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Post by vya on Jan 29, 2021 23:13:02 GMT 1
2607 Brambles
Blue Pearl - Naked In The Rain Imposing and not subtle, but maybe close to being a bit too much.
Technotronic ft Ya Kid K - Rockin' Over The Beat Yes, less annoying than their other records, almost melodious at times.
Some great new entries in the chart - "Rainbow Child" by Dan Reed, "Silent Voice" by Innocence, "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Sinead O'Connor, will be hear any of them here, I doubt it? What about "Tricky Disco"?
DNA ft Suzanne Vega - "Tom's Diner" Now this (whoever murdered that Diana Ross track take note) is how you use a remix to reinvent and invigorate a song. Video is a bit weird without ever going full-blown trippy.
Soup Dragons ft Junior Reid - "I'm Free" Junior Reid and the reverberating bass are the highlights here. It is infectious. But I'm keeping my distance.
Breakers Bell Biv Divoe - "Poison": can't help but think this verges on the misogynistic a bit. Musically and in rap terms it's rather interesting though, not that you'd know it from this excerpt Sinead O'Connor - "The Emperors New Clothes": fantastic driving bit of Sinead with anger and frustration aloft, again the choice of excerpt, at the end of the song, is odd Bananarama - "Only Your Love": entering the rave generation a few years later, not unappealling, some woo woos, but enjoyable rather than essential
Paula Abdul - "Knocked Out" OMG Four performers wearing boxing gloves and big cloaks. Basically an Aldi knockoff of a Janet Jackson album track.
Charts: "Velouria" by the Pixies! Any chance of hearing it? LFO climbing quite a bit too,
MC Hammer - "U Can't Touch This" Oakland is a world away from W12 in any number of senses, but there is a real "sleazy 1970s Radio One DJ" mood to this.
River City People - "California Dreamin'" Continuing the theme of playing the wrong side on double-A's singles, this is likeable and unncessary. What's wrong with dreaming? But we've seen this already anywhere, where are LFO? This isn't tricky.
Partners in Kryme - "Turtle Power" The first (c)rap number one. It's not good is it? Can't wait for the English version: Spencer, Nicholson, Moore and Hepworth the suburban cats.
LFO - LFO At last. Low frequency oscillation. This is a thing of wonder. Minimal and bleepy, subtle but quietly assertive, the sound of the future. WARP records. The new Yorkshire. Spacious and lovely.
Putting that on at the end makes up for a lot. If they'd had "Silent Voice" on too I'd have been delighted. Dance is very much where it is at right now. Some odd choices, but that's to be expected I guess.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 30, 2021 11:59:44 GMT 1
19/7, Goodier in front of a yelling hen party. Craig McLachlan has brought his chord into the studio. That's Life, the Rantzen consumer vehicle, had been fading in the ratings over recent seasons and tried to restore its fortunes by heavily promoting a cute kid who lived this song. Only problem was that it consisted of kid only knowing the words "hey Moneh, ooh Moneh". The barrel having been thoroughly scraped, the programme was duly scrapped.
Talking of barrel scraping: Partners In Kryme. This is surely a prime example of banning film songs from the chart on the basis that people are buying it because they like the film rather than the song. Is there anyone on the entire f***ing planet, INCLUDING Partners In Kryme, that would happily listen to this galaxy-worth of sh*t today?
Charts. Bell Biv Devoe with "Poison". Are Poison going to do a song called "Bell Biv Devoe"? LFO? London Filarmonic Orchestra?
Talking of galaxy-worth of sh*t, someone has curled out a load of dance sh*t on "I'm Still Waiting" to score a cheap hit. Well, two out of three songs are not modern.
Inspiral Carpets. Thankfully something new and something good. This was otherwise a candidate for worst episode ever. (There's a thread idea.)
Paul Young. Oh goody, another cover. Fine voice but this adds nothing to the store of human achievement. Waste of time.
FAB with MC Parker. So...that's 4 out of 6 that are essentially two decades old. What an indictment of the SAWmill squishing of talent and ability and anything interesting. And the media have a huge part of the blame in that for indulging the Minogue atrocity for cheap ratings. It's shameful that the BBC, which doesn't need to chase viewing figures, has been a prime collaborator.
