Old TOTP (BBC4) (1 Viewer)

Even by the low standard of “the follow up is just the same song with different words”, No Mercy’s second single is shameless :D especially as the first was a ripoff anyway! Love it in all its incarnations obviously.

Also enjoyed how thoroughly uncomfortable with being on TV Olive’s singer was.
 
I know Radio 1 wouldn't touch it, but I still don't fully understand how the biggest Eurovision win in history couldn't propel Katrina & The Waves to #1.

STOCKING PROBLEMS?
I was lightly agog it didn't peak until TWO WEEKS AFTER!
 
Olive really an utter banger and a classic of a number one. I'm surprised the vocalist didn't do more guesting stuff after.
 
I hate the original version of "Wonderful Tonight" & this soulless Damage cover is equally complete COCK.
 
I was lightly agog it didn't peak until TWO WEEKS AFTER!
Very rare instance in this era of a song climbing the charts, & after debuting outside the top 40. Maybe it wasn't promoted as hard after the letdown of Gina G the previous Eurovision.

Also, AGOG at Paul Young getting a new entry at number 33 :D No memory AT ALL of him having new hits as late as 1997
 
Even by the low standard of “the follow up is just the same song with different words”, No Mercy’s second single is shameless :D especially as the first was a ripoff anyway! Love it in all its incarnations obviously.

Also enjoyed how thoroughly uncomfortable with being on TV Olive’s singer was.
Absolutely BRAZEN even in this peak era of soundalike follow ups! I think they had one more equally samey minor hit after this & then it was back to SPLIT SHIFTS in one of Gloria Estefan's restaurants for them (probably) :(
 
Sarah Brightman has always struck me as being far too FUN FOR EUROPE to be married to dreary old Andrew Lloyd Webber
 
OK, some eps are disappearing so here we go with a Sunday Shitpost Session
 
No remember of this Bee Gees song but they really did keep having hits for an awfully long time.
 
I wonder what possessed Cathy Dennis to cover Waterloo Sunset. It is one of those uncoverable songs that just never works in any other voice or era. Record company piffle, one assumes.
 
I don't remember this Prince/The Artist/Symbol song but it is far from unpleasant, if somewhat unremarkable.
 
Oh, I loved "Mama". I had only started dealing with my submerged/withheld grief from my mother's death shortly before the album came out and, I won't lie, it triggered a whole flood of emotions.

Today, if far enough from all that to note the obvious theft of a keyboard line from This Must Be The Place by Talking Heads and that Mama is still excellent, brave in its simplicity and a major highlight of the live show in 1998.
 
I'm surprised more artists never tried to piggyback the Mothers Day market singles-wise.
Well, they did but usually in a more subtle way. Certain albums, especially compilations, would appear on the shelves just in time for Valentines, Mothers Day and Fathers Day. But it was a very explicit choice, only undermined by the double A-siding for Comic Relief which I assume is on its way...
 
Oddly conventional performance from Erasure. I rather enjoyed their approach to TOTP but they were selling fewer records by this time so maybe they didn't have the same freedom.
 
Beck. Shite. Boring "Aren't I Clever" twaddle of the highest order. He's a fucking Scientologist too. Yuk.
 
Fun fact: REM pinched Beck's drummer, Joey Waronker, the following year. He did an excellent shift for them.
 
So, we get Aerosmith even tho' Steven Tyler took a 15 year old girl across the county line so he could fuck her "legally". We're all OK with that? Huh.
 
I wonder why Kula Shaker weren't shown despite being a new entry at #2? Not complaining, absolutely dog shit band but it seems odd.
 
Well, they did but usually in a more subtle way. Certain albums, especially compilations, would appear on the shelves just in time for Valentines, Mothers Day and Fathers Day. But it was a very explicit choice, only undermined by the double A-siding for Comic Relief which I assume is on its way...
Ah, there it is. I had forgotten that L*l* had been involved. Trauma-inducing.
 
Monaco - this is right up there with Getting Away With It as the best New Order song that Wasn't Actually New Order. I've always wondered why Hooky slung his bass so low. Can't be good for your back.
 
Oh the lyrics and melodrama of Don't You Love Me absolutely made me scream.

CHILD GOES TO THE STORE FOR A LOAF OF BREAD - DON'T YOU LOVE ME?! DON'T YOU LOVE ME NO MORE?!?!

We need more SINISTER HARPSICHORD in POP
 
Ant & Dec trying to go Wonderwall on us. When do they stop this and just do telly?
 
Oh the lyrics and melodrama of Don't You Love Me absolutely made me scream.

CHILD GOES TO THE STORE FOR A LOAF OF BREAD - DON'T YOU LOVE ME?! DON'T YOU LOVE ME NO MORE?!?!

We need more SINISTER HARPSICHORD in POP
Absolute Des'ree levels of lyrical prowess.
 
I wonder why Kula Shaker weren't shown despite being a new entry at #2? Not complaining, absolutely dog shit band but it seems odd.
I don't know if you know 80s Medway band The Prisoners but the Kula Shaker version of "Hush" was a ripoff of their Iive version of the same song.
 
I don't know if you know 80s Medway band The Prisoners but the Kula Shaker version of "Hush" was a ripoff of their Iive version of the same song.
Only because they were James Taylor's old band but yes, I remember this being flagged up at the time.
 
The only thing I know or remember about Three Colours Red is that their guitarist had been in The Senseless Things and was, after a wash and a haircut, basically irrecognisable.
 

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