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Post by vastar iner on Jun 13, 2021 16:38:09 GMT 1
Valentine's Day. Davies and a woman behind him who looks to be about 47. We start with Nomad who are gash. So I can whizz through to Minogue, see above.
Charts. Newies from Michael, Jellyfish, Milltown Brothers, Julian Cope, Chris Rea, Living Colour, DJH, MBV (yay), 808 State. Oh, we're not doing the down ones again. Railway Children, Mark Summers, INXS, Isaak, Thomas, Free all going up, Source, and NKOTB. Frankly they could do the show just on those new entries and it would be absolutely stellar; they're all different genres and different sounds and all have an element of excitement somewhere. I bet none of them actually get on though. Other than 808 State who are nearly top 10.
Source with their Godley & Creme inspired video. The girl with the dark wavy hair is stunning. As is the girl with the long black hair. I don't remember this video having a compugen background though. Thought it was filmed on the streets.
808 State are indeed on. This is an interesting mishmash as the percussion sounds like it's from a different track to the keys.
Free, oh come on, this is ancient.
Railway Children. Can someone explain why this is on despite being lower than Mark Summers who has never been played and about the same as MBV who have entered? It's pleasant enough jinglyjanglypop but they're everywhere at the moment, the label is pushing them as a sort of credible Fake T**t.
Chris Isaak, another one whose rise has also all but stalled, and who gets on instead of a load of new entries. This is no "Wicked Game". For a start he sings it as "hohell". Secondly it is very steeped in 1959, it doesn't sound in any way contemporary, it needs a chorus, it needs some oomph.
Praise. Davies talks up its chances of being a new no. 1 next week. Has he seen sales flashes? We however have a new no. 1 and it's the Simpsons with the least impressive thing the cartoon has come up with. First cartoon no. 1, says Davies, who has already forgotten Jive Bunny.
Playout is INXS with Jimmy Barnes, with one of the most authentically ocker rock sounds that has made ver Pops. OK in as far as it goes.
It's actually the fourth consecutive week in which Mark Summers is entitled to a play and he didn't get on. Someone is seriously f***ing up the showrunning. We had Minogue whose rise has patently stalled and everyone who's ever going to be inspired to buy it has bought it. We had Free who are on an advert and who are over 20 years old so really this is not a climber, this is a bounceback from an old faller, and it should not have been within a hundred feet of the show. Meanwhile there are a dozen other new and fresh tracks that are studiously ignored. One has to suspect that a lack of breakers is a deliberate ploy to prevent anyone new challenging the industry hierarchy. Utter liability.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 13, 2021 17:58:43 GMT 1
Ten and a half. Goodybags introducing the highest climber - Chris Rea with "Let's Dance", which he has re-titled "Auberge". Has a Lotus 7 on the album cover. Rea looks bored stiff. It's a lot more fun on video.
Kenny Thomas, see before.
Charts and we're back to the climbers &c only. Rocky V is an act now?
DJH with a nearly undressed Stefy. I'm guessing, given that this is a sample of Aretha Franklin, she has as much to do with this song as me. It was no. 1 in Italy. That is NOT a guarantee of quality. This is utter sh*te.
Thunder, sounding like a Def Leppard tribute band. This is the sort of American hair metal "let's pitch for no. 1 with a ballad" type affair, but it's too rawk for the casual audience. Plus yer man doesn't have the voice for it. And frankly if they're going to produce such a pathetic non-video why even bother?
AND AFTER WEEKS OF BRILLIANT NEW ENTRIES WITH NO BREAKERS NOW THESE b*st*rds BRING BACK THE BREAKERS. Jesus f***ing Christ. Julian Cope with something that sounds almost Caribbean. Stevie f***ing B gets a play at 35 whereas real acts don't get a play from previous weeks. This is worse than MC f***ing Hammer. f***ing American twattish sh*te. And Rocky V with something even worse than Stevie f***ing B. Someone is taking a backhander from dance labels. It's patently obvious now.
And again more f***ing dance sh*t. Xpansions. Again. I've said it before. I doubtless will say it again. THEY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO PLAN A PROGRAMME. THEY'VE JUST HANDED IT OVER TO A ROBOT. And again it is Milli f***ing Vanilli with someone faking a sample. This is atrocious. Completely computer-created to appease the open-mouth breathers. Avoid.
