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Post by vastar iner on Mar 6, 2022 12:47:57 GMT 1
The day before the day before Traitor Day. Arrested Development at no. 9 in the US. Again this is the right sort of exclusive to have, a shambolic vaguely Daisy Age sound that is rather appealing.
Dortie seems to be on his tod. Heh, shade thrown at Berry in the top ten rundown. Loses cred points by liking Carey.
Altern8 and some on trend word salad from Dortie. It has a great first minute, and then...it cannot take matters further. Something of a letdown.
Top Britpop band Def Leppard. Next.
Electronic. Highest new entry. Fair to say the shift to live vocals is not Tennant's friend. A New Order b-side but a PSB a-side.
Breakers. B52s and milfy Kate. Fred is channelling the Khasi of Kalabar. Quite like though. Carter USM with a shoutalong animation, which is a mindfuck headrush. They should have put this on RIGHT BEFORE Fake T**t.
Interestingly Carter were meant to be on but they fell ill in rehearsals. Hm? Instead we get Snap! in full, which is NOT a fair swap. This is abysmal. Probably huge in Germany, like Nazism. Serious as cancer. f*** off.
Richard Marx going acoustic. Ish. This is so much better than "Right Here Waiting" it's difficult to believe it's the same artist.
What's the latest exclusive? Jimmy Nail. This would be the Jimmy Nail who has a BBC television series? Conflict of interest anyone? Oddly this is an almost Stax slice of soul with Sprechgesang. Not very good though, he's not a good enough singer to carry the burden.
Erasure still at no. 1. Half-a-million sales. "Check all three videos." Um, there were four. But The Chart Show had dibs on "SOS". Which was Andy in the kitchen. Interesting that this is an EP where there is no track with real prominence, unlike other EP hits which are basically one song and three b-sides at a premium. TACOM was originally pushed but now "Voulez-Vous", which is the best track on the EP, is getting more of a go. Overall sounds a lot less oomphy than the originals though.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 6, 2022 13:24:08 GMT 1
16/7 and we start with Franklin before the titles, which are still sh*t, and straight into the top 10. It's sort of as if the BBC has narrowed the attention span to the absolute minimum. New no. 1 and it's Jimmy Nail, so the BBC's bias has worked.
Starting with Wet Wet Wet and Marti obviously found the Showaddywaddy dress-up box. Well, it's there. A Vauxhall Vectra.
Madonna with an exclusive, and the video is a direct ripoff of Boy George's "To Be Reborn". From A League Of Their Own. She's trying to channel late Beatles but it sounds whiny and nasal.
Studio for the Weddoes in their Hazmat from the video for "Flying Saucer" and performing minimally. This is the second best of their twelve singles. Audience is well into it, interestingly. It's a mesmeric guitar assault but the sound engineering on the episode does not get that across, the vocals are too loud.
New entries scoot across the top, we're not getting Prince even though he is at 7, and we really should be getting Curve who are at 31. Instead we get Jason Donovan because we don't deserve nice things. Dogshit song and dogshit singer.
Talking of which, Billy Ray Cyrus. Who. In. The. Name. Of. All. That. Is. Holy. Decided. That. This. Should. Be. An. Exclusive. God f***ing almighty. This is meant to be a music show. Whoever put this on the show should be sectioned. It's an outright insult to the entire country and they are b*st*rds for doing it.
The Shamen. I remember when they were good.
Breakers. Morrissey. Ditto. Was Not Was. Tritto.
Show picks up with Sophie B Hawkins. The video mostly has women on the instruments. TOTP obviously did not like that.
Ah, we are getting Prince because someone has FINALLY woken up to the total waste of time of having that sh*t closing theme as the playout, that reduces the capacity of the programme by a seventh. This is louche in the extreme. One-third of the title is censored.
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Post by raliverpool on Mar 12, 2022 21:53:23 GMT 1
Did anyone else just watch the TOTP Story of 1991 on BBC2.
