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

That remake of 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' was unspeakably awful. Somehow I have no memory of it.

Happy Mondays vs Pulp episode of Bargain Hunt.

googled on seeing Candida's hands there and she was diagnosed with arthritis at sixteen. it hurt just looking at that pic.

that bargain hunt episode made the national news because someone related to the HM camp was caught bidding for their items.

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lmao. I really want to see this episode now.

just watched best of 1989 and it seems like more of the same tbh. the meatiest thing out of the tracks they played was transvision vamp (and then salvaged at the last minute by the stone roses)

AND SO IS MICHAEL FISH!

I don't recall Jacob Rees-Mogg being in U2...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Angel_harlem.jpg

'Buffalo Stance' still sounds great today, it doesn't sound dated at all.

it's looking good today

lol at Holly Johnson being referred to as "a star of the past" in 1989 when his last single (albeit with Frankie) was in 1987.

Not seen the latest one yet, still blinded from Milli Vanilli's meat and two veg effort last week.

Their video is shown this time, which somehow manages to show how terrible they are at miming and dancing, despite someone having edited it.

This week's Breakers, featuring Michael Ball, who isn't Unicorn on The Masked Singer, and also Sam Fox, who isn't Fox on The Masked Singer...

I want to open a chain of fast food restaurants that specialise in Eastern European DUMPLINGS!, called 'My Perogi-tive'.

DUMPLINGS!

wait WTF?

For those wondering what Mike Read was chuntering on about re: the B side to Def Leppard's 'Rocket', it's a cover of Englebert Humperdinck's 'Release Me' with their tour manager on vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yak7FDnHXCI

Racist twonk Morrissey demonstrated his inability to tuck in a shirt properly.

wait WTF?

This has long been embedded in the code of ILX. I have no idea why. Fortunately I never have any need to say DUMPLINGS!.

Well it's a first for me.

Anyone ever see that HK horror flick, DUMPLINGS!?

pretty sure it's a noize board thing? Dates back to like '09! Maybe later!
dump|ings

Dümplings

Dumings

That Morrissey "Playboys" TOTP line-up is basically all of the Smiths (including Craig Gannon) minus Johnny Marr. Didn't realise he was still pally with Rourke and Joyce in 1989.

That's the lineup on the single, too.

(also Interesting Drug)

Stephen Street was hoping for a call up for that totp, but didn't get one.

PWEI bring the 90s early. Actually from here on out the rest of 1989 sounds increasingly 90s. It's a real sea change from the previous year where everything seemed to be a bit stuck.

oof 2 singles I bought at the time on this show. Rocket which still stands up. Belfast Child, which really doesn't. Dreadful.

I was DJing weekly at this time, and buying heavily from the Top 40. I counted 21 purchases from last week’s second show.

I’d completely forgotten that Billie Ray Martin debuted with S’Xpress before Electribe 101.

Neneh Cherry revisits Raw Like Sushi

Hale & Pace, remember them? My commiserations. They were shit.
The Reynolds Girls - surprisingly it's four years between this and Simon Bates resigning from Radio 1.

lol Lenny Henry fucks up his link "I'd rather jack Profumo" or was that what he meant to say? At least Dusty got a laugh out of it. I miss this kind of thing from current TV - things like that wouldn't make the edit now.

(kids get off my lawn etc etc)

the stonk was a tune.

That might have been down to the backing musicians:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_and_Pace#%22The_Stonk%22
Brian May playing keyboards and guitar, (...) David Gilmour and Tony Iommi on guitar, with Neil Murray on bass guitar. Cozy Powell, Roger Taylor and Rowan Atkinson – appearing as his character Mr. Bean – performed on drums. Joe Griffiths and Mike Moran contributed on keyboard.[

Madonna fails to unseat Jason Donovan from #1 - I'd forgotten how totally obsessed the public were with him at the time. Also I think this is the first Guns'N'Roses appearance on TOTP despite them being huge for two years by this point.

catching up...

i guess if you're going to mime playing synth on totp then mime using a 'cost the same as a house at the time' fairlight.

> Also I think this is the first Guns'N'Roses appearance on TOTP

GnR was the playout video a couple of episodes ago too. lots of wasp and poison(?) recently too

> lol Lenny Henry fucks up his link "I'd rather jack Profumo" or was that what he meant to say?

iirc he said Supremo, corrected to Profumo by the other presenter. the comic relief thing was an entire show of comedians fluffing their lines or saying them off mic.

lol at reynolds girls dissing the olds and being followed by dusty springfield.

The main riff from Kon Kan's 'I Beg Your Pardon' seems to be the same as Spagna's 'Call Me', except played on a cheap Casio keyboard. Also this single seems to be equal parts Jive Bunny and The KLF, with some can't-be-arsed early 90s Eurodance vocals.

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Madonna snipped at the end there because of 'controversial' black Jesus? I know the Pepsi advert was pulled very last minute that same week (or the previous week).

It's been short every time I've seen it, like little more than a minute each time, but longer tonight, if anything. Oddly it does seem to be the black Jesus part, ie the end.

The The, tonight, but nothing like their best. Fuzzbox ditto. The Cult ditto.

Kon Kan sound to me like a cheap new order.

Can you keep a secret? Brother Beyond are shit. Oh wait that's not a secret.

xp I think we're entering the TOTP era where if you were #1 and couldn't/wouldn't appear in the studio, the producers wouldn't play more than 2/3 of your video the first week, then the merest suggestion of the video on subsequent weeks.

They were really big on the whole "Look!!! Bands and singers appearing in the studio!!! Still (mostly) miming, but in the studio!!!" at this point.

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The shit-arse Ritzy's nightclub I used to frequent as a student just two years after tonight's episode would play Simply Red's version of 'If You Don't Know Me' as the last record of the night.

INXS reminding me of how much I loathe 'band in the studio recording the song you're listening to' videos.

also live footage badly synced to the recorded version

I turned violently against TOTP at the end of 1988 and I think I only saw it twice* in 1989 so I'm seeing these for the first time and often don't seem to have any memory of the tracks.

*I have a vague memory of seeing the Beautiful South doing that "I love you from the bottom of my pencil case" song shortly after we moved house that summer and I'm pretty sure I saw Black Box doing 'Ride On Time' in the autumn, but that's it