Talking of atrocities, Madonna. This is embarrassingly bad.
Dream Warriors. Well, this is a pleasant surprise. It shows there are still some innovative directions for hip hop. Something of a jazzy background and a Daisy delivery. It's extremely appealing. There's a sort of home-spun shambles about it that adds to the charm.
No. 1 is still Elton and they're still playing the wrong side. Playout is Paula Abdul because we haven't suffered enough. She's like a fake Janet Jackson. Must be calling in several favours for this sort of sh*te.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 31, 2021 20:59:40 GMT 1
26/7. Brambles in what appears to be quite a cold studio. Blue Pearl, can't be bothered with this again.
Technotronic, with an ubercheap video, they've gone back to the out-of-copyright films without bothering with the group. But there's nothing much more to say about this other than some of the Muybridge footage looks a bit pre-watershed.
Top 40. Which indie acts will be completely omitted this week? Jungle Brothers? (Dan Reed Network! Random.) Tricky Disco with Tricky Disco, imaginative.
DNA with Suzanne Vega. It's shaping up to be Vega's biggest hit. It's one of those remixes that actually works because the original is so dull. Backing is a bit acid jazzy. Not unpleasant but not something I'd cross the street to hear.
Soup Dragons, yay. See above and beyond. I remember them on FSd in Def II.
Breakers. Bell Biv Devoe, thought it was going to be dire but there's an interesting breakdown that at least gives everything a bit of a kick. Intriguing idea. Sinead O'Connor with something...poppy? Wow. Not sure about her moves. But it is halfway back to her Mandinka era. Quite like it but it's a weird way to follow up something iconic. Bananarama with their cover of "Sympathy For The Devil", this is quite fun. Keren is looking INTENSELY hawt.
Paula Abdul, f*** off. Only thing of note is the Legs & Co uber-literalism of the stage presentation.
Charts. Pixies at 28 so that's going to get a play, isn't it? They played three records that were lower. They actually shot a video of them larking about in a quarry to go on the show. Heh at RCP putting "Carry The Blame" as the head track of their AA-side single when literally nobody is playing it, they're all on the karaoke.
MC Hammer. Yes, everyone buying this should be hammered. Probably are.
RCP. All that hard work being a BBC employee is paying off in getting massive exposure on a BBC show.
Top 10, the number 1 suggests the entire country is getting lobotomized, and the playout is LFO, who don't get on the programme despite being the highest climber, because we need to show the BBC employees. No Pixies. Whichever **** is choosing the songs needs depositing on Diego Garcia with a label saying "I Love Osama Bin Laden".
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 31, 2021 21:23:06 GMT 1
Totally right Pixies should have been a breaker at least.
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Post by vya on Feb 6, 2021 12:02:08 GMT 1
2 August 1990
Brookes
Little Angels - She's A Little Angel In a regional Division Four rivalry, largely ignored outside the county it's in, the Angels just gave rivals Thunder a 6-0 walloping. This has flair and verve and energy and even a bit of wit. Outside the shire, though, nobody will know.
New Kids On The Block- Tonight There's a hint of the retirement seaside tour about this, even apart from the blatant Sgt Pepper pastiche. Knowing references to their greatest hits (from a few months earlier) in Verse 1, they think it's all over. And it nearly is, now. "We met a lot of people, and girls". Really? Heads and shoulders above anything else they've done, in part because of how unashamedly ridiculous it is. Blackpool Tower beckons.
LFO - LFO Having been through the Breakers>Play-out and still climbing route, TOTP can no longer fully ignore this slice of innovation and atmosphere, life breaking out from behind the confines of brutalist architecture. Although from Leeds (West Yorks really being a centre of electronic innovation right now, with Unique 3 bleeping down the way in Bradford too), with Warp at the helm, this really is an opening page in the latest stage in the remarkable history of Sheffield's contribution to sharp and engagingly brilliant pop music. And to think I thought "Deep Fried in Kelvin" referred to Glasgow. A pity TOTP ditched Legs & Co/Ruby Flipper/Zoo et al, a creative dance interpretation of this in the studio would have been something to behold.
