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Post by Tom on Apr 18, 2021 21:22:35 GMT 1
7th June
Seeing Venus again explains why it was more familiar on the episode a couple of weeks earlier.
I remember the chat that Mark Goodier had with John Barnes and Gazza with World In Motion reaching no 1.
Liked It Must Have Been Love (despite disliking ballads in general).
14th June
Liked Maxi Priest - Close To You and the Bobby Brown Freestyle Megamix.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Apr 20, 2021 12:06:40 GMT 1
29/11/1990 Wow, live vocals by the Dream Warriors on My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style, I wonder how come they were allowed to do that? Excellent performance, they’ve got to be very confident in their own ability to do that, the vocals really stand out in a way that they don’t on the recorded version. Love it.
Kinky Boots - is it only me that winces at Patrick McKnee salivating over “sexy little school girls”? The past was a different place.
Dimples D - I never knew this was an old song. In sampling the I Dream Of Genie theme I always assumed it was just a cheap copy of the same idea that was used on Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince. Campbell’s revelation made me think it must be the other way round, but Wikipedia tells me the sample was only added in 1990 by Ben Liebrand, so I guess I was right all along. Anyway, with the music from the Dream Warriors’ track taken from a long running Canadian game show called Definition, this is the second rap record based around a North American TV theme on one show. Unexpected, if nothing else.
Chris Isaac’s Wicked Game is just sublime, and actually has a very similar feel to it tempo wise to Being Boring by the Pet Shop Boys. I was underwhelmed by that track at the time, and found the title confusingly representative of the content. Now it sounds rather good though.
Number one is Vanilla Ice, a landmark moment for hip hop I reckon. Fantastic production and, crucially, no ‘sung’ chorus. The rapping is silly of course, but hey, this is pop music, you can get away with silly of it’s done with style.
Glossing over Bombalurina, that was not a bad show at all.
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Post by vya on Apr 21, 2021 20:45:43 GMT 1
Nikolaustag Goodier
Twenty 4 Seven ft Captain Hollywood - Are You Dreaming? Both better (it almost has a tune) and more unintentionally hilarious, lyrically, than their earlier hit, but surely there won't be a third. Love for the animals, prayer for all of us. Tolerable. But yeah add it to the list of reasons for Brexit.
Madonna - Justify My Love A big step forward. Although the BBC video is a step back. New adult Madonna is a more interesting Madonna.
Charts: James, "Lose Control", now there's a thing.
The Farm - All Together Now Get Pachelbel to write a tune for you if you have no sense of melody whatsoever, why not? Football and war and Christmas. This bunch of chancers not richly blessed by talent, to say the least, surely won't do better.
MC Hammer - Pray God help us. Less annoying than his other hits at least.
Cliff Richard - Saviour's Day Not peak Cliff. But more melodious than Mistletoe and Wine at least. Variety show stuff at best.
November top 5 albums: Madonna - Vogue Paul Simon - The Obvious Child Beautiful South - A Little Time Phil Collins - Do You Remember? Elton John - Sacrifice
Snap! - Mary Had A Little Boy End it now, please. Rubbish. After ripping off a 70s hit, now a nursery rhyme gets the Snap treatment. Surely nowhere else for them to go. Hopefully not.
New Kids On The Block - This One's For The Children Oh no no no no no no no no no. The video is a case of America making nice with Russia and (I think) Vietnam. By sending them NKOTB? Making nice? Awful.
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby With live (c)rap in the studio. Oh no. More energy than on the record, for better or worse. Not good, as the rap is the most unappealing part of the record. Silver Bullet would have done a better job and with less wack, genuinely menacing lyrics, and without this silly orchestrated dance.
Betty Boo - 24 Hours More straightforwardly pop less rap than her earlier tracks, maybe more charming, and by default the highlight of a dire show.
A bad episode. Yazoo's "Situation 90" had it been on would have raised the overall quality some way. But so much rubbish...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2021 18:34:58 GMT 1
Well looks like TOTP 1990 has been well and truly snookered
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Post by Tom on Apr 24, 2021 21:02:10 GMT 1
22nd June
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love Always liked this (which considering I disliked ballads then is saying something). Think I was sick of it in the end though. Appreciate it more now.
