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Post by vastar iner on May 26, 2021 23:37:15 GMT 1
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. Having googled that song, I can see now why they looked so p*ssed off on TOTP. They lost a guaranteed top 10 hit - and a move into a different, much more contemporary direction - for something so by numbers. Can anything good come out of Stourbridge? The A458.
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Post by Tom on May 27, 2021 21:01:58 GMT 1
2nd August 1990
I think the worst episode of the year. Lots of songs I had little or no recollection of. Did like New Kids on The Block - Tonight though, their best single to date.
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Post by Tom on May 27, 2021 21:08:05 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." Yes he is on here too. I did wonder if that might be the case. Shame we've got to wait as its the Story of I was most looking forward to with all the changes that happened, but in a way its good as it means I can watch the episodes without any spoilers! Strange that they're holding off though as I read that they'd filmed a lot of it before the first lockdown last year.
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Post by vya on May 28, 2021 20:40:05 GMT 1
19 Jan Campbell, as ever trying too hard to be funny
Soho - Hippychick Peace signs on tops to coincide with start of the Gulf War, presumably. Which seems to contradict the lyrics. Jumping out. Unpretentious fun, verging on brilliance. "I stopped loving you since the miners strike" is a line. How soon is now? Great start to the show.
Belinda Carlisle - Summer Rain Overproduced, of course, but relatively subtle and tasteful, with a bit of a melancholic undertow. OK but no Circle In The Sand. (And cut off at precisely the wrong moment)
Charts: The Big Dish! Golden sophisto-pop! Orbital! Oleta Adams! Promising...
Alexander O'Neal - All True Man Ah, at last some new material from him after rereleases, remixes, megamix, etc. Worth the wait? More or less. But somehow this is less than the sum of its parts (some gorgeous instrumentation there), and I suspect fashion has moved on. Pity as there's something here.
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life Films (and TV screenings thereof) are now messing up the charts nearly as much as TV ads and soap stars. Obviously Warnes and Medley could have made something sublime together, whereas this is merely tolerable.
KLF - 3am Eternal (Machine Gun fire edited out because of Gulf War).Both in appearance and sound, this is quite mad. Even by KLF standards. A brilliant recipe of multi-faceted parts. A bit of Tricky Disco in there I think. The kind of creative brilliance that ToTP was once made for.
Breakers: The High - Box Set Go: a re-release from last summer, Madchester before it got too dancy, deep, psychedelic, attractive, introspective, yes. A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? Fluent vaguely mellow rap, agreeable and hopeful The Stranglers - Always The Sun: another re-release, and an utterly gorgeous one, polished musically, sharper lyrically
Sting - All This Time Not sure the wackiness of the video compliments the song (probably trying too hard to tone down its lyrical seriousness), a slick and smooth sound, but one of the stronger solo singles from Sumner.
Seal - Crazy Gets better and better on repeated listening.
Enigma - Sadness (Part One) A worthy and almost brilliant number one. Diabolique ou divin? Je ne sais pas.
Ralph Tresvant - Sensitivity Slick new man lyrics, a kind of accompaniment to the O'Neal number earlier. Problem is his voice is too weak to really pull this off. Not enough space in the track either, it's a regimented smoothness. Nice but.
A pretty strong edition
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Post by vya on May 28, 2021 21:08:13 GMT 1
24 Jan Mayo, an unusually short edition to allow a news update on the Gulf War.
Tongue N Cheek - Forget Me Nots Fails the "do it differently or do it better" test on both points, unfortunately. From an act capable of a bit more.
Robert Palmer - Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You Mid-market suburban wine bar music. But why'd you not play the originals?
2 In A Room - Wiggle It They can't sing. No way is this a positive example of US culture entering the UK realm. Fun? I suppose so. Annoying, for sure.
The Simpsons - Do The Bart Man As regards the music, no way is this a positive example of US culture entering the UK realm. Fun? I suppose so. Annoying, for sure.
Off-Shore - I Can't Take The Power Worst thing so far tonight. Just dull.
A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It? Great layering of samples and slick optimistic rap. In the same sort of areas as De La Soul (in the vid), but superior.
Rick Astley - Cry For Help Escaping SAW, going deeper into balladry. Not unsuccessfully. Maybe laying on the elements a bit thick though (the intro verse barely progresses before throwing us into the chorus, the instrumentation is generic, the gospel choir is overwhelming), but with a bit more development, this could have been really good. Really this is only half a song, and therein lies the problem.
