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Post by vastar iner on Jan 10, 2021 10:04:48 GMT 1
Charlton v Huddersfield, 1957. Goodier promising a huge surprise at the end. We start, Glory be, with Pop Will Eat Itself, who are no longer grubby grebos from Stourbridge but are mixing elements of all sorts, opera, house, baggy, football chants. Engaging stuff.
Elton John's latest attempt for a solo no. 1 is a double-sided reissue for charity. They play the wrong song. "Sacrifice" is a dull and uninspired ballad. The I Just Called To Say I Love You moment that deservedly flopped hard. But people will buy any old sh*te for charidee.
Charts. Nothing much happening, MC Tunes at 31 had a bit of a play on Snub TV, the indie programme from the Def2 strand.
We go to a video of DJ Shake, a rave tune minus the tune. Goodier rather pointedly says after that "here is a band that definitely can play their instruments", namely The Mission, but it's plainly album-mining and I can't be doing with it.
Talking of which, Don Pablo's Animals, a good advert for the return of capital punishment.
Charts and Wilson Phillips on video. Somewhat countryfied take on sunshine pop. I would enjoy a sandwich with two of these. Surprisingly unambitious with the harmonies given their progenitors.
808 State vs MC Tunes. This would be good darts walk-on music. Big sample from The Big Country really works with this one. With this and Betty Boo there seems to be a distinct British take on rap now of fast and hard delivery. Derek B? Nowhere.
Was (Not Was). See above.
Top 10. New Order are no. 1 for the first time. The special surprise is the England WC Squad in Sardinia and Barnes saying it's basically a New Order thing. Gazza when he was still vaguely coherent. The video has the ugly face of football in it. And I don't mean Beardsley, I mean that coward McMahon.
Playout is Roxette with a film ballad. Not my tasse de thé. For a song bound to go up, playout is the jackpot, they're going to be on next week too.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 10, 2021 10:36:45 GMT 1
14/6. Bruno Brookes wearing a sort of Sgt Pepper anorak. Guru Josh and his campaign to demonstrate that the nineties are the time for the guru. It's got a great slow-burn introduction, but then it fails to climax. Should have gone for full-on synth explosion rather than a yelling Josh.
And now they're playing new entries at 38. Jeez. Maureen, whose sophisticated jacket is slightly undermined by her wearing leggings. This is ineffably dull.
Charts. "The Masterplan" is at no. 40, I thought John Barnes said THIS was the masterplan. Oh well. Gary Moore has had NE, climb, and non-move. Still not played.
"A number of cover versions on the show". That's not a good sign. New in at 13 are Snap, with a cover of "Oops Upside Your Head", made worse by the addition of Turbo B's incomprehensible witterings, sounding like he's eating, and a squeaky duck every f***ing second. You surely have to have had a lobotomy to buy this.
Maxi Priest. Another cover version. Can't be bothered.
And now Bobby Brown with a medley. God almighty, this is a pretty poor show. Heh, I'm suddenly reminded of Smashie & Nicey talking about an all-black TOTP. This is basically an entirely R&B/dance show. Which makes it useless if you don't like R&B/dance. But Brown can't be arsed to make a new song so this should not have been within a trillion miles of the show.
Charts. Finally we get something rock on video. The Charlatans, a new entry at 9. Um, new entry? Someone got a bit over-enthusiastic with the chyron.
Betty Boo in the studio, with the Boo-ettes. I lyk her a lot.
New in at 2. NKOTB. Dear sweet f***ing god. I thought they could not get any worse. The only positive thing possible is they're using NKOTB to identify a useless proportion of the population to be rendered into Soylent Green.
Top 10, still thankfully New Order at no. 1, and the playout is The 49ers, despite a small climb in the thirties. I think I would be very f***ed off if I were Gary Moore, overlooked three times for dance sh*te, or even Pavarotti who was new in at 21 yet didn't get a play. I'm now genuinely wondering if someone was making a point on race in this broadcast.
