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Post by Tom on Nov 8, 2020 21:49:01 GMT 1
I think the 8th March episode might be the first one I ever watched. The Erasure video looked familiar and I remember loving seeing Love Shack on there at the time. Always remember the Radio 1 Top 40 getting a mention as that's how I discovered it. But on the flip side there were other songs that I don't remember seeing at all (and 1 or 2 that I thought would have provoked memories).
Guess I'll know for sure by the end of the March episodes (definitely started watching in March) if Love Shack doesn't get another play or the Top 40 doesn't get another mention. But it might come back to me, will probably watch it again at some point.
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Post by TheThorne on Nov 9, 2020 13:24:00 GMT 1
I think the 8th March episode might be the first one I ever watched. The Erasure video looked familiar and I remember loving seeing Love Shack on there at the time. Always remember the Radio 1 Top 40 getting a mention as that's how I discovered it. But on the flip side there were other songs that I don't remember seeing at all (and 1 or 2 that I thought would have provoked memories). Guess I'll know for sure by the end of the March episodes (definitely started watching in March) if Love Shack doesn't get another play or the Top 40 doesn't get another mention. But it might come back to me, will probably watch it again at some point. wow make me feel old, not sure I can remember but it was mostly like a Xmas one probably 1975, yes must be 'Streets Of London' is one of the first songs I remember seeing on TOTP.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 9, 2020 14:19:19 GMT 1
Kal. Mar. Brambles, who hasn't had time to take her coat off. We start with Shakin Stevens, who always gets onto the show whatever cash-in he has recorded. This is a throwback to his 1981 stuff, which means that it doesn't have the intrigue of reviving an artform from nowhere. Sounds like a cover but I cannot think who would have done the original. It is close to being by numbers, there's a cute pause between title and rest of song, but otherwise it's something Cliff could be doing.
Brambles still has her parka on Is it really cold in the studio? Seems to be a lot of taped applause. Tom Waits is in the top 10 thanks to Rod.
Chartissimo. Gloria Estefan has a load of new entries? Oh joy. Oh, no, it was just Brambles mis-speaking. Jamie J Morgan next, he was apparently a photographer for Jazzie B. His utterly pointless cover of the Lou Reed classic. This is like when the Septics re-wrote Fawlty Towers and took out Basil Fawlty.
Anyhoo. Three retro entries. Now for the breakers. 31, Innocence, don't remember this, but it's pretty good. Chillout vibe with sweet vocals. Marc Almond with Julie T Wallace (not Julie Walters) with something Brechtian, he's channelling his inner Scott Walker. And a shouty contrast from B52s, who are finally getting a US hit. And the hottest woman on the charts at the moment, Candy Dulfer, with a Eurythmic and a Dutch film theme.
Well, this is picking up nicely. Good choice of breakers and now we get Electribe 101. Not quite sure Billie Ray is the best dancing frontwoman and it somewhat jars with her ethereal voice but let's go with it.
Charts. Then a high new entry, which is an artlessly strung together run of Brit nominees. We're back to Jive Bunny. Means A Guy Called Gerald is in the top 10 though. And Jonathan King, oops.
Up to 3. Micheal Bolton. DELETE!
Ten me up. Stone Roses new entry at 8. So HOW IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS f***ing HOLY DOES THAT NOT GET A PLAY BUT THEY PUT f***ing SHAKIN 1957 STEVENS ON?!?!?!?! ARE THESE SHITSTAINS TOTAL w*nkers!?!?!
New no. 1, which Brambles completely misses the point of by saying it is a cover of the SOS Band. With whom was she sleeping to get a job?
Anyway. The playout is JT & The Big Family, rather than, say, THE SECOND HIGHEST NEW ENTRY STONE ROSES, because the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation is a quisling body. Anyway, this is OK, if a bit aimless, and has the "ah yeah" in apropos of nothing, but there is no excuse for not having the Roses. That's a disgraceful decision and whoever is in charge of programming should be fed into a mincer.
