Shoeless and carrying a walking stick with a bicycle bell on it? Fucking hell, Harpo could teach Lady gaga a thing or two.
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Friday, 22 April 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Sheer Elegance one of the most misnamed bands ever judging by what they were wearing, the uglyness of the Rubettes & their overcocky drummer, the utter WTFness of Harpo. mandatory viewing from now on!
― /人 ◕ ‿‿ ◕人\ (zappi), Friday, 22 April 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure Punk would never of happened if Sky+ would of been available in 1976...ended up fast forwarding most of last night's show...bring back Noosha Fox...become a little obsessed with s-s-single bed...
― sonnyboy, Friday, 22 April 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ same goes for watching it on iPlayer. I don't know if 'compellingly bad' is the term, or just 'bad'.
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Friday, 22 April 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
the uglyness of the Rubettes & their overcocky drummer
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx-aH0oBscw
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 April 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
definitely 'compellingly bad' for me. and Fox lady really reminded me of Alison Goldfrapp which is a Good Thing.
― /人 ◕ ‿‿ ◕人\ (zappi), Friday, 22 April 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Noosha F missing link between Clare Grogan and Goldfrapp. Love that record.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 22 April 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, been catching up via good old iplayer on the wii.
Old enough to remember these episodes quite clearly in some cases.
Sad that they haven't gone back far enough in time to have Sparks on.
Still, don't recall that Gilbert O'Sullivan song though I must have heard it then.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, last I heard, they are definitely doing this run for a year.
After that? Who knows...
He was long gone as commercial proposition by 1976. That song sounded like a demo, did artists have to re-record tracks? I know they had to re-record vocals, hence the ubiquity of the Ladybirds. But then other acts obviously just mimed to the record.
― None'll come and then a lot'll (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:37 (thirteen years ago) link
They did 'have' to.
A lot of them switched the tapes post-session, apparently.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
ooooooo-oooooooooooooh Vienna it's Slik
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
It's Midge Uuuurrrr...
― sonnyboy, Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
And Paul knickerless
― sonnyboy, Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesus Christ, superstar?
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
DLT looks like Badly Drawn Boy.
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
This is sooooo much better than last weeks....
― sonnyboy, Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Only one novelty act so far.
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Shit Brotherhood Of Man are still number one...
― sonnyboy, Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
They were there for 6 weeks.
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
The guy without the 'tasche wants to die.
― grill 'em bake 'em fry 'em burn 'em (snoball), Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I still fucking hate the last line of that song...not for the paedo connotations...just cos i hate it...
― sonnyboy, Thursday, 28 April 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
So, there isn't a TOTP this week, but there is a "Primal Scream" themed evening coming up on Friday.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
AAAAAAAAAAARGH
― lloyd banks knew my father (history mayne), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
No, the band, not the Janov therapy.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
You could kind of see why Midge Ure ended up in Ultravox, I mean "Requiem", the title sounds an like Ultravox song. Slik were a pretty cool looking band by 1976 standards.
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 May 2011 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, it was very Ultravox, for sure.
I got tickets to see them live in 1978, Top Rank, Reading, thanks to being at the Radio210 offices at the right time: The whole band were there, I met them all, and got the signed piccies, and for some reason that escapes me two free tickets and a bunch of discount vouchers. It wasn't full to say the least, and the support band, "Screemer", were perfectly competent early seventies pophairies that would lose their career path in the wake of punk...
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 May 2011 10:55 (thirteen years ago) link
That 1978 should be (Nov) 1976 (oops), timings at that point in history are crucial.
― Mark G, Thursday, 5 May 2011 10:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Mud go disco, urgh...
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Thursday, 12 May 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't the guitarist write 'Can't get you out my head' by Kylie...sounds a bit like it...
― sonnyboy, Thursday, 12 May 2011 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Frankie Valli's tired performance there. He really got a boost from appearing in Grease in '78, didn't he.
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Thursday, 12 May 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Sometimes I think Elvis died just to avoid crappy cover versions like this.
