The Top of the Pops Thread
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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!
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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.
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southbrishammer wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 11:02 pmKriss Kross. I think they were the missing link between Musical Youth and PJ & Duncan.
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Legit live performance, I thoughtlast.caress wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 9:07 pm Winner tonight was the still magnificent M-Beat feat. General Levy
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The Grid, a side project of Dave Ball from Soft Cell.southbrishammer wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 11:02 pm I found myself unexpectedly enjoying The Grid (although it was a shameless Orbital ripoff).
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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.
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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:
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Grace Jones, proper nutter and icon. I recently bought a cd of her best of: Island Life including that magnificent song
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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.
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.
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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:
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Was indeed, add Ellis Costello to that too.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
The Bowie video was fantastic wasnt it !
And who the hell were ‘Liner’ ? No recollection of them or their song
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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.
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.
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.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:
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Absolutely! I had a feeling there was someone I'd forgotten.
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).Billy Hunt wrote: ↑Sat May 27, 2023 12:12 pm And who the hell were ‘Liner’ ? No recollection of them or their song
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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:
Not altogether sure what this one was all about either tbh with its enormous Union Flag backdrop:
Or this one:
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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
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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.
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There’s been worse weeks
This weeks picks
1. Green Day
2. Green frog
3. Elastica
This weeks picks
1. Green Day
2. Green frog
3. Elastica