I never new Nirvana's mythic performance of SLTS was down to Kurt Cobain having man-flu and his throat was too sore to sing the required shredded vocals.
Tim Booth came across as a total sweetheart on those interviews.
But best of the lot was The KLF meant to book Dolly Parton for Justified & Ancient but got their country female singers mixed up!
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 13, 2022 8:00:13 GMT 1
I only just realised that was on, going to download it. I wonder when the sound of 1992 will be on? They used to be shown before the repeats started but I think COVID interrupted the filming.
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Post by raliverpool on Mar 13, 2022 10:59:43 GMT 1
I only just realised that was on, going to download it. I wonder when the sound of 1992 will be on? They used to be shown before the repeats started but I think COVID interrupted the filming. TOTP: The Story of 1992 is on next week on BBC2 from 20:45 hours; with an hour of The biggest hits of 1992 at 21:45 hours.
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Post by Mark on Mar 13, 2022 12:31:01 GMT 1
Yes i enjoyed it, how lovely does Tim Booth sound, nice chap. Interesting to hear stories about Kurt's man flu and the KLF country singer mix-up didn't know that.
On Friday, Tony Dortie was a having right go at "the big 4" how he and others were treated on the show most of the venom was directed to the late producer who he referred to.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 17, 2022 17:40:18 GMT 1
23/7, with Dortie and Simon at the start, and the "crisp biscuits' in the top ten. LOL at a producer who brings in a yoof presenter and then says not to use yoof language. "Some bad words" as the Prince title, Dortie is at least knowing.
First song and Simon forgets who the act is. Sunscreem. Crusty chill. The live vocals are weak sauce but it's not a bad track. Unlike Snap at no. 2, which is an atrocity. Turbo B sounds like he's still munching on a Big Mac and the production is about as genuine as Jordan's tits.
The equally talented vocal duo, with more darkpop. Might even be better than "Stay" but Siobhan really needs her voice buried a bit more.
Breakers. The number font incidentally has gone from the mixed-up inconsistent house-number style to something more solid and stencil. Overshadows the act and song name. Anyhoo, Nirvana with their Pixies ripoff sound. Simply sh*te with something that's bad bad bad even by their barrel-scraping standards. Live video dictates that this is pure milk. And Jackson has gone down from TEN MINUTES OF EXCLUSIVE to thirty seconds of breaker. Has the message got through?
An exclusive from Enya. How are the live vocals going to work with this? Answer: they aren't. Or, if they are, they're FX'd to multitrack. Sounds like a BA advert. Quite like it though but obviously the audience reaction is taped.
Prince. It's very repetitive.
Jon Secada. An exclusive, but at least he's fresh meat. Co-writer of Gloria Estefan's hits. I wouldn't boast about that. He's giving it loads of effort. It's a not unpleasant song so good luck to him.
Elton John & Eric Clapton, another exclusive, because there's not enough happening SIOUXSIE MONIE LOVE NIRVANA that could be played in full. This is the definition of phoning it in.
Jimmy Nail still on top, because any tension was ruined by having the chart at the start. Playout is Was (Not Was), which is not a hit solely because Kim Basinger is in it, oh no, no sirree.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 18, 2022 0:14:51 GMT 1
Franklin, who looks like Goodier's older brother. And the show then is Shamen, Jackson, and Kris Kross, so basically it's for dance fans only, and none of these is very good at all. Kris Kross are not going to have a career now their voices are breaking.
Betty Boo, with a couple of very hot Boo-ettes, and she's looking gorgeous in almost a bikini, but I don't think the look suits her music or ethos. This one is less sass and more Wee Rule. It's disappointing.
Breakers. Genesis with something that was done far far far far far far far far far better by The Hooters a few years ago. Sarah Brightman's campaign to have hits with everyone on the planet, one by one, now meets José Carreras, this is the theme toon for the Barcelona Olympics. We get Enya as a breaker even though she was on in full last week, which is a stupid thing. At least the breakers are now being given a bit of time to breathe though.
