<blush emoji> and thank you for your kind words!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
Due to my family's monopolisation of the TV on Christmas Day 1989, I didn't get to see this episode at the time, but it's like someone's got their finger on the fast forward button as there's 20 seconds of one song, 30 seconds of another and then OH IT'S JUNE!!!
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 24 July 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
Confession: having never seen Rob 'n' Raz & Leila K on TOTP at the time, or even having heard of them until a few days ago, I spent the best part of three decades thinking that song ('Got To Get') was by Neneh Cherry.
She does sound a lot like Neneh Cherry - them both being Swedish I guess is why.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 11:31 (three years ago) link
No double episode tonight, just this woeful 'Review of the 80s' that was originally broadcast at the end of 1989. 'Live' in the studio, Status Quo and Shakin' Stevens.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 31 July 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
A song about getting old sung by a man who didn't appear to age for the whole decade.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 31 July 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
A brush and a can of paint on top of the drum machine next to Phil Collins during 'In The Air Tonight'. I was hoping he'd start splashing paint over the audience when the drums kicked in but of course not. I may have told this story elsewhere in ILX, if not on this thread, but I used to work with a woman who was two or three years older than me who said that she was attracted to Phil Collins since she was 15, mainly because of the skullet.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 31 July 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
Some good 10 second video clips in this review of decade and then, yes, David Cassidy in the studio doing a full song.
A stubbly cliff Richard was quite a sight.
The clips are even too short to skip over
― koogs, Sunday, 2 August 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link
Chris de burgh in studio now
― koogs, Sunday, 2 August 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
And nothing in the listings for next week...
― koogs, Sunday, 2 August 2020 11:30 (three years ago) link
Nor on the TOTP page on the BBC website. I will be gutted if this is finishing before it gets to episodes and performances from my own era of watching.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 2 August 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
oh, looks like it's been bumped by the snooker.
(although why that shit's not on bbc2 where it belongs is another question)
― koogs, Sunday, 2 August 2020 12:41 (three years ago) link
Twitter scuttlebut suggests there’s been no ‘Story of 1990’ filmed yet because Covid.
― piscesx, Sunday, 2 August 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
Can't they just get Stuart Maconie and Paul Morley to talk shit on a Zoom call?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 2 August 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
Are they not?
― Mark G, Sunday, 2 August 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Ah, the thread you can only find by not searching for top or pops...
Anyway, the 1990 documentaries are on next Friday so 1990 episodes should follow.
90 was a good year for indie but I wonder how much of that will make it onto totp, or will it be full of dreck like the last couple?
― koogs, Saturday, 26 September 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link
Maybe it's just nostalgia but I've really really enjoyed the last couple of years of reruns.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 26 September 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link
Woo! I've been waiting for this.
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 26 September 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
A bit of both. For every Kinky Afro Groove there'll be a few Turtle Powers.
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 26 September 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
Thank god - I was getting concerned.
― chap, Saturday, 26 September 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link
There's a list on Wikipedia but it's per year and not per episode (which avoids spoilers - good) and also says it's incomplete. It looks better but still not great.
― koogs, Saturday, 26 September 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
If you search Popscene and add the year, you'll get all the episodes
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
Search on Google, obviously
But spoilers. I'd rather watch them roll out an episode at a time (and then fast forward though them)
― koogs, Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
There is that.
On the other hand, can I be bothered looking them up? They're kinda now 'I remember them pretty clearly from first time around' nowadays.
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
Seal came across well. Shaun Ryder looked awful: like Peter Beardsley on smack. Bobby Gillespie looked terrible shuffling around in leather trousers (but nice to see Mark Gardner from Ride pretending to play the keyboards for no particular reason). I like the Monie Love one. Frustrating camerawork for Beats International - just as it got to the 'mm-mm-mmmm-mmm-mmm' bit, they inexplicably cut to a shot of random people on the balcony.
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 2 October 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
The story of 1990 is a cracker, particularly after such a long wait, and painfully nostalgic for me. What a fascinating year.
― chap, Sunday, 4 October 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
Two episodes tonight starting at 7pm.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 9 October 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
Story of 1990 was a really good watch: maybe lockdown is affecting my sense of time, but- rather than being nostalgic- 1990 looks more futuristic than any period since. The future looked like it was arriving. Primal Scream come across as hopelessly adrift peddling tired and clapped out old rock cliches amongst a racially diverse day-glo electronic music scene .
