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Is ANNIE'S 'Me plus One' going to be the last song ever to feature lyrics that hold Top of the Pops in any kind of esteem?

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Apart from nostalagia trips?

It was written and recorded just months prior to the announcement that the show will be going to bbc2, so i think yeah that's it.
There won't be another track to sing of Top of the Pops contemporarily as something worth aspiring to. Seems a bit of a shame, but a good tune to put the thing to bed. I wonder what people will use in songs in the future to replace the idea?

Which song mentioned it first?
We've probably already had a thread...

― piscesboy, Monday, 11 April 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

"Top Of The Pops" by the Rezillos I would have thought.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 11 April 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm wondering what the point of the new Top of the Pops is.

When they announced it was moving to a Sunday, I thought, "Great, they will put it on after the chart-show on Radio 1, possibly as a live show featuring that weeks chart".

But from what I understand it is going to be on BEFORE the charts are announced, meaning it is going to be almost exactly a week late.

It's going to be completely irrelevant.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

"THE LAST"

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Which song mentioned it first?

Maybe it was "Top Of The Pops" by The Kinks (1970).

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

It's moving to BBC2??

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

Popular is the new alternative.
TOTP should never have moved from the Thursday 7pm slot.

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

I hear that.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

it has to go out on Sunday evening and finish at 7pm to coincide with the new number 1, or they should just forget the whole thing. repeating it the following Thursday (on BBC2 if not BBC1) might not be so bad an idea to placate the old fans.

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

That's what I was hoping. But, and I forget where I heard this, someone said it was going to be on before the charts. Madness.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

JK and Joel said this on the Chart runover. I presume they watched a 'reheasal/practice'

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

then i guess the 'logic' is to encourage more people to listen to their show?

this is becoming an impressive run of INCREDIBLY BAD EXECUTIVE DECISIONS by the BBC. if it wasn't for the good people at CBeebies they'd be dead in a bin already.

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Watching Casanova made me late to the pub last night.

― Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

i watched short biodoc on Russell T Davies last night and my view on Casanova has softened as a result. still not ar5ed about actually watching it tho.

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Thursday, 7pm Top of the Pops followed by Tomorrow's World at 7.30 = Classic!

― dumbo, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't it the other way around? IIRC, the original John Dankworth theme tune to Tomorrow's World set us all up in anticipation for TOTP. Also, in the pre-EastEnders days TOTP was 45 rather than 30 minutes long, and because the charts were slower-moving in those days there was room for more music.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but it used to be 40 mins, ie you'd get the Smiths doing "That joke isn't funny anymore" even though it only made 44 or something.

10 minutes off = guitar bands copped it.

And Marcello is right again.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

OK yr right TW then TOTP

du du du du derrrrr
der der der
der der
derder

du du du du derrrrr
der der der
der der
derder

Was it Nationwide before TW? The News before that natch, preceded by Mary Mungo and Midge/The Magic Roundabout/The Clangers/whatever preceded by Blue Peter or was it John Craven's Newsround....

― dumbo, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

keep going, eventually you'll make it back to Inaugural Test Card

― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

sorry, usually only just home from school for Blue Peter, Jackanory if I was lucky

― dumbo, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)


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