Old TOTP (BBC4) (1 Viewer)

Love Resurrection is amazing. I never realised Alison Moyet was ever quite so FAT.

Or got so thin:

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I always had her down as big-boned but it was obviously just BUTTER
 
She appears to have worn the weight loss really quite well. Surely she can afford to get the FOLDS chopped off unlike poor sad old Tina Malone.
 
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She looks rather marvellous these days, although she does have the capability of putting on weight across her entire body (rather than it just going to the gut and face: see yours truly). The arms in the 'Love Resurrection' video aren't half CHUBBY
 
A pretty strong episode. 80s music is really becoming brilliant right now.
 
Zu-Klara said:
She looks rather marvellous these days, although she does have the capability of putting on weight across her entire body (rather than it just going to the gut and face: see yours truly). The arms in the 'Love Resurrection' video aren't half CHUBBY
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There was so much of her just now. Adele was never quite that obese with me.
 
Not wishing to go off topic or anything but our Alf must be delighted to look back at this bloated conga hell...



...when it clearly should always have sounded like this doubt-riddled hell :weed:

 
I find FAT PEOPLE who've gone all THIN quite scary

Like my friend LIZ from the old days and all those YOYO CELEBS
 
Dawn French looks particularly horrible and I know it happens to us all but OLD. All the hate's gone to her face :(
 
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Not wishing to go off topic or anything but our Alf must be delighted to look back at this bloated conga hell...



...when it clearly should always have sounded like this doubt-riddled hell :weed:

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That version really is a revelation. I felt like I'd been listening to a song for over 25 years (or whatever it was), and yet never heard the words.
 
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Shirley said:
I find FAT PEOPLE who've gone all THIN quite scary

Like my friend LIZ from the old days and all those YOYO CELEBS
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I've lost about a stone over the course of this year, and was quite looking forward to reminding myself what my jawbone looked like. I've got to the point where I've realised that a bit of CHUB is better than the DREADED TURKEY NECK :zombie:
 
lolly said:
That version really is a revelation. I felt like I'd been listening to a song for over 25 years (or whatever it was), and yet never heard the words.
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EXACTLY. It's a quite incredible transformation. The original just feels quite jolly and throwaway, not least because of someone from CBS surely screaming LESS TESTY AUTISM THANKS LOVE! MORE SAM FOX! during the video shoot. It was only when I heard the Berlin performance about six months ago that I had quite a lot of a weep and thought, oh my word. THAT'S what it's about :(
 
TOTP from 21 June 1984 wasn't shown on BBC4 for two reasons:

OMD's 'Talking Loud And Clear' video literally stuck due to technical reasons, wrecking the song, and:

Gary Glitter sung the first song. 'Dance Me Up' indeed

https://wetransfer.com/downloads/db1e9ee42334629df066f258760d883a20170902100922/090a8d

The problems with the OMD record has been taken out by some of the video being removed. Gary is still there though...

Other than that the edition is one of the best of 1984 with Bronski Beat, Associates, Cyndi Lauper, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions and Frankie Goes To Hollywood amongst others.
 
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there's only one day left to download the edition before whoever uploaded it has marked it to be deleted so grab it while you can...
 
I had a picture disc of "Dance Me Up". I think it might have been a birthday present, bought for me because I was already putting pic discs and coloured vinyl on my wall and, well, it came with a plinth.
 
Last night was quite poor. Tina Turner and Alison Moyet doing back to back videos didn't get me going, the way live performances way have done. Bluebells singer looked fugly, Shakatak were shit and I'm tiring of Two Tribes.
 
Divine, Prince and a not actually that terrible version of The Day Before You Came :disco:
 
That Divine performance is so familiar isn't it? Every 80s clip show runs it, I must have seen it dozens of times. It deserves it's status as one of the most famous TOTP performances, what a fabulous culture shock that must have been.
 
 
A Top 10 like that, and the only single I bought at the time was Hole In My Shoe. On twelve inch.
 
I only bought HOLE IN MY SHOE and JUMP (FOR MY LOVE) and taped the rest off the radio, apart from FRANKIE who I found rather TIRESOME at the time
 
The fact about Prince being accompanied by an older woman was one of the worst things I have ever heard. Surely even in 1984, that wasn't relevant information?

The Kane Gang? Is that related to Kane the poster and his gaggle of twinks?
 
It appears the lead singer of A Flock of Seagulls suffered from a hedge dragging incident shortly after being possessed.
 
Christ Trevor Walters would not get away with those REVOLTING TEETH these days. FOWL.
 
Right, must catch up on this, I'm several episodes to the bad....wonder if we're at the one I watched in a Trusthouse Forte in Exmouth in 1984...
 
"Young At Heart" really is one of the most unlikely hits...and a great one for Six Degrees Of Separation fans because Siobhan Fahey co-wrote it and that's Craig Gannon on guitar...did the fiddler not sure for a chunk of the royalties after it was in an advert or something?
 
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