Craig McLachlan and Check 1-2 - Mona. Remember the video, really liked at the time.
Elton John - Sacrifice Remember the performance but not Jakki Brambles' chat with him at the end.
Mc Hammer - U Can't Touch This Always loved.
28th June
None worth mentioning that I haven't done already.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2021 23:36:55 GMT 1
What a great track Seal's Crazy is stunning single should have been a No.1
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Post by vastar iner on May 9, 2021 8:26:30 GMT 1
13/12. Mayo. Shakin Stevens with something that's unimaginative and derivative even by his currently abyssal standards. The backing vocalists look like they've been dragged out of the Wheeltappers and Shunters and given waistcoats.
Highest new entry at 13, with 1965 footage. Righteous Brothers. This time Medley can be bothered to have a go. Obviously this is a great vocal performance and production, and it must have been embarrassing for Shrilla to have to compete with this segment of immortality back in the day.
Charts. Orchestra on the Half Shell, aka John Du Prez. The Carpenters? Jesus. Segue into a Yazoo b-side being remixed. So, let's take stock. A song sounding like it's 1957, a re-issue from 1965, and a remix from 1982. Yay for contemporary popular music. Video is quite fun.
And now an actress from Emmerdale Farm. f*** me, the industry has just entirely 100% given up, hasn't it? It's as dire as you would expect, it makes Sade sound like Napalm Death.
We get a breakers this week, perhaps because it's near Christmas, so none of those dangerous and interesting and challenging acts are in the charts. Therefore they're free to avoid giving them even the slightest positive publicity. INXS with something that's OK. At 27 is Enigma, which is in fact interesting and challenging, so only gets a breaker but we get Stevens in full despite being way way lower. And a load of supermodels fronting for George Michael in what is, by a long chalk, the best song he has ever recorded, this is genuinely fantastic (and he blows up his leather jacket). And The Carpenters, because we've gone a full minute without a cover version.
Seal. Now this is much better. This is the sort of thing that should be being pushed. Proper talent and imaginative production.
And almost as if a rebuke to anyone daring to do something so brilliant we cut to Black Box, with a re-issue of all of their singles so far. Now were I the producer I would have refused to play this. On the basis that the songs are, taken overall, going down. Therefore do not deserve a play. To buy this you'd really have to be either someone who had never heard any music at all in your life, or a moron.
Charts again. Chris Isaak, see above. Top ten, we know the no. 1 is crap, and the playout is Dimples D, see above.
OK, so, we get 3 good songs in full, and a couple of good songs in the breakers. Thank goodness for those because the rest was arrant garbage.
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Post by vastar iner on May 9, 2021 8:51:25 GMT 1
London Olympics. Brookes and some thirtysomethings. "Snap, and this is great." Lying ****. Nice legs on the singer that's not Turbo "Can't You Wait Till I've Finished Dinner?" B. This is beyond terrible.
The Carpenters. There's an hypothesis that parental musical taste might have an impact on yours. Well, I sort of back this up. Because my parents like the Carpenters and played them a lot. Which means I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate them. I hate their puppydog lyrics. I hate their f***ing Lawrence Welk sh*t production. I hate their goodygumdrops soundtracks. And who in the name of all that is holy has decided that 1990 is time for a f***ing Carpenters revival? CONSECUTIVE WEEKS NOW AS WELL!!! JESUS f***ing CHRISTING ARSETWATTING f***!!!
Charts. INXS with "Don't You Forget About Me". I will again declare my detestation for this policy of having breakers one week that then get played in full the following week. One or the other. It's jamming up the charts with Carpenters. This one has gone up three places to 21, which means it's also a waste of a play, given that it won't go up much further, unless it holds on for the Christmas collapse. Should have been on in full last week when it had momentum.
Enigma. Not the Shakatak medleyists from 1981. Shame this is not in the studio, I'd love to see the accountants in the audience trying to pretend to rave to this. It is rather magnificent, ethereal and soothing, ironic given the title.
Aaaand we descend again with the Grease megamix. Oh God. Nothing against the Grease soundtracks but THERE ARE 1990 ACTS IN 1990 YOU FUCKBASTARDS.
MC Hammer. If any Yank ever tries to tell you about how great America is, just point out that the Septics made this talentless cretin the number 1 album for SIX f***ing MONTHS. I do not have words for just how atrocious this is. You know that in Inferno the lowest level of Hell is ice, in which Judas is being chewed perennially by one of Satan's three faces, his own upper half-body steeped in the toxic juices and gases from Lucifer's intestines? That fate is more appealing than listening to this.
Quo with another medley. So, that's five covers/adaptations, one that sounds like another song, and Enigma. Yay 1990.
And now another new and promising act for the year: Cliff Richard. Funny that he had never had a Christmas no. 1 until 1988 and now he's looking for the hat-trick. I'm no fan of Cliff but I'd rather this be no. 1 than the Ice creature.
Top 10. Playout is Jive Bunny who have scraped through the barrel.
What a dreadful show. The only good things were the two songs that are not basically the products of prehistory.
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Post by mfr on May 9, 2021 20:57:37 GMT 1
13/12. At 27 is Enigma, which is in fact interesting and challenging, so only gets a breaker but we get Stevens in full despite being way way lower. And The Carpenters, because we've gone a full minute without a cover version.
Of course this illustrates the value of being available for the studio. The screening of a movie about Karen Carpenter's life prompted the re-issue, by the way.
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Post by vya on May 10, 2021 22:59:04 GMT 1
The 12th day of Advent Mayo
Shakin' Stevens - The Best Christmas Of Them All Early Elvis revivalism at a 1981 variety show. Shaky is Shaky, a national treasure, almost, and I imagine he has no illusions about the quality or memorability, or lack thereof, of this song. A very British Christmas sound and feel. Destined to go the same way as Woolworths.
Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling Atmospheric, haunting, charming, Real Quality. And its 1965 origins are closer to 1990 than where we are now....
Charts: Innocence - "A Matter of Fact": their best yet, a smooth and classy and smooth and rather sad thing. But we will hear it here? Surely not!
Yazoo - Situation 1990 Now a remix of a 1982 b-side. Enough of the original Basildon toughness here, the update kind of complements rather than overwhelms it. Nice keyboard/synth games as well as Alf. Welome, but hardly essential or the spirit of the times (if there is one).
Malandra Burrows - Just This Side Of Love Emmerdale Farm actress joining the singing bandwagon. This is ultimately Kylie's fault, then. Very sub-par in almost all regards. To be kind, rubbish. Makes the Prisoner Cell Block H theme song sound like an epic for the ages. Things were different then.
Breakers INXS - Disappear: a bit slick, like it should be on an advert, then the chorus enters in an unsubtle manner. Not their worst, but. Enigma - Sadness (Part 1): "ambient" looking to a more remote past than Shaky. Appealling. George Michael - Freedom 90: real maturing both in attitude and in songwriting. Performance too. Classy Carpenters - Close To You: yet another re-issue. Syrupy but of course.
Seal - Crazy A little less innovative than "Killer" (but so are most), but rather taut, possibly slightly too polished, with carefully controlled anger underneath, loosening up a bit towards the end. Promising.
Black Box - The Total Mix Oh no. Another megamix. Why? Lazy. They know their time is up. And knew it was really once "Ride On Time" was up. The excerpt here concentrates solely on their blandest single to date, "Everybody Everybody", so why bother?
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game A league or several above most of the other tunes here.
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby Well the best part of this is from 1981 too. Not sure it improves on repeated listening.
Dimples D - Sucker DJ Also not new. More Christmas variety show stuff, really.
Big cultural identity crisis underway, is the conclusion of this mostly unappealling mismatched mishmash of old and older and occasionally new.
