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Post by o on Jun 24, 2018 9:59:22 GMT 1
Why's Mark deleted himself?
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 24, 2018 11:03:28 GMT 1
Why's Mark deleted himself? That what I thought to myself?
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jun 24, 2018 23:05:10 GMT 1
Why's Mark deleted himself? Who’s Mark?
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jul 3, 2018 22:23:02 GMT 1
I can’t believe there’s a song called Mated! 🤮 I watched that in horror.
Am I confused or was We Built This City a breaker on two different shows? How was that allowed?
Seems a bit odd watching sitting in a heatwave with my shorts on and all the windows and doors open watching Shakin’ Stevens do Merry Christmas Everyone.
Overall 1985 has been pretty disappointing, the worst year of the decade I reckon. With Pet Shop Boys waiting in the wings with West End Girls though I reckon things could be about to get a lot better.
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Post by WC on Jul 4, 2018 18:58:18 GMT 1
You're right it is odd watching Christmas songs being played in the searing summer heat.
It's the Christmas episode this Friday for 30 minutes at 7.30pm and then 60 minutes at 11pm. Also this Friday at 8pm is The Story of 1986 followed by the Big Hits of that year at 9pm. TOTP '86 starts the following Friday (13 July) at 7.30pm and again at 11pm for 30 minutes.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 5, 2018 21:38:03 GMT 1
With TOTP 1986 starting next week I researched that because of Mike Smith we will not see 16 episodes. Surely something needs to be done to allow them to be shown, that is about one third of the whole year.
Performances that will not be seen:
Feargal Sharkey - You Little Thief
King - Torture
The Alarm - Spirit of '76
Nana Mouskori - Only Love (gutted! not)
Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene
Hipsway - The Honeythief
Freddie Jackson - Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times' Sake)
Culture Club - Move Away
Samantha Fox - Touch Me
Tippa Irie - Hello Darling
Art of Noise with Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn
Bronski Beat - C'mon C'mon
Bryan Ferry - Is Your Love Strong Enough?
Maxi Priest - Strollin' On
Joyce Sims - All And All
Status Quo - Rollin' Home
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 20th Century Boy
Lovebug Starski - Amityville
Status Quo - Red Sky
Lulu - Shout
Samantha Fox - Hold On Tight
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink
Madness - Waiting For The Ghost Train
Bob Geldof - This Is The World Calling
Communards - So Cold The Night
Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down
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Post by o on Jul 6, 2018 10:15:15 GMT 1
That is a shame, but only really three I care about...
The Alarm - Spirit of '76
Hipsway - The Honeythief
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jul 7, 2018 7:37:47 GMT 1
The thought of missing 16 episodes is very disappointing, then I look at that list of songs which won’t be shown and think “well, not to worry...”
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 7, 2018 18:44:22 GMT 1
With TOTP 1986 starting next week I researched that because of Mike Smith we will not see 16 episodes. Surely something needs to be done to allow them to be shown, that is about one third of the whole year.
Easy. Just have someone shout "Mike, let us know if you object to us showing your TOTPses." And if he doesn't answer, go ahead.
Anyhoo. 31/10. Longbates. Shergal Farkey to start. Decent song but he sounds as if he is squeezing in too many words in the verse lines. Long thinks it will be fighting for the top spot next week, which is a bold prediction from no. 12. Has she seen midweek flashes?
She thinks it will compete with Elton John, who has decided to go out for a drive in a convertible Bentley Continental in subzero temperatures. I can't help but think that that's not a wise move. But his hatband and jacket are colour co-ordinated with it. Maybe he had the car sprayed. Have to say, Nikita is dead gorge. What amazing eyes. LOL, Watford. Reminds me of being in North Korea with some amazing looking girls who would never be able to leave. That passport photo is not legal.
Matt Bianco. No no.
Charts. 40-39-38 new entries. Howard's Way theme is in the 40. Heh, I remember when that was a thing. Talking Heads with the highest chart entry, that's incongruous.
