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@daweaver Rupert is Rising! #TOTP #1991Watch #H2G2
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@daweaver Rupert is Rising! #TOTP #1991Watch #H2G2
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@daweaver Rupert is Rising! #TOTP #1991Watch #H2G2
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@daweaver Rupert is Rising! #TOTP #1991Watch #H2G2
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@losttourist The current Top Twenty Hit Parade contains four records old enough to have been on the original Top of the Pops, and another one that pre-dates the "time-based one-time password" spec.
An observer might conclude that "vintage music" and "contemporary music" are one and the same thing.
[puts another wax cylinder by Mantovani into the Dansette]
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@losttourist The current Top Twenty Hit Parade contains four records old enough to have been on the original Top of the Pops, and another one that pre-dates the "time-based one-time password" spec.
An observer might conclude that "vintage music" and "contemporary music" are one and the same thing.
[puts another wax cylinder by Mantovani into the Dansette]
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@losttourist The current Top Twenty Hit Parade contains four records old enough to have been on the original Top of the Pops, and another one that pre-dates the "time-based one-time password" spec.
An observer might conclude that "vintage music" and "contemporary music" are one and the same thing.
[puts another wax cylinder by Mantovani into the Dansette]
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@losttourist The current Top Twenty Hit Parade contains four records old enough to have been on the original Top of the Pops, and another one that pre-dates the "time-based one-time password" spec.
An observer might conclude that "vintage music" and "contemporary music" are one and the same thing.
[puts another wax cylinder by Mantovani into the Dansette]
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@losttourist The current Top Twenty Hit Parade contains four records old enough to have been on the original Top of the Pops, and another one that pre-dates the "time-based one-time password" spec.
An observer might conclude that "vintage music" and "contemporary music" are one and the same thing.
[puts another wax cylinder by Mantovani into the Dansette]
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Sir Simon talks to Kevin Keegan, apparently his back is well. Frank Gray is also on the podium, but nobody talks to him.
"Mama used to say" - Junior
A very fine slice of pop. Sounds like Linx, looks like David Grant, it's almost as if they've been working together.
And this is his debut? Could see a lot more of this lad.
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"Eternal flame" - The Bangles
Lovely song, prayerful meditation, breathe and relax.
Number one in spite of being this week's second biggest-selling single. 11,000 copies of Kylie's song were not counted towards the chart, because they were cassette singles that only contain the 7-inch version of the single, and rules only allowed cassette singles that duplicate the 12-inch. The Bangles' lead was 1650 sales.
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"Ya mama don't dance" - Poison
Good-time fun, raise your beers and get a bit tipsy, maybe we'll have Sweet or Slade up next.
(checks running order)
Oh.
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Another former Simon Mayo Record of the Week.
"The look" - Roxette
Per and Marie blast onto our screens with a clanging guitar riff, and own the stage already. Per has his hair in the short spikes of the time, Marie never bothered to change her hairstyle.
The camera plays tightly between the singers, Marie wigs out during the guitar break, and Roxette have arrived!
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"There's no other way" - Blur
They'd been tipped as a band to watch for about eighteen months, and this breakthrough hit was ... a bit of a grower. Left me nonplussed on first hear, but the grooving guitars wound their way into my brain. The rest is history.
Love the camera angles, woozily drifting around the stage, getting clonked during the intro. Concentrate mostly on Damon, but loads of weird angles - particularly Alex's guitar solo.
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"Children" - EMF
All the neon lights are turned off, and the lighting is a stark white; the image is enhanced because the band's clothes are almost all black. Very difficult to look like a rave in the TOTP studio, this is a spectacular image, totally right for the song.
EMF could have been frat rock bores, churning out a million clones of "Unbelievable". They had artistic integrity, and in another universe they're the band early in a glittering career.
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"Ever fallen in love" - Fine Young Cannibals
Heard this before the Buzzcocks' original, so this slower tempo feels right, and the keyboard figures add something Pete's band never had.
