Get yer armpits, get yer armpits, get yer armpits out for the lads......
16/02/84 (Simon Bates & Peter Powell)
Slade – “Run Runaway” (34)
Who can get a show underway with more air violin enthusiasm than Slade? And Run Runaway would soon become their 16th and final top ten hit.
Thompson Twins – “Doctor Doctor” (3) (video)
Now at its peak.
The Style Council – “My Ever Changing Moods” (8)
The first single from their number 2 album Cafe Bleu, it peaked at number 5.
Jonathan King – US chart rundown: Edited out.
Rockwell – “Somebody’s Watching Me” (video clip + interview)
Van Halen – “Jump” (video clip)
The Romantics – “Talking In Your Sleep” (video clip)
Duran Duran – interview + “New Moon On Monday” (video clip)
Kool & The Gang – “Joanna” (video clip)
Shannon – “Let The Music Play” (19) (video)
Went up five more places, but was also edited out of tonight's 7.30 showing, a bit odd given that they had to fill in with a Sounds of the 70's clip at the end!
Matt Bianco – “Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed” (36)
Making their debut now are Matt Bianco, and they swung all the way to number 15.
Nena – “99 Red Balloons” (11)
With an English lyrics version of a German song that had featured in a European hits segment on the show seven months earlier, armpit mania was about to sweep the nation, and of course this would be the next number one song we would get to actually see performed on the show. Yes, Frankie were still there, now four of five weeks of being banned.
Break Machine – “Street Dance” (27) (+ credits)
We play out with a dance routine this week, and Street Dance was the first of two top ten hits for Break Machine, peaking at number 3.
Here’s how @BBCOne promoted the 1984 Rock and Pop Awards, including a tiny slip of the tongue. #TOTP pic.twitter.com/vH022VRqcX— BBC Four (@BBCFOUR) June 30, 2017
The British Rock and Pops Awards
Next up is February 23rd 1984.
Angelo, they may have edited out Shannon because it was too difficult to stitch back in after the Jonathan King slot was edited out, otherwise why would they make the show only 25 minutes, when it was originally 35-40 mins I think? And yes, it was quite odd to have a 5-minute Sounds of The 70s programme at 7.55-8.00pm! I cannot think of any other reason to edit out Shannon, particularly as it was one of the best dance tunes of the whole decade.
ReplyDeleteSlade - this sounded too much like Big Country's debut hit Fields Of Fire in 1983, so not to my liking.
The Thompson Twins - brilliant follow up to Hold Me Now, but not as good, and comes off third best of theirs after Hold Me Now and Love On Your Side, but somehow did much better by getting to No.3!
JK segment - again pity that he is still being shunned by BBC4, especially as I would have liked to see Rockwell and Kool & The Gang, who were simultaneously in the UK Chart this week too, but kept back by TOTP because of the JK USA chart feature.
Chart rundown - and finally, the last ever Hot Chocolate drink (I mean chart single), entering at No.38, which was to be their goodbye hit after 15 consecutive years of chart singles since 1970!
Nena - another cutie, and very pretty young lady, almost not possible to have more pretty looks than this, and oh yes, the singe was very good too.
Yes I think you are right Dory about Shannon, apparently she won't be in the later version either, JK must've linked to her.
ReplyDeleteJust watched the later version, and the Shannon track was still not re-instated unsurprisingly, so agreed with Stu below, that the whole show is now needed, and also for the Jonathan King US charts segment, so there's lots to look forward to if anyone can come up with the complete show.
DeleteHas anyone got a link to the complete show? Would like to see the Shannon track. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThe full show is here (thanks yet again to Neil B):
Deletehttps://we.tl/Mj67qYR8QQ
Nice work John. Cheers.
DeleteIt seems BBC4 did a slight edit at the start of the show, where Bates mentions a trip to California for the American chert (something to do with Jonathan King). Typical!
Deletei remember thinking shannon was an odd name for a female singer at the time, and assumed it was some kind of stage or nickname. but it turns out to be her given name, which became quite popular in the states for both boys and girls from the mid-20th century onwards. somewhat strangely, perhaps as a result of that i now always look out for the american distance athlete shannon rowbury whenever she competes (she's running in the 5000m in this years upcoming atheltics world championships in london)
DeleteShannon Tweed anyone?!!