Breakers. Bit of Siouxsie, which is brilliant, sinister, dark, brooding, throwbacks to Honkers Gonkers and everything. Should have been the whole lot. Kate Bush has had a barnet chop and looks gaminely cute. "Cloudbusting" sounds like half a symphony. UB40 with an odd one that seems to break in the middle, that seems to be a video thing these days.
We go to King. Hm, I don't remember this and would have put it down as usual rubbish, but this is rather good in the verses and there's some nice choral harmony. I think they needed more courage with the production, give it some oomph. The early bridge when Paul cuts loose is something they could have done with a bit more of.
Top 10 videos. Simple Minds who have taken the cover route to get a big hit. AC Cobra in a Level 42 video. This is a good carspotter show. Djan Hammer at 8. I never got the whole Arcadia/Power Station thing. An attempt to widen the Duran Duran franchise? A-ha are still at 2, this should have been no. 1, surely?
Because what is at no. 1? Bloody Rush. Are people not bored with it yet? It's like the English teacher on the school disco karaoke. Playout is the pointless Shaky crap. Audience looks in their thirties.
That could have been a rare brilliant show. More breakers, less Shaky, and don't bother with the top 10 video rundown, nobody got more than a couple of secs anyway.
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Post by smokeyb on Jul 7, 2018 18:52:01 GMT 1
Watched the preview of TOTP 1986 show, and guess who introduced Wham, none other than Mike Smith.
Seriously.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 8, 2018 12:19:34 GMT 1
American chainstore. Steve Wright and Peter Powell. Powell looks like he wants to dismember Wright. And he would be right to do so. Utter cretin. Anyhoo, we have KMKYWAP A-haaaaaa!!! in ver studio. Disappointing for those who like the video but a boon for the pre-teen girls. Must be a big push to steal the top spot as they're still at 2.
Far Corporation with "Stairway To Heaven". Heh, I don't remember this. To be fair to Far, it doesn't sound much like the original. Indeed it sounds an entirely different tune. There also seems to be about a trillion of them.
Level 42. I like them a lot more now than I did then. Charts. Madness go from 34-28. They're going to miss the 20 for the first time.
Breakers. Howard's Way theme. Like a youtube video, just throw a load of yachts on it. Eurythmis & Franklin at 18. Aretha seems to be breastfeeding three dozen meerkats. Talking Heads with a brilliant video that surely merits a lot more than a ten second breakers clip.
And that's it for breakers. Seriously, why bother? Just extend the programme. UB40 at 7 with something dully worthy. Can't be bothered with it.
Top 10 videos. Sharkey wasn't a contender for no. 1 after all, but 4 isn't a bad leap. Two drummers. We're getting quite a bit of this. That seems to be cheating, consecutive week appearances. God almighty, who is still buying Rush? She's 24 but looks fifteen years older. Playout is Hardcastle who can't find anything Vietnam-y so goes for Capone.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 15, 2018 9:25:55 GMT 1
21.11.85. Janice Long and Paul "Who?" Jordan, looking like he's stepped out of Gatsby, if Gatsby were colour blind. On commence avec Madness, who have gone back to the Nutty Boy sound, although Suggs isn't interested in miming to the mike. This is good fun but their heart does not look like it is in it, like "we've tried to move our audience on but they're only interested in Sade".
Wham! in at no. 2. Video shot in The Marquee. Imitating The Maisonettes. Interestingly though there's quite a bit of focus on the "other" members. Is this a change of direction? Sadly the song is rubbish. Not sure the video really works, because it's black and white and expensive focus, but it doesn't capture what ought to have been a heatpit, it's all too clinical.
Dee C Lee. Style Councillor. This sounds like it's meant to be some heartlorn epic but it's dull, derivative, and continues to prove the theory that the further away from The Jam Weller gets, the worse his music.