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Post by TheThorne on Nov 9, 2020 15:28:46 GMT 1
All I can assume is it didn’t have a proper video, I think The Chart Show made their own for the Indie Chart. The Stone Roses weren’t great at making videos, most of their videos were just rehashes of other ones. But they were touring the Uk in February not sure if they were in the country when this episode went out though.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 9, 2020 20:39:46 GMT 1
Time for tea, eight of three. Brookes looking very Partridge. Guru Josh to start, now, here are two dudes who seem to be utterly delighted to be on Ver Pops. Bit better than Neil & Chris standing there like spare pr**ks at a wedding. Not sure why there are four keyboards on stage as Josh is using 25% capacity. But what the hey, this is an effervescent performance of an effervescent tune that deserves its top fivedom.
Gloria Estefan is back with her song. "Anything For You" or "Don't Wanna Lose You" or whatever, they are all the same. Is the video going to be her looking wistful amongst curtains? Of course it is. Like Abba appearing in quarters. What. A. Waste. Of. My. f***ing. Time.
Charts. Belinda Carlisle's hit is "Runaway Horses". Which in Greek is Pheidippidoi, close to the name of the horse-mad character in Clouds. Kate Bush and Primal Scream, good-oh.
JT & The Big Family get a consecutive play for being at no 8, because they're not British, I assume, given the band that WAS at 8 last week didn't get a play yet JT did. This is not a song that improves for a longer play.
Innocence, we are back to the insane thing where breakers get consecutive plays yet the Stone Roses do not. Somebody's taking a bribe. And as if to prove the point next is Marc Almond. Seriously, why bother watching every week if the programme is going simply to be repeated? That's three in a row that were all on last week. And it's even more stark given Almond has only just crept up the chart and is plainly at or near the peak. Was this really worth 3 minutes that could have gone to literally anyone else?
Charts. Bros can't even get the highest new entry now. Stick a fork in them, they're done. Erasure's new entry at 12 gets them a play, how convenient. Video seems to be influenced by Yves Klein. It's a really good one. Song, that is. The world does not need a topless Andy Bell. Just think they censored Sabrina on Points Of View. It's sexist.
Four now. Stewart & Dulfer. MTV are playing this a LOT. Bros with their entourage, i.e. a full instrumental backing. This is like the last series of Hi-de-Hi, they're trying to generate excitement and energy, but you can see the despair in their eyes, they know it's over and this is just going through the motions. I mean, what IS this song? Shouldn't there be a chorus or something? It's just indistinguishable yelping over a one note backing.
Top 10. They can't work out where to base the non-mover triangle. Jonathan King alert. Beats International are a non-mover at no. 1 with the triangle pointing up. Just how hard is it to get these things right? Anyhoo, we get the video this week. I presume Mrs Layton has grounded Lindy.
Playout, B52s, highest climber but they give it less than Eurotrash. Brilliant.
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Post by Tom on Nov 12, 2020 19:22:34 GMT 1
Thanks to AcerBen for this performance which was never aired on TOTP. I'm guessing it was because it dropped out of the top 40 that week (the first episode being shown tomorrow).
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Post by o on Nov 13, 2020 23:27:18 GMT 1
That 15th March episode is absolutely ruined by the screamer in the audience, great songs by the Mission, Inspiral Carpets and Primal (aptly titled) Scream are ruined by some lass screaming every 10 seconds. If I was the floor manager/sound engineer I'd have booted her arse out the door, I understand they want an atmosphere, some lass screeching like a parrot is not an atmosphere.
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Post by vya on Nov 13, 2020 23:41:33 GMT 1
More or less the Ides
Mayo
Mission - Deliverance: Hadn't noticed the Arthurian theme to the lyrics previously. It's OK, no more, no less. Very English passionate goth rock.
NKOTB - I'll Be Loving You (Forever) - disturbingly (and surprisingly) less nauseating than their other hits so far, but one still feels like grabbing them and saying "you're 17, what do you know about `forever' (or love)"?"
Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever - at the time I couldn't decide whether this was passibly good or an atrocious p-take. Still can't. All the generic Madchester Rave On Elements are here - a nod to the funky drummer here, a maraca-wielding Bez imitator there. Seems so much part of the soundtrack of that time that it would be wrong for it not to get an appearance on TOTP. (Also true of "Made of Stone", though, which is amazing, and is denied one....)
B52s- "Love Shack" - there are many arguably better, and certainly less irritating, songs on the album this is from. Tin roof, busted? Yeah.
Primal Scream - "Loaded" - classic example of a band devoid of any even a tangentially remote relationship with talent, led by a man who makes Ian Brown look like a moral leader of genius and intellectual insight, getting a remix so you'd almost never know it was them. A good move. They should do this more often.
Inspiral Carpets - "This Is How It Feels" - pity they got roped in with the Madchester lot because of geography, they really were something else - like an extension and modernisation of prog, more or less. Miserable, brilliant, hammond organs. By far the best thing on the show.
Jive Bunny - "That Sounds Good To Me" - the title is somewhat deceptive
Beats International - see passim
49ers - "Don't You Love Me" - absolute pish
Breakers: Big Fun - on next week, see then Fish - "A Gentleman's Excuse Me" - although the competition for this title is not great, the absolutely abounding peak of Fish's solo career, probably. Beautiful, sensitive, eloquent, and very fine. Wet Wet Wet - "Hold Back The River": on the contrary, bring on the flood, quality pop bands who want to desperately prove how serious and credible they are deserve to be washed well away. No need for this at all.
Inspirals apart, not a good edition.
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Post by vya on Nov 13, 2020 23:54:03 GMT 1
Feast Day of St Nicholas Owen
The Bit In The Middle
Big Fun - "Handful of Promises". Pure comic genius, although I'm not sure whether the joke is on the band or on the people buying the record. The boys have switched from fluorescent to pastel-shaded jackets as part of the act. Whereas their two previous singles were purely very bad and bad, this crosses the frontier into "so atrocious it is wonderful land": SAW chucking in the "Think (About It)" sample, ubiquitous two years early, trendy three years earlier, and not bothering to write a middle eight or much of a chorus for good measure (just as they ran out of verses for their last single). Truly an amazing record. Atrocious, but quite, quite, brilliant.
Erasure - "Blue Savannah" - as before
Orbital - "Chime" - doesn't really suit TOTP, although in other contexts it's a very fine thing. "No" + "Poll Tax" t-shirts noted.
49ers - "Don't You Love Me" - still complete pish. Hasn't improved with repeated listening, and never will.
Breakers: Queen Latifah & De La Soul - "Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children" - on the brief excerpt we get, far, far, far too much De La Soul, and far too little Queen L. Inexcusable, as she is the superior part of it Heart - "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You". Not much ambiguity in the lyrics here. Jamtronik - "Another Day In Paradise". I'd quite forgotten how atrocious this is. A singer who thinks she is Claudia Brucken. (Oh and an "Oh Yeah!" sample too). Let's just say: she isn't. Gross.
Snap! - "The Power" - indisputably powerful
Stewart/Dulfer - "Lily Was Here" - and still is
They Might Be Giants - "Birdhouse In Your Soul"- the Jedward of Brooklyn do their thing, and they really look like they are enjoying themselves on stage. Good for them.
Beats Int - now this is a decent record, but worthy of five weeks at no 1? Not really.
Jimmy Somerville - "Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)" - channeling George Bush, his voice remains an acquired taste, but the understated campaigning anger of this song has a dignity and force to it. It's alright.
Not great.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 14, 2020 12:57:04 GMT 1
Beware the Ides of March. Mayo introduces a Wembley-bound group. The Mission. Heh, who knew goth was becoming so big? Wayne looking like John Cooper Clarke. This is landfill goth though. It's right at the soft rock end, sort of Cult territory.