DeleteWasn't there a song called Shannon, about a dog?
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DeleteAs noted by everyone at the time, Slade were ripping off Big Country with Run Run Away, and Noddy is cheekily sporting a tartan jacket to acknowledge this, but this was much better than their previous hit for me. Full of energy, two instrumental breaks, pretending to play the violin, all good.
ReplyDeleteThe Thompson Twins have brought some friends along for their video, they look as if they're performing in the ZX Spectrum game Ant Attack. Er, without the ants.
Say what you like about Paul Weller (and there's plenty to say), he was always happy to show up for TOTP in the studio. I suppose this is more evidence of the new jazz movement? It's OK, jaunty enough.
I had a look at the Shannon video on YT, it's not very exciting though she seems to be playing What's the Time Mr Wolf? with a bunch of blokes in white shirts and dicky bows. Song's a lot better, as Dory says one of the best dance tracks of the year.
Matt Bianco (which sounds like a shade of emulsion paint now) are best known for an unfortunate incident on Saturday Superstore, but this was a cheery, skippy little number, more new jazz that still pops into my head when I need to get up.
As Frank Bough memorably said, "That Nena - she's something!" And finally she has a hit here with 99 Red Balloons, it's the 80s so of course it's about nuclear war. It sounded so profound when I was a kid.
Break Machine to end with a flourish, with dance moves part impressive, part a little clunky. Jolly, cheesy little tune, with lyrics that are worth closer examination as a "how to" manual. If you want to get out the linoleum and give it a go yourself, that is.
Each to his/her own, but I thought Slade were right to keep abreast of changing fashions within the industry. While 'Run Runaway' is unashamedly a pastiche of Big Country's powerful Celtic rock sound, it deservedly provided Slade with a Top 10 follow-up to 'My Oh My' - and proved to be the Wolverhampton wanderers' biggest hit in the USA, where it reached No.20. Indeed, it was one of their biggest international hits, reaching No.13 in Canada and hitting the Top 10 in Sweden, Norway, Eire and Iron Curtain-era Poland!
ReplyDeleteDory has a point about editing. Alas, we will not hear from my fellow bookkeeper Shannon this time around.
'Ninety Neunzig Luftballons' - as Tracey Ullman recently rendered it in character as Angela Merkel - sold to almost every stratum of society, but would prove to be Nena's one and only British Top 40 hit.
I remember a girl of junior school age asking for '99 Red Balloons' by "NINA" in my local independent record shop. Frederik's ex (who's now 84 and lives in Spain) made some fine MOR solo recordings, but she would never have covered '99 Red Balloons'!
Nena's follow-up, 'Just A Dream', peaked at No.70; Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan dismissed it in 'Smash Hits' as sounding like "late 70s New Wave" and added that "I always did hate The Jags". Trevor Horn CBE, co-producer of the latter band's only Top 40 hit 'Back Of My Hand', had just helmed the million-selling phenomenon that was 'Relax' - a spot of jealousy, maybe?
nina's partner frederik failed to last the course like she has, as i remember reading a while back that after their spell in the spotlight he ended up somewhere in the far east doing dodgy things like gun-running and drug-smuggling. and perhaps not surprisingly got himself killed as a result!
DeleteI do like some Depeche Mode tracks but my goodness they take themselves extremely seriously so I'm not surprised at Mr.Gahan's comment. 'Back Of My Hand' is a superb piece of pop so he's completely wrong.
DeleteI've just found 'Just A Dream' on YouTube, first time I've heard it since 1984. It is indeed a wonderful piece of New Wave synthpop, and there lies the rub - it was a good three or four years behind the times. That strikes me as a more plausible reason for the band's subsequent lack of success than the singer's unshaven armpits.
Deletei totally agree with you 20th - take out nena's vocal that is by far the weakest element, and it's hard to believe it's the same act that did that "balloons" crap! did this ever get radio play in blighty? if so then i certainly have no memory of it - it's almost as if they were only allowed one chance here as a foreign one-hit wonder novelty act, and then told to clear off back to wherever they came from...