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Post by vya on May 11, 2021 22:49:48 GMT 1
St Dominic of Silos, St Ammon, St Dominic of Brescia Brookes, in a "cuddly studio" apparently
Snap! - Mary Had A Little Boy The best thing to be said about this is that there is some space in the music. If there is a version in which more space replaces Turbo B's offerings, I'm sure that would improve it vastly.
Carpenters - Close To You Sentimental. Too much so.
Charts: the first (only?) top 40 chart hit to mention Hezbollah? And Innocence going down already, disappointingly.
INXS - Disappear A song lacking a proper middle 8, the chorus just barges in. Instrumental bit with humming is nice enough, a bit early 80s.
Enigma - Sadness (part 1) "Gregorian music": well, up to a point. Far more interesting and appealling than anything else on here so far. Not sure this combination of medieval and (post) modern should work, but it mostly does.
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - The Grease Megamix "The 80s return": the 70s, surely? No doubt about the quality of at least some of the material here, even if a re-release is not strictly necessary.
MC Hammer - Pray My taste in religious music is definitely closer to Gregorian chant than to this.
Status Quo - The Anniversary Waltz Part 2 Not half as strong a medley as Part 1 was. Getting into the Quo as Jive Bunny territory.
Cliff Richard - Saviour's Day More hook-laden and appealling than the tedium of "Mistletoe and Wine", at least. Not actively repulsive nor quite bland.
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby Actually Turbo B is maybe not so bad a rapper. Or even lyricist.
Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers - The Crazy Party Mixes Surely this can't continue for much longer?
What a mass of almost unmitigated dross, leavened only by the superfluous, from start to finish
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Post by Tom on May 16, 2021 14:34:39 GMT 1
5th July
The Nicky Campbell episodes seem to be the least memorable, so must have taken a dislike to him at the time (not sure I was aware of his R1 show then). But then given that he's annoying that isn't a surprise. In fact, if someone told me I didn't watch the shows he did it wouldn't surprise me at all. It wasn't until the 6th song that I found one that I definitely remembered, Thunderbirds Are Go, and that video was shown on a later episode anyway. Always associated the song with the video, (which I remember very well) the version that was played on the Top 40 was different and inferior.
Also loved Mona and U Can't Touch This.
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Post by Tom on May 16, 2021 17:11:05 GMT 1
12th July
In contrast the Anthea Turner shows are the most memorable, but whether that's because she was enthusiastic or because she was a kids TV presenter then I don't know. They seem to be consistently good.
Loved River City People - California Dreamin (didn't know it was a cover then), Naked In the Rain, and I'm Free (which got a particularly good reception from the audience I noticed).
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Post by Tom on May 19, 2021 21:43:44 GMT 1
Forgot to add before that I had totally forgotten that they showed the top 5 albums each month. That explains why the video for Nessun Dorma is so familiar as it got shown a fair bit..
19th July
Liked Turtle Power and Hanky Panky.
26th July
Liked Tom's Diner.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2021 21:50:50 GMT 1
Ben Cook from Popscene (think he's on here too) e-mailed BBC Four about The Story of 1991 and they said "We think it will go out in the autumn, date to be confirmed. There is a new run of films coming to be announced soon."
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Post by vya on May 22, 2021 21:23:09 GMT 1
3 one 90 one Davies
Betty Boo - 24 Hours Less gimmicky, more straightforward than her previous, maybe more appealling for it. A bit minor though. She's dressed as a cross between a bumble bee (possibly referencing a rap lyric) and the post below a Belisha beacon.
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) Time Of My Life The gap between rereleases of film songs that were big hits (as those films now get TV debuts) before gets ever shorter. Competent performers, tolerable song, but why?
Gazza - Geordie Boys (Gazza Rap) He's having a laugh, and good for him. We're not though. Bad luck for us. Put your shirt on man!
Black Box - The Total Mix They think it's all over. It is now. Hurry, hurry and go away.
Seal - Crazy Classy and almost futuristic, clearly a vocal talent to watch out for. Even if the lyrics are maybe a bit too impressionistic rather than precise. Fine production and electrosoundscape too. The best thing here so far, by far.
