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

Midge Ure is appearing in 'West Side Story' at the Drury Lane Theatre oh wait...

David Dundas clearly aghast at the prospect of having to perform while RubFlip caper to the right of him.

OK, this is the second time that Billy Ocean's outfit has matched the colour of the backdrop. Was this his 'thing'? Some kind of gimmick?

It's Fearne Cotton, singing on TOTP decades before she presented it. Oh wait it's Twiggy. They really let anyone be a pop star in the mid 70's, didn't they.

If they asked nicely.

And if they do Country Joe and the Fish numbers...

For a horrible second there I thought that DLT was hanging out by the toilets, but no, just another cheap mid 70's CSO effect.

...also it makes Hot Chocolate's percussionist's congas look like they're made of cardboard.

lol ABBA couldn't even be bothered to go on TOTP with their biggest single.

not even a very good video for it, surprised me.

and another bryan ferry single...

cherry appears to have left ruby flipper 8(

George McRae was rather lovely.

Didn't need the extreme close up of Steve Harley's massive teeth though.

am surprised those doors didn't kill someone

jesse green's keyboardist looks like a pound-shop eno.

xp Somebody nearly walked into one of them.

Steve Harley looked like he was trying to sing with a dislocated jaw.
Aside from Hot Chocolate, everything else was promo clips, recordings of previous appearances, or lacklustre performances.
And Bryan Ferry churns out another sausage pointless cover version for a single.

also...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZHcjhQFDfM/Taqrm94FozI/AAAAAAAACFc/pazRIt6JNvU/s400/dear3

BLINDED BY THE SHITE!
REVVED UP LIKE A DOUCHE!
A RUBBER BUMMER IN THE NIGHT!

Can are on this episode apparently.

You should be dancing jumping about aimlessly and flailing your arms around like you're shooing away a bee

You should be flashing gusset

Robin Sarstedt, performing tonight on stilts.

Noel and Cliff clearly have the same hairdresser.

and tailor.

too much Noel Edmonds for anyone.

We haven't reached the saturation point of the peak Swap Shop years, but Edmonds gets increasingly irritating from here. Try to imagine him and Chris Tarrant swapping presenting duties on their respective Saturday morning shows.

RubFlip being worked hard this week, relatively speaking. That tape of Elton and Kiki pretending to goof around in a studio must have broken.

Also it looks like Can aren't going to be shown on the short version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2K9Zigc0w
...they followed Sarstedt.

dancer's miming but not knowing the words. TOTP seems to have a core dancing troupe too.
There's something really depressing about ALL TOTP episodes in that the people there look like they desperately want to be somewhere else.

need to watch it again but at least last night's had a good churn of acts - barely anything that had been on before. that said, the cliff song and the sarsted song were both things that were instantly forgettable, weak follow-ons.

Also it looks like Can aren't going to be shown on the short version...

Daft. It's their one and only appearance, isn't it?

I shall be there 23:40 tonight with my save DVD-r..

I'm surprised that they didn't show Can - thought it would have been right up the alley of a lot of BBC4 viewers.

I'm guessing sometimes the one that gets edited out is the one that's easiest to do.

Also it looks like Can aren't going to be shown on the short version...

Daft. It's their one and only appearance, isn't it?

Haven't they already been on? I'm sure I made some comment about before on this thread about Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay being the only people on the show older (and pervier looking) than the DJs? 1976 seems to have been an esp. successful year for Scottish artists: Slik, SAHB, Sutherland Bros., Gallagher + Lyle.

... and Irmin, that shirt open to the waist, nagl in a man of your years

Can were on that documentary that aired when they started this run, iirc. Maybe it was that.

Ah, that'll be it

Surely not the first time they decided to can the can on TOTP.

diamond among sequinned turds

Eddie and the Hot Rods are on this week.

Ah, punk looms

yes, filled with pink mohair...

Actually, I was doing a compilaDVD of "the road to punk/new wave", so far consisting of:

1. "The kid's a punk" Slik
2. "I want more" Can
3. "Get out of Denver" Eddie and the Hot Rods (to be)..

But then, after that, how long until the next one / how high to set the bar?

As low as Tonight's "The Drummer Man" I guess...

then:

I would certainly ARGUE about Can being one of the most influential groups to feature on TOTP : very much a 'niche' "Johnny Foreigner has a go at prog rock" band. I well recall some of my "up themselves" friends at the time going mad about them. Totally inconsequential.

lol other boards...

Who said that, David Cameron?

xp to MG: Kursaal Flyers, maybe? At a pinch?

Were they ever on TOTP? Ditto Doctors of Madness?

mmmm....

nrrgggg....

mmm...

No.

Yeah, they were on with "Little does she know that I know that she knows that I know she's two timing me"

I do remember them popping up on "Supersonic" with "I don't want to ride no freeway" though.

I'd put them next to Sailor, to be honest.

One of them joined the Hot Rods in 77. Tenuous, I know...

Jonathan Richman?

Don't remember him on until "New England", apart from the flip/legs&co dancing to "Egyptian Reggae"

"Roadrunner" was a notable hit, was that ever represented on TOTP? Anyway punk was already up and running by the time the Modern Lovers started having hit singles.