And then a weird exclusive from Madness, with a song that's 12 years old. God, I bet the other acts on the show hate that Madness can blow them all out of the water with a re-issue. Cairo West, thought that was a boat stop. El Barso is back. This is a seriously brilliant track.
Aaand as if it is a p*sstake it's a segue into Roxette, which sounds even older, sort of 1976 act like Racey. Interesting switch in vocals though between verse in chorus.
The US number 1, from Sir Mix-A-Lot. Don't remember this being on. Surprised it's not cancelled. Fun fact: the video for this passes the Bechdel test. He's not the most dynamic performer, but dude has a point.
Nail at no. 1 and Madonher on the playout.
Bad show. One great song and that was a decade old. And very badly laid out, it was Dance Central, and focussed on the top of the chart, despite there being options lower down.
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Post by Mark on Mar 19, 2022 22:54:16 GMT 1
Well they can't show Adrian Rose editions but they can show him in the The Story of programmes lol
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 23, 2022 16:19:48 GMT 1
Interview with David Cicero in a retro pop mag to say he should have been on the TOTP for 6 February but was bumped so that they could show the entirety of the "Remember The Time" video. Good move BBC.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 24, 2022 9:10:23 GMT 1
My birthday. Dortie presents to his troops: -Fake T**t with something that, even by their unpromising standards, manages to undercut even that, with a performance that has all the heterosexuality of Liberace, the tax avoider is "singing" falsetto for feck's sake. This is literally unlistenable; -Undercover, with a useless, needless, and 100% imagination-free cover; -Mercury & Caballe, with a re-issue; -Betty Boo (see above, only sans Boo-ettes). God knows she's totes adorbs but this song is going nowhere; -2 Untalented with their usual track, obviously Anita was so bad on this one as well that they cut her out of it (again); -the breakers. "Germany's" Queensryche, er, say what now? This is actually brilliant, a huge sprawling epic, so naturally we get 30 seconds because we need to see 2 f***ing Untalented in full; The Smiths in the top ten because of a greatest hits compilo; Felix, who, despite being entitled to being on the show in full twice, only ges into the breakers; Jon Secada, who, despite having already been on in full recently, still only counts as a breaker; Luther & Janet, with a sh*t remix of a sh*t song; -Annie Lennox with an exclusive, which, as Dortie says, has "hit written all over it", so f***ing WAIT UNTIL IT IS A HIT THEN; -Snap with some very bad sh*t at no. 1; -and we've dropped the playout. OK, that was a very, very, very, very bad show. Not just for what was on it, because there were three good tracks (Queensryche, Smiths, and Lennox) and one decent one (Secada) on it. But how it was structured. Three of those were in the breakers and the fourth did not need to be on.
This is how I would have done the show.
1. No re-issues, no covers. All excluded. Let's look for originality.
2. Mix the genres. Let's get dance in there, fine, let's get R&B, or at least what's passing for it. Let's also get pop, rock, whatever else is there.
3. OK, now let's look down the chart and see what should be on. And these songs are:
-Snap, because no. 1, but make them the playout;
-Vandross & Jackson, highest new entry so deserves a full play;
-Felix, because top ten without being on TOTP also deserves a full play;
-Queensryche, because it would open up a song that would normally only hit one audience to all audiences - it might flop but it might go "Are 'Friends' Electric";
-Thunder, for metal;
-Cud, for indie;
-Weller, for the dads;
-Prefab Sprout, for the pop.
