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Post by vya on Oct 16, 2021 0:55:11 GMT 1
10th Oct, same presenters again
DJ Carl Cox - I Want You (Forever) Faking the samples by inappropriately applying the live vocals rule is dumb. The producers don't understand dance music. The track is OK but this set-up (the stage as well as the vocals) inhibit any chance of it, or anything like it, shining on here. So much for being post-the second summer of love. Throw away your Gaultier and grow your hair again!
Top 10 - utterly dumb way of doing this
Morrissey - My Love Life A reassuring simplicity and repetition in the music provides a fine, bare, background, to what is a long way from being Mozza's best work lyrically. For him, quite a minor single. It works on this show though. As an interlude, at least. His eyebrows are almost Brezhnevesque.
Marc Cohn - Walking In Memphis Think the piano is as live as the singing. In the charts, just, but I suspect record company pressure got him the gig. This is a bit variety show. OK. Keeping a similar mellow and mostly repressed intensity vibe as Morrissey. Not raving.
World exclusive: Queen - The Show Must Go On The most gripping single from Queen for a few years. The video is a compilation of old clips, though. Maybe a message in the lyrics, a warning. Musically, the best thing on the show so far. And of course Mercury is the finest vocalist on the show by some way.
Cathy Dennis - Too Many Walls The third single ballad formula. Rather a sweet song. As with Marc Cohn, the recorded version is superior to that presented here.
No 1 album - Simply Red - Stars - For Your Babies So, more pleasing the record companies (or fulfilling their command) is in order. By Simply Red standards, FYB is only moderately irritating. But that is some qualifier.
Breakers: Oleta Adams - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me: great voice, but she's done better Mariah Carey - Emotions: overproduced but her voice is a slide, something special Public Enemy - Can't Truss It: whatever. (the clip gives no idea of the track anyway, but they are fairly malevolent one-track ponies at the best of times, heroes to most but...) Kiri te Kanawa - World In Union: "A Moment In Time" for rugby union, as cloyingly wholesome as that sounds
2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This Almost impressively annoying. Having live vocal shouts over something so (commercially) mechanised knocks it out of joint. Soulless, still.
Bryan Adams, 14 weeks, etc
Again no play-out
The flaws in the new formula more evident than on take one. Doesn't suit dance music. And (along with promise of exclusive U2 video next time) the record company promotion element is now undeniable and blatant. Musically , this wasn't all bad.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Oct 17, 2021 15:19:22 GMT 1
I’m a couple of episodes behind here, but Gary Davies actually looked like he was going to cry at the end of the 26th September episode when he said “for the very last time from Television Centre, goodbye”.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Oct 19, 2021 7:01:26 GMT 1
One final comment on the old style Top of the Pops - strange that they didn’t feature Don’t Cry by Guns N’ Roses when it was a new entry in the top 10. Strange that no one else mentioned it in here too, when that happened with The Stone Roses there was hell to pay.
Anyway, onto the brave new world, and the set is excellent. There’s a lot to like about all the changes, I don’t even mind the theme music, don’t like what they’ve done with the charts though.
Ray from 2 Unlimited being forced to bellow “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah yeah!” live into a microphone all the way through Get Ready For This was so stupid it was funny. If the purpose of the live vocals rule is to prove authenticity, we can only assume that the producers feared the viewers would not otherwise believe he had the range required to do it.
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Post by Tom on Oct 22, 2021 18:58:01 GMT 1
28th Feb
Jesus Jones - Who Where Why. Liked this one. I liked Source/Candi Staton - You Got the Love but had totally forgotten how much the video got shown.
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Post by vya on Oct 22, 2021 23:21:46 GMT 1
17 Oct, Dortie and Franklin, AGAIN. Three times in a row. I guess the vacancies were hard to fill
Slade - Radio Wall Of Sound There really, presumably intentionally, is something Spectorish about this. Fun revivalism that isn't quite revivalism. Or more 80s than 70s at least. Radio announcments very Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now. And just when ToTP had thrown off even the vestiges of the Smashy and Nicey legacy.
Top 10 - still a bad way to do this, not even a hint of what's up or down
Enya - Caribbean Blue Think there is a harpsichord in here. Not on stage though. An Enya track, like countless other Enya tracks, maybe one of the better ones. Nice, Pitching for advert gigs for upmarket tourist agencies that go to out-of-the way places. Would love to hear her take on Basildon, though,
Lisa Stansfield - Change The semi-spoken intro hints at reviving a past successful formula perhaps a little too cynically. Not horrid at all, and her voice remains attractive and emotive. The problem is the song is too limited. It might make a nice shampoo advert tune. But frankly, she can do better. And should.