Queen - Innuendo Epic in a minor way, and like nothing else around at the time. The band's talent indisputably on display all-round. Probably the point of the lyrics only became clearer at the end of the year.
Not so great overall
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Post by vya on Jun 4, 2021 20:55:15 GMT 1
31st Jan Turner, another shorter than usual edition
EMF - I Believe Weak compared with Single I. A few interesting touches. Teenage energy, yes. Major-label shaped ersatz rebellion? That too.
Ralph Tresvant - Sensitivity #NiceGuysOfOkCupid. Slightly less than the sum of its parts, unfortunately. Not dreadful but he is selling himself so hard it's almost embarrassing. A theme tune for condom adverts, maybe.
Charts: far too much 70s revivalism, in one form or another
Nomad ft MC Mikey Freedom: "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" Not a hit first time round, although it's so insistent and in-your-face it was always gonna break through. The female vocals, a mix of Salsoul gospel, are the (disco) icing on the cake, the rap is competent too. Since the first release "Maggie came but now she's slaughtered" has come true (reference in the rap to the poll tax confirms the point). Very English
Praise - "Only You" At its worse: an inferior imitation of Enigma. At its best: a pastiche of the Cocteau Twins not on peak form. Patently manufactured, though, with the sampled panpipes an' Marvin Gaye an' all. But tolerable.
Kylie Minogue - "What Do I Have To Do" Possibly her finest moment to date. Less poppy, more mature, space-age sounds, refreshing, but maybe shows up the limitations of her voice more than more recent singles have done.
Soho - "Hippy Chick" A new TOTP performance, both singers in big ties with the word "CENSORED" on (apparently a reference to BBC approach to dissent from UK participation in the Gulf War). This is a rather brilliant record.
KLF - "3a.m. Eternal" (non-naff) conceptual art as pop record. Genius. Featuring a brick mobile phone in this presentation. Mad, genius. ("Dressed like the Ku Klux Klan" japes Turner)
Vanilla Ice - "Play That Funky Music" Oh, please turn it off. This is worse than MC Hammer. Please let his career end soon, too.
(Continuing omission of Oleta Adams' "Get Here" from the show seems wrong. Might be a Gulf War BBC Excessive Censorship thing - the lyric about "crossing the desert like an Arab man" was what i suppose would now be called a micro-aggression, apparently. Idiots everywhere, then as now)
With the exception of the ice cream man, this wasn't worse than tolerable
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Post by vya on Jun 4, 2021 21:27:35 GMT 1
7 Feb Brookes
Kim Appleby - "G.L.A.D." Missing Mel musically, as well as in every other way. Too conscious a nod to F.L.M., but the real problem is that whereas this perfectly decent track would have filled dancefloors in 1987, now those days are gone. There's a happy energy here, the now obligatory rap break is less objectionable than many, but somehow it's all too late.
Gloria Estefan - "Coming Out Of The Dark" Oh this is SO manufactured for big stadium shows, with added gospel choir. But this is not in which her strengths lie...
The UK Mixmasters - "Night Fever Megamix" From the same source as Yell! and Bombarulina, says Bruno. And this a recommendation? Jive Bunny (who clearly inspired the video, too) have a lot to answer for. And Bee Gee "tribute" acts too. Dear, dear, hideous.
Charts: No number 40 apparently (it was "Someday" by Mariah Carey, pop-pickers). Ah, climbers only. How odd.
Oleta Adams - "Get Here" Seems this is legit now that Massive Attack can be called by their name again in Beebland. Her voice is haunting, and there is next to nothing inessential in the recording. (Perhaps superior to the Brenda Russell original). Moving, heart-wrenching, quality. Something other than pop, really, too.
The Simpsons - "Do The Bartman" I'd rather not, to be honest. Oh my ears. (The video is entertaining, at least. And it is a better take on the post-Beasties world than what Morris Minor and the Majors did)
Kenny Thomas - "Outstanding" Old school English soul updated a bit. They'll love it at the better joints on Canvey Island. Seemingly all live vocals here, too. But why does it leave me indifferent?
