We haven't reached the saturation point of the peak Swap Shop years, but Edmonds gets increasingly irritating from here. Try to imagine him and Chris Tarrant swapping presenting duties on their respective Saturday morning shows.
― serve soup without tasting it (snoball), Thursday, 15 September 2011 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
RubFlip being worked hard this week, relatively speaking. That tape of Elton and Kiki pretending to goof around in a studio must have broken.
― serve soup without tasting it (snoball), Thursday, 15 September 2011 18:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also it looks like Can aren't going to be shown on the short version......they followed Sarstedt.
dancer's miming but not knowing the words. TOTP seems to have a core dancing troupe too. There's something really depressing about ALL TOTP episodes in that the people there look like they desperately want to be somewhere else.
― owenf, Thursday, 15 September 2011 19:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
need to watch it again but at least last night's had a good churn of acts - barely anything that had been on before. that said, the cliff song and the sarsted song were both things that were instantly forgettable, weak follow-ons.
― koogs, Friday, 16 September 2011 07:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also it looks like Can aren't going to be shown on the short version...
Daft. It's their one and only appearance, isn't it?
I shall be there 23:40 tonight with my save DVD-r..
― Mark G, Friday, 16 September 2011 09:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm surprised that they didn't show Can - thought it would have been right up the alley of a lot of BBC4 viewers.
― serve soup without tasting it (snoball), Friday, 16 September 2011 09:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm guessing sometimes the one that gets edited out is the one that's easiest to do.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 September 2011 11:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haven't they already been on? I'm sure I made some comment about before on this thread about Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay being the only people on the show older (and pervier looking) than the DJs? 1976 seems to have been an esp. successful year for Scottish artists: Slik, SAHB, Sutherland Bros., Gallagher + Lyle.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Friday, 16 September 2011 12:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
... and Irmin, that shirt open to the waist, nagl in a man of your years
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Friday, 16 September 2011 12:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can were on that documentary that aired when they started this run, iirc. Maybe it was that.
― Skrillex Ferguson (useless chamber), Friday, 16 September 2011 12:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah, that'll be it
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Friday, 16 September 2011 12:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Surely not the first time they decided to can the can on TOTP.
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Friday, 16 September 2011 12:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
diamond among sequinned turds
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 17 September 2011 15:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Eddie and the Hot Rods are on this week.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah, punk looms
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes, filled with pink mohair...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Actually, I was doing a compilaDVD of "the road to punk/new wave", so far consisting of:
1. "The kid's a punk" Slik2. "I want more" Can3. "Get out of Denver" Eddie and the Hot Rods (to be)..
But then, after that, how long until the next one / how high to set the bar?
As low as Tonight's "The Drummer Man" I guess...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
then:
I would certainly ARGUE about Can being one of the most influential groups to feature on TOTP : very much a 'niche' "Johnny Foreigner has a go at prog rock" band. I well recall some of my "up themselves" friends at the time going mad about them. Totally inconsequential.
lol other boards...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Who said that, David Cameron?
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp to MG: Kursaal Flyers, maybe? At a pinch?
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Were they ever on TOTP? Ditto Doctors of Madness?
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
mmmm....
nrrgggg....
mmm...
No.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, they were on with "Little does she know that I know that she knows that I know she's two timing me"
I do remember them popping up on "Supersonic" with "I don't want to ride no freeway" though.
I'd put them next to Sailor, to be honest.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
One of them joined the Hot Rods in 77. Tenuous, I know...
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jonathan Richman?
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Don't remember him on until "New England", apart from the flip/legs&co dancing to "Egyptian Reggae"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Roadrunner" was a notable hit, was that ever represented on TOTP? Anyway punk was already up and running by the time the Modern Lovers started having hit singles.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, but The Clash never got acknowledged until "Bankrobber" I think. The pistols got "Pretty Vacant" and the Saints got on the same week..
That's well into 1977 though.
What's left for 1976?
(Rhetorical question, if you're a nospoilers dude..)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have great video of pans people dancing to RoadRunner taped from TOTP2 a few years ago. it'll be on youtubes. is them in a beachbuggy.
i say great but...
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
(that's legs and co, obv)
I think these are your next ones, all from the first half of 1977:
March 10 - Graham Parker & The Rumour - Hold Back The Night (arguably?)April 21 - Eddie & The Hot Rods - I Might Be LyingMay 19 - The Jam - In The CityMay 26 - The Stranglers - Go Buddy Go
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Tubes maybe? Did they ever get on TOTP though?
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah right, 'Roadrunner' was on in July 1977 apparently, the week after 'Pretty Vacant'.
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
GParker gets in, yes.
What it is, is that the 1976 compil is onto a 5inch DVD disc.
Might break out a larger size for 1977....
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the tubes are a no, until "Prime Time".
This is all from memory, btw.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
See, it was tempting to grab Thin Lizzy and the HM kids, but.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Almost mentioned Lizzy. HM Kids turned out to be awful and dated.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Didn't realise, until seeing Manfred Mann's Earthband, that Go Kart Mozart was from a line in "Blinded By the Light"
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 16:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
How about Legs & Co dancing to Be-Bop Deluxe's "Maid In Heaven" on Nov 25 1976?
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, by the way: we've only got five more weeks of Ruby Flipper, before Legs & Co take over...
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'll miss them when they're gone
― Mister Potato shares Manchester United’s commitment to (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
apparently, L&C did "Pretty Vacant" too, no doubt I'll see it and go "oh yeah, I remember now"...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 11:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, but The Clash never got acknowledged until "Bankrobber" I think.
They were invited a few times but always refused to go on it.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 11:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
There was a big plaver when the reformed Sex Pistols were on, but oddly enough, somewhat unheralded, the same show had Joe Strummer on for the first time, miming his chorus to "England's Irie" ...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 12:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyways, tonight's episode is dated 9th September 1976.
They just updated next week's schedule, and TOTP is the 23rd September.
Wonder what we've missed?
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
A strike?
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
No, there was an episode.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0730378/I think the video of ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' gets another play as well.
― serve soup without tasting it (snoball), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, looking at the 'lostshows' website, the show from the 16th is missing, but no list of participants.
As far as my 1977 compilation is concerned, they'd better get on and find the show from 8th Sept 1977, as that has the Boomtown rats And the Motors. "Dancing the night away" most likely. (I'm sure I've seen that clip recently)..
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess that site answers the question as to why the BBC started off from 1976 - practically everything before then is missing.
― serve soup without tasting it (snoball), Thursday, 22 September 2011 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink