The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread.

"head and shoulders above everything else" pfft Primal Scream do not have T U R T L E power

Haha. After 4 weeks that also got a skip.

Primal Scream not head and shoulders above KLF or Hardcore Uproar

Imagine writing a song which is vastly inferior to a very famous song called Come Together, and naming it Come Together. This has happened several times.

Now or something is my best friend etc.

Jive Bunny and Timmy Mallett on the same week. At least there's Dee-lite.

Is there going to be one or two episodes this week?

(my pvr doesn't like the 7pm cbeebies to bbc4 switchover, i often get audio only, so it'll be interesting to see if these recorded)

yeah, no dice on the first episode, but the second one taped.

betty boo rhyming 'window' with 'handle'

dancers doing all the work on itsy bitsy.

I dunno, say what you want about Mallett, he is giving being obnoxious some real welly as far as I can tell.

catching up on the first of this week's

nice to see Phil's hair has grown back on that one side, but i hope he didn't pay full price for that jacket. least cool I've ever seen the human League.

poor old janet kay

never liked that swanee whistle noise in the dee lite song but enjoyed seeing the video again

I only recently realised that's Bootsy Fucking Collins.

I mean I had no idea who he was in 1990.

Also the male Dee-Lite members' styles are very 2010s hipster.

<q>poor old janet kay</q>

Seconded, having to sing backing to a much worse version of your own song, mind blowing.

There have been times in my life when I’ve heard Groove is in the Heart too much, but what a perfect pop song.

yeah, i only hope it was lucrative for her.

i had a listen to other deee-lite songs on youtube. not a glimmer.

I've got a lot of time for Good Beat, but if you wanted a similar song to Groove you're out of luck, this is more of a deep house track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP55r5CDjI8

definitely worth searching through Towa Tei's back catalogue though, whether solo or his collabs like the supergroup Metafive (with Cornelius, Yukihiro Takahashi and others). some great stuff in there.

Her from Deee-Lite has fallen deep into the conspiracy hole in recent years :(

Oh no really? That hippy/free-your-mind thing again..

Story of '79 yesterday, featuring one Janet Kay. IT'S ALL CONNECTED

(18 at a time, singing live in front of an audience for the first time)

trevor nelson talking about the house party scene as seen in the Lover's Rock thing.

The disconnect between that live Steve Miller Band performance and the audience's reaction. Also Faith No More making me hate them even more by pretending to be the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

I'm fascinated by Gary Davies' ability to say almost anything without any emotion, just this professional 'enthusiasm' - "one of the most happening dance acts around at the moment"

why was the steve miller band in the charts even? advert? film? and why the live versions of all things?

Levi's advert

& not the live version, guess they couldn't source a better clip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAHNihB_kzY

It upsets me a bit when people compare FNM unfavourably to RHCP (to be fair Epic is by far their most Chillis-ish song).

why was the steve miller band in the charts even? advert? film? and why the live versions of all things?

― koogs, Friday, 26 February 2021 21:32 (yesterday)

Levi's advert

― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 February 2021 21:38 (yesterday)

Followed by The Clash 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go?' and T-Rex '20th Century Boy', I think.

Then Stiltskin, Babylon Zoo, Mr Oizo.

xxp it's more the video than the song really.

TS: Mike Patton being a dick as a way of lampooning the ridiculousness of the rock music business VS Anthony Kiedis being a dick because he's a dick (which Patton would have plenty of direct experience of particularly around the time of Mr. Bungle's 'California' which he'd then respond to by... being a dick as a way of lampooning the ridiculousness of Anthony Kiedis)

There's a bit in that Steve Miller concert footage where a woman shows up to offer him a joint and he refuses?

Probably wasn't midnight yet.

Nice to see KLF and Bassomatic on this week's edition. Wasn't it notoriously (and dubiously) the case that Steve Miller Band and Deee-Lite had sold exactly the same number of copies that week (in the shop panel sample, not literally nationwide), so SMB got the #1 due to the greater week-on-week increase?

Yep, that was the week.

It's ILXs favourite covidiot Ian Brown.

In 1990 I had a double breasted suit that looked like the one Nicky Campbell is wearing on tonight's first episode. It's a style that simultaneously requires the wearer to be thin (I was since I was a skinny tall 16 year old) but also manages to make the wearer look too thin.

I started technical college in September 1990 and The Farm's 'Groovy Train' was played a lot on the jukebox in the canteen.

aah, little timmy charlatan

and why the live versions of all things?

It's a Steve Miller Band gig from Detroit in 1983. No idea why since there was a promo film made for the song when it originally came out.

aah, little marky gardiner

Really nice to see Taste out all the way to the end and not truncated with the end of credits. That was a strong show, Status Quo doing a Jive Bunny turn aside.

> Status Quo doing a Jive Bunny turn aside

i was going to post exactly the same thing

(the ride video is actually quite a bit longer, they cut a lot of the intro)

When Maria McKee was on a couple of episodes ago I could imagine my Dad saying "well, at least she can sing"; but Quo really was there for the parents. Possibly grandparents.

I thought The Cult of Snap was surprisingly good, despite having no memory of it. An unusually hard, multilayered beat for a Eurodance sort of thing.

"So Hard" is one of my favourite PSB singles.