Old TOTP (BBC4)

She used her SECRET COMBINATION

ALMAZ is so lovely but WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS IT ABOUT

OH HANG ON

"Almaz" was written about a couple of Eritrean refugees who were neighbours of Crawford's. The man asked Crawford to write a song about his wife, who was named Almaz (which means "diamond" in Amharic, Arabic and a number of other languages). In the song, the singer reflects on their rare form of love. In Crawford's own words, "I witnessed this perfect love affair between them, although she was considerably younger than him. This beautiful couple with their baby. As refugees they were looking for 'a world where love survives'
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WELL DID YOU EVAH. It's about DIRTY IMMIGRANTS. I don't LIKE IT ANY MORE
 
I assume the foppy pouty lead singer of the Blow Monkeys is a raging homo.

But WHO KNOWS?
 
I don't think I realised just how omnipresent The Smiths were throughout the 1980s.

Morrissey is such a shame really.
 
We lost the Smiths just when they could have gone supernova. It's as if The Beatles split after Rubber Soul. If Moz hadn't been such a prissy knob, we could have had so much more. And now, of course, he's a colossal cunt. Tragic.
 
Ag said:
I assume the foppy pouty lead singer of the Blow Monkeys is a raging homo.

But WHO KNOWS?
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Nope. Wife, kids, the whole thing. Re-established his hetro credentials by playing bass for Paul Weller for a bit. No, really.
 
I still can't decide about SWING OUT SISTER even after all these years. Although the video for SURRENDER is a HORROR and someone must have been having a laugh getting her to sing about WEVENGE
 
octophone said:
Nope. Wife, kids, the whole thing. Re-established his hetro credentials by playing bass for Paul Weller for a bit. No, really.
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Wow. I've always assumed he was based on Digging Your Scene and after seeing that performance I was more convinced.
 
DR ROBERT was just a FOP I'm afraid

But you can't KNOCK him because DIGGING YOUR SCENE was the first POP SONG about the AIDS and THIS is FANTASTIC



Looking quite SNEERY In that though DR BOB
 
TOTP from 19/02/87 was shown tonight on BBC4. But the edition from 26/02/87 won't be...

26/02/87 (Mike Smith & Steve Wright)
The Jets – “Crush On You” (9)
Simply Red – “The Right Thing” (15) (video)
The Cult – “Love Removal Machine” (18)
Level 42 – “Running In The Family” (7)
The Communards – “You Are My World” (21) (breaker)
A-ha – “Manhattan Skyline” (17) (breaker)
Mental As Anything – “Live It Up” (8)
Ben E. King – “Stand By Me” (1) (video)
Duran Duran – “Skin Trade” (24) (+ credits)

https://goo.gl/SVwzmp
 
All these 60s soul tracks filling up the top of the charts are QUITE DULL.
 
I haven't done this in ages...1987 doesn't feel as immediately interesting...anyway, best get this done before they start disappearing.

Jesus - what a start, Gary Davies introducing Status Quo. Did Sid Vicious die for this?
 
Elkie Brooks had a baby at Xmas and called him Joseph? What a basic bitch. Shite awful tune as well.
 
This Gary Moore record was better in my memory. I'd forgot the rubbish 80's synth strings.
 
Gary Davies two weeks in a fucking row???

I envied Corrine Drewery's hair then and I still do now.
 
Shirley said:
DR ROBERT was just a FOP I'm afraid

But you can't KNOCK him because DIGGING YOUR SCENE was the first POP SONG about the AIDS and THIS is FANTASTIC



Looking quite SNEERY In that though DR BOB
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Essential

They do some gigs in a pub near here sometimes I have yet to see them
 
"A guy who's been trying to have a hit in this country for years" says Gary Davies about Iggy Pop. Ignorant fuckwit.
 
"The Boy In The Bubble" is a legit banger. Great record, best Paul Simon ever made (on his own, anyway)
 
Gary Davies a-fucking-gain??? And with Steve Wright? Good God.

I don't remember this Dead Or Alive record...a product of the long-gone January sales/releases lull, I expect.
 
"Rat In Mi Kitchen"! :D

We had a Maths teacher with prominent front teeth who was nicknamed Ratface (not to her face). When the unofficial school magazine did a spoof NOW compilation, they gave her this song and she went fucking mental. It still makes me laugh now.
 
None of this miming crap for Randy Crawford. I remember the record but could not have told you the title. Almaz sounds like somewhere teenagers go to on holiday to get drunk and neck some pills. "She's young and tender" makes the subject of the song sound like a lamb shank.
 
Were The Mission on a Mike Smith week? Downer, I liked them....and Curiosity Killed The Cat are still shit.
 
Siouxsie And The Banshees. Legends. I actually have this performance on a DVD. The outfits are peak 80's goth glam, gotta love it.
 
Fun fact: Siouxsie nearly had this pulled because she hadn't realised Bob Dylan had written the song and she hated him. So Wright mentioning him probs cheesed her off.
 
I had completely forgotten that "Jack Your Body" was a number one! The start of the trend of a not-necessarily-commercial dancefloor smash being a chart topper?
 
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