Oh oh oh, I wanna get close to the 30th May 1996 edition of Top of the Pops!
Man of mystery
30-5-96: Presenters: Jack Dee & Jeremy Hardy
(14) BACKSTREET BOYS – Get Down (You’re The One For Me)
Making their studio debut with their first of nineteen top 40 hits but this one got no higher.
(12) M-BEAT feat. JAMIROQUAI – Do You Know Where You’re Coming From
In the studio tonight but the song go no higher.
(5) METALLICA – Until It Sleeps (video) (and charts)
At its peak.
(3) PETER ANDRE feat. BUBBLER RANX – Mysterious Girl
Performing his first of ten top ten hits and this one went up one more place, but was re-released in 2004 when it made it to number one.
(ALBUM TRACK) MANIC STREET PREACHERS – Australia
With a song from their number two album, Everything Must Go, and it will be a single later this year peaking at number 7.
(9) CELINE DION – Because You Loved Me (video)
Peaked at number 5.
(11) LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY – Ocean Drive
Performing the title track from their top 3 album, but it got no higher.
(6) BRYAN ADAMS – The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You
A second studio performance but the song got no higher.
(1) BADDIEL, SKINNER & THE LIGHTNING SEEDS – Three Lions (video)
The biggest selling football song of all time with its first of two weeks at number one this summer, though they were not consecutive.
(NEW) ADAM CLAYTON & LARRY MULLEN – Mission: Impossible (video) (and credits)
Will peak at number 7.
6th of June is next.
A couple of new entries at peak position outside the Top 40 this week, and worth a mention:
ReplyDeleteNo.50 Rolf Harris - Bohemian Rhapsody
First single for three years since Stairway To Heaven reached No.7 for Harris in 1993, this new conversion of the Queen classic had no traction for another Top 40 entry.
No.61 Mike And The Mechanics - Silent Running
Re-issue and 10-year anniversary of their debut single which got to No.21 first time round in 1986, and a No.61 placing was the best that this 1996 re-issue could muster.
Let's hope there is some good music to comment on the main Top 40 action in the coming weeks, as this show really quite uninspiring I thought, and therefore having to look outside the Top 40 for any music of note.
Good job Harris didn't have a big hit or it'd be another banned episode.
DeleteThis is an episode including a decent mix of styles but a fair bit of stuff I hated back then. BSB I couldn't stand then (and this track isn't amazing) but Backstreet's Back is a tune. Mysterious Girl I loathed (and I still find Peter Andre himself very annoying) but the song is, I admit begrudgingly, a great pop song.
Metallica I don't especially like as people but Until it Sleeps is a cracking tune.
Manics are great, I've always really liked (In) Australia.
Celine's voice isn't my thing but it's a good song. I don't know why she used to have such ageing hair cuts and outfits though.
Three Lions - it probably is the best football song of all time (World in Motion is great too but less about football, rap excepted. I do also like Del Amitri's Don't Come Home Too Soon though). It's nearly thirty years since they sang about thirty years of hurt ao the 2016 world cup will possibly get this one released or remade yet again. Who would have expected it'd have such a long afterlife? Most people who watch England men play football know this one, even those too young to have been born. They really hit upon a winning formula with this one.
I have to say that 1300 Drums with Ooh Ahh Cantona on the same Top 40 chart as Three Lions, is the best football song of all time, and considering I had never heard it until this weekend in 2024 when BBC4 showed the 16th May episode on the same night, I just marvelled at the fusion between football chanting (Cantona) and techno beats which came off very well.
DeleteThe addition of the two sexy girls in Can Can outfits made the instrumental in the TOTP studio a must-see clip. Strangely there doesn't seem to be a video for it.
I saw the 'Weather Hits At The BBC' compilation last weekend and thought it was great. I know I had a bit of a moan about the 60 years of BBC2 marathon in April but thought this special was full of variety. Only one clip from Glastonbury and that was a gem; John Fogerty 'Have You Ever Seen The Rain' from 2007 which I've never seen shown since original broadcast. Worth it solely for the full 6 minutes of The Blue Nile's 'Tinseltown In The Rain' from Later...
ReplyDeleteOnly disappointment being they didn't show The Hollies 'Bus Stop', a recovered Totp clip from June '66 but never mind. Great show.
Does anyone know when the June 1996 shows are next coming onto BBC4, as there are none this coming Friday 23rd which is as far forward as I can see on Radio Times?
ReplyDeleteDory, certainly not before the 13th September.
DeleteGood Lord
DeleteBack this Friday 30th Aug late schedule change.
ReplyDeleteOn tonight I saw ?
ReplyDeleteYes indeed, and a full length 45-minute TOTP show from September 1977 on BBC4 at 10pm, and unedited for a change!
DeleteIn the 70s and early 80s, while most TOTP shows were 35 or 40 minutes long as the norm, you would occasionally get a 45-minute show, so this was one of them!