The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread.

It wouldn't be TOTP if you didn't occasionally miss it because of the snooker.

i got a 2 o'clock showing of totp 1980 and 1984 which both turned out to be david byrne at the union chapel.

iplayer will be fine, not least because these were pre-delivered - it doesn't record off air unless the programme's live. sometimes this can be missing bits if the schedule's changed but it's generally tidied up on the next working day. (unless it's the snowboarding on the red button which was royally fucked up but there were whole days cancelled and rearranged by the organisers so it's hardly surprising)

1984 had the bunnymen, Will with his teardrop vox(?) 12 string.

1980 was the cure again and bad manners again.

(my facebook history for friday was me railing against the snooker exactly two years previously, for similar reasons)

The post-Diana week must be coming up soon? Was it even on that week? Many BBC things weren't.

Normal service is resumed next Friday with two consecutive episodes from January 1996 (plus episodes from 1987 and 1976). Diana's death wasn't until August 1997. So we're quite a way off.

For some reason I like 'Slight Return' by The Bluetones despite the many small problems - lead singer looks like Ray Davies but in Phil Daniels' parka from Quadrophenia while shuffling around like Ian Brown / Liam, song title irritatingly reminds me of Hendrix's 'Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)', the rest of the band look like a generic mid '96 Britpop band, I get the sneaking suspicion they were signed because some record exec wanted a band that were a bit like Oasis but not headstrong wankers, etc., etc..

they are soooo stone roses lite

The Lighthouse Family - if you were ever on hold to Dell tech support in the late '90s then you've probably heard their entire greatest hits.

This is an absolute classic tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5gx6dlurtI

six episodes tonight. two from the current run, two 'random' episodes and two with the featured artist, tina turner tonight.

It's hard for me to hate Ocean Colour Scene, but it's equally hard for me to like them. Alcatraz - I've said this upthread, but for my taste landfill dance is way less obnoxious than landfill indie. For the last few weeks there have been some real bangers that I've either forgotten about or don't even remember. Luniz 'I Got 5 On It' I remember from Now 60 or whatever it was. I don't remember Diana Ross completely stealing Gloria Gaynor's signature song but it boils my piss. Music may be RHCP's aeroplane, but Kiedis is a strong candidate for my idea of worst frontman ever.

Supergrass - the Slade of Britpop

In the sense that I have a lot of fun listening to their records but don't really expect deep intellectual content or insights from either band.

co-incidentally on the second of tonight's 1996 episodes, Oasis - a band that I don't expect deep intellectual content or insights from but also don't have fuin listening to the record of - cover a Slade song.

the Alcatraz track is excellent, pretty lush sounding for an almost top ten hit, not to mention rather hookless

but i've written about that before

Giv Me Luv is amazing. love the head-scrambling way in which the different rhythmic layers are brought in. there's also this call-and-response thing going on between the lead synth and the bassline, and with that handclap, it always make me think of it as some sort of wordless electronic gospel

yes i know it has actual words too, but they seem kind of by the bye to me