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Post by vya on Jul 18, 2021 20:47:24 GMT 1
2 May(o)
KLF - Last Train To Trancentral With costumes and kit, more visual theatre on TOTP than has been the case since the 70s use of interpretative dance troupes ended. More menacing train guards than most . Crazy entertainment, much more than the (fairly modest) sum of its parts, many of which we've heard already...
Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long) Spacious dancy pop, or poppy dance, marginally less bland (and with a better tune) than that Dannii Minogue track, but nowt special.
Charts: The underrated Lonnie Gordon track at 40 beats most of the others named here, Frances Nero apart.
OMD - Sailing On The Seven Seas It's OK. Though one expects much more of the act going by this name.
Samantha Janus - A Message To Your Heart Our Eurovision entry, not in the charts yet. Lyrically a rewrite of the previous years offering, but musically (and 1983 Sweet Dreams style production) something of an improvement on that. Almost bland. Too wholesome, certainly lyrically. Ludicrously so, even. Still, a bit of a guilty pleasure.
Nomad - Just A Groove Only a hit on the back of their previous one. Neither catchy pop nor credible house, just the waste of a few minutes. Time for this nomad to move on.
Zucchero & Paul Young - Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman) Could be bland. Could be preposterous. Could be neither. Not sure.
Frances Nero - Footsteps Following Me More than a hint of Northern Soul in this. A glorious, wonderful thing with wide appeal. An old Motown singer getting a first hit single aged 47 is an inspiration too. Love love it.
Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) Even more retro. But she's done her time, too.
Roachford - Get Ready A welcome return for Roachford, but this track is rather too subtle for its own good, and the chorus threatens to turn into an advert for something new agey or wellnessy.
Moderately brutal cuts of some of the studio performances tonight, sometimes well-deserved, though. But not a classic set of songs. Sam Janus maybe the second best of them! Somehow.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 18, 2021 23:07:44 GMT 1
25 or 6 to 4. Campbell introducing the Meff whose headgear is questionable. They've finally gone off ontology and moved into paediatry. This is really good, again. Shouty and primitive cool. Urgent and in yer face. Yeah baby. Get your rocksalt.
De La Soul. Doing something that I did not expect, namely making Curiosity Killed The Cat listenable. There's a chicken soup warmth in the backing as well.
Vic Reeves and the Roman Numerals. His album is not a comedy album. Doing the old Matt Monro Oscar song as a sort of Situationist prank. It's not as good as the original but it's still one of those things that is like "am I the only person who gets this?" Like the Big Night Out.
Top 40 risers. That four seconds of ZZ Top really worked.
Electronic. No Tennant trying to steal a cheap hit here. This is again good stuff. This is an excellent episode. Why? Because they've ditched the dance sh*t.
Breakers. Roachford is not doing the Kendricks song. Needed some budget for the video. Ackerdacker with their usual song and usual video. Frances Nero, Campbell says it's really good, and I have to agree; great voice and interesting backing. The Nanas, with a VERY pointless cover.
Blur. Always good to see a shoegaze band make it to TOTP, although these are more towards the baggy end, hoping they don't continue along that line.
Short O in Ovid, you cretin. Gloria Estefan, this is dull dull dull dull.
Top 10. Gary Clail finally makes it into the ten. The announcement of OMD causes screams from the audience. Madonna goes down, Waterboys non-move which should mean a play but hasn't. Cher is at 2, bloody hell.
Not listening to Chawkes. Quadrophonia and this is hard dance but again isn't bad. The vocals sound demoniac, nice twist.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 22, 2021 23:03:31 GMT 1
F3F5. Mayo introduces the KLF as being one of the most spectacular thingies. Mrs Cauty is giving it loads and there are more white robes than a Polyphonic Spree concert. This is just boss. Surely this is the outright bombast that music needs, not giving a stuff what anyone thinks. Ricardo obviously didn't get the dress code memo. The bridge is absolutely sublime. The Cult of Little Mu and I'm lovin it. Mayo thinks it's going to be no. 1.
His predictive skillz are on show. Cathy Dennis who's going to be no. 1 in the States apparently. I definitely would, but the song is sh*te.
Top 40. Farm at 36 with Frankie Howerd in the video. Nomad, deep joy. Meff not going up much, surprising.
