I mean the 95 ones are more interesting
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 8 September 2023 08:55 (seven months ago) link
Bizarre staging decision to have The Human League stand in a line like that.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 15 September 2023 18:20 (seven months ago) link
Green Day - possibly the worst debut TOTP appearance ever? The sound quality is so bad, the soundtrack to you walking away through the crowd to go to the bar for another beer.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 15 September 2023 18:50 (seven months ago) link
This totally unnecessary cover of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' is like being held hostage on a cruise ship.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 15 September 2023 18:56 (seven months ago) link
LEAVE DAME NICKI ALONE 👑
― mike t-diva, Friday, 15 September 2023 19:33 (seven months ago) link
Elton John with the video shoot that he stormed out of in 'Tantrums and Tiaras'.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 22 September 2023 18:46 (seven months ago) link
xps Green Day debuted in Oct or Nov 94 with Welcome to Paradise
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 22 September 2023 19:24 (seven months ago) link
Perfecto Allstarz was an honest highlight tonight, I forgot how much I love hearing it. No it's not better than the original but it has favela drums and dancing skeletons
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 22 September 2023 19:27 (seven months ago) link
I’m a a week behind, but this 19/1/95 show is almost total wall-to-wall bangers.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 23 September 2023 10:16 (seven months ago) link
Gah, spoke to soon - needed to skip the number one!
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 23 September 2023 10:17 (seven months ago) link
It's easy to criticise that particular song, but it's at least interesting to think about. For example, if it hadn't been at number one I suspect you would have been married a long time ago.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 23 September 2023 10:20 (seven months ago) link
It really does make you think now you put it that way :D
I’m now on the most recent show, and in retrospect Alex Party is a top-tier banger. I’ve just read that the production duo were also in Livin' Joy so they had form.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 23 September 2023 13:00 (seven months ago) link
One of 95's many great no. 2s
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 23 September 2023 13:09 (seven months ago) link
catching up with the last four episodes and this is getting into serious nostalgia for me - this is the sound of Now 30 aka my first compilation, also the point where I started taping songs off the radio.
- that Deuce song is an absolute banger, they might have been a manufactured pop band but if you'd dressed it up differently it could have passed for something Paul Oakenfold would have done in his peak, and what a strange voice that lead singer has for a pop band. The other girl went on to be a very acclaimed make-up artist and was married to Ant until his life fell apart.
- DAME NICKI. I love that she's made a career last thirty years out of turning up, singing a donked-up version of someone else's song and looking like the divorce hasn't gone too well - a real gay icon.
- I would be very interested to find out if "Geordie In Wonderland" sold anything outside of five miles of Newcastle, what a dreadful song.
- The Human League did "Tell Me When" on loads of shows in that weird one-line staging.There's this video of them doing it on Live & Kicking, which even then must have felt odd. "Dad, why is your favourite band from old times on my Saturday morning kids show?"
- "Hoochie Booty" seems so out of order now. Some pre-teens singing about bums.
- MN8 feel just a little too late and the performances are uncomfortably sexual for a British boyband in way that Americans could have pulled off differently, but the song has two choruses and I'm never sad to hear it.
- Elastica were so fucking cool, both then and now.
- that Vanessa Mae version is not something I can remember from the time and when we were watching it this weekend both me and my boyfriend's eyes nearly fell out our heads at its absurdity.
- fun fact! One of the travesti ballerinas in that Annie Lennox live ("live") performance is also in the video for Alex Party's "Don't Give Me Your Life" - he went on to play a janitor in Benidorm. Why does my mind recognise these people and remember these things? That Alex Party song is a banger. Lennox' version of "No More I Love Yous" is what I would hear at my own torture camp, such a smug and irritating delivery.
- Kylie looked PHENOMENAL in that red PVC dress.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 25 September 2023 10:18 (seven months ago) link
weren't elastica on recently with a different lineup or did i imagine that? male guitar and bass, later replaced by annie and donna.
― koogs, Monday, 25 September 2023 10:58 (seven months ago) link
um, youtube suggests i am wrong. must be thinking of another band.
― koogs, Monday, 25 September 2023 11:02 (seven months ago) link
I was surprised how much I liked the MN8 song now, at the time I don’t think I thought about it at all. You are right that it felt like something from a few years perviously, however what I also got from it was that it was like a rougher proto verison of the sounds that someone Backstreet Boys or N-Sync were using in a few years.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 25 September 2023 11:03 (seven months ago) link
I spent years thinking MN8 were American and that their song was a hit in the US. On Now 31 it appears next to Montell Jordan's This Is How We Do It, which feels correct.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 25 September 2023 19:09 (seven months ago) link
It's actually those two songs that always come to my mind when people talk about what a break from the norm e.g. Pony would be a year later.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 25 September 2023 19:10 (seven months ago) link
oh it's the episode where Keith Allen presented the show and was super annoying...