God almighty. Rinse and repeat for MC f***ing Hammer. Why are people buying this? How come they are allowed out of the house? How come they are even functioning?
Oleta Adams, see above.
Top 10, which is fairly boring. Interesting that Kim Appleby is surely entitled to a play for non-moving at 10 but isn't. So they CAN avoid following the strict order if they want to. But this time it seems to have been in order to play Stevie f***ing B.
Anyway, the best, most interesting, and freshest track on the show is on the playout. Living Colour. We lost this from the main show for DJH Featuring Stefy? Jesus.
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 13, 2021 18:52:18 GMT 1
Really surprised you don't like Railway Children, they were a proper indie band but now on a major shock!! and they have just released their equivalent of 'Somewhere In My Heart' a total indie pop banger!! It was one of my songs of the year
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Post by mfr on Jun 13, 2021 23:14:34 GMT 1
AND AFTER WEEKS OF BRILLIANT NEW ENTRIES WITH NO BREAKERS NOW THESE b*st*rds BRING BACK THE BREAKERS. Jesus f***ing Christ. Julian Cope with something that sounds almost Caribbean. Stevie f***ing B gets a play at 35 whereas real acts don't get a play from previous weeks. This is worse than MC f***ing Hammer. f***ing American twattish sh*te. And Rocky V with something even worse than Stevie f***ing B. Someone is taking a backhander from dance labels. It's patently obvious now. Crazy Theory. None of MC Hammer, Stevie B or Rocky V were on dance labels, while ironically Mark Summers was, but presumably didn't make a video or become available for the studio.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 14, 2021 0:25:42 GMT 1
There was a video, it was on the Chart Show. Which at this era was much, much better as a programme. Not up to its Channel 4 days, but even so.
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Post by vya on Jun 19, 2021 11:45:51 GMT 1
28 Feb Brambles
N-Joi - Adrenalin Hardish, drivingish, house broadly in an 808 State vein. Not much in the way of a hook, more a persistent threat, with annoying bleeps, and early 80s synths. Creative, not quite robotic, dancing. In all, a curio.
Stevie B - Because I Love You (The Postman Song) Piano balladry, a bit bland but at least it is unobtrusive. Lots of space in the music, but not much breathing speech on the vocal track. File in the "this is what they like in America" box
Free - All Right Now FFWD
Charts: Gulf War bowlderlised "Massive" the best new entry by a long, long, way, Living Colour the only climber I'd care to hear
Massive [Attack]- Unfinished Sympathy Impressed that Brambles mentions (i think fairly accurately) their pre-history. A string section on stage suited and bowtied. Dignified, haunting, magnificent. Singlehandedly outdoes everything the Wild Bunch (if we omit the original take on what became "Buffalo Stance", Smith & Mighty and even Soul II Soul have done in just a few minutes. Gaining respect with a cool British dialect.
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Advert success means they finally get a top 10 hit. The thing is they did so many things vastly superior to this. I'd rather live by the river.
Breakers Quartz ft Dina Carroll - It's Too Late: attractive if inessential stripped-down post-Soul II Soul-style cover Mantronix - Don't Go Messin' With My Heart: more post-Soul II Soul sounds, but the song isn't up to much Almighty - Free N Easy: meat and potatoes rock with a bit of gruff rawness
Jesus Jones - Who? Where? Why? Well they were adding dance tracks and samples to their indie guitar shtick before "WFL", I suppose. Maybe the problem is not so much that they jump on bandwagons as that they're not very good. Stretched out, a less witty, more washed, more polite, Pop Will Eat Itself. We don't need that.
The Source ft Candi Staton - You Got The Love A fine record (can't really go wrong with Knuckles or Staton, let alone both), but I wish TOTP would bring back Pan's People or Ruby Flipper and give us a "Disco Duck" reinterpretation in dance
Madonna - Crazy For You (remix) If nothing else this shows how her sound, her lyrical concerns, and image have all developed since its original release. It's a bit better than OK, but no "Oh Father"
Simpsons - Do The BartmanNo thanks (broken down but not fully destroyed bit of the Berlin Wall in the video dates it)
Joey B Ellis & Tynetta Hare - Go For It! (Heart and Fire)Not only is it from Rocky V, but MC Hammer is involved. Unlistenable.