Bell Biv Devoe - Poison The lyrics are dodgy, and the attitude behind them is too. Own responsibly for your emotions, guys. That aside, this is a really well constructed melange of rap, soul (almost) and new jack swing (great powerful beat), and of the traditional and contemporary. Give it a rewrite and it'd be a gem.
Top 5 Albums of July. Here we go again Madonna - Vogue Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma Elton John - Healing Hands (at least they, briefly, play the other side of this) Not all recent singles this time, at least. And nothing really major missed out by not being a breaker, so. Ok maybe.
Madonna - Hanky Panky Does not improve on repeated listening.
Prince - Thieves In The Temple Tonight Mostly an unremarkable track. And Prince at his best is not that.
Dream Warriors - Wash Your Face In My Sink Think I might dispute Bruno's assertion this is a novelty track. Playful, yes, but not trapped within such narrow confines. Way more creative (When Doves Cry reference included) than what we just had from Purple Rogers Nelson.
Duran Duran - Violence Of Summer (Love's Taking Over) Whereas their 87 and 88 comebacks were under-rated, and marked by some quality material (Skin Trade, Do You Believe In Shame?), this does not bode well for the 90 comeback. The familiar DD sound in back, but the song is weak, charmless and. all in all. dire.
Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power Rubbish, obviously, but I'd not previously realised how similar the vibe/atmosphere of this is to Tackhead's "Dangerous Sex" that was lingering just outside the top 40 round about the same time. Stripped of the lyrics, and mixed up a bit, someone minimal and dangerous could have maybe made something of this, as the Partners don't, nor are intended to do.
Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco More from LFO under a pseudonym (I think), with added helium.
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Post by vya on Feb 6, 2021 12:34:57 GMT 1
09.08
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Bombalurina - Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini This is so Anglo-Saxon. How can they still get away with that "ah yeah!" sample? Not the greatest crime against taste committed here, obviously. Though the other samples are maybe the most interesting part of the record.
DNA ft Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner Superior to the diner itself.
Blue Pearl - Naked In The Rain Hearing this again already makes me want to reach for an umbrella.
Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 - Amanda Daringly ignoring the Beautiful South's warning by having two "girl's name"" songs in the chart simultaneously. And this is the superior of them, more subtle, more sensitive, and a bit more musically and lyrically developed. A bit. Inoffensive and not unpleasant.
Breakers Roxette - Listen To Your Heart: fair enough that it gets a rerelease, superior pop; Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze Of Glory: walking the boundary between emoting and overemoting, but better than when Spear of Destiny tried it; Sting - Englishman In New York (Ben Liebrand Remix), as with DNA/Suzanne Vega, a New York-themed song that benefits from a reinterpretation, a successful style change. Has Quentin Crisp been posthumously cancelled yet, btw?
Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco The Smash Androids and others taking helium. Maybe the video is better than what studio choreographer + dancers could have come up with. Such good fun, and surely the ooh yeah has a bit of knowing irony now, in this case....
Soup Dragons ft Junior Reid - I'm Free Insistent if nothing else.
MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This Still supremely irritating
Hothouse Flowers - I Can See Clearly Now A spacious arrangement with much use of the piano that was always part of their appeal. A bit Morrisson-esque too. Yeah OK.
Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power Someone call pest control
Together - Hardcore Uproar So the playout is where they are putting the vaguely bleepy stuff three weeks in a row now? Less groundbreaking and creative than the Warp stuff, a bit too polished, and just a hint of Italohouse there too.
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Post by Tom on Feb 12, 2021 21:39:32 GMT 1
3rd May Liked Sinitta - Hitchin A Ride, but otherwise the highlights of this and the previous week's episode were songs that had been on before.
On a different note, only 1 episode tonight, so wondering if they're going to space them out so that they can start 1991 in June which is normally the time they like to start a new year?