Charts. "When Love Breaks Down" is in at 40. It surely has to go up heavily. One thing for Jordan, he knows it's Abrams. Breakertime. Whitney Houston. Utter garbage. Dionne Warwick & Friends. Also utter garbage. Lionel Richie. Yep, utter garbage. Three Yank tracks and they're atrocious. There seems to be a theme here.
And now another Yank track. Doug E Fresh. In the studio. I suppose they flew over because the chances of them getting a hit in the US are remote, so he's going to enjoy any chart success he can have. Hello, this is really interesting. There's something a bit Bomb Squad of the production. Hm, not keen on the Inspector Gadget sample though. Fresh is definitely the star on this, not so keen on Slick Rick's flow. That stood right out. Indeed it would today.
Top 10. Talking Heads are in it, wow. The video deserves a full show. Sharkey at no. 1. This came totally out of nowhere. Last I had heard about him was he was signed up to Madness' label. Weird ending about Nick Cotton going one way. Playout is Midge Ure, not a bad track, but not particularly inspired.
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Post by Robbie on Jul 27, 2018 20:46:14 GMT 1
If anyone catches this before 9.30pm tonight... there's no TOTP 1986 on tonight. But instead at 9.30pm on BBC4 we have Top Of The Pops 1971, the edition from 27 December 1971, hosted by Tony Blackburn. It's the second 1971 round up from that year. The Christmas Day 1971 edition was wiped back in the 70s but couldn't be shown anyway due to the person hosting it. Sadly the edition showing at 9.30pm has been edited down to half an hour from its original 40 minutes running time so we'll probably lose 3 songs. There is a longer showing in the early hours of tomorrow morning so whether any songs that are edited out tonight will be shown we shall see...
The full edition, hidden in white text in case anyone doesn't want to know the line-up in advance:
27-12-71: Presenter: Tony Blackburn
(-) T-REX – Get It On WATCH (-) THE TAMS – Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me ® WATCH (1) BENNY HILL – Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) (video) (14) SLADE – Coz I Luv You WATCH (-) GEORGE HARRISON – My Sweet Lord (danced to by Pan’s People) ® WATCH (-) THE ROLLING STONES – Brown Sugar ® WATCH (-) ASHTON, GARDNER & DYKE – Resurrection Shuffle WATCH (-) DIANA ROSS – I’m Still Waiting (video) WATCH (-) THE NEW SEEKERS – Never Ending Song Of Love WATCH (35) ROD STEWART – Maggie May ®
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 29, 2018 18:50:25 GMT 1
The square root of 144. Long and Davies. We start with Bronski Beat, now with John Inman as their lead singer. Hm, this is their best for quite a while. Maybe they should have ditched the falsetto a lot earlier. Ironically (perhaps) nobody is actually hitting a beat, it's all synth. And nobody is hitting a boy either. Davies congratulates John. Heh, told you.
Madonna. FF.
Cameo. Codpiece alert? They actually look like they were dressed by Leee John. I don't remember this song, probably because it's utterly atrocious. It's some talking bits, then some singing bits, and it's the same thing throughout. It's basically "Wanna Be Starting Something".
Top 40. Who are The Concept? Aled Jones with his fake snowman. Elton John has a new wig. There are loads of newies, and even re-entries. Amazulu going up, good for her/them.
Breakers. Iron Maiden, one of the re-entries. Unless this is a live recording in the charts as well as on the video. Bruce Dickinson is one hell of a vocalist, metal belters don't get the credit they deserve. I always wondered if there was a market for a metal band that didn't look like one (Tin Machine?). Princess is a "breaker" despite not moving. How does that work? She's cute. Song is gash. Sunbeam Rapier in the video, it's a British shoot, thought she was American. Also a Morris Minor in the background. Starship, who built this city on rock & roll, rather than a crushed concrete alphabet. This is the same act that did "White Rabbit"? Sell-out.
Back to the studio. Shaky at 10 with one of the most twee Christmas records yet recorded. Still, it's good to see something properly Christmassy getting into the top 10.