Background music is "Loaded". Which means we now get NKOTB. My God. You would have thought they'd plunged to the bottom of the barrel in their previous releases, but this one has gone through the bottom, and is digging at about a trillion miles per hour to the earth's core. Not only is this the sort of simpering pleading doormat of a track to start with, but their voices, presumably having gone through about a billion bucks' worth of enhancement and improvement, don't even aspire to being in the same universe as direness. There is not one sentient human being on the planet who could have bought this for the music. In fact, what they should do, is trace everyone who bought this, find out everything else they've ever bought, and instantly disqualify every single artist on that list from ever being in the charts ever again. God almighty. It is surely in breach of the Geneva Convention to play this gash.
Charts. Lots of things that look interesting so we see a pale imitation of a Beatles classic. Just...why? Apple missed a trick, should have squished this for the original. What's next with that drumbacking? "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler"?
B52s. This is just a good time jam. Nice that the non-famous ones get a bit of video love too.
Breakers are those at 29, 30, and 31. We start with Fig Bun, because whoever is running TOTP these days obviously utterly detests me. I am in general against the death penalty but sh*t like this makes me rethink. Fish at 30 with a ballad. Which needs more than about six seconds to make an impact. WWW trying to go bluesy and get all grown-up, it doesn't suit them.
And at 24, Primal Scream, in the studio, who sound a bit different to their tweepop origins. This is an ultra-radical change. And this song is...magnificent. Not sure how much PS is in it, given it is mostly sample, but it is put together with a real feeling for the material. Best use of steel guitar on a pop single ever?
Charts. To give an idea of how clued up the people running this foetid show are, the graphics say that the song at no. 20 is "Stone Roses" by Made Of Stone. Maybe that's why they weren't on when in the top 10? The morons were running through the phone book looking for that fresh new band Elephant Stone?
How old is this show? Oldham Athletic are a success. Inspiral Carpets at 22. Bowl haircuts and their own label Cow. Not to be confused with Cud. We likes this, we does. Oh, yes, we does. Kitchen sink indie.
Highest new entry is...Jive Bunny. Oh dear. There are real people in this video though, looking as if they are the least convincing fifties wannabes ever. Less famous songs, seem to be focussed on Little Richard.
Top 10 and the top 3 stay the same. Non-mover thing is based on the left. Playout is 49ers, with another bit of landfill Italo dance. Girl is cute though. Something of the next-door about her.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 14, 2020 16:03:59 GMT 1
Desmond Douglas. Davies. Three debutants. Snap, Orbital, TMBG. And we start with Fig Bun. Is it harsh that I want these cretins to be used as tarmac? Not one redemptive characteristic to it at all. You really need Peel to introduce that as three w*nkers w**king around some w**k.
Erasure, they've been done before. I will never understand how Yves Klein could die so young. His entire life was basically getting hotties naked, throwing blue paint over them, getting them to writhe on a canvas, and then selling the canvas for a million. I don't get this thing about sticking decorations on though.
Charts. Orbital. They're just standing there while a dancer tries to get her jacket off. It's minimalist to say the least. It's quite engaging.
49ers. I really do like the girl, she's very natural and has a sweet smile, but she's probably as much the vocalist as I am. And the song is rubbish. Just cliché.
Beakers, which include songs that are loads lower in the charts than Stone Roses have ever managed. And there can be no excuse that there's no video because the one for the De La Soul one has plainly been made up from existing clips. Not objecting as it's really good. Heart with an ode to STDs, fitting for the AIDS era. The brunette seems to have put weight on.
And with what might be the ultimate insult to musical taste, they give a play to Jam Tronik, with a needless revamp of a sh*t record, to the extent they even throw in the "ah yeah!" at the most inappropriate place. They give THIS publicity AND NOT THE STONE ROSES? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
Highest new entry at 12. Snap!. I think I prefer another four letter word beginning with S. The bloke raps as if his mouth is full. Dire. Dire dire dire.