C&C Music Factory ft Freedom Williams - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) Commercial dance aggression, a step beyond Jam & Lewis and New Jack Swing with added 70s female vox, this sounds potentially massive and in its way groundbreaking.
December Albums Cliff Richard - Saviour's Day Carreras/Domingo/Pavarotti - O Sole Mio Phil Collins - Do You Remember? Elton John - Sacrifice Madonna - Vogue
Anthrax - Got The Time Adolescent frustration, relatively raw and bare, kind of entertaining. Had no idea it was a Joe Jackson cover...
Patsy Cline - Crazy In its way a classic, charming and despairing in one.
Iron Maiden - Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter Accessible for the Maiden track, if hardly their finest moment. Theatrical, almost pantomimesque.
Orchestra on the Half Shell - Turtle Rhapsody Saving the worst for last.
Considering the slim pickings offered by the post-Xmas chart this show wasn't half as bad as it might have been
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Post by vastar iner on May 23, 2021 10:08:23 GMT 1
The result of the 1963 League Cup final (woo). Davies and Betty Boo who has come dressed as East Stirlingshire. It does not flatter her. Neither does the song, which lacks the moxie of her previous oeuvre.
So, TOTP ignores James when they're at no. 31, but plays a video re-issue at 34 now. Medley & Warnes with a film theme. Not for me, Clive. Although Swayze was very nice about it with the songwriters, telling them that it basically captured the entire film and got him right into character.
Gazza. Oh dear.
Black Box. f***ing WHY?
Charts. As expected in the post-Christmas charts there's not much in the way of movement. Great chance for a fanbase act to put something out and score an unexpected hit. Seems like everyone has missed the chance though.
Seal. See above. Interesting that his album was going to be called Deep Water. In the end they decided to go all Peter Gabriel and call them all Seal. Also interesting that there are two songs in the charts called "Crazy". Hah, Davies mentions it.
C+C Music Factory. This is good stuff. Quite buzzsaw guitar and a laid-back confident rap from Freedom Williams. They do the Black Box thing of having a cutie miming to a fattie. Although Zelma Davis actually can sing.
Yeah, they're totally padding out the show now. Albums. This would have been a good show to look outside the 40; new entries from Bananarama and Motorhead for instance.
Anthrax finally get on the show. They've done the fanbase thing and popped in at 23 with some bog-standard speed.
Patsy Cline. Great voice, but I find this one dull.
Top 10. Hah, Iron Maiden DID do the fanbase thing, and as the result, they get an unexpected no. 1. Without which we would have had a bounceback for the first time in a generation. So we thank them for stopping sh*te sh*te Baby. Not much else though.
Finish with the Orchestra on the Half Shell. As dire as you'd expect. If the Wiggles did techno.
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Post by vastar iner on May 23, 2021 21:25:18 GMT 1
Blues v Blackpool, 1901. Jakki Brambles. I have the horrible suspicion that she is the higlight. I like the Lorraine Macintosh lookeylikey that is standing to her right. We start with Bananarama v2.0. I get the distinct impression that they hate this single. They're just not really into it. This is contractual obligation time. And they're probably wondering why they're not getting the primo SAWmill cuts. Their vocals are almost totally buried in the identikit production. The applause is taped.
Whitney Houston over-emoting with another identikit production. Not for me, Clive.
Charts and new in at 18, Pop Will Eat Itself. I remember when they were Stourbridge grebos. They've gone a lot more blissed out now. It's not for the better but it does build up nicely with extra layers.
Grease megamix. No. I would have refused to put this on on sheer principle. Whatever the role of TOTP, it's part of the BBC which has a remit to promote new and challenging stuff. Not f***ing Jive Bunny.
Back to the charts now, says Brambles, and instead we get another song. Offshore. It's C+C Lite, even with the same video look, but like an ersatz version from somewhere like Moldova.
Jesus Jones. Now this is what TOTP SHOULD be promoting as best it can. This is a hot mess of chaotic brilliance. It's excitingly urgent. Bravo.
Now we get the charts. Loads of new entries as the Christmas market shuffles out.
