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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 10, 2020 18:04:59 GMT
The Empress is always number one in my affections Sam
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 10, 2020 21:38:02 GMT
So two episodes tonight and pretty ropey they were too
Still on the plus side we got to see...
Neneh Cherry
Inner City
Cookie Crew
Plus a vaguely interesting Duran Duran vid of a song I have no recollection of
An okayish indie group called the Darling Buds who also have been erased from my memory
and a host of terrible music I won't dwell on
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Post by Sparky on Jan 12, 2020 8:41:01 GMT
First repeat (I think) is this Friday....
Friday
7:30pm - 8pm
BBC Four
Mark Goodier and Andy Crane present the edition first shown on January 5, featuring performances by Erasure, Kim Wilde, a-ha, Duran Duran, Boy Meets Girl, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine, Climie Fisher, Inner City, Neneh Cherry, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan and the Four Tops.
She's welcome to come and do my gardening any day!
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Post by Sparky on Jan 12, 2020 8:43:11 GMT
So two episodes tonight and pretty ropey they were too
Still on the plus side we got to see...
Neneh Cherry
Inner City
Cookie Crew
Plus a vaguely interesting Duran Duran vid of a song I have no recollection of
An okayish indie group called the Darling Buds who also have been erased from my memory
and a host of terrible music I won't dwell on
I was surprised to see the Cookie Crew roll up this early on - must be my memory playing tricks.
Still got Inner City up there, it's gonna be another one of those years of the Acid House / Dance crossover into the charts.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 15, 2020 8:45:54 GMT
So two episodes tonight and pretty ropey they were too
Still on the plus side we got to see...
Neneh Cherry
Inner City
Cookie Crew
Plus a vaguely interesting Duran Duran vid of a song I have no recollection of
An okayish indie group called the Darling Buds who also have been erased from my memory
and a host of terrible music I won't dwell on
Bloody hell LE you've pretty much summed up what I was about to post here. I caught these over the weekend and they were the only decent-ish stuff on there and Inner City and Neneh Cherry had both appeared just before Xmas 88 too.
Darling Buds as you say were okay-ish a bit indie by numbers for me and a bit of a plodder. Cookie Crew wasn't that bad either not really into Hip Hop but liked Born This Way back then and still sort of do, much more harder edged than say Wee Papa Girl Rappers etc. They'll be back with their Edwin Starr meets Kraftwerk sampling Got To Keep on too.
Duran Duran's track was a good effort for them too a bit different to what they did in their early 80's heyday. Just the promo sadly but when I actually listened to All She Want's Is I never noticed it before but it did seem to (have a sort of) sound very similar to Depeche Mode's Stangelove from a year or two early. Both good/decent tracks non the less.
A few of the breakers will feature in forthcoming episodes so wont mention them here. Aside from these track not much else to report - a lot of bland clunkers here, and FFS how the hell did Angry Anderson's Suddenly (sic) track stay in the Top 3 ahead of say Inner City or Neneh Cherry back then?
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 15, 2020 9:31:57 GMT
Thanks Mr Epic
Yes those two tunes are similar
Angry Anderson is a complete mystery to right thinking people everywhere. I assume it was Neighbours fans slavishly buying it.
This Friday looks a little bit more promising...
19/01/1989 Friday 7:30pm - 8pm BBC Four
Bruno Brookes and Richard Skinner present the edition first shown on January 19, featuring performances by Roachford, Roy Orbison, Robert Howard and Kym Mazelle, Marc Almond and Gene Pitney, Ten City, Mica Paris and Will Downing, New Model Army, Brother Beyond, Natalie Cole, Mike and the Mechanics, Holly Johnson, Fine Young Cannibals, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, and Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock.
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26/01/1989 Friday 9pm - 9:30pm BBC Four
Gary Davies and Anthea Turner present the edition first shown on January 26, featuring performances by Then Jerico, Adeva, Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock, Mica Paris and Will Downing, Bobby Brown, Level 42, Sheena Easton, Ten City, Brother Beyond, Marc Almond and Gene Pitney, and Milli Vanilli.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 20, 2020 7:15:40 GMT
I forgot to write anything after watching Friday's episodes until now and I've forgotten most of it already
Nice to Marc 'n' Gene hit the top spot. Not that fussed about their duet on Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart but they're both interesting artists
I always liked Fine Young Cannibals and I'd say their music has aged well
But, ultimately, a lot of eminently forgettable artists and music
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jan 21, 2020 8:18:45 GMT
Looks like more of the same this week....
02/02/1989 Friday 7:30pm - 8pm BBC Four
Steve Wright and Simon Mayo present the edition first shown on February 2nd. Featuring performances by Holly Johnson, Roy Orbison, Robert Howard and Kym Mazelle, Sheena Easton, Michael Ball, Yazz, Hue and Cry, Samantha Fox, Simply Red, Roachford, Marc Almond and Gene Pitney, and Bobby Brown.
