Top of the beauty spots
09/11/89 (Nicky Campbell)
Electribe 101 – “Tell Me When The Fever Ended” (32)
Getting us underway with their studio debut tonight but the song got no higher.
Eurythmics – “Don’t Ask Me Why” (29) (video)
Went up four more places.
Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville – “Don’t Know Much” (25)
The duo perform a live vocal in the studio of a song that became Linda's second of two top ten hits, and Aaron's only top ten hit, when it peaked at number two.
New Kids On The Block – “You Got It (The Right Stuff)” (23) (video)
The boy band on which all the forthcoming 90's boy bands were based, and this song became their first of two number ones, and first of nine top ten hits.
The Alarm – “A New South Wales” (31) (video)
Their seventh and final top 40 hit but it got no higher.
And Why Not? – “Restless Days (She Screams Out Loud)” (38) (breaker)
Got no higher.
Quireboys – “7 O’clock” (36) (breaker)
Also got no higher.
Mixmaster – “Grand Piano” (12) (video)
Peaked at number 9.
Janet Jackson – “Rhythm Nation” (28)
Making her studio debut and the song went up five more places.
Lisa Stansfield – “All Around The World” (1)
First of two weeks at number one.
The Wonder Stuff – “Golden Green” (33) (video/credits)
Got no higher.
November 16th is next.
Nicky presides over a largely rotten selection here with some hits that didn’t even penetrate the top30, but it does feature one of the highpoints of 1989 for me. At the start however he’s flanked by a guy who just can’t shut up!
ReplyDeleteElectribe 101 - Tell me where the fever ended – Weird image. Don’t recall this at all. She gets all screamy near the end and the keyboard players look smart in contrast.
Eurythmics – Don’t ask me why – More smartly dressed musicians accompany Annie, but the song goes nowhere.
Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville – Don’t know much – I’d never heard of Aaron Neville before at the time, but what a fabulous duet this is with Linda. Kudos for the live performance for a song that is probably not easy to sing live as a duet, Just love that climax in the middle where the instruments come in, but we don’t get to hear it here because of the live rendition. A stonking tune written by the prolific team of Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and someone called Tom Snow. Co-produced by Peter Asher from ‘Peter and Gordon’ (and Jane’s brother). Such pedigree couldn’t fail! Cruelly denied no1 by the next record…
New Kinds on the Block – You got it (the right stuff) – I used to keep an eye on the US charts which were printed in’ Record Mirror’ and I’d seen this group ‘New Kids on the Block’ topping their chart a couple of times and feared the worst. Sure enough, this band (created by the guy who used to oversee New Edition) broke through in the UK just at the wrong moment with this rather average song preventing a true classic from reaching the top. Ah…. Vienna…
The Alarm – A New South Wales – A pun? Pretentious for sure…
Breakers – Nothing caught my eye here.
Mixmaster – Grand Piano – We get absolutely nowhere with this. Who bought this stuff?
Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation – Horrible uniformed performance of a boring song.
Lisa Stansfield – All around the World – Not my favourite no1 of 1989….but not one of the worst either. The overcoat is a strange look….must have been hot in the studio so rather impractical I would have thought.
Wonder Stuff – Golden Green – Not quite in the ‘Golden Brown’ league.
Noticed in the top40 rundown ‘Lambada’ by Kaoma in at 40. This would have a lengthy chart run peaking at no4 and ending up the 34th bestselling single of 1989….but, nice as it is, what propelled it (a Portuguese language song) into the charts into the first place?
Also peaking at no55 this week is ‘Sacrifice’ by Elton John…..was nobody paying any attention at this point in time?....whilst Fuzzbox had a crack at ‘Walking on Thin Ice’ (the song Lennon and Yoko were working on that fateful night) but its lowly placing proved it’s not a great song.
The Lambada was a dance that was supposed to be incredibly sexy - basically the woman rode up and down the man's leg - and this song was its theme tune. It also spawned two comically bad cash-in movies. A real ten week wonder.
DeleteOh, and I really like Yoko's Walking On Thin Ice, it's very atmospheric but poppy at the same time.
DeleteI wonder if the Wonderstuff's song title Golden Green was a take on Golders Green in North West London? It is certainly a very strange name for a sing title if not.
DeleteJanet Jackson Had Appeared On Top Of The Pops Before With Lets Wait Awhile On The 26/3/87 Edition Which Because It Was Presented By Mike Smith We Didn't See It On BBC Four.
