I love how this episode reached it's absolute nadir at the very end, and this episode had 'The Riddle' being played throughout for some weird reason.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 10 November 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
You know how Goebells really really liked schlager music, and made sure that the German record industry during WW2 basically only produced schlager? So that that seemingly inoffensive light music was actually really political from then on? Well I've always thought that Black Lace are the kind of act that Goebells would have liked.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
There used to be more. They were a Butlins band, their first single was "Bohemian Rhapsody", they may have been the first band I saw live..
― Mark G, Friday, 10 November 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
xxp I also like how their whole attitude to 'Do They Know It's Christmas?" at this point is "eh, it's just another charity record". They had no idea how big it would be.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
Is this next one a repeat of Thursday's ep? Nick Heyward again... this sorta slap bass-tastic "funky" track really doesn't suit him at all... he really left Haircut 100 for this!?
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
xxp I also like how their whole attitude to 'Do They Know It's Christmas?" at this point is "eh, it's just another charity record". They had no idea how big it would be.― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Friday, November 10, 2017 9:02 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Friday, November 10, 2017 9:02 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, absolutely! We're into the whole build-up to Live Aid period now essentially... it's going to be interesting following this from now into the post-Live Aid period.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
Yeah, it's a repeat of Thursday's episode... still gonna watch it anyway!
this sorta slap bass-tastic "funky" track really doesn't suit him at all...
... with wanky whammy-barred 80s Guitar Mag solo.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
Ha, yeah! It sounds like it was written to be a hit, but instead of writing a decent song they instead came up with a list of things that were popular in the mid '80s and smashed 'em together and hoped that'd do!
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
Listening to Peel's and Vance's voices doing the chart rundown is making me seriously miss 'em both. Peel for all the obvious reasons, but I always enjoyed Vance enthusiastically talking about the joys of rrrrrock in that inimitable voice of his.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 10 November 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
It's funny, "Warning Sign" was the first Nick record I liked/ bought.
― Mark G, Saturday, 11 November 2017 00:31 (six years ago) link
Black Lace do remind me of schlager. Every part of continental Europe has an equivalent.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
Hang the fuck on, did Roy Wood re-record this!?
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 17 November 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
Wikipedia says yes, because they wanted to re-release it but couldn't find the original tapes.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Friday, 17 November 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
Heh! I thought there was something off about that version... I prefer the original, naturally.
I keep forgetting how well arranged 'We All Stand Together' is for a song aimed at children, it's McCartney taking 'Yellow Submarine' to an extreme...
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 17 November 2017 20:40 (six years ago) link
Ooh, I didn't know Bronski Beat did a TOTP performance of this... one of their lesser known hits, but I've always liked this one.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 17 November 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
There's lots of Style Council songs I like... this isn't one of 'em!
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 17 November 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
OH GOD, NOT THIS! FUCK OFF!
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 17 November 2017 20:47 (six years ago) link
Okay, so now we can wash away the memories of Foreigner with... *sighs* ... Thompson Twins.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 17 November 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
TOTP Christmas 1984 drinking game: down a shot every time someone with a mullet appears.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Friday, 15 December 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
Hahahaha! I bet it absolutely crushed Simon Le Bon's soul at the time to have to introduce Paul Young.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
It's bizarre how normal Frankie Goes to Hollywood look in comparison to some of the mega mulleted folks like Le Bon and Young...
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
Also LOL at Weller miming Bono's line on 'Do They Know It's Christmas?'
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Friday, 15 December 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
Russ Abbott's 'Atmosphere':
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 19 January 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
(what is with the 1981 repeats btw?)
― koogs, Friday, 19 January 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
Don't know. I thought they were trying to get through the episodes quicker, then I read the episode dates and realised they were repeats. Of repeats.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 19 January 2018 21:36 (six years ago) link
'81 > '85 fwiw
― koogs, Saturday, 20 January 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link
Big Sound Authority ... these guys are going to be big, apparently!
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
Ksssssss
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
Art of Noise, featuring the "Hey!" sound that ends up in Prodigy's 'Firestarter'.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
Oddly I thought this Colourfield track was from later in the 80s.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
Maybe because the lyrics, arrangement, and general performance pre-empt The Beautiful South.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
We're barely into 1985 and already I'm wondering what the fuck happened!
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
lol King!
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
Featuring future MTV VJ Paul King!
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
"We're going to see Foreigner now"
Hmm yeah, no we're fucking not, mate!
*grabs remote*
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
ABBA mk 2 - lol at how the video really tries hard to minimise the height difference between Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
x-post:
Ha yeah, I remember seeing an interview Paul King did with Richey from the Manics, and Richey found some way of getting a dig in at him about it.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
xxp 10 year old snoball thought this Foreigner track was a bit depressing but I think of it as a bunch of self pitying posturing toss.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 25 January 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
Paul King still had that fuck-awful mullet even in the early 90s.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 25 January 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
Still, be did revive DMs as a fashion item.
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 January 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
Get your boots on!
― dorsalstop, Thursday, 25 January 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
> lol King!
i remember a friend was excitedly planning to go see King play in gloucestershire somewhere but they cancelled and did totp instead.
― koogs, Thursday, 25 January 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
Just realised that Paul King looks like one of my co-workers in a bad mullet wig.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 26 January 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
Phil Collins nailing the 'Del Boy from Only Fools & Horses pretending to be a yuppie' look.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 26 January 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen is "America's answer to Russ Abbott" and Prince is "another American". Who knew?
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 27 January 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
Maybe it's because of the repetition of the performances on endless clip shows but parts of tonight's episode feel like they happened last month.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
Shaky with a song that sounds like something mid 80s Rod would have passed on for being too shit.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
It's not on here yet!
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
Straight out of the gate with some Glenn Frey yuppie music this episode..
...I'd never seen the video to 'Be Near Me' by ABC before... that song should have been fucking huge.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link