Rest of the top 10 in video. Pet Shop Boys at 9. It's scary how much publicity this is getting, BBC Breakfast Time has it on every morning to show how to record a single or make a video or something. It's ludicrous, I can only assume they've got an in with the entertainment business. Song is crap. Richie, Sharkey, Band Aid back in the 10, with a new video. Collins & Marilyn "Who?" Martin. Wham! are down to 2. And we have a brand new number 1, and it's beyond words to describe how utterly sh*t this is. Playout is "Last Christmas" because no imagination.
Again, it's a show that shows the stark difference between the UK and the US. The US songs are all w**k. The British much better.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 30, 2018 17:18:57 GMT 1
Upper second 1986. Longpeel. A-ha to start with "The Sun Always Shines On The Telly", apparently. A-ha have a drummer, who knew? Nowhere near as good as their first single, but still decent. Morten's hands look like Kryten's, it's rather disturbing.
Paul McCartney with "Spies Like Us" next. He's gone back to the "Call Me Up" idea of having himself in the video in several different incarnations. This is actually a rather good single. Very experimental, it's almost all drumbeat, with a funky instro break that turns into an entirely different song, and then speeds up to a climax. The film from which it comes looks crap, but, given it has Chevy Chase in it, is not surprising. It's a very leftfield song to be a film theme. Funny Abbey Road callback.
Level 42. "Leaving Me Now". A band I've come to appreciate more as time goes on. At the time they weren't immediate. No slap bass on this one. Quite a tender ballad with a clever fake end to the chorus.
Charts. We're not going to see The Concept as he is/they are going down. A-ha and Macca are both in the 40 twice. Quite a few songs going up in the Christmas aftermath. We stop at 11 for Bronski Beat. Again. Graphic in the back says Happy New Year in old logo style.
Breakers. Jennifer Rush with some old cack. God almighty, she's in her early twenties yet seems to be aping someone in her mid-forties. Sting with something down to his usual standard.
Sophia George, looking like she's just come from caddying. "You're just a flash of curly wurly"? This is quite sweet, nice innocent voice, contrasts with the subject matter. The ending is very Tom Lehrer.
Top 10. Big proportion of non-movers. And Shaky has a number 1. Well done him. Santa seems to be employing child labour. The girl in the video opening the present under the Christmas tree was a winner on a Saturday Superstore competition. I doubt anyone thought it would be a no. 1 video. Elton John is the playout. Bit funky and spiky, some retro elements, odd choice for a Christmas release.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 12, 2018 12:24:45 GMT 1
Sixteen one. Peachread. Read wearing a very school disco leather tie tied at his navel. On commence avec Fine Young Cannibals. Roland has a splendid shirt, like a mix of UD Alessandria and Internazionale. This is a really fun version of Susmi, very different to Elve. It gets a boffo from me.
Dire Straits with a semi-comic video. Done on the cheap. If they're not going to bother, then neither am I.
We go from that to Cherrelle with Alexander O'Neal, although AON seems to be absent. Oh, there he is. Well, he doesn't improve something that was bad to start with.
OK. Video vote time. Half of these videos are just lipsync performances. Utterly ludicrous. "Close To The Edit" is the only imaginative one. How we have descended from the Antmeister's epics. Votes by postcard only, lol.
We go to Knowing Me Knowing You A-ha! Done this one before. Charts de 40 au 11. Steve Harley? Nana Mouskouri? Are we in 1975? Are Five Star known as Funf Stunf in Germany? Shouldn't it be "Who's Zooming Whom"?
Mister Mister. Mr Mister? Mr Mr? Don't care. Goes on a bit. It was a US no. 1. Says it all. Our no. 1 is still Pet Shop Boys and their insider media campaign. Finish off with Bronski, who are on a lot.