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Post by vya on Feb 13, 2021 12:24:13 GMT 1
16.08 Anthea Turner
Go West - The King of Wishful Thinking GW in their first outing incarnated the aesthetics of peak Thatcherism, intentionally or not (less annoying than Curiosity Killed the Cat, at least) : more about the muscles than the music. This film-based comeback is a bit of a step forward, really.
Sting - Englishman In New York Whoever excerpts these videos should get a new job, shoudla started with a verse. The video itself is as appealing as the song, spacious and classy.
The KLF - What Time Is Love? Of historic import: their first appearance on TOTP without Gary Glitter in tow, I think. Something moderately innovative and exciting disguised as a relatively conventional dance track, with the rap and dancers up front, and the boy genii hidden at the back. Hope they give "Kylie Said To Jason" a remake too, but more subtle than this one.
NKOTB - Tonight Pure entertainment, not least with the pixellated-out hash leaf on the top of one of them at the start.
Together - Hardcore Uproar As with the KLF track, there's something ambient lurking in the background that might be better heard without all the extraneous wave your hands in the air stuff that demands unreasonable amounts of attention. No classic, though.
Betty Boo - Where Are You Baby Gainin' respect' in a cool British dialec', we were born this way, so dance so dance
Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory The lyrics are more preposterous than those of "Tonight". They'll never take him alive
Roxette - Listen To Your Heart Still superior manufactured pop, not quite too polished
Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power Walked in the bar past midnight, A few drinks & the time was right
Primal Scream - Come Together Outdoing the Soup Dragons now. Any two-bit act with limited talent and less intellect can call in a quality and creative producer and end up something utterly sublime, like this. Andy Weatherall ft the idiot singer and the bass player. An excellent end to the show
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Feb 13, 2021 18:21:08 GMT 1
On a different note, only 1 episode tonight, so wondering if they're going to space them out so that they can start 1991 in June which is normally the time they like to start a new year? Nope, back to 2 this week.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Feb 15, 2021 9:58:29 GMT 1
Jon Bon Jovi sounds exactly the same as Bon Jovi. Is there really any difference?
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Post by o on Feb 15, 2021 11:46:56 GMT 1
Great to see the KLF when they were still relatively small And I love this, and had forgotten about it, Together - Hardcore Uproar, so I've added it to my 90s spotify playlist
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 19, 2021 1:00:27 GMT 1
Cloughie's first match in charge of Brighton. Brookes introduces the debuting Little Angels. Is this a joke? I mean literally a joke? A British answer to Spinal Tap? A poor man's Bad News? It's every rock cliché and would have sounded fresh most recently in 1977.
NKOTB. Jesus f***ing Christ. They actually CAN get worse. Even referencing one of their previous hits in the lyrics. They are actually trying to be The Beatles, with a sort of George Martin orchestra ad shifts in tone. More to the point. Can someone explain this? They obviously couldn't be arsed to make a video so someone has knocked together old concert clips and so on. So why the f*** could TOTP not be bothered to do this for the BRITISH acts that were peppering the charts earlier this year and not getting on? Why do they have to be this supine orifice for the Septics to f***?
Brookes introduces the charts surrounded by a crowd all dressed in brown. Seems fitting somehow. Next up, LFO. Change of mood. Mix of "Voodoo Ray" and Chicago house. I'm not the audience for this but it's at least interesting.
Bell Biv Devoe. Could almost repeat what I said for LFO. They look ridiculous.
Top 5 albums with much more grown-up graphics. Madonna, Beach Boys (again they make up a video for "Wouldn't It Be Nice"), Stones (wow, this is an indictment of the current scene), Pavarotti, and Elton John. So the biggest selling albums in July have an average age of about 57. And finally "Healing Hands" gets a play.
Madonna is at 2. With something truly appalling. God. What a dreadful state. There's all sorts of interesting things happening in music but nobody is interested in giving it a proper showcase. Hence the utter sclerosis. As we see in the charts, with new entries for Collins and Timmy Mallett.
Prince is the highest new entry and the charts segue into him. Meh, this is a bit Prince by numbers. Bit of funk and bit of discordance but it's been done before.
