manhattans, if nothing else, were mixing 4 different camera angles.
mississippi very familiar, yes. musically lacking though.
not sure i'd heard that trex song before.
and the bloke in the yellow suit was dancing to beats that only he could hear.
― koogs, Thursday, 20 October 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Bolan looking like Siouxie!
― zappi, Thursday, 20 October 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
Oh look it's Frankie Cockhoser lookalike David Essex.
― cheque out my debit to building society (snoball), Thursday, 27 October 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
i'm going to buy a satin jacket and write HOWZAT on the back in marker pen.
― koogs, Thursday, 27 October 2011 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.handbag.com/cm/handbaguk/images/Iu/or_jim-top-of-the-pops.jpg.jpg
goodness gracious guys n gals
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/29/world/europe/uk-dj-jimmy-savile-dead/
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 29 October 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
Ed Stewart, king of tossbags
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
Steve Harley somehow managing a bowlcut and a proto-mullet at the same time.
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
The obligatory DJ/teenage girls crepe-o moment.
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Rod Stewart is clearly hungover in this video, and the very last thing he wants to do is walk around a blustery Portsmouth.
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Climax Blues apparently playing live?
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
can on this one? 76? just saw their name pop up at the beginning.
― owenf, Thursday, 3 November 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
ah think they were just on the charts bit at the beginning. damn.
― owenf, Thursday, 3 November 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to enter the contest and to name this as yet un-named dancing group. I think I'll call them... let's see... 'Pan's People' Nobody steal that, OK?
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 17 November 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
Oh and they're dancing to the Jaws theme. 'Pan's People in rubber' turning out to be not quite what the dads wanted.
― asked Dermot O'Leary, but he couldn't help me either. They call me the (snoball), Thursday, 17 November 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
My boy thought that routine was an exercise in Derren Brown-like thought control.
LEGS.... LEGS.... you will fetch your pencil and your postcard.... and you will write.... LEGS...,
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 17 November 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
oh that's right, they're going to be called Legs & Co, not Pan's People, duh me
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (snoball), Thursday, 17 November 2011 23:35 (twelve years ago) link
sharks were hilarious though
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 19 November 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
'77 gets off to a ropey start tonight with Pussycat, Barry Biggs, Liverpool Express, David Parton, Gallagher & Lyle and Status Quo.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
there's been one already this year, a couple of weeks ago - the chart hadn't changed from the christmas episode but they had choosen different acts.
― koogs, Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
Just realised that someone I used to work with looked like Leo Sayer without the hair.
― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
search for 'pops' doesn't find this thread because of the quotes 8(
surprised to see that the extra track on the longer saturday repeat was Gary Glitter.
― koogs, Sunday, 29 January 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
They've 'apologised' for cutting him and JKing out.
― Mark G, Sunday, 29 January 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBsLy5ayHU4
― Mark G, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
would watch
― koogs, Monday, 6 February 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
xp lol
Rose Royce represented in this week's chart countdown by a picture of a Ford Granada in a car wash.
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
uh oh, Glitter Alert
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Picture of innocence, obv.
― Mark G, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Thin Lizzy were good though.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Boz Scaggs would have been better if he'd had more musicians on stage with him...
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gary-glitter-to-receive-royalties-for-broadcast-188903
iow: "We heard he's on this programme, we all had a guess as to which song, we could have looked it up buy we cbb"
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
Hang on, in that Youtube spoof, is 'Raoul Gummidge' gr8080?
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 10 February 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLKp5oj2NAo
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Friday, 10 February 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
What is it with BBC4 and detective shows with larger than life main characters?
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
that Mr Big record was a new lowgot the 1977 TOTP annual in a charity shop the other day for £2!
― zappi, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
Contains spoilers
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
Edmonds interviewing a very awkward sounding Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice - a precision nuclear strike could have solved so many of the world's woes in 1977.
― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Thursday, 1 March 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
Brotherhood of Man not trying to look like ABBA at all. Or sound like them for this particular single.
― a dramatic lemon curd experience (snoball), Thursday, 15 March 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Kid Jensen looking like a bizarre genetic cross between Noel Edmonds and Keith Chegwin.
― a dramatic lemon curd experience (snoball), Thursday, 15 March 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
Graham Parker was displaying a distinct narrowness of trouser this week, in marked contrast to the massed loons of Brotherhood of Man and Smokie.
― bham, Monday, 19 March 2012 11:02 (twelve years ago) link
The times were changing a bit.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 March 2012 12:47 (twelve years ago) link
t rex. something i'd not heard before.
― koogs, Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
this week's episode appears to have been recorded on one of those cheap vhs tapes you get from supermarkets.
― koogs, Saturday, 14 April 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
Sort-of..
It was up until 2 weeks ago, assumed lost.
Then it was found and supplied out of "Diddy" David Hamilton's personal collection
― Mark G, Saturday, 14 April 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
I imagine that he has a lot of other videos recorded on cheap supermarket VHS tapes in his 'personal collection'.
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Saturday, 14 April 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
that 'tracksuit top over turtleneck sweater' look was just bleargh
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Saturday, 14 April 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
abba song head and shoulders above everything else on the show. the dundass thing, very much like those manhatten transfer and bom followups - very similar, only twice as bad...
(nice handle btw snoball)
― koogs, Saturday, 14 April 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks. It was going to be 'Cheggers Plays Poop' but my last two display names were poop related so I thought I'd better come up with something else.
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Saturday, 14 April 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
annnnnnnnnnnd on topic...When are we going to see some/any punk? Marc Bolan and Boz Scaggs have been the last couple of acts approaching anything near excitement in the last few weeks.
― Cheggers Plays Populous (snoball), Saturday, 14 April 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
I could tell you, but that'd be cheating...
― Mark G, Saturday, 14 April 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
If I had known it was going to be from David "Diddy" Hamilton's "personal collection" I would have watched.
― PJ Miller, Thursday, 19 April 2012 11:43 (twelve years ago) link