Stewart and Dulfer, fed up with it now. Charts. Non-mover arrow is based on the right again. THE GRAPHICS PEOPLE STILL CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STONE ROSES THE BAND AND MADE OF STONE THE SONG. WHO ARE THESE WANKSTAINS!? WHY ARE THEY STILL IN A f***ing JOB!?!
TMBG at 17 with a cute birdform graphic. Now this is what we want. I was way ahead of the curve in thinking Richard Keys a tosser when he slagged them off on TVAM. John Flansburgh isn't even beginning to pretend to mime. This version is different to the album. Has a guitar break.
Top 10. Jive Bunny non-move. Hm. B52s are at no. 2, wow. No. 1 is the same and the playout is the Jimi Somerville calling for more funding for AIDS research. I would have had this as a breaker and put it next to Heart. But I'm a genius.
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Post by Tom on Nov 14, 2020 17:42:41 GMT 1
That 15th March episode is absolutely ruined by the screamer in the audience, great songs by the Mission, Inspiral Carpets and Primal (aptly titled) Scream are ruined by some lass screaming every 10 seconds. If I was the floor manager/sound engineer I'd have booted her arse out the door, I understand they want an atmosphere, some lass screeching like a parrot is not an atmosphere. I read a comment earlier in the week that the sound on the 1990 shows has the music toned down and you can frequently hear a man shouting to the audience to "put your hands in the air". Hadn't noticed that but maybe as they wanted the audience to get involved she was encouraged? Think I noticed her when Loaded was shown on the Big Hits show when they started 1990. So many talking points from last night, especially the 2nd episode! Will post later.
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Post by Tom on Nov 18, 2020 19:24:08 GMT 1
I think the 8th March episode might be the first one I ever watched. The Erasure video looked familiar and I remember loving seeing Love Shack on there at the time. Always remember the Radio 1 Top 40 getting a mention as that's how I discovered it. But on the flip side there were other songs that I don't remember seeing at all (and 1 or 2 that I thought would have provoked memories). Guess I'll know for sure by the end of the March episodes (definitely started watching in March) if Love Shack doesn't get another play or the Top 40 doesn't get another mention. But it might come back to me, will probably watch it again at some point. I'm now 80% sure now I watched this episode. Remember the JT & the Big Family performance mainly for the female singer. At the time I couldn't have paid much attention to what the presenters said as apart from Simon Mayo who I knew from listening to the breakfast show on the way to school they were nobodies to me, wouldn't have even known they were on R1. One thing I have realised is that watching TOTP helped make the songs more memorable. Up until then there didn't seem to be many songs from the year that I remembered from the time.
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Post by Tom on Nov 18, 2020 19:34:05 GMT 1
15th March
Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever Simon Mayo mentioned it had been his record of the week so would have been familiar with this already, remember the performance.
Love Shack Had a feeling this was on again but didn't expect it to be on for the 3rd week in a row! Didn't that break their own rule of no song being shown more than 2 weeks running unless it had been a breaker or no 1? (More the latter). Mayo mentioned about it being a former record of the week so may have already been familiar with it before watching TOTP (assuming that wasn't half-term week) but highest (or joint highest) climber for 2 weeks so would have heard it on his show anyway. Even more of a shock it didn't reach #1.
Loaded The other joint highest climber, remember hearing this on the breakfast show. Whilst the song doesn't lend itself to a studio performance I don't think the performance helped. Lazy or were they just drunk?
This Is How It Feels One of the songs I have the strongest memories of from the time, remember the performance too, good song.
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Post by Tom on Nov 18, 2020 22:05:51 GMT 1
15th March
Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever Simon Mayo mentioned it had been his record of the week so would have been familiar with this already, remember the performance.
Love Shack Had a feeling this was on again but didn't expect it to be on for the 3rd week in a row! Didn't that break their own rule of no song being shown more than 2 weeks running unless it had been a breaker or no 1? (More the latter). Mayo mentioned about it being a former record of the week so may have already been familiar with it before watching TOTP (assuming that wasn't half-term week) but highest (or joint highest) climber for 2 weeks so would have heard it on his show anyway. Even more of a shock it didn't reach #1.