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Post by vya on Jan 11, 2021 21:11:43 GMT 1
7th June 1990 Goodier
Pop Will Eat Itself - Touched By The Hand of Cicciolina Never rated the Poppies, but vaguely allowed myself to be talked into thinking they had something about them by the inky music press. Nah, always the spirit of artless skateboarding lads on the p*ss. This is better than most of their tracks, purely as it mostly lacks lyrics.
Elton John - Sacrifice Not sure why this got a re-release, it's a passable ballad, but nothing special, probably deserved 20 or 30 places higher in the chart than the no 55 it got last time, but, nah.
D-Shake - Yaaah I think the 12" version was called Yaaaaaaaaaaaah. Maybe ahead of its time, in terms of foreseeing enhanced cultural degradation and nihilism. Another contributor to the "this is why we voted for Brexit" box/
The Mission - Into The Blue Not at all unpleasant, I guess. Poppier and more polished than their earlier records, I suspect the record company of seeking to make pop heart-throbs out of them. It won't work.
Don Pablo's Animals - Venus Naaah
Wilson Phillips - Hold On Hated this at the time, but I was young, what did I know. Obviously overly polished and produced up to the nines, and in its way not that challenging. But: charming harmonies, brightly coloured California melodious pop that this is heir, really, to some of that Wilson Sr did, at least. In retrospect they did four or five quite splendid singles, of which this is not the weakest.
MC Tunes vs 808 State - The Only Rhyme That Bites This is weird: more Madchester house with a particularly British rap variant (as aggressive as Silver Bullet, as high paced as the Cookie Crew, nothing at all like the mellow work of the other Macc rappers of the moment, Ruthless Rap Assassins or MC Buzz B) over the top of it. Not really convinced it works apart from as a burst of energy, but the production and choice of samples is something. Would have made a great B-side for "Cubik"
Was (Not Was) - Papa Was A Rolling Stone All very well, but I miss the quirkyness of their own songwriting ("She took me to her bedroom to show me her computer, she asked me if I liked it, and I told her she was cuter", etc)
EnglandNewOrder - World In Motion Indisputably, still, the best football song ever recorded. Sorry, Yeovil Town fans.
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love Superior polished, and only slightly soulless, mainstream radio pop. Very much in the Swedish pop tradition.
Truthfully, not a great edition
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Post by vya on Jan 11, 2021 23:54:47 GMT 1
14th of the sixth Bruno
Guru Josh - Whose Law (Is it Anyway?) Think he'd come out as some mad libertarian by now, right? Patently only a hit on the coatsleeves of Infinity, and inoffensive if minor, especially if you ignore the scribbled and incomplete ranting lyrics. Kind of embarrassing actually.
Maureen - Thinking Of You Likeable, because the song is; but pointless, because the original is similar but properly orchestrated and better sung, cover. Maybe introduced the song to a new generation, so there is that to say in its favour.
Snap - Oops Up Someone put that rubber duck out of its misery. Not good, the female vocals go some way to redeeming a terrible and unnecessary record.
Maxi Priest - Close To You Poppified quasi-semi-nearly-reggae with a nod in the direction of Soul II Soul. And he has an agreeable voice. Lightweight, though. Best thing on the episode so far. But as nothing else has surpassed mediocre this is fainter praise than it deserves.
Bobby Brown - The Cash In Cheap Megamix Thing Well it worked for Alexander O'Neal. Will we see Donald Trump in the video? Oh yes we do. Very much the less than the sum of its parts.
Charlatans - The Only One I Know Now this is the real deal. More retro than contemporary, but aspiring to timelessness. Roll out the Hammond Organ.
Betty Boo - Doin' The Do Yes, yes, fun, whatever, but not for me, despite the wit and talent, etc
NKOTB - Step By Step Way more ambitious than anything they've done before, and honestly a step up in quality too. Not that they are the next Beatles in waiting or anything. The music is too weedy for this to really work anyway.
