wait WTF?
This has long been embedded in the code of ILX. I have no idea why. Fortunately I never have any need to say DUMPLINGS!.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:06 (five years ago)
Well it's a first for me.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:11 (five years ago)
Anyone ever see that HK horror flick, DUMPLINGS!?
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Friday, 24 January 2020 22:15 (five years ago)
pretty sure it's a noize board thing? Dates back to like '09! Maybe later!dump|ings
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 25 January 2020 06:39 (five years ago)
Dümplings
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 25 January 2020 11:02 (five years ago)
Dumings
― Mark G, Saturday, 25 January 2020 11:07 (five years ago)
That Morrissey "Playboys" TOTP line-up is basically all of the Smiths (including Craig Gannon) minus Johnny Marr. Didn't realise he was still pally with Rourke and Joyce in 1989.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 25 January 2020 16:19 (five years ago)
That's the lineup on the single, too.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:27 (five years ago)
(also Interesting Drug)
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 25 January 2020 20:29 (five years ago)
Stephen Street was hoping for a call up for that totp, but didn't get one.
― Mark G, Sunday, 26 January 2020 12:42 (five years ago)
PWEI bring the 90s early. Actually from here on out the rest of 1989 sounds increasingly 90s. It's a real sea change from the previous year where everything seemed to be a bit stuck.
― just another country (snoball), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:50 (five years ago)
oof 2 singles I bought at the time on this show. Rocket which still stands up. Belfast Child, which really doesn't. Dreadful.
― kraudive, Saturday, 1 February 2020 23:00 (five years ago)
I was DJing weekly at this time, and buying heavily from the Top 40. I counted 21 purchases from last week’s second show.I’d completely forgotten that Billie Ray Martin debuted with S’Xpress before Electribe 101.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 2 February 2020 15:44 (five years ago)
Neneh Cherry revisits Raw Like Sushi
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 2 February 2020 19:16 (five years ago)
Hale & Pace, remember them? My commiserations. They were shit.The Reynolds Girls - surprisingly it's four years between this and Simon Bates resigning from Radio 1.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:05 (five years ago)
lol Lenny Henry fucks up his link "I'd rather jack Profumo" or was that what he meant to say? At least Dusty got a laugh out of it. I miss this kind of thing from current TV - things like that wouldn't make the edit now.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:08 (five years ago)
(kids get off my lawn etc etc)
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:09 (five years ago)
the stonk was a tune.
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:10 (five years ago)
That might have been down to the backing musicians:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_and_Pace#%22The_Stonk%22Brian May playing keyboards and guitar, (...) David Gilmour and Tony Iommi on guitar, with Neil Murray on bass guitar. Cozy Powell, Roger Taylor and Rowan Atkinson – appearing as his character Mr. Bean – performed on drums. Joe Griffiths and Mike Moran contributed on keyboard.[
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:15 (five years ago)
Madonna fails to unseat Jason Donovan from #1 - I'd forgotten how totally obsessed the public were with him at the time. Also I think this is the first Guns'N'Roses appearance on TOTP despite them being huge for two years by this point.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 14 February 2020 20:02 (five years ago)
catching up...
i guess if you're going to mime playing synth on totp then mime using a 'cost the same as a house at the time' fairlight.
> Also I think this is the first Guns'N'Roses appearance on TOTP
GnR was the playout video a couple of episodes ago too. lots of wasp and poison(?) recently too
> lol Lenny Henry fucks up his link "I'd rather jack Profumo" or was that what he meant to say?
iirc he said Supremo, corrected to Profumo by the other presenter. the comic relief thing was an entire show of comedians fluffing their lines or saying them off mic.
lol at reynolds girls dissing the olds and being followed by dusty springfield.
― koogs, Saturday, 15 February 2020 13:16 (five years ago)
The main riff from Kon Kan's 'I Beg Your Pardon' seems to be the same as Spagna's 'Call Me', except played on a cheap Casio keyboard. Also this single seems to be equal parts Jive Bunny and The KLF, with some can't-be-arsed early 90s Eurodance vocals.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 21 February 2020 20:03 (five years ago)
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― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 21 February 2020 20:24 (five years ago)
Madonna snipped at the end there because of 'controversial' black Jesus? I know the Pepsi advert was pulled very last minute that same week (or the previous week).
― piscesx, Friday, 21 February 2020 20:37 (five years ago)
It's been short every time I've seen it, like little more than a minute each time, but longer tonight, if anything. Oddly it does seem to be the black Jesus part, ie the end.
The The, tonight, but nothing like their best. Fuzzbox ditto. The Cult ditto.
Kon Kan sound to me like a cheap new order.