Dream Warriors, this is the best thing on the show, by a long distance. See above review.
Duran Duran, Le Bon wearing his pyjama top, with something that sounds like they've gone Le Bon Jovi. Forgettable? I doubt even Durannies remember it.
Top 10. That sh*t is still no. 1 and Tricky Disco get a playout. I dunno, it sounds a bit Casio keyboard. I'm not getting it.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 19, 2021 15:04:25 GMT 1
Why was 10 afraid of 9? Gary Davies with a younger audience, threatening us with Craig McLachlan and then inflicting Bombalurina on us. Jesus f***ing Christ. The lobotmized cretins are applauding this. I now feel an empathy with Al Qaeda.
DNA, see above. Charts. Newies from Go West, Lenny Kravitz, Tongue N Cheek, WWW, UB40, Betty Boo, KLF, all from 40 consecutively. Were people holding back their releases? Tactical error given how poor last week was.
Blue Pearl. "Join me dancing naked in the rain". She's clothed.
Craig McLachlan got over Mona pretty quickly as he's on to Amanda. In a sense it's creditworthy that he's sussed his star will fade very quickly so he may as well throw any old sh*t out there while the cretins are still enraptured and make coin while he can. This is REALLY bad, it's like Journey.
Breakers. Newie at 21, Roxette. Live video, so it's a last minute decision to throw that out there on McLachlan principles. Marie looking very good though. Jon Bon Jovi, this is basically country rock. A Sting remix. Given Sting is pointless, a remix is pointless to the power of pointless. Amazing to look at that slew of new entries and those are the ones they choose to showcase. Rancid.
Tricky Disco. Meh.
Soup Dragons video. Despite being no. 5 and not being on for a couple of weeks, we get less than we get for the breakers. But we got McLachlan in full. f***ing Christing arsing ****. It's a deliberate and positively racist suppression of local talent in favour of f***ing soap stars. Are we going to get River City People again?
Charts. Together with a climber. I wonder if they will be on, they're entitled. We get MC Hammer because he's not British. Back to the studio for Hothouse Flowers who also are not British. With a pointless cover version.
Top 10, an awful no. 1, and the playout is Together. There is an evolution in the whole dance music scene, it's sort of getting a bit more abstract and trippier, they need to build up to a chorus or something.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 19, 2021 17:05:38 GMT 1
2423. Turner having come from the CBeebies set. Bum bag and all. Go West. Jesus H Jones, one of them is dressed as a triathlete. Live vocals though. At least gives some reason to pay attention to a bog-standard track that can only aspire to mediocrity.
Sting, terrific. f*** OFF. As above, a massive chunk of new entries and we get f***ing Sting in consecutive weeks. Absolute liability. A result of that is that there are lots of stallers in the 31-40 unit.
KLF. Now this absolutely embarrasses what has been on hitherto. Stands out a country mile by just having so much moxie, urgency, dynamism, in yer faceness. And Turner squishes the energy with a kindergarten comment of "they were raving!!!"
And the atmos gets sucked even further with NKOTB which is apparently "the next best thing" to them being in the studio. No, it's the next worst thing to having your genitalia ripped off with a rusty spoon. Again. Programme choice. I don't care that it's entitled to a play - it's already had one and getting on for a dozen tracks have not had that. Leaving aside the outright bias that TOTP made up a video for them but couldn't be bothered to do it for the Stone Roses. (And this video is a cheapass insult so the entire film should have gone in the furnace.)
Together at 12, Turner seems now to be on the happy pills. Can't hold a candle to the KLF.
Charts. Primal Scream with the highest new entry, despite not being on last week Betty Boo gets the highest climber and she's coming up. If she's in those hotpants it won't be the only thing coming up. You know, she must have listened to The Rezillos. This has that cartoon punk vibe together with a 1950s post-modern ethic. It's got a great deal of appeal. The Boo-ettes are not even pretending to being in charge of the keys.
Bon Jovi again because the producer is a moron. Roxette again ditto. It's as bad as Sound Of, the BBC is fixing it for its favourites.