Top 5 albums of Jan Phil Collins - "Do You Remember?" (music for and by bank managers) Whitney Houston - "I'm Your Baby Tonight" (sing it, Whitney!) Enigma - "Sad(e)ness Part 1" (well beyond Taize) Elton John - "Healing Hands" (Reg revival warranted) Madonna - "Vogue" So top two both greatest hits collections
N.K.O.T.B. - "Games" Oh no, the restyled (on the record if not in Bruno's introduction) New Kids are trying to be more "mature", or at least, as mature as Vanilla Ice. They are unconvicing as hard lads, but they were that before. So it's not even original. The bareness of the production and instrumentation is a plus. Like "Ice Ice Baby", when they shut up, there is something here.
2 In A Room - "Wiggle It" Infectious. Needs to be quarantined. Better than MC Hammer though.
KLF ft Children of the Revolution - "3a.m. Eternal" KLF is gonna rock ya!
The Source ft Candi Staton - "You Got The Love" Ah this a record with a complex history. Nice bit of Frankie Knuckles in the background of this (close to submlime) version. And the voice on Staton. A classic in the making, surely.
Two reforms this week: Missing out a lot of the charts, and by the looks of it being a bit less brutal in cutting the video clips. The second one is definitely a good thing.
The pick of songs was a bit hit and miss though, and Bruno faintly ridiculous.
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Post by Tom on Jun 4, 2021 21:50:27 GMT 1
3rd January 1991
Not a great start to the year but Seal's Crazy was great, and also liked Gonna Make You Sweat.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 6, 2021 22:32:56 GMT 1
Queen Victoria's year of death. This is not seven days after the last one. Campbell who looks like he has totally given up. "How Soon Is Now", flowers, must be Moz? No, it's Soho, with something extremely appealing. This is how to use a sample - take an unlikely source and take it into new directions. Not sure about the bouncing, but this is very, very, very good. And it's a great performance, with the flower tearing and so on.
"I think they could be sisters." Erm, what? Belinda Carlisle on video with something a bit Sophie B Hawkins. Should be with The Go-Go's, BC. Nevertheless, this is pretty good as well. Wow, two in a row. What's happened? Someone shot Pete Waterman?
Charts. Big Dish at 40 with one of the worst names for a group I've come across. Alexander O'Neil, big voice but sh*te song. Ah, it was too good to be true. Graphics have gone back to the ADD work experience teenager btw.
Campbell lets a tiny girl yell "Dirty Dancing" while the show wastes our time with a re-issue. Charts again. "Can I Kick It?" Wonder if we will ever get to hear that in the rest of eternity?
Well, it was 2-2 on good v bad songs, The KLF tips the balance in favour of the good. This is just magnificent, isn't it? It's far too big for the show, this should be on a stage in front of The World. Not had such bombast since Adam Ant, there is no act that looks like the JAMMs, this is Cthulhu mythos if it was about raves rather than dead gods. This is more than music, this is Art.
Breakers. The High with some lovely sweet jangly almost tweepop, I think this was meant to be a hit last year but got banned for charthyping or something. They spent nearly £4 on the video. Tribe Called Quest, hints of De La Soul to Herbie Flowers' immortal bassline. The Stranglers at 29, they are entitled to a full play but they get a breaker squeeze. Seem to remember it being a hit a few years ago but I suppose it deserves a re-issue.
Sting. God almighty, but this is useless toss.
Top 10, and we stop at 2 because Seal is here. He's obviously pulling out all the stops to get the top spot. Must be cursing Drummond & Cauty as they're at 5 and know how to steer themselves to no. 1.
And what is at no. 1? One of the more unusual ones. Enigma. Sometimes the charts are just right.
Playout is Ralph Tresvant, with something that was probably knocked up in about thirty seconds, it's just an absolute void of nothingness, no tune, no lyrics, no passion, no emotion, no interest, no imagination.
Incidentally, today Blues lost 3-0 at home to Cambridge United and dropped to 15th in the Division 3 table. Dave Mackay got the tintack that night and we've never been lower since.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 6, 2021 22:52:34 GMT 1
Twenty 4 Not Seven. Mayo with bogbrush do. A shorter programme and we are promised Ghastly, The Simpsons, Queen, and Robert Palmer. Deep joy. Tongue N Cheek to start and this is, ironically given the title, completely forgettable, the proof being that I completely forgot it. It's yet another demolition of the Patrice Rushen original. Next.
Charts. Sting has gone from 22 to 39 after last week's appearance. Well, that worked. Mark Summers at 36, I bet that won't get a play. Thin Lizzy? Heh.
Mayo now has his sleeves rolled up. Palmer with his blasphemy. f*** off.