EnglandNewOrder - World In Motion Still the best football song, etc
49ers - Girl To Girl Firmly in the niche "so bad it's quite brilliant" category last inhabited by Big Fun, and thus a vast improvement on their last, merely mediocre and bland, single. (Same could maybe said of the video) But still clearly only in the charts on the coattails of "Touch Me", no way will we hear any more from t hem.
Not exactly a classic episode, either.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 13, 2021 13:04:14 GMT 1
That Don Pablo’s Animals track is a very strange hit. There’s nothing to it whatsoever, why did people buy it? I was interested to read it’s actually just an instrumental version of a remix of the original which was released a month later under Shocking Blue’s name and peaked at 79. Strange.
I had no idea Donald Trump was going to turn up in that Bobby Brown video, I did a proper double take. In fact I rewound it to check I hadn’t imagined it.
Snap look like they’ll faithfully follow the law of diminishing returns, following up The Power with a very poor quality cover that screams of having no idea what to do next. I’d say there’ll be a couple more minor hits at most and we’ll never hear from them again.
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 13, 2021 13:15:22 GMT 1
That Don Pablo’s Animals track is a very strange hit. There’s nothing to it whatsoever, why did people buy it? I was interested to read it’s actually just an instrumental version of a remix of the original version which was released a month later under Shocking Blue’s name and peaked at 79. Strange. I had no idea Donald Trump was going to turn up in that Bobby Brown video, I did a proper double take. In fact I rewound it to check I hadn’t imagined it. Snap look like they’ll faithfully follow the law of diminishing returns, following up The Power with a very poor quality cover that screams of having no idea what to do next. I’d say there’ll be a couple more minor hits at most and we’ll never hear from them again. or will they strike gold again
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 13, 2021 13:30:48 GMT 1
That Don Pablo’s Animals track is a very strange hit. There’s nothing to it whatsoever, why did people buy it? I was interested to read it’s actually just an instrumental version of a remix of the original version which was released a month later under Shocking Blue’s name and peaked at 79. Strange. I had no idea Donald Trump was going to turn up in that Bobby Brown video, I did a proper double take. In fact I rewound it to check I hadn’t imagined it. Snap look like they’ll faithfully follow the law of diminishing returns, following up The Power with a very poor quality cover that screams of having no idea what to do next. I’d say there’ll be a couple more minor hits at most and we’ll never hear from them again. or will they strike gold again Nah, no chance 😉
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Post by vya on Jan 16, 2021 12:25:20 GMT 1
22 June 1990 Brambles (surely the most inadequate TOTP presenter round about this time, at least)
Magnum - Rockin' Chair Impossible to begrudge them some belated chart success, after trudging away for so long. And they are as redolent of urban industrial-turning-post-industrial England as regional unpretentious real ale. But whereas their 1988 break-through singles were mostly close to excellent, this is bog standard pub rock gone semi-glam, a few years too late for anyone to care. Wonder what they made of them in East Berlin.
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love Superior manufactured pop
Big Fun and Sonia - You've Got A Friend "Calls to Childline have doubled since this song was recorded". Proof it's cruelty in action, maybe to the performers as well as the listeners. Bizarre, and forgettable, and not, as Brambles intones "classy". (They did apparently record a version of the James Taylor song of the same name, before deciding to go with this one, with is even odder)
Wilson Phillips - Hold On Superior manufactured pop (cut off too soon)
Breakers: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Taste The Pain. Their record company has been trying to break them for ages (all those photos of them wearing socks, only). I find them tiresome, the sweaty unpleasant side of California the opposite of Wilson Phillip's lushness. Wish they'd go away; Bruce Dickinson - All The Young Dudes. Inexplicable and pointless but not loathsome karaoke Dogs D'Amour - Victims of Success. Rarely has an Oscar Wilde line been more ill-placed. No.
Yazz - Treat Me Good Worse than a tragedy, a mistake. A seriously weak comeback. Looks like it's all over now.
Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 - Mona Just what we needed. A Neighbours actor trying to be (a little bit) more manly and (a tiny bit) more credible than Jason. Fast forward.
Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma Out of place here. I'm sure Cultural Studies departments have written treatises on the video. And did she really call him "the big yin"?
MC Tunes vs 808 State - The Only Rhyme That Bites His command of the high-paced and original rap is admirable, really so
Elton John - Sacrifice Incomprehensible that this is a no 1, and his first solo one. The verses are a word salad that could almost have been written by Judith Butler. Not horrible, and not quite bland, but.
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This Nor would I want to. "It's the 80s and I'm down with the ladies" (Tone Loc) would fit into this rhythm somewhere, though. Wish he'd done it for a bit of metatextual interest. Yuk
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Post by vya on Jan 16, 2021 12:56:40 GMT 1
28th June 1990 Davies
Snap - Oops Up Go away, and take the rubber duck you're carrying with you. Thing is : she can clearly sing, so is maybe more abused here than Lolleatta Holloway was on "Ride on Time". Dreadful. Not noticed the "If school is sex, she's the graduation" line before. Maybe better not to have.
Jason Donovan - Another Night Verging on being hilariously bad, presumably picked from SAW's "just slightly too good for Big Fun" envelope. Daringly weak. Career meltdown in action. Or maybe a dare to see if his fans will buy anything with his name on.
(Charts; no 40 "She Comes In The Fall" now that is an exceptional track on a EP with three of them. And: was anyone really crying out for a Glenn Medieros comeback?)
Maureen (Walsh) - Thinking Of You Very much not close to the standard or level of interest of her earlier hit with Bomb The Bass. And the rap bit and some of the much repeated samples are utterly superfluous. Don't think I'd appreciated what a poor cover it was back then.
Breakers: Double Trouble - Love Don't Live Here Any More - has a kind of Bristol-sound spaciousness about it, a bit, err, Fresh 4, a bit Smith & Mighty, and some attractive instrumention, so less the pointless cover that it could easily have been Glenn Medeiros ft Bobby Brown - She Ain't Worth It - this, neither Del Amitri - Move Away Jimmy Blue -Great post-industrial misery in the vid. Not sure if Justin Currie is aspiring to be the Scottish Morrissey, but maybe. Not bad.
Bob Geldof & the Vegetarians Of Love - The Great Song of Indifference A bit of a delight (not without the potential to be really irritating if heard to excess). Joy though.
Bruce Dickinson - All The Young Dudes I guess this introduced the song to a new generation, so. And there is nothing actively wrong with it, so. "Boogaloo dudes carry the news" is quite contemprorary.
Maxi Priest - Close To You Mildly if only mildly enjoyable, impressive dreadlocks.
Elton John - Sacrifice At least give us Healing Hands, it has some imitation of some oomph
Poison - Unskinny Bop Unsubtle, annoying, devoid of redeeming qualities.
Well the best music out at the moment is not in the top 39, so this is what we have to put up with
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Post by o on Jan 16, 2021 13:04:09 GMT 1
Elton John sat there with a synthsizer just reminds of Ross in Friends, or some rich kid in the sixth form doing an end of term session. And he seriously has bleached his hair blond (or a wig), and has a trendy cap on with Boy on it from the Pet Shop Boys I assume, and then he gives us this dirge!
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 18, 2021 11:33:13 GMT 1
Magnum then Roxette - a band whose previous hit was called It Must Have Been Love followed by a band singing their current hit called It Must Have Been Love. Roxette’s is many times better.
Yazz has lost it here, it’s a shame. The only way is down.
At a time when it is sometimes a struggle to like this show, Luciano Pavarotti followed immediately by MC Tunes vs 808 State is a perfect example of what makes it so unique and brilliant. Who would ever have commissioned that, now or any time? Both tracks are absolutely magnificent of course, and that’s all that matters.
