Old TOTP (BBC4) (3 Viewers)

lolly said:
I remember it seemed to be all the straight boys at school who were never really interested in music talked about at the time. I quite resented it.
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I remember a lot of people taking a strong interest in how it was done. This was despite the fact that I'd already had to explain that Depeche Mode didn't exactly knock out "Master And Servant" live in the studio with mallets and jackhammers...
 
I QUITE like A View To A Kill, but much prefer The Living Daylights.
 
Stephen TinTin Duffy really was extra to proceedings post-Kiss Me.

I quite like Obsession.
 
I don't think I ever realised Billy Ocean had so many hits until seeing these TOTPs.

Suddenly about as on par with anything Lionel was doing I guess.
 
Lynott and Moore is such a WTF?! Although I get why it was a hit.

Also sad that Lynott died just months after this.
 
What's with the 30 second snippet of the admittedly awful The Crowd? Same with the fact they keep skipping over Phyllis Nelson in the top 10 chart countdown. Although it's been around for AGES.
 
I'm sure we've covered it before, but The Crowd line-up really was a who's who (literally)...

Bruce Forsyth, Denny Laine, Jim Diamond, Tony Christie, Rick Wakeman, John Conteh, The Barron Knights, Jess Conrad, Kiki Dee, the Foxes, Rolf Harris, Graham Gouldman, Kenny Lynch, Rick Wild of The Overlanders, Keith Chegwin, Tony Hicks, Colin Blunstone, Tim Hinkley, Johnny Logan, Zak Starkey, Girlschool, Black Lace, John Otway, Gary Holton, Nigel Holton, Hank Hancocks, Peter Cook, the Nolans, John Entwistle of The Who, Motörhead, Karen Clark, Dave Lee Travis, Graham Dene, Ed Stewart, Phil Lynott, Smokie, Joe Fagin, Eddie Hardin, Gerard Kenny, Chris Robinson, Tim Healy, Kin Kelly, John Verity, Rose Marie, David Shilling, Chris Norman, Pete Spencer, Bernie Winters, Robert Heaton, and Frank Allen of The Searchers.
 
Does anyone know the circumstances of 19 re-charting at #40 in 2011? Did Paul Hardcastle DIE? I hope so.
 
Ag said:
What's with the 30 second snippet of the admittedly awful The Crowd? Same with the fact they keep skipping over Phyllis Nelson in the top 10 chart countdown. Although it's been around for AGES.
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She didn't make a video for Move Closer. Fucked up The Chart Show a bit too.
 
That Kim Wilde thing is OK but I have no recollection of it at all.
 
Ah, that Duran Duran video...Roger Taylor being filmed in a studio back in the UK because the poor soul had gone a bit mad at the time.
 
I dunno if that Katrina And The Waves video was meant to be ironic but it just looks weird and sarky. I think the guitarist later said that he deeply regretted that song or somesuch because it killed them with the critics who'd liked their wobbly psychedelic material.
 
My brother was a huge Marillion fan so there was no escaping this and the Misplaced Childhood album that summer for me. But - critics be damned - it sounds pretty damn good today.

It's odd how music can define your era even if it wasn't something you loved - I remember reading a couple of years ago that the woman who inspired the song (who was actually called Kay) had passed away and felt a genuine "awww".
 
Fuck me, The Power Station were shite. The original Duran Duran fell apart for this? Wankers.
 
I owned the Gary Moore/Phil Lynott record. I'm not sure exactly what was going on but I had a few Gary Moore records around this time. Puberty's a bastard.
 
I love Shake The Disease, brilliant record, still sounds amazing.

But bear witness to the Depeche Mode pecking order. Gahan front, Gore and Fletcher to the side and Alan Wilder, who actually played all the keyboards and did all the programming, at the back. Gore and Fletcher with Emulator II's, Wilder with a plain ol' Emulator. Sheesh.
 
Had a little 1982 binge tonight:

- Ever So Lonely is amazing. I knew it way before Jakatta shat on it and it remains a stand out.
- I Won't Let You Down by PhD (now I know how Neil Diamond came into being) - where do I know that from?
 
I see Armand Van Helden has also sampled it, but I can't nail how I know it. Playing the Emmie version as well - this might be it from my Topshop days. How frustrating. Maybe it was just on some old dance album.
 
Just watched 6th May 1982 TOTP... Paul McCartney stood with Linda at the end sends a GET WELL to Heather who's just bust her leg(!)
 
Still surging my way through 1982. DEAD at Abracadabra being performed a magician that looks like Kelsey Grammer.

Also what is that saccharine piece of crap from Bucks Fizz?
 
Wow, this Harold Faltermeyer performance is a rollercoaster riot. Giving Gianni Versace realness.

Axel F is a banger, despite Crazy Frog and partly due to Clock's rendition.
 
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