October 20, 20177 yr Author It’s another episode from October 1984, hosted this time by Mike Read and Tommy Vance. As puerile introductions go, that was down with the worst of them. Kim Wilde is up first with The Second Time, one of her forgotten minor hits. Sade is next with her other famous hit. Wham and Stephanie Mills (who?) have been cut. Rumour has it that Wham might be releasing a Christmas single. I wonder if people will buy it. On to Paul Young with one of his lesser known hits. Chart - fit the first. And we still get Depeshay Mode, Time for some real quality from Alison Moyet. The Style Council with one of their livelier songs. A lame “joke” leads us into the top ten and that yawn-fest is still number one. Will nobody spare us from this dreck? Still, we end on a high note with Bruce Springsteen. Yes, Springsteen on TOTP.
November 2, 20177 yr Author We’re still roughly in synch at the moment with this episode from almost exactly 33 years ago. Simon Bates and Richard Skinner are on hosting duties. Three days from Remembrance Day neither of them are wearing poppies. No doubt tomorrow’s Daily Mail will demand to know why they were not added digitally. Limahl opens the show with - in my opinion at least - his best song. True to form, Bates gets the title wrong. Status Quo are next with a cover of a rock ‘n’ roll classic. The quality section - Depeche Mode and Alison Moyet - has been cut. If there is any justice, the editor’s P45 will be on his desk by tomorrow morning, We get Billy Ocean instead. Tonight’s Twitter joke - Ocean later teamed up with Billy Colour and Billy Scene to form Ocean Colour Scene. On to Chicago with one of their less well-known songs. Chart time. Why is Agadoo going back up? Talking of not very well-known songs, it’s Gary Numan. More chart. Time for a forgotten song by a forgotten artist, Eugene Wilde. I expect - and hope -to have forgotten it again long before the day is out. Update - I’ve forgotten it already. The last bit of the chart ends with some rubbish from Chaka Khan at number one. ZZ Top get the final slot of the evening. Tomorrow’s show is later to avoid a clash with “Not Top Of The Pops” on BBC1.
November 2, 20177 yr Didn't realise they moved it for that reason!! You should really record/watch the later edition Suedy and you would see Alison and Depeche!! So many classics in the chart at this time! U2 weren't even played on totp? Yet Pride rose to the top 5!!
November 3, 20177 yr Didn't realise they moved it for that reason!! Me neither but it's 40 minutes tonight. I love I Feel For You, a classic, although I'm Every Woman is played more these days.
November 3, 20177 yr Author Didn't realise they moved it for that reason!! You should really record/watch the later edition Suedy and you would see Alison and Depeche!! So many classics in the chart at this time! U2 weren't even played on totp? Yet Pride rose to the top 5!! I used to record them but I'm still waiting for EE to restore my broadband and television service after I moved. I think there is a slight chance it might happen some time between the years 2104 and 2236.
November 3, 20177 yr I used to record them but I'm still waiting for EE to restore my broadband and television service after I moved. I think there is a slight chance it might happen some time between the years 2104 and 2236. ooh you're getting optimistic there! :lol: have a word with EE's Kevin Bacon he is Footloose and fancy free these days and he knows the best Loggins for IT issues.... Ouch!
November 3, 20177 yr I've just watched the full version with Martin Gore from Depeche Mode using a bicycle wheel as a musical instrument during Blasphemous Rumours. Great song,as was Somebody,the other A side. Pride by U2 was on one of the missed out episodes.
November 3, 20177 yr It was just the video. I think it will be a while before we see them in the studio again.
November 4, 20177 yr So they only really made a studio performance for New Years Day in Jan 1983 and we haven't seen them since!
November 5, 20177 yr The Chaka Khan no1 is a shock because I've never heard it in my life before which is a shock for 1984 as there's so many tracks released which are absolute classics now. It's not a bad track, sounds before it's time with a bit of rap and scratching and sounds like a lot of songs released from 1989-94!
November 9, 20177 yr Author John Peel and Tommy Vance are the hosts for this episode from November 1984.This was to be Vance’s last show, In other words, it’s rock off Tommy. Nick Heyward gets the opening spot. He’s looking a littler older. About 14. Oh, and an early appearance of a pointless rap. The Chicago song we’ve all forgotten has been dropped along with the Kane Gang. That’s a shame as it means I can’t say ”Ah, they’re back on, The Kane Gang”. The Human League are up next. As with the Nick Heyward song, this is not one of their best. It seems that Peelie disagrees with me. Anyway, it’s on to some rubbish with Billy Ocean. Chart bit. Some class from Murray Head. He’s even live in the studio. Not sure that was a good idea in truth. Another chart bit. Peel’s headwear is best ignored. Shakin’ Stevens still hasn’t gone away. The chart rundown ends with Chuck-Up Khan still at number one. We end with a Never Ending Story.
November 9, 20177 yr surely the perfect act before announcing ""Back on - The Kane Gang!" would have been the Pretenders? :lol:
November 9, 20177 yr Author surely the perfect act before announcing ""Back on - The Kane Gang!" would have been the Pretenders? :lol: That was the point :lol: BTW, there is apparently no truth in the rumour that parts of the banned episodes will be re-shot with Christopher Plummer.
November 10, 20177 yr Have we recently skipped an episode or two? Seems like we have reached 22/11/84 all of a sudden!
November 10, 20177 yr Author I didn't comment on the 15 Nov show as I was watching the football on BBC2.
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