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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 13, 2018 21:55:28 GMT
The Firm's Arthur Daley e's Alright was on one of last night's repeats. A quick YouTube search finds a performance of them doing the song and another on TV that year www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b7omRIx4jkAnd yes, m'learned colleagues confirm it is the same The Firm who did Star Treking! |
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 13, 2018 22:00:41 GMT
WHAT.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 13, 2018 22:07:18 GMT
The Arthur Daley E's Alright The Firm are the same outfit as the Star Trekking The Firm and thus aren't a one hit wonder.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 13, 2018 22:43:19 GMT
But... But...
GAH!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 14, 2018 6:37:02 GMT
I shall store this vital information away for future reference.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 5, 2018 15:21:26 GMT
This TOTP was repeated late Weds/early Thurs and includes the video Men Without Hats The Safety Dance which has ROTJ's Logray, Mike Edmonds, in it: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08p2k7n |
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Post by Pinwig on May 11, 2018 22:10:09 GMT
I've finally reached 1982 in the repeats. I had no idea the 80s TOTP theme was a track off a Phil Lynott album. What the actual fup! That's mad!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 28, 2018 21:00:17 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 28, 2018 22:07:14 GMT
I already knew that!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 8, 2019 21:36:17 GMT
Big Hits 81 is on now, should be on iPlayer shortly. Well worth a watch for some proper music.
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Post by Benn on Feb 9, 2019 21:57:53 GMT
Such as...?
But has
anyone's fame
Stayed the same?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 9, 2019 22:07:58 GMT
Watch it and see!
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 9, 2019 22:08:18 GMT
Full list from iPlayer:
Adam and the Ants
Kings of the Wild Frontier
Ultravox
Vienna
The Teardrop Explodes
Reward
Kim Wilde
Kids in America
Duran Duran
Planet Earth
Sugar Minott
Good Thing Going
Phil Collins
In The Air Tonight
Linx
Intuition
Tenpole Tudor
Swords of a Thousand Men
Odyssey
Going Back To My Roots
The Specials
Ghost Town
Shakin’ Stevens
Green Door
Soft Cell
Tainted Love
Spandau Ballet
Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Souvenir
Depeche Mode
Just Can't Get Enough
Altered Images
Happy Birthday
Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin
It's My Party
The Human League
Don't You Want Me
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 15, 2019 17:50:40 GMT
1982 Big Hits next week, 1983 the week after.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 15, 2019 20:16:16 GMT
I wish they'd repeat the Story of... documentaries. I only have 85/86/87 downloaded.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 16, 2019 16:54:08 GMT
They pop up from time to time, I'll keep an eye out.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 16, 2019 18:20:56 GMT
Oh I do. I check iPlayer weekly for TotP to see if I need to download anything. Because they were on so frequently at one point we're well behind. January 1985 last night. In the time the Friday broadcasts have gone from 84 to 87 they've repeated 81-83 too so we did those too. But they haven't repeated the story of documentaries to go with them.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2019 22:32:14 GMT
Poison Arrow is on Big Hits 1982 on Friday at 9pm www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07g9rc4The 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. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 22, 2019 20:21:09 GMT
<glances at playlist>
Oh wow, the greatest ever TOTP performance is in this!
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Post by Benn on Feb 23, 2019 18:31:22 GMT
What, The Wildhearts? Nirvana? STILTSKIN?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 23, 2019 18:37:48 GMT
Nope
The Adam Ant performance is astonishing in terms of what in does in 3 and a bit members involving four different stages and numerous personnel. Amazing stuff.
And out of the entire package the worst song is merely good!
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 23, 2019 18:43:08 GMT
Oh yes I remember that one. I kept thinking, where's he going now?!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 1, 2019 19:52:00 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 14, 2019 19:58:02 GMT
All forum members are required to watch tonight's episode: Star Trekkin by The Firm at #1
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 14, 2019 21:48:42 GMT
Is it on Iplayer?
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 14, 2019 21:50:03 GMT
Yes.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 14, 2019 21:50:57 GMT
Then I shall watch it tomorrow.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 3, 2019 22:31:53 GMT
During tonight's TOTP chart rundown I had an "oooo, I think I know that moment" when they read out Scarlett Fantastic's No Memory. The band's name rang no bells but there was something about the title that did. I can't have heard it 30+ years but yes, I did recognise it!
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Post by Benn on May 4, 2019 6:42:07 GMT
So you have nearly no memory of 'No memory'?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 14, 2019 16:20:11 GMT
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