Old TOTP (BBC4) (1 Viewer)

Ag said:
That ABC video is such a bad idea.
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Good song tho'. I liked their cartoon period, openly hiring two people to mime because they looked the part put them ahead of the curve as it turned out.
 
That Tears For Fears song is well shit. "Shout" was actually ace, this was sugary pap.
 
The Dream Academy still sounds good...funny bunch tho'....Kate St John was *the* leading session cor anglais player dontcha know?
 
Jesus, they're not even allowed to mention Mike Smith's name....
 
"Look, Mama" is utter shit. Howard Jones really fell off a cliff very quickly.
 
Just catching up on the Thursday episode. All the studio stuff looked particularly hazy, like they got carried away with the smoke machine and it wouldn't clear.

The Rah Band really have been an unexpected highlight of 1985 so far. The video is a treat too:



Mr Rah is quite the enigmatic presence.
 
OH GOD at 'Freddie Mercury: he likes dancing, he likes flinging women round'. :D

That video has not aged well.
 
octophone said:
That Tears For Fears song is well shit. "Shout" was actually ace, this was sugary pap.
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Loved it then, still love it now. I like Shout a lot as well, but having to look at Roland Orzabel generally leaves me feeling quite unwell, so his lead vocals are always going to suffer.
 
lolly said:
Loved it then, still love it now. I like Shout a lot as well, but having to look at Roland Orzabel generally leaves me feeling quite unwell, so his lead vocals are always going to suffer.
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I did like it at the time - I had a double pack 7" of it...but I was buying all their singles at that time and it got much less of a run out than Shout or even Mother's Talk.

My copy of Mother's Talk was on green vinyl and came with a window sticker. Did I put said sticker on my bedroom window? I sure did.
 
Robbie said:
Tonight on TOTP 1985 it was the edition from 25 April 1985 and tomorrrow night (Friday) it's 9 May 1985. So for the 2 May 1985 edition... as once again Mike Smith is co-presenting the programme:

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The record at number 4 still sounds brilliant and it was so different to what was in the charts back then.
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Thanks for this - I was wondering what the number 4 was....I dunno about it now tho', it's like the Art Of Noise without the dadaist humour.
 
One of the few U2 records I like here...they were usually good for at least one good single per album apart from the Achtung Baby/Zooropa era where they were properly killing it. Been shite for a good decade tho'.
 
Fuck you again Mike Smith - New Model Army completely live was one of the great TOTP moments of my youth. The confused audience, the censored t-shirts, the actually very average song. Ahh, memories.
 
Amazing to think that Godley and Creme video was considered amazingly hi-tech. Of course when Michael Jackson spent millions of the "Black Or White" video, it was rendered a bit quaint but so what, Godley and Creme were ace.
 
This'll be the first time in ages I'll be fully caught up on TOTP...

Fuck's sake, The Style Council. This is one of the worst records ever made by anyone, patronising fourth-generation cod-leftie pigshit. This is why Thatcher won in 1987.
 
I also hated it when people titted about on instruments they didn't actually play on TOTP. Weller hitting that Rickenbacker when he'd sacked off the fantastic Bruce Foxton just a couple of years earlier just shows how far his floppy haired head had gone up his own arse. What a cunt.
 
Don't remember Curtis Hairston either. Was I secretly racist when I was 12 or something?
 
This Bronski Beat/Marc Almond thing has aged dreadfully. I remember thinking it was OK at the time, now it's just limp.
 
octophone said:
Don't remember Curtis Hairston either. Was I secretly racist when I was 12 or something?
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Me neither. And I just googled him to discover he died in 1996 at the age of 34 from diabetes related kidney failure.
 
octophone said:
This Bronski Beat/Marc Almond thing has aged dreadfully. I remember thinking it was OK at the time, now it's just limp.
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I'm fairly sure I never rated it at the time. It's really not very good - and Almond at least clearly knows it.
 
Good to see dear old Kimmy back. I always forget Rage to Love. With different production, it would be brilliant.
 
I fucking love Slave to Love.

I know Bryan Ferry is a Tory cunt, but he had some great songs.
 
Can't believe Kim from Eastenders was in Loose Ends.

I prefer Magic Touch to Hangin' On A String.
 
How the FUCK was Roger Moore, James Bond in 1985?

View to a Kill, is a rubbish Bond theme.
 
I was all ready to hate this Jimmy Nail cover of Love Don't... but the synthy production is actually quite lovely. Even his straight out the sewer face can't spoil it.
 
19 never did quite make sense to me as a 5 week number 1. I guess you had to be there.
 
Ag said:
I was all ready to hate this Jimmy Nail cover of Love Don't... but the synthy production is actually quite lovely. Even his straight out the sewer face can't spoil it.
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I invariably forget that one. He's utterly hateful on Ain't No Doubt, though.
 
Ag said:
19 never did quite make sense to me as a 5 week number 1. I guess you had to be there.
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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.
 
It may have been 1985 when I spent most of the year in a combination of brilliant white, lemon and pink.
 
Ag said:
19 never did quite make sense to me as a 5 week number 1. I guess you had to be there.
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No, it was bewildering at the time. As I said above, it was "Close (To The Edit)" with all the surreal wit and humour sucked out of it and made all earnest.
 
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