TOTP exclusive (so obviously by a mega act with $$$ behind them): U2 - The Fly A new move, away from the insufferable stadium pomposity that Simple Minds had been imitating so tediously. An exciting move, dancier while still rockier, grittier, a twisting, turning number that might just be the best thing they have done for ages. Fabulous reinvention.
Dannii Minogue - Baby Love By no means her worst record (to damn with very faint praise). At one point it breaks down and becomes rather spacious, so yeah maybe it's just about the groove.
Scorpions - Wind of Change Still moves me and tempts me to sing along.
Album track: Paul Young - Don't Dream It's Over The song is classy. The cover is almost but not quite overproduced. There is an element of "let's show off what effects the synthetisers we've got in our studio now have", and Paul Young is Paul Young. Not sure it's essential but it's not repulsive.
Breakers Ce Ce Peniston: Finally - this is small-scale glorious, both in all the yeah-yeahing and the insistence of the beat Moby - Go: ambient house moving up half a gear, good.
Monty Python - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life Hamming it up in a way that wouldn't have worked half as well in the old TOTP studio. Genuine sing-a-long. More things falling to the ground than in a Theresa May conference speech.
15 weeks, Bryan Adams, ffwd
Still no playout track.
This was mostly decent, but the limitations of the new format (and how it favours stuff being pushed by major labels at the expense of eccentric things hanging around the lower regions of the charts that no longer even get a mention in passing - although the charts that week offered nothing of that nature) are increasingly unavoidable
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 22, 2021 23:45:17 GMT 1
One final comment on the old style Top of the Pops - strange that they didn’t feature Don’t Cry by Guns N’ Roses when it was a new entry in the top 10. Strange that no one else mentioned it in here too, when that happened with The Stone Roses there was hell to pay. I never noticed it in the charts given the farcical idea to try to force me to watch some dance sh*te in order to see the list.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 23, 2021 9:48:37 GMT 1
17/10 and I'm at univ, yay. Whose stupid idea was this stupid tune? It's not even contemporary. It would have sounded sh*t in 1985 but at least modern sh*t. There's nothing there. Ditto the presenters.
Anyway, we start in this new revamped let's see what's new and exciting in music with...Slade. Jim taking main lead vox on this. The funny thing is, it sounds way more exciting than the stuff from many of the whippersnappers. Raw and dirty. Dogs D'amour must be looking on with despair.
Stupid top 10 again, where the graphic emphasis is all on the number and we learn nothing. Which idiot signed this off as a good idea? And that f***ing tune. One good use for Adams though, he's keeping Scorpions off the top.
Playing the unique sound of Enya is Enya. How are they doing this live given she doesn't do live? They layer the mike. Frankly doesn't work. Much better as the studio creation.
Highest new entry is Lisa Stansfield and I'm bored stiff with it because it's basically on total rotation play on MTV. She seems to think this is a 1940s WAAF canteen. Great voice but the backing is a bit unconvincing. It's like it wants to be chillout but can't because Lisa is jazz smoke.
We look at an obscure act lower in the chart that needs the publicity. After all, there are a good few. Lush, Cud, Mega City Four. Oh, no, wait, it's U2. I actually quite like this one, it's louche and seedy, but it's getting played everywhere anyway, so why does the BBC just follow the herd rather than create a new star? Does anyone remember seeing a Bowie video at no.1 or do they remember seeing "Starman" for the first time?
Drum & bass now. Hm, trendy. Roni Size? No, it's Dannii f***ing Minogue. Live vocals are not her friend. Interesting isn't it? Normally these records are credited to the producer featuring the singer, if indeed the singer gets a credit. This time, because it's a Minogue, the singer is front and centre. Although "singer" is doing serious damage to the English language, "meandering pissweak caterwaul" is a more accurate description.
Scorpions, FF.
Album charts. OK, which new exciting modern act is going to get a play? Paul Young. Well, obviously, nothing says new and exciting than a pale and needless cover version of a six year old single. Jeeeeeeeeeeeezus.
Breakers are Ce Ce Penis(heh)ton and Moby. We get about eight seconds of each because we need to see U2 instead. TBF eight seconds is enough of CCP but the Moby one sounds intriguing.
