This edition of Top of the Pops from the 25th of August 1994 will sadly not be shown tonight due to the BBC not having a broadcastable copy. So a huge thanks goes to Anonymous for making it available here at WeTransfer.
Je ne suis pas diffusable
25-8-94: Presenter: Malcolm McLaren
(11) SHAMPOO – Trouble
(3) RED DRAGON with BRIAN & TONY GOLD – Compliments On Your Kiss
(21) ENIGMA – Age Of Loneliness (video) (and charts)
(25) DINOSAUR JNR – Feel The Pain
(20) CHAKA DEMUS & PLIERS – Gal Wine
(2) LET LOOSE – Crazy For You (via satellite)
(24) SHED SEVEN – Speakeasy
(NEW) KYLIE MINOGUE – Confide In Me
(1) WET WET WET – Love Is All Around ®
(NEW) BLUR feat. PHIL DANIELS – Parklife (studio montage) (and credits)
1st of September is next.
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ReplyDeleteA much better show this week, despite Malcolm McLaren trying too hard to impress at the start of the show, but he did get better as it went along, being less smarmy and self-loving as the show progressed.
ReplyDeleteShampoo - third appearance in the TOTP studio and till not in the Top 10, but still sexing up the studio, and the more I hear the song, the more it sounds like the Beastie Boys you gotta fight for your right to party, except for the main chorus.
Red Dragon - more sexy stuff with those stage dancers in red minidresses keeping the interest going after the last single from Shampoo. What with Chaka Demus & Pliers coming up later on the show, it must have been one big Carribean party that night.
Enigma - the chart rundown video choice, and one of their finest songs, and McLaren presenting it must have been impressed, as it was his kind of strange music style. Enjoy this while we can, as Enigma would disappear after this single until 1997 with a brief comeback with only two more singles to come.
Chaka Demus & Pliers - final single in their 1993-1994 big run and impact on the charts, and we have a slimmed down Demus with the always slim Pliers, and I wonder if their dressing room was next door to Red Dragon, as what a big party night this must have been with both groups on the show.
Kylie Minogue - first single in two years from Minogue, looking good in the long evening dress, and coming up with a new and somewhat unexpected music style after such a long time away from the charts.
For the completists among you, only three songs in this show weren't at their chart summit. The Red Dragon crew managed one week at number two, as did Kylie, and the montage track reached its peak the following week as we'll see.
ReplyDeleteBig thanks to those who’ve managed to provide this show for us. Very much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteThat’s an intro and a half. Kylie appears to have blossomed.
Malcolm Le McLaren, pretentious as ever and constantly waffling on in two languages throughout this links, but still a better presenter than Steve Wright. Poor fourth ’audience member’ (harumph) at the start who doesn’t get asked her name.
No captions on this show. Was that part of Malcy’s terms?
Just remind me again. We missed out on “Wide Boy” by Nik Kershaw due to overuse of a short-lived high power lighting rig yet it’s epilepsy alert behind Shampoo, looking ever more confident. I’ll miss this.
Second of three recurring tracks next (after a horrible bit about Malcy dancing naked – Muuuummm!) before a very stylish setting for Red Dragon and the lads. Enjoyable as ever.
A harder edged Enigma, and all the better for it. Preferred this to their chart topper.
A huge number of former chart acts in the non-mugshots whose new entries fail to get a single second played. First of two separate top 40 showings for Helicopter, who never really got off the ground chartwise. Ahem.
Silver medal award for me this week to grunge contemporaries Dinosaur Jr with a track whose choruses are played faster than the verses. 10:30 into the show – the drummer gets horribly caught out against the actual backing track.
A reworking of “Double Barrel’ there by Chaka and his mate.
Let Loose on for a fourth time? Blimey! Where’s the rest of the band gone?
No self-indulgent T-shirt for Rick Witter this time as Shed Seven provide another enjoyable yet not very memorable piece of Britpop.
Peak of the week for the resurrection and reboot of Kylie. As one of her later hits was called, Wow. What a look / sound / stage setting. Charlene’s definitely matured. How did this slinky number not get to number one?
FF that lot again and, after all his spouting, it’s the one part Malcy doesn’t speak which is his ‘best of show’ as he fails to give the outro a namecheck.