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 18, 2021 11:48:13 GMT 1
Magnum then Roxette - a band whose previous hit was called It Must Have Been Love followed by a band singing their current hit called It Must Have Been Love. Roxette’s is many times better. Yazz has lost it here, it’s a shame. The only way is down. At a time when it is sometimes a struggle to like this show, Luciano Pavarotti followed immediately by MC Tunes vs 808 State is a perfect example of what makes it so unique and brilliant. Who would ever have commissioned that, now or any time? Both tracks are absolutely magnificent of course, and that’s all that matters. Agree and thsts what made it so special, different people could love and hate completely different songs, once it tried to cherry pick the songs to make the show more relevant and trendy, it actually backfires. We need Glen Mederios and Poison on the same show. That's why I think Hit List has been the most successful music based show in years as yes it leans towards recent hits but it will throw up all kinds of music from the last fifty years, you just dont know what you will hear. And that means all ages can watch and play along.
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Post by vya on Jan 22, 2021 22:42:18 GMT 1
5 Jul
Campbell still being annoying
Inspiral Carpets - She Comes In The Fall Almost a deadpan performance, but such a sublime song, wasn't expecting it on here at all. The organs! The repetition! The layers! The energy and drive with a subtle restraint! It surely is not gonna get better than this. At least, their third excellent single in a row, surely there are no limits for them...
Janet Jackson - Alright Really milking the album for singles now, but not the first time she's done that. Way ahead of the game last time round. The best I can say is to channel the Mary Whitehouse Experience Man: it's got a good beat. Maybe. "Alright" is a kind assessment.
charts: World Party! That's a great song. And the River City People! And James! Now that's ana amazing gong
Poison - Unskinny Bop Mute or fast forward?
Double Trouble - Love Don't Live Here Anymore Whisper it if you must: but their records without the Rebel MC are better than those with him. A fresh and deep and atmospheric reinvention that more than justifies its existence. Would be better if it were even barer, but it's decent.
MC Tunes vs 808 State - The Only Rhyme That Bites Surely not so essential that we need to see it again
Top 5 selling albums of June ("They meddled with things man was meant to leave alone") NKOTB - Step By Step Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It Jason Donovan - Another Night Soul II Soul - Dream's A Dream Luciano Pavarotti- Nessun Dorma
Breakers would have been preferable. We've seen all these before here. "Come Home" by James, though? C'mon, "Message In The Box", C'mon man.
F.A.B. ft MC Parker - Thunderbirds Are Go Neither the best nor the worst gimmicky record based on kids TV programmes, but, well, Fuzzbox had a way better homage just last year. Forgettable and silly without really being excusably enjoyable.
Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 - Mona I tell you what I'm gonna do....fast forward past this. Not fully awful, but
Massivo ft Tracy - Loving You Well it's a fine song. Too much in the 1990 vibe, so easily dated though. Turn OFF that drum machine, even if it's an improvement on drum machine expectations of say two years earlier. Campbell says the singer is "massively talented" which is generous of him. The source material is strong enough to cope with this take, but it's really not necessary.
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This Incredibly annoying
Elton John - Sacrifice Still moderately bland, and moderately moderate in all moderation
Glenn Medeiros ft Bobby Brown - She Ain't Worth It Clearly a desperate last spin of the dice by GM's record company. He obviously was more into working with Elsa than doing this.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
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Post by vya on Jan 22, 2021 23:58:01 GMT 1
12 July They're not sending their best, are they (Turner)
Gun - Shame On You After several cracking singles on their last album, this is a bit of a relatively poor, and forgettable, comeback. Thoughtful, restrained hard rock, truly Glaswegian in feel, looking across the ocean, but. Despite this slight disappointment, still an act to watch.
River City People - California Dreamin' After several cracking singles that were widely ignored, this is a bit of a disappointing chart breakthrough..dressed up semi-hippishly too, a needless but not unpleasant cover. The far darker and less instant AA side is of course the gem of this duo. Thoughtful, restrained folk rock, truly Scouse in feel, looking across the ocean, but. Despite this slight disappointment, still an act to watch.
Blue Pearl - Naked In The Rain Restrained this is not. But not without tension and a hint of melancholy, living up to the title, not without some talent.
