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Post by SheriffFatman on Jul 20, 2020 11:28:10 GMT 1
I wonder how comfortable Anthea Turner was with recieving that "Christmas kiss" from Bruno Bookes? Or indeed, how comfortable he was giving it? I bet there was an awkward moment in the meeting when it was first deecided they should do it. A helpful on-screen reminder of how horrible the 80s were.
Anyway, what happens next? I see this Friday we have the hour long Christmas Day episode. 1989 was the year we got a video recorder and I taped that programme, and watched it many many times over the following years. I'll probably remember all of the links off by heart.
Was there an episode on Thursday 28th? Or will that be it from 1989? Is there a documentary about 1990 too, or has that been shelved due to lockdown? I see they're repeating the 1989 documentary this Friday.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 20, 2020 11:35:06 GMT 1
I miss Anthea big 80s hair , it was the best thing about her...
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jul 20, 2020 11:39:39 GMT 1
Just remembered something else I was going to mention too - that version of the Magic Number they played was some sort of remix wasn't it? I had the 7" vinyl and the LP but they didn't sound like that.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 20, 2020 20:22:03 GMT 1
Just remembered something else I was going to mention too - that version of the Magic Number they played was some sort of remix wasn't it? I had the 7" vinyl and the LP but they didn't sound like that. Yes it was quite odd not the one the radio plays these days, it was much more housey
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Post by Tom on Aug 1, 2020 19:02:32 GMT 1
Was there an episode on Thursday 28th? Or will that be it from 1989? Is there a documentary about 1990 too, or has that been shelved due to lockdown? I see they're repeating the 1989 documentary this Friday. Late replying to this but it was the Review of the 80s show that was broadcast on Thursday 28th. I happened to see a mention randomly about that show last week so when I saw there was another hour long show on last night guessed it would be that. With Mike Read and Paul Gambaccini presenting they must have been short of options! Didn't find it that interesting tbh, but they did mention at the end it was TOTP's 26th birthday the following week. Glad they repeated the 1989 documentary as it reminded me that I hadn't got round to seeing it yet! Notice they're not starting 1990 next week. I know the snooker's on, but that surprises me a bit. Large part of me hopes they just start it next year now.
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Post by Tom on Aug 1, 2020 21:51:00 GMT 1
Robbie suggested on Digital Spy that they're planning to hold back showing 1990 until September.
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Post by Robbie on Aug 1, 2020 21:55:20 GMT 1
Robbie suggested on Digital Spy that they're planning to hold back showing 1990 until September.
Hopefully it will be September. August is taken up with snooker and then the Proms.
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Post by o on Aug 25, 2020 13:33:25 GMT 1
I wondered where it had disappeared to, search for new eps every week, I'm sure there's plenty of other time around the snooker and proms to show TOTP, but we can wait.
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Post by Tom on Aug 25, 2020 19:47:59 GMT 1
I wondered where it had disappeared to, search for new eps every week, I'm sure there's plenty of other time around the snooker and proms to show TOTP, but we can wait. Yeah, they showed Big Hits of 1989 last week (which was good for me as it reminded me that I hadn't got round to watching it yet), so they could have started it by now if they wanted to.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Sept 11, 2020 16:28:40 GMT 1
I'm missing Top of the Pops and it's not fair! I don't suppose anyone has any idea if / when it's back? I was really looking forward to 1990
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Post by o on Sept 11, 2020 16:50:34 GMT 1
Yeah no new eps coming up as far as I can see...
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Post by Tom on Sept 11, 2020 17:53:24 GMT 1
Looking forward to 1990 too as that was the year I started watching the show. Back in the days of the old TOTP site there was an episode database on there and I went looking, must have been mid 2000s, to find out what the first episode I saw was and narrowed it down to March so will be interesting to finally discover after all these years which week it was! Been exploring the past a lot this year but still have no idea why I started watching in the first place though.
When I started watching these repeats in 2017 the 90s were what I was really looking forward to watching, like a big cake at the end of a massive meal which you can constantly see in the corner of the room hoping you'll be able to enjoy eventually..
