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Post by vastar iner on Jan 8, 2023 14:36:57 GMT 1
They seem to have been just uploading Christmas ones lately so there's only the 23/12 from 199whenever to do and given that everyone is releasing gash aimed at people who do not like music it won't take long to get through. K7, whose name is unimaginative in two respects, imitating Ini Kamoze with some rubbish.
Bee Gees who have gone back to a more disco sound, which is a mistake.
St Etienne with a lovely sixties Christmas song pastiche. No idea why Burgess is singing as well though.
Shabba? w**k.
Dina Carroll? Nope.
Breakers. Houston with a weak sauce cover. Oddly the breakers this week get quite a bit. Hulk Hogan & Green Jellÿ with a Glitter cover, heh, this got past the censor.
EYC. Are we sure they're a different act to K7? The song is, to all intents and purposes, 100% identical.
And the Blobmeister wins me some decent dosh by climbing back to the top of the charts. f*** you taxcheat Barlow.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 8, 2023 19:50:33 GMT 1
Did anyone see the 30 years of Top of the Pops show presented by Smashie and Nicey? It was very odd - the synopsis said it was first broadcast in January 1994, but it included Destiny’s Child, The Spice Girls, Oasis and a solo Robbie Williams. Did they accidentally broadcast an updated version that had actually been shown some time later? Or did they edit those in for this broadcast deliberately to replace sex offenders?
It was a pretty frantic show anyway, constant clips, it was like watching the Breakers for a whole hour.
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Jan 8, 2023 20:09:59 GMT 1
I didn't see it but apparently it was updated in 2001
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 8, 2023 22:06:20 GMT 1
I didn't see it but apparently it was updated in 2001 So considering it was shown chronologically between the 1993 and 1994 repeats, and it was billed as the episode from early January 1994, they basically showed the wrong one? That’s some balls up!
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Post by mfr on Jan 9, 2023 0:30:24 GMT 1
Not at all. The updated version was created in December 2001, by which time it was already necessary to edit out Gary Glitter and probably send the original version into room 101. So they simply retrieved the 'safe' version rather than edit out the same bits from the original all over again.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 20, 2023 22:55:24 GMT 1
Wow, Saturn 5 by Inspiral Carpets opening the show was several times better than anything that’s been on for weeks, just brilliant. Then after some dross from Def Lepard Tori Amos is on doing Cornflake Girl, absolutely spectacular.
I don’t really remember TotP too well from this era, because I was 17 and there were better things to do than watch TV, but I remember the music very well and I reckon these shows are about to become essential viewing again.
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Post by Robbie on Jan 29, 2023 0:48:47 GMT 1
I keep forgetting about TOTP being on BBC4 on Friday nights. I watched the reruns from when they first started with 1976 back in 2011 and stayed with it until it got to 1987 a few years ago and then drifted away. As my favourite period for music in the 90s was from 1994 to 1997 I need to get back into the habit of watching it again.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 1, 2023 23:17:14 GMT 1
OK, back after Chrimbo, 6.1.94 which must have been just before I went back to Univ. Thought for a moment it was starting with The Wurzels. D:Ream. I don't recognize the keyboardist. Cunnah looks delighted to be in the top ten. Classic "let's take advantage of the post-Christmas lull" release.
Dina Carroll with the chart rundown, because she is blackmailing the producers.
A big 1994 background for Brian Harvey, who has 9s all over him, and the song is rather modest, saying it's alright. Fair enough. There's definitely more to E17 than the borefest that is Fake T**t but it's still several steps down from e.g. A-ha. Not sure yer man has ever held a bass before.
The Mission. Wasn't this a hit ten years ago? Random. The Mission are an almost band. Robbed of a top 10 thanks to Gallup fixing it for Steve "Silk" Hurley. And pretty close to a no. 1 album. This is palpably remixed but it's a good one. Enhances the original rather than p*ssing all over it. I find it intriguing, sort of throws in a bit of Sitar Hero. Fusion goth? Can't help though but think of Fake Bono when seeing Hussey.
