
| 31.10.1874 | Wanderers | 16 | - | 0 | Farningham | FA Cup
| 30.09.1882 | Vale of Leven
| 16 | - | 0 | Milngavie Thistle
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| 25.10.1882 | Witton | 23 | - | 0 | Liverpool Stanley
| Lancashire Cup
| 04.10.1884 | Yoker | 17 | - | 0 | Tayavalla | Scottish Cup
| 12.09.1885 | Arbroath | 36 | - | 0 | Bon Accord
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 9, 2023 9:27:09 GMT 1
Dark, dark, dark times when the SAWmill first got to no. 1, followed by the abyss-plummeting smugfulness of Philip Baily and Phil Collins.
Which may be why I never noticed the return of David Cassidy to the single digits at this time.
(although I might have never bothered listening past the first five seconds or so, it's like a poor man's Howard's Way theme)
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 6, 2023 21:36:23 GMT 1
8 Hand In Glove 6 This Charming Man 10 What Difference Does It Make ? 6 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now 5 William, It Was Really Nothing 9 How Soon Is Now ? 9 Shakespeare's Sister 4 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore 4 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side 7 Bigmouth Strikes Again 10 Panic 6 Ask 8 Shoplifters Of The World Unite 8 Sheila Take A Bow 4 Girlfriend In A Coma 8 I Started Something I Couldn't Finish 9 Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me 5 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Way better than I thought it would be.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 5, 2023 13:34:54 GMT 1
Such a powerful message that it took only another ten years.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 2, 2023 21:44:05 GMT 1
Easy way to have a forgotten hit: release a double a-side where the A gets all the attention and the AA is tagging along for the ride...
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 2, 2023 15:59:23 GMT 1
minus several hundred thousand million: New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough 10: Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U 04: Kylie Minogue - Tears On My Pillow 09: Beats International featuring Lindy Layton - Dub Be Good To Me 01: Snap - The Power 05: Adamski - Killer 02: Madonna - Vogue 06: Englandneworder - World In Motion 02: Elton John - Sacrifice [Healing Hands would be an 8 - VERY strong song] 00: Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power 00: Bombalurina - Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini 00: Steve Miller Band - The Joker 07: Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven 06: Beautiful South - A Little Time 09: Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody 00: Vanilla - Ice Ice Ice Baby 03: Cliff Richard - Saviour's Day
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 2, 2023 15:57:39 GMT 1
06: Bananarama - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye 07: Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues 09: Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter 09: Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me 00: Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita 08: Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song 10: Adam Ant - Puss 'N Boots 10: Madness - The Sun And The Rain
eff me, that's a strong list
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 1, 2023 8:29:21 GMT 1
Although it does show how good Chuck Berry was at dealing with an audience without singing, it's really a stand-up routine.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 31, 2023 21:45:37 GMT 1
For this I think we will have to say Heart - ‘All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You’. Caused a bit of controversy at the time, as AIDS was causing a hoo-ha and this was kicking against the pr**ks, so to speak.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 31, 2023 21:43:51 GMT 1
RIP Adrian Street - glam rock wrestler on the old World of Sport, and who made it big in the States...
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 29, 2023 19:11:27 GMT 1
What do you get if you get an ITN newsreader to go all Shatner on the whitest interpretation of funk possible?
This could indeed be the greatest atrocity humans have ever inflicted on humanity.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 21, 2023 17:42:05 GMT 1
It's not whether it's right or wrong - it's just that in rolling 25 year periods from 1960 to 2000 there was a huge amount of change in the music industry. And then it stopped.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 20, 2023 22:01:11 GMT 1
12/1. Juan Kerr and another Simple Mind on the Awful Tower. 60,000 copies gets you to no. 6, N-Trance. This is already a throwback. "Only love can set you free." Tell THAT to Terry Waite. Wasn't this in the charts last year? Going for the low-volume-sales bounce. Reminds me, Wet Wet Wet are probably due a single.
