Music Clips You Never Want To See Again Ever, Ever, EVER

1. Starman
2. Maggie May with Peel and football

You get the idea.

ah right, never want and/or need to.

3. 50s guy smashing record and saying "Rock and roll has got to go"
4. Various twerps blowing bubbles at 60s rock festivals

THE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY VIDEO!!!

There, I said it! And now I am pleeeeeased!

6. Same four girls putting hands to cheeks and screaming at Beatles band.

7. 'Fool's Gold' on Top of the Pops

8. LouJag hoover karaoke

9. Alan Price Don't Stop The Carnival on TOTP YES BBC WE KNOW YOU'VE ONLY GOT THREE CLIPS LEFT FROM THE SIXTIES BECAUSE YOU WERE TOO STUPID/SNOBBISH/SKINFLINT TO PRESERVE THEM AT THE TIME STOP SHOWING THEM

10. Jagger & Bowie, Dancing in the Streets
11. Anything from Live Aid

12. Eva Freaking Cassidy

13. ...and "Do They Know It's Christmas"

14. Osmonds Crazy Horses
15. Jackson 5 Rockin' Robin

I got MTV for the first time in late 1990, watched it day and night and there were some heavy rotation clips I got so sick of I prefer never to see them again:

16. Jon Bon Jovi: Blazy Of Glory
17. Maria McKee: Show Me Heaven
18. Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2 U
19. ZZ Top: Give It Up

Well, geir, for once.. yes.

Although I don't think I've seen 19.

You've seen one ZZ Top video, etc...

yeah, subst: Viva Las Veg.

20. John Lennon, "Imagine"

You've seen one ZZ Top video, etc...

I actually think the vids to "Sleeping Bag" and "Rough Boy" were both kind of cool.

21. Pan's People routines to Monster Mash/Get Down.

22. Pan's People routines

23. All You Need Is Love

Aerosmith - Crazy (on heavy rotation in a workplace that had MTV running all day, drove me nuts...)

25. Walk This Way, while you're at it

I love all Aerosmith videos and idc.
Video I don't want to see again is basically Beyonce's 'If I Were A Boy' its just painful. Or that awful gut wrenching misery that is Chanelle's pop video.

28 and 29. Those two clips that end up in every punk documentary ever. You know the ones, that guy in the audience pointing his finger, and the two women doing that nearly-bang-you-heads-together punk dance.

30. Jimi Hendrix on stage, looking directly at the camera and waggling his tongue (last seen on Yentob's "I Don't Know Very Much About The Guitar" series)

31. Everything on the TOTP2 Christmas "Special" - it's exactly the same stuff every year in exactly the same order with only minimally amended "commentary" by Steve Shite.

32. Couples awkwardly frugging in 60s nightclub

class of 1984 recording 'do they kow it's christmas' in the studio

Music Clips You Don't Have To See Again Ever Ever Ever

They never show the Band Aid II one. I knew they were struggling when Chris Tory Hell Rea was given the second line.

34. In every Documentary about Pink Floyd or the 1960's Underground Music Scene or IT Magazine.

Hans Keller on Look Of The Week asking a smug Roger Waters 'But vy does it have to be zo loud?'

35. Spice Girls, Wannabe

xpost and yet they never show Syd responding to the question(s)! (I believe he did)

Audience reaction shots from Monterey Pop, particularly Mama Cass wow-ing at Janis Joplin and the Monkees' drummer getting clap-happy over Ravi Shankar.

He did, something about playing in ballrooms or something (xp)

37. Flagbearing Bono ftw

31. Everything on the TOTP2 Christmas "Special" - it's exactly the same stuff every year in exactly the same order with only minimally amended "commentary" by Steve Shite.

― synths and drum machines (e.g. Simmonds) (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:20

It'll be eight times worse this year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7695145.stm

The Top of the Pops Christmas Special (...) will not be shown this year, the BBC has announced. Instead the broadcaster will screen eight special episodes of the programme's archive spin-off, TOTP2.

Eight, FFS. You can imagine people with paper hats on their heads, bottle of brandy in hand, drinking themselves stupid as Steve Wright lines up another quip and a clip.

"Robert Palmer, ladies and gentlemen, he's just started a major tour of the UK..."

What a bunch of cowards.

Eight shows and you already know that it's going to be the same old clips we've seen a million times before, despite every TOTP edition since autumn 1978 having been preserved in full, with boring "new" "adult" videos for an ageing audience.

Instead of one spectacular show with the best of 2008's hits, archive clips that NEVER get shown and a sneak preview of 2009 which would get a massive pre-Queen audience and even help rejuvenate the programme.

But the BBC seem more interested - and who can blame them? - in defending their staff against tabloid bullies.

So it won't happen.

38. Mud and Tiger Feet

Thriller - Michael Jackson.

Yes, it is a great song, and a great dance routine, I'm not denying that. However, I've seen it enough. I especially no longer want to see the long version.

"This year it was felt that pop music would be better represented over Christmas by an eight-part series of TOTP2 that will reflect some of the year's key hits and possibly the Christmas Number One."

So, it might happen?

39. Steve Dahl and Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park

So, are they so desparate *not* to revive TOTP, that they basically make 6 episodes of TOTP2 that look much like TOTP itself?

In fact, what is the difference between the "Christmas TOTP" (which, last time I saw it, was two parted), and this?

In any case, bbc4 will still repeat the TOTP2 christmas compilation as per usual, you know it.

They will most probably be six ten-minute episodes with "Starman," "Maggie May" and whoever wins X-Factor.

Isn't the concept of TOTP2 itself redundant in this YouTube age?

Maybe they can combine the TOTP/TOTP2 Christmas Special with lennyhenry.tv, and make a programme that's even more irrelevant to anyone with internet access.

len: "And, Whay! Here's a bit of film of John Peel playing FOOTBALL on TOP OF THE POPS, um, Katanga."

"DJ John Peel" to assuage those thrusting Thatcherkid viewers whose memories don't stretch as far back as 2004.

I know! It'll be the same old clips interpersed with some Z list talking heads!

"Old bloke with a beard miming to a mandolin what was that all about Neil Reid Super Mousse Come Back Mrs Noah and then Del falls through the bar eh eh?"

"39. Steve Dahl and Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park"

I could watch that every day of my life, mostly for Harry Caray's pleading the crowd over the PA to get off the field.