Loaded The other joint highest climber, remember hearing this on the breakfast show. Whilst the song doesn't lend itself to a studio performance I don't think the performance helped. Lazy or were they just drunk?
This Is How It Feels One of the songs I have the strongest memories of from the time, remember the performance too, good song. Forgot to add about This is How It Feels, been listening to the 11th March top 40 and Bruno Brookes pronounced Inspiral as in Admiral which was odd, never heard it pronounced like that before.
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Post by vya on Nov 21, 2020 0:11:29 GMT 1
The very day of the Hyphen War
The near future rector of St Andrews University
Bizz Nizz - Don't Miss The Partyline Even by the standards of lost Cooltempo records of spring 1990, this is not quite a classic, but it is agreeably minimalistic. Nice keyboard riff. Sounds (and looks) very much as though it comes from a Dutch-speaking culture, but Flemings may disagree.
Heart - All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You Doing a good job of keeping late night radio in business for years afterwards
Candy Flip - Strawberry Fields Forever Maybe it was his reference to C Flip's flares being "wider than Michael Heseltine's smile" that got Nicky C elected at St Andrews. This is not a record that improves on repeated listening.
Inspiral Carpets - This Is How It Feels still masterful, utterly so
Jimmy Somerville - "Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)" Fairly minor though not unpleasant, but look for something half as sensitive or plaintive (or indeed moral) as this in a recent top 40 and you'll soon see what has been lost in the intervening 30 years...
The Family Stand - "Ghetto Heaven" This is rather moderately, if not excessively splendid, absolutely nearly the sound of the springtime, even if it's only there a bit too blatantly to mark a gap between Soul II Soul singles....
Jam Tronik - "Another Day In Paradise" "An extremely good cover version", lies Campbell. Well, he'd have been sacked had he told the truth, as they'd have stormed out of the studio... Criminally bad cover of a track that is mildly nauseating in its original version.
No 1 - Snap - "The Power" This is OK. "Copywritten lyrics that can't be stolen" shows impressive chutzpah.
Queen Latifah & De La Soul - "Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children" Incidental
More or less unimpressive, overall
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Post by vya on Nov 21, 2020 0:39:52 GMT 1
5 April Anthea Turner
Happy Mondays - "Step On" Arguably the peak of Madchester. Like much of the best of the Mondays (and I am a bit of a "Squirrel And G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)" fan), the amount of the space in this track is the winning element.
Madonna - "Vogue" Smooth and competent, and kind of classy, while cunningly evading any possible Malcolm McLaren influence.
They Might Be Giants - "Birdhouse In Your Soul" as before, not to put too fine a point on it
Queen Latifah & De La Soul - "Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children" Still incidental, even if they play a little bit more of it this time. My general view is: DLS - very overrrated, QL - a bit underrated (or at least overlooked). And of course they cut it off when the Queen starts her thing.
Emma - "Give A Little Love Back To The World" A secular hymn for Europe. Earnest and dated, it's no "My Lovely Horse". Double Plus Ungood.
UB40 - "Kingston Town" Among the better of their endless list of covers
Jason Donovan - "Hang On To Your Love" A bit of a guilty pleasure tbf. SAW well past their best, obvs (and Jase's career clearly on the way out, too). It's not very good ,but....
No 1: Snap! Whatever
Alannah Myles - "Black Velvet" Not without some value and charm
Also not a great episode
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 21, 2020 10:12:08 GMT 1
三月/二十六。 Campbell introduces us to 6 bands in the studio. Does Bizz Nizz count as a band? I suppose in the loosest sense. Interesting to see what happens if you can't be bothered thinking up a tune or lyrics. They're from Belgium, apparently. When the most interesting thing about a song is that it comes from Belgians, you know it's really scraping the barrel.