DeletePP finds himself lumbered with Master Bates yet again, but he seems in a better mood this time, and even seems tolerant of Bates putting his hand on his shoulder at the end. The headmaster himself is as ever prone to talking too much, and makes one priceless gaffe when he claims that JK is on the "East Coast," when he is actually in LA...
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't ask for a livelier start than Slade's Big Country tribute. As Julie mentions above, this was their biggest ever American hit, thanks I believe to considerable exposure of the video on MTV. The band seem to be having a great time in the studio as their career revival continues, and it's good to see Jim on his fiddle. While this would prove to be their final Top 10 hit, it was a worthy way to go out. The Thompson Twins video is both rather cheap-looking and self-consciously weird, but the most memorable thing about it was finally seeing Alannah without that wretched cap of hers!
No Dee C. with the Style Council this time as they run through one of their better hits. Mick Talbot appears to have come to the studio on his bike and forgotten to change - I'm surprised the Beeb didn't make him, given the free advertising his top was giving to Raleigh. The JK section next, with the man himself puzzlingly wearing a suit despite the hot temperatures in LA. Most of the songs featured will be on properly in future shows, so all I will comment on here is The Romantics track, which reminded me of something else that, annoyingly, I can't place. It sounded pretty mechanical and dull, anyway! JK interviews a somewhat nervous Rockwell, who was perhaps worried that King would ask him if his Motown contract might have something to do with the fact that Berry Gordy was his dad (needless to say, he didn't). We also get a pretty unenlightening interview with the Taylors of Duran Duran, followed by a pointless clip of their new video, which viewers had seen in full the previous week.
The Shannon tune is a very good dance track, that while very much of its time still stands up today, with an excellent groove - a shame JK's intro meant this had to be cut by BBC4. Shannon herself looks pretty good in the video, and her troupe of backing dancers look like Chippendales with their shirts on. I have never cared much for Matt Bianco's updated brand of swing-jazz, and it's no great surprise to me that they are now more remembered for being sworn at on Saturday Superstore than for their music. Their proto-yuppie look here is equally unappealing, though it perhaps helps to explain why this kind of music would become so associated with wine bars over the next few years...
Nena finally makes it into the British charts, though perhaps disappointingly she makes sure nobody can see her armpits on this occasion! A cracking pop tune anyway, even if the bouncy tone of most of the song is at odds with the grim lyrical content - inevitably the audience are waving red balloons, but it looks as if the TOTP budget didn't extend to providing 99 of them. Break Machine go through their moves as the new-look (and to my eyes inferior) end credits roll. I though they were quite impressive, and the song wasn't bad either, though the underlying groove definitely sounded similar to Shannon's song...
Indeed Rockwell looked very nervous in that interview, as everybody who is interviewed by JK does it seems, but Rockwell also wins the prize for ugliest person on the show this week.
DeleteThe Romantics track was covered some six moths later in the summer of '84 by Bucks Fizz doing the same song, although Buck Fizz could only make it to no.15 with it here, but it is exactly the same song, and I always thought it was only done by Buck Fizz, and now we can see that The Romantics had the original, and this week already at No.3 in the US.
I agree that it was a pity that Shannon got edited out because JK introduced the song and video on the British chart at No.19, essentially doing the presenting work for Bates & Powell, so BBC4 obviously didn't like this, and Shannon had to be edited out. Nevertheless, a great song and video, and one of the all time disco classics.
PP may have been in a better mood because wardrobe didn't make him wear a Man At C&A jumper this week.
DeleteI noticed there was another prediction from the Slimy one, this time about the Thompson Twins being number one next week, although for once he didn't say it would be a definite chart topper.
Does anyone know when the JK segments stop? Assuming the repeats continue into 1985, when the show was regularly 30 minutes long, we could be getting Sounds of the 70s filler fairly regularly.
There can't be many more by now? JK just got charged with about 20 more sexual offences last week, so it's not looking good for him. He says he's not guilty.
DeleteI think they continue into 1985 as JK did a US segment in the Christmas special, maybe they stopped when the show got its revamp in 1986.