2 In A Room. This is a positive insult to the intelligence.
Charts run up to 11 so we can see the latest television cash-in. The Simpsons is funny. This song is about as funny as having your genitalia ripped off by rabid stoats. I assume none of the regular writers had a thing to do with this.
Offshore at no. 7 with something deeply generic. Jesus, this is a very, very bad show. After last week's occasionally brilliant this is such a plunge in quality.
Tribe Called Quest. Says a lot that the best thing on the show this far was on last week. Heh, Lady Miss Kier is on it. Ghastly, who refuses to be in a noose. Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be Morten Harket. To be fair to the lad, this is easily his best track yet. We are however talking about a very low base. Gospel-tinged chorus. It's the second-best song on the show as well; also a very low base.
Top 10. It's Queen at no. 1, out of nowhere. Video starts with Spanish guitar. There are some rumours flying around as to why Queen are not appearing in their own video. They're being denied. This is Queen's best song since GaGa. They're so trying to re-create Bo Rhap but at least they're doing it in a different mien. The video is absolutely spectacular. Heh, this is the playout too. I like the Miroesque rendition of Deacon. I wonder if he had a say in that? On the basis that it is less photorealistic and he's the most shot-shy of the band? I bet though if this were Jackson they'd've played the feckin lot.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 7, 2021 23:40:41 GMT 1
96.88 probability. Turner introduces the Mef who are answering their own debut. It's not as impacting as their debut, but perhaps more chaotic. There's a lot more house in there. Audience is into it.
Ralph Tresvant. Why, in a shortened show, are they playing this unlistenable w**k in consecutive weeks? This is a despicable editorial decision. Someone is obviously taking a payoff because someone thinks that Tresvant, whose talents are restricted to his six pack, is going to be big. He can f*** off to music hell.
Charts. God, there's a Night Fever megamix? Mark Summers goes up, so needs a play, but we've had f***ing Ralph Tresvant for no earthly reason. Kenny Thomas also goes up.
There's a very attractive girl in red next to Turner as she introduces Nomad with Mikee Freedom. It's been a massive hit on the dancefloors, apparently. Probably because everyone's off their head because listening to this stone cold sober it is 100% apparent that this is 100% sh*t.
Praise. OK, so they've basically decided on TOTP to f*** all music other than dance. That's diversity for you. This one though is a palpable step up in quality; it's got an otherworldly quality to it, something of an earthchild backing to the voice of the primum mobile. It's a total stun for the cumulative-IQ-of-27 audience.
More charts. Stops at 11 because, oh joy, it is the Minogue Atrocity. Albeit, let's be fair, this is actually a good song. It's wasted on her. Great chorus, imagine someone with an actual voice belting it out. In fact, is this really a dance song? It's been recorded as such, but I reckon a stripped-down, slowed-down version would be really special.
Soho. Another effervescent performance of a great song. But...again. Dance. This is an utterly sh*t way to build a show. If you're not hard into dance you're wasting half an hour of your life.
Top 10. Mef new at 9, Soho up 8 to 8, Ghastly up 7 to 7. Simpsons up 8 to 3. There are lots of threats to the top spot. But at least the KLF are holding onto it - and they're there. Last time they were at no. 1 they were in Japan "looking for something". Red robes and crowns for the top spot. Ricardo has his brick mobile from the video. Bloody love the backing singers. Shame PP isn't there.
Turner says that the KLF look like the Ku Klux Klan. Right. Black backing singers, black rapper, black drummer, black bassist. She's not very bright, is she? Playout is Vanilla Ice, because we haven't had enough shitwank dance.
The producer is a disgrace. Total tw*t. Unfit to do the job.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 8, 2021 16:35:38 GMT 1
Starting odds for Anatis in the 1860 Grand National. Brookes threatening us with NKOTB. f***ing hell, surely their 15 minutes (which was already 16 minutes too long) are up. First up Kim Appleby who is not wearing a hat this time. Has a rap break which I'd forgotten about. Suggests they ran out of insporation for the verses. Sound mix is too low, the crowd is too loud. It's OK and she's very smiley.
Gloria Estefan going gospel. It's poor.
Night Fever Megamix. No. Just...no. Why in the name of arse are they playing this? There are loads of new entries and suchlike so why are we having this cash-in from cretins who deserve to be fed through a combine harvester foisted on us? Where is the remit for new music? Again. The producer is an utter b*st*rd.