You can stick 2 Untalented on the breakers with the Weddoes if necessary. And if someone insisted on The Smiths, I would have a re-show of their original TOTP performance rather than the video.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 25, 2022 9:35:21 GMT 1
*wīḱm̥toḱtō. Franklin introduces KWS with another insult to the intelligence. Three seconds is too much. Two exclusives tonight. Jackson, oh for f***'s sake, WHY? ? And live from Boston, is Extreme, with something that's at least not their stupid sh*tty wussy crappy Celine-Dion-Would-Think-This-A-Bit-Twee ballads. It sounds like they're doing it completely live too and there's no bantz, just straight into it. There's a kid on stage who gets a line, no idea why. I'm not the target audience and I question the use of "exclusives" but this is at least the right idea; it's something that you're not going to see elsewhere and will be seen by the atypical audience, some of whom might therefore discover something fresh. Felix does get onto Ver Pops with a play. Ohhh, of course, it's THAT one. Thought it was Faithless. No matter. Give the cat his due. Live vocals do not work though when there are about three lyrics. Paul Weller. This is last week's show this week. Sounding rather Small Faces. Or even Lovin' Spoonful. The BBC must be the only people on the entire f***ing planet that thinks that showing the 38th single from a Jackson album is an exclusive worth having. This showing is a total disgrace. Thunder. Heh, see above. This actually is though a stupid sh*tty wussy crappy Celine-Dion-Would-Think-This-A-Bit-Twee ballad for the most part, it does eventually rock out to the delight of the audience, but too little too late. Breakers. Bobby Brown with the tender, subtle, and delicate "Humpin Around". Orbison & Lang, dying was a great career move. Annie Lennox who was on last week. They've gone back to the twelve seconds of breakers which is worse than useless. Could have created space by deffing out Lennox (and of course Jackson) to show more Orbilang. Minogue. This really is basement sh*te even by SAWmill standards. Is this a Vanilla-style bet? S***! at no. 1 so I can turn this off. With a great deal of relief. Another very bad show.
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Post by Mark on Mar 25, 2022 23:09:39 GMT 1
The final Adrian Rose edition Complete run starts next week (apart from 2 Glitter hosted editions december 95 and 96 both of which i recorded) I'm guessing Rolf's Stairway To Heaven will just edited out in 93
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 31, 2022 23:34:26 GMT 1
Anniversary of the Battle of Worcester and of the Lord Protector's death, although these were a few years apart. Bananarama, with a 33% reduction, looking vampish. Now, when they started, they looked and sounded shambolic, but there was a charm and charisma about it, like they were girls going up to give it a lash and f*** the world, and the music was great. Now they are polished and professional and the music is total sh*t. Somehow the SAWmill manages to find even worse songs. Devoid of any imagination or any moxie. They even sound like they're going through the motions and they're not singing live. They actually look quite disgusted by the whole thing. Maybe they should have called it "Contractual Obligation Single" because the impact of this is not willing on the underdog but looking like an horrendous exploitation of all concerned.
Segues into The Shamen, who again used to be good. And a different voice introducing so we're back to two presenters. Mr C has an air of not being able to believe that he's getting away with this. The chap on stage is not Jerry Sadowitz.
So we finally see the presenters, Franklin and Oke. Oh God, the next thing is Sonia, doing a cover, and she's got exciting news for us - "I'm representing Britain in the Eurovision song contest." Be still, my f***ing heart. And this is a f***ing exclusive. A cover of "Boogie Nights". This is the ABSOLUTE NADIR. There has NEVER been a worse thing on Top Of The Pops. There may have been worse singles than this, I make no findings on that, I can't think of any right now, but the idea that the British public deserves as an exclusive to see a **** cover of a **** song by a **** singer is the single worst thing that has happened in the history of Britain since the Blitz.
"If you've been on holiday you're bound to have heard this." EUROSHITE ALERT!!! Dr Alban who cannot do live vox to save his life. This is HORRIBLE.
Breakers. Skid Row, doing a decent Led Zep inpression. A promising young Swedish mixed-sex brunette-blonde group that are following in the steps of Ace Of Base, namely Abba. "From the hit album Rush Street", think there's a consonant missing there, Richard Marx. And Brian May with something very Brian May. We're back to the breakers only having a very short spin.
Lionel Richtea, which ranks about 4 out of 10, but is still the best thing on the show that's not Abba. And he can sing.
TECHNO! Ah, it's the theme to Das Boot, having been tranced up by U96, and, for once, it's one of those remixes that actually works. They've cleverly used the theme as if it's a synth sting and worked it into the dance bpm maximum velocity.
