Old TOTP (BBC4) (1 Viewer)

Oh, this is the one Skunk Anansie song I actually remember for anything other than a shouty bit. It's easy to see why they're still a big touring act.
 
I do remember having an excruciating moment during Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli - I was thinking Bocelli looked really uncomfortable on camera and then when they finally did a close up of his face, I thought "oh. OH." I felt like an absolute melon and still do.
 
Wet Wet looking like they all shaved their heads for charity and now don't know what to do with their barnets. Given Marti's bleach blond look, I'm assuming he was on the skag by now.
 
I've always thought Faith No More were shite and I still do. Music for men who wear knee-length khaki shorts to work.
 
Spice Girls wearing their own merch. Never missed an opportunity, eh?
 
These episodes are NOT GOOD. The programming is a shambles and having songs after they've dropped is totally against the spirit of the show. Nah, let's not have that new entry by a new band, let's have fucking Eternal again.
 
Is this before or after she got rushed from Glasgow Airport to the Southern General after taking too much gak before she got on the plane?
 
These episodes are NOT GOOD. The programming is a shambles and having songs after they've dropped is totally against the spirit of the show. Nah, let's not have that new entry by a new band, let's have fucking Eternal again.
Rosie Gaines two week in a row as well. This must be around the time it was going right down the shitter.
 
Oh, thank GOD. Radiohead. Paranoid Android is a masterpiece and a seriously gutsy first single from a new album. All 6 and a half minutes of it.
 
Awww. They could at least have shown the bit where it clatters back in after the choral section.
 
I was a bit too snobby to enjoy Mmm-Bop at the time. I was a bit "Kurt Cobain died for this?" about it but it's actually jolly good fun.
 
Ah, Chumbawamba. A bit of a local curiosity here in Leeds. Last I heard, whatever remains of the core membership was still defiantly living down the road from me in Armley which is... not an area you'd typically choose to live in if you had pop star money. :D
 
No memory of this OTT cover, or them in general. They look like if a few random members of Take That and Boyzone had wandered into the gene splicing machine from The Fly.
 
God, Dannii's All I Wanna Do is a truly MAJESTIC moment in pop :disco:

Shame she's miming her peroxide-soaked arse off in this perf, but one can't have it all.
 
UGH, Stereophonics.

To be fair, they were tolerable enough until that awful album with Mr Writer, Handbags & Gladrags and the true VoR bottom 5 song of all time Have a NAAAAAAAAAARSE DAY :zombie:
 
God, Dannii's All I Wanna Do is a truly MAJESTIC moment in pop :disco:

Shame she's miming her peroxide-soaked arse off in this perf, but one can't have it all.
It really WAS. I know it's not a popular opinion here but I thought she was QUITE USELESS until this
 
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We lost around half of 1997 to rapey rappers, and yet we return and Mark Owen is STILL chipping away at his first little stab at a solo career? :o
 
Ah, Chumbawamba. A bit of a local curiosity here in Leeds. Last I heard, whatever remains of the core membership was still defiantly living down the road from me in Armley which is... not an area you'd typically choose to live in if you had pop star money. :D
They gave it all AWAY to WORTHY CAUSES

I GET KNOCKED DOWN
BUT I GET UP AGAIN
YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN

I do like the way PISSING is a TOTP NO-NO WORD in 1997

I also like remembering how very UNLIKELY it was for CHUMBAWAMBA to have a number 2 HIT
 
I'm just catching up and Dame Dannii basically inviting you for a blow job while performing All I Wanna Do is my good for my bedtime wank.
 
Furious that DIRTY SOD Diddy denied us a performance from the Mamas and the Papas.

I recently discovered one of the Papas was a dirty fucking rotter himself, with his own daughter no less.
 
Marti Pellow's 1997 beard is hilarious. It looks like put Pritt Stick on his chin and went down on a poodle. Song's shite too.
 
Jon Bon Jovi get the fuck off my screen. If Bono didn;t exist, we would all be giving him the hate he deserves, the money grabbing, member sacking twat.
 
This format is awful. Jo Whiley looks like she'd rather be sitting on a rusty spike than presenting this.
 
Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky. Banger. Their best album era this. Pure youthful energy - the confidence is audible.
 
How High was one of The Charlatans best. I actually bought this as a single which wasn't something I did much with the Charlatans.
 
Well, we may have lost the full perf of Blur's On Your Own because of P Diddy being a rapist but they looked thoroughly listless there anyway.
 
Few bands popularity bewildered me more than del Amitri. Maybe Deacon Blue. All I hear is 70s hillbilly rawk sludge.
 
Finley Quaye - he turned out to be as mad as a barrel of badgers. Mate of mine had to deal with him when he trashed a flat he'd hired and tried to claim he had "added value" by doing so. Prick.
 
Gala. Still sounds decent this. The summer of people wondering what "trombolese" was.
 
As much as I loved Dubstar, at this remove I can see why they didn't truly break through. That combination of clubby music and downbeat, almost morose vocals wasn't something the world was quite ready for. Sounds good today tho'.
 

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