Heart. God, this is dire. Thankfully they cut it of.
Candy Flip. They can't be bothered to come up with anything new so I can't be bothered to do so either.
Chartissimo. Beloved with that rare 40-39 move. Stone Roses in the 40, bet they won't play it. Next up, Inspiral Carpets, Campbell gives a shoutout to Peel. Finally something good on the show and even then it's not a new song to it.
Somerville, ticking the diversity box. How does a record get on twice when it is only at 26 yet Stone Roses get top 10 and can't get on? Can't be doing with this, it's about as subtle as a bucket of lard.
Family Stand. Yeah, this will do, it's mellow, it's chill, can feel the stress dropping away.
Campbell praises a cover version. Jam Tronik. No. This is morally repellent. It's bad enough Collins making money off exploiting the homeless while having a 267 bedroom mansion and a tax-dodging home in Switzerland. But some negatively-talented tart and her acolytes basically taking the song and throwing an "ah yeah!" artlessly on top of it to do the same has got to be one of the most musically despicable things anyone has ever done. And TOTP play it twice but refuse to play Stone Roses. These people are total b*st*rds. I want them fired and made f***ing homeless and forced to listen to Jam Tronik all day while Collins laughs at them from a gold-plated Rolls Royce.
Charts. B52s miss out on a no. 1 to something really dire. Playout is De La Soul with Queen Latifah, which is a far better exemplification of hiphop. Deserving of a longer play than Jam f***ing Tronik.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 21, 2020 13:36:23 GMT 1
Financial New Year's Eve. Turner surrounded by an audience who look older than her. New in at 16, Happy Mondays. Christ alive, this is 30 years ago. Why does it still sound much fresher than the entire top 40 today? This is of course magnificent. Mixes the Weatherall backing approach with an infectious pop choon. Exquisite.
Highest new entry at 4 is a bandwagon that Malcolm McLaren kicked off and Madonna decides to jump on it. She rhymes "let's get to it" with "nothing to it". This is devoid of any artistic merit whatsoever.
TMBG, with their ode to lighthouses, they'd be top 5 but for the hype machine two places above them. They started off with a name that they considered so bad they refused to mention it any more - it was El Grupo De Rock & Roll - and then changed to Dumptruck but had to change again because someone else was using it. They're much better at writing songs than coming up with band names. The Two Johns would have been a great name had there not already been a Three Johns. And Band Of Johns might be confused with Band Of Susans.
De La Soul & Latifah, on three weeks in a row, it betrays a lack of imagination on the programmers' behalf, or payola to the max. I do like this, but given that the video is a clip show, it smacks of rewarding laziness. And again it's TOTP preferring Americans to home grown talent.
A 15 year old in Eurovision. Emma, showing the same imagination in naming as her song. We get no graphic so I assume this isn't in the charts. God, she looks like Sonia. Oh, here comes the graphic, and there's a flag instead of the chart position.
The BBC's attempt to thrust Jimmy Somerville down our throats has failed as he's dropped. Jesus Jones in the charts, lol. Alannah Myles getting a big climb despite not being on last week.
Video, the UB40 karaoke show with a cheap and unimaginative video. File under cash-in. Also a bit weird, given that it is an homage to Kingston Jamaica and it is illustrated with people leaving it for a better life in the UK.
New in at 9, oh God, Jason Donovan. He actually looks embarrassed about this one. With good reason. When did teenage girls become so thick as sh*t? A few years before they were swooning over artists with some sort of musical integrity.
Anyway, let's go to the playout as the no. 1 is not worth listening to. Alannah Myles, who is drop dead gorgeous. Big climber into the 20 yet it doesn't make the main show. They already know it's going to be on next week. Meanwhile the likes of Jungle Brothers get studiously ignored. This show is becoming lamentable.
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TheThorne
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Post by TheThorne on Nov 21, 2020 20:27:47 GMT 1
TOTP is desperately in need of a new producer, Shane we have to wait another year.
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