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 Top of the Pops on BBC4, Part Three - Now into 1990 |
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 Jul 6 2019, 01:21 PM
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ Jul 6 2019, 08:51 AM)  Didn't realise Dollar made a comeback lol, ultimate cheesy early 80s band! But not as cheesy as most of the pop in 1988, we have not only the Glenn Medieros, Boy Meets Girl and Robin Beck's cheesy love ballads but also the Stock Aitken Waterman songs. I don't know why such cheesy music with trite lyrics was so popular in the late 80s  . I guess its a bit like the early 2010s with the EDM-pop songs in the chart which sound cheesy and naff now.QUOTE Tiffany's first two weeks at No.1. Not a big fan of 'I Think We're alone Now', its a bit too cheesy for me but some parts of the production in it I like (the synth horn bit before the last chorus). Just watching the most recent episode shown, you can really hear how appropriate the theme tune is now, 'The Wizard' really is quite similar in style (although not quite as interesting imo) to the brilliant 'Beat Dis' by Bomb The Bass which kicked off the show. The fab Doctorin' the House also in the episode. Must have been a big shock to many at the time to see all these dance songs taking off in the chart after years of very little dance music in the charts. This post has been edited by TheSnake: Jul 6 2019, 01:48 PM |
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Jul 6 2019, 02:55 PM
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I loved the Tiffany song. Glad we got to see her last week at No.1. Should get 4 of Kylie's 5 weeks on top. Mike Smith only hosts two more shows in '88, the 10th and 31st March. There'll be the Proms coming up soon though.
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Jul 6 2019, 04:10 PM
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That must be his last episodes?
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Jul 6 2019, 09:49 PM
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Top of the Pops 21/1/1988 Presented by Gary Davies & Steve Wright
Bros When Will I be Famous AC/DC Heatseeker (Video) Joyce Sims Come into my Life The Christians An Ideal World Motley Crew You Are All I Need/Wild Side (Video) The Beat Masters Rock The House (Ft The Cookie Crew) (Video) Banarama I Can't Help It (Video) Dollar o l'amour ***No1 Belinda Carlisle Heaven Is A Place On Earth (TOTP USA) ***No1 The Stranglers All Day & All of the Night This post has been edited by Steve201: Jul 6 2019, 09:54 PM |
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Jul 7 2019, 12:11 AM
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Top of the Pops 11/2/1988 Presented by Gary Davies & Bruno Brooke's
Eddy Grant Give me Hope Joanna Debbie Gibson Shake Your Love The Mission Tower of Strength Taylor Dayne Tell It To My Heart Sinead O'Connor Mandinka ***No1 Tiffany I Think Were Alone Now ***No1 Jermaine Stewart Say It Again This post has been edited by Steve201: Jul 7 2019, 12:14 AM |
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Jul 7 2019, 09:22 AM
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ Jul 6 2019, 05:10 PM) That must be his last episodes? Yes there are two more to come, his last ones. |
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Jul 7 2019, 01:51 PM
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Thanks, Bruno Brooke's really becomes second to Gary Davies now as the main presenter into the 90s!
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Jul 13 2019, 11:10 PM
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Top of the Pops 18/2/1988 Presented by Gary Davies & Nicky Campbell
*First episode Presented by Nicky Campbell Beat The Bass Beat Dis No5 Billy Ocean Get Outta My Dreams No8 T'Pau Valentine No9 Was (Not Was) Spy in the House of Love No21 Vanessa Paradis Joe Le Taxi (Video) No29 Michael Jackson Man in the Mirror (Video) No27 The Bangles Hazy Shade of Winter (Video) No30 Coldcut (feat Yazz & The Plastic Population) Doctorin the House No25 ***No1*** Kylie Minogue I Should Be So Lucky (Video) ***No1*** Alexander O'Neal & Cherrelle Never Knew Love Like This (Video) No26 Lots of changes with Nicky Campbell's first appearance and quite funny too, no signs of nerves. Then next week we get Mark Goodiers first outing. I assume they are replacing Simon Bates & Janice Long? Loved Gary Davies wee dig at SAW after Kylies no1 video saying "You know if you slow that Kylie record down it sounds just like Rick Astley 😂 This post has been edited by Steve201: Jul 13 2019, 11:12 PM |
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Jul 14 2019, 09:36 AM
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Two chart-toppers for me in that bunch. I'll keep you in suspense a few months though
2 number 2's, or maybe 3, I forget, as well. That's pretty good going....
