Old TOTP (BBC4)

Oh no it's the FLAME-HAIRED HARRIDAN

Tie down the ORNAMENTS and BRACE BRACE BRACE
 
You've got to love RICK really don't you. Although WHENEVER YOU NEED SOMEBODY is a particular CORKER :disco:
 
I got my snatch of BEETHOVEN :) What a meagre serving though :(

LIKE a CAFE, for EXAMPLE
 
I'm not watching it right now but IS THIS THE EPISODE WITH BARRY WHITE ON?

SHO' YOU RIGHT ABOUT ROMANCE
SHO' YOU RIGHT ABOUT LOVE
SHO' YOU RIGHT ABOUT TONIGHT
AND YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT US
:disco: :horny::disco:
 
Dinner With Gershwin really is THAT track. What an anthem!

That was a slightly off version of So Emotional, right?

Also FUCK OFF CAROL DECKER.
 
How come I know all the words to HERE I GO AGAIN? :confused:

Perhaps I'm suffering from FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME
 
I suspect that's the first and last time we'll see Blue Mercedes.

This Boy George song is banal.
 
I do love China in Your Hand. I don't really understand how horrendous she is meant to be.
 
Old Shaky RAVIN (as per Simon Bates) up the chart AGAIN, still dancing to an entirely different tune like an unfortunate uncle at a wedding.
 
So The Housemartins belatedly got themselves a sort of hot one with the arrival of the other one from The Beautiful South. I do like Build too.
 
The Hooters seem to be more than a bit shit. Glad to see it appears to be a one time visit to the UK charts.
 
Where was I - "Walk The Dinosaur"...decent, still good fun. Poor David Was having to mime the guitar which he clearly can't play (he wrote the group's lyrics).
 
How many people, in 1987, knew what "Rent" was really about? I certainly didn't.
 
Gotta be honest, I couldn't remember "The Circus" by Erasure at all. It sounds a wee bit too much like the superior "Ship Of Fools" so that probably supplanted "The Circus" in my mind...

Also, given how much of an indie classic "Just Like Heaven" is, it's funny to remember that it sold not very many as a single.
 
I know it is a bit creepy but I can't help but groove a little to I Don't Think That Man Should Sleep Alone.

I;m trying to work out if the title is meant to mean "I don't think that particular mas should sleep alone" or "I don;t think any male being should have to sleep alone". Either way - GRIM
 
I wanted BEETHOVEN :(
Take a girl like THAT, and put her in a natural setting.

We got a bit on the Breakers there. Easy to forget how WEIRD that record sounded and how badly it was received. Even Morrissey raised a bushy eyebrow at it on Round Table, wondering aloud if the b-side had been played in error!
 
Scarlet Fantastic - this sounds terrific today. Why wasn't this number one for a month? Oh yeah, we live(d) in a country where T'Pau did that instead. Fuck.
 
Richard Coles looks really uncomfortable standing up with a synth rather than sitting down at a piano. The Communards clearly weren't long for this world.
 
These episodes are eminently skippable. Blue Mercedes were more White Fiesta really, weren't they?
 
So The Housemartins belatedly got themselves a sort of hot one with the arrival of the other one from The Beautiful South. I do like Build too.

The Housemartins were actually very very good indeed. They crammed a lot into a short lifespan and, heard now, "Build" is clearly the beginning of The Beautiful South in which Heaton would refine this line of his songwriting to tremendous success.
 
Marti Pellow just can't stay still can he?

I guess those heroin shakes can't be helped.
 

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