She walks like a millionaire, but they don't know she's been on the 2nd of August 1990 edition of Top of the Pops!
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2-8-90: Presenter: Bruno Brookes
(21) LITTLE ANGELS – She’s A Little Angel
Getting tonight's show underway with their second of ten top 40 hits but it got no higher.
(17) NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK – Tonight (video)
This Beatle/ELO-esque offering peaked at number 3.
(14) LFO – L.F.O. (video)
Went up two more places.
(20) BELL BIV DEVOE – Poison
They're here in the studio and the song went up one more place.
(5) MADONNA – Vogue (video) (Album Chart)
From her number 2 album I'm Breathless.
(4) THE BEACH BOYS – Wouldn't It Be Nice (video) (Album Chart)
From their number 2 album Summer Dreams.
(3) THE ROLLING STONES – Paint It Black (video) (Album Chart)
From their number 3 album Hot Rocks.
(2) LUCIANO PAVAROTTI – Nessun Dorma (video) (Album Chart)
From his number one album The Essential Pavarotti.
(1) ELTON JOHN – Healing Hands (video) (Album Chart)
From his number one album Sleeping With the Past.
(2) MADONNA – Hanky Panky (video)
At it's naughty peak.
(11) PRINCE – Thieves In The Temple (video)
Peaked at number 7.
(16) DREAM WARRIORS – Wash Your Face In My Sink ®
At its peak.
(23) DURAN DURAN – Violence Of Summer (video)
Went up three more places.
(1) PARTNERS IN KRYME – Turtle Power (video)
Second of four weeks at number one.
(22) TRICKY DISCO – Tricky Disco (video) (and credits)
Their only top 40 hit and it peaked at number 14.
August 9th is next.
There we go, to answer a recent query - two acts with singles named after them on the same show.
ReplyDeleteYeah, amazing. Two in one show and a third group with a band name that's the same word twice! Did Tricky Disco have an eponymous album as well?
DeleteBy the way, I mentioned a couple of months back that a clip of Fleetwood Mac from the Top of the Pops edition of 13th Nov '69 was re-discovered in 2019. That clip is now on Youtube! Colourised (the original video clip was black and white, it being the last b & w edition to be broadcast) and only the last couple of mins are shown but it's a remarkable clip indeed. Greeny looks so relaxed and confident and HE plays the recorder at the end!
I'd rather have seen it in black & white, but that's so clear, isn't it? Pity we don't get the whole thing, but better than nothing.
DeleteFantastic that it's available to watch. I do hope BBC4 can show it in some way.
DeleteIt was the main reason that I went to a Kaliedoscope 'Music Believed Wiped' event at the BFI 2 years ago. There were 4 other things shown from that totp edition; The top 20 rundown to 'Sugar Sugar', a Nancy Sinatra promo (I can't remember the title), Jethro Tull 'Sweet Dream' (in the studio, exists already but with the band name on the screen) and a slightly different edit of The Beatles' 'Something' promo. All in black and white and pristine condition. What had happened was that they had been offered to a TV company in Austria for use in a pop show and were discovered nearly 50 years later in a plastic bag in a storeroom having been untouched since they were broadcast.
There should be another MBW event sometime soon and I'm sure they'll repeat them. So good to see that clip but I agree the full length clip in black and white would've been preferred. But doesn't Peter look amazing!
Can you send the link please?
DeleteOh, never done a link thing before.
DeleteAnother very weak show. Three things I liked there. The rest; time to build a pretend sandcastle. Please get better.
DeleteLittle Angels; Raunchy self referencing (ooh get them) cock rock to start with. I'm starting to think Paul Ciani is a bit of a fan of this stuff.
The singer seems to have styled himself on Ian Hunter. Nothing wrong with that but I don't think that frontman ever darted wildly about like he has an itch in a very hard to reach place.
New Kids; Bruno tells us that their video is getting a repeat for those that missed it last week. Oh thank god! Didn't see it last week so how relieved I am to get the chance to watch it. I looked up for a few seconds to see they were on stage.