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Jul 15 2019, 10:34 AM
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Top of the Pops 25/02/1988 Presented by Peter Powell & Mark Goodier
**First episode Presented by Mark Goodier The Primitives Crash No29 Morrissey Suedehead (Video) No6 Vanessa Paradis Joe Le Taxi No14 Rick Astley Together Forever (Video) No9 The Sisters of Mercy Dominion (Video) No17 Eddie Cochrane C'mon Everybody (Video) No19 George Harrison When We Was Fab (Video) No25 The Mission Tower of Strength No12 Eddy Grant Give Me Hope Joanna No8 ***No1*** Kylie Minogue I Should Be So Lucky (Video) ***No1*** The Bangles Hazy Shade of Winter (Video) No20 This post has been edited by Steve201: Jul 15 2019, 10:35 AM |
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Jul 26 2019, 10:51 PM
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Top of the Pops 3/3/1988 Presented by Gary Davies & Simon Mayo
Coldcut & Yazz & the Plastic Population Doctorin The House No9 Rick Astley Together Forever (Video) No4 Sister of Mercy Dominion No13 Belinda Carlisle I Get Weak (Video) No Johnny Hates Jazz Heart of Gold (Video) No32 Taja Sevelle Love is Contagious (Video) No28 Aztec Camera How Men Are (Video) No33 Erasure Ship of Fools No20 Derek B goodgroove No19 ***No1 Kylie Minogue I Should Be So Lucky ***No1 (Video) Mel & Kim That's The Way It Is (Video) No16 This post has been edited by Steve201: Jul 26 2019, 10:53 PM |
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Jul 27 2019, 01:01 PM
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We miss out the 10/3/1988 as Mike Smith presented it his penultimate episode I think.
Top of the Pops 17/3/1988 Presented by Mike Read & Gary Davies Bros Drop The Boy NE No17 Heart These Dreams (Video) No12 Erasure Ship of Fools No6 Sinitta Cross My Broken Heart (Video) NE No30 Simon Harris Bass (How Low Can You Go) (Video) NE No29 Keith Sweat I Want Her (Video) No33 David Lee Roth Just Like Paradise (Video) No27 Eight Wonder I'm Not Scared No20 Aswad Don't Turn Around No4 ***No1 Kylie Minogue I Should Be So Lucky (Video) ***No1 *5th week Erik B & Rakim I Know You Got Soul (Video) No13 Interesting to see Patsy Kensitt on lead vocals for Eighth Wonder! Aswad definately my favourite from that show! Kylie simultaneously no1 in the UK & Australia. First time that had happened!! This post has been edited by Steve201: Jul 27 2019, 01:04 PM |
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Jul 27 2019, 02:25 PM
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I'm Not Scared is a great song. The Pet Shop Boys recorded their own version for their Introspective album later in the year. The Aswad song was a surprise no.1. They'd gone 13 years without a top 40 hit and then suddenly have a no.1 single. Ace Of Base's cover version is well known,but I'm just looking at the wiki page for the song and I see Aswad's version is not the original. I didn't know that it was written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren and first recorded by Tina Turner in 1986.
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Jul 27 2019, 02:54 PM
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Yeh the Eighth Wonder track was produced by the Pet Shop Boys according to wiki. Aswad were brillant, great to see them get a huge hit eventually. You can just see them now in a more minimalist totp studio in 1975 performing much younger then.
