From the first day I saw her I knew she was the 12th of October 1995 edition of Top of the Pops!
I should be so Nicky
12-10-95: Presenter: Nicky Campbell
(15) P.J. & DUNCAN – U Krazy Katz
The duo get the show underway but the song got no higher.
(14) SUGGS – Camden Town
Performing his second of seven solo top 40 hits, but it got no higher.
(6) MARIAH CAREY – Fantasy (via satellite) (and charts)
Went up two more places.
(11) NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS feat. KYLIE MINOGUE – Where The Wild Roses Grow
A second studio performance but the song got no higher.
(NEW) JIMMY NAIL – Big River
Here tonight with the title track of his top ten album, and the song will peak at number 18.
(NEW) RADIOHEAD – Lucky (video)
An excellent song from the charity album, The Help Album, and also from The Warchild Help EP, and it peaked at a disappointing number 51.
(7) DEF LEPPARD – When Love And Hate Collide
A second studio performance and the song went up five more places.
(NEW) MEAT LOAF – I’d Lie For You (And That’s The Truth)
He's here tonight with an epic performance and the song will peak at number 2.
(1) SIMPLY RED – Fairground
Third of four weeks at number one.
(TOTP2) SOFT CELL – Tainted Love (clip of TOTP 13-8-81) (and credits)
Number one in 1981.
19th of October is next.
Mariah Carey - this single although eventually making it to No.4, was already at No.1 in America at this point and stayed at the top spot for 8 weeks during October and November 1995with this summer playground type of video. I must say that Mariah Carey in jeans shorts was quite a sight.
ReplyDeleteKylie Minogue with Nick Cave - Good Lord, two weeks in a row in the TOTP studio, this must have been a first on TOTP, as normally a group has to wait a couple of weeks before coming back on the show to perform. What was the thinking here, and why didn't for example Bobby Brown get a play as a new entry at No.17 with My Prerogative or M-People with a new entry at No.33 with Love Rendezvous, as both missed out on a placing on the show?
Meat Loaf - I don't recall Meat doing this one in the TOTP studio, as I only seem to remember the amazing action video for this single, especially its first showing in full on last week's TOTP2 as a tip for the charts. Meat looked somewhat slimmed down in 1995, now in his late 40s at this time, but this tune was very good ("....and that's the truth....")
TOTP2 14-10-1995 https://we.tl/t-uF7MRHa7uJ
ReplyDeleteIn the recap section of the week's latest TOTP performances, I love how Jonnie Walker comments on the Meat Loaf kiss at the end of the TOTP studio performance, saying 'no tongues please'....Brilliant stuff, you don't get these commentary nuggets on the main TOTP show!
DeleteIn the First Time on TOTP, Soft Cell with Tainted Love, and it's hard to think that the two lads in Soft Cell will be 65 this year.
In Recorded For Recall January 1970, the No.1 was Edison Lighthouse with Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes, which is one of the most feelgood 70s No.1, and unfortunately we don't see people being named Rosemary anymore.
Thanks Rob!!!
DeleteWould anybody be so kind as to reupload TOTP2 for 23 and 30 September? I was on holiday so the links have timed out on me- thanks!
DeleteTOTP2 23/09/95 as requested:
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Thanks to Rob for the original post
TOTP2 30/09/95 as requested:
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Thanks very much!
DeleteThanks Rob for the upload
ReplyDeleteAlways great seeing Suggs on Top Of The Pops, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with Kylie were great too.
ReplyDeleteFour new entries this week from classic 80s performers peaking outside the top 40, and still trying in 1995:
ReplyDeleteNo.43 Kim Wilde - Breakin' Away
Having already had her final Top 40 single a couple of years earlier in 1993, Wilde was now on her penultimate single, with one final single to come a few months later in early 1996, which also failed to make the Top 40.
No.45 Robert Palmer - Respect Yourself
Having also had his final Top 40 single the previous year in 1994, this was the last single for Palmer, bringing down the curtain on a solo career going back to 1978.
No.46 Amy Grant with Vince Hill - House Of Love
Follow up to Big Yellow Taxi which made Top 20 in June, this new one with the help of Vince Hill, was also to be Grant's final single in a shorter solo career from 1991 to 1995.
No.73 The Pretenders - Kid
A new version of the 80s classic single, this was performed in the TOTP studio only a couple of shows ago as a new release, and tanked at No.73 as best position this week, and as previously mentioned by Angelo on the 28.9.95 edition where it was on the TOTP roster.
ReplyDeletePj and duncan - dull
Suggs - highlight of the performance was the two young ladies. The song? Dull
Marian Carey - dull
Nick cave and kylie - program suddenly perks up. Very sexy dress from Kylie (it says much for the show so far that the songs have not been the highlights
Jimmy nail - and… back to dull
Radiohead - not usually a radiohead fan, but this was very moving, assisted by a very powerful video. Reminiscent of Pink Floyd. Got the album somewhere upstairs…
Def leppard - I was a great fan in their pre-fame days, but found their later songs either infantile, or as in this case,… dull
Meatloaf - as Dory remarked, I also do not remember this TOTP performance. Great! Expertly cut down.
Simple red - never liked them. This doesn’t change my mind. What’s the word? Oh yes. Dull.
Very sad to hear the news of Karl Wallinger's passing. An incredible talent and one of the best singers of the era. 'Goodbye Jumbo' is a very special album which I listened to a great deal in the '90s. I must revisit it. Liza Tarbuck played 'Love Street' from that album a couple of months ago and hearing it again after such a long time really hit me. Hugely underrated were World Party.
ReplyDeleteSlow start with two less exciting tracks but gets going in the middle with one of Mariah's best and especially when Nick and Kylie turn up in a fresh performance, I really love her makeup.
ReplyDeleteJimmy Nah.
Radiohead. Ah, the Help album. That was SO MASSIVE at the time, as an indie fan I just remember it being absolutely everywhere. I listened to it an absolute ton but this was always the best track on it. One of my favourite of theirs along with Street Spirit and Paranoid Android.
I do really like this Def Leppard track and Joe's glow up so not mad at this. The Meat Loaf track isn't bad either.
Simply Red still going huh? Yay.
OMG that hair Ant. I was watching the cats.
ReplyDeleteNever been to Camden town. Is this their kind of tune Suggs? Actually didn't mind this at all. Nice vibe.
Kylie is finally cool and a few years away from obscurity. Great performance here.
Forgotten how popular Jimmy Nail was for a while. Spendwr was the show I most remember him in and he was very good. Nice song this as well.
Good cause obviously but Radiohead at their most dull and impenetrable. Not for me thanks.
Def Leppard think it's still 1986 but I'm here for this one. Great tune.
Slightly less modern it's Meat Loaf who thinks its still 1977. Did we ever get Bat Out Of Hell 3? Heard one Meat song you've heard em all. Although I did enjoy that.
Come on Hucknall, get your arse back in the studio. Bored of this performance now.
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DeleteBat Out Of Hell 3: The Monster Is Loose did eventually come out in 2006, and I thoroughly recommend it, especially a single called What About Love, with the female vocals bringing a tear to the eye.
Also Meat's version of Celine Dion's It's All Coming Back To Me Now on this album is actually better than Celine's version, and song titles of the decade goes to the singles If It Ain't Broke Break It, and the brilliant The Future Ain't What It Used To Be which is my favourite single on the album.