ReplyDeleteThanks Unknown - I had a very vague recollection that she had been in the studio before, but because I find her music so forgettable I couldn't remember for sure!
DeleteThank you - I couldn't remember her being in the studio before at all!
DeleteAn historic edition in a way, as it went out on the same night the Berlin Wall came down, something I could imagine Mr Campbell boasting about. He's wearing a hideous shirt here, and trying and failing to be John Peel in some of his links, but this is by no means his worst outing - he couldn't resist saying "I thank you" in that funny voice, could he?
ReplyDeleteI don't remember Electribe 101 at all, and this was a bit of a plodder, made annoying by the singer's high-pitched, caterwauling voice. She certainly had a striking image, mind you, with the 60s Cilla hair, leather shorts and tasselled belt with gun buckle. Something far better next from Annie and Dave, a poignant, low-key song about a break-up which ranks for me as their last great single, and in a way prefigures their professional split just a couple of months later. Annie looks unusually feminine in the video, but the lighting makes her seem almost completely bleached out. Sadly, this gets cut well before the end.
Linda and Aaron had both been around on the music scene for more than 20 years, but in terms of looks and vocal technique they make an odd couple - Aaron was presumably very proud of those tree-trunk arms he had prominently on display. It's a nice song, graced here with good live vocals, but I find it hard to get that excited about it. I have not been looking forward to the arrival of NKOTB (which if I remember rightly is what they rebranded themselves when their career started to falter), as this is the moment, as Angelo rightly observes, when the 90s boy band template was born. I will admit that this particular song isn't a bad pop tune, but the vocals have that weedy quality that would become all too familiar over the next decade; the video is nothing special, just a vehicle for the group to show off their moves.
The Alarm clearly wanted to remind everyone with this track that they were Welsh, you know - however, they formed in Rhyl, a long way from the valleys. This sounds worthy but dull, and the video is pretty grim, if atmospherically shot. I wonder if And Why Not's name was inspired by Barry Norman, or his Spitting Image puppet at any rate? They come over in image terms a little like a black Bros, and the singer even does Matt-like growls, but they sound musically a bit more competent than the Goss twins, if unexceptional. The Quireboys blatantly rip off the Stones' Exile On Main street-era sound on this record, but I suppose it's not a bad effort.
Another Italo House track next from the Black Box stable, and it even makes use of Love Sensation again. Both record and video are, however, pretty forgettable. Janet Jackson's studio debut is a typically regimented, soulless affair, and the music is equally mechanistic and dull. Gracie dons headgear similar to fellow northerner Mick Hucknall's in the Holding Back the Years promo, as she celebrates getting to number 1 - do those crucifixes signify that she was a devout Christian, I wonder? We finish off with a bouncy enough tune from The Wonder Stuff, having a good old hoe-down alongside a cheesy pantomime horse in their colourful video.
Nicky's "Ithangyew" was an Arthur Askey impersonation - that was Big-Hearted Arthur's catchphrase! Simpler times...
DeleteThe Mixmaster which was an alias of Black Box, was a standard lower than Black Box and Starlight, the other alias of the same with Numero Uno. Anyway, on Grand Piano, the Mixmaster singer kept mentioning "Gary Cooper, Producer....." and I could not find anything on who exactly Gary Cooper Producer was, so what the heck was he on about?
DeleteIt's "Tyree Cooper" taken from Tyree's hit 'Turn Up The Bass'. It was performed in the TOTP studio on the 2/3/89.
DeleteThanks for clarifying. I couldn't hear the Tyree, and it sounded like Gary!
DeleteThanks THX - I had a hazy notion that it was the catchphrase of an old-school comedian, but didn't know which one.
DeleteWhat's an Electribe, then? Anyway, half-recall this tune, maybe because the lead singer's image was so offputting - was she going for post-punk bondage chic? The song, well, it's average housey fare, not the worst, not the best.
ReplyDeleteEurythmics - funnily enough Annie would have a much bigger hit with a similarly miserabilist song of almost the same title later in the 90s. I found it difficult to get engaged with this late period of the band, as did it seems the singles-buying public.
Aaron and Linda in the studio singing live for a truncated version of their weird-sounding ballad with Aaron's voice at its most vintage car horn reminiscent. Not quite as weird as his dress sense, double denim and gold bracelets as if he'd just come from the set of a Cannon action movie. Was this from a movie? Seems like it should have been.
The New Kids begin their reign of terror with not the most banal and tuneless of their records, so that's a blessing, but if ever there was a band sold on the pin-up appeal it was this bunch of chancers. Roll on The Backstreet Boys!