DeleteAccording to Popscene, the last regular JK slot was in February 1985, just before the arrival of EastEnders and the permanent shrinking of TOTP to 30 minutes, which is probably why they stopped them. There was one final American chart round-up at Christmas '85, but that was it.
DeleteThanks John. So from February 85 they'll only be Smitty's shows on the banned list.
DeleteIndeed - unless something else happens in the meantime...
DeleteIf we get to the end of the eighties I'd quite like to see Anthea Turner's shows banned as she out did Bates and Wright in the irritant stakes.
DeleteYou're forgetting that Gary Glitter presented a show in the mid 1990s. The Human League were on it. That won't see the light of day again.
DeleteHe hosted several in the nineties, the first (I think) in 1994.
DeleteYeah, I remember this clip from a December 1994 show that he hosted, with some sexy Santa girls on Zig And Zag:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0UMWXcYyS8
TOTP didn't go 30 minutes permanently until July 25th 1985.
DeleteI remember that, and the reason for that is because of the launch of Eastenders, which would put an end to TOTP shows being over 30 minutes from that point onwards.
DeleteAh, that BR&PA trailer - top of the what? It was a different time, you could get away with that kind of language, etc.
ReplyDeletehosts: pp draws the short straw again! or maybe everyone else kept feigning illness or making other excuses whenever the producer approached them to team up with slimy?
ReplyDeleteslade: did they have no shame? did stuart adamson sue them?
shannon: i didn't care much for this electro-dance track back then, but it has grown more on me in recent times
matt bianco: fronted by ex-blue rondo a la turk guitarist mark reilly (who was a cool-looking guy, but i wish he'd done something about that problematic right cheekbone) and somebody called basia that i read as bas-ee-yah (it turned out she was polish, and her name was actually was meant to be pronounced as the somewhat-unflattering sounding "basher"). it sounds like three different ideas crammed into one, with none of them being particularly strong. but no doubt it sounded cool as background noise in wine bars
nena: i hated this at the time. i mean i really hated it. and i still do now. trying to listen to it again in an objective manner 33 years on, i thought the crunchy instrumental bit at the beginning was okay. but once it goes into double-time indie-lite mode, it really is unbearable
break machine: another electro-dance-style track i wasn't very impressed with at the time. but although unsurprisingly the vocals aren't too hot (i assumed it was because it was the street dancers, but it turns out to be a DJ), i now consider the backing to be very solid with some nice synth/sampling touches. my recall was right in that it was the work of the same guys behind the village people - if you see what i mean!
I always thought Nena's band were a clone of Blondie, some of them could be the same people, esp the one with the curly perm.
Deleteso like blondie, was nena the name of the band rather than the lead singer (which was the assumption of many)?
DeleteIt's 1978 all over again for 20th Century Relic, since this particular period sees another clutch of those all-time faves! We had 'Wouldn't It Be Good' last time, and this show gives us 'Run Runaway' (we agreed back then that Slade out-Big Countried Big Country), 'Jump' (in the JK bit) and the sublime if somewhat crudely translated '99 Red Balloons'. Also an honorary mention to 'Doctor Doctor', the Thompson Twins' finest hour by virtue of the instrumental break alone.
ReplyDeleteIs the full show available to stream/download? I could do with an end-of-holiday treat. Ah, just seen the link - thanks John & Neil!
Sad to hear of the death today of Barry Norman, the famous film critic and regular BBC film reviewer.
ReplyDeleteI used to love watching his late night show in the 80s just to see what the best new films to see in the cinema, and boy were there good films in those days.
My favourite review of his was a damning assessment of Macca's Give My Regards To Broad Street film which was along the lines of: 'In it, we discover that the master tapes for Paul's latest album have gone missing. What a calamity! Well it is, because we have to spend the next 90 minutes watching as he tries to find the damn things...'
Delete... and "give my regards to broad street" was actually released in 1984! not that it made any difference in that i wouldn't have been remotely interested in going to see the film anyway, but it wasn't until many years later that i discovered that the title is a (somewhat feeble) pun on the old al jolson/tin pan alley number "give my regards to broadway"...