Breaker me up, chartobeyatch. Tag Team. Subtle. Alison Limerick with something generic. Terrorvision. "Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be the RHCP."
Back to the studio, some shouty shouting. It is apparently DJ Duke and it is 1,000,000,000% unmemorable landfill cliché indistinguishable one-note dance crap.
Um, what's happened? Screen goes black and we get a refugee from the "Magic Fly" video. Oh, it's Wet Wet Wet, no, this I DO NOT REMEMBER AT ALL. No wonder. It's basically The Blow Monkeys made duller.
Now, I am not sure why they are showing Pan's People, but they are basically hawt for any generation. Jackson 5 non-hit though. WTF? Why not put SOMEONE BRITISH rather than someone who does not need any repeat royalties whatsoever?
And 20+ years on they're back in the studio. Well, 3 of them.
Chakademus & Pliers are no. 1. Which one is which? Did I ever find out?
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 2, 2023 10:11:32 GMT 1
St Bernards v Dunfermline, Scottish Cup 1883-4. Culture Beat have the highest new entry. You know, sometimes I welcome the prospect of apocalypse. Is there anyone on the planet who would ever want to here this 2 Untalented-lite atrocity ever again?
Top 40 is with Bryan Adams, Sting, and Rod Stewart, four of whom I could happily go through life without hearing again.
Talking of which, K7.
Ce Ce Penis(heh)ton, looking like Facebook Mom at a school disco. Oh, this is DIRE. And again poor programme planning. Three out of four landfill dance? By now the casual music fan would not just have turned off, but hurled the television out of the window in the vague hope of braining the alleged producer.
The The. Should have been on further up the the show. I like the the idea of The The, but I'm never quite sure of the the execution (see also: Billy Bragg).
Breakers. Phil Collins. But seriously? Toni Braxton, ripping off "Another Lost Look". Def Leppard, and you know it's a bad, bad, bad show when this is the highlight thus far.
"The superb Eternal". I'll be the judge of that, Franklin. Well, sounds as if their creative well ran dry after one single. Why the hell are they dressed as commandos? If you're going to look street tuff you're going to have to sound more TLC than Testcard. (Note to self: The Testcards. Great indieband name.) Also there should be a camera solely on Kellé who is a foxxxxxx.
Bitty McLean, well, at least he's a Blue. Second best thing on the show, and even then it's a total throwback to 1968-era ska.
No. 1 is still the same but that was an evil show. Basically two minutes for anyone who is not into deep dance and even that was a re-recording of a 10 year old flop.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 3, 2023 9:22:21 GMT 1
Johnstone Wanderers v Greenock Abstainers, Scottish Cup 1891. And instantly we have an act on that seems like a major event rather than going through the bog-standard dance moment. Big stage, big sound, whirly wurlitzer, Inspiral Carpets. Not sure the title link. It's Dortie's last show, he's way better than Franklin.
Def Leppard, only Joe is in the studio, not sure what the logic of that is. Anyway, it's bog standard rawk, which proves how anaemic the show last week was.
Tori Amos. Bloody hell, are they alternating producers? Already this week we have had more variety than the whole of last week's. She's not Kate Bush but she's not bad.
Aaaaand it grinds to a halt with Haddaway & sh*te, who is doing a ballad, which is a mistake. Hottie on stage though. And this is baaaad programme planning. Should have been ahead of Amos. Because we segue into Toni Braxton and there's barely a distinction between the backing production. Emphasizes the lack of originality.
Dortie is demob happy, cooing over the "mighty fine ladies" in Joe's video. Good job as the song sucks donkey cock. "America's biggest rock & roll country superstar" is not a compliment. Depesh Mode with something vaguely industrial, sort of Dead Can Dance, and very good. Whitney & Bobby that might as well be Haddaway & Braxton, again very, very dull and very, very production line.
Phil Collins. And this programme got off to SUCH a good start.
D:Ream no. 1. They actually look delighted to be there. Makes a change.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 3, 2023 12:22:33 GMT 1
5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers v Nithsdale, Andrew Lawson Cup, 1889. (Yes, there WAS a match between senior sides that ended 27-1.) Explosive start from Therapy? who seem to have Guy Garvey as lead singer. This is a great way to start the show - adrenalin rising and enervating the audience. Voom.