Brambles actually a pretty decent presenter here. Apart from Massive Attack the music was mostly nothing special, or rather worse.
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Post by vya on Jun 19, 2021 12:14:04 GMT 1
7 Mar Campbell
Hale & Pace - The Stonk Getting the BBC to make comic records is like asking them to pick the Eurovision entry. The Welsh male voice choir bit maybe, though.
Joey B Ellis & Tynetta Hare - Go For It! (Heart and Fire) Inexcusable putting this charmless tuneless dross on three consecutive episodes. FFWD.
Quartz ft Dina Carroll - It's Too Late Carroll has an appealing voice, and this production and arrangement is not at all unpleasant, although one wonders which "Tapestry" track will be next for the contempory dance treatment.
Charts: more than a few promising new entries here, so I guess the breakers won't appear...
Living Colour - Love Rears Its Ugly Head Really a fabulous record, a bit funk, a bit rock, a bit...purple, man it'd have been great to have them on TOTP doing the full song. Such a groove and such soulfulness and expression in the vocals.
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Happy Quite an eccentric record, two basses, as Campbell notes, a combination of loudness and bareness. And not really a chorus to speak of. Potentially the peak achievement of British grunge, despite, or because of all that. The riffs are the winning thing, and the drumming ties it all together.
Top 5 Feb albums (see, no breakers!) George Michael - Freedom 90 Elton John - Healing Hands Chris Isaak - Wicked Game Gloria Estefan - Coming Out Of The Dark Queen - Innuendo (OK, ok, but I think the breakers would have presented a more interesting and lesser known set of songs)
Xpansions - Move Your Body (Elevation) So insistent that it's hard not either to be drawn to it, or maybe to despite it utterly. I don't despise it, maybe as it is not unexciting.
Roxette - Joyride A bit more polished and obvious than the more spiky and eccentric highlights of their previous album, the incongruous line about "her beautiful balloon" notwithstanding, and "the sunshine is a lady, who rocks you like a baby". Random words plucked from a dictionary? Not sure they know what "joyride" now means in the UK (and in Ireland, what might it mean there?). Coming up, a song about twoccing. Competent, but too many primary colours.
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Go, probably, really.
Charlatans - Over Rising Even they seem to be ramping the dance beat up a bit now. But the hammond-led sound is unique. Not their strongest song, but the gift of the Charlatans is maybe more about creating and expressing moods. This is OK. And it has a proper conclusion
What was annoying (more annoying than Campbell) was what could have been on the breakers: LL Cool J, Dream Warriors, Bee Gees, Jesus Loves You (i.e. Boy George), Echo & the Bunnymen, Banderas, R.E.M., not a bad track among them
Still the better show of the two, but no classic
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Post by Tom on Jun 19, 2021 21:20:21 GMT 1
4th October 1990
Liked Pet Shop Boys - So Hard and Technotronic Megamix.
11th October
Liked Beautiful South - A Little Time.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 19, 2021 22:50:11 GMT 1
Prid. Kal. Mar. Brambles wearing gloves for no adequately explored reason. N-Joi. They could do with some lyrics. And a tune. The presentation is literally about freaky dancing. How original. This is what some corpo-whore thinks is banging.
Stevie B. Seriously, f*** right off.
Free. Seriously, change the f***ing producer.
You would think that changing the chart rundown only to have the new entries and climbers was a bit of a clue to the producer that there's a lot of stuff going on, and, therefore, they should not be repeatedly playing old songs that do not need it. But no. No idea how to do a job at all. In at 31 are Massive. No Attack.
And we cut to them, with several full sets of rather bemused string players in the studio. It's more incongruous than playing a kazoo during a minute's silence and it seems to have stunned the audience. Especially with Shara's emotive miming. And quite rightly too. This is almost literally stunning. It is by a very large distance the best thing coming out of Britain this year. A no. 1 in the making? Surely.