The charts are here to prove it. Because they don't even bother with the songs going down. There are newies at 39, 38, 37, 32, a climber at 27, all of whom pretty much deserve a play a LOT more than sh*t records strung together in sh*t fashion. (Other than the remix, f*** that.)
The non-chart chart rundown stops at Oleta Adams who has been staggering up the charts and studiously ignored in favour of sh*t. Now she's on it's a stark contrast because it's her, a piano, and a silent audience. This is going to be biiiiiiiig. Odds on this one performance will send it hugely up.
FF the BBC using my money to promote the opposition. Kenny Thomas, with an ironically-titled song. Good voice but this is überbland. The backing is TOTALLY anonymous, it could almost literally be from any of this sort of new jack soul sound.
And after a run of new entries the moronic shiteating twatstain of a producer decides to waste even more time with the top albums of the month. Which of course means more free publicity for huge names on huge labels. Collins, Houston, Cretu, Dwight, Ciccione. We really did not need to hear any of these again.
NKOTB are trying to go gangsta with something that is as good as you'd expect if you got a bunch of middle-class white accountants trying to be NWA. "Five bad brothers". I'm not buff but seeing them in this video makes me think I could take them all on, single-handedly. f***ing terrible and again the producer should be fired for airing this sh*t.
And we go into 2 In A Room. Point proved.
Top 10. KLF is no. 1, thankfully. Playout is Source, which is one of those rare instances where someone takes an original and remixes in a way that actually adds to it. For some reason the idiot producer decides to distort the screen. Video seems to be nicked from Godley & Creme.
Meanwhile a bit lower down Mark Summers had been entitled to 3 plays and hasn't had one. How many other songs in that position ever? But we've seen a heapload of sh*t in that time, including Sting who went down about 17 places, so that was a great decision. The production team is a disgrace, with no idea how to book an interesting show. Just goes down the chart bit by bit without thinking of anything like balance and running order. And seemingly deliberately refusing to play indie music if they can pander to the big labels. Someone needs a serious rethink.
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Post by Tom on Jun 8, 2021 20:11:14 GMT 1
9th August 1990
A show I definitely missed at the time as I never knew then that U Can't Touch This reached no 3. I would have been away around this time too. A shame I did miss it as it was one I would have enjoyed featuring some of my favourites from the time. As for those songs not featured before loved Itsy Bitsy...and liked Tom's Diner.
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Post by Tom on Jun 8, 2021 21:28:29 GMT 1
16th August 1990 Another I missed and another I would have enjoyed. Liked Go West - King of Wishful Thinking and was looking forward to seeing What Time Is Love on these repeats Great to see Betty Boo with my favourite of hers, Where Are You Baby? !
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Post by Tom on Jun 9, 2021 21:46:20 GMT 1
23rd August 1990
Liked Vision of Love, I'll Never Fall In Love Again I've always thought is too short, which given that I disliked ballads then is saying something, absolutely love it now. Great to see Groove Is In The Heart at the end too!
30th August
Good show and a particularly significant one for me as in the early 2000s I collected episodes on VHS from the old TOTP forum, must have been about a dozen, and this was the earliest one.
Only one new song I liked though, Jason Donovan - Rhythm of the Rain.
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Post by vya on Jun 11, 2021 20:29:35 GMT 1
14 Feb, Davies
Nomad fr MC Mikee Freedom - "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" OK. But admittedly not a patch on "Devotion" by Ten City from a coupla years earlier, which had one or two elements (well, soulful vocals) in common.
Kylie Minogue - "What Do I Have To Do" The basis of something really good. I can imagine K-Klass could have made something rather haunting with this. But decent.
Chart highlights: Some good new entries here, Living Colour, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, actually lots of decent indie stuff here. Will they show any of it though? (I remember it was Tommy Vance presenting the relevant edition of the top 40 countdown on R1, just like years earlier)
The Source ft Candi Staton - "You Got The Love" Didn't realise they'd even borrowed parts of Frankie Knuckles' "Your Love" video, but why not? Maybe the people who are patently not Candi Staton mouthing the lyrics is a dig at Black Box, C&C, Milli Vanilli, 49ers, Technotronic, Snap!, etc, etc. A fine piece of musical art.
808 State - "In Yer Face" Trying to look more baggy manc than dance, not sure this is a good idea. Inimitable 808 State style, but a little bit more incidental than some of their other tracks. OK though. A welcome presence.
Free - "All Right Now" More unnecessary 70s revivalism.
