Bend it like Repka wrote: ↑Sat May 06, 2023 8:11 am
Watching that 1977 one, it's not hard to see why the country's youth was crying out for a punk revolution.
Every single male performer on that 1977 episode had the body of an eight year old girl, the neck of a giraffe, and their mothers' hairstyles perched precariously on their pin-sized heads. Except for the bald guy in Delegation (the three dudes in glorious green Spandex). It was a strange, strange time for humanity, for sure.
The 70s were bizarre to me. Given the 60s had given birth the mini skirt, Mods, Roger Moore snappily dressed as James Bond, I just don't understand what happened to people in the decade of brown and blandness.
Even as a 7 year old I thought flares as huge collars looked ****. Black people were meant to be hip and trendy, yet those green gymnastic outfits you mention were beyond terrible. I hated Slade, Mud, Elton John's glasses, Leo Sayer's waistcoats, Alvin Stardust's sideburns, Bay City Rollers platforms, Sweet's glitter and Bowies orange hair. Freddy Mercury looked awful and half the male bands had enough hair for a rope factory.
I've been slagging the 90s episodes, but that 1977 one just reminded me of power cuts, strikes and everything that was crap in the first 9 years of my life.
When the Specials, the Beat, the Jam appeared it was like the arrival of the New Testament. Literally the dawn of a new world.
I noticed by chance on the chart rundown for one of the 1994 episodes an entry for a song by Morrissey and Siouxsie called Interlude. I'd never heard it, and it seemed like an unlikely duo, so I checked Youtube today, and I like it. It's a cover of a song from 1968, apparently.
Bend it like Repka wrote: ↑Sat May 06, 2023 5:49 pm
Given the 60s had given birth (to) ... Roger Moore snappily dressed as James Bond
Rog got his licence to kill in 1973 as I'm sure you're aware, Bendy.
The 1970s were brilliant for music, film and fashion, both post and pre-punk. Somehow, the pre-Pistols episodes of TotP don't want to reflect that whatsoever. The establishment-dominated pop charts seem in a proper ****ing state. A bit like these 1994 episodes which are only just seeing the green shoots of Britpop. The early nineties were ****ing brilliant but you wouldn't know it looking at TotP. All corporate pop reggae-style covers and floppy-haired non-threatening boy bands or soap stars in their dads' linen shirts and beige linen waistcoats. And trilling cows all trying to be Mariah Carey. And Mariah Carey.
And FYI: Polyester flares and loud, massive-collared shirts rule, as do stacked shoes, Spandex crazy outfits, pimp hats and intimidatingly manly moustaches and other facial hair accoutrements. Not everyone is as married to the Forrest Gump look as you are, pickle xxx
Music Highlight - Terrorvision
Weekly WTF - Naughty, Naughty, Naughty
I still can’t fathom the longevity of some of 90’s number 1’s
Unless you were Terry Waite and otherwise occupied for a few months who the hell thinks that Wet Wet Wet track, I like that I’ll have to buy it when it’s been everywhere for months
Rio wrote: ↑Sun May 07, 2023 11:46 am
Unless you were Terry Waite and otherwise occupied for a few months who the hell thinks that Wet Wet Wet track, I like that I’ll have to buy it when it’s been everywhere for months
Lol. I used to think the same. That Robin Hood tune that's been number one for months, played about a 1000 times on the radio. Think I'll pop out and buy it right now.
"... there will come a day when <some crap song> will not be played every 12 minutes on Radio 1, and on that benighted day, I will be bereft, shorn of all certainty in my life, ripped from the comforting sameness that fuels my dreary existence, and to forestall that day, I will hie me hence to the record shop and bay a copy of it", thought 10 million dullards, perpetuating endless turgid chart crap to the annoyance of the sane,
dasnutnock3 wrote: ↑Sun May 07, 2023 11:28 am
Wrong. It was that bizarre dance routine where a black lad chased after a white girl, then beat her up, in front of a load of her dancing mates.
Bend it like Repka wrote: ↑Sun May 07, 2023 11:50 am
Lol. I used to think the same. That Robin Hood tune that's been number one for months, played about a 1000 times on the radio. Think I'll pop out and buy it right now.
First outing in China (24 years ago!) they were still 'opening up' to western culture, but it was like they got all the music at once and didn't have our perpective of modern pop development. You heard 'Wonderful Tonight' everywhere and the kids in school thought Eric Clapton was a young rising star.
Tried Cream on them and they refused to believe it was him and hated it.
On repeat were also: The Lion King song and the one from Titanic (I suppose they were 'contemporary') By 2001 it was Hotel California left, right & centre, which I didn't mind cos despite over-familiarity it is still a kicking choon.
About then, though, Korean Boy Bands (H.O.T.) were taking hold. Now we have Xi Jinping criticising 'cissy bands'