Always found this Alarm track actually quite majestic, and a really like its plaintive melody. Like all tonight's videos, it gets cut off before it gets going, and that's a shame, it's an underrated song that deserved to go higher, but I guess was just too parochial in its presentation.
About ten seconds of each Breaker, makes you wonder why they bothered this week. And Why Not? were touted as the next big thing, er, well, they were until this record stiffed and they couldn't get arrested. It's not a bad effort, at least it had some personality, but not quite enough to stand out. The Quireboys meanwhile, obviously nobody told them pub rock was over in about 1978.
Mixmaster, unable to let Loleatta go, I was almost enjoying it up to that point. Grawnd Piyawno or Grend Pianner? Richard Clayderman or Chas 'n' Dave? Or Les Dawson? Clip's too brief to make an impression.
I've been listening to the Janet Jackson album this is off, and it's really good, with this as one of the standout tracks, its Sly and the Family Stone sample propelling it to real hard funk heights. As per the video, Janet and her dancers are drilled to perfection with their square-bashing. Like the massive 1814 brooch.
Lisa makes it to the top, just a fair number one but after about fifteen weeks of crap at the top it's a ray of golden sunshine. Very professional performance from her, she had this down pat now.
The Wonder Stuff know both kinds of music, country AND Western, and this is a jaunty ditty undercut by the seething bitterness of the lyrics. They didn't quite sound like anyone else at the time, and that was to their credit.
The Ronstadt/Neville duet was much better on the video, but one couldn't help but be taken by Neville's towering frame and wide arms, but not a great voice. In contrast, Ronstadt unusually with only her second chart hit in the UK, considering she was making music and chart hits regularly since the 70s in America, was voice perfect, well in the video at least. I didn't find this live performance that good, cos it differed somewhat form the original recording and video, understandably as Sct353 points out.
DeleteElectribe 101 - this week’s rubbish trance track, like I Feel Love without any tune...
ReplyDeleteEurythmics - ...followed by another song without a tune. Didn’t recognise it until the chorus, but don’t remember verse being so dull.
Linda rondstat and aaron neville - warbly tune heard most recently from Whitney Houston. 9/10 for the live vocal, but 3/10 for the song
New Kids - best thing so far, but the bar is very low and it scrapes it. Sounds like something else, but can’t bring it to mind...
Alarm - ok. Didn’t really go anywhere, but maybe it builds after the video was cutoff
Breakers:
And why not - why? Sort of cod reggae
Quireboys - rod stewart rip off but what little we heard was listenable
Mixmaster - ooh a bonus second dance track. What a joy! For the genre it started ok, then they threw in every trick in the book
Janet Jackson - sounds like a track Michael left off an album - with good reason
Wonder Stuff - best thing this week, sadly faded out
I did think the same when I saw Electribe 101 opening the show, sounding similar to I Feel Love at the start of the song. In fact I also thought that the voice on the record sounded like a black female singer, not the one on the stage, so I wonder if this was another case like Black Box and others where we get a face on the stage that is not the singer on the record?
DeleteAbsolutely categorically not, Dory. That's Billie Ray Martin, who later had a big hit with 'Your Loving Arms'.
DeleteI propose for anyone who despises New Kids On The Block we now refer to them as Kids New On Block - or KNOB for short!
ReplyDeleteAt this juncture in November 1989, Bad English were at No.1 in America for two weeks with When I See You Smile, the video of which on YouTube has had a staggering 35 million views:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu6pclWsxzs
Incredible when you think that in Britain they only peaked at No.61 with this song, and the group having a mixture of British and American members.
John 'Missing you' Waite was in that band. Another example like 'Amanda' by Boston and 'Sara' by Starship where the UK ignored good records.
DeleteI think British fans only came across John Waite when his solo career was up and running, but at this time in 1989 he was still in the group Bad English, and I certainly never remembered seeing this group, despite being No.1 in America, so the group seemed to be a flop in Britain sadly.
DeleteSlight correction, Waite already had a top ten in Britain with Missing You as far back as 1984, but it was released in 1993, and only managed to peak outside the top 50, so it seems he was running a solo career alongside his group Bad English, rather than after it!
DeleteAh, now, we first saw John Waite on TOTP in 1978 as part of The Babys, a British band who did much better in the States, with a new release slot for "Isn't It Time" which peaked at number 45 over here.
DeleteThe Babys' other big hit in the USA was "Every Time I Think Of You" which, coincidence or not, singer John Waite used as the first line of his big solo hit "Missing You".
