The Top of the Pops Thread

The all-encompassing home of media discussion - including music, film, and television.

Moderators: Gnome, last.caress, Wilko1304, Rio, bristolhammerfc, the pink palermo, chalks

Post Reply
User avatar
simonpaulthomas
Posts: 3190
Joined: Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:17 pm
Location: Plymouth
Has liked: 259 likes
Total likes: 224 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by simonpaulthomas »

I have heard he rips it hardcore like porno flick bitches, yes.
User avatar
dasnutnock3
Posts: 6457
Joined: Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:38 pm
Has liked: 1859 likes
Total likes: 2445 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by dasnutnock3 »

The 8pm one tonight is the one to watch. Rest are 92 & 94 sh*te.
User avatar
last.caress
Star Raid-er
Posts: 16729
Joined: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:38 pm
Location: Eyes that shine, burnin' red. Dreams of you all through my head.
Has liked: 1228 likes
Total likes: 1648 likes
Contact:

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by last.caress »

Winner tonight was the still magnificent M-Beat feat. General Levy (with apologies for the horrible watermark across the YouTube upload). The world is in trouble! :scarfer:

User avatar
southbrishammer
Posts: 5820
Joined: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:46 pm
Location: South Bris
Has liked: 114 likes
Total likes: 340 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by southbrishammer »

I found myself unexpectedly enjoying The Grid (although it was a shameless Orbital ripoff), General Levy, and strangest of all, from 1992, Kriss Kross. I think they were the missing link between Musical Youth and PJ & Duncan.
User avatar
dasnutnock3
Posts: 6457
Joined: Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:38 pm
Has liked: 1859 likes
Total likes: 2445 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by dasnutnock3 »

southbrishammer wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 11:02 pmKriss Kross. I think they were the missing link between Musical Youth and PJ & Duncan.
:crylol:
User avatar
dasnutnock3
Posts: 6457
Joined: Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:38 pm
Has liked: 1859 likes
Total likes: 2445 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by dasnutnock3 »

last.caress wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 9:07 pm Winner tonight was the still magnificent M-Beat feat. General Levy
Legit live performance, I thought :thup:

Sen-say-aish-o-narl
User avatar
Up the Junction
Thinks he owns the place
Posts: 70931
Joined: Wed Dec 04, 2002 12:03 am
Has liked: 744 likes
Total likes: 3444 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by Up the Junction »

southbrishammer wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 11:02 pm I found myself unexpectedly enjoying The Grid (although it was a shameless Orbital ripoff).
The Grid, a side project of Dave Ball from Soft Cell.
User avatar
southbrishammer
Posts: 5820
Joined: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:46 pm
Location: South Bris
Has liked: 114 likes
Total likes: 340 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by southbrishammer »

Outside of the 1983 episode which was pretty much pure class, Shane MacGowan from 94 and Cameo's dance moves from 87 were tonight's winners for me.
User avatar
last.caress
Star Raid-er
Posts: 16729
Joined: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:38 pm
Location: Eyes that shine, burnin' red. Dreams of you all through my head.
Has liked: 1228 likes
Total likes: 1648 likes
Contact:

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by last.caress »

Shame MacGowan and The Popes definitely won TOTP this week but if any of you fine gentlemen had kept watching you'd have found the real winner in amongst the show afterwards, Queens of Song at the BBC: The incomparable Grace Jones, performing Slave to the Rhythm on Wogan:

User avatar
Toulouse_Iron
The boy's got form
Posts: 8008
Joined: Fri Jan 24, 2003 1:07 pm
Location: A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can get its pants on
Has liked: 279 likes
Total likes: 349 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by Toulouse_Iron »

Grace Jones, proper nutter and icon. I recently bought a cd of her best of: Island Life including that magnificent song
Image
User avatar
Rio
Ronnie Biggs was here
Posts: 25987
Joined: Wed Dec 04, 2002 1:29 pm
Location: Reykjavik comma Iceland full stop
Has liked: 159 likes
Total likes: 1080 likes
Contact:

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by Rio »

Not a vintage week, but enough, even for me to not be constantly hitting fast forward.

Our Lips Are Sealed, never going to be as good as The Go Gos but it was still decent.

Corona. Not my kind of thing but enjoyable enough.

