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Post by Laurence on Feb 19, 2017 22:18:52 GMT 1
An unlikely juxtaposition brought about a #24 hit in 1995: Johnny Mathis meets German happy hardcore That is one annoying track like the one I'm going to next post. I remember it from the time it was out.
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Post by Laurence on Feb 19, 2017 22:24:03 GMT 1
'I wanna be a hippy' is definitely weird for a top 10 and as for the video - words fail me! The Top of the Pops censored both the words 'Stoned' and 'Marijuana' meaning that the track was even more gibberish than in its normal form. The people behind this were responsible for the equally strange but more charming 'Tricky Disco' with its cute alien robot.
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Post by vya on Feb 19, 2017 23:17:56 GMT 1
Snuff - Flibbiddydibbiddydob - from the early 90s, something I first heard via John Peel.
Even categorising this one is a bit weird. Is it a single? An EP? A mini-album? I don't think it was eligible for any charts, because, despite running in total to under 18 minutes, it contained 11 tracks in total, when the maximum limit to be counted as a single officially was four. Whereas the minimum length for an album wqas 20 minutes....
A mixture of thrashy (and in some cases quite rateable) cover versions of hits from decades past - I really like the version of the Specials' "Do Nothing" in particular - mixed with high-pace covers of songs from TV ads and some self-compositions. Certainly one of the weirdest CDs in my collection, and pretty good fun, too.
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Post by S1m on Feb 19, 2017 23:30:24 GMT 1
Fat Les had some weird stuff going on.
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Post by S1m on Feb 19, 2017 23:45:29 GMT 1
'I wanna be a hippy' is definitely weird for a top 10 and as for the video - words fail me! The Top of the Pops censored both the words 'Stoned' and 'Marijuana' meaning that the track was even more gibberish than in its normal form. The people behind this were responsible for the equally strange but more charming 'Tricky Disco' with its cute alien robot. Not to mention the bizarre Smurfs version!
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Post by Milliways on Feb 20, 2017 0:32:26 GMT 1
Loved the Technohead song, ages since I heard it
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Post by Laurence on Feb 20, 2017 22:59:57 GMT 1
I had thankfully forgotten about the Smurfs track. It's quite literally excrement!
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Post by LT on Feb 22, 2017 15:40:02 GMT 1
ha! remember the smurfs version and used to love the technohead version!
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 17, 2017 20:46:57 GMT 1
Not many octogenarians who make their chart debut. Especially if they have been in showbiz for over 70 years at the time. But Bruce Forsyth managed it with an album aimed squarely at the Christmas market in 2011.
Bruce had appeared on charity singles before, so he had been in the singles charts, but his bona fide pitches for 45 success had all failed. And this jaunty little number penned by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent failed to set the "I'm Backing Britain" campaign under Darling Aaaarold alight...
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Post by Milliways on Mar 18, 2017 20:03:36 GMT 1
Returning to the theme of techno tunes with ridiculously catchy melodies, this must be one of the weirdest songs ever to reach the top 5 (#4, 1999).
If the (equally weird) title, and artist, are unfamiliar, you might know it as the 'Hampster Dance' song:
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 21:43:47 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 21:54:39 GMT 1
This absolutely awful nothing like Bananarama song
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 26, 2017 22:55:52 GMT 1
At the height of the medley craze, when all and sundry was having a go, there was this Brian Eno-produced crassic. The essence of the Sinfonia was that any musician could join, so long as they played an instrument which they had never played before. Conductor John Farley started them off playing Strauss by shouting "one two three four". They had actually broken up by 1981, so Eno stitched together tracks from recorded concerts and an earlier album to cash in in the wake of the RPO's top five.
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Post by Robbie on Mar 27, 2017 13:27:50 GMT 1
Perhaps this was a bit too bizarre for Top Of The Pops viewers as this wonderful record just didn't quite manage to make the top 40 after being featured on the programme back in February 1980... needless to say I bought the single as I love its quirkiness
The Flying Lizards - TV
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 12:39:44 GMT 1
At the height of the medley craze, when all and sundry was having a go, there was this Brian Eno-produced crassic. The essence of the Sinfonia was that any musician could join, so long as they played an instrument which they had never played before. Conductor John Farley started them off playing Strauss by shouting "one two three four". They had actually broken up by 1981, so Eno stitched together tracks from recorded concerts and an earlier album to cash in in the wake of the RPO's top five. Heard this one on Pick Of The Pops a few years ago, sounded awful. Tony Blackburn didn't sound impressed either.
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Post by vastar iner on May 1, 2017 12:56:33 GMT 1
Joe Pesci had been a lounge singer in the 1960s (and introduced Bob Gaudio to the other Four Seasons). And cut an album under the name Joe Ritchie. Judging by that evidence, he wasn't a very good lounge singer.
Anyway, after he started to cut down on his acting, he went back to music. Cutting an album under his My Cousin Vinny persona, basically taking contemporary rhythmic talking and putting his Mafioso character spin on it. Gangster rap.
There was one single released from the LP...
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Post by vastar iner on May 11, 2017 19:13:02 GMT 1
I had no idea that this advert...
...actually spawned a hit single.
I always loved that advert, to the young vas there was nothing better possible in life than spending all one's time driving a big lorry while eating chocolate. Even the older vas is thinking that there probably is not that much.
Anyway, the single from the advert was credited to an act named Cirrus and it spent a cheeky week at no. 62 in 1978. The co-producers, Graham de Wilde and Adrian Sear, would have a bigger hit as The Evasions, de Wilde doing a decent Alan Whicker impression. De Wilde is also the co-writer of this little ditty, along with "Weedon"; could it be Bert?
The bizarre thing about it was that the 45 came shaped like a flat Yorkie chunk...
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Post by vastar iner on May 26, 2017 23:18:42 GMT 1
Professor Stanley Unwin enjoyed one of the biggest album hits of the 1960s when The Small Faces backed his tale of Happiness Stan on Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. Took a while though for him to sneak a hit single, which came when Wubble U sampled one of his tracks on his debut album Rotatey Diskers; the cut taken from the album as a single - under the name "Goldilocks" - managed to do what nearly every single spoken word single has done. Namely miss the charts.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 5, 2017 20:30:01 GMT 1
Here however is one spoken word single which DID make the charts...
...John Harris (then of the NME) interviewing the bickering Gallaghers and released under the name Oas*s. For trademark reasons, but perhaps the * stood for Harris.
NSFW.
But at the time so much Oasis stuff was shifting that Fierce Panda managed to sneak a no. 52 with this cheap as chips cash-in. The week it entered the charts Oasis had 8% of the top 100. Not including this.
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Post by thehitparade on Jun 6, 2017 0:53:24 GMT 1
I'm not actually old enough to remember the Yorkie advert, but I kind of want one of those brown vinyl singles now.
Did anyone else know there was a Wikka Wrap 2 - seven years later?
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