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Top of the Pops 2/8/1990 presented by Bruno Brookes

Little Angels - Shes A Little Angel No21 NE
New Kids On The Block - Tonight(Video) No17 NE
LFO - LFO(Video) No14^^



Bel Biv Devoe - One Love No20^^
Madonna - Hanky Panky(Video) No2^(49,000)
Prince - Thieves In The Temple(Video) No11 NE*



Dream Warriors - Wash Your Face In My Sink No16^
Duran Duran - Violence Of Summer(Video) No23 NE
***No1 Partners in Kryme - Turtle Power(Video)***No1 2nd week (59,000)
Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco(Video) No22^



Bruno Brookes is in the studio presenting TOTP tonight and he introduces the party with 'Shes A Little Angel' by of course ‘Little Angels’. They are an English metal or hard rock band formed in Scarborough in 1984 by Zeus and then to Mr Thrud. The founding members were Toby Jepson (vocalist), Mark Plunkett (bassist), Dave Hopper (drummer) and the brothers Bruce John and Jimmy Dickinson (guitarist and keyboardist respectively). Michael Lee joined the band to replace Hopper on 16 August 1988. 'Shes A Little Angel' is the 3rd of 12 top 75 singles between 1989 - 1994.

Next up Bruno introduces new single by boyband of the moment NKOTB. 'Tonight' was their third single from their 1990 album Step by Step. It was a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic. It first reached #7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, giving the band another hit, as, at this point, they were at their commercial peak. The song is "half slow tempo, half ska" and is mostly sung in unison by all five members of the group until the "la la..." section of the chorus. The song "discusses the relationship that binds the members of the group to their fans, since the beginning", with many references to their earlier hits in the first couplet. The "ska part" is the melody of Johann Sebastians Bach's Cantate "Sleepers awake" (BWV 140). At times, the song reminds of the Beatles' compositive style of Penny Lane and Magical Mystery Tour.

Next up Bruno introduces the first part of the chart rundown from 40-31 with new entries by Hothouse Flowers, Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2 and a riser by The Jungle Brothers.

We get another view of the new video by LFO, the Leeds DJs which win the record for the most unique song on the chart with its limited vocals and constant beat it really sounds like you are out clubbing on the dancefloor. This week its up 9 places from number 23 to 14.

After they were shown in last weeks breakers the new single from Bel Biv Devoe is up another 9 places to this weeks 20 and get a studio performance as reward of single 'One Love'. Bell Biv DeVoe, also known as BBD, is an American music group from Boston, Massachusetts, formed from members of New Edition, consisting of Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe. The band is best known for their debut album, the multi-platinum selling Poison, a key work in the new jack swing movement of the 1990s that combined elements of traditional soul and R&B with hip hop. The group only had 3 top 75 hits in the UK, this being their most successful.

Next we continue with the new monthly albums feature with the top 5 albums from the month of July including:

5) Madonna - Im Breathless (Vogue Video)
4) The Beach Boys - Summer Dreams (Wouldnt It Be Nice Video)
3) The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964 - 1971 (Paint It Black promo)
2) Lucianno Pavarotti - The Essentail Parvarotti (Nessun Dorma Promo)
1) Elton John - Sleeping With The Past (Healing Hands Promo)

After this we get another glimpse of the new Madonna video of 'Hanky Panky' as it rises to number 2. This is...not classic Madonna, and its interesting to find not all her releases are classics today. This is definately one I have forgotten and rightly so. But it was for the Dick Tracey film which makes sense with its 1920/30s theme.

Next up we have the countdown from 30-11 with new entries by Phil Collins, Bombalurina, Together, Duran Duran, Little Angles, New Kids On The Block and the highest new entry by Prince and risers by ZZ Top, Bananrama, Tricky Disco, Bel Biv Devoe, Dream Warriors, LFO & River City People.

