Well, this is a bummer! đ .@russty_russ and anyone else who is following this programme. pic.twitter.com/CcbzqZRVU1— 80s Retro (@1980s_Retro) May 21, 2021
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 May 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
This is an outrage
― The Rampaging Goats of Llandudno (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 22 May 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
I think it will get made eventually, just not at this present time
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 22 May 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
I'd rather they crack on with the episodes than hang around for months waiting for it to get made like they seemed to with 90.
― chap, Saturday, 22 May 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
Someone tell The Stranglers it's not the 80s.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 28 May 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
story of '84 on over the weekend and what i think was Mike Reid trying to rewrite history when talking about Relax. he said he was doing a chart rundown show and they were overrunning so he was looking for something to cut...
best of the tube on London Live covering a lot of the same ground recently - siouxsie, frankie, lauper, madonna...
― koogs, Monday, 31 May 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link
This follow up single from Vanilla Ice is so dire that I'd completely forgotten about it "your body's getting hot yo, so I can smell it"
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
When I was at sixth form college I had a Saturday job in FADS ('the paint and paper people'). At the start of 1991 the manager decided to jazz things up a bit and replaced the nondescript muzak with something that he thought would get the customers rolling in: more muzak, but this time reinterpretations of current hits. So there's a lot of songs here that are sending shivers down my spine as I recall hour after boring hour of peeling old price tags off of tins of paint / selling rolls of wallpaper to the soundtrack of naff cover versions by cheap session musicians played on an endless loop week after week. I know the Queen song, the Robert Palmer song, the Seal song, the Candi Staton song inside out...but only in their reimagined form. They even had Do the fucking Bart Man on the tape. Devotion by Nomad is actually pretty good, but not when the rap is delivered by what sounded like a very bored Dale Winton.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 4 June 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
FADS, like DER, Rumbelows, Do It All and Timothy Whites - all long-gone fixtures of the late 80s/early 90s high street.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 5 June 2021 09:02 (three years ago) link
Because I am old, I tend to think of FADS as a new thing, as thatâs what Ellisonâs in Liscard became - where my older brother was sacked from his Saturday job for refusing to unload the van in torrential rain. Itâs one thing to turn up at Ericâs covered in paint, but looking like a drowned rat wasnât on. This run of TotPs still uniformly bad - constantly dreadful choices from the chart, the odd gem.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 5 June 2021 09:44 (three years ago) link
mbv in chart rundown during first show, but i'm guessing they went out in time for the second show.
instead we have people like steffi who looks like she could do with a good meal.
― koogs, Friday, 11 June 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
To Here Knows When on Top of the Pops would have been incredible
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 11 June 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
I missed the chart rundown on the radio, apparently that was something...
― Mark G, Friday, 11 June 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I definitely remember hearing it on the radio on the Sunday evening. It didn't exactly fit in with the rest of the charts.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 11 June 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
That DJH performance was an absolute shocker.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 12 June 2021 07:10 (three years ago) link
MBV on the R1 chart rundown was Tommy Vance. âIncredible atmosphere on that recordâ he said. I took my AM/FM Walkman with me to David Collett Hall just to hear it (koogs will know that place).
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 12 June 2021 07:30 (three years ago) link
I'm surprised that the isn't anything eps didn't at least scrape the charts.
railway children and Julian cope deserve a mention. the Xpansions not so much.
(never got any nearer to david collett than the library, despite being in elvyn richards for 3 years - every place i had reason to go to was in the other direction)
― koogs, Saturday, 12 June 2021 08:45 (three years ago) link
(I had a poke around campus on Google the other day - much of it has changed, and some of it (which must have been there in the early '90s) didn't seem familiar. Students Union doesn't look how I remember it at all).
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 12 June 2021 09:15 (three years ago) link
Get out of town Xpansions is a banger, Railways Children so boring.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 12 June 2021 09:31 (three years ago) link
The Chart Show played the video for "Swallow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSR0-X6nwpA
it's odd when you think how there were only four TV channels and a very limited amount of music programmes at this point, that this got the playout over something more conventional
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 12 June 2021 10:47 (three years ago) link
And on a Saturday lunchtime too.
