You looked at me with that sweet smile and said, 'I'm the 14th of May 1992 edition of Top of the Pops!'
But which one is Beauty and which one is the Beast?
(16) SHAKESPEAR’S SISTER – I Don’t Care
Geting tonight's show underway with the second single from their top 3 album Hormonally Yours and it became the duo's third and final top ten hit when it peaked at number 7.
(10) THE WEDDING PRESENT – Come Play With Me (video)
Their only top ten hit and it got no higher.
(13) DEL AMITRI – Always The Last To Know
In the studio tonight but the song got no higher.
(US 1) KRIS KROSS – Jump
Performing what became the teeny duo's only top ten hit when it peaked at number 2.
(8) EN VOGUE – My Lovin’ (video)
Went up four more places.
(14) CELINE DION & PEABO BRYSON – Beauty And The Beast
Making her studio debut with what became her first of fourteen top ten hits when it peaked at number 9.
(15) UGLY KID JOE – Everything About You (video) (Breakers)
Peaked at number 3.
(21) SAINT ETIENNE – Join Our Club (video) (Breakers)
Got no higher.
(22) RICHARD MARX – Hazard (video) (Breakers)
Peaked at number 3.
(NEW) CE CE PENISTON – Keep On Walkin’
Performing what became her third and final top ten hit when it peaked at number 10.
(1) KWS – Please Don’t Go
In the studio for their second of five weeks at number one.
21st of May is next.
Very little of the presenters in person on this show, with Claudia only visible when introducing the top 10, and then at the end of the show on a video screen??when saying goodbye. The show seemed to turn into an invisible presentation on the whole, and not sure I like this when the presenters are traditionally the backbone of the show.
ReplyDeleteShakespeare's Sister - I did like the contrast in dress style between the two ladies of Shakespeare's Sister, with only Siobhan dressing Shakespearean style, seeming quite restless and edgy throughout the performance, against the backdrop of a calmer Marcella playing second feature on this track.
En Vogue - those shiny sliver minidresses came as something of a surprise, considering when they first came on the scene a couple of years earlier in 1990 with their top 5 hit Hold On, but this was something new and fresh in 1992, and really liked this one, mainly due to the colourful video, lighting and sexy minidresses. Nice one!
Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson - while my favourite Celine Dion track is It's All Coming Back To Me Now which Jim Steinman wrote for her a few years later, this early one for Disney was right up there in her finest work, and Bryson's voice helped it along a bit, but a peak of No.9 for this came as no surprise, as I wouldn't have expected it to be Top 5 by any stretch.
The Breakers - love the Saint Etienne track, and also the title Join Our Club. Where do I sign please? Pity we don't get this on a future show in full play as it got no higher than No.21, but it was still enough to get me to watch the whole video. I think the girl in the video is the same one that was on Cola Boy's 7 Way's To Love, but not sure.
It was Janey Lee Grace with Cola Boy, Sarah Cracknell is Saint Etienne's regular singer from this point on.
DeleteDory, I picked up on that too! More voiceover intros than usual, and Claudia spotted just twice. Aptly enough, Angelo hasn't named this week's presenters at the top of this post, while iPlayer only lists Mark. People who say this show is all about the music anyway: 1-0.
DeleteNo introduction whatsoever for Kriss Kross. Straight Outta Nowhere! It's no Exclusive, but presume this'll be storming the charts next week.
Shakespears Sister was a great opener to kick off this edition. Hot as any hottentot!
IACBTMN wasn't written for Celine Dion. Meat Loaf wanted to record it but Steinman blocked him and gave it to an all-female project of his called Pandora's Box.
ReplyDeleteGiven the lyric why do KWS seem so incredibly cheerful when performing the song. Bit like doing a funked up version of Ebony Eyes.
Thanks for the correction on IACBTMN Anonymous. I happen to have the Pandoras Box album from 1989 I think, and the song is absolutely on there, so yes indeed they were the first vehicle for Steinman's song in the 80's, with Celine Dion having it in the 90s, and then Meat Loaf finally being given in 2006 on the album Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, so the song spanned three decades between Pandora's Box on the first outing to Meat Loaf on its final journey 16 years ago.
DeleteWoo-ooo-ooo! Invisible presenters! Scary!
ReplyDeleteShakespears Sister with Siobhan trying way too hard to be kooky, and she still can't sing. Such a strange combination. Anyway, I prefer this to Stay, it jigs along quite nicely even if I'm not sure what it's about.
The Wedding Present's biggest hit wasn't Kennedy or Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft or something tuneful and catchy, it was this rather disappointing effort which goes precisely nowhere. Cliche in the video: old couple ballroom dancing.
Boring old Del Amitri back with one of their feeling sorry for themselves tunes, I'm never going to get on with these guys, they're just tedious for me.
Kriss Kross with their breeks on backwards (funny how that never caught on) and a Jackson 5 sample for a jaunty effort that was never off the radio in '92. Sadly, Michael Jackson and suicide were in their future, curse of the child stars, alas. But we'll always have this silly hit.
En Vogue on video, somewhere a young Beyonce Knowles is studiously taking notes. Still a great presentation, their stylists really knew what they were doing.
Beauty and the Beast is a nice film, but I always found the lead ballad off it tiresome. It slows the film down, too. At least Celine and Peabo sing better than Emma Watson.
Unfortunately we won't see this Saint Etienne on the show in full, but this is a small taste of things to come, anyway. The other Breakers will be on again.
Ce Ce Peniston with another preview that, for a change, was an actual hit, though nobody remembers this one. Basically the same line sung over and over.
Who on Earth kept KWS at the top for 5 weeks?! There was so much better out there.