"Will 1991 see the emergence of the pop evangelist?" A bizarre question, seemingly because MC Hammer's latest crime against humanity is called "Pray". What sort of a world is it in which MC Hammer is apparently a necessity? He is a pustule on the last leper in Hell. And the US put him at number one for seventeen f***ing weeks. That is why the US will NEVER be as good as the UK.
We go from a fake preacher to church choir. Enigma are at no. 2. This is so much a step up in class it's frightening. It however gets as much time as a breaker so that we can see Robert Palmer cashing in on a record with legendary reputation for no reason at all other than to nick a few cheap bucks. This is an outright atrocity. f*** off.
Top ten. Iron Maiden at no. 1. Maybe we should enter them for Eurovision. It's actually good fun, snarling menace with a hint of not taking it seriously, just having an acedoss time.
Playout is Sting, no idea why. Priests in a bath with a young boy. Huh? The song though is down to Sting's usual standard.
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Post by TheThorne on May 24, 2021 7:42:23 GMT 1
It was one of my favourite TOTPs so hyped for PWEI and Jesus Jones on same show it's weird how young the look, I was a few years younger than them now I'm twice their age
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Post by vya on May 26, 2021 22:45:24 GMT 1
Tenth Jan Brambles
Bananarama - Preacher Man Generic contemporary dance beats, but old pre-SAW-era living-in-a-South-London-squat style soft vocals to give a hint of 1982 as well as 1991. Inexplicable that the planned release of the far superior "Trippin' On Your Love" was pulled in favour of this not unpleasant but inconsequential piece of fluff. On a train to blandsville.
Whitney Houston - All The Man That I Need Whitney Whitneying very much better than she has done for some time, but the video cut is typically brutal and doesn't really do the song justice. Powerful, beautfiful, yeah a bit overproduced but her voice blows all that away. Would have loved to have heard it in full.
Charts; The High with a re-release, the Prefabs with an EP, the Stranglers with an excellent re-release, it's a new year! Will there be breakers tonight? Of course not!
Pop Will Eat Itself - X, Y and Zee Blander than their previous (often dull or over-cartoonish) fayre, even with a hint of Italo-house pianos, and also Italo-house-ish creative use of samples. But the TEDIUM. Can anything good come out of Stourbridge? On balance, no.
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - The Grease Megamix As good as it was in the 70s of course (I admit the subtitles made me notice things I'd never noticed before in the lyrics). But relevant to Jan 1991 and essential ToTP inclusion? Hardly.
Off-Shore - I Can't Take the Power Cheap generic lazy house. So poor.
Jesus Jones - International Bright Young Thing A touch harder than "Real Real Real", almost nodding back to their initial uncompromising brilliance, only more compromised and less brilliant. Looking at how they're playing at being BBC (Mark Goodier) approved wacky in their choreographed rebellious dancing and head-rocking, in retrospect it's obvious they were always destined for the corporate gig circuit on which they went on to spend years. Not without some nice touches, but if this is the future I'm emigrating.
MC Hammer - Pray Christianity has been the source of much insightful, inspirational, beautiful, meaningful, and eternally valuable works of art over the centuries. And also this. Thoughts and prayers for those who have it inflicted upon them.
Enigma - Sadness (Part One) The titular reference to the Marquis excised for the UK market, but the innovative mix of Gregorian chant, fimrly in the pre-Summorium Pontificum era, and sensitively and carefully paced beats and other stuff is much more where it's at. Rather wonderful, even.
Robert Palmer - Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You Well the man is capable and not without emotion and the songs are up there. A better two-in-one offer than what Will to Power offered.
Iron Maiden - Bring Your Daughter....to the Slaughter Fun bit of acting going on here. Obviously an early-Jan no 1 but no worse for that. And preferable to the PWEI and Jesus Jones chart exploits earlier.
Sting - All This Time Birettas still in here. Biblical quotes too. This really is TradCath night. Polished, not unlikeable adult pop for the FM radio, but with more depth than most. I like it.
A mixed bag.
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