Early 2000s think it was I collected various shows on video from the early-mid 90s which I've still got though probably won't ever watch again, so the opportunity to see all the shows (apart from at least one I know won't be aired) is exciting, especially as I've been told of various ways to download the shows, other than recording it from the TV. Anyway, I've waited this long, can wait a few more months if necessary, think it ties in better next year for me as it is.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 21:59:50 GMT 1
According to a source on Twitter is that after many weeks of waiting is that Top of the Pops The Story of 1990 and Big Hits will be shown on Friday October 2nd
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Post by SheriffFatman on Sept 22, 2020 13:32:52 GMT 1
Great news from the BBC website, it isindeed all systems go for 1990, with The Story Of at 9pm on October 2nd, Big Hits at 10pm. This is the synopsis for The Story Of, the list of contributors sounds great, and it's brilliant that they take a balanced view of the show rather than just making out everything was perfect...
"After the global political upheaval of 1989, from the Berlin Wall to Tiananmen Square, the start of the 1990s soon demonstrates that the new pop grammars of hip-hop and dance all too often bewilder the entertainment-focused, old-school institution that is the BBC’s weekly chart show.
Adamski, Orbital, 808 State and Eurodance sensations Snap! struggle to translate their brand of cool beats to the BBC’s need for entertainment, musicianship and random dancers, while the likes of Betty Boo, MC Tunes and Beats International introduce the British take on hip-hop to the studio. In a year in which even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and John Barnes embrace rap, these breakthrough hip-hop artists have to share the Top of the Pops stage with some big balladeers, including Sinead O’Connor and Maria McKee.
As the Milli Vanilli scandal breaks internationally, Top of the Pops begins to question and change its own miming policy. Hip-hop kids and the indie underground start entering the pop mainstream, as Liverpool’s finest football freaks The Farm demonstrate. But despite the new zeitgeist, the battle for the Christmas Number 1 is an almost traditional stand-off between the old guard (Cliff Richard) and the young pretender (Vanilla Ice).
Contributors include Adamski, Seal, Betty Boo, Orbital, Norman Cook, 808 State, MC Tunes, Lindy Layton, Peter Hooton from The Farm and Penny Ford from Snap!"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2020 0:21:07 GMT 1
Great news!
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Post by SheriffFatman on Oct 7, 2020 14:58:51 GMT 1
I enjoyed the Story of 1990 documentary. I really like the way they take an objective view of the programme, they don't just make out it was all brilliant. I remember Radio 1 at the time being in a very similar place - aiming to serve a youth who liked music that very few people at the station understood. It was amazing to hear Orbital saying that Gary Davies told them he liked Chime but the producers would only let him play it as a bed under a competition because it was instrumental.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Oct 21, 2020 13:26:15 GMT 1
vastar iner I miss your acerbic reviews, have you given up? For me part of the fun of watching these repeats was guessing what you would think! That said, I'm not sure there was much to bring you joy in recent episodes. New Kids On The Block's recent chart topper was particularly flabbergasting in its awfulness. Four shows into 1990 now and one of the main highlights was Nicky Campbell saying "Kylie Minogue there with Tears On My Pillow, which you can hear playing over the credits of her new film The Deliquents, if you manage to stay in the cinema for that long". A bit surprised he got away with that.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 21, 2020 13:44:00 GMT 1
Oh, they've restarted? Will need to catch up.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 24, 2020 11:07:43 GMT 1
4/1, new decade, same old crappy theme, same old crappy Davies. Who gets to be the first act in the nineties? The Quireboys. Interesting choice. Plainly trying to get a hit single by releasing in a quiet period, they've been around for a while, there's something of a dirty blues rock revival with them and Dogs D'amour and so on beginning to make an impact.
And this one is brilliant. Even though Spike seems to be channelling Ian Astbury. They've managed to merge a great singalong pop chorus with their Skynyrdesque rock. Album coming out soon, that could do well.
Madonna at 5, with a record that's hanging on despite being blatantly a Christmas track. They could make a film out of this one. Again they cut it off.
Chartissimo. Funny, Davies going on about the new year, rather than the new decade. Maybe the BBC sent a memo around about 1AD and 1991 and so on. Mantronix doesn't have a pic. A re-entry? Rare.
Silver Bullet, sampling Robocop. Poor man's Public Enemy. The best bit about it is the coda. Are we going to see that? No. He's 18. Promise there.
Latino Rave. Which is, basically, a modern Jive Bunny. Medley of songs that were samples in the first place. Not even cleverly put together, it's one after the other, no mashups or whatever. Waste of time.
Aaaaaaand the "play our shittiest artists or you don't get to interview Kylie or Jason" strikes again as Errrm Sonia is inflicted on us yet again. f*** OFF you talentless tart.
Top 40. Deacon Blue with a song aimed specifically at the new year. Probably expecting better than 30.