No. 1 is Rednex, spoiler alert. Lightning Seeds, with more high-class, expertly-produced rocky pop, or poppy rock. They seem to be on the cusp of a massive, massive breakthrough, but it never seems to happen. I know EXACTLY what they need. Angie Pollock on keys. I guarantee that will break them through.
Bill Whelan, who was no. 1 in Ireland for 18 weeks, with some fiddlededee that throws back to Legs & Co. Only really comes alive with the stompy bits. Bodhran ftw.
Nicki French, with one of those morally repellent "there is literally no point for this other than to extort money from the terminally stupid" cover versions that actually takes AWAY from huma achievement. It's not even karaoke, it's a Pickwick Records pile 'em high cancer on the pustular a*sehole of Shaitan. Was this another bet? "Let's emphasize how untalented Nicki French is by giving her a song that Bonnie knocked out of the park and make her talk through it"? This is an INSULT. And Producer Vastariner would have said, at the production meeting, that this is never ever ever ever ever ever ever polluting the show. Plus he would get the word around that WE ARE NEVER ALLOWING ANY OTHER COVER VERSION AGAIN.
Portishead. Now THIS IS OF WHAT WE NEED MORE. It's dark and louche and smoky and 3am-y and malignant and stylish and...DIFFERENT. Bliss.
The Almighty. I approve of this being on the show, although maybe before Nicki French, to make French sound even worse than her vomited-out sputum of an excrescence. It's not my pigeon but it NEEDS to be on because a) it gives the harder audience a reason to listen to the show and b) there is going to be someone out there who has never heard this sort of thing before and it will blow their minds and introduce them to something that will be a very special part of their life. Which is something WHICH WILL NEVER BE SAID ABOUT NICKI FRENCH. I bet even her mother didn't think that when the last contraction shat her out.
The threatened exclusive from Simple Minds. Can someone enlighten me how this is push-worthy when Martin Stephenson & The Daintees are not? It's who you know. It's not bad at all, to be fair, it's got that sort of Primal Scream country geetar in contemporary sound thing, but others are doing it better.
Lisa I'Anson, who looks très cute, introduces the no. 1, maybe Goodier hates her. Playout is Deep Purple because modern music is rubbish. Scary thought: this is closer to the programme than the programme is to us. Scarier thought: in 1995 Deep Purple were complete, total, and utter dinosaurs. The equivalent today - 25 year old band that has barely changed its sound - is Fake T**t. God, this generation is f***ing STUPID.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 20, 2023 15:03:26 GMT 1
First show of 1995. Host of ISIHAC introduces Phil Oakey forgetting he's meant to sing into the mike. Joanne, call me. Huge amount of positivity for the latest Human League comeback, but I prefer "Heart Like A Wheel". Which was a hit in 1990 yet the chyron said it was their first since 1986. That's a bad bad bad bad bad sign for the year that the BBC could get something so easy to get right so completely, commprehensively, unfathomably wrong. Boy, I hope someone got fired for THAT one.
PJ and Duncan, and I see the requirement to sing live has been dropped for BBC "talent". Jesus f***ing Christ, you genuinely have to have had your brain removed not-very-surgically to buy this. This is making me warm to genocide.
Some Swiss Eurovision entrant next meanders through some barmy old cack, and it's a sign of how badly this programme has started that the hip-slop of Rednex is a highlight.
Thunder. Well, at least it's a genre shift. More blues than rock. It has a bit of dirt on it, it's not bad - easily the best from them.
Ini Kamoze. Bought by people who want to show they're not racist. This gets very irritating after about eight seconds.
Boyzone. This is the distilled essence of pure evil, isn't it? Also evidence of the ongoing moronicity of the record-buying public. Because when I was 8, if anyone had tried to foist on the market a fake Fake T**t covering the f***ing Osmonds, then all the girls in the class would have scratched them with their little nails into human tagliatelle. This is one of the absolute worst things that humanity has ever created. I wouldn't blame Ming the Merciless one iota if he decided to destroy the earth if this were presented to him as an element of creativity.
E17 are no. 1 and they've obviously been told to go on stage before they finished getting ready. It's also the playout so someone wants them off the top.
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