Then in a total waste of having a breaker slot - yet again - we get two of last week's Breakers. At least the DM song is decent. Joe is awful. How does someone go into Woolies, look at the chart display, and think, yes, this is the one I'm dropping a few bob on?
Celine Dion with a totally needless and pointless cover. Basically the original with thunderclaps. Outright gouging of a congenitally moronic public.
Oh Jesus. Garth Brooks AGAIN. STOP PLAYING SONGS AFTER HAVING THEM AS BREAKERS IT IS PATRIARCHY GONE MAD
We have "two brilliant top 40 breakers". SO IF THEY ARE BRILLIANT WHY NOT HAVE THEM ON INSTEAD OF BROOKS AND JOE??? This is emphasized by one of them being the highest new entry, which apparently does not deserve a play. Wasn't that a better option in the charts slot than DM? The other is Thomas Dolby - ditto. Amazing to think he's only been on TOTP once and that was a decade before.
"Great to have this man back in 1994." Anticipation...and it's Richard Marx. Frankly I'd rather have Karl.
And his wheedling whingeing miserable weak sauce is washed away instantly by Zed Zed Top. I'm not a huge fan of the Septic Quo but bloody hell this dreadful episode needed this. Especially given the innovative camera work.
Again. YET AGAIN. A dire set of choices. Sometimes one can look at the chart and think it's like choosing between dog turd and cat turd. But this week had two breakers who definitely deserved a full play while others which got a full play definitely did not. Swap those around, drop the breaker slot, and give the songs room.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 3, 2023 19:42:43 GMT 1
3-2. Mayo brings the old guard back, seemingly being watched over by a teenage ghost. Rozalla to start with something very Chicago housey. The stupid spindly numbers are gone by the way for a proper fat Helvetica-style script.
Charlatans, seemingly being shot in a bar basement, which suits their music - and this show - quite well.
RHCP. Sorry, this is rubbish.
Wendy Moten. Mayo reckons this is a no. 1 in waiting. I beg to differ, it's this rubbish slow alleged NJS nonsense à la Braxton. Disney Channelcore.
Joe Roberts. Wendy Noten, but faster.
Three breakers. The Orb, with something that actually sounds like a pop single. Deep Forest, which sounds rather interesting. And Bassbumpers, which is crap. But we get literally eight seconds of each. A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME. Used to get more of each single when they did the top ten in videos.
Gin Blossoms. Generic.
Mariah Carey. Pointless cheap nasty bland cover version.
D:Ream still no. 1.
Another bad show. 1 decent song.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 4, 2023 11:20:22 GMT 1
CB code for signal good. Which is unfortunate given the start is D-Mob featuring Cathy Dennis with their barmy old cack. Pixie cut suits her though. Wearing mom's velour curtains...not so much. Goodier so relying on new presenters is as the dodo.
Elastica seemingly playing completely live. I would drink Donna's bathwater. Definite Blur influence but also getting hints of ska with the offbeat.
Then someone has decided that the thing to do with Aretha Franklin is to house her up. Oh dear. Well, it's for a film, so maybe I'm getting it out of context.
Cranberries, and a very startling first glimpse of Dolores because she's the spit & image of a girl at univ on whom I crushed EXTREMELY heavily. Even to the hat. (Just googled her, she became a headmistress, wonder what her pupils would think were I to tell her how she was at univ, heheheh.) The song? It might be the absolute single best thing released this decade. It's gorgeous beyond words. We're into Chapterhouse/Slowdive good here. The performance of standing stock still also emphasizes the music as music.
Carleen Anderson. Vaguely jazzfunk. Not my tasse de thé but it is a little different at least.
Brits nominees. This is 100% unnecessary. Just any excuse to play Dina Carroll again. They COULD have played PJ Harvey, of course. (Fun fact: "Metal Mickey" was inspired by Daisy Chainsaw's Katie-Jane Garside.)