OMD at no. 5, first time (at least for Andy) since "Locomotion". The graphic makes a boat and it's actually very good for once.
Britain's Eurovision entry. Samantha Janus, with a song written perhaps by her brother Hugh. She's very pretty but also very young and it's a bit Nicole to have someone preach about how sh*t everyone is when she's probably still in the sixth form. This might have gone down well in 1984. Also in real life she's got a very smoky bluesy jazzy voice so is wasted on this.
Mayo auditions for Countdown with some bizarre bacronyms or whatever to introduce Nomad. Who have released the same single again, only without the vocal sting. How do you spell "cash-in", Mayo? N-O-M-A-D.
"Great to see a record of the week doing well." Is it? Who was the lucky beneficiary of massive record company spend? Zucchero. f***ing A.
Frances Nero. This is one of those word of mouth hits. This is not normally my cup of tea but it has considerable charm and it's kind of encouraging that it's creeping up the charts, it's a reward for a talent that's not getting the rocket that the f***ing Minogues get.
Brand new no. 1. Hope it's James. It isn't. Sad times. It's Cher. Well done Britain. Ignore everything Cher does for 20 years but because it's in a film BUY BUY BUY. Jesus, it's like dealing with toddlers. Put something in front of them and they want it. Funny that Christina Ricci is showing more comic chops in the video than Winona despite being a third of her age.
Roachford only get the playout. More deserving than Nomad.
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Post by vya on Jul 24, 2021 10:53:39 GMT 1
9 May Davies
Electronic - Get The Message (DNA Groove Mix) Sounds more like New Order than the unremix, more space, less guitar-driven. Better? No. Different? Yes. Clubbier, that too. More generic? That also.
Charts Uncompromising Weddoes track there. Climbers and new entries mostly not wildly inspiring.
Seal - Future Love Paradise Getting Wendy and Lisa on his LP is a quiet coup, underrated tho they be. Gorgeous understated introduction, and almost almost as genre-bending as Prince can be, if less daring. His voice and some creative instrumentation make this more than the sum of its parts (insert from "Killer" included). Promising.
Roxette - Fading Like A Flower Mainstream and formulaic (but still emotive) pop done extremely, extremely, well. A triumph of factory production. More Milton Keynes than Hemel Hempstead.
Top 5 albums of April REM - Losing My Religion Rod Stewart - Rhythm Of My Heart Roxette - Joyride Simple Minds - Let There Be Love Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger
Beverley Craven - Promise Me Darling of MOR radio, as wine bar background music goes this is pretty decent for those who seek out this sort of thing. Not that much piano tinkling on ToTP right now. And the tension in the song is carefully managed.
Michael Bolton - Love Is A Wonderful Thing There is so much wrong with this it is difficult to know where to start. To be kind, bland. Even Huey Lewis and the News would have passed on this.
T99 - Anastasia Mean and moody and menacing-ish. Great samples and baseline, and unusually the rap adds rather than detracts or diverts. Then the forceful female vocals come in. Experimental, this would have been strictly for a much more limited audience two years earlier. Not bad at all.
Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) Not the worst thing to get to no 1 on the back of a film soundtrack, at least.
Blur - There's No Other Way OK not bad at all
A very tolerable edition, even if it never quite caught fire or included anything outstanding. Had quite forgotten how much the Beeb were behind Jeffrey Archer's charitable efforts of uncertain consequence (even if one of the leading figures involved, whom the Hon of WSM Candidate of Credibility and Integrity called "Lemon kurd", is now, in 2021, in the government)
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Post by vya on Jul 24, 2021 17:20:04 GMT 1
16 May, Brookes in a ridiculous NFL jacket and cap
New Kids On The Block - Call It What You Want In the studio (their 1st time?), doing lyrics live, and not doing them better for it. Not that this was any cop to begin with. Surely their time is nearly up, especially if, as this performance suggests, their aim to be reinvent themselves as rap-focussed. All the energy is put in the dance moves. Bad. Screams (not all of agony) from audience notwithstanding.
Soft Cell & Marc Almond - Tainted Love (remix) A very fine thing, of course, but this remix, while not quite offensive, is barely necessary, adding a thankfully thin strip of varnish on the original rawness.
Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long) The best parts of this are the bits outside the sung verses and chorus. The "oooooh" at the very beginning, for example, and in a few other places. Not nearly enough.