Sinead O'Connor. "What have you been doing?" "Making a record." Thanks Shin. Anyhoo, this is her with an orchestra, apparently all live, with something incredibly dramatic, very redolent of 1960s French noir, I could imagine Brel doing this one proud. This is, by a very long distance, the best thing on the show. It's taken a while to warm up but it has at least provided two tracks that drag this up from Worst. Episode. Ever.
And then it's back to ratshit because it's no. 1 and playout, although top 10 is now where it should be.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 1, 2022 16:44:46 GMT 1
That's a big ten-nine, good buddy. East 17 who seem to be performing in a laundry. Am I missing something? Also all wearing all white. I think they're meant to be on the EMF tip. It's OK, nothing special, and a very high proportion of Bez in the band.
It's Dortie presenting btw. The Christians at 34. Good that something that low is getting an airing. Again, it's OK, it's what the Lighthouse Family aspired to be.
Undercover. f*** off.
Freddie Jackson. Nope, not for me. Basically sh*t 1974 middle-aged Motown.
INXS with a cheapass video, suggesting they're mining quite deep. Am not taken with this, lacks imagination and verve, there are only about five words in it. L7 are in the charts though, that should have been on. Maybe they were concerned about Donita showing her tuppence again.
Derek Amitri in at 40. This is up, or down, to their usual standard. There is definitely a formula and boy are they going to cling to it like a scared toddler to his mother.
Breakers. Sinead O'Connor with lots of sign language in the video. The Smiths without a proper video. The guitar stab in "How Soon Is Now" is the absolute best thing in the programme thus far. Michael Jackson "and Heavy D" and really you have to be a moron to buy this given it is about eight singles deep now. Extreme with a smidgeon more rock than before. Video is inspired by an old Stackers advert that I've not seen since about 1988.
An exclusive now, "from one of Britain's most original artists ever", a cover version. I reckon Dortie was completely aware of that and it's gone over the BBC's heads. Boy George and I can't be bothered with this. His voice sounds way off btw. Chemicals in the green room?
S***! are of course still no. 1 so I can turn off.
Well...that show was the equivalent of going into a Michelin-starred restaurant and asking for bread. Very, very dull.
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Post by raliverpool on Apr 2, 2022 19:48:59 GMT 1
Who else is watching TOTP The Story of Top Of The Pops 1993.
Starting off with 2 Unlimited who have the same disarmingly endearing/delusional humble-brag as Bros have today.
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Post by raliverpool on Apr 2, 2022 20:42:54 GMT 1
That was very enjoyable. Great to hear from Harlequin & Chandelier. The Bluebells came across great. Great to be reminded of New Order's satellite appearance on the Baywatch set
But the star of the show was the 1990s legend who had that year's Xmas #1. I did not realize he was banned from appearing at TOTP studios in Elstree for fear he was going to damage the studio set(s); and I forgot East 17 encouraged their fans to buy his musical masterpiece to stop Take That's utterly cynical attempt at nabbing the Xmas #1.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 3, 2022 19:46:06 GMT 1
二十四/六。 Straight into a cover version by a band whose last hit was a cover version. This is both original and good. Unfortunately, the bits that are original... WHY THE f*** WOULD YOU TRY TO COVER "I FEEL LOVE" IF YOU'RE NOT CURVE? At least the singer is doing her best to give it a slightly different spin, less breathy and more as if it were a pop song. But this really is pointless. Just throw the original back out there.
S(l)ade. Still yuppie crap for yuppies. She's absorbed a bit more of the chillout vibe but still does nothing for me.
Omar. Talking of the mellow vibe, here we are. Very very chilled. And...the top 20, with 20-11 appearing on screen. The charts are bacy, babay! Song cut off before I could work out if it was irritating or going somewhere.
Boy George with past avatars on stage. See above.