I watched the Saint Etienne video in full on uTube and it made painful viewing, I mean painful on the eye, cos it was so badly produced with halo and glare on the lighting, so it would have been best if they were invited to the studio, but instead the show gave Ce Ce Pension an invite to the TOTP studio when not even in the chart this week!
DeleteYeah, it doesn't seem very fair when Ce Ce was on the very next week, and SE could have had her slot here (so to speak).
DeleteThree songs peaking this week lower down the chart for previous chart regulars, with no TOTP exposure for their efforts this time round:
ReplyDeleteNo.33 Lionel Richie - Do It To Me
What was he referring to? Anyway, first single for Richie in 5 years since early 1987 when he was last in the charts, and should have been given a breakers slot, but breakers now ha to be inside the Top 30, so there was no welcome back for this comeback single.
No.40 - Gary Moore - Story Of The Blues
Moore was producing occasional singles nearly every year since 1979 when he came onto the scene with Parisienne Walkways, and would continue until 1995, but nothing really made it through into the higher reaches of the chart.
No.71 Natalie Cole - The Very Thought Of You
A consistent 5 year run of singles for Cole since 1987 produced 11 singles culminating in this new single, bringing to end her chart career in the UK here in 1992 with a No.71 peak for this final single.
To answer Angelo's question above, I wouldn't care to say, but Peabo's making quite an effort in that marigold jacket.
ReplyDeleteTwo holograms in charge this time.
ReplyDeleteSisters start off with a fine juxtaposition to “Stay” but Siobhan needs to start taking her tablets again.
Top 10 rundown: Finally a video for KWS.
Another band who captured old people ballroom dancing in ‘recent’ times, but we didn’t see the vid, was The Beautiful South for top 31 smash “I’ll Sail This Ship Alone”. Glad The Weddoes managed a top ten ten but they recorded so much better then this. Is it just me who thinks David Gedge looks like Tony Blackburn?
Always secretly liked Del Amitri and though their number 43 hit “Kiss This Thing Goodbye” should have been their ‘rocket’ hit. Justin, keep miming that bass!
Kris Kross were just a fucking annoying gimmick. Those trouser belts should have been nearer their throats.
En Vogue, you’ll catch your death! Stylish and smooth again. No time to the breakdown before...
I can’t stand Celine Dion. I blame Yugoslavia for letting her win Eurovision, 11 points behind the United Kingdom with just that country to vote and she won 12-0.
Ugly Kid Joe with an ugly song.
In my car last night, Radio 2 played “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” by St. Etienne as a party banger. Shame about the row we heard briefly.
Richard Marx with some American AORZZZZ.
“Please Don’t Go”? I’m not staying for this shite.
Cloudia ends with a completely irrelevant stat about Elton John not being in the TOTP studio before.
Yeah, I was a little worried about Siobhan's movements there. Not sure if it was epilepsy, or just too eager to entertain us.
DeleteShakespear's Sister with their third best track, but one I still enjoy. Nice to see them back after they stopped bothering with Stay.
ReplyDeleteOoh The Wedding Present get a top 10! Probably their best of 92, but they've veen cranking them out, haven't they?
Del Amitri - I have a doft spot for them as one of my closest friends in the 90s was a huge fan. I prefer Roll To Me and Nothing Ever Happens but I never mind hearing this one.
Kriss Kross - Ooh I HATED them at the time, probably because I was 12 and trying to be cool and they were annoying kids...but time has persuaded me that the song is a bop, although House of Pain did it better.
En Vogue is a great track, then hello to Celine. I also hated her in the 90s but she's grown on me with time. Mainly because she's much more kooky than her music implies. This track is fine, not the best from BATB (Be Our Guest will never be surpassed, especially with the Simpsons See My Vest parody).
Good selection of Breakers, then our second pre-release (SIGH), which is at least preferable to Genesis, Chris De Burgh, Tin Machine et al.
And a perfectly serviceable number one.
Feels like they packed a lot into this one!
Shakespears sister - well, that was weird…
ReplyDeleteWedding present - another track of the month. I bought these, and have to say the b sides were always better, and in thatvwas this case a splendid cover of Pleasant Valley Sunday
Kriss Kross - hardly a song more a chant, the only thing worse was their (lack of) trouser wearing
KWS - please go (see what I did there?)
They're back. Already. Shakespeare's Sister suitably kooky and it's another fab tune. Think they imploded not long after this. I will miss them..
ReplyDeleteThere is now a KLS video I see and then onto The Wedding Present Take 5. A top ten hit as well. Still dreary as hell. Waiting patiently for a tune of theirs I like.
Del Amitri. Great to have them back. Really like this one. Another Greatest Hits I own but none of the albums.
Jump now everyone! Trousers on back to front! Wickeddy-Wack! It's great fun if nothing else.
One of them is no longer with us I believe.
A bit of En Vogue on video and another tune I'm a big fan of. Quite a few US hits making it over here this year. Nice video as well.
It's Celine…lots more of her to come. And Peabo is back too. Lovely Disney ballad if you like this sort of thing. I don't love it and I don't hate it. Best I can say really…
I know Celine married her Svengali and had huge success but I do wonder how much freedom she actually had in her life?
Breakers:
Ugly Kid Joe: Wonderful tune
Saint Etienne: Loved them
Richard Marx: Like this one too.
3/3
Ce Ce Peniston with the track nobody remembers. Less catchy than her big hits but still a decent tune. She's got a great voice so well deserved success. Liked this more than I thought I would.
KWS still Top of the Pops. He's having fun.
Another great show and this format has really found its feet now for me, although I'm sure others on here will disagree…
Jump! Jump!