DeleteI've only seen the clips featured in the No More Lonely Nights video and that's more than enough for me. The Broad Street in question was Broad Street railway station which was about to close (presumably not as a result of negative film reviews).
DeleteGive My Regards to Broad Street would have been better as a home movie, because that's what it looks like, Paul and his celeb mates messing about for their own amusement. Weird cast though - Sir Ralph Richardson and Giant Haystacks in the same movie?! (Don't take that as a recommendation)
DeleteOriginally it was planned as a TV special but although he was advised not to, he decided to double its length and make it a film. It did eventually turn up on TV though, usually as filler on Central in the early hours of the morning...
DeleteEdits aside, it strikes me that with the top40 rundown now showing climbers we could have done with more time for the show. How Hot Chocolate were not included is a complete mystery as Errol, Harvey and co always seemed to be available to pop in to perform their latest hit. I was also convinced we’d get Kool and the Gang as well but I see a clip was featured on the edited out JK slot. It was also a ‘miss’ not to have included another showing for Queen and Juan Martin (although the latter would no doubt have been snipped out again!). Actually I rewatched this iconic beach scene on YT following the clips on the previous ToTP and it still moves me to see Father Ralph (Richard Chamberlain) running after Meggie (Rachel Ward)!!!
ReplyDeleteSlade – Run Runaway – Agree with everyone who has alluded to ‘Fields of Fire’. 4000 miles indeed. Great to see Jimmy back to his fiddle which he first appeared with in 1971 with ‘Coz I luv you’.
Thompson Twins – Doctor! Doctor! – Not the greatest of videos for me but still love the minor key feel of the song.
Style Council – My ever changing moods – The best of their hits in my opinion. The drummer looks really young!
JK – Clip not seen, nor Shannon.
Matt Bianco – Get out of our lazy bed – Hmm the mini skirted girl is taking risks there with that cameraman!! Saw Basia live supporting Billy Ocean a few years after this and she kept making reference to being in ‘the Matt Bianco Band’. Great song this.
Nena – 99 Balloons – Not one of my particular favourites I must confess, but was a relief when it relieved Frankie of the top spot. Lots of red balloons in the studio here.
Break Machine – Street Dance – Quick move to the ‘stop’ button.
presumably basia made reference to "the matt bianco band" so that nobody thought it was a solo act - as somebody of an older generation who was watching the show with me assumed!
Deletesct i have this absurd vision of you making a move to the stop button when "street dance" came on as agilely as the dancers spinning on their heads! that reminds me of back in the mid-90's when i visited a chum who was heavily into the indie/britpop scene of that era - he was playing a cd of such stuff that had been given away by one of the music magazines in the background as we chatted. then without warning he suddenly leapt off his chair as if it had given him an electric shock and ran over to his cd player to press the FF button. when i asked him the reason for his behaviour he explained "oh, that fucking awful robbie williams has just come on!" - unlike the charlatans, in his view williams was a real charlatan for jumping on that particular bandwagon at the time...
DeleteI'll watch the show later, but they could have shown Shannon on Thursday without an introduction as they've done that at least once before in this re-run, when they cut from the end of a track by, I think, Elvis Costello and went straight into "Fool If You Think It's Over" by Chris Rea with no intro.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed, they also did this for Baby Come To Me by Patti Austin & James Ingram when it came on straight after the JK slot when JK introduced it in the British chart at the end of his US slot.
DeleteI guess it was more difficult to patch in the Shannon song as it went straight to the lyrics after JK finished his introduction, whereas at lease with the Austin/Ingram one, there was a bit of instrumental in between JK introduction of the song and the opening lyrics.
Thanks again, Neil B!
ReplyDeleteIt’s McSlade who, according to Pete, have had two hits in the last three months. I take it he meant three years. So, we do get armpits in this edition, but they belong to Jimmy Lea, who nearly took Noddy’s eye out with that behind-back fiddling.
A Thompson Twins video where we see both of Tom’s eyes, the top of Alannah’s head, and the peak of Joe’s acting. Slimes was skating on thin ice (ho ho) with his chart prediction.
ALERT! ALERT! PAUL WELLER NOT CHEWING! I see Mick Talbot’s swapped from Merton Parkas scooter wheels to self-powered Raleigh ones.