DeleteIndeed, it is not often that people start solo and then join a group, as it is most often the other way round. The famous ones that comes to mind is George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison joining The Travelling Willburys after successful solo careers, but it is quite rare.
DeleteOther examples of this unusual phenomenon are Peter Skellern, Mary Hopkin and Bill Lovelady. All had solo hits in their own right before joining Oasis.
DeleteFrom a UK perspective, Donny Osmond might well fall into that category as we'd given scant regard to any Osmond hits prior to Donny bursting on the scene with 'Puppy Love' in the summer of 1972. OK, so 'Down by the Lazy River' did scrape in at no40 earlier that year, but I certainly don't recall ever having heard of any Osmonds until Donny....and then he popped up on keyboards making that distinctive 'wah-wah' sound on 'Crazy Horses'.
The Osmonds hit no1 in the States with 'One Bad Apple' in January 1971 which takes us nicely back to where this thread started!
Justin Hayward released a couple of solo singles before joining The Moody Blues - mind you, before that he had been in a group called The Wilde Three with Marty Wilde and his wife Joyce!
DeleteCampbell again, on decent form and with a political pun to start with.
ReplyDeleteElectribe 101 first with “Tell Me When The Rave-Lite Ended”. Lead singer with an unusual image and wonderful ‘open mouth no emotion’ miming. Did you say we’d enjoy this, Campbell?
Eurythmics with “Don’t Tell Me Why This Wasn’t A Big Hit”. Tellingly, no interaction between our two protagonists here in this arty glitzy cabaret video. Don’t tread on that dress, love. You’ll come a cropper!
I’ve always hated Aaron Neville’s warbling American club singer stylings. Funny then, that he released a non-warbly jazz / blues song called “Hercules” which I think is superb. I don’t like this song much, but a great live vocal from our duettists here.
If Janet Jackson or someone on Motown had done the next song instead, it would have been fine. Enough said.
The Alarm with an earnest but regional and dreary track. Bring back “68 Guns”.
Nice fade from the video’s black and white to studio monochrome then colour for the next link.
I remember this first breaker, and quite enjoyed it. And why not indeed?
Quireboys with sub-Aerosmith hoedown metal which still does enough to hold its place in the first team. I wonder if any of them are actually up at 7 o’clock?
Mixmaster, or The Mixmaster in the mugshot caption which has at least dropped the previous ‘s’ from the end of the name. More boom thump and not a soupcon of grand piano here. Trade Descriptions Act material.
Janet Jackson gives us an augmented 5 Star in cop gear, a synthetic dance routone and a synthetic track. Can we have Paula Abdul back?
A very assured performance from Lisa Stansfield there, complete with excellently mimed spoken intro.
Yeehah! The underrated Wonder Stuff, now with a fifth member, a Black Country and Western track (see what I did there?), a pretend horse in the video and a cow in the lyrics – not the last time that happens with them either.
Having watched "68 Guns" on YT and read some comments, it appears that both The Alarm's frontman Mike Peters and his wife and band keyboardist Jules are fighting cancer, Mike for the third time. Very best of luck to them.
DeleteIf it's a long wait till Friday, the whole 16th Nov TOTP edition introduced by Simon mayo is on youtube, minus the iron maiden video for some bizarre reason, and one of The Breakers is muted, i.e., Prince/Sheena Easton with Arms Of Orion.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IA5-o3t3o0
UB40 return with a new album and single after a long layoff it seems.
Around this time UB40 went on tour supported by fellow Brummie band And Why Not? .
DeleteListening to a podcast tonight, it struck me: was the theme tune for The Glam Metal Detectives a rip-off of Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation single?
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous! Here's my weekly request for original archive shows from the '70's. They are all from 1978 this week and are 5/01, 8/06 and 31/08. Cheers!
ReplyDeletesadly none mate.
DeleteOK mate, I'll keep trying!
ReplyDeleteLinda Ronstadt's finest years were probably in the 1970s where she was prominent on many American TV shows, and performed in the famous Johnny Cash concert Behind Prison Walls, of which this rendition of Desperado by The Eagles was much better than the Eagles themselves, and hard to imagine how a seated prisoner audience could stay still throughout:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoa3pznxPxU
Linda looked and sounded great here, but give me Don Henley singing the Eagles original any day. The Carpenters did a pretty fine version too.
DeleteYes, Linda never really got any exposure in the British charts throughout that decade, apart from The Old Grey Whistle Test, and only had her first single in Britain in the summer of 1987 in a duet with James Ingram on Somewhere Out There, the theme tune for Steven Spielberg's American Tail.