There's a very sweet girl clapping like mad beside Brambles as she introduces The Clash. Doesn't this sum up the sheer vacuity of the dance sh*te that's desecrating the charts? A minor hit at the arse end of the punk explosion has suddenly given The Clash their first top ten hit. Because a song that got to about no. 22 in a genuinely exciting and innovative year for music is again so much better than the contemporary lamestream sound that the teenagers are totally blown away. What the f*** are they teaching at schools these days? f***ing GCSEs.
Breakers. They play Quartz at no. 40, I assume because it's dance sh*te, when they refuse to play those in the thirties in recent weeks by indie bands. "Yay! We're down wiv ver kids!" Anyhoo, it's a cover, to go with the two re-issues so far. Mantronix. More dance sh*te. The Almighty. Metal sh*te.
Jesus Jones. They've hit a vein that they're not going to relinquish. It's decent though. It's like there's a pop band fighting with Weatherall and McGee over the production desk.
The Source. Again. And another cover version. TOTP bloody loves this.
Madonna. Yet another re-issue. Christ on a f***ing bike.
Skip the no. 1, straight to the playout, which is Rocky V.
Now. We have Massive Attack, which is a great, great, great song. Otherwise, it's almost all covers, re-issues, or dance.
Someone needs to have a f***ing word. There is a lot of stuff going on and it's being 100% ignored. And it has to be deliberate. They play breakers this week when two of them are dance and don't do breakers when they would all be indie or similar. It's gaslighting, it's social conditioning, it's utter rank.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 19, 2021 23:16:23 GMT 1
Real Madrid v Eintracht Frankfurt. Campbell introduces the Comic Relief record with a suitable red nose graphic. Hale & Pace looking rather smart. Funny to think how successful they were, they were massive when on ITV, they even had critical acclaim as part of the whole Comic Strip/Comedy Store movement. In a reverse of the norm it went wrong when they went to the BBC. This is actually something of a rollicking rock & roller that wouldn't have looked out of place being done by Jerry Lee back in 1958, or by Maltloaf in 1982.
Rocky V is on AGAIN. WHO IN THE NAME OF f***ing GOD IS PICKING THIS f***ing PROGRAMME? THIS WAS ON LAST WEEK AND IT WAS f***ing w**k THEN!!!!
Quartz & Dina Carroll, who were in Breakers last week, but because dance they get another play. Jesus.
Campbell reads out the climbers and newies as if he's been very heavily drinking. Interestingly Living Colour weren't on last week after being on playout the previous week, probably because they're not dance. But unfortunately for the cretins in charge they climbed again this week, which means they have to have a play, probably squeezing out DJH Featuring Naked Stefy or some other gash.
The Neds at 16. This is like three separate songs strung together, the slow one, the fast one, and the shouty one. It's a grower.
And to prove that the people picking the songs on the show have the intelligence of a decaying whelk, this week we get TOP ALBUMS which means songs that have already been on the show a dozen times by huge acts. Any time your answer is "playing Gloria Estefan" it means "I'm asking the wrong question".
Xpansions. YAY!!! DANCE!!!! It's the same performance as before and the same sh*te as before.
Roxette with "Joyride". Not very tactful given what's going on down at Blackbird Leys. This is a lot more back to basics. They are very obviously not whistling. Back to basics, but also rather dull.
Top 10, and The Clash are no. 1. Which is amusing.
Playout is The Charlatans. Now. Work this logic out. It's the highest new entry. In basically every single week, such as last week, highest new entry means full play in the middle of the programme. But now it's a band with an indie background they get banished to the playout. What is the logical reason for not giving this the proper treatment but giving that f***ing Rocky V dogfucking shitwank a play FOR THE THIRD WEEK IN A ROW?
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Post by Tom on Jun 25, 2021 21:56:02 GMT 1
1991
Forgot to mention before that whilst I wasn't yet interested in artist albums I do seem to remember Madonna having the no 1 album for December 1990.
10th Jan
Good show.
Bananarama - Preacherman. One of my favourite Bananarama songs, certainly the one I've loved for the longest. Keren in particular looked hot!
Whitney Houston - All the Man That I Need. Liked this one.
Loved Grease Megamix. Liked Jesus Jones - International Bright Young Thing and Robert Palmer Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You.
19th Jan
Pretty sure I missed this at the time as once it was cancelled on the Thursday due to the Gulf War probably would have assumed it wouldn't be shown that week at all, and not known at short notice it would be shown on Saturday. And it was Nicky Campbell's best show as well! Really enjoyable.