Monty Python. Well, it's Eric Idle and mates. And an exploding studio. Is that Ben Elton on guitar? And Nick Cave on drums? Breaks the Python run of a series of hit albums but no hit singles.
Adams, FF. And again no playout. So, basically, they remove any reason to watch the show once they get to the no. 1.
It's astounding. How come they got so many very very easy and basic things WRONG on the revamp?
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 23, 2021 10:16:32 GMT 1
Hours in the day in the regular and Revolutionary system. 2 Unlimited, because life's not short enough. This is awful. Even the "exciting" camera colours do not work.
Still doing the top 10 in the sh*t way. Reeves and the Stuffies at 6, though, there's some hope there. And the album chart is Kenny Thomas, who at least is new. But it's still music for wine bars.
It's a total kick-up and contrast for Reeves, who sounds slightly squiffy, but, good Lord, this show needs it. How come a stochastic and absurdist comedian tag-teaming with grebo erberts from Walsall doing a sixties standard is aeons more exciting than 2 Untalented? Reeves forgets the words as he inspects an Indesit which adds to this being actual proper vital television. WATCH AND LEARN PLEBS!!! This is absolute no. 1 guaranteed. Explosive.
Has everyone else given up on presenting btw? Nobody with any cred wanting to be associated with ver Pops? Queen, because obviously the rumours are true. Get your money on the Christmas no. 1.
Kiri te Kanawa with an operatic and re-worded version of "I Vow To Thee My Country" (songwriter: Holst) for the rugby world cup. It is what it is. At least it is variety.
And more variety because Carter USM are on with a song Allen Klein wanted to squash because of three words. Sound engineers needed to work a bit longer on this one. This is a headlong rush of fun.
Which is cut off so we can see the US number one. I wonder how the girlfriend of the chairman of Sony became successful? Song is atrocious, just an excuse for her to show off her voice. Which means there is no, ironically enough, emotion in it.
Breakers. Simple Minds, who get an airing despite not bothering with a video. Don McLean, because for some reason a two decade old song is back in the charts. And PSBs, who must be p*ssed off that they enter at 13 but don't get a full play because of Mariah Carey, and, live and "excusive" [sic], Tin Machine. Heh, when was the last time Bowie appeared on the actual show? This actually is an exclusive worth having because it's a live performance by a legend on free tv. And this is actually really good. Bowie gets pelters for Tin Machine but they were a lot more vital and vigorous than Tonight and Never Let Me Down. So were a necessary step to get him back on track. Finishes on a rude tattoo.
And that's the last thing we need to see. I still can't get why on earth someone decided that the playout should be the f***ing theme.
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Post by vya on Oct 24, 2021 21:14:50 GMT 1
24.10 The same forgotten to history presenters again, week four, hoping to outlast Bryan Adams "A full house from Elstree": very preempting the delusional guy who runs Boreham Wood FC there
2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This One good thing about this is its entire lack of any claims to credibility. Whenever it might hint of pretentions in that direction, some guy shouts "yeah" and we're back in the high street.
Charts still done the stupid way
Album track - Kenny Thomas - Voices - Something Special This is alright, wintery warming semi-soul, at least. More album track filler than single though.
Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff - Dizzy Washing machines onstage. Surrealism with violins. His more (excessively self-consciously un-)conventional comedy has always left me cold, but this is a good laugh, the Stuffies in their utter lack of nonsense being good foil for this.
Queen - The Show Must Go On Minor league anthemic, actually.
Kiri Te Kinewa - World In Union Open-mouthed children staring and gawping at a classically-trained singer singing over Holst for the benefit of international sport, I suppose this incongruity is a return to classic ToTP. The problem is, like Whitney's Olympics number, it's too sententious. Any decent rugby-linked music would be of the Wigan variety surely.
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - After The Watershed (Early Learning The Hard Way) I had quite forgotten how we used to chant "God's not dead, no he is alive" at their gigs. Real British and London originals, eccentric, some hint of genius that allows us to overlook the dodgy singing. The Rolling Stones not happy? Their problem.
US Charts ($$$ Record Company plugging) Mariah Carey - Emotions OK she has a really technically capable voice, but this is barely more than an adequate way to put it to use.
