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

Good beat on this Chimes song. Lots of good beats around in '90.

what’s the Chinese song?

Chimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmMr5u7cl3U

thought the sisters wasn't a patch on the things i do know. did nothing for me.

two very skipable shows.

I'm guessing blue velvet was because of the film. no, far too late. another advert then.

I barely know SoM and I enjoyed it.

shouldn’t smoke and post, I guess lol

“Heaven” is a good one

Anyone know why Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" was re-released?

Oh wait I know - Peugeot advert

uuuhhh - two songs in the chart with Tom Cruise in the video.

A lot of very oily hair this evening.

George Michael in "I really don't want to record a video, how about I just stand here and pretend to record the vocals?" action.

I'd forgotten about the Kim Appleby song, it's quite a banger actually. Apparently it was originally planned as a Mel & Kim track (who I love unconditionally)

There was an unexpected outpouring of affection for her song all over Twitter, I had no real recollection of it tbh but it was heartwarming reading that people liked it so much.

I'm still a few weeks behind. Is the Kim one the one that goes something like "back on your feet in no time, you'll be fine, don't worry"? That's the only one of hers I can remember.

Watching MC Tunes - Tunes Splits The Atom (which I also vaguely remember) and I was struck by how much it reminded me of Ice Ice Baby (even though it's based on the I Am The Resurrection bass line) and must have predated it by a few months.

yes, that’s the one, “Don’t Worry” - fantastic song

Watching MC Tunes - Tunes Splits The Atom (which I also vaguely remember) and I was struck by how much it reminded me of Ice Ice Baby (even though it's based on the I Am The Resurrection bass line) and must have predated it by a few months.

Much more of a rowdy underground energy than Ice Ice Baby. Good track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx7kzarSwGE

do i remember Chuck d or someone stanning for V Ice back in the day? he supported both Public Enemy and nwa on tour at least.

(his list of run-ins with the police on Wikipedia is an odd read)

shows largely terrible today. jive bunny. the people behind jive bunny. bob state.

On the one hand it's so easy to take the piss out of Vanilla Ice. On the other hand it's so difficult because he inadvertently takes the piss out of himself.
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do i remember Chuck d or someone stanning for V Ice back in the day? he supported both Public Enemy and nwa on tour at least.

He really wasn't that bad a rapper. His flow was miles better than MC Hammer gor example.

I was thinking that if you just listened to the audio in isolation it'd be a fun enough early 90's Hip-Hop party track but the accompanying video immediately cancels any impulse on my part to defend it.

Ice Ice Baby is a great pop record. Pretty much everything else he ever did was atrocious, bar one uncredited collabo on the second Bloodhound Gang album, and Size Queen by Betty Blowtorch. He seems to have generally been appreciative of how lucky he is, though (but was doing super-spreader events during the pandemic, and played Mar-A-Lago's NYE party, so fuck him).

Chuck D's interest is covered in this great Jeff Weiss longread from October.

So much pointless nostalgia in the charts at this time - the Tina/Rod duet on "It Takes Two", Proclaimers doing "King Of The Road", Jimmy Sommerville doing "To Love Somebody" and fucking "Unchained Melody" on top for ages. Thanks god for 808 State and Julee Cruise (who could also be accused of nostalgia pandering but it's a different thing surely).

Well, I dig out "Ex-el" quite regularly but.

I think there's a fair difference in approach between Julee Cruise and Jive Bunny tbh

the jive bunny video was new footage and was just odd. it also seemed to be less of a mix than previously.

yes, there were original bontempi organ parts, didn't think they could make their music worse but I was wrong

the jive bunny video was new footage and was just odd.

Different to previous JB vids but equally tacky and appalling.

Forgot that live version of "Birthday" in my list of worst offenders in re: pointless rethreads. Not from the last two eps but same vibe.

And frankly Jive Bunny are at least Lovecraftian monstrosities and a total artifact of days gone by, I'd rather watch that than Macca or Tina Turner redoing a track from the 60's.

Always amuses me that the Jive Bunny lot ended up starting Tidy Trax and releasing a load of Tony De Vit hard house classics

jive bunny also released a version of 'it takes two'

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one for up-the-arse corner perhaps

And this is separate from the Brookes/Kershaw team up on "Let's Dance"? Good lord.

Monie Love (yes, I'm still a few weeks behind). I remember seeing 'It's A Shame (My Sister)' on TOTP in 1990 (I was probably watching it to see Ride) and liking it, but I don't remember ever hearing anything else by her until last year when she was on the 1989 reruns with that 'Grandpa's Party' one (which was also quite good). I'd always assumed she was American, but then wikipedia told me she comes from South London, so I was going to say something about how British rappers were still using American accents in 1990...but then it turns out she'd actually moved to the USA before she had those hits and still lives there now.

fucks sake

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BBC 1 and 2 are basically showing the same programmes.

Oh FFS, just went onto iPlayer for our Saturday morning routine.

In the words of a Liverpool supporter I once heard at Portman Road when there was a minute's silence for the Queen Mother, "Vive la République!"

the Saturday repeats were in the epg when i looked yesterday but that might change.

They're being shown at 1am.

I was also looking forward to the Masterchef final last night :(

went to watch Battlestar Galactica this morning and got Edwina Curry

She's definitely a Cylon.

is the grand national going to be on? I mean I'm sure he would be in favour of some cruelty to horses on TV.

How about some re-runs of Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language?

Or re-runs of programmes broadcast several hours earlier, becasue according to BBC iPlayer this week's two TOTP episodes have been cancelled.

Another sad weekend morning in chez Chew.

Surely this is the event that will get us to finally abolish the monarchy, let's go lads

...and that event would be Vanilla Ice performing live on TOTP?