Old TOTP (BBC4)

"Discotheque" - I think U2 have all but disowned the "Pop" era. I haven't listened to the album in DECADES but I do remember liking it. Of course it was a return to the usual BOMBASTIC WANK after this.
 
VoR said:
LOVE Do You Know and was thrilled when it got a second wind via Angel City a few years later.

But Sensational was a really boring follow-up and I don’t recall much else of note on the album.
Click to expand...

Fly Away is gorgeous and I would have thought right up your street.

I only remember that and Do You Know, mind. Both tens.
 
It COMPLETELY passed me by that 1) LL Cool J ever had a UK #1 and 2) who the fuck that random boyband were.
 
I love LL Cool J but THAT nonsense being his most successful UK single is a lot of rot.

It was really the blueprint for rappers creating pop and going to number one and being forgotten about after a week, which was basically the entire following decade.
 
funky said:
I love LL Cool J but THAT nonsense being his most successful UK single is a lot of rot.

It was really the blueprint for rappers creating pop and going to number one and being forgotten about after a week, which was basically the entire following decade.
Click to expand...
That the video looked like it was filmed in a leisure centre too :agog:
 
I do like "Dark Clouds" by Space, but it so obviously should have been released in the summer.
 
Warren G peaking at number 2 twice within a few months with covers of "What's Love Got To Do With It" & "I Shot The Sheriff", & is either one remembered AT ALL?

"Regulate" is the one song that lasted.
 
Daft Punk making their first appearance on the charts with "Da Funk" :disco:

I had totally forgotten the absolutely BONKERS video with the talking dog on crutches :D
 
Talking of forgotten top 5 hits, could ANYONE, even avid chart watchers of the time like myself, name even 3 or 4 of 911's plethora of hits around this time?
 
The second truly memorable number 1 of the year from No Doubt with "Don't Speak" - an obvious chart topper from the first time I heard it. They never bettered this.
 
Sardonicus said:
Talking of forgotten top 5 hits, could ANYONE, even avid chart watchers of the time like myself, name even 3 or 4 of 911's plethora of hits around this time?
Click to expand...
I think there are some worse offenders than 911 for this. Damage and Ant & Dec off the top of my head.
 
I'd forgotten this mix of "You Got The Love" was released in early 97. The best version - EPIC & SWEEPING 😍

Chart watch - last ever appearance in the top 40 for Belinda Carlisle at 31 with "California" :(
 
As usual, I have let this slide so let's see where I am...oooh, Blur!
 
Kenicke. The 90s Fuzzbox i.e. not as good. The guitarist's a terf these days, last I heard anyway.
 
In the late 90s, I often found myself working with people who, when asked, would say their favourite band was Runrig. They were, without exception, cunts who didn't know or like any other music and just wanted a safe space to scream about how much they hated the English.
 
Orbital - Satan (Live). I bought all 3 CD singles of this for £1.99 each. Don't think I've played any of them since January 1997. Some of their albums get a run out from time to time though. Good band.
 
I'm glad history is choosing to record what a bold 'comeback' "Beetlebum" was for Blur. It's five minutes long, it's slow and it's quite obviously about heroin with which we now know Albarn had been dabbling (his mercifully brief habit is documented further on '13'). It finishes with the band being augmented not by a horn section or some cockney joanna but on some random indecipherable radio noise and sound effects. One of the bravest left turns in pop's history, it was decried at the time as a deliberate step back and they were accused of having "chickened out". Not so. Blur had simply finished their trilogy and had picked up where they'd left off, creating the "noisy emotional mess" that Albarn had told journalists was Blur's heart in 1992 and, in doing so, made what is very probably their best album.

tl;dr - "Beetlebum", eh? Fucking brilliant.
 
"2 Become 1" still sounds brilliant too. Great use of the "ok, we only have the band for an hour or so, what do we do?" video fall back of shooting in slo-mo then just greenscreening it.
 
I have no memory of this East 17 song at all. Rightly so, by the nick of it.
 
This is such an archetypal early January 90s TOTP. Mediocre songs by known artists after a hit in the post Xmas lull and stuff I have no memory of whatsoever. No Mercy? None the wiser, mate.
 
octophone said:
This is such an archetypal early January 90s TOTP. Mediocre songs by known artists after a hit in the post Xmas lull and stuff I have no memory of whatsoever. No Mercy? None the wiser, mate.
Click to expand...
I'm shocked you don't remember the No Mercy song. It was huge at the time! Doesn't get much spins even on the nostalgia stations these days though to be fair.
 
Sardonicus said:
I'm shocked you don't remember the No Mercy song. It was huge at the time! Doesn't get much spins even on the nostalgia stations these days though to be fair.
Click to expand...
I assume it was a club hit then. I had long given up trying to look like I was enjoying myself in such hovels by that time.
 
I maintain that Madonna absolutely nailed "Don't Cry For Me Argentina". The song made such sense coming from her too - the way she sings "all through my wild days, my mad existence" is proper goosebumps.
 
I was 10 years too old for Placebo to make sense to me. It felt very shoehorned and on the nose. Today, I can see that the latter was entirely on purpose and was a lot of the charm. But they're still not my cuppa.
 
The Outhere Brothers?? Jesus. I was tempted to Google them to see if they still exist in any meaningful form then realised I couldn't give a flying, hairy, rain-soaked fuck.
 
Suede - "Saturday Night". Love this. Quite a bold third single from an album essentially made up of 10 possible singles. The main treat of Suede in this era is Neil Codling staring right down the camera while the rest of the band studiously ignore it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)
Back
Top Bottom