Breakers Simple Minds - Real Life: a rare example of peak-pomposity SM hitting the mark, maybe their best single from this period Don Mclean - American Pie: not sure why this was rereleased but it's the same as it was Pet Shop Boys - DJ Culture: barely a song, almost a Chris Morris parody of the PSBs ("We are called the Pet Shop Boys, and we clutter our records with this irritating noise") , but somehow still capable and competent
Exclusive: Tin Machine - Baby Universal The 2nd TM album is much better than the 1st, mostly as it's less afraid of melody, but both are way above the over-produced commercial pop pap that Bowie had been persuaded to put out for much of the 80s. This is no classic, and not particularly memorable, but has energy, and it is a welcome step away from all that...
Bryan Adams 16th week no 1 etc FFWD>>>
Play out theme tune
This format is too restrictive, even when the music is good, as at least some was tonight, this isn't what TOTP is FOR....
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Post by Mark on Nov 3, 2021 10:57:44 GMT 1
According to a post on Popscene, it's looking like more skips due to a presenter are on the way. All episodes co-presented by Adrian Rose (Who?) apparently not scheduled. Think it might be another Mike Smith situation.
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Post by vya on Nov 5, 2021 23:58:50 GMT 1
Hallowe'en, Same presenters again
SL2 - DJs Take Control Doing these vocals live has a real pirate radio/rave feel (if you ignore the audience). Can't remember how this differs from the recorded version at all (less vocals surely). Very much characteristic of its time, more about the slightly grey atmosphere than any specifics.
Don McLean - American Pie Odd that an old rerelease would get a studio appearance, but the $$$ + Corporate Rock + Major Labels Plugging nature of Year Zero TOTP makes it so here. He at least has experience in singing live. Old school. Not characteristic of this time.
Top 10 again done the silly way
Congress - 40 Miles Chirpy singer with her hair in a treble clef formation, because. Late italo-inspired house, alright, if no more. The Jimi Polo sample will get further outings.
Zoe - Lightning Cash-in cookie cutter carbon copy of Sunshine on a Rainy Day even down to the weather refs. But man she can't sing. I think this is the better, more flowing, more balanced, more effective, of her two hits. But man she can't sing. So the recorded version is vastly better. Cruel to expose her like this. The track done properly is a minor joy.
Breakers Control - Dance With Me (I'm your Ecstasy): crap generic rave, no coyness about druggy lyrics no more on TOTP I see INXS - Shining Star: clip is not helpful - just the title being repeated, track seems to have been forgotten, almost certainly not close to their best
Moby - Go Calm ambient rave, then fairly innovative and cool and refreshing. A good thing. The way he is jumping about madly at the keyboards doesn't really match the melancholic undertow. Too much lucozade mate. (oddly the "yeah" samples seem to be allowed, but geezer has to shout "go" to fit in with The Rules)
Kylie Minogue with Keith Washington - If You Were With Me Now Unfashionable but I rather like this, her best bit of semi-balladry so far certainly. Not the most complex song. But kind of beautiful even. Cut off brutally early.
Genesis - No Son Of Mine Billed as an exclusive, but already in Top 10. Earnest Serious Mature Rock. Despite the limitations of the genre. And anthemic in that way which Genesis had mastered by the mid-80s. Builds and builds, and has an emotive story. A cut above most of Phil's more recent solo output. But, above all: Too long. Some brutal cutting would have been useful.
U2 - The Fly "The posse from Dublin", yeah right. Avant-garde-ish experimental genius, exciting even, a bit sleazy, and thank goodness Bryan Adams is down at last. A worthy and welcome chart-topper even if it's a but too niche and unobvious to be likely to stick around long.
A weird mixture mostly of classic rockers (even if U2 taking a new direction) and utterly contemporary ravey stuff. Broadly tolerable. Or not utterly intolerable.
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Post by vya on Nov 6, 2021 0:36:11 GMT 1
Seven Eleven Mark Franklin, again. And Elayne Smith. Who we mostly hear rather than see, and we only find her name some way into the show. Odd.
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North Innovative brilliance. A great list song. Scowling. Morris men with batons and flowers, "THE NORTH WILL RISE AGAIN" banners. An obscure ceremony is conducted as rave beats accompany Jerusalem. So so fantastic.
Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet "It's Grim Down South" he starts...before a skilful bit of gently emotional melodious soft rock. Classy and sophisticated, but still a bit raw. Very good. The studio set on this stage, with a silvery metal arrangement with vaguely organic (fish, giraffe) shapes is a distraction.
Top 10 the silly way
K-Klass - Rhythm Is A Mystery The thing about this is the masses of repetitions that twine together without quite becoming dull. The beat, the riff, the chorus, the piano (sample?). Doesn't necessarily translate that well to this context. Solid, capable, appealling, something beyond rave. Quality.