Shara Nelson, who apparently has a great voice, although from memory her past TOTP live vocals were very disappointing. Well, she's better this time so let's put the older ones down to tech gremlins, although I do detect echo so perhaps she has a more suitable mike. Not a great song though and again we have dance overload on the show.
And now an exclusive from Suede. I'm not just saying this as an indie kid but this is the sort of exclusive TOTP should always have been showing. New acts that are at the cutting edge, not bloody Neil Sedaka or whoever else they have had recently. This is not as good as the visceral thrill of their earlier singles, they seem to be morphing into trying to do an epic, but I suppose that's the Next Step.
D:Ream still on top.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 4, 2023 19:11:20 GMT 1
Beith v 5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers, Scottish Cup 3rd round 1880-81. Stetienne. Rather Spanish-sounding. Not sure that Sarah really has the voice for this.
Cappella with red CND flag but dressed as urban guerrillas. It's crap. There's a woman on stage doing something which purports to be singing. She could do with lessons from Mrs Miller.
Crowded House accompany the 40 with a big new entry. Bill Tarmey at 40, heh. Crowded House are not really a fanbase by so is this an outside chart-topper candidate? It's the sort of thing that might get mainstream approval. It's also really good.
Dina Carroll, TO THE SURPRISE OF NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE f***ing WORLD, is on this week, even though she doesn't have a single out and her album isn't in the top ten. Bloody HELL. This is BLATANT payola. (it's actually pretty good BUT PRINCIPLE)
Sinead O'Connor. Undergrad vastariner in the TV room: "why has she got Inverness written on her tits?" A minute later, French student walks in: "why 'as she got Inverness written on 'er teets?" Song kind of meanders around Oirishness, all bodhran and diddlededee Eurovisionned up.
Three breakers. Urban Cookie Collective at 18 (so higher than Carroll or O'Connor), Sasha at 19 (so higher than Carroll or O'Connor), at Maltloaf at 16 (so higher than Carroll or O'Connor). At least we get a bit more of the breakers this week.
STRAIGHT INTO RAWK. Starts like "Holiday In The Sun". Mayo is the least convincing Wildhearts fan ever. Sounds like The Dickies doing REM. I lyk. Although the klown look has been done by The Adicts. And SAHB. Anyhoo.
That was enervating and exciting and thrilling and an adrenalin rush. Now we have 2 Untalented. With a song that is pretty much identical to "No Limits". God, how thick ARE the idiots buying this?
Same as those buying the no. 1, I assume.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 4, 2023 22:42:51 GMT 1
Twenty four two. Brookes so the revamp has been completely abandoned. Almost as an exclamation point we segue into 1985-fresh Level 42. I like the idea of Level 42 more than I like Level 42. Crowd bloody loves them though.
Ace Of Base. Accompanied by a pair of ankhs. "Under the pale moon where I see a lot of stars". Have they been writing with Des'rée? Neither of them can sing, still, but the brunette has improved. How are they going to cope with the key change? Answer: THEY DON'T. Blonde just TOTALLY ignores it.
Next up, Bryan, Rod & Sting, not the Rainbow trio, and it's still baaaaad.
Suede, see above.
Gabrielle, she still only has one note, and that one flat. Song is identical to "Dreams".
Breakers. Elton John & RuPaul. Does RuPaul have any identifiable talent? His voice is so smothered in FX to hide about eight million faults as to suggest nope. Soundgarden with the spoonman. Bizarre conceit but it is with a genuine chap who played the spoons in a park there, although he doesn't get a credit. And a remix of "Two Tribes" to go along with the seven hundred million billion trillion that Horn made to keep it at no. 1. Is anyone in the world demanding this? Not anyone with any intelligence, no.
Exclusive satellite link with Sting, because a) he's at no. 32 (woo) and b) he's not been on for 20 minutes. Seriously, this can f*** RIGHT off.
Another exclusive. Beck. I refer to what I said above about exclusives. Lot of hype re Beck but this song justifies it.