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 29 September 2023 18:31 (seven months ago) link
Worst recent episode without a doubt.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 30 September 2023 09:10 (seven months ago) link
First episode last night was fine, though Pete from D:Ream was one of the worst presenters they've ever had, and Damon gurning at the back of Elastica was v annoying. Only skipped one track (Bon Jovi) so was OK music-wiseSecond show was awful in terms of presenting and music, skipped 60% of it, Celine Dion genuinely the best thing on, fuck off Keith Allen.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 30 September 2023 09:19 (seven months ago) link
The Bon Jovi song at least didn't have JBJ acting like a preening cock but it's lyrics suffer from being a half thought out title stretched out to a song. It's the other new song on Bon Jovi's greatest hits album 'Cross Road', the other new song being 'Always'. I imagine that the hidden track at the end of that album is the sound of a barrel being scrapped.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 30 September 2023 09:33 (seven months ago) link
tbh I will skip any bon jovi of any era
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 30 September 2023 09:56 (seven months ago) link
Both episodes were good (first more so, true)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 30 September 2023 13:08 (seven months ago) link
I used Bon Jovi as an excuse to leave the house and find my cat
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 30 September 2023 13:09 (seven months ago) link
the worst boo radleys
legs and co are now all showing me their knickers. something for the dads...
― koogs, Saturday, 7 October 2023 12:44 (six months ago) link
I’d forgotten the Peter Powell era tweaks to the TOTP format, with tour date information and an interview with Paul Jones featuring between the acts.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 7 October 2023 13:09 (six months ago) link
Really enjoyed both 95 episodes overall, especially the first
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 7 October 2023 13:23 (six months ago) link
Not sure why Oakey brought his microwave though.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 7 October 2023 20:24 (six months ago) link
here comes the dinner, man
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 8 October 2023 00:17 (six months ago) link
He was tired of his meals being boiled.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 8 October 2023 15:15 (six months ago) link
Well, he's only human
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Sunday, 8 October 2023 20:26 (six months ago) link
He was after some lunch action
― kiwi side-eye specialist (Matt #2), Sunday, 8 October 2023 22:26 (six months ago) link
Jim Kerr trying to out-twunt Bono here but it's not working.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 13 October 2023 18:23 (six months ago) link
Holy crap that recap of Song For Europe candidates...
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 13 October 2023 18:30 (six months ago) link
First episode not great, but second is making amends. U Sure Do builds such a great pop dance tune out of that Donna Allen sample.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 14 October 2023 07:48 (six months ago) link
so much screaming in the 95 shows, is that new?
original(?) of the first spiritualized single later.
― koogs, Friday, 27 October 2023 21:11 (six months ago) link
ha, not even close
― koogs, Friday, 27 October 2023 21:13 (six months ago) link
A lot of great stuff tonight. And that's probably the most I've enjoyed Some Might Say in years - it really cut through. Poor old Tony cracking a smile.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 27 October 2023 21:48 (six months ago) link
I guess he already knew Noel was going to sack him a few days later.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 28 October 2023 13:12 (six months ago) link
I'm a bit behind - that Keith Allen turn was truly repugnant.
I do wonder if a young Sacha Baron-Cohen was watching?
― chap, Saturday, 28 October 2023 14:18 (six months ago) link
Nightcrawlers trying to reproduce the magic of the MK mix of ‘Push The Feeling On’ with the follow up single but missing the point completely
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Friday, 10 November 2023 20:34 (five months ago) link
pj harvey looks a lot like naboo
― koogs, Friday, 1 December 2023 20:27 (five months ago) link
What is naboo?
― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 2 December 2023 00:29 (five months ago) link
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music/clubs-boosh-fans-party-away-129255
― koogs, Saturday, 2 December 2023 04:17 (five months ago) link
Fascinating! No recollection of this whatsoever
https://x.com/archivetvmus71/status/1731614276559704378?s=46&t=bJOqpCuQneT7ju08y55VSA
― piscesx, Monday, 4 December 2023 10:06 (four months ago) link
Two acts in and I'm more or less certain the most exciting thing about this week's first episode is that it's hosted by Dale Winton.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 8 December 2023 19:05 (four months ago) link
but the first act was Jinny. Keep Warm what a record.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 9 December 2023 00:07 (four months ago) link
Why is Craig Mclachlan cosplaying as Hard Gay?
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 15 December 2023 19:08 (four months ago) link