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Thursday, 12 May 2011 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
DEVIL WOMAN!!!http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LP_YP0I7zZY/SoFziAfbpiI/AAAAAAAAC-c/RoLUJLbssFU/s200/RikMayall.png
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Thursday, 12 May 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
the shadows have let themselves go...
― koogs, Thursday, 12 May 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Mud go disco
Surreal
― Que sera sera... (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 12 May 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Even by 1976 standards that was one ugly backing band.
Was there anything good in this episode? Apart from Cliff?
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Friday, 13 May 2011 08:16 (thirteen years ago) link
The iplayer only has the 30 min version!
― Mark G, Friday, 13 May 2011 08:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Blimey, Robin Sarstedt, what was that all about? Sutherland Brothers/Quiver was quite nice, not enough guys with combovers in the charts these days.
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Friday, 13 May 2011 08:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Guessing Annie Lennox has superseded the Sutherland Brothers as Aberdeenshire's biggest chart act though
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Friday, 13 May 2011 08:26 (thirteen years ago) link
The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver were pretty great, a lot of quality 70s country rock/AOR tunes. Never heard the Suths on their own tho.
― wanking on the moon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 May 2011 08:33 (thirteen years ago) link
odd that they chopped the Stones out of the longer version.
Robin Sarstedt song was familiar. probably from Jane Russell in The Las Vegas Story.
i think claire grogan has heard that fox single.
― koogs, Friday, 13 May 2011 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
The Sutherlan Brothers did the original of "Sailing", and I knew it before Rods version thanks to a k-tel compilation.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 May 2011 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Well....'punk had to happen' is a tired old theme, but IF it was ever true then this weeks shows why. Robin Sarstedt - just die you seedy bastard. Sutherland Brothers and Quiver - a soundtrack for cruisin' down the Gateshead bypass in your Hillman Avenger. The singer (Gavin Sutherland?) had great hair though. Frankie Valli, who I maintain it is impossible to dislike looked like he hadn't slept for a year. Manilow - unspeakably awful, and why did he have the piano stool so high? He could barely reach the keys. JJ Barrie - nothing can really describe the horror of this record, although he looked like a decent enough bloke. The Mud record was utterly bizarre - I have no memory of this at all. Even though it was a bit of a disco death-rattle from the bubble-glam stalwarts, they at least seemed enthusistic about it. And bonus marks go to Dave Mount for doing the 'let's arse about on the telly' walk around his drum-kit. What else was there? Ruby Flipper - what did Pan's People do to deserve this fate? Only bright spot was Cliff - crackin' song that with a lovely electric piano sound. The band were hod-carriers even by TOTP session-men standards. They made Sutherland Brothers and Quiver look like arch sex gods in comparison. Oh and of course Abba. But they faded it in verse 2 - bastards. A dire week but at least they didn't show Hank Mizell or John Miles. And how bored was Noel throughout?
Back in 76, I was still watching TOTP as a 14yr old, along with OGWT, but I don't think I was listening to anything much from the charts. I had some Pink Floyd albums, I think I'd just discovered the Syd era LPs. I had a couple of Status Quo albums (Piledriver, Hello) some Bowie and T-Rex, Story of The Who, some K-Tel comps. Within a year I'd be spending my pocket money on scratchy singles in home-made sleeves made by bands barely older than myself from Belfast, Manchester, Deptford and Ladbroke Grove. Happy days, and yeah they did HAVE to happen.
― Dr.C, Friday, 13 May 2011 08:52 (thirteen years ago) link
(Imagine a bootmix of "Give peace a chance" with the lyrics of "Sailing" over the top of it)
― Mark G, Friday, 13 May 2011 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost obviously, blimey thread's suddenly busy.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 May 2011 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Two of SB and Quiver played with Pink Floyd - Tim Renwick and Willie Wilson.
― Dr.C, Friday, 13 May 2011 08:56 (thirteen years ago) link
And Bruce Thomas was in Quiver!! But not in SB&Q, I think.
Tim Renwick? Something to do with Bowie too?
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Friday, 13 May 2011 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Muso note - Cliff's bass player was playing an interesting Burns Bison bass. And he looked like a bison too. A bespectacled bison.