Erm, Dave Van Halen, we call a record machine a juke box, mate. PS- The Romantics were a turntable hit over here but did diddley squat chartwise.
Shannon – just brilliant, indeed one of the best dance / disco tunes of all time.
Was that Basia really tall or the Matt Bianco lads really tiny? What was the problem with the singer’s right cheek? That double bass was superfluous.
I’ve never liked that Nena song – in fact, I think it’s the pits. Boom boom tish!
Here come Break Machine. Eat that, Zoo! Mind you, it irritated me that the lads didn’t have headbands matching their outfits. Awkward filmchop towards the end of the routine.
the matt bianco comment below should have been a reply to arthur - bah!
Deleteregarding david lee roth's comment: there are at least two american-penned songs that mention a "record machine" (joan jett's "i love rock n roll" and "shout, shout, knock yourself out" as later covered by rocky sharpe and the replays), so presumably that was (and still is?) a common reference in septicland? ironically they were also responsible for the description "juke box" for such devices, as the word juke (meaning rowdy) comes from black american slang stretching back to the era of slavery...
PP was right about Slade assuming he meant 'My Oh My' and 'Merry Xmas Everybody' as the 2 previous hits.
Deletemark reilly of matt bianco had some kind of protruding lump on his cheek (i don't know if he'd always had it, or acquired it in some way) that stood out as a blemish on his otherwise-handsome features. you would have thought he could have had the problem corrected with surgery, but a much more recent pic of him on discogs confirms it's still like that
ReplyDeleteas for basia: if you think her given name is confusing, then try her surname for size (trzetrzelewska) - no wonder she never bothered with that as a pop singer! that reminds me of a comedy sketch where i think it was rowan atkinson "commentating" on a world cup match (that actually took place in 1986) between bulgaria and south korea - after having increasing difficulty pronouncing the line-up of the bulgarian team, when he sees the south korean one he just gives up and legs it!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FIFA_World_Cup_Group_A#South_Korea_vs_Bulgaria
by the way, does anyone else remember the bugarian goalie in question borislav mikhailov wearing a syrup in the 1994 world cup?
Sorry, I'd read the previous comment about Mark Reilly and meant to say I was wondering what had happened to it in the first place. As for the Polish lady's name, apparently you pronounce it Basher Chechelevska. Oh, and yes, I remember that goalie's syrup - and to think we used to berate Bobby Charlton's combover in my youth!
DeleteOur mate Basia actually released no less than 24 singles as a solo artist between 1986 and 2010, with her early singles given a dedicated "BASH" prefix, and she managed three minor UK chart entries, one of them (1993's "Drunk On Love") agonizingly stalling one place outside the 'new mugshots'.
Delete"Chicks dig scars" - so said the daredevil on The Simpsons.
DeleteYes I remember that fantastic Bulgaria team lead by Mr Stoitchkov.
DeleteBest World Cup ever imo, possibly due to England not stinking it up.
I loved that World Cup too - partly because of no England (although there was the tedious 'thou must support Eire' thing going on) but also because it coincided with an extremely happy time in my life.
DeleteDitto Noax. I recall indignantly supporting anybody but Ireland who imo were the dullest team there.
Deleteperhaps the reason we were all urged to support eire (in the absence of the "home countries") was because their squad consisted mainly of englishmen that had probably never set foot on the emerald isle prior to being selected, and even then only played for them because they weren't good enough for their own country! maybe the opposition supporters should have chanted at their matches "are you england, are you england, are you england in disguise?"?
Deletefor what it's worth, perhaps the best world cup for me was 1990 - not just because in-ger-land actually played to their potential for a change (but only in the latter stages - the group matches were excruciating to my recollection), but also because i had (and watched several matches with) a chum who had an equal obsession with the game at that point?
...and they were managed by the englishman "big jack" charlton of course. what i found amusing about him was that like several of his managerial peers (bobby robson springs to mind) he had a habit of getting players' names wrong, and apparently always called liam brady (one of the few genuine irishmen who played for him) "ian brady"!
DeleteShame the new end credits used the wrong year at the end.
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Erm, Angelo, not too sure about our newest blog recruit!