Suede. The latest with the megahype around them, but the evidence thus far is that it's justified, all glam loucheness and posturing and indie sensibilities. Although Anderson is causing something of a polarisation given some of his statements about being a bisexual who has never been homosexual, which looks a bit like he's bandwagoning. If the Stone Roses did Roxy Music.
Hurricane Andrew stopped us hearing from Boyz II Men. Now, under normal circumstances, I'd consider that an act of God, and not bother trying again. Alas TOTP didn't read the memo and instead we have this absolutely outright godawful by-numbers emotionally-fake LCD American shitwank foisted on us.
Tasmin Archer. Well, this is interesting. Lots of influences in there making what is basically a very good and engaging pop song. Something of the A-ha meets late-era Duran Duran of this. Definite like.
Breaker me up, bitches. Def Leppard with "Love Bites", oh no, it's the same song though. Pearl Jam with a mahogany voice on grunge. The Prodge using Arthur Brown as a jump-off point but it's not very good. And we're back to the 20 seconds of each breaker, which is f***ing useless.
Mike Oldfield, no. 4 in the album charts, or no. 1 if you believe the chyron. This is classic Stupid Public time. Oldfield's last five studio albums have gone 15, 36, 29, 30, and 49, so he's not likely to have a big hit again. So instead of Dawntreader or A Glint Of Venus In The Heather or something, he calls it Tubular Bells II and the Stupid Public decide to go out and buy it. I've nothing against it, perfectly cromulent track, but how can one deal with a public that is too stupid to spot the very very very obvious marketing trick? They will be buying Fake T**t next.
Top 10. Fatima Mansions in the top ten, lol. Shamen still at no. 1. We get the Jerry Sadowitz video. And the playout is wasted yet again, we could have at least had Pearl Jam there.
Three exclusives on the show even though there is lots of chart action lower down. Getting a bit of a not-must-watch.
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 5, 2022 9:20:01 GMT 1
1/2 in binary. It's a day of anniversaries, in that it's a year since going to Elstree, and...well, that's basically it, because we segue into the Stereo MCs with something that's been overplayed to irritancy. Crowded House with something very typically Crowded House. Cutting edge in Australasia, in the same way as John Farnham is hard rock. Then we finally see the presenters, Franklin and Simon, who refers to Crowded House as "a new band". She really wasn't chosen for her brains or musical knowledge, was she? Coming up we have Dr Spin and Dr Alban, with an exclusive from Status Quo. CUTTING EDGE MUST-SEE TELEVISION!!!!! Top 20 is accompanied by Ultimate Kaos, who are plainly a British Jackson 5 equivalent. We then go to Dr Spin, which is the Tetris theme cut with "Get Ready For This". Basically, people buying this have a cumulative IQ of 8. Crazy Frog de leurs jours. Breakers. The Sundays in at 27. Now this should have been given a full play because it is, simply, wonderful. But we have to have Dr Spin and Status Quo because the producer is a clueless music-hating ****. Neneh Cherry, this is good as well, and Oldfield, who was on last week so shouldn't be a breaker, again the cuntstain producer is just wasting time that could have been on for better. And the highest new entry (REM, again brilliant) is also merely a breaker, because Dr Spin & Status Quo. Back to ten seconds per breaker and the stupid hideous horrible theme sh*tting on actual music. Dr Alban, a repeat, so should have been elbowed for something fresh. Bob Marley in the top five, so a re-issue. Bizarre Inc return with a new sound, per Simon, which is actually exactly the same as their old sound. The verse for this is: Why waste your time? (x4) You know you're gonna be mine (x12)f***ing hell. It's interminable.
Now. Not only is Status Quo a song not in the charts, but it's a medley. So we have a string of cover versions OF THEIR OWN COVER VERSIONS. And they had the outright gall to sue Radio 1 for not playing them. There is not one reason whatsoever why this should have been on instead of The Sundays. f*** the producer. ****.
And I can turn off as no. 1 is Shamen and playout is Gibbering Idiot.
Very bad show. Yet again. And due entirely to very bad choices. Yet again. Far too much dance.
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