Old TOTP (BBC4) (1 Viewer)

GingerbreadAg (39) said:
I was all ready to skip Julian Cope, but it's alright.
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He was in a good phase at this point was Julian. He was on a sympathetic label (who he later fell out with, of course) who allowed him to make a double album and release his weird side projects on his own mail-order only imprint so he was productive and thriving artistically. "Try Try Try" was a great single, only harmed by Cope's vocal being a bit too shouty for mass consumption. "20 Mothers" is a cracker of an album too.
 
GingerbreadAg (39) said:
I don't recall Tricky using the same sample as Portishead. I'm sure there's a Bristol related story there.

*tries to tag lolly*
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IIRC, DJ Milo of The Wild Bunch is thought to be responsible. After DJ Milo left The Wild Bunch, they morphed into Massive Attack with Tricky on board to start with and Barrow, as @A Lolly Dolly Christmas noted, did some work with Massive Attack but, more importantly, went to a few nights where Milo was DJing in afterparties and "chill out" rooms. The timing was entirely coincidental.
 
Fuck my actual hat at Duran Duran's White Lines. How to kill yr own comeback in one move. Dismal. Also, given how much coke at least 2 members of the band had done, just a wee bit hypocritical too.
 
This Menswear song is shite. The last one was OK but this is just hideous, sub-Elastica guff. And what a "sub" that is.
 
No idea what made them have The Ramones on at random. Also, would you get away with a song called "Cretin Family" in 2023?
 
Oooh, one of them just flipped the bird to the camera. How rock and roll. :rolleyes:
 
I have no memory of Shaggy doing "In The Summertime"...also, wasn't Rayvon was the singer on "It Wasn't Me" as well?
 
Oh, PJ Harvey! Actually seems to be enjoying herself too, as well she might given that she knew what a great album she was previewing here.
 
A sliver of Heavy Stereo. I liked Sleep Freak. Better than bloody Menswear anyway.
 
"Keep Warm" is alright, isn't it? Preferred the original mix but hey ho, no objections to a second run round the block on my part.
 
I generally find Hole to be just terrible but this is their most listenable era. I think Courtney Love's lyrics and visual imagery were much more important than the actual records. She definitely communicated to a generation or two about how women were simultaneously infantilised and sexualised by the entertainment industry and do so with a clarity and fearlessness that has endured.
 
Dale Winton calling Courtney Love "wild" and "a worry"! Mate, you did more coke than she did.
 
Funny that Edwyn Collins didn;t do a second TOTP. Shame, great single.
 
Supergrass already worryingly jaded - instrument swapping on TOTP is straight out of the too-cool-for-school handbook. They're at #2 and couldn't care less.
 
No recollection of this Leftfield one either, but I guess it would never have been my cup of tea as a 15-year-old...
 
Country House... the BATTLE OF BRITPOP coming up soon then. Always glad Blur won but a shame it was with that turd of a song.
 
Good Kate Wenceslas 👸🏻 said:
Country House... the BATTLE OF BRITPOP coming up soon then. Always glad Blur won but a shame it was with that turd of a song.
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This is the thing about it in retrospect - both bands brought a SPORK to a gun fight and, in the end, it was only through formatting that Blur won.
 
Just watching 1984 Xmas TOTP.

WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?

Also Paul Young has a grubby crotch. Did he slide down a grubby bannister?
 
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Oh, the Robbieless Take That for the first time. Fronted by Howard The Wookie. I wonder if he regrets the dreadlocks phase?
 
"It's Lulu" is actually brilliant. I will go to my grave disgusted at history's neglect of the Boo Radleys.
 
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