Old TOTP (BBC4) (4 Viewers)

This Status Quo performance brings back bad memories of Come On the Reds.
 
Angry Anderson was such a fittie. I used to work with his niece (or something). She was also related to the singer of Southern Sun.

WOW.
 
I need to see this Petula Clark voxtastic performance again. Hard to believe she's still alive. What a hun.

 
Ag said:
Fine Time really wasn't one of New Order's finest.
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It's not a great song by any stretch of the imagination but it's a great record. But yeah, NO were at their best when they had both in their satchel. "Fine Time" is particularly bewildering in its 7" form, in which it is essentially a bunch of fragments cut together, lacking the internal logic of the 12".
 
Where was I?

Milli Vanilli. Poor sods. They really were burnt at the stake by the "real music" arseholes. Shit, mind you.
 
Tom Jones/Art Of Noise now seems quite surreal. Not least for the weird as stereo-panning and the AoN medley in the middle.

Also, very obvious who on that stage is actually in Art Of Noise.
 
Oh, I do remember Royal House right enough. Clearly did not need all 4 of them on stage there. It's dated very badly.
 
I hated Deacon Blue at the time. Now I wonder how on earth something so bland could have inspired such rage. May have been their local popularity.
 
octophone said:
Tom Jones/Art Of Noise now seems quite surreal. Not least for the weird as stereo-panning and the AoN medley in the middle.

Also, very obvious who on that stage is actually in Art Of Noise.
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In fairness, it was pretty surreal at the time.
 
Real Gone Kid was a bit of an ANTHEM at sixth form parties for me. I did try with slipping Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi into my Sharp radiocassette player but remember it being rather unceremoniously ejected and binned :(
 
Always amazed that Robert Palmer has never been the subject of "historical allegations". He was clearly just playing the role of sleazy git to perfection.
 
lolly said:
Real Gone Kid was a bit of an ANTHEM at sixth form parties for me. I did try with slipping Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi into my Sharp radiocassette player but remember it being rather unceremoniously ejected and binned :(
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It was that woo-oo chorus wasn't it? People just loved bellowing along to it.
 
"Stand Up For Your Love Rights" is OK but the keyboards really date it - the ravey piano and the squelchy bassline.
 
I find it odd that they elicit any strong emotion really, but Mr L has a well maintained aversion to them three decades on as well.
 
Sybil Ruscoe doesn't seem to have realised she was miked up by all the shouting she was doing. It is interesting to see all these random new faces presenting anyway after the same old faces for so long (I am missing Peel's periodic appearances though).

Dear me at the thrusting going on with Nathan Moore's dancing. Heading for a hip replacement or two that one.
 
I know she died and it was all really sad and poor old Glo and everything but I never did like Caron Keating
 
Bryan Ferry - from pop icon to fox hunting cumstain. No wonder Brian Eno keeps a safe distance.
 
That Tiffany record is a shocker. These are charts from a country that deserved a Conservative government.
 
I had also forgotten that absolute mauling of "Say A Little Prayer" by Bomb The Bass. Awful. I mean, the lass can sing but it just doesn't work at all.
 
It's a bit shit that Iron Maiden are at 6 but they show Deacon Blue at 8 for the third time. PSBs at 7 too.
 
octophone said:
Yeah but why the one off TOTP presenting? Did someone drop out last minute and Gary Davies went, oh my pal could do it? Oddness.
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It seems they were trying various new female presenters at this time with some of the old guard bowing out. Susie apparently got only one more go but she was easier on the ears than Sybil Ruscoe if nothing else.
 
I see....it's not that long until the Radio 1 DJs get the push altogether, is it? 1990? 1991?
 
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