Top 10, the cretins are still buying the cock turtles, and the highest new entry gets the playout. Genius. Take the song that's creating the most excitement on the charts this week and eschew it for Jon f***ing Bon f***ing Jovi.
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Post by vya on Feb 19, 2021 21:06:46 GMT 1
23.08 Campbell
The Human League – Heart Like A Wheel A decent comeback, their best single for well over half-a-decade, maybe because they've gone back to the type of sound they had then, too. Not their very best, but well, their very best are superb.
Mariah Carey – Vision Of Love In places, a duet with herself. A splendid voice, out-Whitneying Whitney maybe. Video is cut off at precisely the wrong time, of course.
Tina Turner – Look Me In The Heart Tolerable and not entirely demeaning, not close to her weakest moment.
Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers – Can Can You Party Really milking it now, with no coherence to either the medley or the video. And while entire episodes of TOTP have been banned from replay for less, here we see the two greatest murderers in human history waving while the wedding DJs from Rotherham serenade them with "Daddy Cool". Make it end.
BREAKERS Steve Miller Band - The Joker (see next week); Wilson Phillips - Release Me. Harmonious and pleasantly polished but probably a bit too mid-tempo for its own good; Sonia - End Of The World (see next week, but good grief the greenscreening in this video is TOO cheap and blatant).
Lindy Layton feat. Janet Kay – Silly Games Poor Janet Kay must have fallen on hard times. Not so much a case of "do it better or do it differently" as "do it far worse and have the original performer humiliate herself while providing, as a secondary part of the record, all that is worthwhile and absorbing about it". A travesty.
Cliff Richard – Silhouettes From an objectionable cover version to a pretty pointless one. Video notable for Cliff shaking his butt like he is Nicki Minaj ahead of his time.
Deacon Blue – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again Another cover, at least it's a quality song by a capable act. A little bit too obvious an attempt to score a number one, maybe, but the performance, like the video (1990s Scotland aspiring to be 1960s America, well, there was a lot of that about) is more than tolerable.
Bombalurina – Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini Now for an atrocious cover. Mallett appearing to model his aesthetics and at least part of his approach to pop music on Jonathan King. Make it end
Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart Dance music for music critics, who don't really like dancing that much. Seriously overrated.
(highest new entry in the top 10, George Michael's "Praying For Time" not on - I think no video?
Another case for the revival of Pan's People etc) They got the two decent tracks out of the way at the beginning I see.
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Post by vya on Feb 19, 2021 21:09:18 GMT 1
30.08 Brookes
Aswad - Next To You This has been forgotten, and rightly. How the once nearly mighty are fallen. Not even a success in commercial chart pop terms.
Sonia - End Of The World Moving on from the Duet With Big Fun sub-section to the Ballad AND Cover Version of Something Not Well Known sub-section of SAW's "Dunno what to do with 'em anymore" folder. New hairstyle to make her look more mature too. Maybe an LP of Credible Soul Ballads with singing holograms is on the way. Unexpectedly, though, in with a call as being Sonia's best single to date. To praise with faint condemnation.
Steve Miller Band - The Joker Maracas being shaken and not by Bez, well, 70s revivalism, stadium pub rock, whatever, buy jeans, kids, just don't toke too overtly in them.
Betty Boo - Where Are You Baby Fun, energetic, and vastly more fun than "Doin' The Do" was. That silver outfit tho.
New Kids On The Block - Tonight This is all very Cliffs Pavilion in Westcliff-on-Sea
Jason Donovan - Rhythm Of The Rain Still pretending to play the guitar. Now shunted off to fester in the same "60s cover version" rabbit hole that Sonia is currently resident in too, but making a much less decent fist of it than she has. I'd rather jack. Annoying plinky-plonky kiddie music accompaniment too. A pop career fading in front of our eyes.
Bombalurina - IBTWYPDB Some advanced level of civilisational decay on display here. Spectacularly bad miming too. Makes nuclear war almost seem an appealing option.
Whitesnake - Now You're Gone The kind of polished and overemoted poppier rock that Whitesnake, for a few years in the mid-80s or so, did supremely well. It's ridiculous, of course, but this would have been better placed in the main part of the show than much of the rubbish that was there.