Like I've Had The Time of My life, great to see 3am Eternal, Klf's best song so far. Sadness Part 1 is a song that I wasn't fussed by at the time, couldn't see the appeal but really like it now.
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Post by Tom on Jun 26, 2021 23:34:41 GMT 1
24th Jan 1991
One of the shows that I've got and another really enjoyable one.
Love Wiggle It and I think the video is one of the most memorable of the year for me. Loved Do the Bartman, again one of the more memorable videos I think. Like Can I Kick It and I've always related the song to the video, maybe saw it more on here and the ITV Chart show than hearing it on the top 40. Like Rick Astley - Cry For Help and interesting that Simon Mayo mentioned it being an old Record of the Week as can vividly remember hearing it on the way to school.
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Post by Tom on Jun 26, 2021 23:47:50 GMT 1
31st Jan
Another really enjoyable show.
Liked EMF - I Believe then and appreciate it even more now. Prefer it to Unbelievable now really. Like Nomad - Devotion. What Do I Have To Do is simply my favourite Kylie song.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 4, 2021 0:03:04 GMT 1
American π day. Mayo. Comic relief. Audience is middle-aged. Chesney Hawkes to start the show, he's been all over kids' TV because of a film with Roger Daltrey and claiming he's the authentic deal. With a song written by Nik Kershaw. It's one of those songs that's going to get very annoying very quickly.
REM on video. Last time they were on Ver Pops they protested at having to mime. Now they've got a video where they're lipsyncing. First time. Seems to be a vague homage to some old master paintings. Stipe can't dance. Song is not their best. Which still makes it better than nearly everything this year thus far.
Ride. Love me a bit of shoegaze. Ride putting more emphasis on the drums, which gives it an oddly jazz feel. They look REALLY out of place on TOTP, they're more a The Word band, but this is still an outright highlight. Proper musicians for a change. Audience has no idea how to react.
Back to the climber-only chart. Shergal Farkey, Echo & The Bunnymen et al. Lots of metal. Why did Boy George call his latest project Jesus Loves You when there's already Jesus Jones? (And others like The Jesus Lizard.) Heh, Ride had the highest new entry. Living Colour, despite TOTP detesting them, are crawling up the charts.
Bee Gees on video, there are a dozen better candidates but the programme planners are hopeless. This is basically "Chain Reaction" without Miss Ross.
Queen at 24. They're in this video so maybe that will scotch the rumours. Song is as bad as Innuendo was good. Sounds like they jammed it in about four minutes.
Lenny Henry on to promote Comic Relief. Odd that he hasn't had a hit given how much a part music plays in his characters. We get a repeat of Massive Not Attack and a needless video of Rod the Mod.
Happy Mondays. Again suitably shambolic but this has the air of a cash-in single. Maybe it will boost the album. The backing singer looks petrified.
Top 10, The Clash at no. 1, and another repeat performance for Jesus Jones, relying a lot on past footage and videos tonight. Something of a missed opportunity. Odd to have a performance over the credits rather than a video.
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Post by o on Jul 4, 2021 9:37:01 GMT 1
Missed this week's as I record the late showings and assume football had a knockon effect, and I got some very long live concert of someone I've only vaguely heard of! So it was running at least an hour late as I got 1 min of a very nervous looking Dannii Minogue.
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Post by TheThorne on Jul 4, 2021 9:56:45 GMT 1
Missed this week's as I record the late showings and assume football had a knockon effect, and I got some very long live concert of someone I've only vaguely heard of! So it was running at least an hour late as I got 1 min of a very nervous looking Dannii Minogue. That was a good show, the 2nd wasn't quite as good it was mostly repeats and more recycled Snap/Black Box. Id definitely watch it on iPlayer
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 4, 2021 9:58:13 GMT 1
21-3. The emphasis, according to Turner, is on talent. So we start with Jesus Loves You, which is basically a novelty record. It's utter rubbish. Bono lookalike on guitar. The only bit that's interesting is when it turns into a British Airways jingle halfway through.
Simple Minds. I wonder if Johnny & The Self-Abusers would have been embarrassed about this sort of output? It's seemingly designed to be a stadium rock epic and curiously also sounds a bit like a British Airways advert.