Glenn Medeiros ft Bobby Brown - She Ain't Worth It Is there no escape from this rubbish? Really just a waste of time.
Thunder - Gimme Some Lovin' Too many needless cover versions doing the rounds now, really. Another one here. Old school rock to say the least. And this is at no 38, will we get to see James at no 32? I bet not...
Soup Dragons ft Junior Reid - I'm Free Possibly the one indie act of this period with less talent and inspiration in them than their near West Coast Scottish neighbours, Primal Scream, they've learned their lesson, go dancy, baggy even, and stir things up a bit. Catchy and annoying rather than forgettable and dross, so progress. If they can do it anyone can.
Stone Roses - One Love After several cracking singles before, on, and after their last rather fabulous album, this is a bit of a relatively poor, and at most interesting, rather than breathtaking, comeback. Self-indulgent, newly slightly melancholic indie rock with continuing hint of funky drumming, truly Mancunian in feel, looking up its own arse. Despite everything before this, perhaps no longer still an act to watch. Classic example of a comeback that wasn't worth the wait. I wonder if the Roses will try that one again...
Elton John - Sacrifice Come on, please put on Healing Hands, just once!
Technotronic ft Ya Kid K - Rockin' Over The Beat More subtle than their previous records, and remarkably, a different tune and rhythm. But forgettable in its lack of persistence. I'd say they are, thankfully, on their way out now.
Yet they skip over "Come Home" by James two weeks in a row...
Never mind hang the DJ, the producer has questions to answer
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 23, 2021 0:46:46 GMT 1
Month before pi approximation day. Brambles looking like an embarrassing chav mom at the school gates. Starting with Magnum and their rockin chair. Bob Catley and his beard. This is very mutton dressed as lamb. It was sort of heartwarming that a band like Magnum that had been shlepping around for years finally got something of a breakthrough. But they've not exactly moved on with their sound. Something of the ZZ Top "Gimme All Your Lovin'" about this. The sound mix on this incidentally is pretty ropey, they've upped the audience rather than the band.
Roxette. 3 number 1s in America. Not sure what that says about the Septics. Charts.
Big Fun & Sonia. The only benefit of this is that the Taleban could take four out in one go. The dudes look so f***ing embarrassed to be sitting on stools in white jeans. Sonia looks like this is well beneath her. It isn't.
Wilson Phillips, see above. Breakers. RHCP; never seen the appeal in them. Ooh, we're shocking. Well, no, you're not GG Allin. Bruce Dickinson with an odd choice of cover given the Hoople one is already iconic. Great voice.
Yazz, with something that fills the time. Oh God, another Neighbours star, with a song that has fewer lyrics than Don Pablo's Animals and fewer chord changes than 4'33". Mona is cute though. It wasa b-side in the fifties and it should have stayed there.
Luciano Pavarotti at no. 3 with a song about a queen who murders literally everybody. An opera set in China with characters called Ping, Pang, and Pong. Will that be cancelled? Is the song a veiled hooligan reference? It's quite a belter. And is followed by MC Tunes vs 808 State. Sometimes this wretched decrepit faded old show comes up with genius. Aristocratic opera followed by the voice of the streets.
Top 10, Elton John's first-ever number 1, per Brambles, if you don't count the 6 weeks he had with Kiki Dee, per vastariner. Play the other side.
Playout is MC Hammer. Puts the c in rap. I thought Fig Bun were bad. This might be the worst thing sound anyone has ever heard in the entire history of the universe. Oh, God, it is MONUMENTALLY atrocious. The first f***ing line rhymes "hard" with "Lord".
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 23, 2021 23:52:31 GMT 1
29-6. Gary Davies introducing Snap in a very hesitant manner. No wonder, given this is tripeus maximus.
Straight to FF and it's f***ing Jason Donovan, who has curled out yet another obscenity. God almighty.
Charts. Then Maureen, with a big hit of her own, at no. 17. It's not improved from two weeks ago.
Breakers. Double Trouble with a cover. It's nothing like Double Trouble. It's more chillout. Not unpleasant but do we really need another cover? Medeiros and Brown, which is even worse than Medeiros' previous charting attempt. What the feck is going on?