This song was really awful. Is that there attempt at Beatlesque or perhaps Tears For Fearsesque psychedelia? It sounds like three extremely mediocre songs randomly pasted together. Forgotten how bad that one was. Please don't gift us with this a third time.
LFO; Much, much better! Fabulous ageless piece of music. Enjoyed the video too. The long haired dancer looks like the loneliest human in the world. A certain 'South Bank Show' vibe I detect there.
Another record that makes me wish I was a little bit older. I can't imagine how good it must've been to have danced to that in a warehouse or a field at the time.
Bell Biv Devoe; Sounds like an uptempo 'Boyz 2 Men'.
Album chart:
Madonna; Just a little better than what you've got out at the moment isn't it.
The Beach Boys; When I hear anything from 'Pet Sounds' being paired with images of people on a beach I feel genuinely offended.
The Rolling Stones; Wow! Paint It Black, 'Ed Sullivan Show', September 1966! More of that on the tv please! No. No it's a helicopter.
Luciano Pavarotti; The big man singing again.
Elton John; At last! Not much to see in truth.
Madonna; A staggering drop in quality after the unassailable 'Vogue', this is just charmless dreck and I'm sure for any other singer it would've been goodbye career. I know it was written as a '30s pastiche for the 'Dick Tracy' movie but Al Dubin and Harry Warren it is not. Sorry, but that's dreadful without an iota of fun or sexiness. This 2nd thing she will definately put right on her next single but this is just a massively successful woman's petulant strop.
Prince; I really like this single, probably one of my favourite melodies by the love symbol but like THX said, this seems to be a different mix to what I heard on the radio. Much less soulful so hmmmn bit of a letdown. I've wondered sometimes about watching 'Graffiti Bridge' but have been gently told, NO!!!!
The Dream Warriors; This sounded great on the radio back in the day and it must've made an impact when played on the Top 40 because I still think of this as the sound of a Sunday afternoon.
In the studio? Enjoyable. Pretty cool, just a little lacking in the fun that's all through this record. Still like it though and the follow up 'My Definition...' is one of my singles of the year.
Duran Duran; This show was so uninvolving that I found myself intrigued to hear the latest thing by Duran Duran. Of course it was rubbish.
Partners In Kryme; I'll never understand the obsession with this franchise. In 1990 this cartoon gets a movie. Ok, it's a gang of talking turtles. And???
Actually the single is pretty good in its utterly trivial way and the arrangement is pretty effective (the notes descend and stuff) but as to the exploits of the crime fighting / dealing Renaissance eating pizza painters I still couldn't give less of a shit.
Tricky Disco; From the other posters the video sounds good. I don't know, I had to go to work before it started but hope to catch it again.
So another poor edition. Even at 15 I would probably have been tempted to switch off early and listen to the news on Radio 4. Which I very possibly did on this particular day.
I think the Prince mix you are talking about is the one on the extended official video which is 8-and-a-half minutes long:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIFytb8HzUM
It seems that the Partners In Kryme video after one week at no.1, then gets less and less play for each week it as no.1, as this week we only got the first two minutes of it, even though it was at No.1, and even less play than the payout Tricky Disco which got a lot more time!
Thanks for the link Dory. Unfortunately I can never open the links on this blog as I'm only on a (not very good) mobile! I can't send links on it either. I hope you got to see the Mac clip on youtube. It's 'Oh Well pt 1 and 2', totp, 13/11/69. Nothing else from that edition has gone up. Maybe one day.
DeleteI'm sure that link is the one I recognise. I think the version I know is the one on the best of released in the '90s. It is a great song with some fantastic lyrics but I always thought that alternative mixes was Prince's achilles heel. Always seem a bit obvious.
I can't open links here either, but a copy and paste usually does the job fine.
DeleteYes, the copy and paste is what I meant, but I think Mic1,2,1,2 didn't understand.
DeleteOnly two acts in the studio - knock yourselves out, audience!