― koogs, Friday, 21 February 2020 21:02 (five years ago)
Can you keep a secret? Brother Beyond are shit. Oh wait that's not a secret.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 21 February 2020 21:04 (five years ago)
xp I think we're entering the TOTP era where if you were #1 and couldn't/wouldn't appear in the studio, the producers wouldn't play more than 2/3 of your video the first week, then the merest suggestion of the video on subsequent weeks.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 21 February 2020 21:05 (five years ago)
They were really big on the whole "Look!!! Bands and singers appearing in the studio!!! Still (mostly) miming, but in the studio!!!" at this point.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 21 February 2020 21:06 (five years ago)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 21 February 2020 21:19 (five years ago)
The shit-arse Ritzy's nightclub I used to frequent as a student just two years after tonight's episode would play Simply Red's version of 'If You Don't Know Me' as the last record of the night.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 21 February 2020 21:21 (five years ago)
INXS reminding me of how much I loathe 'band in the studio recording the song you're listening to' videos.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 28 February 2020 21:14 (five years ago)
also live footage badly synced to the recorded version
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 28 February 2020 21:16 (five years ago)
I turned violently against TOTP at the end of 1988 and I think I only saw it twice* in 1989 so I'm seeing these for the first time and often don't seem to have any memory of the tracks.
*I have a vague memory of seeing the Beautiful South doing that "I love you from the bottom of my pencil case" song shortly after we moved house that summer and I'm pretty sure I saw Black Box doing 'Ride On Time' in the autumn, but that's it
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 28 February 2020 23:19 (five years ago)
The first half of 1989 was even more of a renaissance than I’d remembered. So much good stuff. I think it continues for at least another year or so; there was a solid run of Number Ones at the start of 1990.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 29 February 2020 00:47 (five years ago)
I don't remember seeing Roland Gift's cartwheel into a piano riff.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 6 March 2020 21:19 (five years ago)
Wasn't expecting Metallica the other week.
― chap, Saturday, 7 March 2020 12:29 (five years ago)
I'm pretty sure nearly-15-year-old snoball saw that and said "FUCK YES!!! METAL!!! RAAAAARRRRRRWWWRRRR!!! WIDDLY-WIDDLY-WIDDLY-WIDDLY-WIDDLY-WIDDLY-WIDDLY-WIDDLY-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" and then went out and bought a black t-shirt.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 7 March 2020 14:33 (five years ago)
Yeah cudos to the editors for playing the thrashout half rather than the ballad half!
― chap, Saturday, 7 March 2020 14:41 (five years ago)
*kudos
― chap, Saturday, 7 March 2020 15:07 (five years ago)
According to Bill Drummond's intro to the reprint of 'The Manual', Edelweiss followed the instructions in the book to get this hit.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 13 March 2020 19:33 (five years ago)
and it's godawful. looks like the skits they do on red bull soap box races.
― koogs, Friday, 13 March 2020 20:56 (five years ago)
Somehow that tie doesn't suit Freddie Mercury at all. A couple of fairly duff episodes in a row, but IIRC 1989 was like that generally.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 13 March 2020 21:13 (five years ago)
Stefan Dennis' 'Don't It Make You Feel' is the worst Neighbours related single and in some sense simultaeously the best, because it's so brazen in it's awfulness.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 13 March 2020 21:35 (five years ago)
Haven't seen the latest ones yet, but feel like taking a few minutes off from coronavirus-gloom to talk about last week's ones. As I've said before, I scarcely saw any TOTP in 1989 so these repeats are filling in gaps for me. I bought 'Rok Da House' by Beatmasters/Cookie Crew in early '88 and until the last few weeks assumed it was a one-hit-wonder for both groups, so it's been a pleasant surprise to see both of them had more chart success the following year. I knew the Beatmasters one, just didn't know it was by them (and was convinced as a 15-year-old that it went 'Wolves in the house!'). 'Eternal Flame' is a guilty pleasure of mine. Whenever I hear it, I'm transported back to that weird period where secondary school has kind of half-finished but not completely - all the 16-year-olds who weren't going to college fucked off at Easter and those of us who were left had two or three weeks of cramming before the GCSE exams started.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 13 March 2020 23:07 (five years ago)
Yeah that Edelweiss thing is horrific.
― chap, Saturday, 14 March 2020 12:07 (five years ago)
I quite like "eternal flame" now but it was bloody EVERYWHERE at the time
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Saturday, 14 March 2020 14:23 (five years ago)
I'll see your Stefan Denis and raise you the theme to cell block h.
Acapella thing was on twice yesterday, hadn't heard it before.
Aside from those, there's a lot in the chart that you still hear, usually on radio 2.
― koogs, Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:19 (five years ago)
Wow, this (terrible) Live Report song I am hearing for the first time here, apparently came 2nd in Eurovision with 130 points… amazing how the UK’s popularity has fallen so much.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 21 March 2020 16:25 (five years ago)
Never heard that Stefan Denis thing before. It was a special kind of awful, but I think the London Boys one a week or two before was possibly worse.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 22 March 2020 21:07 (five years ago)
As a bit of a connoisseur of Hi-NRG I enjoyed that one.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 13:24 (five years ago)