Favourite part of last night's two episodes - the bit where a freeze frame of Brett from the Suede video s-l-o-w-l-y cross faded into the aerial shot of Miami before the kd Lang performance.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 2 July 2022 07:40 (one year ago) link
Xpost swines!
― Mark G, Saturday, 2 July 2022 07:48 (one year ago) link
it's becoming really obvious where the show's direction is not working. All these respectable acts like Sting, Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry - the only bit of life from the studio audience is when "No Limits" is performed.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 2 July 2022 07:50 (one year ago) link
What was up with the Gloworm performance?
the costumes and dancing were definitely a bit culture-as-costume
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 2 July 2022 07:52 (one year ago) link
the women playing with ferry looked very familiar but no credits on the single or lp for anybody female
― koogs, Saturday, 2 July 2022 11:35 (one year ago) link
Some real garbage this week. Didn't know and didn't need to know about this Hue & Cry remix of 'Labour Of Love'. Remember when Q magazine offered them £10 to split up?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 8 July 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
Only one episode this week and all of it musical wallpaper (oh a song from a VW Golf ad!) until Robin S and 'Show Me Love'. Almost everything else has this 'smug gloss' over the top of it. I can't really explain it, it's like the performers are making the minimum effort while saying "look at how cool I am not caring about this". Even though this episode is from March 1993 these songs feel like they've been lazily put together to be 'summer hits'. Maybe, like punk and grunge before it, Britpop had to happen to get us away from where we'd ended up, and that the actual content of Britpop didn't matter so much as the 'getting away from somewhere' part.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 16 July 2022 07:59 (one year ago) link
Got to say if I a DJ dropped this Hue and Cry remix while I was on a good pinger I probably wouldn't leave the dancefloor.
Maybe it's just because I was 17 at the time and have rosey nostalgia for this era, but I'm now enjoying Snow - Informer.
More Covid-adled observations may follow as I continue watching the episode.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 10:52 (one year ago) link
I don't mind Labour of Love '93, but that functional tinny disco-house sound is the most 1993 thing in existence, and adorning it to an older hit to peddle a greatest hits is also what gave the Doobie Brothers their biggest UK hit later in the year
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 17 July 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link
I used to have this Grid track, quite fond memories of this one too, it had some nice remixes.
More nostalgia via Therapy? being an indie disco staple for a while, but I doubt anyone remembers the Big Country track.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:04 (one year ago) link
gave the Doobie Brothers their biggest UK hit later in the year
No spoilers 😉
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:05 (one year ago) link
I feel like if they skip episodes because Rold Harris is in them they should skip Right Said Fred ones too.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
Apologies - pretty much jumped into this thread without seeing if there was a rule.
The other in the trilogy that comes to mind we've already had, We are Family.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:20 (one year ago) link
Sorry, to be clear I don’t think there is a rule, I’m just being “very funny” :D
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:25 (one year ago) link
No rules, that's a different website
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
Only some websites have ominous bunny warrens in the corner, alas
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
Ah, remember it well...
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
David Bowie's cover of 'Here Comes The Night' isn't great but it's a lot better than this shouty mess of a version from David Essex.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 22 July 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
the casio preset reggae rhythm didn't really do the song any favours either
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 22 July 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
This Duran Duran song feels like it's 15 minutes long.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 29 July 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
ffwd 29 years and they're opening the commonwealth games in clothes designed by stabilo boss...
― koogs, Friday, 29 July 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
They just making their marker..
― Mark G, Friday, 29 July 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
Honestly at the time I wasn't too bothered about Haddaway's 'What Is Love', but it's (rightly) a classic tune when played against some of the other songs these past few episodes.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 2 September 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
I'm miles behind, but just binge-watched a load of them tonight and saw the Hue & Cry one everyone was talking about upthread. I bought the original (1987) version and musically this 1993 one isn't too bad, but the fashion sense of the non-singing members of the band was absolutely criminal. I was a bit disappointed we didn't get to see this one, which appears not to have a been as big a hit as I thought it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQljxfLmcKg
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 2 September 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
a little bit behind but I loved that performance of "Can You Forgive Her?" and also how everyone currently seems in competition to wear the most ostentatious hats
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 4 September 2022 08:37 (one year ago) link
For some unknown reason, an episode from 1987 is being shown on BBC2 tonight at 10pm.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00029mk
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
probably because it’s the only episode that features a Queen (Freddie Mercury performs “The Great Pretender”) and a King (Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” is that week’s number one). also, it features Christians.