^ Virtually all of those were on the previous episodes
09/02/1989 Friday 9pm - 9:30pm BBC Four
Mike Read and Sybil Ruscoe present the edition first shown on February 9th. Featuring performances by Samantha Fox, Rick Astley, Yazz, Hue and Cry, Def Leppard, Poison, Texas, Michael Ball, Bobby Brown, Morrissey, Marc Almond and Gene Pitney, and Mike and the Mechanics.
^ A few new tunes on this one though
Nothing to get my pulse racing though with the possible exception of Morrissey (though his recent antics have put me right off him)
Texas
Simply Red
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 21, 2020 8:22:28 GMT
Watched this over the weekend and on the whole fairly enjoyed it – if perhaps being a little selective and biased for what I wanted to see. Pick of my bunch was Fine Young Cannibals and Ten City. She Drive’s My Crazy get’s played fairly regularly even now. It's perhaps a bit of a millstone track for the Cannibals who did other good tracks before this one but takes nothing away from it and should really have been a number one. It will be interesting to see what did have the top spot back then? It was also interesting the Dance influence on their sound too perhaps coming from behind the scenes members Steele and Cox's dabbling with House a year earlier as Two Men And A Drum Machine (And A Trumpet). Speaking of which Ten City’s That’s The Way Love Is, is a House Music classic and I like it like even now. They were pretty much vocalist Byron Stingily and produced by legendary House producer Marshall Jefferson who (I think) popped up on tracks by Kym Mazelle and (erm) Yazz in ’89 too and should’ve had a hit with his own track Truth (Open Your Eyes) in ’88 too.
Having said that I sort of prefer the Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley ‘Acid’ remix of That’s The Way Love Is and definitely remember that getting played on Jeff Young’s ‘Big Beat Show’ in late ’88 when Radio 1 came late to the House/Dance party with this token Friday night show which later opened the door for Pete Tong, The Essential Selection and many other similar show’s Radio 1 had throughout the ‘90’s and ‘00’s.
I didn’t mind Adeva and Robert Howard/Kym Mazelle’s from the more soulful side of House back then. Respect was knocking around from the Summer/Autumn of ’88 and was a interesting interpretation and update. I’d have preferred Kym Mazelle’s Useless from ’88 to have charted but Wait! the collaboration with (Dr) Robert Howard from The Blow Monkey’s wasn’t too bad and they’d be back in the charts themselves during ’89 with some half-decent dance tinged singles like Choice? and This Is Your Life. I suppose in the aftermath of the tabloid panic and media hysteria about 'Acid' these more soulful sides of House and Hip-House were given a bit of priority. There’s many forms of this music but I tend to prefer the more electronic side of House/Techno and the ‘Rave’ scene had yet to gain an identity… but that and the electronic dance music scene it unleashed in the ‘90’s was coming very, very soon. The half-decent stuff was Rochford and Holly Johnson’s efforts, however Holly’s solo stuff wasn’t anywhere near as good as what FGTH (sorry Trevor Horn ) did with them before Frankie imploded in 1987. Holly’s got an absolute pony of a song Americano’s coming up in a few weeks time if the repeats follow the plan. For me Holly's solo career seemed a bit forced a bit left behind from the S/A/W and boy-girl style pop stars that were around back then. It was interesting that his former FGTH bandmate Paul Rutherford Jumped on the Acid bandwagon with Get Real a few months earlier which just about missed the Top 40 in late ’88. Sorry there’s no better video for it.
As you say LE I’m more intrigued by Marc Almond and Gene Pitney’s Something’s Got A Hold Of My Heart than whether to really like it or hate it. I prefer Soft Cell more than Marc’s solo stuff but he’s a interesting character – even now, and someone who’s done things on his own terms and I respect that especially in the face of being directed and pushed into the direction the music industry wanted/want pop stars to be! Back then and right now. Wouldn’t go out my way to listen to Hold Of My Heart but it was an interesting quirky track back then and at least it knocked off Kylie n Jason (sic) too which can’t have been that bad IMO! Wasn’t really fussed about much else but again with every one of these TOTP repeats there’s something for everyone and something to discover too - good and bad!
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jan 21, 2020 16:58:36 GMT
A good summing up there DE - Many of those tracks I remember, Ten City's "That's the way Love is" I just remember in particular for the track that often seemed to be the one played when a few people just arrived early shortly after opening time, into the Night Club, I regularly went to for a while, and was before anyone was on the dancefloor!
Two Men, a Drum Machine and a Trumpet's track "Tired of getting pushed around" I remember was one my brother liked and was always playing.
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