Slowly shifting, gently drifting, it's the 29th of June 1995 edition of Top of the Pops!
Top of the haircuts
29-6-95: Presenter: Mark Goodier
(4) CLOCK – Whoomph! (There It Is)
Getting tonight's show underway with their second of four top ten hits but this song got no higher.
(9) JAMIROQUAI – Stillness In Time
Performing their second of nine top ten hits but this one was at its peak.
(17) DURAN DURAN feat. MELLE MEL & GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE – White Lines (Don’t Do It) (video) (and charts)
At its peak.
(NEW) ALL-4-ONE – I Can Love You Like That
Performing what will become their second and final top 40 hit when it peaks at number 33.
(10) EDWYN COLLINS – A Girl Like You
The height of Britpop was the perfect time for this record and it went up six more places.
Performing their first of five top 40 hits, but this one got no higher.
(2) THE OUTHERE BROTHERS – Boom Boom Boom
On their way to number one.
(ALBUM TRACK) THE RAMONES – I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
(ALBUM TRACK) THE RAMONES – The Cretin Family
In the studio with two songs from their number 62 album, Adios Amigos.
(1) ROBSON & JEROME – Unchained Melody
Seventh and final week at number one.
(5) FOO FIGHTERS – This Is A Call (video) (and credits)
Their first of four top ten hits and it was at its peak.
Clock - I remember this one at the time and playing it loads of times on my CD player in the car, which was a new concept in 1995, with the first year of cars having a built-in CD player, and even then, it came only as an added-extra when ordering a car from new, a bit like the first sat-navs in cars years later in the digital era.
ReplyDeleteDuran Duran - interesting how the boys decided to cover a 1984 track by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. With Duran Duran added in, it was now the furious ten, and not one of their best videos.
Chart rundown - two singles at peak, and missing out on a TOTP play were Zig & Zag with a new entry at No.21 with Hands Up Hands Up, and Moby at No.34 with Into The Blue. Zig & Zig with their only follow-up to their Xmas 1994 hit Them Girls, and Moby with his seventh Top 40 single since coming on to the scene in 1991.
The Ramones - Good Lord, I remember when they were last in the TOTP studio in 1979 with Baby I Love You, and the same long-legged lanky lead singer with legs like an ostrich was back for more TOTP fun, and strange that the group did two singles in a row on the same stage in the same show, as this must have been very rare on TOTP, which sidelined Zig & Zig from a slot as the highest new entry not to get on to the show!
Top 10 rundown - a little unlucky for Whigfield not to get another invite on the show at No.7 and still climbing, as it was two weeks or more since her first and only performance on the show with her current single. Probably lost out with Zig & Zag due to The Ramones insisting on having two singles on the show in order to come at all.
Clock - sounding like half a dozen other similar tracks of the time, but it had a bit of life.
ReplyDeleteJamiroquai - never liked him, but other half insisted I don’t FF… (no funny hat)
Duran duran - (DD for the second time tonight as we watched 1981 first). From their cover version album. I actually like this as much as the original.
All 4 one - none for me
Edwyn Collins - love this.
Menswear - very elastica. After a brief encounter a couple of episodes ago, the full track.
Outhere brothers - initially not lyrically stretching, but they made up for it in the middle. Some of the lines were ‘can anyone of a word that rhymes with…’
Ramones - highlight of the show. Songs so short they sang twice.
Foo fighters - short but shouty
Overall one the best of these mid 90s episodes
Now this is much better from CLOCK. "Whoomph! (There It Is)". Some really great dance tracks coming from them and this is one of them.
ReplyDeleteJAMIROQUAI at the peak of their powers but "Stillness In Time" is very bland and I don't recall it at all. Never a Top Ten hit.
DURAN DURAN feat. MELLE MEL & GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE – White Lines (Don’t Do It). Will I be the only person here that likes this version - possibly?
Before they started flogging gift cards at the Post Office ALL-4-ONE churn out another RnB ballad that the US seems to love. Nothing good about this at all.
EDWYN COLLINS is stuck on repeat then MENSWEAR have their biggest and only hit anyone remembers. Enjoyed that although the guitarist looked about 12.
THE OUTHERE BROTHERS deserve an award for knocking off Robson and Jerome from the top spot next week.
Never heard of THE RAMONES at this point in my life. Don't really understand why they are significant. Couldn't name any of their hits (did they have any?). Not great this Adults as Punks sound. Second song was better.
FOO FIGHTERS – This Is A Call.
And I though Amy Grant's video was cheap.
Song has grown on me over the years.
Late to this one (again)
ReplyDeleteI remember watching this back in 1995 and being irked by Rik Blaxill's blatant editorialising. The Ramones as an exclusive? And letting them do two songs? They'd been going on forever at this point and had had a grand total of two Top 40 hits (Sheena Is A Punk Rocker and Baby I Love You) in the UK, the last of which was fifteen years ago!
Now in 2024, watching them play I Don't Wanna Grow Up is unbearably poignant. Little did we know but Joey Ramone had already been diagnosed with lymphoma in '95 and had less than six years less to live. Dee Dee would follow in '02 and then Johnny in '04.
So yes lines like 'I don't want my hair to fall out' just sound...tragic, at the distance of three decades.
And then there's Duran Duran with their white lines. Little did we know at the time but John Taylor was still a raging cocaine head in '95. How did he feel about recording the song?
Plenty of dramatic irony in this edition...