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
I’d 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 “Ring ring ring” 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 “Duel”… 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
psycho candy era Mary chain too, from the tube. nice matt black guitar Jim has, unplayed.
some talk from Ian Mac, and now the cocteaus...
― koogs, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
is that one of fuzzbox playing with klf? and Harold from the Halifax?
― koogs, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
That's Cressdia who was married to Jimmy Cauty at the time.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 17 July 2021 08:26 (three years ago) link
Haha, wow, that Frances Nero song - I was totally convinced it was a cover of Sister Sledge Thinking of You to begin with. A bigger rip-off you could not find.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 17 July 2021 08:48 (three years ago) link
gosh yes! it's that song with 90s naffcore production and a load of 60s motown elements (strings, horns, backing vox). i do vaguely like it, but it is kind of awful. don't thing i've ever seen a bargain bin without a copy?
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Saturday, 17 July 2021 09:14 (three years ago) link
Frances Nero's line "Faith hope and charity, love is the greatest of the three" had the distinction of being quoted in Private Eye's "Colemanballs" column!
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 17 July 2021 10:39 (three years ago) link
It's an Ian Levine production, by the way, hence the tinniness (he was known for it).
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 17 July 2021 10:40 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Levine
his wikipedia is peak "wrote their own page" material
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 17 July 2021 10:52 (three years ago) link
Was that horrible Eurovision song Samantha Janus' first glimpse of fame?
― chap, Saturday, 17 July 2021 11:45 (three years ago) link
think so. aged 11 I did not grasp quite how crass and stupid it was but it's shocking now
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 17 July 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link
I have no memory of it from the time.
― chap, Saturday, 17 July 2021 12:06 (three years ago) link
Yeah, let's rewrite a Phil Collins song, but not as good.
― Mark G, Sunday, 18 July 2021 08:28 (three years ago) link
Thanks to the link to the Ian Levine wiki for alerting me to the existence of the single 'Doctor in Distress'. 😱
― Piedie Gimbel, Sunday, 18 July 2021 08:40 (three years ago) link
When I started buying second gand Hi-NRG records a few years ago, Ian Levine was the first producer I would recognise to be very careful to listen to before buying the records. Not to say he didn’t do a few good ones, but…
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 19 July 2021 08:18 (three years ago) link
*second hand
"High Energy" and "So Many Men So Little Time" are great singles but it's not because of the production
― boxedjoy, Monday, 19 July 2021 09:04 (three years ago) link
"Senza Una Donna" is a divorcecore classic. Zucchero whispering "even doing my own cooking" like it's taking all he has to admit he has been reduced to such a shameful condition is chef's kiss.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 19 July 2021 09:25 (three years ago) link
― Piedie Gimbel
"The music was played by Hans Zimmer on a Fairlight II synthesizer" lol.
― chap, Monday, 19 July 2021 09:31 (three years ago) link
Ian Levine and Hans Zimmer collaborated on quite a lot of tunes in the late 1980s, bizarrely enough.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 19 July 2021 10:01 (three years ago) link
hans zimmer produced the first krisma record!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5a9Tx_GCS
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Monday, 19 July 2021 10:04 (three years ago) link
oops dud dink:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5a9Tx_GCSE
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Monday, 19 July 2021 10:06 (three years ago) link
I had no idea of Hans Zimmer‘s earlier career. I like that Krisma track.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 19 July 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
He was briefly The Damned's producer too.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 July 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
Would be quite confident in putting tonight's first up as the worst edition in the history of the show
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 30 July 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
The second show tonight was pretty bad as well.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 30 July 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link
brambles not mingling with the proletariat, i notice.
― koogs, Friday, 6 August 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
Yeah, weird greenscreen experiment tonight, and they've found a new way to ruin the chart rundown.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 6 August 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
kenny thomas looks like a cross between shrek and barry from eastenders
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Friday, 6 August 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
Rebel MC though! Best tune for weeks. "People Are Still Having Sex" very enjoyable too.
― chap, Friday, 6 August 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
Conversely Any Dream Will Do is even worse than the first time round. I seem to have erased from my memory that horrible plinky sound that's all over the arrangement.
― chap, Friday, 6 August 2021 22:28 (three years ago) link
It won't be long before we get 16 weeks of Bryan Adams.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 9 August 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
well 8 weeks
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 August 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
yeah, you can probably outrun the police in your flash car, but those personalised plates are going to make you easy to track down.
― koogs, Friday, 13 August 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
Just the one episode this week. Shame it's presented by Bruno Brookes and features Bros.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 20 August 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
Axl Rose: Waste of Ammo...
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 20 August 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
that wasn't Kirsty MacColl singing with billy bragg. is that why the camera never focussed on her?
lisa lisa using samples nobody had touched for ~10 years.
― koogs, Friday, 20 August 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link