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Post links to those performances which made TOTP essential viewing.

First up, The Associates performing Club Country in 1982.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSvQkOc4ZZs

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

uhhh... http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/archives/2006/06/top_of_the_pops.php

― Nadim Damluji (snoobs), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

The Move performing "California Man" in '72

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNClsvgv2V0&search=the%20move

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

1982, Tears For Fears performing 'Mad World'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61n3VfzAZYU&search=tears%20for%20fears%20mad%20world

― candice (divifold), Thursday, 22 June 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

1979, gary numan "are friends electric"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It9CTtUKrSo&search=Gary%20Numan

i discovered totp while living in the u.k. for about the first 8 months of that year. this was my favorite song.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 22 June 2006 02:16 (eighteen years ago)

1974: Wyatt says a big FUCK YOU to TOTP producers who think wheelchairs put viewers off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Lzg0O688I&search=robert%20wyatt

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

Youtube doesn't have The Tweets on TOTP. :(

― JimD (JimD), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

Human League Sound of the Crowd dry ice, half a haircut and BIG REEL TO REEL TAPES

― robster (robster), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

reel-2-reel tapes: OMD v Human League?

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, that Gary Numan clip kicks ASS!

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

There's a clip of Kraftwerk doing "Autobahn" on this page, apparently.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/videoclips/artist/index_k.shtml
I can't play it, so you try.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 June 2006 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

"The Move performing "California Man" in '72"

Dr. C to thread: Wasn't that the first TOTP you ever watched?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

i can't believe nobody's posted this yet.

yes, it's new order doing blue monday. live. i think it dropped 20 places the following week

this has obviously been taken from neworderstory, but hey.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

holy fucking shit, THIEVES LIKE US is there too. i've never seen this. wow.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

And you call yourself a fan. (Er, I'd never seen that either.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

and it's reminded me of everything i loved about new order.

weirdly, given that between them gillian and steve are making a farty arse of the whole job, it's a pretty stunning vocal performance from barney.

1979, gary numan "are friends electric"

being the guitarist in the tubeway army wasn't a challenging job, was it? :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Jarvis Cocker doing Walk Like A Panther

― carson dial (carson dial), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

How come B&S' "Legal Man" performance isn't on Youtube? Twee people: up speed.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Sparks- This Town Ain't Big Enough...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Remember when TOTP2 would show that performance of "Gary Gillmore's Eyes" every fucking week? Relive it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

Our Kate recreates the video for "Wuthering Heights" live in the studio.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

"Da da da, I don't love you, you don't love me".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, "recreates the video!" From what I can tell, every Kate song has its own choreography / interpretive dance, which would seem to exist -- like the song -- totally independent of medium or format, video or stage. (Except maybe for "Sat in Your Lap" or whichever one has all the rollerskating.) After a long night of youtubing I can now passably perform a couple of those dances. There's something alternately lovable and horrifying about how literally interpretive she is about every single line -- e.g. "Wuthering Heights" seems bad enough with the "I hated you" (angryface) "I loved you, too" (dreamface), but then comes the chorus where she actually trots around pretending to be Catherine's ghost, shivering ("so cold") and pressing her palms mime-style against the window.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

It's all very Bowie.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Neil bothers to make an effort, Chris doesn't: "Domino Dancing"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

This performance turned meindie.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Nik Kershaw: dress sense and dancing abilities.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Goth alert! Goth alert!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuC2pBnV2fo

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Tiffany, dressed and looking like shit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Yoshimi battles the robots, with added Timberlake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAeoBgQSiTI

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

The Belle Stars, ladies and gentlemen.

a) They've managed to construct a dance routine that somehow contains no "clapping"
b) the lead singer apparently invented lesbian attire for the next 20 years.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

"He always beat me at Subetteo/ Because he flicked a kick and I didn't know"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

Is there life in Peckham?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

"It's monkey business, on a sunny afternoon"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

christ almighty, ailsa!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

It's not just me that finds the concept of Richard Blackwood introducing Bowling for Soup funny, is it?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Beck! Old people! Bruno fucking Brookes!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

actually, that alexei sayle thing - of which i had but the faintest memory until four minutes ago - is genuinely a work of some surreal kinetic genius. my love and respect for the soi-disant fat bastard grows larger by the day.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

"Fairytale Of New York"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Cee-Lo cruises at 30,000 feet

Some guillemots, last week

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

Heaven 17 doing 'Temptation' with the fantastic Carol Kenyon - as Philip Larkin might have said if he'd been my age: "sexual intercourse began in nineteen eighty-three".

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh! Adam Ant makes his solo debut with 'Goody Two Shoes' - an epochal TotP performance, I seem to remember for his use of the whole studio!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

Julian Cope, star of the mainstream.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Del Shannon, 1965

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

(whoops this is actually the Adam Ant clip I meant.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

that robert wyatt clip is amazing.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

DAS QUO UND DIE MENNE VON MATCHSTICKEN

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Captain Sensible performs 'Wot' from his bed.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

The Saints do their best "We came from Australia for this>" faces

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

Pan's People or Legs and Co or somewhat like that dance to "Hands Up Hands Up" by Ottowan dressed as can-can girls, video clip totally unlabelled and has apparently been uploaded by some sort of stockings fetishist.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Without which this thread wouldn't be complete: Baltimora, 'Tarzan Boy'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

It's just your manhood, Kev

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

again, as a very young and impressionable child, i thought midge ure and chums were the most exciting and exotic proposition imaginable.

now i think: "MIDGE, WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU GOT ON YOUR HEAD?"

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

Proustian rush, thy name is Echo and the Bunnymen doing 'Silver.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

(or perhaps thy name is The Lotus Eaters doing 'First picture of you'!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

Simon Bates is amused by Bauhaus
Uptown Top Ranking. Obv.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

The most complaints ever, apparently

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

Not just the most complaints on TOTP, but the most complaints for anything in British broadcasting history.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

That Nirvana one

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Blimey! It's Sleeper!

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

A room full of drama teachers, listening to...

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sham 69 - Hersham Boys

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

SLF

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

Not just the most complaints on TOTP, but the most complaints for anything in British broadcasting history.

Call me dumb, but why, exactly? Is it because of the balaclava? (I've seen the clip before and I actually think it's pretty damned great for a mimed performance and all.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it was the balaclava - wasn't it in the middle of an IRA bombing campaign or something?

(Note: Richey miming? Surely not)

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

Because it was seen as a deliberate reference to the IRA, and the clip went out (if memory serves) only a few months after the Shankhill Road bombings.
(xp)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

DOCTOR WHOOOO-OOH.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

QOTSA

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

Recently added:

Boomtown Rats-Rat Trap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujfV7W-N0GE&search=totp

Iggy Pop-Real Wild Child

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJUheKbciaI&search=totp

Roy Wood's Wizzard-See My Baby Jive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z42etNcDlew&search=totp

Lene Lovich-Lucky Number

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVjMIRqYWac&search=totp

Lulu-Boom Bang A Bang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfZ_ikIKCXI&search=totp

Theatre of Hate-Do You Believe in the West World W/an intro by John Peel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUX194UUB_g&search=totp

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

ALTERED IMAGES!

"See Those Eyes" (sigh!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEDCIiEFdY

"Don't Talk To Me About Love":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u3sXM5eR-4

― David Orton (scarlet), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

Green Day:FROM CALIFORNIA

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

Marc Bolan is map pretty

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 June 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

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