And 2 helpings of Whigfield. Game on

I’ve being singing Nothings Going to Stop Us Now all morning. And still have no recollection of Naomi Campbell having a music career. 75 minutes of watching it.
User avatar
last.caress
Star Raid-er
Posts: 16729
Joined: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:38 pm
Location: Eyes that shine, burnin' red. Dreams of you all through my head.
Has liked: 1228 likes
Total likes: 1648 likes
Contact:

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by last.caress »

The 1979 episode last night was a minor classic with The Skids, Tubeway Army, Roxy Music and Blondie but the highlight for me was a prerecorded bit from the immortal David Robert Jones:

User avatar
Billy Hunt
Posts: 3207
Joined: Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:05 pm
Has liked: 469 likes
Total likes: 354 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by Billy Hunt »

last.caress wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 9:36 am The 1979 episode last night was a minor classic with The Skids, Tubeway Army, Roxy Music and Blondie but the highlight for me was a prerecorded bit from the immortal David Robert Jones
Was indeed, add Ellis Costello to that too.

The Bowie video was fantastic wasnt it !


And who the hell were ‘Liner’ ? No recollection of them or their song 🤷🏻‍♂️
User avatar
Chicken Run Supreme
Posts: 14866
Joined: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:58 am
Location: Exiled in Angus
Has liked: 856 likes
Total likes: 823 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by Chicken Run Supreme »

Highlight of the evening for me was Japan performing Cantonese Boy on the 1982 episode



Mick Karn's fretless bass was such an integral part of the Japan sound and was in full flow on Cantonese Boy. I was taken back to being 16/17 and listening to Tin Drum endlessly on the turntable in my bedroom.
last.caress wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 9:36 am The 1979 episode last night was a minor classic with The Skids, Tubeway Army, Roxy Music and Blondie but the highlight for me was a prerecorded bit from the immortal David Robert Jones:
Agreed, an absolute classic episode kicking off with The Skids and Richard Jobson’s hilarious dad-dancing, the ultra cool Bryan Ferry dancing away with Roxy Music and also Tubeway Army. I remember seeing that episode first time round, sad old guy that I am, and it blew me away, it was 1979 and there was nothing else like it that was getting into the charts and this went all the way to No.1, also noteworthy for spotting Ultavox’s Billy Currie on keyboards behind Gary Numan. Chuck in Blondie and Bowie and that is a vintage episode for sure.
User avatar
last.caress
Star Raid-er
Posts: 16729
Joined: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:38 pm
Location: Eyes that shine, burnin' red. Dreams of you all through my head.
Has liked: 1228 likes
Total likes: 1648 likes
Contact:

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by last.caress »

Billy Hunt wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 12:12 pm Was indeed, add Elvis Costello to that too.
Absolutely! :newthumb: I had a feeling there was someone I'd forgotten.
Billy Hunt wrote: Sat May 27, 2023 12:12 pm And who the hell were ‘Liner’ ? No recollection of them or their song 🤷🏻‍♂️
No idea. Definitely a low point for the episode, although the lead singer looked scarily like David Patrick Kelly, the villainous Luther in The Warriors (Hill, 1979).



User avatar
Chicken Run Supreme
Posts: 14866
Joined: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:58 am
Location: Exiled in Angus
Has liked: 856 likes
Total likes: 823 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by Chicken Run Supreme »

^^^^ That is a proper doppelgänger
User avatar
last.caress
Star Raid-er
Posts: 16729
Joined: Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:38 pm
Location: Eyes that shine, burnin' red. Dreams of you all through my head.
Has liked: 1228 likes
Total likes: 1648 likes
Contact:

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by last.caress »

The 1977 episode is truly mindbending in its horror this evening but the one tipping me over the edge, I think, is this one:



Not altogether sure what this one was all about either tbh with its enormous Union Flag backdrop:



Or this one:

User avatar
vietnammer
Bucky the beaver
Posts: 31673
Joined: Sun Dec 08, 2002 2:31 am
Location: Those little golden birdies look at them
Has liked: 621 likes
Total likes: 581 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by vietnammer »

Bowie 'Boys Keep Swinging' vid. I mean look, I'm a Man's Man in me own eyes, straighter than straight, but I've watched that video so many times with sheer envy at how a bloke can be so good looking and dance like that. Barsteward! RIP
User avatar
southbrishammer
Posts: 5820
Joined: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:46 pm
Location: South Bris
Has liked: 114 likes
Total likes: 340 likes

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by southbrishammer »

When the highlights over four episodes are a middling Pet Shop Boys song and Nu Shooz, you know it's a lean week. 1977 was shocking.
User avatar
Rio
Ronnie Biggs was here
Posts: 25987
Joined: Wed Dec 04, 2002 1:29 pm
Location: Reykjavik comma Iceland full stop
Has liked: 159 likes
Total likes: 1080 likes
Contact:

Re: The Top of the Pops Thread

Post by Rio »

There’s been worse weeks


This weeks picks

1. Green Day
2. Green frog
3. Elastica
Post Reply