Actually that's kind of harsh on Alan Titchmarsh.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 22 November 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Brother Beyond encapsulate that era perfectly. I don't think I've ever heard that Prince song. I must give Lovesexy a listen sometime. I ignored it as I heard it was poor.
Who was the lady co-presenter? She looked a bit uncomfortable presenting, her eyes were darting everywhere
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 22 November 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
Sybil Ruscoe.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 22 November 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
Ah, it's the time of the acid house scare where they don't even say the track name if it has acid in the title (Jolly Roger, acid man)
Don't think I've ever heard the Kraze track that is in the charts.
― koogs, Saturday, 23 November 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
A quick YouTube tells me I'm missing nothing
― koogs, Saturday, 23 November 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
Would that be The Party? It’s a classic crossover house track.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 24 November 2019 08:24 (four years ago) link
"Jack To The Sound Of The Underground" by Hithouse AKA 'Theme from The Mary Whitehouse Experience'.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 29 November 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
Yes that is the violin player from Dexys Midnight Runners playing whatever that wind instrument is next to Tanita Tikaram. I could never figure out what some of the lyrics to this song were - "pig out til you've seen the light"?
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 29 November 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
susie mathis? was she ever a dj? oh, bbc radio manchester, i guess that counts.
"Subsequently, in 2009, Mathis became a Charity Manager working for Mohammed Al Fayed."
yazz seems to be on every episode recently.
― koogs, Friday, 29 November 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
(it's an oboe, i think)
― koogs, Friday, 29 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
can't remember robin beck. but it sounds familiar. was it a coke advert? ha, yes.
― koogs, Friday, 29 November 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
Was the whole of the UK in FM by that point?
Wow they were really pushing the whole Radio 1 FM weren't they.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 29 November 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
I have no recollection of this Sam Fox track but it's not terrible.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9usE58DQWY
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 29 November 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
Humanoid's 'Stakker' - another song that they won't show on TOTP because 'oh-noes acid means drugs'.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 29 November 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
Just been catching up on these. Quite surreal to see Steve Wright in his smiley t-shirt with Caron Keating saying 'aciiieeed'.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 29 November 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
He Ain't Heavy was used in a Miller Lite advert, wasn't it? I'm assuming that the Commodores' Easy was also back in the charts because it was in an advert, but I can't remember what. I'm convinced Lovely Day was in an advert for Mars Milk, but I can't find any evidence on the internet to back this up.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 29 November 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
'Easy' was used in a Halifax Building Society advert at the time.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 29 November 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
I remember that Sam Fox track, it's ace!
― or something, Friday, 29 November 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
I'm pretty sure it does get shown on TOTP because I was reading about it a couple of days ago.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 29 November 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
Stakker hasn't aged at all, still an amazing track. Snowman mix too
― or something, Friday, 29 November 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
Oh wow it was actually on the very next TOTP (1/12/1988).
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 29 November 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
Are they skipping any episodes at this point? I doubt js is still presenting but is Mike Smith? Dlt?
― koogs, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:54 (four years ago) link
What was Susie Mathis doing at this point? Gary said about her being on TOTP in 1968, and I saw she worked as a charity director for the Al fayeds, but was she the new Sybil Ruscoe or some such?
― Mark G, Saturday, 30 November 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
BBC local radio - at this point it was increasingly common for TOTP to be co-presented by a random DJ. Unlike the 90s where they'd bring in Chris Eubank or whoever.
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 30 November 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
Lol @ Angry Anderson
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:09 (four years ago) link
"Burning Bridges" - the worst Quo single? Mainly because of that interminably long-winded keyboard riff that makes up two thirds of the song. Meanwhile I'd forgotten all about Scott & Charlene's wedding on Neighbours (it was blown up into a ridiculously big deal by the BBC) but now I vaguely remember this song although who's this Angry Anderson?
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Also if you think that 'Downtown 88' is a cynical cash grab try the 1976 disco-tastic re-recording:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7nC_Z773Do
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 6 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
Bernard Sumner dances like someone trying to take a dump while climbing a ladder.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 13 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
they've changed a bananarama
― koogs, Saturday, 14 December 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
You've read Karl Marx and you've taught yourself to use a rhyming dictionary... oh wait you haven't because you've tried to rhyme 'Marx' with 'dance'.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 20 December 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
(that's weird - i watched 1988 big hits episode this morning and the above line jumped out at me too (is bros))
― koogs, Friday, 20 December 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
I'd love to know what Neil is thinking when he looks at the camera here. Maybe something like "fuck everyone at Smash Hits who thought this would be over in a year".
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 20 December 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
oh wow, is this 'shit Bros lyrics' hour? "I watch you crumble like a very old wall"
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 20 December 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
Phil Collins looks like a boy wearing his dad's suit. It's a real marvel of late 80s boxy shouldered baggy trousered tailoring.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 20 December 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Xpost I used to think it was "I want your bum boy, like a very old boy"
I knew it couldn't be, but never found out what it really was.
― Mark G, Friday, 20 December 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
Anyone else watch the TOTP Christmas show yesterday? Would that be what TOTP would be like if it were revived today? Because it seemed very Brit School and safe.
― just another country (snoball), Thursday, 26 December 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
I missed it, I thought it'd be after the Queen for some reason
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 December 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
TOTP Big Hits 1989 - this is a year when there were a lot of big changes in pop music.Also I was unaware that there was even a Happy Mondays vs Pulp episode of Bargain Hunt.https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/640x360/p06m6pv7.jpg
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
I really liked this song at the time. However, Marc Almond's 50s rocker / forehead vein look is distressing enough, but it's combined with Gene Pitney's Terry-Venebles-does-Gene-Pitney-on-Celeb-Stars-In-Their-Eyes appearance.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:46 (four years ago) link
Mike and the Mechanics: their singer looks alarmingly like Phil Collins, I wonder if that was in his contract? 'Clause 15.a.III - must look at least 85% like Phil Collins at all times.'Also here's Phil Collins with perhaps the worst 'multi-millionaire rock star tells you YES YOU the average person what to think about some social issue' song of the time.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 3 January 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link
that bargain hunt episode made the national news because someone related to the HM camp was caught bidding for their items.
― koogs, Saturday, 4 January 2020 03:37 (four years ago) link
Bez's girlfriend.
― Mark G, Saturday, 4 January 2020 09:39 (four years ago) link
That remake of 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' was unspeakably awful. Somehow I have no memory of it.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 4 January 2020 09:46 (four years ago) link
Happy Mondays vs Pulp episode of Bargain Hunt.
googled on seeing Candida's hands there and she was diagnosed with arthritis at sixteen. it hurt just looking at that pic.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 4 January 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
― koogs, Saturday, January 4, 2020 4:37 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao. I really want to see this episode now.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 4 January 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
just watched best of 1989 and it seems like more of the same tbh. the meatiest thing out of the tracks they played was transvision vamp (and then salvaged at the last minute by the stone roses)
― koogs, Sunday, 5 January 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
AND SO IS MICHAEL FISH!
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 10 January 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
I don't recall Jacob Rees-Mogg being in U2...https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Angel_harlem.jpg
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 10 January 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link
'Buffalo Stance' still sounds great today, it doesn't sound dated at all.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 10 January 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
it's looking good today
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 02:51 (four years ago) link