Didn't realise how Patsy Kensit became famous either, she was stunning back then! Just one more Smithy shows then and not a huge amount of Simon Bates/Peter Powell/Janice Long/Mike Read shows left to go. The new producer Paul Ciani was bringing in the changes. Just noticed him in the closing credit to that episode. |
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Jul 28 2019, 03:12 PM
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Albert Hammond and Diane Warren have written huge lists of hit songs (but not together for the most part). Diane also wrote the brilliant song Numb for the Pet Shop Boys, one of the very very few songs that weren't covers that they accepted. Aswad were around for ages, Brinsley Forde being a child actor in the great-for-it's-time multi-racial kids TV show Here Comes The Double Deckers in 1970/71. Albert Hammond was busy writing hit songs all over the place at that time and was just kicking off his own pop career with It Never Rains In Southern California. Diane Warren comes from Southern California, where it might seem it never rains, but it actually does.
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Jul 28 2019, 03:40 PM
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Well,here's another link then: Patsy Kensit was also a child actor,starting in that Birds Eye frozen pea ad as a four year old and appearing in several films and TV dramas before she was 16.
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Jul 28 2019, 08:26 PM
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I'm Not scared is indeed great, a classily produced (PSB to thank for that) pop song at a time when most pop was over cheesy.
And it also has the instrumental 'drop' and 'chopped' vocals in place of the chorus like many of today's pop songs, making it sound not too dated. Yes I like Aswad's version of Don't Turn Around, a real forerunner of the early 90s reggae revival in the charts. This post has been edited by TheSnake: Jul 28 2019, 08:31 PM |
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Jul 29 2019, 09:03 AM
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QUOTE(King Rollo @ Jul 28 2019, 04:40 PM) Well,here's another link then: Patsy Kensit was also a child actor,starting in that Birds Eye frozen pea ad as a four year old and appearing in several films and TV dramas before she was 16. Ooh if only she had appeared with Brinsley as a toddler in Double Deckers that would have been delicious  frozen peas? There must be a link there somewhere....
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Aug 2 2019, 11:17 PM
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Top of the Pops 24/3/1988 Presented by Peter Powell & Simon Bates
Sinitta Cross My Broken Heart No12 A-Ha Stay On These Roads NE No18 Simon Harris Bass (How Low Can You Go) No16 Wet Wet Wet Temptation (Video) No25 Debbie Gibson Only In My Dreams (Video) No23 Climie Fisher Love Changes (Everything) (Video) No26 Iron Maiden Can I Play With Madness (Video) NE No4 Tiffany Could Have Been (Video) No4 ***No1 Aswad Don't Turn Around***No1 Whitney Houston Where Do Broken Hearts Go (Video) No15 This post has been edited by Steve201: Aug 2 2019, 11:19 PM |
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Aug 3 2019, 11:33 AM
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QUOTE Top of the Pops 24/3/1988 Presented by Peter Powell & Simon Bates Bass (How Low Can You Go) is very good. They mentioned on the rundown there were two Taylor Dayne songs in the lower end of the chart at the same time. I much prefer Prove Your Love to Tell it To My Heart. Wet Wet Wet's Temptation is actually quite good. That Climie Fisher track is cheesy but very good, it has become a frequently played 80s classic along with fellow mid tempo pop song Aztec Camera's Somewhere In My Heart later on the year. Simon Bates was surprised to see that Iron Maiden track top 5 and so I am I, it is good though. --------------------------------------------- Watching the 14/04/1988 episode: We got our first glimpse of the fab future #1 Theme from S'express in a short video clip. Jellybean and Adele Bertei - Just A Mirage sounds more 1984 than 1988 with its Hi-NRG sound - very good anyway. Some new jack swing with the very good Pebbles - Girlfriend - the 90s R&B sound was really starting to develop now. The brilliant Heart from Pet Shop Boys is at #1 (although they don't like it that much apparently now). This post has been edited by TheSnake: Aug 3 2019, 11:48 AM |
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