Friday 31 December 2021

Rather Be Top of the Pops

BBC4 is taking us deeper and deeper into the mysterious future tonight. Surely, everyone will be driving around in flying cars and going on holiday to the moon by the time of the 31st of December 2014 edition of Top of the Pops!


 Happy New Tonsils


31-12-2014:   Presenters:  Fearne Cotton & Reggie Yates

(21) ED SHEERAN – Sing
(-) JESS GLYNNE – Right Here
(76) THE VAMPS – Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)
(-) PROFESSOR GREEN feat. TORI KELLY – Lullaby
(77) CHERYL – I Don’t Care  (video)
(15) TAYLOR SWIFT – Shake It Off  (video)
(7) MEGHAN TRAINOR – All About That Bass  (video)
(50) CLEAN BANDIT feat. JESS GLYNNE – Rather Be  (video)
(-) ROYAL BLOOD – Ten Tonne Skeleton  (footage from T In The Park 2014)
(19) IDINA MENZEL – Let It Go  (video)
(-) SHAKIRA feat. RIHANNA – Can’t Remember To Forget You  (video)
(66) NICKI MINAJ – Anaconda  (video)
(14) ONE DIRECTION – Steal My Girl  (video)
(59) SAM SMITH – Money On My Mind  (video)
(22) SAM SMITH – Stay With Me  (video)
(-) PAOLO NUTINI – Scream  (footage from Radio 1’s Big Weekend)
(21) GEORGE EZRA – Budapest  (video)
(-) CALVIN HARRIS – Summer  (video)
(27) ED SHEERAN – Sing  (video)
(3) ED SHEERAN – Thinking Out Loud  (video)
(-) LA ROUX – Sexotheque
(48) GEORGE EZRA – Listen To The Man
(69) ARIANA GRANDE  – Problem  (footage from Radio 1 Teen Awards 2014)
(31) ELLA HENDERSON – Yours
(-) LABRINTH – Let It Be
(-) KATY PERRY – Roar  (footage from Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2014)
(-) METALLICA – Enter Sandman  (footage from Glastonbury 2014)
(-) DOLLY PARTON – 9 To 5  (footage from Glastonbury 2014)
(-) KATE BUSH – Running Up That Hill  (video)
(62) COLDPLAY – A Sky Full Of Stars  (footage from Radio 2 In Concert)
(-) THE WANTED – All Time Low  (video)
(-) TAKE THAT & LULU – Relight My Fire  (clip of TOTP 25-12-93)
(-) S. CLUB 7 – S. Club Party  (footage from Children In Need 2014)
(-) DAVID GUETTA feat. SAM MARTIN – Lovers On The Sun  (video)
(73) IGGY AZALEA feat. RITA ORA – Black Widow  (video)
(14) ONE DIRECTION – Steal My Girl  (video)
(48) GEORGE EZRA – Listen To The Man  (video)
(-) ARCADE FIRE – We Exist  (video)
(40) BAND AID 30 – Do They Know It’s Christmas?  (video)
(81) CHARLI XCX  – Boom Clap
(42) THE SCRIPT  – Superheroes
(-) CALVIN HARRIS – Summer  (video)
(-) DAVID GUETTA feat. SAM MARTIN – Lovers On The Sun  (video)
(53) SIGMA feat. PALOMA  FAITH – Changing  (video)
(-) ANDY C & FIORA – Heartbeat Loud  (video)
(-) DVBBS & BORGEOUS feat. TINIE TEMPAH – Tsunami (Jump)  (video)
(16) CLEAN BANDIT feat. JESS GLYNNE – Real Love
(1) MARK RONSON feat. BRUNO MARS – Uptown Funk  (video)

 

Happy New Year everyone!

Next stop, 1992!




9 comments:

  1. From titles only I only remembered about 30% of the songs, after hearing them I then recognised about 95% and I enjoyed nearly all of the songs on this especially Uptown Funk.

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  2. Ratings wise Christmas Day 2002 got 280k and this got 260k

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  3. Happy New Year everyone. Did you catch ‘Britain’s Greatest 80s Songs’ on C5 on Christmas Day? I recorded it (as it was nearly three hours long and packed with adverts) and watched it last night. A chart “as voted by you”. I never voted, nor did I see any prompt anywhere that I could vote, so I don’t know where the voters who did vote found out how to vote. I daresay there was a ‘shortlist’ of songs to vote for, so for example, if your favourite 80s hit was ‘Twilight cafĂ©’ by Susan Fassbender or the Passions meandering ‘I’m in love with a German Film Star’, then you were probably not able to plump for these. So, what did we get? A surprise No1 and a surprising bias towards the early and mid 80s. No sign of mega hits like Kylie’s ‘I should be so lucky’, Starship’s ‘Nothings gonna stop us now’ or Yazz’s ‘ The only way is up’ (mercifully no sign of ‘Pump up the Volume’ by MARRS, ‘ Jack your Body’ by Steve ‘ Silk’ Hurley nor ‘Theme from S’Express’ by S’Express). So, does that prove the early 80s was better than the late 80s? Probably. Were the late 80s underrepresented in the short list? Who knows? It was a great show to watch and most of the pundits from the ‘Britain’s biggest 70s hits’ were featured including the excellent David Grant and Paul Gambaccini, but also, poignantly, the late Janice Long.

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  4. Happy New Year everyone. As it's 2nd January I am going to dig out the 2/1/92 edition from You Tube and give it a watch.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwjuScTVuf4

    Mysteriously with Fairytale of New York edited out but that's available separately.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmi_I3arS0U

    I am sure someone will furnish us with the full show soon.

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    1. Interesting, perhaps Angelo can put up this show already, a few days before BBC4 shows the 9/1/92 on Friday, so that we can start posting comments on the 2/1/92 show a few days before the 9/1/92 show goes up on Friday, and also to ease the load of four episodes going up all at once to review. So could we get one now, and then the other three on Friday?

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    2. 2/1/92 coming up thurs i believe unless angelo says otherwise

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    3. It’s weird that FONY was edited out, but I remember the performance from the time.

      I don’t think anybody needed to see Rhubarb and Custard for a second time(!), but here’s to a new year of repeats, even if it’s hardly a vintage era.

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  5. here is the episode early of 02/01/1992

    https://we.tl/t-8rsyq9WsEK

    will repost via angelo later in week if needed.

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