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last.caress wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 8:43 pm The 1977 episode is truly mindbending in its horror
Excruciating. It's no wonder punk happened, is it.
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Yup, 77 was a horror movie.

Highlight for me of the four was Cashflow, Mine All Mine. One of my all time fav tunes.

Choon. :decks:
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Seem to recall '77 as being a lame year too, what with 'Telephone Man' and 'Calling Occupants'. 'Heroes' was that year though wasn't it? And it's now 'cool' to like 'I Feel Love'.
Punk had already happened, but I wasn't listening to it.
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vietnammer wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 11:23 am And it's now 'cool' to like 'I Feel Love'.
I'm getting a 'Disco Sucks' vibe here... :decks:
vietnammer wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 11:23 amPunk had already happened, but I wasn't listening to it.
Not much bar The Pistols before '77, was there V? In terms of what most would recognise punk as, ie a predominantly UK movement, not necessarily including pioneers like The NY Dolls/Ramones etc.
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Um...

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Thankfully Bon Scott and co. were in place to save us all (as, in fairness, was Plastic Bertrand earlier in the show):



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I thought Bronski Beat's live version of Smalltown Boy was going to blow everything else out of the water, but then Plastic Bertrand turned up.
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Absolute bumper week.

AC/DC
The video of Kylies Put Yourself In My Place.
Jimmy Nail with what appeared to be Acl Rose on backing vocals
Sheryl Crow
Plastic (well the baguette sisters stole the show)
The Smurf’s
Lindisfarne

And David bleedin Soul

84 stank the place out though
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last.caress wrote: Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:55 pm Um...

I love that song.

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I can't find a YouTube clip, but Boney M tonight, Ma Baker from 1977; the male 'singer' (I think he was a dancer who mimed), some of his moves were amazing, almost proto-robotics. Watch it on iPlayer.
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1980 was an absolute cracker last night
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Who else stomped around the living room to Bad Manners?
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When was it on last night? I tuned in at 7pm as per and there was some sort of jazz recital happening. Haven't seen it for a few weeks tbh. Have they changed the time for it? I got bored watching the jazz and stuck the new Evil Dead film on instead which, in fairness, did resemble some of those seventies episodes of TotP.
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^ It's been on after the Proms for the last few weeks, and presumably will be for the next month or so. They have binned off the 90s episodes and are mainly 80s and late 70s, at least for the time being.
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southbrishammer wrote: Sat Aug 05, 2023 6:23 pmThey have binned off the 90s episodes
Thank God for that. Were some absolute stinkers from that decade in recent weeks.
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76 > 84, going by these first two tracks
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You're kidding?

I'm a bit too young to have liked punk when it happened (Johnny Rotten scared the hell out of me as an 8 year old), but that 1976 episode was a perfect example of why punk was needed. I've never heard Cliff Richard sing falsetto before, but I sincerely hope I never do again.
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southbrishammer wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:28 am You're kidding?

I'm a bit too young to have liked punk when it happened (Johnny Rotten scared the hell out of me as an 8 year old), but that 1976 episode was a perfect example of why punk was needed. I've never heard Cliff Richard sing falsetto before, but I sincerely hope I never do again.
Haha make you right there. Absolute shocker of an episode.

I'd have been 12 but the Bee Gees, Manfred Mann, Elton John & Kiki Dee were the only songs I knew.

Don't even remember the dance group, who must have had a short reign between Pans People and Legs & co
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southbrishammer wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:28 am You're kidding?

I'm a bit too young to have liked punk when it happened (Johnny Rotten scared the hell out of me as an 8 year old), but that 1976 episode was a perfect example of why punk was needed. I've never heard Cliff Richard sing falsetto before, but I sincerely hope I never do again.
Yeah fair enough, went downhill fast after Manfred Mann & BeeGees. That cliff “falsetto” was excruciating and it didn’t really recover from there.
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A fair amount of pish so far today. Can 89 save things? Hasn't started brilliantly, if I'm honest...
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