― nashwan, Saturday, 12 June 2021 11:02 (three years ago) link
Living Colour - what happened to them? I only remember this one songN-Joi - woo!Neds Atomic Dustbin - they look bad and it's a totally forgettable song. I saw them about a month after this in Kilburn (because my best friend was a big fan of them), but they never really did it for me (though I will confess to buying Kill Your Television)
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Thursday, 24 June 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
NAD always one of those bands where the name was far more memorable than the music.
― chap, Thursday, 24 June 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link
'The One And Only' written by Nik Kershaw apparently as 'one of those songs he had to get out of his system'.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 25 June 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
Why did they miss number 11 out of the chart run down? Some kind of Gulf War censorship (like 'Massive' instead of 'Massive Attack')? Anyone know what it was?
Anyway, Ride and the Happy Mondays. I'm keeping this one.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 25 June 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
It's 'All Right Now' by Free.https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19910310/7501/
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 25 June 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
That's weird. They'd played it in three previous weeks and then decided to pretend it didn't exist.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 25 June 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
if itâs the week where Rideâs âUnfamiliarâ was at 14 and Happy Mondaysâ âLoose Fitâ at 25, it was the remix of The Freeâs âAll Right Nowâ at 11.
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 25 June 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
ha
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 25 June 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
I really could have happily lived the rest of my life without being reminded of Hale & Pace doing the Stonk.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 25 June 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
they were only listing the new entries and climbers in the charts for some reason
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 25 June 2021 20:24 (three years ago) link
28/03/1991 - With Dannii Minogue, James and Chesney Hawkes.
04/04/1991 - With Inspiral Carpets, N-Joi and Chesney Hawkes.
I'd forgotten how Chesney Hawkes was fucking everywhere for a few months in 1991.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 2 July 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
[insert obvious joke]
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 2 July 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
number one for 5 weeks, wasn't it?
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 2 July 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
In late 1991 I was reading a review in a computer magazine of a particular high end laptop. The reviewer was really enthusiastic and said that if they had the money they'd buy one straight away. However they then talked themselves out of it because 'in six months it'll be just another Chesney Hawkes amoung computers'.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 2 July 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
It would be the one and only?
― Mark G, Saturday, 3 July 2021 12:47 (three years ago) link
Rolling Stones doing a strong entry in the "vague protest songs that are about nothing really" subgenre I discussed above.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 5 July 2021 09:42 (three years ago) link
The Wonderstuff's 'Size Of A Cow' - guaranteed to cause chaos on the dancefloor of the twice weekly student night in your nearest town's 'free entry with student ID all drinks 50p all night' toilet club.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 9 July 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
Iâd totally forgotten Lana Pillay was on this Gary Clail track! A small highlight.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 9 July 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
cheesy wotsit
― koogs, Friday, 9 July 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
two more very skippable shows. but the charts are strangely full of things they still play - losing my religion, sit down (never liked this), whole of the moon...
hate the holes in the chart rundown though
― koogs, Saturday, 10 July 2021 05:43 (three years ago) link
Why holes?
― Mark G, Saturday, 10 July 2021 07:57 (three years ago) link
they are only reading out the new entries and climbers
― koogs, Saturday, 10 July 2021 08:09 (three years ago) link
Oh right, ta
― Mark G, Saturday, 10 July 2021 09:46 (three years ago) link
Nicky Campbell just read out ZZ Top which was a non mover this particular week.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 16 July 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
still not doing fallers though
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 July 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
You forget Blur were new on when Delasoul were up to âRing ring ringâ and the KLF were on the Train to Trancentral etc
― Mark G, Friday, 16 July 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
Oh Propaganda are on!
(Sky arts)
― Mark G, Friday, 16 July 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
Hah, just caught âDuelâ⌠Claudia Brucken seemed a bit nervous and unsure, but still a delight to stumble across.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 16 July 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
whilst also single handedly destroying the ozone layer
(lol 80s hair)
― koogs, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link