I'm intrigued by the breaks in transmission. Are we missing J P$£l episodes?
― kraudive, Friday, 23 August 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/trivia/presenters/list2.shtml
am not sure where we are...
August 3, 1978 - Dave Lee TravisAugust 10, 1978 - Peter PowellAugust 17, 1978 - Noel EdmondsAugust 24, 1978 - David JensenAugust 31, 1978 - Tony BlackburnSeptember 7, 1978 - Peter PowellSeptember 14, 1978 - Jimmy SavilleSeptember 21, 1978 - Paul BurnettSeptember 28, 1978 - Dave Lee Travis
peel is much later iirc (feb '82)
― koogs, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
also, some breaks may just be due to missing recordings.
― koogs, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
(wednesday's was 31/08)
― koogs, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Apologies for the easy google opportunities I missed there.
Right, I assumed JP was around earlier than he may have been. It seems the beeb is trying to keep the broadcasts in the original week of each particular year.
― kraudive, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
(he'd done some of the earlier shows but there was a hiatus...)
― koogs, Friday, 23 August 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
1977: The Year Doo-Wop Broke.
― koogs, Saturday, 28 September 2013 10:20 (ten years ago) link
(wait, it's 1978. still, with all the showaddywaddy, darts and grease stuff in the charts... 4 things in top 10 from grease.)
― koogs, Saturday, 28 September 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
There've been a lot of godawful piano ballads recently. Just listen to this monstrosity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGfb6pm3DOg
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 28 September 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
er, convicted sex offender Jonathan King?
― not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Thursday, 3 October 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that's an odd decision given that they aren't showing some episodes because two different presenters are currently unpeople.
still, it's like they have discovered punk / new wave this week. (i may've spoken too soon, am watching about 20 minutes behind real time). odd given that blackburn's shows are usually disco-heavy.
― koogs, Thursday, 3 October 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
so is this Aug 31 or Oct 26?
August 31, 1978 - Tony BlackburnSeptember 7, 1978 - Peter PowellSeptember 14, 1978 - Jimmy SavilleSeptember 21, 1978 - Paul BurnettSeptember 28, 1978 - Dave Lee TravisOctober 5, 1978 - David JensenOctober 12, 1978 - Jimmy SavilleOctober 19, 1978 - Peter PowellOctober 26, 1978 - Tony Blackburn
actually given that the last four have been Powell, Burnett, Jensen, Powell it must be Oct 26.
― koogs, Thursday, 3 October 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
is it still 1978? these years must have been interminable to actually live through.
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 October 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
yeah, they are trying, i thought, to stay exactly 35 years ahead. which is my i'm surprised that we are 3 weeks ahead.
― koogs, Thursday, 3 October 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
actually i'm being a bit harsh this week's has almost all of Public Image, after the Number 1 over the end credits!
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 October 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
(that was last week's. this week they were on (video) as part of the main show)
― koogs, Thursday, 3 October 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
was that a different vocal on Germfree Adolescent? could swear her voice cracks more on the version i know.
otherwise, that was dire. Dandy, Patrick Juvet, ONJ, Rats, Darts, Cars, Xray Spex, JT&ONJ, Jacksons over end credits
― koogs, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, they would sometimes have the original backing track and a 'live' vocal.
― Mark G, Friday, 18 October 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
Polystyrene was asked by the TOTP producer to change "Listerine" to "glycerine" and "SR" to "XR" to avoid what-we-now-call product placement.
― harveyw, Friday, 18 October 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
could've sworn it was SR last night. will give it another listen.
and just listening to the John Peel Session version (on Let's Submerge) and that *is* XR and Glycerine. (and breaking voice, although not as much as the lp version)
― koogs, Friday, 18 October 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
no, you're right (1:22 and others)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmlujq7qsW0
― koogs, Friday, 18 October 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
star ship trooper really is a thing.
― koogs, Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
i'm not sure i have the words to describe it.
― koogs, Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
The song itself isn't too bad, but the visual presentation tips it over into Woolworths naff-ness.
― not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Thursday, 31 October 2013 22:12 (ten years ago) link
Back on tonight, 30th Nov 2013.
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, 14 November 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link
^^^ uh, I meant 30th Nov 1978
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
did peter powell turn into tony blackburn?
― koogs, Thursday, 21 November 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
no, was TB all the way through. could've sworn the first link was PP.
meh. it's beginning to sound a lot like christmas.
― koogs, Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
I'd forgotten that Hot Chocolate's song was a Christmas (of sorts) tune - kind of fits now though. Apart from them and the Buzzcocks, really a sort of blah week. IIRC not much happens now until early 1979 and the proper New Wave stuff kicks in. OTOH Boney M in a class of their own, even if the bloke looked like some manic ski instructor. Possibly my first memory of the actual physical production side of music was hearing 'Mary's Boy Child' being played off my father's Akai reel-to-reel tape machine and watching the tape spools rotating in almost a trance state, about five minutes after he'd recorded the track of the radio. I think it was then that a small light bulb went on above four and a half year old me's head that there was a technological element to music and the dim beginnings of the idea that it would be exciting to work in that area.
― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Thursday, 21 November 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link
OK it's not on BBC4, but this TOTP2 Christmas show is the usual grab bag of the usual suspects (Wizzard, etc.), plus Emilie Sande why because she had a bit of tinsel around her neck and The Teardrop Explodes why because there's a Christmas Tree on stage. Also featuring Mark Radcliffe's oh-so-funny-it-hurts pomo hipster snarktastic between song commentary.
― that's you, that is (snoball), Sunday, 22 December 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
Mark Radcliffe's oh-so-funny-it-hurts pomo hipster snarktastic between song commentary
Still better than Steve Wright
― emo cat named (soref), Sunday, 22 December 2013 19:52 (ten years ago) link
oof...
Anyway, Barron Knights - possibly their only decent song is the one about Rubik's Cube, but I haven't heard that one in so long that possibly my memory is playing tricks on me and that one stinks as well.
― that's you, that is (snoball), Sunday, 22 December 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
Robbie Williams, fuck off. I know he's been made-up to look older in this video, but I can't believe that he's only a couple of months older than me.
― that's you, that is (snoball), Sunday, 22 December 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
A fun game for all the family: try and figure out whether it's Bowie or Crosby who wants to be there the least.
― that's you, that is (snoball), Sunday, 22 December 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
Crosby was out of it according to DB
"I was wondering if he was still alive. He was just… not there. He was not there at all. He had the words in front of him. (Deep Bing voice) “Hi, Dave, nice to see you here…” And he looked like a little old orange sitting on a stool. “Cos he’d been made up very heavily and his skin was a bit pitted, and there was just nobody home at all, you know? It was the most bizarre experience. I didn’t know anything about him. I just knew my mother liked him. Maybe I would have known (sings) “When the mooon,,,” No… (hums) “Dadada, dadada, someone waits for me…” That’s about the only song of his I would have actually known."
http://exploringdavidbowie.com/2013/02/05/david-bowie-the-interview-hours/
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 December 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
As a fitting tribute to Mud, that polystyrene 'snow' is still polluting the oceans to this day.
― that's you, that is (snoball), Sunday, 22 December 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
interesting tidbits about the upcoming Top Of The Pops BBC4 repeats from TV Cream:
Friday 3rd January 2014 BBC4:
21.00 Top of the Pops - The Story of 1979Hooray! The repeat run continues into a fourth fantastic year, and we were unconvinced it would even last four months. It's remarkable it still is given how toxic the brand is now, but we're very very pleased, especially because it means we enter a fabulous year for music, with new wave becoming the mainstream and classic Look-In pop from the likes of Buggles, M and Squeeze dominating proceedings. Here's the now traditional curtain raiser of clips and not very interesting comments.
22.00 Top of the Pops - Big Hits 1979And then as usual we've got the compilation of some of the stuff we'll see over the next twelve months, as well as some stuff we'll only get here. For what it's worth, if things stay as they are we lose eight Saviles, ten Travises and a strike, but that still means there's plenty to go at, so well done to BBC4 yet again.
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 December 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
Noel brings the dad joeks.
― that's you, that is (snoball), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
Brotherhood of Man's last TOTP appearance?
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:55 (ten years ago) link
Hopefully...looks like they got a group discount for perms at the hairdressers...
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Thursday, 9 January 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
hint: the later showing of this is 10 minutes longer.
olympic runners. a mixed-race, sports-themed disco band. odd.
car67 (from last week) i remember despite having not heard it in the intervening years. i also remember some pastiche done by DLT in the same vein as his Convoy record. but i guess we will be spared that.
― koogs, Friday, 24 January 2014 07:31 (ten years ago) link
When are they getting to the 80s?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 24 January 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
they are 35 years behind, and staying there. so 2015.
― koogs, Friday, 24 January 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
I was about to say 'well it's not as far as 2015, it's only next year', but then I realised that 2015 is next year ;_;
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Friday, 24 January 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
i think oliver's army is the first thing i've heard on totp that i bought at the time.
― koogs, Thursday, 6 February 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
and lene lovitch is the second
― koogs, Thursday, 20 February 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
sex pistols vs legs and co
― koogs, Thursday, 6 March 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
More like Sex Pistols vs Eddie Cochran (Pistols losing btw)
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Thursday, 6 March 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
The 80s arrive early with M.
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
(slightly) longer version on later...
lot of good things on this. that israeli BoM thing in the middle, not so much.
had forgotten that Members song. cod reggae in places, but prescient. also, i think every band member was dressed like he was in a different kind of band...
― koogs, Thursday, 3 April 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link