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poor old janet kay

koogs, Sunday, 21 February 2021 11:20 (four years ago)

never liked that swanee whistle noise in the dee lite song but enjoyed seeing the video again

koogs, Sunday, 21 February 2021 11:28 (four years ago)

I only recently realised that's Bootsy Fucking Collins.

chap, Sunday, 21 February 2021 12:44 (four years ago)

I mean I had no idea who he was in 1990.

chap, Sunday, 21 February 2021 12:45 (four years ago)

Also the male Dee-Lite members' styles are very 2010s hipster.

chap, Sunday, 21 February 2021 12:47 (four years ago)

<q>poor old janet kay</q>

Seconded, having to sing backing to a much worse version of your own song, mind blowing.

There have been times in my life when I’ve heard Groove is in the Heart too much, but what a perfect pop song.

Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 21 February 2021 20:32 (four years ago)

yeah, i only hope it was lucrative for her.

i had a listen to other deee-lite songs on youtube. not a glimmer.

koogs, Sunday, 21 February 2021 20:40 (four years ago)

I've got a lot of time for Good Beat, but if you wanted a similar song to Groove you're out of luck, this is more of a deep house track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP55r5CDjI8

Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 21 February 2021 21:44 (four years ago)

definitely worth searching through Towa Tei's back catalogue though, whether solo or his collabs like the supergroup Metafive (with Cornelius, Yukihiro Takahashi and others). some great stuff in there.

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 22 February 2021 07:28 (four years ago)

Her from Deee-Lite has fallen deep into the conspiracy hole in recent years :(

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 22 February 2021 11:53 (four years ago)

Oh no really? That hippy/free-your-mind thing again..

piscesx, Monday, 22 February 2021 13:58 (four years ago)

Story of '79 yesterday, featuring one Janet Kay. IT'S ALL CONNECTED

(18 at a time, singing live in front of an audience for the first time)

koogs, Friday, 26 February 2021 10:57 (four years ago)

trevor nelson talking about the house party scene as seen in the Lover's Rock thing.

koogs, Friday, 26 February 2021 10:59 (four years ago)

The disconnect between that live Steve Miller Band performance and the audience's reaction. Also Faith No More making me hate them even more by pretending to be the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 26 February 2021 21:01 (four years ago)

I'm fascinated by Gary Davies' ability to say almost anything without any emotion, just this professional 'enthusiasm' - "one of the most happening dance acts around at the moment"

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 26 February 2021 21:02 (four years ago)

why was the steve miller band in the charts even? advert? film? and why the live versions of all things?

koogs, Friday, 26 February 2021 21:32 (four years ago)

Levi's advert

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 February 2021 21:38 (four years ago)

& not the live version, guess they couldn't source a better clip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAHNihB_kzY

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 February 2021 21:39 (four years ago)

It upsets me a bit when people compare FNM unfavourably to RHCP (to be fair Epic is by far their most Chillis-ish song).

chap, Saturday, 27 February 2021 11:40 (four years ago)

why was the steve miller band in the charts even? advert? film? and why the live versions of all things?

― koogs, Friday, 26 February 2021 21:32 (yesterday)

Levi's advert

― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 February 2021 21:38 (yesterday)

Followed by The Clash 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go?' and T-Rex '20th Century Boy', I think.

The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 27 February 2021 21:10 (four years ago)

Then Stiltskin, Babylon Zoo, Mr Oizo.

Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 27 February 2021 21:20 (four years ago)

xxp it's more the video than the song really.

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 27 February 2021 21:23 (four years ago)

TS: Mike Patton being a dick as a way of lampooning the ridiculousness of the rock music business VS Anthony Kiedis being a dick because he's a dick (which Patton would have plenty of direct experience of particularly around the time of Mr. Bungle's 'California' which he'd then respond to by... being a dick as a way of lampooning the ridiculousness of Anthony Kiedis)

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 27 February 2021 21:40 (four years ago)

There's a bit in that Steve Miller concert footage where a woman shows up to offer him a joint and he refuses?

