Here's Ozzy Osbourne dressed like someone's gran.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Thursday, 2 August 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
I always remember the lyrics to Belouis Some's 'Imagination' as being "Emasculation... could make a man of you".
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Thursday, 2 August 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Paul Hardcastle here showing Jan Hammer how to really look like a nobhead with a keytar.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Thursday, 9 August 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
1986 hits 'peak 1986' early with Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Friday, 17 August 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
Alexander O'Neil modelling the must-have fashion disaster item of 1986, the combination tweed trench coat / boiler suit.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Friday, 17 August 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
That sounds so incredible I don't want to watch and spoil it.
― piscesx, Friday, 17 August 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Not recommended for the fuller figured man tbh. Nice to see reggae was still getting in the charts in '86.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Friday, 17 August 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
I remember that Sigue Sigue Sputnik performance, and I remember likening it to a hit of poppers: fantastic for the first minute, then you're just left with a numbed-out headache.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 18 August 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
I remember that it should have been lots of flash bang wallop riz riz boom. And it was four or five blokes standing around, plus two drummers.
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 August 2018 11:47 (five years ago) link
Some national newspapers around the time were all 'this band is terrible' mock outrage kind of thing, which got 12 year old snoball interested because I remembered similar media coverage with Frankie Goes To Hollywood two years previously. But the reality was that Frankie genuinely were exciting while SSS were just a bit dull and repetitive.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Saturday, 18 August 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
'Love Missile F1-11' is a 30 second song repeated six times to make a 3 minute single, and '21st Century Boy' is basically the same basic backing track with some rockabilly guitars and a Billy Idol impersonation.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6fudSHb0jsEven Bowie can't make this song sound repetitive.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
I mean can't make this song not sound repetitive
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Saturday, 18 August 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
Tonight's episode, featuring Simon Bates as a your friendly late night bigoted taxi driver.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Thursday, 30 August 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
That dark brown leather jacket screams "I'm a wanker and it's 1986".
Despite recently not turning out to be an Operation Yewtree suspect, Cliff ironically looks like Gary Glitter in this video for 'Living Doll'.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Thursday, 30 August 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
Some national newspapers around the time were all 'this band is terrible' mock outrage kind of thinghttps://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/IUgAAOSw0fFZe6Yt/s-l500.jpg
― everything, Thursday, 30 August 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
As if Paul Morley was in any place to judge SSS.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Thursday, 30 August 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
I remember the video for 'A Different Corner' but I'd forgotten about that fuck-awful mullet. It's like George went to Noel Edmonds' barber.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Friday, 31 August 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
Criminally this might be Falco's only UK TV appearance.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Friday, 31 August 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
Although this week they play the excellent video. Pity Gary Davis is prattling on over the top of it.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Friday, 14 September 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
Just Say No smoke up in a bathroom in the White House (allegedly)
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Friday, 14 September 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
"George Michael and 'A Different Corner'" although apparently not a different photo because it's the BBC and they'll just use a still from the video to 'Careless Whisper' like it's still 1984.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Friday, 21 September 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
Sly Fox - "Let's Go All The Way" – Classic or Dud?
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bXIL0DTJGo
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
"My Favourite Waste Of Mime"
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Friday, 19 October 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link
Quite a trajectory in UK pop during these years. Until about 78 - when punk had caught up with the charts - TOTP was mostly a parade of appalling novelty records and MOR. Then for a few years we had an injection of experimental, interesting pop records - until 83/4, then mostly trash again. I generalise of course. Watching these re-runs is like a graph of my interest in pop music during the late 70s/80s.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
Pete Cetera looks like a serial killer in this video.
― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
Oh my god
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVR9JykPC-0
― chap, Saturday, 10 November 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
Steve Wright: "OK, so this week I'm going to dress like a complete tosser by wearing jeans, a shirt, and a jumper."Peter Powell: "Hold my beer..." (grabs tie)
― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
Peter Powell: "Also I won't bother to shave for extra creep points."
― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Thursday, 15 November 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljl17sqgyX1qzujsgo1_400.gif
I think Holiday Rap could be my favourite novelty record.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 16 November 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
Has any pop star in history had more bad haircuts than Howard Jones?
― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Friday, 23 November 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
Chris Waddle?
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 23 November 2018 22:50 (five years ago) link
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince WTF?!?!
― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
That seems ridiculously early as I think of Will Smith as a very 90s act.
Yeah, he didn't even get top billing in them days
― Mark G, Friday, 30 November 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
wow does Shaky look bored here
― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Friday, 14 December 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
Top class silliness from Duran Duran. They (most of the time) don't take themselves too seriously, one of the reasons I prefer them to Spandau Ballet. I've always liked 'Notorious', to the point where I think it might be their best 80s track after 'Rio'.
― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Friday, 14 December 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
The video for 'Take My Breath Away' was shown a lot on TV at the time, but until now I never noticed that the singer's jumpsuit appeared to be smeared with excrement on one side.
― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Friday, 14 December 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
Take two Yamaha DX7 keyboards into the shower? Yes, because we're Mick Hucknall's backing band.
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Thursday, 27 December 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
My theory is that Falco looks cool because he's not afraid to come across as a fool. Everyone else so far this episode has been far too worried about seeming credible.
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Thursday, 27 December 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
John Peel on TOTP is this guy basically
https://local.theonion.com/awful-man-offers-witty-acerbic-take-on-everything-he-s-1819570846
― piscesx, Thursday, 24 January 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
That was his last edition supposedly for years, you can see why.
― piscesx, Thursday, 24 January 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
Gary Davis: "One of the hottest disco records around" - he's just not trying to be cool at this point. Or maybe trying too hard?
― just another country (snoball), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
Also why is he dressed like a scout leader?
― just another country (snoball), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link
Also I remember watching Man 2 Man Meets Mann Parrish when it was first broadcast but the obvious gay subtext went completely over nearly-13-year-old snoball's head.
― just another country (snoball), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:50 (five years ago) link
Astonishingly, i never even twigged from the sleeve
https://img.discogs.com/DmILqIJcPvd_qpuLAnfPaiuubG4=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-782778-1158280435.jpeg.jpg
― piscesx, Thursday, 31 January 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
As a kid at the time if you weren't aware of gay subcultures it could be mistaken for that Athena poster aesthetic?
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 1 February 2019 08:45 (five years ago) link