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Chumbawamba having a proper hit was really quite surreal. I don't recall how it came about, if it was picked up by radio, a music TV channel or what.
 
OTT looking like Christian youth leaders who walked into the wrong audition and are wondering when they get to the bit with the technicolour dreamcoat.
 
Quite the contrast between Stereophonics and Suede swaggering their way through the grimy "Filmstar" with the sublime confidence on a group on their well deserved victory lap.
 
Fuck's sake, Jon Bon Jovi again? Did Princess Diana die for this (the following night)?
 
My brain can find no information about Connor Reeves at all. Not a scrap. I expect to be in the exact same position again by nightfall.
 
As bad as UB40 are, they were so royally ripped off that it's hard not to feel sorry for them. Then you hear any of their records from 1983 onwards and your sympathy goes out the window. I think a couple of them are dead now. The sax player, maybe the bassist?
 
There ain't half some anonymous crap in these episodes. Symposium look like they were grown in a lab by EMI.
 
Having an episode open with Mariah Carey and Ocean Colour Scene is just designed to wind me up. I'd have been off to my bedroom to listen to some Nurse With Wound before we were even 5 minutes in.
 
First sighting of All Saints? This sounds really clunky now. Surely they were after Eternal's crown - weird in retrospect that they got placed in a face off with Spice Girls.
 
Hanson always looked they escaped from an Australian soap. An episode of Home And Away was missing its background surfer dudes.
 
"Mr and Mrs Hanson are currently working on a bass player and, for some reason, a bassoonist" :D
 
octophone said:
See also: N'Tyce. Not a clue.
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In yet another example of how my ridiculous brain can remember HOT POP FACTS from Smash Hits 28 years ago, yet can't recall what I did in work last Thursday, I can EXCLUSIVELY REVEAL that the one from N Tyce with the glasses was sharing a flat with the lead singer woman from Clock during this time :disco:
 
"The Drugs Don't Work" still sounds good to me. Probably their last good record. I pity the video directors who had to try and make The Verve look interesting tho'. Seriously tough job.
 
Sardonicus said:
In yet another example of how my ridiculous brain can remember HOT POP FACTS from Smash Hits 28 years ago, yet can't recall what I did in work last Thursday, I can EXCLUSIVELY REVEAL that the one from N Tyce with the glasses was sharing a flat with the lead singer woman from Clock during this time :disco:
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That's one HECK of a hand in Celebrity Foo Bump...
 
I'm not mentally robust enough to deal with Sandals In The Bin '97 right now so I shall take a pause but good grief those eps were highly skippable.
 
Chumbawamba - what a SURPRISING joy! The WE'LL BE SINGING / WHEN WE'RE WINNING harmonies over the outro are just terrific. Very unlucky to not nip in for #1 for a week at the end of Will Smith.
 
Also I'm sorry but I've been finding NIGHT NURRRRRSE! actually QUITE CAMP in its horrors :D I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT HAD BEEN COMMISSIONED ESPECIALLY AS THE JINGLE!
 
Penelope said:
Feel like Timbaland could at least have had some slightly freakier production to try and live up to the original in some way.
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It's like an 80s Casio slowed down with a bloke hollering on top. DISMAL.
 
VoR said:
Tumthumping also got to #6 in the USA. Quite the unlikely global smash!
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I assume they made money from it. Their moment in the sun was brief and it did fracture them, especially after the incident at the Brits with Danbert Nobacon and John Prescott.
 
Also :D at the press round of "nothing can change the fact we like it when cops get killed". Now THAT'S a great pop media line.
 
I loved and bought their '94 single Homophobia



Avoid the slower acoustic version on Spotify, although the live version is of the single version.
 
There's a documentary about them on Amazon Prime which looks quite interesting. Might stick it on this week.

 
Is that the one made by Dunstan Bruce? I'm always a bit more interested when it was someone who was right in the middle of it all.
 
Arms Around The World :disco:

Nothing shows up the absurd double standards more than Jamie Theakston's implication that Louise and Liam Gallagher are even on the same PLANET in terms of physical attractiveness :D
 
VoR said:
Arms Around The World :disco:

Nothing shows up the absurd double standards more than Jamie Theakston's implication that Louise and Liam Gallagher are even on the same PLANET in terms of physical attractiveness :D
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Considering you're a BIG OLD MO, are you implying here that OUR LIAM is a planet more attractive than good old WHITE BREAD Lou? :basil:
 
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