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Post by SheriffFatman on Apr 20, 2024 7:53:40 GMT 1
I think Get Ready For This is excellent, I’ve always thought if 2 Unlimited never did anything else they’d be quite fondly remembered. It’s worth pointing out the UK single release didn’t have a rap in it though, and was better for it.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Apr 15, 2024 22:26:53 GMT 1
Just watching the 30th November 1995 edition. The video to Miss Sarajevo by The Passengers has the chart showing over it, and it gets to Thunder by East 17 at number 12 just as Bono sings “is there a time for East 17?”. That must have been deliberate, surely?
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Post by SheriffFatman on Apr 4, 2024 21:46:38 GMT 1
Rhianna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 30, 2024 1:03:47 GMT 1
Paul Evans - Hello, This Is Joanie (The Telephone Answering Machine Song)
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 21, 2024 0:46:56 GMT 1
I guess I’m on my own here, but I’ve always been very fond of Ice Ice Baby. The juxtaposition of how silly the lyrics are and how seriously he seems to expect you to take them is kind of comical, to the point where I wonder if it was somewhat deliberate. The prominent, unashamed sample was something completely new too, and created a very influential template for how to get hip hop into the charts.
I’m quite fond of Black Box’s version of Fantasy too, a straight cover but very warm production.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 21, 2024 0:22:45 GMT 1
I’m not sure someone getting a star on the pavement in Hollywood merits its own thread, sorry, but I just thought this quote was very funny: “I’d like to thank the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, who thought that I was finally ready to walk in the footsteps of Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, all of whom got stars before me for some f***ing reason” 😆 😆😆 Genuinely one of my all time musical heroes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68570993
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 19, 2024 15:07:51 GMT 1
I tend to do them as I'm watching them on the pooter, but it was way easier with the iplayer rather than faffing about with separate windows/tabs/whatever. Gotcha, that makes sense. I usually watch them on TV while doing the ironing on my lunch breaks. I always think of loads of stuff to write in this thread while watching them but then forget it all before I'm back at my laptop.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 19, 2024 12:56:45 GMT 1
Not sure how many more of these I will do, given the BBC has decided that people do not want to watch big-screen stuff on big-screens, so will only allow people to watch a visual medium on the tiniest screen possible. Apparently it is too expensive to keep the iplayer going, they'd rather throw millions to Lineker to spout clichés on Match of the Day as part of his entry-level antisemitism course. f***ing ****s. I don't follow - what's changing? Can you not access the iPlayer on TV? Still seems to be on Sky Q. I record them all anyway, I find it too hard to find the right ones if I just search for them.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 17, 2024 21:33:39 GMT 1
Can’t believe Living Next Door To Alice was on 4 times!
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 8, 2024 15:06:05 GMT 1
Jo Brand introducing Smokie featuring Roy Chubby Brown as "a 70s band and a fat bloke" was quite telling I guess, she didn't even want to say his name. I doubt she's a fan.
I don't mind Simon Mayo generally, but attempting to turn every link on an entire show into a poem was pretty awful. Was he bored?