Bob Geldof & The Vegetarians Of Love. This stands out an absolute mile in this sewer of an episode. It's almost a sarcastic resistance to pop excess with a mix of novelty record and an acoustic Pixies quiet THEN LOUD. Could go all the way, the record environment is so atrocious.
Bruce Dickinson. See remarks from last week. But that's 3 covers so far. 4, if you count sh*t!.
Chartamundos. MC Tunes on the verge of breaking into the top 10
Maxi Priest. Bit of soft reggae. At least it adds to the variety of the episode but it's not a song on which I am keen.
Top 10, same Elton song, and Poison with something that sounds remarkably like "Love In An Elevator". I'm not the target audience.
Graaarrrr. Pisspoor episode. Too many covers and too much sh*te. Someone needs to shake things up. Maybe invite the Macc Lads to do a live cut.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 24, 2021 0:17:58 GMT 1
F5F6. Campbell. Excited to introduce Inspiral Carpets. Well, Manchester is not far from Macclesfield. This is better than the whole of last week's prog in about one bar. It's exciting and loud and thrilling despite their Madam Tussaud's impersonation on stage. It's all about the music, bitches.
From the sublime. Janet Jackson. Looking and dancing like her brother. God, this video is detestable. Looks like it was shot at Disney MGM's fake Noo Yoik. There's no real tune there, is there? Nothing to fix in the memory.
Charts. World Party at 39 with a belter. Del Amitri clamber to 36. River City People with Siobhan from CBBC. Then a remix of "I'm Still Waiting", James, and The Stones. That's a trio of two big names and one who should be.
Poison. Given the plethora of newies in the 30s, this is a waste of a slot. And given we get Double Trouble next, a waste of another one. This breakers/playout thing is grotesquely unfair.
Heh, MC Tunes and 808 State do just about nick a top 10 spot and that gets them a play. Albeit the video starts in medias res. The video seems to gradually accumulate a cast of thousands.
And now we get the top 5 albums for June, out of nowhere. Why? Oh, I see, it's so they can play f***ing NEW KIDS ON THE f***ing BLOCK AND f***ing DONOVAN f***ing AGAIN. Jesus. At least we get a smidge of the sublime Talk Talk. Heh, Pavarotti is no. 1. "Vinceroooooooo!!!!!!" Did Pavarotti save English football? Or hand it over to Sky to f*** over? That could be an Oxford entrance exam question.
FAB with MC Parker. lolwut? Well, this at least raises a smile. I wanted to be the one on the spaceship. Why is the Stingray theme in the middle? "Are you going to tie me up?" Heh.
OH GOD CRAIG MCLACHLAN. Fewer chords than The Adverts. Interesting that there's due attention given to the band members in the video.
Massivo featuring Tracy, who is not Tracie or Tracy Tracy. This is actually Tracy Ackerman who was in Enigma and This Year's Blonde and Shakatak and Mirage. Great voice but this is another cover.
We get MC Hammer, John, and Medeiros/Brown, for a truly dire programme closure.
One week when they could justify a breaker slot and they use it for their b*st*rd SAWmill mates. What a shower of b*st*rds. There should be legal proceedings to stop the programme planners from ever reproducing. We need their DNA to die out.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 29, 2021 18:45:30 GMT 1
12/7. Turner dressed as a fruit salad. I think she's seriously going for a rave vibe. Instead she's like the annoying kid sister who wants to tag along to a Mary Chain concert when the hardest music she likes is Lolly. We start with Gun, with something rather good, slow build to an explosive chorus. I quite like this. They're resolutely not trying to be mainstream. Even within the rawk subgenres, they're not all leather and studs. Drummer looks half the age of the singer.
Turner is so happy to introduce the River City People, something only she could say, because "they've worked so hard to get here". Yes, really difficult to make it when one of your group is a BBC television presenter. Their hard work is exemplified with a cover of "California Dreamin" that sounds almost identical to the original, save for the lack of decent vocals. Still, Siobhan is well fit. Otherwise, file under "completely pointless except as a shameless and blatant cash-in".
