It was on for 1 hour and 30mins! Oh the memories of TOTP and the TOTP messageboard :cry:

 

ARGH it's not even available on iPlayer!

I was watching listening to it, whilst posting online.

 

Again it confirmed the 80s were great until circa 1986 when things went downhill fast.

I was watching listening to it, whilst posting online.

 

Again it confirmed the 80s were great until circa 1986 when things went downhill fast.

 

 

PSB, The Cure, The Stone Roses, The Pixies all released great music after 1986

PSB, The Cure, The Stone Roses, The Pixies all released great music after 1986

 

Yes. But with the exception of the PSB, they were not Top 10 acts.

 

I mean can you seriously say the likes of Bros; Jason Donovan; Rick Astley; (1980s) Kylie; Wet Wet Wet; Tiffany; Milli Vanilli; etc ...... were as good as Duran Duran; Adam & The Ants; Culture Club; Wham!; Spandau Ballet; Madness; Human League; etc.

Yes. But with the exception of the PSB, they were not Top 10 acts.

 

I mean can you seriously say the likes of Bros; Jason Donovan; Rick Astley; (1980s) Kylie; Wet Wet Wet; Tiffany; Milli Vanilli; etc ...... were as good as Duran Duran; Adam & The Ants; Culture Club; Wham!; Spandau Ballet; Madness; Human League; etc.

 

In a word, NO.

 

The early 80's are still my favourite era of music.

I love ALL of the 80s. From classic acts like Human League to the utter toilet of SAW... I cannot abide Spandau Ballet however.

Yes. But with the exception of the PSB, they were not Top 10 acts.

 

I mean can you seriously say the likes of Bros; Jason Donovan; Rick Astley; (1980s) Kylie; Wet Wet Wet; Tiffany; Milli Vanilli; etc ...... were as good as Duran Duran; Adam & The Ants; Culture Club; Wham!; Spandau Ballet; Madness; Human League; etc.

 

 

Fair point

couldnt be arsed with it tbh.... i bet they only played the cheese and not the 'better' material from the artists i saw listed. ill view my favs on youtube when i want to see/hear them.

There wasn't anything special and we'd seen them all before, but it was a very enjoyable hour and a half of pop music. There was nothing too cheesy (no, not even Europe) and it all reflected the music of the time. No point in badmouthing 90 minutes of prime time TV being given over to music and not another series of ghastly 'celebrity' cookery / singing / whinging.

. No point in badmouthing 90 minutes of prime time TV being given over to music and not another series of ghastly 'celebrity' cookery / singing / whinging.

 

fair point richie :)

There wasn't anything special and we'd seen them all before, but it was a very enjoyable hour and a half of pop music. There was nothing too cheesy (no, not even Europe) and it all reflected the music of the time. No point in badmouthing 90 minutes of prime time TV being given over to music and not another series of ghastly 'celebrity' cookery / singing / whinging.

 

It's nice to have some music on TV. I miss those days of watching TOTP and TOTP2.

It's nice to have some music on TV. I miss those days of watching TOTP and TOTP2.

 

In the days of digital downloads, I'm very disappointed that the BBC have not revived the show, and done a deal with the likes of iTunes, etc to sell the videos of those performances in the same manner that Radio 1 sessions were sold as EPs/mini albums back in the 1970s & 1980s.

I love ALL of the 80s. From classic acts like Human League to the utter toilet of SAW... I cannot abide Spandau Ballet however.

 

I like Spandau Ballet. It's Duran Duran I can't get my head around.

I like Spandau Ballet. It's Duran Duran I can't get my head around.

 

 

Apart from Save a Prayer and their 93 work I dont get Duran Duran either.

Apart from Save a Prayer and their 93 work I dont get Duran Duran either.

 

'planet earth' is a classic!

It was okay but I prefer the 70's so hope a 70's one is on the way.

It was okay but I prefer the 70's so hope a 70's one is on the way.

Won't be happening unless the BBC have a 70s week.

Hello,

 

I have just come online to see what might be in the charts on Sunday and do not have the time to stay on for long, as I need to go home. As I was listening to Mark Radcliffe and Robin Hitchcock on Radio 2 around 8pm on Monday night, I only saw a few performances that were broadcast on TOTP2, towards the end of the show. I would not want to give a full review of the show until I have watched it all in full [i have it recorded onto disc], though I guess it would be very similar to any other TOTP2 show that has gone before.

 

Now as you may have seen in the Kenny Everett thread, I used to listen to Steve Wright when I was younger [in the days of the Daleks, “Car Boot Sale” and those Pet Shop Boys parodies]. I have not listened to his show in years as that kind of ‘ker-ray-zee’ zoo format radio show annoys me now and, if I was at home around that time, would usually tune into Steve Lamacq’s show instead.

 

I usually make a point of listening to Mark Radcliffe, as he is a broadcaster that I have enjoyed listening to ever since the days of “Out On Blue Six” and the old BBC Radio 5 station [which was more like 6 Music at night], when he used to he hide himself under his hood and glasses in promotional photos. Even though I enjoy his shows on the radio, I found myself wishing that Steve Wright had been rehired to voice TOTP2 once more. I thought that TOTP2 did not suit Radcliffe’s voiceover and on the few performances that I saw, I thought that it was annoying that his over-long scripted witticisms endlessly ‘crashed the vocals’.

 

I do not bother watching Glastonbury on TV and I cannot remember a lot of The White Room, apart from the fact that it was on Channel 4 and was very much a rival version of ‘Later… with Jools Holland’, so I do not have much of his TV career to compare with his radio broadcasts.

 

Radcliffe was also featured on the “Grumpy Guide To The 1980s”, but this was a show that I turned off within 15 minutes, as the format started to annoy me. I think those ‘Clips & Quips’ shows [also known in some broadcasting circles as ‘C & C’ shows] are very dated now and should be confined to a previous decade, especially after Charlie Brooker attacked the format in one of his Screenwipe shows [using his ‘Barry’ character].

 

I suppose it is laughable that “The Grumpy Guide” featured Huey Morgan criticising Adam & The Ants, when the last time the Fun Lovin’ Criminals had any credibility seemed to be in 1998. I do not know if you saw the papers today with a recent image of Adam Ant, but even with his continuing troubles, I suppose someone could say that Ant has never got to such a low point in his life where he has ended up presenting a dog show with Lisa Tarbuck on Sky 1 [a witticism that I would expect to turn up in the “The Grumpy Guide To The 1990s” sometime in the future.]

 

As well as TOTP2, I have a couple of the Radio 1 shows still to watch. On Sunday night I watched the “Blood On The Carpet” episode about Trevor Dan and Mathew Bannister again and saw Johnny Hates Jazz on Wogan. I do not know if anybody else saw it, but I am sure that the guy on the bass playing with Johnny Hates Jazz, was the same guy who used to play with George Michael and Wham. I think his name is Don Etus and released a few solo singles in the 80s as well.

 

I was surprised how dated the Wogan show looked now. It seemed to be even more dated than that Shirley Bassey light entertainment show, which was re-broadcast on BBC Four on Friday. I guess this is because Bassey’s show has at least some kind of kitsch appeal, whilst Wogan’s show did not have much visual appeal in the first place for me, back in the 1980s.

 

Loz