ReplyDeletei couldn't have put it better myself mr downham!
ReplyDeleteseriously: angelo, can you get rid of clowns like this intruding on the blog? if so then please delete this crap as soon as you can - thanks!
Nice to see new contributors to the blog, but just a little bit off topic on this occasion...
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's Juan Martin, positively irate at his lack of airtime?
DeleteCould be!
DeleteWe must be (reasonably) popular if we're getting spammers!
ReplyDeleteThis show felt a bit cut and paste. Oh, that's because it was. I hope we don't get too many of these chopfests in future.
ReplyDeleteSlade - Ah, my new mate Jim Lea is in fine form here. I remember he memorably described his fiddle part on 'Coz I Luv You' as Stephan Grappelli meets Django Rheinhardt so he must have been delighted to give it an airing. I really love the song, miles better than almost everything Big Country ever did.
The Style Council - Speaking of bands I'm not overly keen on.....this one does nothing for me.
JK section - I wondered why we hadn't seen Rockwell or Shannon. A real shame to miss the latter, that's a great tune. 'Jump' I presume we will see at some point, and The Romantics tune is one I realy like - the Fizz cover is OK but I prefer the original to be honest.
Matt Bianco - I may mostly dislike Big Country and The Style Council but I positively DETEST this lot. In the unlikely event that I ever get to meet the guy who called them a bunch of wankers on Saturday Superstore, I would shake his hand. They made music with no soul to it whatsoever, totally empty of anything interesting.
Nena - Much better, and I loved it at the time too. I've probably heard it a bit too often now, mind.
Break Machine - This put a massive smile on my face, I thought it was positively joyous. OK, it helps that I always loved the song, but I think I can actually remember being mightily impressed by the dancing at the time. This is the kind of stuff that the cool kids at school copied.
Great to see the whole show, thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteYou know there are now so many edits in the BBC 4 presentations lately i think i'd rather see the off air recording. I'll happily trade quality for the full show when you look at the big chunk they lopped out of this episode.
Agreed, it seems that even what BBC4 does show episodes, they still edit words and sentences of the presenters, even if all the songs are shown in some of the episodes. We might as well get every TOTP episode from Neil B, whether aired by BBC4 or not.
DeleteAt least that way, we get to see the original rolling BBC1 blue globe/ball introducing each show. The only advantage to the BBC4 aired episodes is that a lot of the time we get the playouts in full, which would not have been shown in full on the original BBC1 broadcasts at the time, so take your pick folks.
Hard not to admire this Slade song even if it is a blatant copy of Big Country's sound and most of the crowd seem to love it although there are a few who look a bit unsure or maybe they were distracted by some goings-on elsewhere in the studio.
ReplyDeleteAnd then Doctor! Doctor! on video video. Not sure what it's supposed to represent but it's nice to see it as opposed to the band in the studio again. I like it when they mix it up a bit.
Paul Weller still visually influenced by Paul McCartney look in Magical Mystery Tour. The humorous video has them taking part in a cycle race which is why Mick is wearing cycling gear here. Drummer Steve White looks young and was about 18 at this point, his brother Alan was Oasis' drummer. The band still hadn't released a proper album at this point despite this being their 5th single and when the album came out it was very jazz-influenced and only featured this and the next single.
How ironic that the Shannon song is called Let The music Play but it wasn't played. Shame.
The chart rundown seems to be almost a quarter of the show's running time in this show.
I was never quite sure about Matt Bianco. Sure it was a catchy, jazz-influenced slice of pop but there was something a bit too self-studied about the band's uber-cool "mm that's nice"jazz look and the lead singer with his seemingly one high cheekbone who looked like he was totally up himself.
Nena's 99 Red Balloons was okay but it wasn't a song I bought back then but it's easy to see it's appeal.
I enjoyed the playout with Break machine and it's obvious why this flew up to number 3. The end bit of the chorus always reminded me of Precious by The Jam and even now I still sing "believe me baby" when it gets to that point.
well done bama for catching up with us again (i always check the number of posts for the last few editions to see if there are those like yourself submitting belated entries). and a good observation here on the ironic title of the shannon track (i think one of the reasons i didn't like that too much at the time was that i thought the emphasis in the phrase should have been on "play" - not "music"!). plus i saw steve white do a drum clinic at the olympia music fair in the late 80's, but he wasn't a patch on mark unpronouncablename from big country (he only had half the kit for a start!)
