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 Top of the Pops on BBC4, Part Three - Now into 1990 |
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 22nd February 2018, 07:07 PM
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ Feb 22 2018, 03:45 PM)  More of a power ballad than the Sheeran acoustic effforts. Jennifer is no1 in Nov 1985 I think! 1985 as I've said before started the power ballad success with Foreigner, Jennifer Rush and others. But there were some signs of it before - Hello/Against All Odds(this seems bigger now than back then, even tho it charted well)/What's Love Got to Do With It/Drive/ 'If I Was' (number 1 in October 1985) (if it counts as a power ballad) is definitely my favourite power ballad of 1985, and one of my favourite songs of that year. 1987 seems to have been the peak in power ballad popularity! Just looking at the list of UK top 10 singles that year there are quite a few! This post has been edited by The Snake : 22nd February 2018, 07:09 PM |
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22nd February 2018, 09:52 PM
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Who is If I Was by?
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22nd February 2018, 10:17 PM
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If I Was was by Midge Ure.
They got the highlight of tonight's show over at the beginning with Marc Almond and Jimmy Somerville. Don't suppose Marc will be performing that at the one-off Soft Cell reunion later this year. |
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23rd February 2018, 09:51 AM
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QUOTE(Suedehead2 @ Feb 21 2018, 04:11 PM) Perfect is inoffensive; Power Of Love is dreadful in every way. I think predictive text must have changed "insipid" for "inoffensive" accidentally. So annoying when that happens  JRush had some nice synths and a hook to help alleviate the ploddingness. Quite popular with older women at the time I seem to recall....whereas Ed OTOH errr... 
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23rd February 2018, 12:10 PM
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QUOTE(Suedehead2 @ Feb 22 2018, 10:17 PM) If I Was was by Midge Ure. They got the highlight of tonight's show over at the beginning with Marc Almond and Jimmy Somerville. Don't suppose Marc will be performing that at the one-off Soft Cell reunion later this year. If I Was has one of the best choruses ever I think. Oh the I Feel Love medley!  It is good enough, I like the fact it suddenly speeds up from a slow start! I do prefer Bronski Beat's next song 'Hit That Perfect Beat' though with its crazy sounding production though at the end of the year.Another dancey electronic song with excellent production I hope won't be on the cut episodes is 'It's Called A Heart' by Depeche Mode in August 1985. This post has been edited by The Snake : 23rd February 2018, 12:15 PM |
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23rd February 2018, 07:01 PM
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Ah thanks, looking forward to hearing this next year on totps!
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24th February 2018, 03:20 PM
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I saw the excellent 19 by Paul Hardcastle at #1 on the latest edition (when pop songs used to be educational and you learnt that the average age of a solider during WWII was 26 and in Vietnam was 19).
Of course he went on to produce the theme tune to TOTP later in the decade - which also charted and climbed to #15. |
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24th February 2018, 04:55 PM
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19 is brilliant, and really opened up the way for more underground dance music to start making the charts eventually from 1987 onwards.
His follow up to 19, 'Just for Money' really doesn't sound that far in style from the sample-using house tracks of early 1988. The Wizard is good too, and charted at a time in August 1986 when quite a bit of electronic dance music in various forms was making the chart, Don't Leave Me This Way, Love Can't Turn Around and A Question Of Time also making the charts at this time. This post has been edited by The Snake : 24th February 2018, 05:06 PM |
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24th February 2018, 11:33 PM
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Didn't know it was Paul Hardcastle who made that totp theme!! When does it become the theme?
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25th February 2018, 12:44 PM
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ Feb 24 2018, 11:33 PM) Didn't know it was Paul Hardcastle who made that totp theme!! When does it become the theme? 3 April 1986, an appropriate theme considering it sounded much more modern, less poppy and dancey, showing the direction a lot of electronic music would go towards in the late 80s. This post has been edited by The Snake : 26th February 2018, 12:41 PM |
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25th February 2018, 08:27 PM
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Yeh it does - I love Yellow Pearl too tho and will be sad to see it change!
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4th March 2018, 09:04 PM
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Depeche Mode were the highlights of this weeks episode presented by Steve Wright - the band have changed ALOT since their first performance in early 81 - and so has the show itself!!
Thought they would have avoided totp by this stage - anyone know when their last appearance is? |
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4th March 2018, 09:12 PM
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ Mar 4 2018, 09:04 PM) Depeche Mode were the highlights of this weeks episode presented by Steve Wright - the band have changed ALOT since their first performance in early 81 - and so has the show itself!! Thought they would have avoided totp by this stage - anyone know when their last appearance is? I prefer their following single 'It's Called A Heart' and its weird techno production to 'Shake The Disease', although it is still a very nice song imo. Maybe they will still have TOTP appearances in the early 90s when they had a bit of a singles chart position revival? This post has been edited by The Snow ❄️: 4th March 2018, 09:19 PM |
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4th March 2018, 09:22 PM
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From what I can see of the chart history they consistently returned to the chart each album even with lower peaks and shorter chart runs - so I imagine they didn't have totp performances for these.
No more 40 min shows for 11 years now as I seen Zenom confirm on twitter this weekend! |
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4th March 2018, 09:27 PM
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ Mar 4 2018, 09:22 PM) From what I can see of the chart history they consistently returned to the chart each album even with lower peaks and shorter chart runs - so I imagine they didn't have totp performances for these. No more 40 min shows for 11 years now as I seen Zenom confirm on twitter this weekend! No they did better in the 90s in the singles charts again, went top 10 in the UK singles chart with 5 singles and an EP in the 90s. |
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6th March 2018, 11:22 PM
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Cementing their legendary status in the annals of British music!
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10th March 2018, 05:57 PM
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Just watching that latest episode now on the iplayer
'In The Fields' by Gary Moore and Phil Lynott which kicked off that latest show I haven't heard before but is a good bit of 80s stadium rock! That Propaganda song 'Duel' is nice but not a patch on Dr Mabuse. As for the snippets of new entries they played, that Sister Sledge song Frankie is so cheesy but nice enough Madonna's 'Crazy for You' is a lovely song.Its a pity that Marillion weren't able to perform Kayleigh live, and the video had to be played. The version of 19 at the end sounds slightly different in parts to the one I know, maybe its just me thinking that though! Excellent though! This post has been edited by The Hissmobile: 10th March 2018, 05:58 PM |
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10th March 2018, 06:39 PM
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There were several remixes of 19 released. That's what helped keep it at number one for five weeks.
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10th March 2018, 07:04 PM
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Marillion performed Kayleigh in the studio last week which is probably why the video was shown this week. I agree that Duel by Propaganda isn't as good as Dr Mabuse. It's still a great song though with several different remixes.
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15th March 2018, 10:35 PM
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TOnight's episode featured UKIP's Mike Read failing to understand how radio works by telling us that we had seen his co-presenter on Radio 1. It also saw a shortened version of the number one - The Crowd's You'll Never Walk Alone - because it featured contributions from Rolf Harris and Dave Lee Travis.
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