I'll admit having some time for Bad Manners, but this song is piss-poor filler. I can't imagine anything like this happening on TV today, which is simultaneously a good thing and a bad thing.
― an opportunity thick enough to taste (snoball), Friday, 25 March 2016 19:17 (nine years ago)
"Depesh-ay Mode" - thanks Peter Powell.
― an opportunity thick enough to taste (snoball), Friday, 25 March 2016 19:19 (nine years ago)
ha, Simon Bates was calling them Depesh-ay Mode last night as well
― soref, Friday, 25 March 2016 19:31 (nine years ago)
I'm not sure why, there's no accent on the third 'e'. Maybe it's from a time when anything vaguely French got "ay" put on the end of it, whether it was supposed to be there or not.
― an opportunity thick enough to taste (snoball), Friday, 25 March 2016 19:37 (nine years ago)
Blame it on the Flambé
― Mark G, Friday, 25 March 2016 19:45 (nine years ago)
some terrible miming by kirsty mccoll yesterday, did she have a problem with her neck? there was also a horrible thumping noise throughout. sounded like the drummer was mic-ed up even though he was just pretending to play.
― koogs, Friday, 25 March 2016 20:29 (nine years ago)
Dexy's and Spandau Ballet both terrific on the friday night edition. I had forgotten the existence of "Show Me". LOL at PPowell describing "Sat in Your Lap" as a change of pace after Dexy's; it was probably the most frantic song on the show! We seem to have leaped to June or July '81 already, with the Specials "still" at No.1.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 26 March 2016 13:10 (nine years ago)
They're doing 1982 in the second half of this year, hence the accelerated pace.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 26 March 2016 17:25 (nine years ago)
but isn't that just a function of them doing them twice as fast?
and was that the first appearance of the yellow pearl theme tune?
― koogs, Saturday, 26 March 2016 17:35 (nine years ago)
Maybe Jimmy Savile was presenting a lot of TOTPs at the time.
― A Fifth Beatle Dies (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 March 2016 17:36 (nine years ago)
http://z6.invisionfree.com/popscene/ar/t1147.htm
25/06/81 (Simon Bates) - thursday02/07/81 (Dave Lee Travis)09/07/81 (900th edition) (Jimmy Savile, Alan Freeman, David Jacobs & Pete Murray)16/07/81 (Peter Powell) - friday23/07/81 (Richard Skinner)30/07/81 (Steve Wright)06/08/81 (Jimmy Savile)13/08/81 (Simon Bates)20/08/81 (Dave Lee Travis) 27/08/81 (Richard Skinner)...
― koogs, Saturday, 26 March 2016 17:45 (nine years ago)
we must be missing some good stuff from those eps. Can't they just edit out the saville links and give us the music?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 26 March 2016 19:31 (nine years ago)
Oh, I could point you at the "Missing Shows" website and the punch-ups that have ensued during debating that issue.
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 March 2016 21:16 (nine years ago)
Watching the Ghost Town vid for the first time in years, I realised alot of it was shot around the City of London financial district. I had assumed it was set in Coventry for years, as that's what the song is about. Guess they were cruising in the engine room of Britain's industrial decline.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 26 March 2016 22:48 (nine years ago)
It was indeed the first appearance of the Yellow Pearl theme. Re missing episodes, @TOTPFacts usually tweets individual YouTubes of notable omissions.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 27 March 2016 09:59 (nine years ago)
Pauline seems to have been replaced by someone called Anita. Goodbye, Pauline.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 27 March 2016 10:01 (nine years ago)
two medley songs in the style of stars on 45? 1981, what were you thinking?
― koogs, Friday, 1 April 2016 20:22 (nine years ago)
live version of ghost town rather than the usual video was nice though - i guess that was rhoda and rico.
stars on 45 themselves over the end credits. gah!
― koogs, Friday, 1 April 2016 20:30 (nine years ago)
legs and co are dancing with the proles!
Friday now.
I wonder if Damon albarn has heard this bill Wyman tune?
― koogs, Saturday, 2 April 2016 10:29 (nine years ago)
And now legs and co are doing the robot to music for the royal fireworks...
― koogs, Saturday, 2 April 2016 10:33 (nine years ago)
(Or maybe trumpet voluntary)
― koogs, Saturday, 2 April 2016 10:35 (nine years ago)
Bloke in Japan was wearing a lime green suit. With red shoes.
― koogs, Saturday, 14 May 2016 16:56 (nine years ago)
the lp chart rundown lasted, what, 1 week?
bring back legs and co.
― koogs, Friday, 10 June 2016 20:01 (nine years ago)
Its only the future in the past.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 June 2016 21:19 (nine years ago)
Nick Heywood looks like a blond version of someone I work with.
― I'm part of the 48.1 percent (snoball), Friday, 1 July 2016 18:38 (nine years ago)
Is there a link between haircut 100 and orange juice? The former reminds me of the latter, those first two singles anyway. Similar kind of, I don't know, eloquence?
