One night alone is like a year without the 28th of September 1995 edition of Top of the Pops!
Clever girl
28-9-95: Presenters: Steve Lamacq & Jo Whiley
(13) CAST – Alright
Getting the show underway with the second single from their top ten album, All Change, but it got no higher.
(29) GARBAGE – Only Happy When It Rains
Making their studio debut with the first of sixteen top 40 hits, but this one got no higher.
(10) WET WET WET – Somewhere Somehow (video) (and charts)
Went up three more places.
(NEW) THE PRETENDERS – Kid
In the studio with a new version of their number 33 hit from 1979, but this one only made it to number 73.
(12) BON JOVI – Something For The Pain (via satellite)
Went up four more places.
(ALBUM TRACK) TLC – Hitmix
In the studio tonight to perform a medley of tunes from their top 4 album, Crazysexycool.
(16) MENSWEAR – Stardust
Performing their second of five top 40 hits, but it got no higher.
(NEW) DEF LEPPARD – When Love And Hate Collide
Here with what will become their third and final top ten hit when it peaks at number 2.
(1) SIMPLY RED – Fairground
First of four weeks at number one.
(NEW) MEAT LOAF – I’d Lie For You (And That’s The Truth) (video) (and credits)
Will peak at number 2.
5th of October is next.
2-3-78: Presenter: Noel Edmonds
ReplyDelete(17) BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS – Is This Love (and charts)
(2) DARTS – Come Back My Love
(16) SAMANTHA SANG – Emotions (video)
(18) TOM ROBINSON BAND – Don’t Take No For An Answer ®
(5) KATE BUSH – Wuthering Heights
(NEW) NICK LOWE – I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass
(25) RITA COOLIDGE – Words (video)
(21) EARTH, WIND & FIRE – Fantasy (danced to by Legs & Co)
(NEW) ANDY WILLIAMS – Sad
(1) ABBA – Take A Chance On Me (video)
(14) GERRY RAFFERTY – Baker Street (and credits)
This one was one of the best of the re-repeats but a slight shame that they've repeated this again. I've given up hoping for 6/3/69 or anything pre '76. However good to see this again and see Kate Bush represented this year's ambassador for Record Store Day.
DeleteSamantha Sang's video still funny for the moments when her mouth opens and the sound of the Bee Gees come out.
Yes indeed, I believe that Sang was a vehicle for The Bee Gees when they didn't pen the single for themselves. Similarly Jim Steinman's Read 'Em And Weep was penned first for Meat Loaf and shortly after for Barry Manilow, and very famously the single called Lady by Kenny Rogers was a Lionel Richie production who put the single out for Rogers only.
DeleteBritpop being at its height it made complete sense to get the 2 most hip Radio 1 presenters to present an edition. I always found them a little cooler than thou on the Evening Session but they were a good natured pair on this edition. Jo especially. I could never be critical of her as she was such a comforting presence on the radio during the lockdown. And she read out my email listing my favourite Glastonbury memories in 2020!
ReplyDeleteCast; Formula Britpop blare to start. Steve and Jo sound thrilled to have them on. I really liked 'Fine Time' but they immediately went very dull. The dreariness of this makes their drummer's display seem pretty comical. One anecdote for you; Me and a friend went to V99. We saw I think Gomez, after which a voice over the pa said, "coming up shortly...Cast!!!!" upon which about four fifths of the field headed for the exit. We still laugh about that to this day. A little unfair because the current single was 'Magic Hour' which is a beautiful song.
Garbage; Cast were very Evening Session in '95 but so was Garbage. Brilliant 1st appearance and 'Only Hapy When It Rains' hasn't dated one day to my ears. Shirley Manson makes a real rock star arrival, despite a slightly off key start and that sounded like a completely live performance. The mix certainly sounds very live. This and the next three singles are all classics.
Wet Wet Wet; Marti gets a haircut! Yes Jo that is pretty major news. He's not giving up his jackets though. A gently woozy video, rather like Janet Jackson's but much more low key. And with a less cheerful tourist. From Angel Eyes to Angel Wings. Another good tune.
The Pretenders; I don't remember this acoustic version of 'Kid' at all and it's good to hear though not as powerful as the original version. I'm not sure if they ever did an MTV Unplugged but they certainly should've done.
Bon Jovi; Satellite time and no one else is going to get that spot this week. Is the private jet for the band or for Top of the Pops staff? Such rank extravagance wasn't going to go entirely uncritiqued by the two presenters and it's followed by the one barbed link of the show. I think it's another great single from them. They just somehow kept getting it right through the '90s.
TLC; That was very good.
Menswear; That wasn't
Def Leppard; Steve gives this band an intro with not a trace of a hipster raised eyebrow or groan surprisingly. There's been a definite change since they last appeared. Grunge has clearly filtered through with less hours spent on the hair and even the denim missing in action. Blog it quietly but I really liked that song.
Simply Red; A very deserved No.1 with the Goodmen sample clattering along joyfully and a great switch from bleary to blasting. Some very happy early uni memories to this particularly reminds me of the fireworks display and fairground that year which I remember for fireworks disappearing into fog and me losing my room keys on a waltzer. Mick very soberly dressed. He didn't sing the high part in the chorus. Did he not think he could manage it?
Meat Loaf; Never thought much of that one.
Hello, I'm a little behind on 1995 episodes and have noticed I'm missing the April 6 show. Can anyone help me out with a link? Many thanks in advance!
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DeleteNothing to comment on the TOTP roster this week, but the chart rundown featured three new entries at peak position this week, and missing out on a TOTP slot, so we will not see them:
ReplyDeleteNo.20 Paul Weller - Broken Stones
Follow-up single to You Do Something To Me which was Top 10 only a couple of months earlier.