Belinda Carlisle - Do You Feel Like I Feel "Exclusive" and not in the charts. More major label big star promotion. The driving beat under the soft power pop is the thing here, maybe as it's far from her strongest song. Both the rhythm and the lyrics have a vaguely obsessive insistence about them. Not brilliant but I recall it with fondness. Obviously not big hit material.
INXS - Shining Star Almost bluesy. About the perils of seeking rock fame, but the song barely goes anywhere. Rawish, seems a fanbase purchase.
Control - Dance With Me (I'm Your Ecstasy) Not sure why Manc rave is palpably worse than London rave at this time, but it invariably seems to be so. This is weak, would have been tediously generic in the summer of 89.
Breakers: Metallica - The Unforgiven: how to do a hard rock ballad, emotive, skilled, engaging Chris Rea - Winter Song: understatedly gorgeous, several cuts above D****** H*** F** C******** Manic Street Preachers - Love's Sweet Exile: not an obvious single choice, nor a top pick from the album, but in your face-ish. And Richy-era Manics have SUCH style and spunk Charlatans - Me. In Time - while their organ sound is impossible to fault, this track is possibly a bit too psychedelic and self-absorbed for its own good (look at that full stop in the song title...)
Album chart track:Neil Sedaka - Timeless - Miracle Song Firmly in the "track for parents" slot. or WTF? Variety show middle of the road. Not sure what the producers were thinking. Completely out of place (last seen in the top 40 sixteen years earlier), and, well, not that much cop.
Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff - Dizzy A new no 1, again, and we get the mad vid, all the washing machines and dressing up. Indisputably fun. And nearly as absurd (and eccentrically British) as the JAMMS track at the start of the show.
A bit more than half of the tracks here were on the right side of decent. But the formula doesn't quite work.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 6, 2021 21:12:33 GMT 1
The last day of October 1991 ever. Straight into SL2. Thought for a moment they were at no. 2. The needlessly fussy graphics disguised the 4. This is where they should have learned from Altern 8. A rave choon needs a hook. This is just a meander.
Don McLean in the studio because "American Pie" is at no. 17. This might be fully live. Crowd likes it. Where's Peter Glaze when you need him?
Stupid top 10 again which means the dethroning of Adams is a total afterthought. Now we have something bizarre. Congress (which appears to be Nick Hewer) and Lucinda Sieger (who cannot sing but has her hair done in a treble clef). It's rubbish.
Zoe in a tight leather vest. I might need a moment. Interesting that we've seen Dortie but not Franklin. Is this an attempt to show a whizz-bang Network 7-type super-slick fast jumpcut? Well, this is a fine single, problem being Zoe is more show than go, but at least better than Lucinda. Imagine Bonnie Tyler belting this out. Or Samantha "brother of Hugh" Janus.
We get some breakers. A rave tune with a cheapass video that sounds rubbish. And an INXS record called "Shining Star", which we know because the lyrics in the extract we hear are "shining star, shining star, shining star, yeah, shining star, shining star". Is someone deliberately taking the p*ss?
Moby, who is trying to look dynamic behind a keyboard while shouting "Go" at random moments. Crowd is accompanying the "ye-eh-eh" bits though.
Now TOTP has gone live, Kylie sends in a video. How convenient. She's done a duet, which is fairly bold given that it shows up how weak sauce her voice is, but given how Bad Disney the song is I doubt most people could be arsed to listen to more than about eight seconds.
The next act on the New Dynamic Thrusting Modern TOTP is Genesis. Woop woop. It's almost interminably dreary. After about six hours we get to the chorus and it's not worth the wait.
Finally no. 1, with a surprisingly louche entry from U2. I quite like this. It doesn't sound like typical U2. There's an almost industrial sound to it. It's only the instro break that sounds trad U2 and that's cut short because we have to hear the stupid theme on the playout.
Not a good episode. Worrying when U2 are the standout.
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 8, 2021 9:47:39 GMT 1
Convenience store. A disembodied female voice announced the KLF are back with "The Justified Ancients Of Myu Myu". Well, it's sort of technically correct, but sounds odd. Morris dancers and a hectoring Drummond reading from a script. Audience is hollering as if it's Duran Duran or something. I'm not sure they get it. Anyhoo, this is of course magnificent. Especially with the Jerusalem bit, which goes way above the audience's heads.
