What was the computer on The Chart Show called?

THE CHART SHOW had its initial headphone-shaped showing, with the embryonic version of that irritating "Banal facts about the acts plastered all over the screen in pretend computer display" gimmick, namely "HUD", a sort of fighter pilot cockpit display which was utterly illegible.

I remember seeing a screengrab of a H.U.D. screen somewhere on the web once. Can't remember where.

The Shamen
Sugarcubes
Pop Will Eat Itself
Nick Cave
Man From Delmonte
My Bloody Valentine

Vaguely La's like?

I think that H.U.D. wAS largely illegible too, although I am sure it occasionally gave up info on band members' favourite colours etc.

Rules and Regulations - Fuzzbox
Serpent's Kiss - Mission
Kiss - Age of Chance

The indie chart was only every three or four weeks, wasn't it? It alternated with other genres. Metal, maybe? What else? Dance?

the Icelandic version at that. stark and foreign, my mum hated it and i bought it the week after.

MFD got rereleased (1999) recently on Vinyl Japan. i had a bunch of tracks taped by a friend (i think the originals were tape releases themselves). nice clever lyrics.

http://www.twee.net/bands/manfromdelmo.html

INDIE and ROCK and DANCE were rotated and obviously indie was best because you'd get 4 seconds of Stereolab occasionally (maybe once every two years) whereas Dance was all tracks without videos so they showed goldfish-footage instead or something and Rock was just Mudhoney and who cared about that? really

also HOT SHOT and VIDEO VAULT etc were well-documented but the really elusive treats were ROUGH CUT (Kylie's Word Is Out video with a little clock in the corner before it had been edited properly or something) and END TO END (shortlived end-of-part-2 segment heralded by a big flag that Lisa Stansfield's All Woman was in, once, but I can't remember anything else ever being, it was less triumphant and week-defining than Hot Shot)

(although, this is ITV Chart Show and not channel 4 (I didn't realise it started on channel 4))

I thank the Chart Show 'Indie' chart for introducing me to all this. THAT's what's wrong with today's terrestrial TV music programming- no variety.

The whole format of this show was perfect really, from the lack of narration or irritating anoydyne model-looks presenter to the playing of appetite-whetting extracts of tracks coming up after the break. If digital broadcasting is an industry contracting as much as it is expanding then this is surely the most economical and FAILSAFE (people will watch it because people like music and music videos) way to present such a show, now more than ever?

Bloody hell, yes - I'd forgotten they played the original. There was much appreciation amongst the burgeoning indie-scenesters at my school the following day.

>Ultra Vivid Scene

I got the Mercy Seat EP the week after they showed that blurry footage of Kurt Ralske wandering around. They were a GREAT band.

I remember them always playing The Bible.

Tanita Tikaram, Good Tradition
Zodiac Mindwarp, Prime Mover
Kirsty McColl, Free World
Lita Ford, Kiss Me Deadly

I must have recorded it on video, because I can remember these videos too well: I actually bought records by two of the above as a result.

I think you young whippersnapper might have only seen later incarnations of the show, in which the display was fancy and GUI, with that mouse pointer. The H.U.D. version was a static overlay with H.U.D. in big letters at the top. You couldn't miss it.

Rock was just Mudhoney and who cared about that? really

You're definitely talking about the later version, Alex. Mudhoney would definitely be under 'indie' in the H.U.D. days.

Actually, I'm thinking that the 3-week genre rotation was a later development too. I think originally there might have been indie every week.

When I say Mudhoney I might be thinking Ministry. Indie EVERY WEEK is what dreams are made of.

I have about eight videos of chart show bits dating from 1992 onward, I have the last episode in full also, by which point they had started doing live interview/career overviews bits with Pulp and the Manics and Catatonia and Dubstar et al, having actual people on the Chart Show saying Things outside of video context was a bit grim and disorientating.

Repeat editions are seen on The Vault Saturdays at 11AM and repeated Thursdays at 5PM. The first edition, screened December 2, 2006 was the Review of 1992 special, originally screened December 26, 1992, episodes shown since have not been in order. Notably, the ITV logo has been removed from the title sequence of episodes that originally used it, as has the Video Visuals production caption from the end credits.

The show's earliest episodes will not be shown at this time, due to their storage on 1" Videotape which the channel doesn't have the ability to play, though there is the possibility of transferring them in future if the repeats prove popular. To date, the earliest episode shown has been the January 19, 1991 edition broadcast on December 30, 2006.

must be torrents out there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZs3nvik7xY (review of 1989 special)

iirc, and I probably don't, the initial Channel 4 incarnation was half an hour long and just the indie/rock/dance and main charts with no other vids or features.

I would love a programme like this again. So simple, so great.