ReplyDeleteLittle Angels, I imagine if the Stones began in 1990 this is what they would sound like. This is not a good thing. Keyboardist playing with one foot is the most memorable thing about it.
New Blockheads, remember the megaflop movie of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? This sounds like a tribute to that epic misstep. And what do you know, a concert video from these guys! Where do they get their ideas?
LFO again, such an atmospheric record. Apparently Steve Wright called it the worst record ever made at the time. Not even close, Steve.
Bel Biv Devoe, ah, here's the version I know! They're certainly energetic, and sold a million albums in the States, according to Bruno. Didn't realise they were so popular, they didn't cause so many waves over here, though this isn't a bad pop ditty, for all their posing.
The album charts, at last, Healing Hands! Or ten seconds of it, anyway. That "new" Stones video was obviously indebted to Tour of Duty which was showing on late night ITV at the time.
Madonna doing Manky Panky we've seen, so onto the video for Prince, and a mix I don't recognise, it's not as moody and sounds aimed at the dancefloor. Not my favourite of his, I must admit. Moves seem a bit unnecessary.
Dream Warriors on repeat (look, he brought his own pot! Not like that). Then Duran Duran with a tune nobody remembers, and little wonder. Lauren Laverne pointed out on the radio this week that they were a band of cats led by a dog (and Radiohead are a band of dogs led by a cat). So are you a dog or a cat?
Turtles at the top, then a creepfest of a clip video for Tricky Disco, even the Smash Martians looked disturbing. The song was amusing its creators, evidently, but hasn't aged well.
I don't recall this Duran Duran song, let alone video, but it was quite good, and somewhat sounding like Loveshack by The B52s if you hear it enough times. If this was meant to be like Loveshack, than the Duranies did very well, and not a bad video either!
DeleteJust love the Tricky Disco playout, and strangely enough it got a longer play on this playout than the next show as a main feature! The full video is 3mins:10, so worth checking it out in full, especially for the Smash martians and and Smarties, for the Cadburys Smash (mashed potatoes) and Smarties (chocolate) brands that would have loved the extra exposure here!
Calling the Duran Duran tune "The Violence of Summer" doesn't sound much like Love Shack!
DeleteYou're right by means of song title only, but the tune is very similar sounding.
DeleteChart Rundown - despite Phil Collins and ZZ Top reaching peak positions this week at No. 26 and No.29 respectively, they got no plays on TOTP, not even a breakers or playout spot, so unfortunately these got totally ignored, even with top 30 placings.
ReplyDeleteIt's probably the first time this has happened to a Phil Collins song inside the top 30, and may have been the last straw for him, and certainly his first solo single not to make the Top 20 since March 1983 with Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away. Anyway, here is the Collins video of 5mins:35 that got ignored by TOTP, and focuses on casualties of war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP7pgInSybI
ZZ Top's Doubleback video was on the movie soundtrack for Back To The Future III, when Marty McFly's time machine was sent back to 1885, and I was pleased to watch the full Back To The Future trilogy of movies over the Christmas period, and wasn't aware of ZZ Top's involvement on the soundtrack for BTF III until now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zw_79tlgM
Little Angels - pleasant enough ditty, rather over-mimed (reminded me of hot blooded in places)
ReplyDeleteNKOTB - awful! (was this a medley? seemed very disjointed)
Top 5 albums:
Couple of 60s videos (BB and Stones) I don’t think I have seen before..
Prince - don’t remember this. Quite enjoyed it
Duran Duran - another one I don’t remember. Very different. (Here we go again... it reminds me of something) [pre post comment - thank you Dory for LoveShack soundalike suggestion]
Tricky Disco - file under Lil Louis...
The ITV chart show a couple of days after this TOTP edition, had Suzanne Vega as "New No.1" in their top ten chart rundown, essentially only giving Turtle Power two weeks at No.1, so they got this one wrong, as Turtle ended up with 4 weeks at No.1, with Vega having to sit it out at No.2 as peak position:
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Things I'd forgotten about until I watched this ep:
ReplyDeleteLittle Angels
Healing Hands
That Duran Duran song
How bloody weird NKOTB 'Tonight' was.