Banderas at 20 and the graphic is smart, as it's a mock of a TIYL red book. Am guessing the singer shaved her hair off so that she could not be pushed as a sex symbol, although it makes her look rather cute. Song starts OK but it runs out of steam very quickly.
Chart risers. Jive Bunny is still a thing? Quartz, god, this is still going up? Would have fitted perfectly with the yuppie crap in the 1980s.
PSBs are back on the cover version trail. This time it's U2. What have they done to deserve this? It's actually something of a stormer until it gets to the "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" bit, it's a clever mash-up but the song loses oomph at that point. I think Anna Chancellor is in the video on the aa-side. Which is a self-composition but it totally tedious, so no wonder the emphasis is on this side.
Breakers. Definition Of Sound with something that sounds quite fun and deserves more of a play, especially as the only bit they play is the chorus. Scritti Politti & Shabba Ranks, stochastic. Again sounds like fun, again deserves more of a play. Jane's Addiction with something REALLY good but they're not playing the proper video, which is about the original story of a man pretending to be up the duff to hide contraband under his fake bump.
Shergal Farkey, singing live. I repeat my comment above about Johnny & The Self-Abuses, mutatis mutandis for Undertones. This is basically an audition for Ronnie Scott's or Look How Serious And Adult An Act I Am.
Roxette, repeat performance, f*** it.
Hale & Pace at least turn up for their no. 1 performance. Pace looks delighted at least. Annoying that Victoria Wood is given full credit for her flip on the sleeve, but the single label has it as a b-side. She deserves a chart-topper more than H&P. The Stonkers include half of Queen, Rowan Atkinson, Cozy Powell, Tony Iommi, Judy Tzuke, and Mike "Rock Bottom" Moran. Heh, Turner says it's a double a-side with Victoria Wood. Someone tell the OCC.
Playout is Megadeth, which is an appealing contrast. Not my tasse de thé but top shredding.
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Post by vya on Jul 4, 2021 22:19:57 GMT 1
1403 Mayo, red noses all round
Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only Nik Kershaw for some reason I found unutterably naff at this time. As both a songwriter (as here) and performer he is nothing of the sort. This is not really his best composition though, it's too straightforward. The lyrics are a bit...facile/obvious, and it's easily to imagine Tremelo Jr getting annoying, Jase Gone Indie-ish for Kids. But. It's alright. No more, but no less.
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion Deserves to be played in full. Supreme. There's a real anger here, along with musicianship and lyrical skill.
Ride - Unfamiliar Deep, swirling, amazing, entirely un-TOTP1991. Lead (but not the best) track of their finest EP, in both sound and cover art terms (these things came as a package). Layered, complex, gorgeous. Make Today Forever.
Charts: I love that Vixen track (far from their best though it is)
Bee Gees - Secret Love You took a mystery and made me want it. Then repeated it and made me think not.
Queen - I'm Going Slightly Mad Poor, frankly.
Massive (Attack) - Unfinished Sympathy Pure, astounding, quality. Best thing here, even in the face of strong competition. Only act likely to appear on ToTP who went on to have a member serving as the artistic director of an EFL football team. I mean, does more then one EFL club have one of those? Take me home, Nympsfield Road...
Rod Stewart - Rhythm Of My Heart Somewhere in that ambigious territory that nestles nervously on the boundaries of Theydon Bois and south-of-the-Clyde Glasgow, and more to the point on the narrow high wall between Generic Rod and Parody Rod, it's all here. Over-emoting, bagpipes, but as ever, He Means It, Man. There are more shameful Rod records from this period to love than this ("Almost Illegal", for example). A real guilty pleasure.
Happy Mondays - Loose Fit The Mondays are by now above all a Phenomenon. And when they are doing their own thing more or less largely unchanged by fame. Which maybe serves above all to highlight their limitations. There are some fab sonic aspects on this track between verbal sections.
Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go The charts at this time are a funny place. There are worse tracks than this one doing the rounds, as well as many better.
Jesus Jones - Who, Where, Why Why, indeed.
