I've got miles behind again, but caught up on a few episodes last night. Really like Bizarre Inc - I'm Gonna Get You, one of those tunes that you know but can't remember who it's by or what it's called. Not sure if the worst outfit ever award goes to the cossack-tetris crew or Andy Bell.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 21 May 2022 08:01 (two years ago) link
story of 1998 tonight. I'm not sure i remember the last two.
and the last weekly show was Christmas special which are never great
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 09:57 (two years ago) link
xp I always get the feeling that there's a deliberate intention behind Andy Bell's costume decisions, even if I don't know what it is. Gluing styrofoam Tetris blocks onto a bodysuit however is pretty bad.
It's never a good sign when the Christmas episode is mostly going through the year month by month showing clips of songs. It means the producers thought there weren't enough strong enough songs to fill out an entire show. Despite moving away to university in late 1992 and not ever really watching TOTP even after a housemate got a TV, I remember seeing the 1992 Christmas show at my parent's house. I didn't think much of it then either.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 21 May 2022 10:12 (two years ago) link
1998 a really awful year for pop.
― chap, Saturday, 21 May 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
I don't know what East 17 were trying to do here but they look like they're channelling Madness.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 10 June 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
It must be love ..
― Mark G, Sunday, 12 June 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
The 'smoke weed twice a day' crew at university really like Duran Duran's 'Ordinary World' for some reason that I could never figure out. For me the song is an underwhelming attempt at... maturity? reflectiveness? coming to terms with their 80s past? I don't know. But I much prefer the (wild) boys when they're acting like pompous coked up yuppies worrying about their expense accounts and Learjets and Renoirs.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
There must be some kind of name for this kind of landfill dance music that consists of one line of vocals repeated over and over again, but it just reminds me of being in a shit-arse Ritzy's nightclub in the early 90s.I was so focussed on my dislike of Sting at the start of tonight's second show that I completely missed Take That standing right next to him.I've come to the conclusion that Stereo MCs are the Muse of dance music. Once you've heard three of their songs there's really no need to hear any more, and you can watch a video of either of these bands with the sound off and still know what the song probably sounds like.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 17 June 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
C'mon, Ordinary World has such an undeniable chorus.
― chap, Friday, 17 June 2022 23:55 (two years ago) link
Ordinary World is amazing when it has a big stadium trance backing and a singer with a pleasant voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA39yqwnX98
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 18 June 2022 09:40 (two years ago) link
Been catching up on a few of these. Pop Will Eat Itself were dreadful.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
I've always been well disposed towards them for their Prodigy collab, but yes that song is terrible.
― chap, Thursday, 23 June 2022 07:52 (two years ago) link
I quite liked it at the time, so it brought back some happy memories of wearing their T-Shirts. I think the remixed single version with slightly more polished singing was better - but I’m not going to dig it out just to proof myself wrong.
There must be some kind of name for this kind of landfill dance music that consists of one line of vocals repeated over and over again, but it just reminds me of being in a shit-arse Ritzy's nightclub in the early 90s.
Which song is this about. I recall their being a Snap one on which I had forgotten about and found myself quite enjoying.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 23 June 2022 09:38 (two years ago) link
Honestly I can't even remember which song it was I was referring to.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 23 June 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
I'm still catching up via iplayer but the last episode I watched felt like a real improvement with The Beloved and M People's best song, not even that weird racist performance from Gloworm or Sting's bizarre hat could spoil it
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 23 June 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
also, "No Limits" is the first song I remember dancing to as a child in the living room, we're heading into peak nostalgia for me!
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 23 June 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
Yeah, was really good to see that Beloved song.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 24 June 2022 07:29 (two years ago) link
What was up with the Gloworm performance?
― Mark G, Friday, 24 June 2022 09:58 (two years ago) link
We missed this in the episode they left out:https://t.co/Tns0kVSIvW
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Sunday, 26 June 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
Favourite part of last night's two episodes - the bit where a freeze frame of Brett from the Suede video s-l-o-w-l-y cross faded into the aerial shot of Miami before the kd Lang performance.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 2 July 2022 07:40 (two years ago) link
Xpost swines!