Railway Children - "Every Beat Of The Heart" A re-release, and one I have a real soft spot for. Kind of 80s pre-Roses jangly fey indie paced and ramped up a bit, lovely guitar sound. (Real indie band signed to major label, not created by them, like so many). Rather lovely. I could listen to this over and over.
Chris Isaak - "Blue Hotel" Not as magical as "Wicked Game", but atmospheric still, more than Americana revivalism (a male Lana del Rey avant le jour?) , more a chorus and a plaintive yelp than a complete song, but breezy and cinematic and a gorgeous voice (as well as suit). Good stuff.
Praise - "Only You" Patently manufactured Enigma cash-in (on a car ad, I think) commanded by someone who'd been listening to "Heaven and Las Vegas" too much, too, but OK within those constraints. But putting "To Here Knows When" on this edition would have been a better example of something actually enigmatic...
The Simpsons - "Do The Bartman" The worst hit single Tracey Ullman has had any even indirect association with. Maybe putting (a cartoon representation of) Neil Kinnock in the video would redeemed it a bit. Not actually the worst rap we've had on TOTP recently, though.
Jimmy Barnes with INXS - "Good Times" Bluesy pub rock, err, not my pint of bud, thanks.
There really should have Breakers tonight (Julian Cope, Jellyfish...), but in places a sound edition, the Railway Children being the real icing on the cake.
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Post by vya on Jun 11, 2021 21:01:45 GMT 1
21 Feb, Goodier
Chris Rea - "Auberge" A fairly generic and boring Chris Rea track, really, maybe with added horns, he's done much better.
Kenny Thomas - "Outstanding" A misleadingly named track. But "Vaguely tolerable" wouldn't scan.
Chart highlights: MBV are gone, what is here is less promising than last week
DJH ft Stefy - "Think About.." Advanced Italo House mining familiar seams in the sample mines, with added wurlitzer for good measure. The miming is more preposterous than is typically the case though. Track is mildly fun (until the unnecessary male rapper enters), but insubstantial. Surely the summer of 1989 can't continue for much longer.
Thunder - "Love Walked In" This lot are so earnest. And mediocre at best.
Breakers: Julian Cope - "Beautiful Love": pacey and enjoyable rather than essential Stevie B - "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)": US FM ballad but with lots of space Joey B Ellis And Tynetta Hare - "Go For It (Heart and Fire): from Rocky V, of the same calibre as the Mutant Turtles tracks Weird excerpts of the songs that didn't represent them well
Xpansions - "Move Your Body (Elevation)" A renamed rerelease that had been all over Kiss FM the previous year. A (London?) twist and take off of Italo House too, really. Fairly attention-catching in its way. For a week or so.
MC Hammer - "Here Comes The Hammer" An old, and particularly unappealling, track from him. Please let him go! Zero redeeming qualities to this at all. Utter rubbish.
Oleta Adams - "Get Here" Real quality
The Simpsons - "Do The Bartman" No
Living Colour - "Love Rears Its Ugly Head" Such a brilliant innovative act with loads of should've-been-better-known songs finally getting a hit. The plaintive passionate voice of the singer is probably the highlight here, but a real grower of a track. Probably the best thing on this episode.
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Post by Tom on Jun 11, 2021 23:12:00 GMT 1
Two good shows.
6th September 1990
It must have been around this time that I started watching the show live so I could also listen to it in stereo on R1. Think the shows became more memorable as a result, I knew Janet Jackson's Black Cat was coming at the end!
Liked Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It and Farm's Groovy Train.
13th September
Loved Londonbeat's I've Been Thinking About You, also liked Inxs - Suicide Blonde and Bass O Matic Fascinating Rhythm. Maria Mckee's Show Me Heaven is an interesting one. The live performance passed me by at the time, don't know whether it wasn't a big deal then maybe assuming that everyone performed live, or because I couldn't tell the difference. Definitely a performance I remember liking at the time though, she nailed it, so much so that I actually think it's better than the studio recording.
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Post by Tom on Jun 11, 2021 23:32:07 GMT 1
20th September
Not as good as the previous couple of weeks, but then it was a Nicky Campbell show so not a surprise...
Just the one song I liked, Twenty 4 Seven I Can't Stand It.
27th September
In contrast this was an Anthea Turner show and is one I particularly remember.
Liked Monie Love - It's A Shame and loved Status Quo - Anniversary Waltz Part 1.
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