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 9 October 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
Same goes for the Quireboys from tonight's first episode. At the time I thought they were American, but it turns out they where from... Newcastle.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 9 October 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
Mis-spelling Megadeth in the chart run down on TOTP is my business... and business is good!!!
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 16 October 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
The Guy Garvey archive trawl on Sky Arts is all *ITV* archive shows that i've never heard of. Supersonic? some regional shows as well.
it's themed, the clips are partial, and he talks all over it, so it's not great.
― koogs, Friday, 23 October 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
David Bowie and Ringo smoking on Russell Harty...
― koogs, Friday, 23 October 2020 11:47 (three years ago) link
There's loads of great Russell Harty interviews with Marc Bolan, Elton, The Who, etc.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 23 October 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
Bruno Brookes saying "sponditious" like someone trying to be cool and failing hard. Also ffs Bruno get rid of that suit, it's the 90s!
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 23 October 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
don't think i've seen that house of love performance before.
― koogs, Friday, 23 October 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
I'd forgotten how prevelent Phil Collins was during the early 90s. Unfortunately there's going to be quite a bit more of him (and fucking Genesis) for the next couple of years of re-runs.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 30 October 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
I really like this period of Rod Stewart, but his appearance in the video for 'Downtown Train' (perhaps the most subtle song about a stalker I can think of) is... confusion? Like he's thinking "hang on, here's a video where I'm not drunk, or hungover, or clowning around, what?"
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 30 October 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
Just caught up on a few of these. That effort from Fish was beyond awful.
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 31 October 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
That Beloved song was kind of lovably weird despite being basically crap. Conceptually reminded me of Underworld's recent (superior) S.T.A.R., I wonder if there was a long gestating inspiration there.
― chap, Saturday, 31 October 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
Beloved made me think of Underworld as well. Odd.
― kraudive, Sunday, 1 November 2020 12:58 (three years ago) link
The Brits 1990 megamix, squashed together things that were themselves mostly samples of other things, like War Of The Worlds. Video also included J King handing records to DJs.
Presenter also mentioned two versions of Walk On The Wild Side competing for sales. I guess the other was the original.
― koogs, Saturday, 7 November 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
Great seing Electribe 101 trending on Twitter.
― piscesx, Saturday, 7 November 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
The Annie nightingale thing on later was much more my thing and I regret not taping them both.
― koogs, Saturday, 7 November 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
I watched part 2 and have both recorded.
Not seen the "Fairytale in the supermarket" vid before, great. Good to see "Earthbeat" as well.
― Mark G, Saturday, 7 November 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
Yes, those shows had some great clips. Annie Nightingale is kind of underappreciated I feel.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 7 November 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
Least convincing performance of the week goes to tmbg.
We're into the indie dance era, I guess, with primal scream and candy flip and orbital (the performance they covered in the documentary)
― koogs, Saturday, 14 November 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
That'll be the dancer they didn't want on stage. Apart from Orbital and a couple of others, a distinctly underwhelming couple of episodes. A mix of rockers hanging on by their fingernails, SAW produced sausage factory pop, indie/madchester nonsense (Candy Flip - entering the 'BBC won't ban a record or act that references drugs as long as it's not blatant' era), and total egotistical arse (hello The Mission and Bobby Gillespie). My guess is that TMBG were shipped over to England at the last minute without any of their instruments except maybe that lefty Tele. American indie bands of the era seemed to have patented that 'jump around until you run out of breath and then flail your arms about' dance move.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 14 November 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
bobby suffered from being the singer of a song with a 2 minute intro, and those leather trousers.
someone on facebook pointed out that it "features Mark Gardener on keyboards during Loaded because TOTP were insistent that Primal Scream had to have a fake keyboard player. However said fake keyboard player had to be a member of the Musician’s Union"
and same someone pointed out that wayne hussey was barefoot because the inspirals had had away with his shoes.
― koogs, Saturday, 14 November 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
I was taking the piss out of someone at work whose lockdown hair has gone past Flock of Seagulls (a reference he did get) and is now in Mark from Ride territory.
snoball: "You look like Mark from Ride!"colleague (who is in their late 20s): "Who?"snoball: "Just google 'Mark from Ride'" *oldening intensifies*
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 14 November 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
so I was mystified by “tmbg”The Man Baptised Gerald? (a bit too late, I guess)The Most Beautiful Girl...? (way too early)Too Much Business du Gibbon? (clutching at straws here)had to google it (this was before that follow-up post) - They Might Be Giants it is, perhaps obviously
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 14 November 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link