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 15 September 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Should have been the following week, which features Freddie and King too, cus that's the JAMs 1987 episode and I missed it at the time.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 15 September 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
The time = 2019
Caught up on a few more last night. Some good nostalgia from my early days of going to clubs (chart-based ones before graduating to 'proper' clubs): Sub Sub, Robin S and Cappella. Also The Bluebells at number one every week: I remember the one where they did the 'techno, techno, techno, techno' bit from There's No Limit, but didn't realise they did a different ad lib every week (culminating in 'there's no business like show business').
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 17 September 2022 08:42 (one year ago) link
Good to see Diane Charlemagne on last night‘s repeat.
Shara Nelson sounded like she had a cold.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 17 September 2022 11:15 (one year ago) link
wasn't a really good shot of his face but is that still prof cox on keyboards for d:ream, the one with the hair-metal hair?
― koogs, Friday, 23 September 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
Yes I think so.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 23 September 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
o_____O at Bad Boys Inc's crotch thrusting dance moves. I'd get arrested if I did that. But musically they're harmless, what you'd get if you stuck Jason Donovan and Take That in a cloning machine.'Mr Vain' is a banger but for me it's mutilated by the memory of a housemate who used to sing it in a tuneless falsetto all the time for several months.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 30 September 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
I always wondered if 'She Kissed Me' was D'Arby taking the piss out of Lenny Kravitz.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 7 October 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
it's like a Kravitz song but done 1000% better so maybe?
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 October 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
sympathy for everyone else who sat through that performance from Cilla, jfc.
A song taking the piss out of Lenny Kravitz and D'Arby is ostensibly on the way next month, except it only reached no. 40 so I don't think we'll see it on breakers
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
not familiar with sisters past floodlands, which i love, but this seems bad...
"we are on the cutting edge of rock and roll, living dangerously. next week, special guest, cilla black..."
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 12:35 (one year ago) link
That was their final single. But their previous, Temple of Love 1992, was a top three hit and the corresponding early singles/EPs comp was their only top five album. This is all conveniently forgotten now but surreal to think about.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 8 October 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
Is this the Will Smith single with the ridiculous arm-wavey dance move? Why yes it is. I recall people having to hold their hands at more of a right angle to avoid smacking other people in the face on the dancefloor.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 14 October 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
These two shows were the best since, what, 1990? Earlier?
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 14 October 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Maybe not that bad but the most solid back to back shows in a while. I think it's because - at least for my taste - landfill dance is a lot less obnoxious than landfill indie.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 14 October 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
My thinking was that these were definitely the best we've had in ages. Not since 1990 but yeah, in the first episode for instance the only song I didn't like was Craven
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 14 October 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
Think the key thing was the lack of old timers playing their comeback singles and dance remixes of disco hits, that's accounted for half of some of the recent shows.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 14 October 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
Ha, my wife and I thought there was a lot of poor stuff in these and we skipped quite a few tracks this week. Maybe Moby just put us in a bad mood – just dreadful in every way. It was good to see Björk and New Order and Radiohead were OK but most of the other good tunes were from videos.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 15 October 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
(Moby has done a few alright bits despite being Moby – but not this one)
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 15 October 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
Thought it was a good Moby, also good to great:Venus As A BoyPaying The Price of LoveBoom! Shake The RoomSometimesMr VainAce of SpadesNot that keen on Creep or Go West, but both still way above the recent average, as was the Belinda Carlisle. Show two did tail off in quality towards the end a bit.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 October 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
It's one of Moby's early best I reckon. Shame they never had him on doing Thousand (shame it was never recognised as an AA).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 15 October 2022 23:23 (one year ago) link
To I Feel It that is, not Move