De La Soul at 8. Muddy production that works with their sound. There's a warmth about it. I think it's one of those that works even better on crackly vinyl.
Coming up now an Italian dance band, be still my heart, with Dawn Mitchell who was apparently the 49th person to audition for them. Well, she's ubercute. But why do they need so many people to audition for something they're not singing? The voice behind the hit is Alisha Warren. Anyway, this one is actually quite good. Video is dirt cheap.
Highest new entry at 9. NKOTB. "Hanging Tough". Now, I'm not exactly Conor McGregor, but, in this video, NKOTB look so pissweak that I reckon I could take them all on. It plummets new levels of atrocity. "Oooh, look how rough we are, we're WAVING OUR ARMS!!!!" God, teenage girls are pigsh*t thick.
Leila K. Is this a new video? Doesn't seem to match the one I remember. She's not very good. She keeps running out of breath as she gets to the end of a verse. She also looks like an actress playing a rapper rather than being a proper Betty Boo. She just about avoids the MC Miker G bit though.
Toppermost tennermost. NKOTB at 10 and 9. Jesus. One of Kaoma seems to be about 62. The latest SAWmill Barlow is still at no. 1. We've gone down from Paul Young and U2 and Duran Duran to Bros and Minogue. O tempora. Marti Pellow is trying too hard. OH f***ing HELL SONIA HOW MUCH f***ing TECHNOLOGY WAS USED TO MAKE HER SOUND LESS LIKE A PIG IN AN ABBATOIR? IT WASN'T ENOUGH! Stansfield isn't even trying. The Pasadenas, surely the best answer in Pointless.
Finishing off with Rich In Paradise, with a needless technofied cover.
Well, that episode started fine, then turned into an Italo House benefit. Best argument against EU membership.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 24, 2020 11:33:46 GMT 1
All the ones, 7 in binary. Mayo singletoning. Mysteriously suggesting that he's been, erm, active, hence the shades. And we do the thing again where we see last week's playout, which means FPI Project get a thoroughly undeserved second consecutive performance. Someone needs to dig out the original to squish this sh*te.
We go from a cheap tacky pointless technofied cover to Jimmy Somerville. Let's see. Are we going to get social commentary à la "Smalltown Boy" or are we going to get a cover version in order to get a cheap hit à la "Everything Else Jimmy Somerville Has Ever Done"? Guess what. God alMIGHTY, is this going to be a sh*t dance benefit show?
Oh God. Mayo has rolled up one sleeve of leather jacket. What's next? Some indiepop? Rock? Metal? Ska? Reggae? New wave? NWOBHM? Soul? R&B? A capella? MOR? AOR? Pure pop? Punk? Funk? No, it's techno dance. For f***'s sake. Who chose the songs this week? They have NO IDEA how to build a show. D-Mob, the D standing for dogshit.
What's next? Some indiepop? Rock? Metal? Ska? Reggae? New wave? NWOBHM? Soul? R&B? A capella? MOR? AOR? Pure pop? Punk? Funk? No, it's techno dance. Mantronix. f*** OFF.
Finally, Big Fish, no, just Fish. Finally an actual song. It's not my tasse de thé but it sounds so different from all the cheap gash that it's like walking into a cold shower on a 47 degree day.
Charts. At no. 17 The Mission. They should really have had this earlier in the show. Mix up the Italocrap. Based on the Times headline Butterfly On A Wheel (as in "who breaks a..."), a rather bold and prescient article about the pointlessness of imprisoning Jagger and Jones for minor drug possession; not the Establishment attitude one would have expected from the Thunderer. Anyhoo, this song is the Mish trying to be a stadium band, it doesn't suit them. Needs a chorus. It's OK, nothing more.
21, Deacon Blue. Mayo is mutton dressed as lamb now. Ricky Ross looks ridiculous. Like the geography teacher at the school disco. I never got the dynamic of that band, Ross' voice is American-beer-weak yet he takes lead over the far more charismatic Lorraine. Or maybe that's just cos I fancy her. Anyway, this is country-tinged and like the Mission needs a punchier chorus.
Top Ten. f***, Sonia going up again. Albeit geometrically. Soul II Soul non-moving, that should have got them a play. Then again Donovan should have had one too. NKOTB are no. 1 because teenage girls are pigsh*t thick. There is nobody on the entire planet who would buy this for the music. Nobody. Literally nobody.
Playout, and therefore guaranteed to be on next week, is Halo James, with a song that might have sounded vaguely contemporary in 1985. Brunette girl in the video is cute.
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