Good to see the keyboard player has been taking lessons from Chris Lowe.
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Reviewing "Handcuffed" with Jonathan Ross.
A fascinating show, showing how it's mostly superficial things that divide people, and how a little tolerance and patience can be helpful.
Told its story in a brilliant way, not fully chronological, but logical and enhancing the tale.
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"Where do broken hearts go?" - Whitney Houston
A massive vocal workout, shown through the medium of shooting pool and chattering in an office complex.
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"Bass (how low can you go)" - Simon Harris
#TOTP has not yet learned to make dance music look interesting.
Lots of shots of Simon behind his decks, lots of his keyboardist.
The dancer doesn't mug into the camera, and director Paul Ciani uses his preferred swooping crane shots, and there's no visual focus. It's a mess.
Handheld cameras were not yet in use, and Ciani needed them. Remember Xpansions from a few weeks ago? Same director, better tech.
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Our second #TOTP Mystery Year comes from the week when "Network 7" and "Blackadder III" won BAFTA awards.
CITV showed "Bros... The Story So Far". Daytime television show "Kilroy!" shared the problem of impotence, or what happens when one can no longer shaft.
Keeping it up tonight: the Hand-some Peter Powell and his minder, Sir Simon Bates.
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"Automatic lover" - The Vibrators
Punk is dead, the new wave bands want us to hear the lyric.
Here, the singer describes his preferred sort of girl, before there's a suitably brief guitar solo.
It's their one piece of chart success - the band was dropped by Epic late in 1978, split for a few years, then reformed and were only stopped from touring by the pandemic.
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"Living doll" - Cliff Richard and The Young Ones
Ooh, different opening rap from Rik, the one where he mentions Keith Chegwin. That's the second time he's cropped up in tonight's thread.
Silly, funny, entertaining, and great. Comic Relief singles may have peaked already.
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Comic Relief day, and here's The Big Red Tape. Smashey and Nicey and all the comedy stars of yesteryear.
If you enjoyed this, do go back to 1991 and pick up a copy - it's £1.99 from any branch of Our Price.
Or, you know, drop a few quid into Comic Relief's bucket tonight.
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Catching up on “The Other Bennet Sister”, in which Mary plays the famous “Sarabande” by Handel.
Historically accurate, of course; Georg Friedrick had written about a century before Jane Austen’s time.
Perhaps needed to pass round a poisoned chalice… or is that Mr. Collins?
https://www.classicals.de/handel-sarabande
#TheOtherBennetSister #PrideAndPrejudice #Austen #Handel #TheSearch
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"Paradise city" - Guns n' Roses
"Lumpy attempt at a singalong crowd-rouser which somehow fails to impress." - Smash Hits
Don't think they originally wrote "the girls are pretty", did they.
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"Can't stay away from you" - Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine
Third time we've seen this first-verse-and-chorus clip, recorded when Glo was in town for the oh-so-successful BPI awards last month.
Mick Fleetwood blamed the cleaners at the Albert Hall. Co-host Samantha Fox blamed the producers who didn't leave enough time for rehearsals. Always useful to see who punches up...
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"Emotions" - Samantha Sang
Ooh, walking into shot through a swirling vortex of stage smoke. That's meant to look mysterious, actually feels like a third-rate sci-fi show.
Sounds like she's being accompanied by The Bee Gees, in the sense that Gary Barlobe was accompanied by Lulu.
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"Baby, i love you" - The Ramones
With the New Wall of Sound from a producer we don't talk about.
On the right equipment, this sounds absolutely massive and utterly inescapable.
When played by the #TOTP Orchestra, however...
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"I believe (when i fall in love it will be forever)" - Art Garfunkel
Stevie Wonder song, later covered by E-voke, George Michael, Michael McDonald, and Josh Groban.
All of this left precious few beats for Art to use on his take, hence the passionless low tempo. No excuse for mixing his voice so far down.