― Mark G, Saturday, 2 July 2022 07:48 (two years ago) link
it's becoming really obvious where the show's direction is not working. All these respectable acts like Sting, Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry - the only bit of life from the studio audience is when "No Limits" is performed.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 2 July 2022 07:50 (two years ago) link
the costumes and dancing were definitely a bit culture-as-costume
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 2 July 2022 07:52 (two years ago) link
the women playing with ferry looked very familiar but no credits on the single or lp for anybody female
― koogs, Saturday, 2 July 2022 11:35 (two years ago) link
Some real garbage this week. Didn't know and didn't need to know about this Hue & Cry remix of 'Labour Of Love'. Remember when Q magazine offered them £10 to split up?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 8 July 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link
Only one episode this week and all of it musical wallpaper (oh a song from a VW Golf ad!) until Robin S and 'Show Me Love'. Almost everything else has this 'smug gloss' over the top of it. I can't really explain it, it's like the performers are making the minimum effort while saying "look at how cool I am not caring about this". Even though this episode is from March 1993 these songs feel like they've been lazily put together to be 'summer hits'. Maybe, like punk and grunge before it, Britpop had to happen to get us away from where we'd ended up, and that the actual content of Britpop didn't matter so much as the 'getting away from somewhere' part.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 16 July 2022 07:59 (two years ago) link
Got to say if I a DJ dropped this Hue and Cry remix while I was on a good pinger I probably wouldn't leave the dancefloor.
Maybe it's just because I was 17 at the time and have rosey nostalgia for this era, but I'm now enjoying Snow - Informer.
More Covid-adled observations may follow as I continue watching the episode.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 10:52 (two years ago) link
I don't mind Labour of Love '93, but that functional tinny disco-house sound is the most 1993 thing in existence, and adorning it to an older hit to peddle a greatest hits is also what gave the Doobie Brothers their biggest UK hit later in the year
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 17 July 2022 10:56 (two years ago) link
I used to have this Grid track, quite fond memories of this one too, it had some nice remixes.
More nostalgia via Therapy? being an indie disco staple for a while, but I doubt anyone remembers the Big Country track.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:04 (two years ago) link
gave the Doobie Brothers their biggest UK hit later in the year
No spoilers 😉
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:05 (two years ago) link
I feel like if they skip episodes because Rold Harris is in them they should skip Right Said Fred ones too.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:09 (two years ago) link
Apologies - pretty much jumped into this thread without seeing if there was a rule.
The other in the trilogy that comes to mind we've already had, We are Family.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:20 (two years ago) link
Sorry, to be clear I don’t think there is a rule, I’m just being “very funny” :D
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:25 (two years ago) link
No rules, that's a different website
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:15 (two years ago) link
Only some websites have ominous bunny warrens in the corner, alas
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:23 (two years ago) link
Ah, remember it well...
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
David Bowie's cover of 'Here Comes The Night' isn't great but it's a lot better than this shouty mess of a version from David Essex.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 22 July 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
the casio preset reggae rhythm didn't really do the song any favours either
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 22 July 2022 20:34 (two years ago) link
This Duran Duran song feels like it's 15 minutes long.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 29 July 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
ffwd 29 years and they're opening the commonwealth games in clothes designed by stabilo boss...
― koogs, Friday, 29 July 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
They just making their marker..
― Mark G, Friday, 29 July 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
Honestly at the time I wasn't too bothered about Haddaway's 'What Is Love', but it's (rightly) a classic tune when played against some of the other songs these past few episodes.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 2 September 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
I'm miles behind, but just binge-watched a load of them tonight and saw the Hue & Cry one everyone was talking about upthread. I bought the original (1987) version and musically this 1993 one isn't too bad, but the fashion sense of the non-singing members of the band was absolutely criminal. I was a bit disappointed we didn't get to see this one, which appears not to have a been as big a hit as I thought it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQljxfLmcKg
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 2 September 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link
a little bit behind but I loved that performance of "Can You Forgive Her?" and also how everyone currently seems in competition to wear the most ostentatious hats
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 4 September 2022 08:37 (two years ago) link
For some unknown reason, an episode from 1987 is being shown on BBC2 tonight at 10pm.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00029mk
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
probably because it’s the only episode that features a Queen (Freddie Mercury performs “The Great Pretender”) and a King (Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” is that week’s number one). also, it features Christians.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 September 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
Should have been the following week, which features Freddie and King too, cus that's the JAMs 1987 episode and I missed it at the time.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 15 September 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link
The time = 2019
Caught up on a few more last night. Some good nostalgia from my early days of going to clubs (chart-based ones before graduating to 'proper' clubs): Sub Sub, Robin S and Cappella. Also The Bluebells at number one every week: I remember the one where they did the 'techno, techno, techno, techno' bit from There's No Limit, but didn't realise they did a different ad lib every week (culminating in 'there's no business like show business').
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 17 September 2022 08:42 (two years ago) link
Good to see Diane Charlemagne on last night‘s repeat.
Shara Nelson sounded like she had a cold.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 17 September 2022 11:15 (two years ago) link