Crap no. 1 though.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Feb 9, 2023 0:58:23 GMT 1
When they played All For Love by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting last weekend it was climbing at 6, but it was 4 weeks since it peaked at 2. That’s a bit odd, isn’t it? I’m sure they never would have done that in the past.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 12, 2023 10:36:41 GMT 1
7-2-, um, 1980. Steve Wright to remind just how sclerotic and gerontocratic the BBC's recruitment policy for 'pop' music has been. 30 to 1 right off the bat in the rundown, accompanied by Jefferson Starship, with something that is truly awful, cock rock at its worst. Only act that does not ring any sort of bell there is Azymuth. We have a GREAT no.1 though.
The Tourists. This isn't in the charts. Nice harmony otherwise this is fairly ordinary, not unpleasant, would make a decent album filler.
Cliff. OK, so we're three songs in, and we have three different genres. Hints of Driver 67 mixed with "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". It's not typical Cliff, in that it's an interesting story being told. BA Robertson co-wrote, it does smack of his wordhoard.
Wright pervs over Legs & Co. Doesn't mention the artist at all. (The Whispers.) Sue is my favourite, I think. Patti seems slightly off. Disco sucks.
The Chords. A harder-edged Jam. Pretty good.
More New Wave from The Regents. I remember watching this act - probably not this show - at home, with my dad saying "who on earth would buy this crap?" The bit in the bridge where the girls go tra-la-la-ing got a "bloooooooooody HELL". And I was thinking, this is brilliant. Still do.
Queen. This is rubbish. Interesting video with some modernist animation but the song is Webbercore. Utter dirge.
The Selecter and Wright names 2-Tone. This is terrific as well. The highs in this show are VERY high. Decor note - band logos are pinned up in the background to each of the bands. The Selecter one is the actual spiky typeface the band used, not familiar enough re the others as to their authenticity.
Accadacca, in the studio, it seems, Bon Scott of course Not Dead Yet. Not my thing, they will get better.
The Specials on live video. Still amazing that this topped the charts, given it is not audience-pandering-softening of the ska edge at all. Helps being an EP so attracting album buyers. (I always LOVED an EP when I was a kid, there was something illicit about it.)
Playout is Joe Jackson. It's OK, again a different musical landscape.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 12, 2023 14:50:58 GMT 1
I wouldn't call Queen 'Save Me' utter dirge. I think it's one of their most underrated songs actually.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 17, 2023 12:02:39 GMT 1
All the threes. Mayo: "shall we start with no. 6?" Given that it is 2 Untalented, no thank you. Oh, they're going to do it anyway, because THE BBC HATES HUMANITY. Anita is dressed as a Newcastle United parachutist.
Elvis Costello. Doesn't get a graphic. It's quintessential Elvis.
Toni Braxton with the top 40. "300,000 copies." Making up for lost graphic time. This is crap.
EYC at 26. Why is this on my media?
Barbara "who?" Tucker at 23. It's Chicago-housey with a mad afro. It's wallpaper. This is a bad show so far.
Breakers. Moetley Cruee with a new vocalist but the same sound. Beck. Michael Bolton is back, oh joy. Shade thrown at the V***a, heh.
Mark E Smith on Top Of The Pops. Who would have thought? With the Inspirrells, reading the lyrics out from a scraggy paper. Something rather endearing of the Carpets going at it full bore while Smith wanders around like he's waiting to take them to the park. That was worth the admission.
Morrissey. Why did they arrange the programme like this? Space these things out. Have Moz on before the EYC or Babs so that everyone doesn't turn off thinking this is another dance benefit. Anyway, it's almost a ballad.
No. 1 is still crap.
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Post by o on Feb 17, 2023 14:03:13 GMT 1
Wow, Saturn 5 by Inspiral Carpets opening the show was several times better than anything that’s been on for weeks, just brilliant. Then after some dross from Def Lepard Tori Amos is on doing Cornflake Girl, absolutely spectacular. I don’t really remember TotP too well from this era, because I was 17 and there were better things to do than watch TV, but I remember the music very well and I reckon these shows are about to become essential viewing again. Please comment occasionally to balance out the rants...
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