Weak show overall, this one. I like the Prince, BBD and Dream Warriors tracks though.
If you’re really that hot, Trevor, stop mentioning it and take that old man’s jacket off.
ReplyDeleteFirst up, a singer who had 8 sugars in his pre-stage tea (or vodka) – keep still, man! Check the keyboardist with his foot on the instrument waiting to join in at 1:33 in the show.
10 seconds of KNOB was enough for tonight and indeed “Tonight”.
LFO with a mesmerising collage barrage video and a very basic Speak and Spell rave effort.
Oh, God, Bell End Devoe crawled from the wreckage of New Edition. No wonder this is shite. Poison in my eardrums.
Oh dear, the top albums slot again. A better tune for Madge than her chart effort, a Beach Boys song now sadly used for a mobile ad, a lesser TV showing of “Paint It Black” (the Rediffusion produced clip on “Ready Steady Go” where the studio lights go out one by one, during the song making the picture blacker, was genius), “No-One Sleeps” again, and finally we get to hear the majesty of “Healing Hands” for all of ten seconds.
Madge on for the second time tonight, this time with that really embarrasing effort. Can we swap this for “Vogue” again, please?
Mid-mugshots: no attempt by Trevor to give the full title of the Bombalurina cover which, unlike Dream Warriors, is the real novelty song of the year, for all the wrong reasons.
Oo! Prince with beard stubble. Sadly the most memorable part of an overly boomy track which sounded like leftover scraps of other Prince songs stitched together, plus we get his attempt at dancing like Wacko. Ah, the ‘thrusting your nethers upwards while on the floor’ move. Classy.
NO, Trevor, Dream Warriors aren’t right over there!
Duran Duran with a tinny almost demo sounding track. “Violence Of Summer”? This sounded positively weedy and scrawny. More like “Violets Of Summer”. I didn’t realise until I saw a documentary last night (about post-punk legend Robert Lloyd) that DD member John Taylor used his middle moniker for the band, his first name being Nigel.
Hurdle the Turtles for Tricky Disco’s wonderful collection of old 70’s ads and probably 1950’s BBC children’s TV clips and a mickey-take of that “ooh yeah” sample. Well played!
The hot hot summer of 1990 moves into August and Mr Charts is on duty tonight.
ReplyDeleteLITTLE ANGELS – She’s A Little Angel
If Mick Hucknall was a rock star! Decent enough tune from the kiddie Aerosmith.
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK – Tonight
Hooray a concert video! Is this the longest use of the word GUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLL in pop history?
Probably their best tune though.
LFO – L.F.O.
So the one-hit-wonder dance acts can't even be bothered to come up with a band name now? LFOh dear.
BELL BIV DEVOE – Poison
Stolen their jeans from Top Shop on the way (at least remove the label). This song really is "Poison".
Does anyone remember the MADONNA album "I'm Breathless". I had to look it up. Music from and inspired by the Dick Tracy movie. Yikes!
Healing Hands Alert! Healing Hands Alert! FINALLY! Shame it's only a clip.
MADONNA – Hanky Panky
Back again! Still crap.
PRINCE – Thieves In The Temple
Great tune this one and the second best tune on offer tonight.
The best tune belonging to the DREAM WARRIORS – Wash Your Face In My Sink. Great tune and really not a novelty record Bruno.
What's left of DURAN DURAN up next with the rather uninspiring Violence Of Summer.
PARTNERS IN KRYME – Turtle Power
April top in August? Must be TURTLE POWER!
TRICKY DISCO – Tricky Disco
So the one hit wonder dance acts can't even be bothered to come up with a band name now? Is it that Tricky?
At least we know what happened to the "SMash" family of robots!
Gosh that was bad! I saved these up until now (over a week later) and blimey this is a rough selection. Even Duran Duran I can’t say was up to much. I guess the only box this show ticked was to finally show a snatch ‘Healing Hands’ for those that have been bemoaning its absence! Nothing more to say!
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