Very, very dull show. Top and tail were the best.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 16, 2018 20:12:54 GMT 1
30 January. Janice Long looking like a toreador and Gary Davies looking like an undertaker. The outfits were apparently designed in a competition. Davies flubs his first line and nominates Billy Ocean as highest new entry rather than climber. It's a film theme and it's been played to death. Can't be bothered with it now.
Next up is Madonna with "Borderline". Oh God. I can't be bothered with this either.
Janice Long advises us to keep an eye on Talk Talk's drummer. Difficult given there's no light on it. This is so brilliant though. Liam Gallagher obviously modelled himself on Mark Hollis. Well, that was a touch of class.
Top 40. The Costello Show? Another pseudonym? Breakers, James Brown, his biggest hit for a while. More movie work. Highest new entry is Simple Minds, with some stadium rock cliché. It's a comprehensive sell-out. Grace Jones, the most startling looking singer in the chart, with something wonderfully sleazy and funky.
Now some boys in lamé suits, per Davies. ABC? No, it's FYC. Homaging Elvis. Roland looks a bit like Nat King Cole. Crowd is into this. Quite right too.
Top 10. Looks like a race to the top between Madonna, Billy Ocean, and Nana Mouskouri. KMKY A-ha!!! are no. 1 with a video that looks like it took smeggin ages to make. Shot in an arts centre in Teddington that hasn't been a church for a while. Don't like the title. Far too long.
Playout time. Kurtis Blow. Old skool. You can see where Fresh Prince got his flow from. Blatant ripoff.
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Post by o on Aug 18, 2018 15:21:59 GMT 1
I still remember that Sigue Sigue Sputnik episode, followed by the excellent And she was - Talking Heads.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Aug 21, 2018 14:32:05 GMT 1
I didn't know that Grace Jones song, but when Janice Long said "If this is about driving then I'm the Queen of England" I thought I'd watch it with the subtitles on... "Pull up to my bumper baby With your long black limousine Pull up to my bumper baby And drive it in between" Hmmm, yeah, I see what she means
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 28, 2018 19:38:25 GMT 1
We're all even numbers, 6, 2, 86. Bates and Paul "Who?" Jordan. We start with The Damned, at no. 18, is that their biggest hit? It's a fantastic song and a fantastic cover. But Vanian is looking like Cruella de Ville playing snooker. He also looks like he's in the wrong band. Like Jagger in a jumpsuit in 1975. Audience is into it, but not so much as to recognize the false finish. Nice lighting effects for it.
Wow. What a beginning. Best thing on Ver Pops for a while. They cut the ending though. And we continue with, er, Five Star. It's their best single, but not my tasse de thé.
And then Ozzy Osbourne. OK, that's what music television is missing these days. Complete randomness. Gothpunk, dance, metal. Oz looks like he's wearing Ric Flair's robe. It's a shame this is so bog-standard rawk by numbers.
Chart time. Su Pollard? Stochastic. Diana Ross has got married. Survivor's single is called "Burning Heat", apparently. Rochelle? Nope, me neither. PiL going up to 20, hopefully that'll get a play. Heh, Lydon and Scabies two places apart. "Doobluh" at 14.
Breakers start with Belouis Some. This is not the video I remember, which was, well, outright pornographic - basically a prisoner's fantasy about some hottie with lots of nudity. We get PiL as a breaker, that should have been in full. Bloody love this one. He looks at the camera like he knows he's right, and you know that he's right, and that's something quite horrific. *hitney at 19. Eff that.
Back to the show and it's Dooblay. God, this is DULL. It's like, how much more yuppie can this get? And the answer is, none. None more yuppie.
Top 10. Fine Yogurt Cannibals. Huh? Jordan is taking the mick. Nana Mouskouri going down? I didn't even know she was going up. Billy Ocean gets to no. 1. This must be his third or fourth, surely? No? Wow. Well, well done him. Backing singers are having fun. We finish with another film song, from James Brown, more soul than funk but another great vocal performance.
Well, that wasn't bad. Let down by the EEC.
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