DeleteThe video for the single is one of the most standout videos of 1987, and I remember TOTP only showed it once, and only half of it, so the full video with Linda is must-watch stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smc5FHbZtG4
to my recollection, the eagles were actually originally formed to serve as linda ronstadt's backing band?
DeleteThat is correct - the original line-up all played on Linda's third solo album in 1972, and then recorded their own debut LP soon afterwards.
DeleteRIP johnny mandel at the age of 94. johnny who, followers of the show may ask? well he did get himself a uk number 1 hit in 1980 (albeit somewhat unexpectedly), with a piece of music he wrote for a film 10 years earlier
ReplyDeleteTheme from M*A*S*H. Just saw one week at No1 for that before ToTP went off the air for the summer.
DeleteI remember that summer well, cos I was only 12, and I was so enamoured by the Xanadu No.1, having a schoolboy crush on Olivia Newton John, coupled with the fact that my favourite group ELO were on the single, and I remember being disappointed that their only No.1 was never featured on TOTP because of the BBC strike. By the time TOTP was back on air, it was already sliding down the charts and it was too late.
DeleteI really enjoyed this edition, although it seems I may be the only one here...
ReplyDeleteElectribe 101 - One of my favourite bands ever, even though they only released one album, 'Electribal Memories'. Nobody seems to have recognised that the lead singer is Billie Ray Martin and she has a unique voice which I realise that some may not like but I think is amazing. This single should have gone higher and they never got the success I think they deserved. Sadly the album is surrounded by record company red tape so can't even be reissued.
Eurythmics - I think this has a moody charm, one of the best singles off the album I'd say.
Ronstadt / Neville - Aaron Neville doesn't have a great look here, does he? Not a bad song really even though this isn't usually my sort of thing.
NKOTB - Not their worst song, but not the best either. I recall that when it started going down the chart they played the remix which is much better!
The Alarm - I'm not Welsh, but this is the finest thing they ever did. It's heartfelt and the choir add something to it.
Breakers - Both rubbish. And Why Not? always sounded like Bros to me.
Mixmaster - It's Italian dance music so of course I'm going to love it! Most obscure track in this medley is probably 'Definition Of Love' by KAOS (really Ann Saunderson, Kevin from Inner City's wife)
Janet Jackson - The album of almost the same name is her best collection of songs, and this is probably the best of many singles from it.
Wonder Stuff - Even the double A side which you never hear is very good. 'Golden Green' is another excellent track.
The highlights of this episode had to be one of the best ones of this year from last Friday night.
ReplyDeleteElectribe 101 - Billie Ray Martin gets us underway with her dance production band telling us to where the fever had ended and oh well it didn't and it is nice for them to perform as a TOTP debut.
Eurythmics - Great song from the We Are Too One album with Annie Lennox on lead with David A. Stewart, this was the second track to be taken from that album, the video is top class.
Ronstandt / Neville - Linda Ronstadt's first TOTP appearance in the studio and Aaron Neville's first, where Ronstadt previously appeared on video with 'Somewhere Out There' and 'Blue Bayou' never got shown in a 1978 episode, as it was just a BBC typo error or something. The song is a top notch ballad, shame it didn't reach the top as it was held off by NKOTB in the UK charts and Phil Collins in the US charts on the 14th of December 1989.
The Alarm - Great monochrome video with the choir. Not one of their great songs, i'd prefer '68 Guns' or 'When You Were Hiding When the Storm Broke'.
NKOTB - Their first UK hit, not quite cos 'Hangin' Tough' reached the UK Top 75 in September, as another monochrome video steps in as Jordan Knight, one of the members is wearing a Bauhaus T-shirt and as they've may have followed in the footsteps of Bros, Brother Beyond, and Big Fun from Britain, they were recruited by a manager from New Edition in which the band Bobby Brown was in. The second of the UK tracks from their Hangin' Tough album, despite it was on its way to number one.
Breakers - And Why Not?, their debut hit, not impressed with this, nah! followed by a band managed by Ozzy Osbourne's wife, their UK debut hit is where they singing about a major time with the big clock in the background, their follow-up Hey You was due out at the end of the year.
Mixmaster - The Black Box rip-off dominance of medley crazes with some songs mixed in together including Loletta Holloway's 'Love Sensation' in which they sampled for 'Ride on Time', Mix Master could've have been the dance Italo house version of Jive Bunny in most recent times.