We get a video clip from the highest new entry by Prince following this and his new single 'Thieves In The Temple'. ‘Thieves in the Temple’ is a song by American musician Prince from the 1990 soundtrack album, Graffiti Bridge. Added at the last minute, it was the final song recorded for the album. The track has a unique sound, starting quietly with echoed keyboards and vocals before the main section of the song booms in with a pulsating synth bass, syncopated drum machines, Middle Eastern melodies and opera-like layered vocals. Prince also samples a harmonica solo from a recording by The Chambers Brothers. The vocals are emotional, and accuse the subject of rejecting Prince and lying to him. The "temple" in the title recalls the ever-present spirituality in many of Prince's songs. The maxi single contains extended lyrics that continue the theme before diverging into more dance-oriented material. The maxi single also contains a Junior Vasquez remix called ‘Thieves in the House’, which is distinctly more dance-oriented. It also contains samples from earlier Prince songs "Eye No" and "Batdance", as well as a dub version of the house track. The music video for the song was pulled from the film, but an extended video exists which mirrors the extended remix.

Another song thats climbing the top 40 this week is 'Wash Your Face In My Sink' and Bruno points over to the performance indicating its a repeat from a show a couple of weeks before. This is the most peculiar track in the top 40 for me, Im just not sure what its meant to be like or where its meant to go. Its something different thats for sure. Theres elements of rap, hip hop, soul and raggae and probably alot I have missed.

We get a video clip of another now legendary band by mid 1990 as Duran Duran get a new entry at 23 with single 'Violence Of Summer'. there are some classic Duran elelments to this track with a hark back to their mid-80s pomp in the chorus. ‘Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over)’ is the 21st single by Duran Duran, and the first single from the 1990 Liberty album. Having finished the 1980s with the Decade singles compilation, Duran Duran found the 1990s a new challenge, in which success would initially elude them. The lukewarm success of ‘Violence of Summer’ would shadow the band for the next few years until 1993's "Ordinary World" returned them to chart success. ‘Violence of Summer’ is a rock song, with ringing piano-like chords over a bass underpinning. Lyrically, the song contains familiar Duran Duran themes: fleeting romance in the face of sexual politics, and mars-meets-venus peculiarities between the genders. Le Bon continues to set these preoccupations into more realist scenarios, challenging himself to leave behind the opaque mysticism of the band's first five studio albums. Its also worth noting lyrically, is this track's return to the U.S.-inspired lyrics of Notorious: "going South where her mother writes", and "breaking heads in the sugar shack" (which references the cover art of Marvin Gaye's I Want You.)

Next up we have the top 10 countdown with risers into the biggest selling 10 singles in the UK by DNA & Suzanna Vega and a second week at the top for Partners In Kryme.

We finish the show with a video play of the single 'Tricky Disco' by the DJ of the same name, another techno style dance track which is quite unique for the top 40 of the time. They also released under the alias 'Greater Than One'. Greater Than One is an English electronic music band, founded by husband and wife Michael Wells and Lee Newman in 1985. They released many albums under this name, and also under the names Tricky Disco, GTO, John + Julie, Church of Extacy, Signs of Chaos, T.D.5, Salami Brothers, Killout Squad, Technohead and L.E.D.. Only a few of their singles were commercially successful. Since Newman's death on 4 August 1995 from cancer, Wells continues to release music under some of these names, and also as The Man and S.O.L.O. Their first hit single was the trance record "Pure" as GTO on Chrysalis Records, a club hit around Europe, closely followed by "Tricky Disco" as Tricky Disco on Warp Records. They used many aliases because, releasing so much material, they feared the press would not write about it all, if they knew it all came from the same band. As Newman said, "if you give them a Tricky Disco one week and then a John and Julie two weeks later and GTO a month later they’ll write about all of it". Their aliases also allowed them to release different types of material on different record labels. The single "Double Happiness" as John and Julie appeared on XL Recordings; the 12 inch single "Listen to the rhythm flow" as GTO was released on Jumping Man Records in 1991; the 1993 Tip of the Iceberg album as GTO was released on REACT, and the 1995 album Headsex as Technohead appeared on Mokum Records.

This post has been edited by steve201: 10th October 2021, 12:38 AM