An episode that verged on being tolerable on occasion
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Post by Gezza on Feb 19, 2021 21:29:25 GMT 1
23.08 Campbell (highest new entry in the top 10, George Michael's "Praying For Time" not on - I think no video? At the time TOTP played the song over a montage of his former solo videos so I have no idea why they didn't show it again.
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Post by mfr on Feb 19, 2021 23:12:17 GMT 1
According to Billboard there was "video clip availability" for Tonight by New Kids On The Block, so presumably that was it. I think their last video was also concert footage and they may have been constantly on the road at that time, hence not much time to make a "proper" video.
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Post by o on Feb 20, 2021 15:07:40 GMT 1
I do hope there is a defibrillator close by when Vas watches these, as I fear his BP will go through the roof, and it's an accident waiting to happen! I suggest a dark windowless room, with only the vaspod for company might be the solution?
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 21, 2021 0:13:10 GMT 1
The funny thing is that I seem to be spending less time listening to my music and more trying to seek out unknown things. It's getting more difficult...
23/8, Nicky Campbell, Human League with their best single for a while, a throwback to Hysteria. Less than a decade since Dare yet there are few survivors from that era. Sadly. The graphics people have gone all Flick Colby.
Mariah Carey with a big US hit. She's pretty cute. Fairly mundane ballad which she sings all the way around. Shows promise if she doesn't keep over-emoting. Sometimes less is more. Hang on, there are dogs barking outside now.
Charts, I think we have had more Campbell than music so far. Sonia is at 37, oh joy, that's bound to be played, isn't it? Steve Miller and Deee-Lite in the 30s.
We stop at 31 for Tina Turner and her video seemingly shot in a swimming pool's male changing room. There's nothing here. Blando dando.
Jive Bunny at 14. That's still a thing? What do we have here? The can-can. Not the Bad Manners version. An Elvis soundalike. What seems to be a re-recorded Grease and Beach Boys soundtrack. They're barely trying any more.
Breakers. Steve Miller Band, with a live cut, he's not very good. Wilson Phillips. Again, very, very bland. Of course we get Sonia. It's the old Skeeter Davis classic, which means that anyone with an iota of sense would have released the Skeeter Davis version, rather than giving it to the fake foghorn.
Lindy Layton and Janet Kay, because, well, we've already had, on the show, a medley of covers and another cover. So naturally we need another cover. Hm, Lindy looks delightful in her shorter cut. This is a hard song to sing. It's actually not a bad cover but it is yet another indication of the lack of any spark in the contemporary mainstream scene. Jeez, there's Madchester as a sitting duck, but the majors didn't create it, so the majors will destroy it. And promote their usual same-old-guff.
Right on cue, Cliff Richard. And, guess what?, it's a cover. Amazing, isn't it? In 1958 Cliff was edgy and dangerous. Now he's a poor man's Herman's Hermits. Is that symbolic how the charts have gone from amazing in 1981 to beyond dire now? Even Cliff had a great top 10 in 1981...
Charts. They do the thing of stopping on the right song again. Deacon Blue at 11. With, and I know you're going to be completely amazed at this, a cover version. No, not just one cover. Four covers. The old Simple Minds trick of trying to sneak a no. 1 by forcing your album buyers to get an EP. God, it's BOOOOOORING. "Look how emotional we are, buy buy buy."
Top 10. George Michael at 8 and he probably won't get a play because he doesn't want to do a video, although the recordco has made one. DNA's remix gets leapfrogged to the top of the charts by...a cover version. Whoo peee.
The playout at least is very good, Deee-Lite with something that sounds intensely warm with all sorts of sounds thrown in. Plus Bootsy and Q-Tip.
But, on that show, we had...a medley, a re-issue, and FIVE covers. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeezus. It's not as if there was much possible alternative; Aswad and Whitesnake were the only others. And outside the 40 there's nothing of interest at all. Maybe they should have looked to the indie chart and given Paris Angels or My Jealous God a spin.
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