Charts. Breathtakingly unexciting and rather naff things dominating the climbers and new entries.
Dannii Minogue - Success Oh god even more nightclub-threatening than her debut. She still can't sing. There is still barely anything resembling a tune here, anyway. Music for soulless robots who don't like music and don't like dancing either. Fail. Makes her sister sound like Aretha.
Breakers (brutally short excerpts) REM - Shiny Happy People: a proper song, with real potential to become irritating very quickly, it seems Flowered Up - Take It: A Cockney Mondays. Actually rather good fun in its overblown absurdity T'Pau - Whenever You Need Me: could be from 1987, some proper songwriting going on here, but surely their time has, unfortunately passed Wilson Phillips - You're In Love: melodious and mellow and only slightly dull
Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman Talking of the real potential to become irritating very quickly. Probably would be renamed as Romx Ciswoman and repackaged by Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultants charging $$$$$ today. Yes, dance music for people who work in Corporate HR. No need to inflict it on everyone else though., is there?
Amy Grant - Baby Baby Wholesome, winsome, even. Unchallenging, though, as her better work isn't.
Jason Donovan - R.S.V.P. Surely (given he has now transferred to musicals) he has realised that SAW are taking the p out of him now, giving him their castoffs, just as he is too by "strumming the guitar" here, as elsewhere. More screaming from the crowd, but it might well be agony, ouch at the key change, and the lyrics, and not only. Verging on being hilariously naff.
Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) That's where it is, allegedly
Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up Hmm, they are playing the slightly more complex version of this, rather than the main radio version. Which if anything weakens the chorus. Which admittedly deserves to be weakened. The tick-tock rhythm drum is maybe the most appealling thing here.
Really an atrocious edition
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Post by o on Jul 24, 2021 21:21:16 GMT 1
What on earth was Bruno Brookes wearing? And Cathy Dennis was so gorg!
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jul 25, 2021 11:54:46 GMT 1
What on earth was Bruno Brookes wearing? I reckon Honey G had seen that episode while researching her style!
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Post by Tom on Jul 30, 2021 21:25:24 GMT 1
Very strange tonight. The 2nd show must have been when they started to make changes, but showing two songs that were outside the top 40, was there a reason for that?
Also, the 30th May episode was skipped. From what I discovered recently this was around the time that the producer Paul Ciani fell ill. So I'm wondering if this was connected to it not being shown perhaps? Shame as I was looking forward to seeing that one.
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Post by Tom on Jul 30, 2021 21:30:45 GMT 1
Also, is there any interest in me posting my thoughts on the episodes given how long ago they were shown?
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Post by vya on Jul 30, 2021 21:50:41 GMT 1
Apparently the 30th May edition was skipped because of a lack of clearances to rebroadcast the video for the Doors' "Light My Fire". Bit annoying, as they could have just cut it out...
Not sure why Northside and Marillion (the latter with a fantastic song) were on while at 41 and 42, but it was a one-off, not the start of a trend. I presumed that acts higher in the charts were unavailable so they thought "why not...."
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Post by Tom on Jul 30, 2021 22:23:06 GMT 1
Apparently the 30th May edition was skipped because of a lack of clearances to rebroadcast the video for the Doors' "Light My Fire". Bit annoying, as they could have just cut it out... Not sure why Northside and Marillion (the latter with a fantastic song) were on while at 41 and 42, but it was a one-off, not the start of a trend. I presumed that acts higher in the charts were unavailable so they thought "why not...." That is odd as I remember that when that Lisa Stansfield video from 1990 wasn't shown they still showed the rest of the episode...I was hoping that maybe there had been a mistake and it might get shown at a later date. I presumed that too, I actually remember Northside being on, well an indie band anyway (though I was convinced it was Flowered Up for some reason) as it left me confused at the time that a song that wasn't top 40 was on, but had no recollection that it was actually 2 acts outside the 40 that performed. That's odd as well as I thought when acts were unavailable they showed a video. Maybe there weren't any other videos they could show that fitted into their rules at the time.
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Post by vya on Aug 1, 2021 11:57:01 GMT 1
23 May, Wooooh
T'Pau - Whenever You Need Me Crisp and refreshing, if maybe leaning towards the still attractively bland, whereas as their best T'Pau could be utterly gripping. Wonder what would have happened had they developed the rhythmic approach taken on "Heart and Soul" rather than the rockier direction that evolved. Best pop act from Shrewsbury for sure. I like it, not a lot.