Mark Franklin introduces a band that are "Australian". I'm sure that comes as a surprise to Neil Finn. "It's grim down south" and Crowded House are as far south as one can get. The new format suits proper bands more than DJ sh*te. Not keen on this though, it's basically "Every Breath You Take".
Top 10, still no voiceover, still stupid music. Badams down to 4. U2 off the top which means, mirabile dictu, the Stuffies are on top of the chart.
Disembodied female voice introduces K-Klass. The first six seconds are very promising, but that's basically it. Repeated in the chorus and any sales are surely on that rather than the meagre remainder.
We finally get to see disembodied female voice. Elayne "Not C" Smith. She introduces Belinda Carlisle, because major labels want to destroy indie labels and the Bent Broadcasting Corporation is complicit in this. It's not even a great Carlisle single, it's so by numbers you could offer it as a painting kit.
INXS on video. Well, this revamp obviously does not stop the whole "let's play some records in consecutive weeks, especially if they are on majors" vibe. To be fair, the extract on last week did not do justice to this, which is an interesting and rather down and dirty slab of slightly hip-hop influenced rock. But, you know, Curve are at 36, aren't they worth a play?
And the other breaker is on now. Control. "I'm your ecstasy." Not really. Oh, this is DIRE.
Breakers. Metallica, with something that's Metallica. Chris Rea, who has re-done "Driving Home For Christmas" because it wasn't a hit before. Brief shot of the Lotus 7, I think. Manics, who are moving from Clash ripoffs to U2 ripoffs. And The Charlatans, with something rather sunflowery and definitely more worthy of a play than f***ing Control.
Note however no Curve.
Elayne Smith is back and looks very confused. Maybe because she thinks Curve should have been on rather than...Neil Sedaka? To be honest I have no objection to this being on because it pitches to a different demographic, and that's the sort of thing TOTP should be doing. But in a half-an-hour show they should have cut Control and put on Curve because that's also increasing the demographic. Song is rubbish, but I'm not the market.
Vic & Bob are top of the pops. Yay. We get the video which of itself is a typical Reevesesque performance art oddity, with him and the Stuffies rocking it out in front of an audience of indifferent pensioners to a backdrop of washing machines. This is it, isn't it? This is the point of music. Just loud and energetic and enervating and fun. A group experience. Shame Judith Grant isn't in the video. Shoutout to the Big Night Out posse there.
Playout stupidly again is the theme. WHY???
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Post by Tom on Nov 14, 2021 0:36:36 GMT 1
7th March
One of the best Nicky Campbell shows, really good.
Hale and Pace - The Stonk This was the first year I became aware of Comic Relief. Absolutely loved this at the time and it brings back memories from then, and also one years later.
Quartz/Dina Carroll - It's Too Late Always liked this one.
Roxette - Joyride. Absolutely love this, my favourite Roxette song.
14th March Good show.
Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only Great song!
REM - Losing My Religion. Memorable video but got bored of this song quickly and couldn't understand why it hung around so long. Maybe because it comes from a classic album I appreciate it a lot more now, think it's great.
Bee Gees - Secret Love Like this one, think it's underrated and rather forgotten.
Queen - I'm Going Slightly Mad First Queen song I liked. Very memorable video.
Rod Stewart - Rhythm Of My Heart. Not a Rod Stewart fan but really like this one.
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Post by Mark on Nov 14, 2021 21:57:02 GMT 1
Here's the next edition BBC Four can't show because Adrian Rose (Adrian Woolfe) hasn't given permission
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Post by vastar iner on Nov 14, 2021 22:26:29 GMT 1
They should sue him for the return of the money that the licence payers paid him for the work he refuses to show.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Nov 15, 2021 17:45:53 GMT 1
Seems strange that the BBC requires permission from the presenters to repeat the shows. I’m sure that’s their policy as opposed to a legal requirement. I suppose they would be due a repeat few, maybe they couldn’t agree on the amount.
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Post by o on Nov 15, 2021 18:17:51 GMT 1
Michael Jackson's videos are self indulgent nonsense a lot of the time! Loved them at the time, but watching them no, lord give me strength! That presenter is now a big exec in the tv business, so maybe embarrassed to see himself on telly, who knows?
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Post by vya on Nov 15, 2021 21:04:12 GMT 1
It's weird, not least that (a) he is hardly a public name (and is known by a different name now anyway) and (b) he is visible for, what, 40 seconds or 1 minute at most of the entire show... The Queen tribute is by far the most enjoyable part of that episode (yeah Nirvana performance has its cultual significance I suppose), but really we're not missing much by losing this edition....
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