Charts and Blue Pearl. Turner tries to throw in some cred by referencing Pink Floyd. Astonishingly enough this features one of Killing Joke. Needs more Joke and less dance. Bores the sh*te out of me.
Turner says those words Glenn and Medeiros so I can fast-forward. God, it goes on.
Thunder. Oh, another cover. Another sixties song, another one that basically apes the original pretty closely. Just slightly rawked up and again the vocals are worse. Jesus. It's appalling that this sort of thing is getting traction - an indictment of the current scene and how badly new acts are (allowed to be?) promoted.
Charts, The Stone Roses are foreshadowed, and now The Soup Dragons, with Junior Reid. Aaaaaand it's another cover. But at least this one is radically different from the original. So it gets a pass. Plus the Soupies were basically pre-empted by Primal Scream in mixing dance with indie - in the Dragons' case it was needs must after they lost their drummer. And for once throwing in some random toasting works well. Not up the Dragons' previous Glesga sound, but it is definitely appealing.
And here are the Roses. You know, this is almost like jazz, in concept. The tune is carried by the bass, Squires' twirly guitar is independent of everything else that's going on, the drums are more track filler than beat, and the vocals only really match the bassline in pre-chorus. This is absolutely intriguing, are the Roses developing something totally different? It's brilliant and intricate and a total wow.
Turner reckons the Roses are a candidate for no. 1. She doesn't know much about fanbase buys, does she? Although had it not been for a Neighbours novelty, the World Cup, and a charidee release it would have gone in at the top.
Let's skip to the playout. Technotronic. Well, they've found a second tune. This one is a lot better, maybe because it varies throughout. They should have released this as the second single, it would have shown there was something to them.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 29, 2021 18:54:34 GMT 1
(goes back to check earlier reviews) Heh, some of the exact same points picked up. Including Magnum and the Pav/MC Tunes combo. As an aside, Turner going on RCP working hard to have a hit...not a word for James who had to go to Court to break free of a contract that was literally killing their career? Why were they not on yet the utterly pointless Thunder were?
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Post by vya on Jan 29, 2021 22:40:11 GMT 1
19th July, Goodier
The audience screaming loudly at the start, presumably in anticipation of much dross. They may not go home entirely undisapointed.
Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 - Mona Oddly this seems to improve on repeated listening, But on first listening it was double-plus ungood. Better than Jason's current one.
Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power Forgotten, and justly so.
Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting 1990 remix Well, this song is so fine it's close to impossible to utterly destroy, but whoever commissioned and implemented this remix is doing their utmost to do so. Like a carbuncle on the face of a much loved and elegant friend.
Inspiral Carpets - She Comes In The Fall Not complaining, this is brilliant, one of the best things around. But given it's climbed three places to no 27 since it was last on TOTP, you might think, why not put "LFO" by LFO on instead? A fine piece of music notwithstanding.
Paul Young - Oh Girl This comeback is a comedown, and sailing on past glories
F.A.B. ft M.C. Parker - Thunderbirds Are Go Not my cup of tea
Madonna - Hanky Panky As forgotten as "Turtle Power" and more or less justly so. A curio at most.
Dream Warriors - Wash Your Face In My Sink The 2nd Canadian act to have a hit in a bit more than a year featuring the lyric "I never promised you a rose garden"? (No, it's not an original line...). Kind of beyond the D.A.I.S.Y. age, better than anything De La Soul have done, and into the fringes of acid jazz. Kind of inspired and brilliant.
Elton John - Sacrifice Still at number one, and I'd still rather hear the not brilliant but not as dull as this other side.
Paula Abdul - Knocked Out Third time of release I think, having been completely ignored by everyone first time out, and mostly ignored second time. They were right first time.
Though we get a glimpse of LFO in the background at the end, the Inspirals and Warriors apart, this was another uninspired set of songs
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