Color Me Madd - I Wanna Sex You Up What, all of you? Gross.
Simple Minds - See The Lights By the standards of what had become the vanity stadium act of Willie Low Bono, this is less tedious and mildly less pompous than other recent offences to be taken into consideration. They once promised so much more.
Charts: Curve!!!! Siouxsie (on the nixed edition from next week)! Otherwise, a mix of tolerable and intolerable.
Beverley Craven - Promise Me There are far worse examples of this genre doing the rounds. Suburban rather than malevolent.
REM - Shiny Happy People Crossing the boundary between quirky and annoying. (I suppose a B-52s tie up increases the probability of that happening). Don't do that. An act who have done and will do much more·
Wonder Stuff - Caught In My Shadow "From Birmingham" apparently. Ish. Brummies (and Black Country folk I guess) having fun in the video. The song is inoffensive, and Miles' ranting pace superior to the song overall.
Deacon Blue - Your Swaying Arms Not all convincing as an opening single for an album. A pity, as it's rather lovely, tenderness with gratuitious Glaswegian geographic references. And sheltered Kelvin Way in the early 90s was lovely too. A charming album track.
Queen - Headlong Bland
Cher- The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss") "Still at the top". So it is. Could be worse.
Technotronic ft Reggie - Move That Body Appears they might have found a second or third tune if not key to lyric-writing. Probably shouldn't have bothered.
That was not good
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Post by vya on Aug 1, 2021 12:24:49 GMT 1
Six June, the new successor to Brookes
Northside- "Take 5" The sneering tone of lyrics, the shifting up a gear for the chorus and the driving bass and continuity jangling all give this a surprising degree of appeal. Very Mancunian, in a strictly Greater Manchester way. Not bad.
Pet Shops Boys - "Jealousy" Going beyond pop, maybe inspired by their (winning) Minnelli collab. Serious, adult (and another song about romantic infidelity after "So Hard"), maybe one might question whether his voice can pull this off, but it's not a definite "no". Also appealling.
Marillion - "Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven)" After "Easter" the second sign that Hogarthian Marillion might turn out to be a more attractive option than Fishy Marillion. Less Tolkienesque (perversely: chuck in some Bronte allusions in the lyrics for good measure, why not?), fresher, freer, while retaining the great expanse and landscape that the band at their best managed to conjure up. A good thing.
Salt N Pepa - Do You Want Me Mellow and assertive, not sure it quite fits together as well it might to be memorable or cohesive, but more positive than negative.
Charts: Living Colour! Otherwise, a fair bit of tedium. And the highest "new entry" was a big hit several years earlier.
Madonna - Holiday Talking of which....well, it's obviously a sing-a-long jingle, just not contemprorary or exciting (remix or no)
Kenny Thomas - Thinking About Your Love With a proper orchestra behind him, like he'd have had in the 70s, this would be a singalong summer classic pumping from cars on Canvey seafront. Without one it's decent. Likeable, still.
Breakers: Living Colour - Solace Of You: Understated, sublime Gloria Estefan - Remember Me With Love: Understated, not sublime Harry Connick, Jr - It Had To Be You: Understated, anything but sublime DiVinyls - I Touch Myself: Anything but understated, it's no Turning Japanese
Kirsty MacColl- Walking Down Madison Not necessarily convinced the dance mix treatment with male rap interlude thing really suits KMacC, but everyone else is doing it... And it's not as if many of her previous singles have sold half of what they should have. Having a stage full of dancers is cool here though. A welcome presence in the charts, still. More Kirsty, less Dannii is a good adage. (also, she makes the same "sleeping hands under head" gesture on this edition that Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue had made on the other repeat of this batch).
Color Me Badd - "I Wanna Sex You Up" Really we need to ban songs from film soundtracks being eligible for the charts. No good comes from this crossover.
REM- "Shiny Happy People" Enough already
The atrocious no 1 aside (and REM playout), that was one of the more solid editions for some time, noticeable that dipping just outside the top 40 helped though...
