Whatever I said, whatever I did, I just want the 6th of April 1995 edition of Top of the Pops!
Take sat
6-4-95: Presenter: Bruno Brookes
(8) GRACE – Not Over Yet
Getting Bruno's 48th and final edition underway with her only top ten hit and it went up two more places.
(23) ULTIMATE KAOS – Show A Little Love
Got no higher.
(11) KENNY ‘DOPE’ presents THE BUCKETHEADS – The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) (video) (and charts)
Had already peaked at number 5 several weeks ago.
(22) TERENCE TRENT D’ARBY – Holding On To You
In the studio with his ninth and final top 40 hit and it went up two more places.
(7) CORONA – Baby Baby
Performing their second of three top ten hits and it went up two more places.
(18) SIMPLE MINDS – Hypnotised
At its peak.
(25) PATO BANTON with RANKING ROGER – Bubbling Hot
Here tonight and the song peaked at number 15.
(NEW) BRYAN ADAMS – Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman
Here to perform a song that will peak at number 4.
(1) TAKE THAT – Back For Good
First of four weeks at number one for arguably their best ever song.
(TOTP2) NIRVANA – Smells Like Teen Spirit (clip of TOTP 28-11-91) (and credits)
Infamous performance of their number 7 hit.
Couldn't find anything to comment on this week's show, apart from the chart rundown where Barry White was at peak with a new entry at No.36 with I Only Want To Be With You which turned out to be his penultimate Top 40 single, and when you think his chart career goes back all the way to 1973 on his debut, it was great to see him come out with new music in 1995 and still be able to chart in a new generation of music which had changed enormously since the early 70s.
ReplyDeleteThree singles peaking this week outside the Top 40 for previous chart regulars and worth a mention:
No.43 2 In A Room - Ahora Es (Now Is The Time)
Having already had their final Top 40 entry a few months earlier in late 1994, this group had now been going since 1989, and were on their penultimate single by now, and who could forget their greatest hit in 1991 with Wiggle It which got to No.3, which really set the tone for everything else they released after.
No.44 Roxette - Vulnerable
Also going since 1989, and now coming up to their last year or so on a regular music chart trajectory, before taking a long break until 1999, the Top 40 hits were beginning to dry up by now, as this was the first single to fail to make the Top 40 for them since 1990.
No.55 Londonbeat - I'm Just Your Puppet On A String
With no Top 40 hits since 1992, this return in 1995 for the Eurovision Song For Europe entry did quite badly chartwise, and the brief return was short-lived, as there was only more single after this a month later doing no better at a peak of No.69, it was all but over for Londonbeat chartwise at this point.
@dory Vulnerable may have missed the chart for Roxette but it didn't stop Per putting it on most of their Greatest Hits albums often at the expense of better singles 😄 I like it but it wasn't ever an obvious single. I think they only have two or maybe three top 40 hits to come though that doesn't mean their later albums aren't great. Charm School (their comeback after Marie's illness) especially so. Per is still making music in various guises, of his 'PG Roxette ' brand, the single Incognito earlier this year is a bop, very different from regular Roxette in sound (my other favourite PG Roxette track is the one that sounds MOST like Roxette and everything in between these two extremes is perfectly fine but not stand out)- I particularly like the remix by lostboy who was also responsible for the mixing of some of Kylie's Tension (amazing album) including Padam Padam.
ReplyDeleteThis was a weaker episode overall than usual. grace, Corona and Bucketheads are good singles. I hate Take That but can't deny Back for Good is a good song in its own right even if it suffers from Gary Barlow's vocal which is like chalk on a blackboard to me.
I don't hate anything else but don't love it either. Nice to see Nirvana over the credits though given we didn't get that episode of 1991.
Hooray! 11/11/82 is being repeated! Brilliant edition that one. I recorded it but then accidentally recorded over it. Some marvellous things on that one.
ReplyDeleteLate again with my post. Very busy at the moment. '95's brilliance continuing with yet more perfect dance singles and much more besides. And I think this is where we part company with Bruno Brookes 11 years after he began. Still diminutive but an authorative presenter who I will miss. Usually the most image (if not always style) conscious of the presenters, he's very dressed down tonight. Did he forget he was due on when he made a trip to the laundrette? Or is he being belatedly new age?