― Dr.C, Friday, 13 May 2011 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost - yes, Space Oddity-era IIRC
― Dr.C, Friday, 13 May 2011 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
No. The one that everybody knows..
― Mark G, Saturday, 6 April 2024 14:19 (one month ago) link
A&D's strong but now invisible hits career is a subject I love to bring up (and have already during the TOTP runs). The pair of them are obviously more than eager to pretend there was nothing more than LGRTR.
My fav Ant & Dec single is Shout - classic boyband maturity move that. Look forward to when we get to it.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 6 April 2024 14:45 (one month ago) link
I have that budget comp (Takeaway). The best one (if more A&D = best) was the 'essential collection' double set that came later that I definitely remember Tesco stocking. Still no We're on the Ball though.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 6 April 2024 14:48 (one month ago) link
lol Takeaway isn't even in the list of five compilation albums on Wikipedia. And it doesn't have Rhumble - https://www.discogs.com/release/7661579-Ant-Dec-AKA-PJ-Duncan-Takeaway-The-Best-Of-Ant-Dec
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 6 April 2024 15:22 (one month ago) link
Yep, that's the one
― Mark G, Saturday, 6 April 2024 22:08 (one month ago) link
Gary Barlow looks so cross all the time he's singing.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:13 (three weeks ago) link
Barlow (thinks): I can't chuffing BELIEVE that I'm having to sit at THIS PIANO singing THIS RUDDY SONG *fumes*
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:14 (three weeks ago) link
Compare to how Mark Owen always looks like he's having a great time.
Oh here's Damon - at least the crowd here are singing along.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 19 April 2024 18:37 (three weeks ago) link
Weller looking a lot like mr Spock there
― koogs, Friday, 26 April 2024 20:23 (two weeks ago) link
odd set tonight. and the way the style council were set up seemed odd too, all on top of each other.
i don't remember this episode at all
― koogs, Friday, 26 April 2024 20:26 (two weeks ago) link
um, was i watching a previous recording rather than one from tonight? they aren't following the published schedule because of the snooker and the epg won't let me go backwards and see.
― koogs, Friday, 26 April 2024 20:34 (two weeks ago) link
Last night the schedule was snooker from 7pm until 10pm, then an episode from 1984 followed by one from 1980.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 27 April 2024 11:15 (two weeks ago) link
yeah, the one i watched was this from 83 which is in the recent list on iPlayer but must've been recorded before last night (the pvr bundles things of the same name together so it got bumped to top of the new recordings list along with the new one, which turned out to be 30 mins of snooker)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08fsfy0/top-of-the-pops-31031983?seriesId=unsliced
― koogs, Saturday, 27 April 2024 11:28 (two weeks ago) link
I daresay iPlayer will be fine, but if you were wanting to see "NY at the BBC" and didn't set yr TiVo to record Christine and the Queens, then... yr out of luck.
― Mark G, Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:39 (two weeks ago) link
It wouldn't be TOTP if you didn't occasionally miss it because of the snooker.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:40 (two weeks ago) link
i got a 2 o'clock showing of totp 1980 and 1984 which both turned out to be david byrne at the union chapel.
iplayer will be fine, not least because these were pre-delivered - it doesn't record off air unless the programme's live. sometimes this can be missing bits if the schedule's changed but it's generally tidied up on the next working day. (unless it's the snowboarding on the red button which was royally fucked up but there were whole days cancelled and rearranged by the organisers so it's hardly surprising)
1984 had the bunnymen, Will with his teardrop vox(?) 12 string.
1980 was the cure again and bad manners again.
― koogs, Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:59 (two weeks ago) link
(my facebook history for friday was me railing against the snooker exactly two years previously, for similar reasons)
― koogs, Saturday, 27 April 2024 15:00 (two weeks ago) link
The post-Diana week must be coming up soon? Was it even on that week? Many BBC things weren't.
― piscesx, Saturday, 27 April 2024 15:20 (two weeks ago) link
Normal service is resumed next Friday with two consecutive episodes from January 1996 (plus episodes from 1987 and 1976). Diana's death wasn't until August 1997. So we're quite a way off.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 27 April 2024 16:38 (two weeks ago) link