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Post by TheThorne on Aug 1, 2021 13:13:56 GMT 1
Just watched these as well loved 'Take 5' but once you notice it sounds like 'More Than A feeling' it kinda spoils it a little. That Marillion song was gorgeous forgot how good it was also it was a bit U2ish as well I though, it had 'Streets with No name' vibe.
As for Kirsty I felt at the time thought it was a bit bandwagonning but then I realise now, she was spending a lot of time with the Happy Mondays so not surprising that sound has rubbed off on her.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 1, 2021 22:03:31 GMT 1
Nunf funf. Davies in a shirt that's 10 years too young for him next to a woman resembling a mop. Electronic with a vaguely Happy Mondays remix. I've no idea why, surely they want people to buy the record? Why promote what's obviously a second choice? Chart climbers. Wedding Present at 29, let's see how TOTP works out how to ignore them yet again. Big climb for Beverley Craven, no. 1 chance?
Keep your clubs away from his young, it's Seal. This is more complex than "Crazy" and better for it. Also has a throwback in the lyrics. It sounds very uncommercial and for some reason the presentation is as if Seal is a disco god circa 1978. But this is a tremendous track. Roxette. The answer to a question nobody asked. This is basically Alice Cooper's "Poison" with a blonde.
Album charts. Great. REM, Rod, Roxette (AGAIN!?!), Simple Minds, Eurythmics. That was...pointless. Beverley Craven. She's cute. Song is boring as f***. This is Radio 2 fodder. Or wooing yuppies. Michael Bolton. WHY? Two of the biggest dance records, same man, apparently. Quadrophonia and T99. So we get T99, which literally has one note.
Top 10. Cher still no. 1. Playout is Blur, with George from Drop The Dead Donkey and a teacher from Grange Hill.
And no Wedding Present. We get the f***ing album charts, a f***ing 12 inch b-side for a record that went up one, a playout of another record that went up one, MICHAEL f***ing BOLTON, and TWO LOTS OF f***ing ROXETTE but no Wedding Present. Jesus. Does the producer detest all new British music? There was the capability in the charts to make that quite a decent show but the idiot shitstain of an alleged producer deliberately refused. A monkey throwing sh*t at the wall could do a better job.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 1, 2021 22:23:27 GMT 1
4 to the square and 5. Oh my God, what has Brookes come as? Homer Simpson at the Isotopes? And why on earth are we starting with NKOTB? Are they still a thing? They look even more ridiculous and the idiot girls are swooning for them. They are morons. And the song is ass. Live vocals though. This is getting to be more of a thing now after Craven last week.
A high new entry for a re-issue. Soft Cell. It's astounding how much of a contrast this sleazy futuristic nightclub take on an old obscurity is so much better than the Septics.
Cathy Dennis, who is still mysteriously going up with her whoa-ooh-ooh from her other single. She's not singing live. Wuss.
Climberinos. I see that Style Council is no more. And naturally because she's a f***ing Minogue we get Dannii. Brookes says she's live. He is a lying b*st*rd. This is totally forgettable sh*t.
Breakers. OH WE GET THEM THIS WEEK DO WE? YOU f***ing ****s. REM with something unusual for them. In that it is utterly, utterly, utterly, irremediably, sh*t. Flowered Up and we hear more of Brookes than the Dup on this. T'Pau, and ditto. Can't really rate the songs because we get about six seconds without that f***ing cretin f***ing ruining it with his inanity. Wilson Phillips in the same position as The Wedding Present last week. And Brookes then has the utter gall to say that they were all smash hits and this is the place to see them.
Big new entry at 3 from Crystal Waters. Sound quality is terrible, someone actually yells "can't hear you". That's actually a plus for this song, which is also completely terrible.
Video. Amy Grant. I've seen white lines painted down the A5 that were less middle of the road. Jesus. This is a TERRIBLE show so far.
Who next? Jason f***ing Donovan with his "I have no idea how to play this" guitar.
Cher is no. 1, and the playout is Color Me Badd, a band that mis-spell two of the three words in their name, and this is literally unlistenable.
That may have been the single worst episode of Top Of The Pops ever. I can't work out whether having Soft Cell on it just lifts it off the bottom, or makes it worse for the sheer lack of imagination that a decade-old single is the only thing worth watching. Even the one bit that might have been redemptive - the breakers - was ruined by the cretinous shitbrained decision to a) play a very tiny snippet and b) have Brookes chunter all over them.