Hi Arthur. The show as broadcast did have captions (there is a VHS copy doing the rounds somewhere) but I think this better quality version has been put togrther from the studio footage (that still exists).
DeleteChart rundown - I found four singles of interest in the Top 40 rundown by previous chart superstars at peak positions this week, and that completely missed out, as Arthur in the comment above also noticed perhaps the same ones:
ReplyDeleteNo.27 C&C Music Factory - Do You Wanna Get Funky
First single in two years since 1992, and no longer the C&C Music factory that rocked the charts in 1991, they would have two more singles before bowing out or good in 1995.
No.28 UB40 - Reggae Music
Second of two singles in 1994 that both missed out on a TOTP showing, with their last single on the show being a video in 1993.
No.36 Atlantic Starr - Everybody's Got Summer
First and only single since 1987 when they got to No.3 with Always. Not sure why there was nothing for 7 years, but this was a one off single in 1994, and nothing more in terms of new singles came from them again.
No.37 Swing Out Sister - La La Means I Love You
First single in two years, and also last ever single from them in a good career going back to 1986 with their debut and most successful single Breakout which got to No.4.
All those, Dory, plus Lulu with "Goodbye Baby And Amen" at number 40.
DeleteTwo songs peaking outside the Top 40 this week from previous 80s charting performers who were back for more in the 90s, but missed out this time:
ReplyDeleteNo.67 Terry Hall - Forever J
Specials lead singer goes solo in 1994, and this was the second of six solo singles for Hall up to 2003, all of which failed to make the Top 40 unusually, considering his well known voice and success with The Specials.
No.90 China Crisis - Every Day The Same
First single since 1987, this Liverpool group's name was taken from China East and Russia Crisis, and was shortened to China Crisis. The only reason I knew that is because I recently watched the new series on Sky Arts called Guy Garvey From The Vaults, who unearthes old ITV pop shows from the 80s from the ITV vaults in Leeds apparently, and found a clip of them singing King In A Catholic Style on one of those shows.
Another enjoyable show. Shampoo have been doing well sticking around so long, one of several revisited songs but that's no bad thing.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed Kylie's deConstruction era before it was cool to do so (it's fascinating how it went from being mostly good at the time - especially with the first of those albums - to being seen as a failure to being reappraised as good again). Not sure the IndieKylie moniker ever made sense though, those albums have more dance and pop tracks on them than indie/guitar ones.
Enigma, Dinosaur Jr and Shed Seven refresh the lineup because no offence to Let Loose but HOW many times do we need that song?
I was happily on holiday in the South of France this week in 1994 so missed this first time around. It appears the whole show has taken a happy pill whilst I was away and is now drifting somewhere rather trippy. The filmic type pictures probably suit the show tonight but MM is a bloody awful host.
ReplyDeleteSHAMPOO back again. Someone must love this lot, or at least whatever the record pluggers are slipping the producer. Awful the first 2 times and it isn't third time lucky.
Also moving in to Elstree car park are RED DRAGON with BRIAN & TONY GOLD. This one I will forgive though as I like "Compliments On Your Kiss" a lot.
Massive top ten hit earlier in the year but this is the ENIGMA hit we get to see! "Age Of Loneliness" is a rather lovely tune and we get to see all the New Entries we are missing this week whilst we get Shampoo and Let Loose again!
I could really "feel the pain" listening to this DINOSAUR JNR number, which was truly awful before CHAKA DEMUS & PLIERS restore some black and white order with the rather fine "Gal Wine". Nicely done boys.
SHED SEVEN in a trippy sixties style performance of "Speakeasy". Easily their worst tune.
And finally some class is brought to proceedings with KYLIE "I'm now shagging a rock star" MINOGUE and the gorgeous "Confide In Me". Yes she can sing and whilst this stage of her career may have been her least successful some of the tunes (including this one) have really stood the test of time.
It may take me a while to recover from this one....
I think this may be the last time we see Chaka Demus & Pliers on TOTP, as their extraordinary 1993 and 1994 Top 40 efforts seem to have come to an end with this one. They came back briefly in 1996 & 1997 with two more singles which didn't trouble the Top 40.
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