― koogs, Friday, 1 July 2016 18:49 (nine years ago)
Some of these 82 episodes are the most 80s things ever, and the next episode will be nothing like it.
― koogs, Friday, 1 July 2016 18:50 (nine years ago)
Seems like I am the last person on earth to link h100 with orange juice. But this was funny:
https://mobile.twitter.com/i_am_mill_i_am/status/735904378553503744
"Haircut 100: Orange Juice with no bits"
― koogs, Friday, 1 July 2016 18:59 (nine years ago)
there's a bit in Simon Reynolds's Rip It Up And Start Again book where Edwyn Collins grumbles about Haircut 100 ripping of Orange Juice's look:
'I *know* that Haircut 100 got a lot of their image ideas from us,' says Edwyn Collins, still aggrieved after all these years.'l've got pictures of James Kirk, our guitarist, wearing Aran sweaters like Haircut wore on their album cover.'
Haircut 100 > Orange Juice though, imo
― soref, Friday, 1 July 2016 19:03 (nine years ago)
Is there a link between haircut 100 and orange juice?
Other than H100 stealing OJ's shtick and selling to to teenage girls?
― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 July 2016 19:04 (nine years ago)
xp!
― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 July 2016 19:05 (nine years ago)
> Haircut 100 > Orange Juice though, imo
That's fighting talk 8)
― koogs, Friday, 1 July 2016 19:06 (nine years ago)
teenage girls had the right idea in this case. a Look In comic strip about Orange Juice's wacky misadventures might have been fun, however
http://www.arthurranson.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/main_image/haircut100.jpg
― soref, Friday, 1 July 2016 19:11 (nine years ago)
Orange Juice had 9 singles reach the top 75 chart and 3 top 40 albums.Haircut 100 had 5 singles in the top 75 and only 1 top 40 album.
― everything, Friday, 1 July 2016 19:43 (nine years ago)
no Look In comic strip, though.
fwiw, Heyward left Haircut 100 after the first album, if you include his solo chart placements I think he'd be ahead.
― soref, Friday, 1 July 2016 19:56 (nine years ago)
judging a band's quality using chart placings is a can of worms waiting to be opened.
famous people i have shared a toilet with:jimmy hilledwyn collins
― koogs, Friday, 1 July 2016 19:58 (nine years ago)
OJ are way beyond Haircut100 in every way, except for Look In comic strips.
― everything, Friday, 1 July 2016 20:10 (nine years ago)
xp at the same time or on separate occasions?
― soref, Friday, 1 July 2016 20:20 (nine years ago)
(jimmy hill was AGES ago - he used to race whippets at the local Dowty's sports and social club.edwyn collins was a few years ago, post stroke, when he was playing the lexington)
― koogs, Friday, 1 July 2016 20:33 (nine years ago)
High watermark for TOTP this week?
― I'm part of the 48.1 percent (snoball), Thursday, 7 July 2016 18:44 (nine years ago)
tight fit, hadn't that already been and gone?
didn't realise The Model had made it to number 1 in the uk.
both sides of the Town call Malice / Precious number 1. is that unique?
― koogs, Saturday, 16 July 2016 10:00 (nine years ago)
Offhand, I think the next double-a where both tracks appear will be the Wets/Bragg one.
As far as 'two songs from one band', I don't think it happens again until The Ramones' farewell, and the Sex Pistols reunion.
― Mark G, Saturday, 16 July 2016 12:00 (nine years ago)
Sorry WTF? Kid Jensen: "Good to see Gary Glitter back on TOTP" o___OAnd I don't remember this Madness song. The arrangement saves it, but Suggs sounds like he's sleepwalking through it.
― and all the politicians making crazy sounds (snoball), Thursday, 21 July 2016 18:39 (nine years ago)
ABBA in 'still not giving a shit about appearing on TOTP' video action.
― and all the politicians making crazy sounds (snoball), Thursday, 21 July 2016 18:44 (nine years ago)
"oh and btw everyone except Benny and Bjorn hate each other kthxbye"
― and all the politicians making crazy sounds (snoball), Thursday, 21 July 2016 18:46 (nine years ago)
Missed that Gary Glitter ref, I guess somebody's gonna get some words about that.
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 July 2016 21:09 (nine years ago)
Oh wait I just watched it again - Gary Numan not Glitter.
― and all the politicians making crazy sounds (snoball), Thursday, 21 July 2016 21:19 (nine years ago)
Tsk.
This actually almost happened a couple weeks ago, Kid was all "Hello, hello, its my first show for a year, and its good to be back, and so.... Toyah!"
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 July 2016 21:23 (nine years ago)
Oasis did two songs on TOTP in 1996, iirc.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, 21 July 2016 21:38 (nine years ago)