Old TOTP (BBC4)

"Better The Devil You Know" was the best Kylie in ages at this point, remembering that "ages" in pop music terms is 2 or 3 singles.
 
The Wonder Stuff's "Circlesquare" is an undervalued masterpiece. They were a shambles at the time, hence no in-studio appearance.

Oh, Gary Davies says they were in America. Fair enough.
 
The original version of "Won't Talk About It" with vocals by Billy Bragg was much better that the Lindy Layton version. This version is trying too hard to be current and is the worse for it.
 
I had not remembered that Paul Young was still having hits in the '90s.

I mean, I had justly let go of this particular fact, because this is as bland as a supermarket Chicken Tikka Masala.
 
I'm about to lose an episode - Black Box had serious diminishing returns.

Love "It's My Life" - Mark Hollis with his mouth closed over with make up because he refused to lipsync and didn't want to be in the video in the first place. What a delightfully awkward bugger he was.
 
Did Mute ever give Erasure a decent video budget? Or were they a bit thrifty themselves...?
 
I have no memory of Jane Child at all. Even watching this, nothing is coming back.
 
The "record made by a DJ and a sampler being mimed to by 6 of his mates" was a very shit genre.
 
"World In Motion" is still ace. I'm over wishing they'd done something better with the music and now I can just enjoy it for what it is. A novelty single by a group with the talent to spare.
 
I'm sure NIcky Campbell just referred to Janice Jackson :D

'Alright' is boring even by her standards
 
Nowt else to do and there appears to be rather a lot of episodes all of a sudden...

Never one of Pop Will Eat Itself's best, this Cicciolina nonsense. Nice of them to get a couple of their mates on TOTP tho', Dan out of Neds Atomic Dustbin on drums and Patricia Morrison, freshly binned fro the Sisters Of Mercy on vocals.
 
Diminishing returns hitting The Mission by this time...

That version of Venus was shite. "Don Pablo's Animals"? Medical experiments for the lot of them.
 
Would have struggled to tell you that Guru Josh had made another record.

I could easily recall that someone had covered "Thinking Of You" with one of the ubiquitous 1990 rhythm loops but I couldn't have told you who was responsible. Given that poor lass was known simply as "Maureen", this is hardly surprising.
 
I'm suffering serious Mandela Effect with this episode, given how it is almost entirely comprised of poor quality, almost speculative follow-up singles and shit covers. Or, in Snap!'s case, both.
 
It was always fun to see a metal band on TOTP. Especially when, like Magnum, they were clearly enjoying the incongruity.
 
Big Fun & Sonia. I had entirely forgotten this. Rightly.

Streaming really has killed the quick and cheap cover version. Good.
 
I automatically associate Wilson Phillips with VoR. This could have been decent without all that bombastic 80s production. Shows that chunks of Britain didn't have the same sudden shift into the 90s as a lot of us.
 
I've always hated Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Proud to have been right about them from the get go.

I like Bruce Dickinson on principle but covering all The Young Dudes should be a criminal offense.
 
This Thunderbirds song is both terrible and really bizarre. The bandage quote from Lady Penelope is just...
 
Turtle Power :zombie:

My memory of 1990 being pretty rotten is proving fairly accurate.
 
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Turtle Power :zombie:

My memory of 1990 being pretty rotten is proving fairly accurate.
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This is the interesting thing because I remember it being really good. Leaving school was probably one of the biggest plus points but musically, I had James, Inspiral Carpets, The Wedding Present, Public Enemy, The House Of Love, Pixies and Ride all on top form. The Fall dropped a terrific album and lots of singles and World Of Twist debuted before the year was out. I was absolutely the stereotypical white "baggy" indie kid but I remember it being a great time for a certain type of music. The club culture went past me, mind you.
 
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This is the interesting thing because I remember it being really good. Leaving school was probably one of the biggest plus points but musically, I had James, Inspiral Carpets, The Wedding Present, Public Enemy, The House Of Love, Pixies and Ride all on top form. The Fall dropped a terrific album and lots of singles and World Of Twist debuted before the year was out. I was absolutely the stereotypical white "baggy" indie kid but I remember it being a great time for a certain type of music. The club culture went past me, mind you.
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I will be equally as forgiving for 1994-96
 
Tom's Diner and Naked in the Rain, were both nifty little bops but honestly the sound hasn't aged well.
 
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