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 1 March 2021 11:12 (four years ago)

Probably wasn't midnight yet.

chap, Monday, 1 March 2021 11:46 (four years ago)

Nice to see KLF and Bassomatic on this week's edition. Wasn't it notoriously (and dubiously) the case that Steve Miller Band and Deee-Lite had sold exactly the same number of copies that week (in the shop panel sample, not literally nationwide), so SMB got the #1 due to the greater week-on-week increase?

Michael Jones, Monday, 1 March 2021 12:09 (four years ago)

Yep, that was the week.

Mark G, Monday, 1 March 2021 14:24 (four years ago)

It's ILXs favourite covidiot Ian Brown.

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 5 March 2021 20:05 (four years ago)

In 1990 I had a double breasted suit that looked like the one Nicky Campbell is wearing on tonight's first episode. It's a style that simultaneously requires the wearer to be thin (I was since I was a skinny tall 16 year old) but also manages to make the wearer look too thin.

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 5 March 2021 20:21 (four years ago)

I started technical college in September 1990 and The Farm's 'Groovy Train' was played a lot on the jukebox in the canteen.

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 5 March 2021 20:23 (four years ago)

aah, little timmy charlatan

koogs, Friday, 5 March 2021 20:26 (four years ago)

and why the live versions of all things?

It's a Steve Miller Band gig from Detroit in 1983. No idea why since there was a promo film made for the song when it originally came out.

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 5 March 2021 20:31 (four years ago)

aah, little marky gardiner

koogs, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:04 (four years ago)

Really nice to see Taste out all the way to the end and not truncated with the end of credits. That was a strong show, Status Quo doing a Jive Bunny turn aside.

Michael Jones, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:07 (four years ago)

> Status Quo doing a Jive Bunny turn aside

i was going to post exactly the same thing

koogs, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:14 (four years ago)

(the ride video is actually quite a bit longer, they cut a lot of the intro)

koogs, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:16 (four years ago)

When Maria McKee was on a couple of episodes ago I could imagine my Dad saying "well, at least she can sing"; but Quo really was there for the parents. Possibly grandparents.

Michael Jones, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:58 (four years ago)

I thought The Cult of Snap was surprisingly good, despite having no memory of it. An unusually hard, multilayered beat for a Eurodance sort of thing.

chap, Saturday, 6 March 2021 00:18 (four years ago)

"So Hard" is one of my favourite PSB singles.

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 12 March 2021 20:09 (four years ago)

Was that a stand in for Chris Lowe? Looks like he's time travelled back to '90 from a '94 NYC hiphop video.

(the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Friday, 12 March 2021 20:27 (four years ago)

the world needed more turtle-centric rap music

koogs, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:57 (four years ago)

and now a sisters of mercy record that I've never heard.

koogs, Friday, 12 March 2021 21:01 (four years ago)

Quite a good Sisters of Mercy song I thought.

Struck by how babyfaced MC Hammer was compared to my mental image of him.

chap, Friday, 12 March 2021 23:32 (four years ago)

Good beat on this Chimes song. Lots of good beats around in '90.

chap, Friday, 12 March 2021 23:34 (four years ago)

what’s the Chinese song?

Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 12 March 2021 23:39 (four years ago)

Chimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmMr5u7cl3U

chap, Friday, 12 March 2021 23:42 (four years ago)

thought the sisters wasn't a patch on the things i do know. did nothing for me.

two very skipable shows.

I'm guessing blue velvet was because of the film. no, far too late. another advert then.

koogs, Friday, 12 March 2021 23:57 (four years ago)

I barely know SoM and I enjoyed it.

chap, Saturday, 13 March 2021 00:09 (four years ago)

shouldn’t smoke and post, I guess lol

“Heaven” is a good one

Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 13 March 2021 02:05 (four years ago)

Anyone know why Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" was re-released?

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 19 March 2021 20:21 (four years ago)


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