|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 16, 2017 16:44:30 GMT
3 lots of Frankie Goes To Hollywood and two of The Thompson Twins. RESULT!
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 27, 2017 22:34:54 GMT
I can't remember if I mentioned this elsewhere. There's a podcast with some ex-music journalists reviewing a random old episode of Top of the Pops called Chart Music. chartmusiccouk.wordpress.com/Language can be a bit salty but it's generally entertaining and informative, even if you don't agree with what they say. Andy |
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 29, 2017 20:22:20 GMT
Lenny Henry presented edition from the end of 1984 tonight.
Story Of and Big Hits 1985 next week
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Dec 29, 2017 21:05:36 GMT
I noticed there are loads of 1981 repeats stacked up for January in quick succession.
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 5, 2018 22:44:56 GMT
Story Of and Big Hits 1985 next week Story of 1985: Do you think that using Holding Out For A Hero as the theme tune to Cover Up, on BBC1 at the time of the single's release, might have played a part in it's success?? ?? ?? ?? |
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 12, 2018 7:02:13 GMT
Enjoying the late night 81 repeats this week. Quite a bit of stuff I didn't know, but watching late Weds/early Thursday yesterday Liz admitted she didn't recognise The Passion's I'm In Love With A German Film Star!
85 repeats start tonight
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 12, 2018 20:02:25 GMT
The Toy Dolls!!!!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Jan 12, 2018 22:03:38 GMT
Very much enjoyed The Story of 1984. 1985's turn this week.
Tonight will be Discovery followed by TOTP.
Yay Friday!
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Jan 12, 2018 23:27:00 GMT
Heavens what a difference there is between 81 and 84! Totally different production.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 0:04:38 GMT
Sad watching these early '81 editions and wondering what John Lennon would have become in the last 35 years.
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 14, 2018 0:53:12 GMT
Did not like the mortuary slab shot in the first version of the Woman video. Not surprise the BBC assembled their own version after that.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2018 12:49:05 GMT
I'm still enjoying the way this is helping me jigsaw my own past together. So the summer '84 repeats showed me when I first listened to Iron Maiden - when Two Minutes to Midnight came out - but I know the first single I ever owned to play on the gramophone my grandfather handed down to me was Making Your Mind Up, which I can see was March '81. I also know I have Stand and Deliver as a 7" and really got into Adam Ant, I have several of his singles from that time, but I'm stunned that was April 1981. So I've got another picture of who I was - Year 2 at school in Spring 1981, listening to Bucks Fizz and Adam Ant on my big old gramophone (size of a coffin it was, huge free standing thing), reading DWM issue #50 and watching Logopolis on TV. I was seven and a half. I work with seven year olds now. I can't see how I was doing those things being that young.
I'm sure when we were kids we were more with it than they are these days.
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 26, 2018 21:14:48 GMT
Mrs A was NOT happy lipreading what the chap with the glasses was singing during the Art of Noise on Thursday's show!
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Jan 26, 2018 22:46:06 GMT
So many different editions on at the moment it's hard to keep up. Think I've got a Feb 81 episode queued up for after Discovery.
|
|
|
|
Post by Benn on Jan 27, 2018 13:13:47 GMT
Mrs A was NOT happy lipreading what the chap with the glasses was singing during the Art of Noise on Thursday's show! Dare I ask? |
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 27, 2018 13:26:20 GMT
"Dumb, Dumb, You're so F***ing Dumb"
Having watched closely, I was inclined to agree. Mrs A can lipread as part of her work with Deaf People so I'd take her word on it anyway.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Jan 27, 2018 13:59:50 GMT
Kim Wilde's first TotP performance. Was she going for moody and aloof, or just shit scared rabbit in headlights?
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Feb 4, 2018 11:27:03 GMT
I have been reminded of this:
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 7, 2018 22:55:33 GMT
That is fucking awful.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Feb 8, 2018 8:05:02 GMT
How dare you.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 8, 2018 12:45:43 GMT
Easily.
It's a horrific arrangement of the song, drum fills all over the place, the tempo of the bassline is completely wrong.
Shall I continue...
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Feb 8, 2018 12:54:03 GMT
I have owned it.
*electronic voice*
IT IS THE DOCTOR. DOC. TOR. WHOOOOO.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 15, 2018 14:33:24 GMT
Try to watch the second 1982 repeat tonight (early tomorrow morning), 4th Feb 82 edition.
John Peel finally turns up to show the other how it should be presented.
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 16, 2018 10:31:58 GMT
Sitting watching John Peel's 1982 Top of the Pops comeback, which was repeated again last night on BBC4, and marvelling again at just how much better than everyone else his presentation is www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jkwcr |
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2018 17:37:11 GMT
The 18th Feb 1982 edition (repeated Monday night) is probably worth a listen for fans of Star Fleet. I reckon Paul Bliss must have been watching at the time of original broadcast as there's at least two tracks on their with similarities to bits of Star Fleet music: ABC's Poison Arrow has BIG similarities to the theme tune and Robert Palmer's Some Guys resembles a piece of incidental music. Six months before Star Fleet's broadcast would be about right for these tunes to be influencing the music.
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2018 22:42:16 GMT
The Bardo (1982 Eurovision) performances the last few nights have featured a young lady named Sally-Ann Tripplet doing "a Katy Manning in DW" (as opposed to in a KM in a mag with a Dalek) quite regularly. Apparently she used to help present Crackerjack when I was younger!
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2018 22:44:50 GMT
Tonight's (early tomorrow's) first show, 20 May 1982, has one of the most amazing live studio performances in it, Adam Ant doing Goody Two Shoes.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Mar 1, 2018 8:31:39 GMT
He's cracking on TotP. Seeing him live in July.
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 5, 2018 22:54:01 GMT
Sitting watching John Peel's 1982 Top of the Pops comeback, which was repeated again last night on BBC4, and marvelling again at just how much better than everyone else his presentation is www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jkwcrHas Pinwig watched this yet? |
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Mar 5, 2018 23:16:40 GMT
No, and it'll be a while because I'm going through choice picks from all the recent repeats. I'm still in the middle of 1981 but loving it. I don't remember Shakin Stevens being such a permanent fixture.
|
|