A very mixed episode, very very good in parts, and also, unusually, an almost entirely (Jesus Jones the most glaring exception) guitar-led one. But overall, more pluses than minuses
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Post by vya on Jul 4, 2021 22:54:54 GMT 1
Day after the Spring Equinox, Turner "The emphasis is on talent". Well, we'll see.
Jesus Loves You - Bow Down Mister Boy George's most eclectic record, but hardly his best. Sing-a-long, though. Too much E, mate.
Simple Minds - Let There Be Love Before they Became Pompous, they could be pretty appealing. Not any more though.
Banderas - This Is Your Life Slick, contemporary, progressive, sophisticated innovative dance-pop with a real song (and real singer) attached. I like it. Check their no 41 follow-up "She Sells" for a step beyond this though.
Charts: not mega appealling selection of things climbing TBH
Quartz introducting Dina Carroll - It's Too Late The better calibre of Suburban Wine Bar Music, now that Demis Roussous is not in general circulation.
Pet Shop Boys - Where The Streets Have No Name (Can't Take My Eyes Off You) It gets a bit Southend Pier (the family entertainment far end before it burned down bit, not the mods and rockers and Bad Manners fans and fighting and drinking shore bit) at a point here. Silly? Yes. Preposterous? Maybe. Genius? Not quite, but nearly. That the PSBs have the confidence to pull this off is a point in their favour.
Breakers: Definition of Sound - Wear Your Love Like Heaven: seems fun Scritti Politti ft Shabba Ranks - She's A Woman: in no way should this work, but it kinda does Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing: bludgeoning and sweaty, old school rock values for better or worse
Feargal Sharkey - I've Got News For You More smokey jazz bar than wine club, this is kind of (almost impressively) earnest. But Sharkey is so much better at bunberying.
Roxette - Joyride Too polished for its own good, could do with a bit more eccentricity to add character.
Hale & Pace & the Stonkers - The Stonk At least it has no pretentions about its artistic value (even if it considers itself amusing). A long way from Simple Minds' track, if as appealling.
Megadeth - Hangar 18 There is a real pop sensibility here, among and amid the noise. As Megadeth can't really make it among the serious hard rockers, this is fitting.
Curate's egg.
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vastar iner
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 5, 2021 12:34:40 GMT 1
Anniversary of Caligula's accession. Brookes introduces the "wonderful" Dannii Minogue. Who is in the studio fronting some anonymous dance sh*te even though it is no. 31 and lower than two dozen tracks that the show has eschewed in previous weeks. Seriously, the programmers need firing. Literally nobody would buy this had it not been for the hotter Minogue sister being vaguely present.
Bee Gees, see above.
Gary Clail, not with Tackhead this time, but the On U Sound System. Now this is rather splendid, a market barker in front of some blissed out production backing and a Danny La Rue soundalike punctuating with some louche lasciviousness. I like.
Chart risers and entries, there are quite a lot. Oh for f***'s sake. Snap! Megamix? No. No, no, no, no, no, NO, NO, NO!!!!! Why is there nobody with balls planning this show out? Should be refusing crap like this and telling the industry that the BBC's remit is not to show recycled reheated sh*te but to challenge and entertain.
"Sit Down" by James, in at 7. About three years before I told everyone at school that this would be a massive hit, if only it got proper promotion. Now it has. Fanbase buy? Or has it crossed over? Backing singer is totes adorbs. Looks like Frances Dodge from Ghost Train. When they play this at nightclubs I sit down. When they play "Jump Around" I jump around. When they play "Come On Eileen" I get thrown out.
Scritti and Shabba. I am not keen on either individually. But together it defies all logic and works a treat. Not sure why Green is trying to look like Ali G but I will run with it.
Definition Of Sound. Yeah, there's a Jetsons vibe to the backing and the rap is appealingly fun and unselfconscious.
Stones, who are just phoning it in now, singles are only out because people release singles. Does anyone care about this any more?
New no. 1, it's nice that Nik Kershaw finally gets a chart-topper having come close before, but, frankly, let's hope the song title is prophetic.
No idea why, but Jive Bunny are playing out, starting with "Mony Mony", then "Woolly Bully" "I Only Wanna Be With You", "Oh Carol", and "Bobby's Girl". And a live action video throughout. I suppose there's a storyline but can't be bothered to work it out.
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