The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread.

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.

Then Stiltskin, Babylon Zoo, Mr Oizo.

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

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)

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

Probably wasn't midnight yet.

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?

Yep, that was the week.

It's ILXs favourite covidiot Ian Brown.

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.

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

aah, little timmy charlatan

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.

aah, little marky gardiner

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.

> Status Quo doing a Jive Bunny turn aside

i was going to post exactly the same thing

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

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.

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.

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

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

the world needed more turtle-centric rap music

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

Quite a good Sisters of Mercy song I thought.

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

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

what’s the Chinese song?

Chimes.

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

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.

I barely know SoM and I enjoyed it.

shouldn’t smoke and post, I guess lol

“Heaven” is a good one

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

Oh wait I know - Peugeot advert

uuuhhh - two songs in the chart with Tom Cruise in the video.

A lot of very oily hair this evening.

George Michael in "I really don't want to record a video, how about I just stand here and pretend to record the vocals?" action.

I'd forgotten about the Kim Appleby song, it's quite a banger actually. Apparently it was originally planned as a Mel & Kim track (who I love unconditionally)

There was an unexpected outpouring of affection for her song all over Twitter, I had no real recollection of it tbh but it was heartwarming reading that people liked it so much.

I'm still a few weeks behind. Is the Kim one the one that goes something like "back on your feet in no time, you'll be fine, don't worry"? That's the only one of hers I can remember.

Watching MC Tunes - Tunes Splits The Atom (which I also vaguely remember) and I was struck by how much it reminded me of Ice Ice Baby (even though it's based on the I Am The Resurrection bass line) and must have predated it by a few months.

yes, that’s the one, “Don’t Worry” - fantastic song

Watching MC Tunes - Tunes Splits The Atom (which I also vaguely remember) and I was struck by how much it reminded me of Ice Ice Baby (even though it's based on the I Am The Resurrection bass line) and must have predated it by a few months.

Much more of a rowdy underground energy than Ice Ice Baby. Good track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx7kzarSwGE

do i remember Chuck d or someone stanning for V Ice back in the day? he supported both Public Enemy and nwa on tour at least.

(his list of run-ins with the police on Wikipedia is an odd read)

shows largely terrible today. jive bunny. the people behind jive bunny. bob state.

On the one hand it's so easy to take the piss out of Vanilla Ice. On the other hand it's so difficult because he inadvertently takes the piss out of himself.
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do i remember Chuck d or someone stanning for V Ice back in the day? he supported both Public Enemy and nwa on tour at least.

He really wasn't that bad a rapper. His flow was miles better than MC Hammer gor example.

I was thinking that if you just listened to the audio in isolation it'd be a fun enough early 90's Hip-Hop party track but the accompanying video immediately cancels any impulse on my part to defend it.

Ice Ice Baby is a great pop record. Pretty much everything else he ever did was atrocious, bar one uncredited collabo on the second Bloodhound Gang album, and Size Queen by Betty Blowtorch. He seems to have generally been appreciative of how lucky he is, though (but was doing super-spreader events during the pandemic, and played Mar-A-Lago's NYE party, so fuck him).

Chuck D's interest is covered in this great Jeff Weiss longread from October.

So much pointless nostalgia in the charts at this time - the Tina/Rod duet on "It Takes Two", Proclaimers doing "King Of The Road", Jimmy Sommerville doing "To Love Somebody" and fucking "Unchained Melody" on top for ages. Thanks god for 808 State and Julee Cruise (who could also be accused of nostalgia pandering but it's a different thing surely).

Well, I dig out "Ex-el" quite regularly but.

I think there's a fair difference in approach between Julee Cruise and Jive Bunny tbh

the jive bunny video was new footage and was just odd. it also seemed to be less of a mix than previously.