ReplyDeleteGrace; Covered by The Klaxons in 2007, 'Not Over Yet' the latest in the endless run of classic mid '90s dance singles. Marvellous chorus to this and very striking performance from the singer.
Ultimate KAOS; Can bear this as at least it's a sweet ballad rather than 3 minutes of swaggering around. Their little leader; did he do a kiss to the camera at one point? One has to admire his self confidence.
Kenny Dope with the charts and it makes a great soundtrack. Funny video especially where our comedy stud is dragged away from a couple of doors in what looks like Walkers Ct in Soho.Not the grimy shortcut it once was. Huge fan of this single.
Terence Trent D'Arby; Not a song that stayed in the memory but another blinding live performance from him.
Corona; An interesting choice of fashion wear for the style queen of 'Rhythm of the Night'. Did a steward hand that mac to her at the TV Centre car park? Even odder choice for her backing dancers I didn't know there was such a thing as plastic see through shirts. Still another cracking song which isn't quite on a par with the big hit but another very infectious tune.
Simple Minds; Repeat of last week's clip of 'Hypnotised' with Jim in a very impressive velvet coat but forgetting the towel for the hair. Maybe the consequent shivering is to enhance the swoonsome vocals. Grown on me this one.
Pato Banton with Ranking Roger; A nice coming together of two reggae favourites and for Pato good that he's found a co-performer who's actually willing to come and join him in the studio. Roger looking remarkably youthful for someone who first appeared on the show 16 years before and they do a really joyous run through of 'Bubbling Hot'. Another great hook and I much preferred that to the cover of 'Baby Come Back'.
Bryan Adams; Whoah, now great song or not this I'd quite a moment. An appearance by gold plated flamenco master Paco De Lucia which is really no different to Segovia showing up on Top of the Pops. All pictures I've seen of him he looks intense and moody so great to see him here looking smiley and relaxed even chuckling when Bryan does rabbit ears behind Bruno's head at the end. Segovia I don't think would've allowed that. Totally live and for much of it Bryan looks admiringly at his co-performer as well as having a huge shit-eating grin. Paco reels off the majestic solo though he could have probably done that while wondering what was over on ITV.
Great song as well, a lovely pastiche which should've given him another chart topper, though not for too long.
Take That; 'Back For Good' has made No.1 like it was ever going to get to anywhere else and I truly liked them by now. Agree with Rad that Gary's voice can't help but make it seem a bit bland but I still love the song. Robbie, on his way out, looks like a Sesame Street human puppet.
Goodbye Bruno and thanks. The slow descent you could say beginning here. Ending on the Nirvana clip we couldn't see on the repeats before.
Bruno gets one final outing but it's "Not Over Yet" as Grace kicks off with an infectious. catchy, pop tune. Next some seriously cheesy Kiddie Pop from ULTIMATE KAOS which should never be shown again. The Jacksons they are not. In the bin please.
ReplyDeleteA new look for TERENCE TRENT D’ARBY. "Holding On To You" not his best tune but can't fault the vocal. Didn't realise he got as far as 1995 nut a real talent. Swiftly onto CORONA sweating in her pac-a-mac. "Baby Baby" a different enough number to work in it's own right. Quite like this one.
PATO finally takes centre stage with a two-tone take off with his mate RANKING ROGER. "Bubbling Hot" lot's of fun, full of energy. Enjoyed that a lot and then a swift gear change into BRYAN ADAMS. "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman" one of Bryan's slower tunes I don't like. Never really got into this tune and it hasn't improved with age. Assume we are supposed to know who the Latin guitarist was?
TAKE THAT turning from boy band to mainstream with "Back For Good". Their best tune, possibly but I prefer "Never Forget" myself. Not sure why Robbie has come as the Joker?
So long then Bruno. Some solid presenting but he's about to be ditched by the Radio 1 chart show as well.
The Bryan Adams song was at No.1 in America for the whole of June, staying at the top spot for 5 weeks no less.
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