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Post by TheThorne on Aug 2, 2021 7:59:12 GMT 1
I know that was a joke, even 5 more seconds of Flowered Up and listeners could have got how good it was Don't worry next 2 episodes are a huge improvement
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Post by SheriffFatman on Aug 2, 2021 8:56:13 GMT 1
Also, is there any interest in me posting my thoughts on the episodes given how long ago they were shown? I always read your comments Tom, and I think they provide a bit of balance in this thread, your musical taste is very different to some of the others on here!
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 2, 2021 18:52:49 GMT 1
Back to the Fibonacci. Davies introducing T'Pau with something I totally forgot and Carol looking astounding. I'm not sure what to make of this, it's like they expected Elkie Brooks to give it a lash. Would have filled a stadium once upon a time.
Big climber now. Colour Me Bad. Who in the name of all that is holy in every religion there has ever been is buying this? It plunges below the abysmal to find new depths of horror that vocabulary has not yet discovered. Dante would have had a good go at describing this in his ninth circle of Hell had it not been for not wanting to scare the audience too much.
Simple Minds, who were on last week, at 29, where the Wedding Present were and who didn't get on. f*** you, TOTP. I really can't be doing with this either, it's the definition of filler-mining.
Climbers. Curve and Siouxsie, bet we won't see them. Beverly Craven, see above.
REM. I never thought they would go for such a lowest common denominator cheap hit. Lost a LOT of respect for them.
Stuffies. They've added a bit of U2 to their sound. That's not good. It still has the wounded lyrics though. Heh, been where they shot the video a few times. I used to know someone who was in it. Indeed I missed being in it by it being on holiday.
Deacon Blue. Jesus, this is just nothing. It's like, guys, we need a single, we know you haven't got one, so just make any old sh*t up and we'll sling it out. And still they don't put the hottie out front. Davies: "they're touring the UK in December." Don't you threaten ME.
We have Queen rather than Curve because if there's a band that needs promoting it's one with the 39th release of its one song with a moribund singer. This is Deacon Blue writ large. "They're recording new songs in Switzerland." Riiight.
The playout is Technotronic because we don't want to show British acts with groundbreaking tracks that need the publicity and instead have ultra-bog-standard soulless sh*t.
Jesus f***ing Christ. Another atrocious episode. Note again no breakers when they could show at least two brilliant tracks. It's as if they are deliberately trying to destroy the industry.
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 2, 2021 19:48:00 GMT 1
Double six. Huh? Goodier introducing Northside, who are at no. 41. Halle-f***ing-lujah, they're finally using their imagination and bringing in fresh acts. Although the cynic in me wonders if they booked the Side in based on midweek flashes and were surprised to find they were outside the 40. Maybe guilt that they missed out on them before. It's a bit bandwagon, but it's still got considerable charm.
Pet Shop Boys with a cinematic video. This is pretty good. Love the girl with the huge afro. There's an entire story in this song.
Vegan Marillion. Again outside the 40. They should have done this before. This is both good and original. Unfortunately the good bits are not original &c.
Salt & Pepa. This is sort of self-empowerment avant l'heure. It has sass but it's not really memorable.
Climberos. Living Colour, New Model Army, Estefan (AGAIN??!), Connick Jr non-moving, Siouxsie non-moving (WHY???), PWEI, &c &c.
Madonna? f*** that sh*t.
Kenny Thomas, blue-eyed soul, not my tasse de thé.
Breakers. Living Colour, with something that has hints of Graceland. Intriguing but we needed more. Gloria Estefan who has released the same single yet again. We needed less. Harry Connick Jr. We definitely do not need this because he's a pale imitation of Nat King Cole. Divinyls and we DEFINITELY need to see more of this.
Kirsty McColl, with an opening that sounds a bit Massive Attack. A departure for her. Doesn't suit her voice, really. This would go down well with a PWEI approach.
Top 10. The Doors for no reason at all. Soft Cell so that's two re-issues. Also Cher who is a cover. The number 1? f***ing hell. I'm not a fan of genocide but for people who bought this I'd make an exception.
Playout is REM.
OK, so when they dip outside the 40 it gets interesting. When they mindlessly play any old sh*t that creeps up 1 place then it goes to ratshit.
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