Deleteby the way, what was the name of that record shop you worked in again?
It was the Parade, Watford branch of (S)our Price. It was the same shop they used in the film Confessions Of A Pop Star where Robin Askwith goes to buy his band's single and ends up having sex with the female assistant. Nothing like that ever happened when I worked there.
DeleteWhat a great claim to fame! I watched CoaPP a few months ago and was surprised at how funny it was in light of its terrible reputation. Although the real porn in it is nostalgia porn for old shops, cars, brands, etc.
Deleteto my recollection the "our price" chain didn't start up until the 80's, so presumably they took over an existing (independent?) record shop premises?
Deleteeven though i was brought up in a fairly small and hick town, in the 70's we were spoilt for choice when it came to record shops. apart from the chains like wh smiths and woollies (more nostaglia porn for you there thx!), there were also a couple of independent shops (where i picked up many a chart-failure funk/disco 45 for pennies in the bargain bins!), plus a tiny dive in one of the back streets (called "dave's disc den") that sold cheap second-hand ex-juke-box singles (along with those spindles to put in the centres!). so i'm sure it won't surprise anybody here to learn that my chums and i religiously walked into town every saturday morning to take advantage of all that... like it was some kind of road to music mecca!
Our Price bought up the old Harlequin chain circa 1979. I read in Danny Baker's first biog that he briefly worked at the Harlequin warehouse just before they got bought out and quite a few boxes of records went out the back door.
DeleteIt's hard to believe now that even a small town could support two or three record shops. My home town had an Our Price, an indie and a Boots standalone record store when I was growing up.
DeleteWhen I was at uni in Leicester there were two Our Prices, HMV and numerous indie stores including Ainleys where I worked for a while.
Yeah, Our Price and HMV, who once thrived in the days before the internet where you could order CDs and DVDs from Amazon or Ebay. Oh for the good old days, and that red and white Our Price logo and carrier bag when you bought records from there!
DeleteOur Price in Farnham (my home town) briefly turned into Sanity before being turned into a Costa. I wish it was still the former.
ReplyDeleteI refuse to buy music from Amazon, ebay etc, I much prefer going into a record shop and as my job entails regular trips out round the country I'll find the local record shop if there is one. If I have to order online I use the HMV site.
steve, what about discogs - is that acceptable to you?
DeleteI've never used it Wilberforce but just had a look - definitely worth further investigation.
DeleteI've nothing against buying music online, I used to buy quite a lot of CDs and records off Amazon but stopped when HMV nearly went under. If I didn't have a record shop nearby or stopped travelling around with work I'd no doubt do more of my music shopping online.
The best place for online purchase of new CDs is Ebay, not Amazon. Amazon charges more than Ebay for brand new items, because Amazon has more overheads, i.e., warehousing, whereas Ebay has a different business model of sending out direct from retailers who list their products directly on the eBay website, so it works out cheaper from Ebay even for brand new items, because they don't pass on their extra 'costs' to consumers, including postage costs.
DeleteI rarely use Amazon these days, as the other advantage with Ebay apart from cheaper prices to consumers, is that you can link your nectar card to your EBay account to rack up Nectar points for everything you buy from eBay, whether auction, new or used items!
I didn't know that! I do use EBay occasionally for things other than music, so I'll get my Nectar card linked up.
DeleteWhy not for music items also? I buy all my new CDs and DVDs from Ebay, as you can choose new, used, or auction.
Deletedory i think the point steve is trying to make is that he'd rather support friendly local record shops than the faceless and soul-less multi-national internet conglomorates. the reason i suggested discogs was that it was originally set up as a fan site rather than a corporation with profit in mind, so to a degree it's a virtual record shop!
DeleteIt is Wilberforce. It's a bit old fashioned but I enjoy the ritual of going into a record store to buy a new album and having a browse, even if it can sometimes be a bit hard on the bank balance!
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