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

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

a couple of episodes behind but I am in awe of that East 17 single that I don't recall from the time, the lyrics and Tony's performance are ridiculous. I'm also really enjoying the performances of 3T where the singer explodes with emotion and... throws his backpack on the floor. Both when they were in the studio, and on the beach.

"The Naughty North & The Sexy South" is a banger for all ages though.

Classic hardbag. I wonder if we'll be getting it again later in the year during chart rundown (i assume not)

My intro to it was actually this erm Doctor Fox 'mix' CD, a very first-four-months-of-1996 compilation albeit with a few stranger older choices (i assume never forget is there as a memorial for take that)

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/djmix/doctor-fox/mixomatic/

Supergrass' first album is still such a blast

that's me out of Whamageddon 2024 then... and it's only just July