Janet Jackson - Finally her second TOTP performance for the first time since 'Let's Wait Awhile', where she has choreographers and her second track taken from the titled-track album, this would later follow with four more songs in 1990 from the same album. The monochrome video has a long instrumental break before the vocal comes in at a steelworks factory.
Lisa Stansfield - Her third TOTP performance of the year and finally vanquished the bunny out of the top spot and it would be the first of five weeks of different songs at the top (only two) to be exact, this was one of those from the third of her tracks in the Affection album, the song was later sampled for rapper Puff Daddy with 'Been Around the World' in 1997 with the David Bowie 'Let's Dance' instrumental sample.
Wonder Stuff - Yet again, the Madchester Indie revolution plays us out with a great track that has a farm scene (rather than Manchester) and it sounds like a C&W song with guitar riffs, this band would follow into the next decade.
The missing songs that didn't make it into this episode were Arthur Baker's 'Love is the Message' with Al Green, Alice Cooper's 'Bed of Nails' (both of them dropped out of the chart) and Tears for Fears and Oleta Adams's 'Woman in Chains' was almost a week away from entering the chart.
Woman In Chains will only get a Breakers slot at No.26 on the 30th Nov edition, but that is pretty much it, as the following week it will fall back down the chart, and so no main slot for them in the studio or on video I'm afraid. Good song, but nowhere near as good as Advice For The Young At Heart which is still to come from this new TFF album.
Deletethe wonder stuff actually originated from stourbridge in the west midlands, which had it's own "scene" going on at the time that also included the likes of pop will eat itself and ned's atomic dustbin
DeleteI remember Miles Hunt of The Stuffies was a regular guest on Steve Lamacq's Round Table on 6 Music, progressively getting more and more insulting about the records until eventually there was an episode where he was so negative that the usually even-tempered Steve could be heard getting really pissed off with him and he wasn't asked back! Although I think he was on later, after a big gap.
Deletealthough i did always enjoy listening to "round table" at the time, i now realise there was a basic flaw in that most of the guests were artists who were probably in the process of touting their latest product themselves. therefore unless they actually liked a record they heard, they were usually rather guarded in their comments as they realised someone they might have slagged off could appear on the same show in future and do likewise simply as a tit-for-tat exercise. also, one wonders if their record company primed the artists who appeared on the show not to diss their label mates? of course the guests they should really had on were music journalists, who (on the surface, anyway) had nothing to lose by speaking their minds freely. but then i don't suppose the ratings would have been so high?
DeletePersonally, I'm surprised any artist goes on Round Table, especially if they're trying to cultivate a "nice guy/gal" image. But the 6Music version has a mix of artists, critics, comedians, etc, which sparks a bit more debate than "Not my cup of tea!"
DeleteWe've spun the wheel of fortune and tonights host is...Nicky "I'm Scottish" Campbell
ReplyDeleteWell hello floating girl from the "Hey Music Lover" video by S-Express. All leathered up in a rather kinky outfit...only thing missing is a tune. Electribe 101 letting the side down a bit “Tell Me When The "song" Ended” please...
Eurythmics all in Red, Black and White (including Annie's hair). “Don’t Ask Me Why” but I am rather fond of this tune. Very understated but still a quality tune.
Next up it's a live vocal from "Squeaky" Aaron and "love you" Linda with all the chemistry of 2 people who've only just met. I “Don’t Know Much” but I know this is a great ballad though and was a huge favourite of mine at the time.
New Kids On The Block make an entrance with the one from Blue Bloods....and the other four (I'm sure they had names). “You Got It (The Right Stuff)” is fairly naff and they will do much better but it was a massive hit for them. We were churning out Brother Beyond and Big Fun by now so it's no wonder teenage girls (and boys) looked to the USA for their poster boys.
The Alarm up next and I rather like this. Undoubtedly due my half-Welsh, Rhondda valley connections (where I spent my school holidays whilst growing up) “A New South Wales” would be forthcoming 20 years later, surprisingly based on the TV industry.
Breakers:
And Why Not? – Well yes, why not. Seems an OK tune, will check this out further.
Quireboys – Poundland GNR.
Mixmaster – Nope sorry, this doesn't get any better the more I hear it.
Highlight of the show...Janet Jackson – “Rhythm Nation” Great song, great routine, great album. AMAZING.
Lisa and her ever growing hat collection make it to the top. “All Around The World” a massive hit and nice to hear again. Lovely voice.
The Wonder Stuff give us a fun song and video to play us out. Last single was better and even better to come. This is very average.