Pulp were brilliant of course, plenty of pretty ropey stuff on at the moment though.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Mar 6, 2024 15:06:05 GMT 1
Just had a scroll through here, lots of brilliant choices... and Tiger Feet I did this a while ago and I think Stand By Me was number 1, I should revisit it sometime. I would include more recent ones than you have, after a lull in the 2010s I'm finding quite a lot of stuff in the charts which I like again.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Feb 18, 2024 11:50:33 GMT 1
I love watching Black Lace performances on Top of the Pops, they’re absolutely fascinating. Look into their eyes and you can see straight through the exterior party party facade to a kind of hollow desperation. They know that what they are doing is utterly humiliating, but also that the alternative is a life in Barnsley, either down the pit or on the dole. Credibility is a luxury their talents will never stretch to, but if they can just keep that conga line going a bit longer maybe the royalties will see them through a few more winters.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Feb 12, 2024 16:59:47 GMT 1
I wish Jarvis Cocker could present every week, I expect he's busy though. It's Roll With It versus Country House week, and The Charlatans are on with Just When You're Thinking Things Over, a song several times better than either of them. Funny old world. There seems to be a battle of the Who The f*** Is Alices brewing low down the charts, I have a feeling it will all be blowing up pretty soon. Michael Jackson singing a song written by R Kelly, that's only just made it past the BBC's post-Yew Tree censors on two counts. I'm not sure whether I should be annoyed that I had to sit through it or grateful that I got to watch the episode at all. I remember being very confused, disturbed even, when first seeing Boyzone do Father And Son on here, because I liked the song. I was incredibly glad to find out it was a cover, and that led to the discovery of lots of wonderful Cat Stevens stuff, so I guess I have something to be thankful to Ronan Keating for. Only that one thing though. This performance is actually very funny - has Keating done something with his hair? He looks about 15. He often looks deathly serious, but freed from the need to remember his dance moves he's sitting on that stool grinning away to a song where the serious look would be far more appropriate. The other 4 sit on their own stools doing nothing at all until they suddenly pick up the microphones at the same time and go "ooooh", that actually made me laugh out loud. What a strange way to make a living. Echobelly - Great Things is Great Fun. It really is starting to feel like anyone with a guitar can make the top 20, and that's wonderful. vastar iner Are you joining us in 1995? It would be brilliant if you did, but only if your blood pressure can take it.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Feb 2, 2024 11:22:51 GMT 1
1995 is back tonight 10/08/1995 Top of the Pops Lisa I'Anson presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 10 August 1995 and featuring Mary Kiani, Ash, TLC, Julian Cope, Tina Arena, Suggs, Madonna, Boyzone, Take That and Felix. 17/08/1995 Top of the Pops Wendy Lloyd presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 10 August 1995 and featuring Moist, The Original, Shiva, Deuce, Guru Feat. Chaka Khan, Björk, JX, Oasis, Take That, Blur.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 18, 2024 14:08:08 GMT 1
That's a fantastic top 10! It was an excellent year. Your list has made me question my approach to Erasure - I had always considered they were past their best by this point but maybe I need to cut them some slack.
Out of interest, was These Are The Days Of Our Lives by Queen not eligible due to its double a-side status, or is it just not one of your 100 favourite songs from the year?
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 17, 2024 15:56:35 GMT 1
Had a lunch break scroll through this thread and it's excellent, thank you! I was immediately drawn in by Jesus Loves You, I love that track and thought I was the only person who did! There's a few things here I have forgotten about, a few things I don't know and now want to look up, and loads that I agree with Although I instinctively think of the charts in 1991 being dominated by a few big hits which I don't like much, I recently realised that a huge amount of the music I really do like is from that year too, possibly more than any other year in fact. I was 14 at the time, I've always loved music but maybe that's just the age when you fall in love with it most.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 1, 2024 12:33:31 GMT 1
Illegal cover version of "Dragostea Din Tei" by Romanian singer Haiducii also was big hit in Europe. (# 1 in Austria and Sweden, # 2 in Germany and Switzerland, # 4 in Netherlands and Norway, # 7 in Denmark) How was it illegal?
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Post by SheriffFatman on Dec 28, 2023 18:30:49 GMT 1
I forgot to carry on suggesting things here! Glad Smith & Burrows made the cut though, it’s a wonderful track. Thanks to this thread I discovered Home For The Holidays by Tim Wheeler & Emmy The Great, that’s now a permanent fixture on my playlist. Thank you 🙂
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Post by SheriffFatman on Dec 23, 2023 23:32:50 GMT 1
I watched that episode a week or so ago and thought “my God, I think that was one which Vastariner might actually like!”
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Post by SheriffFatman on Dec 14, 2023 1:43:08 GMT 1
The selling point in the Jinny track is not the music or the singing, but that the person fronting it is an attractive woman wearing a bikini top. It's no wonder she cannot keep warm. But the woman fronting it is Carryl Varley, and not the singer of the song, which is why she is having to mime, and also why I would not have had it on the show. She's basically sold her body and soul for fakery. I think the epithet applied is appropriate. That’s a good argument, I think I agree. I’m glad I asked though, I’m not the thought police or anything but “talentless whore” feels like something that shouldn’t be thrown around at random.
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