No.31 Annie Lennox - Waiting In Vain
Final Top 40 single for her, and not making it high enough to get on to the show, so it's no wonder that her next single at the end of the year, not even making the Top 40, was to be her final single.
No.33 AC/DC - Hard As A Rock
The song title reminds me of Lets Get It Up which was a Top 20 single in 1982. Hard As A Rock was not their final single, but it was their final Top 40 single, and was not featured on TOTP this week, as No.33 doesn't guarantee a TOTP placing.
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A better episode than the previous , lots to like here. I was an avid Evening Session fan then so glad to see Jo and Steve. Jo is clearly much more suited to the telly, Steve does a decent job but seems a bit uncomfortable whereas Jo has always been able to straddle the popular and the indie well, no wonder she became a regular fixture.
ReplyDeleteI was actually watching her do a 90s DJ set on Friday night whilst this was on! In Grimsby which was odd because I was living there back then and it was not exactly an Evening Session place. But she clearly knew the crowd so there was plenty of dance, some pop and a few bigger indie rock classics. I would have loved more indie but can't deny it was a good time.
Cast are alright, decent enough filler band.
An absolutely amazing debut single for Garbage, one of my all time favourites.
I don't hate this one fron Wet Wet Wet, surprisingly.
Pretenders - I like them, this song isn't the best ,but it's enjoyable enough.
Bon Jovi - not their finest hour but a good lineup of names this week mixing older and newer pretty well.
TLC - all of these songs are brilliant individually. Together they don't really blend.
Good fun from Menswear who apparently always pretend this ISN'T about Bobby Gillespie?
I have a soft spot for this Def Leppard track and Joe looks fab!
Four new entries peaking outside the Top 40 this week, which unfortunately didn't make it to TOTP:
ReplyDeleteNo.43 La Bouch - Falling In Love
I liked this group from the 1995 compilation album Summer Dance Party which featured their second and best performing single Be My Lover which I thought was brilliant.
No.47 Nick Heyward - The World
Sixth single in a row since 1985 to fail to make the Top 40, with his last Top 40 single as far back as 1984, the former Haircut 100 lead singer was still trying 10 years on in vain, but one final single at the start of 1996 did get to No.37 before calling it a day.
No.58 PM Dawn - Downtown Venus
First single in two years for the duo, but they were never to return to the Top 40 in this comeback up until 1998 with three new singles released.
No.88 The Pogues - How Come
Also two years since their last Top 40 single called Tuesday Morning that got to No.18 in the summer of 1993, this comeback single in 1995 couldn't even make the Top 75, but RIP Shane McGowan who sadly passed away a few months ago.
Would it be possible to have 30th Sept totps2 please . Many thanks
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DeleteHighlight of the show was the unveiling of Meat Loaf's new video I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth) which we had a small clip of at the end of the main TOTP show above on the Thursday to wet our appetite.
The video takes up from we left off at the end of the I'd Do Anything For Love video a couple of years earlier in 1993, where it begins with Meat and his girlfriend still in her white dress on his motorbike, but they get separated from the bike by a force of energy coming from a mask with one of the people controlling the mask taking the girl to his home for a love feast while Meat begins yet another rescue attempt in a setting similar to Indiana Jones.
Eventually after a multitude of grenades, fires and dangerous driving, he drives off into the sunset in a van instead of a motorbike, and with a fire still burning behind the van, but essentially Meat Loaf does it again and gets his girl who falls back into his arms with a snog while he is still driving.
Also on the show was the first showing of the Coolio video of Gangsta's Paradise, which at the time of this TOTP2 show, had just come off three weeks at No.1 in America, and yet to chart in the UK.
Thanks Rob , much appreciated
ReplyDeleteOoops - Meant to catch up with this last Sunday but life got in the way so late to the party as usual.
ReplyDeleteGreat presenting duo this week. Loved the Evening Session and had a crush on Jo Whiley for about 30 years.
CAST – "Alright" probably their signature tune and great as always. Very consistent band over a short time.
GARBAGE – One of my favourite bands and possibly my favourite tune of theirs. "Only Happy When It Rains" could have been a really dour track with the subject matter but rockets along and Shirley is a really great front woman with an amazing voice. Their 1st and 3rd albums absolute classics in my opinion.
Don't think I've heard this WET WET WET tune in years but I quite liked "Somewhere Somehow".
THE PRETENDERS – "Kid" is a rather haunting and beautiful tune in this guise. Chrissie effortlessly cool as always, Stunning vocal. Very nice.
Stop the plane it's time to board BON JOVI airways. "Something For The Pain" a minor tune that is decent if nothing spectacular.
TLC – 3 great hits forming their mimed "Hitmix". Had the album already and they were fantastic.
Media Indie darlings MENSWEAR never quite hit the heights of their peers. "Stardust" far too generic and whilst decent they never made a tune that was different enough to stand out from the crowd.
DEF LEPPARD with the self-penned "When Love And Hate Collide" Could have sworn this power-ballad was a Diane Warren number. Easily exchangeable with Bon Jovi's Always and Aerosmith's Cryin'.
SIMPLY RED – Liked "Fairground" at the time but sort of bored of it now. Mrs Morgie walked in the room and said "hes not really playing those drums is he". No The Goodmen are. Not sure I will survive 4 weeks of this.
Nice cheap and understated MEAT LOAF clip to play us out. Sounds like every other song he wrote and sang to me.
You'll be able to see Meat Loaf in the TOTP studio singing this one in two shows time on the 13 October edition. Well it was on last night actually, as you're two shows behind.
DeleteThe TOTP2 are not uploaded by Rob, they are links from popscene from files i supplied to a friend and are upscaled. The way some people take credit amazes me. Links are just copied
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