January 11, 20196 yr The Genesis song and video is great closing the 08/01/1987 episode! Pity they weren't there to perform it live though. The Swing Out Sister follow up is certainly much cooler sounding than Break Out I think. Very good song. Edited January 11, 20196 yr by The Snake
January 12, 20196 yr The Swing Out Sister follow up is certainly much cooler sounding than Break Out I think. Very good song. I remember buying the Swing Out Sister debut album It's Better To Travel and it was good.
January 12, 20196 yr Wasn't a good one tonight, only real highlight was Is This Love, and its the second time we've seen it as well! Looking at the episode guide, there's another pretty crap edition tomorrow with only two performances, but things will pick up next week with a decent one featuring Dead Or Alive (didn't think we'd be seeing them again!), Curiosity Killed The Cat, and a noteworthy #1, Jack Your Body- the first house record to go to the top, then John Peel's last episode the week after that. Is This Love is a great single. Yep Jack Your Body was a good No.1. Shouldn't have really been a No.1 though as it broke some chart rule I think so some sales were counted that shouldn't have been. Edited January 12, 20196 yr by Crazy Chris
January 12, 20196 yr Is This Love is a great single. Yep Jack Your Body was a good No.1. Shouldn't have really neen a No.1 though as it broke some chart rule I think so some sales were counted that shouldn't have been. Interestingly it wasn't the only house track that was in the top 40 in January 1987, there was another one, Jack the Groove by Raze, which is more minimal sounding than Jack Your Body, more of a deep house song. What was that? According to its wikipedia page, the running time of the 12" single should have, according to the OCC rules, been too long to have counted for the charts apparently. Edited January 12, 20196 yr by The Snake
January 12, 20196 yr According to its wikipedia page, the running time of the 12" single should have, according to the OCC rules, been too long to have counted for the charts apparently. Yes that was it but they mistakenly counted them. He sold a lot on 12" too so if those hadn't been counted he wouldn't have been No.1 at all. Edited January 12, 20196 yr by Crazy Chris
January 12, 20196 yr Interestingly it wasn't the only house track that was in the top 40 in January 1987, there was another one, Jack the Groove by Raze, which is more minimal sounding than Jack Your Body, more of a deep house song. The repeats are going to miss that, it's on a Mike Smith episode. Though hopefully by the time house is in full force, he will be gone!
January 12, 20196 yr Thanks for this :D No problem at all! Some of the sales figures from 81-84 are Jaw-dropping! :o And some exciting chart battles too, and close races. Madonna's "True blue" almost lost out to Five star's "Rain or shine" by 600 copies. Speaking of 1987, Madonna's "La Isla bonita" almost missed the No.1 spot thanks to Judy Boucher's " Can't be with you tonight" by 800 copies :blink: Edited January 12, 20196 yr by Danny89
January 13, 20196 yr I much prefer the album version of True Blue to the single version. It's slower and quite different. I love the Judy Boucher track. Remember my mum buying it. Her follow-up You Cught My Eye was good too. Edited January 13, 20196 yr by Crazy Chris
January 13, 20196 yr The repeats are going to miss that, it's on a Mike Smith episode. Though hopefully by the time house is in full force, he will be gone! It doesn't go into 'full force' until very late on in 1987. Despite the success of Jack Your Body, most of 1987's charts seem to be dominated by pop, cheesy ballads, cheesy dance-pop, early R&B, the odd alternative or rock hit, and not house or any form of credible dance music. Radio 1 didn't tend to playlist many of the early house hits apparently (I was reading that even S'Express' first hit wasn't (until it reached #1). Jack Your Body just relied on play in clubs to become popular, which makes it even more incredible that it was so popular and got to #1 (even Paul Hardcastle's 19 was playlisted I believe). The first half of 1988 sees house really become a big force in the charts. It's laughable how dated many of the other hits sound in the chart from 1988 compared to the house hits! Edited January 13, 20196 yr by The Snake
January 16, 20196 yr Just watching the 1/1/87 - funny how in the 80s they regularly played Xmas songs in January such as Spitting Image in this episode, Paul MCCartney in 1983, David Essex in 1983 and various songs in 1984/85!
January 20, 20196 yr Watching lastnyts totp - why were Freez IOU and Hot Chocolate You Sexy Thing in the top 40 then??
January 20, 20196 yr They were both remixes. We'll get quite a lot of remixes of earlier songs in the chart from 1987 to 1989.
January 20, 20196 yr They were both remixes. We'll get quite a lot of remixes of earlier songs in the chart from 1987 to 1989. Just listened to both 1987 remixes on YouTube. The Hot Chocolate song doesn't sound that different apart from having a slightly more prominent drum, but 'IOU' is definitely different. I still prefer the original 'IOU' I think, great dance track from 1983 which sounds proto-housey in parts, the remix is a bit of a mess tbh. The highlight of the last episode was Dead Or Alive kicking off the show with 'Something In My House'. One of the last 'proper' Hi NRG hits before the genre turned mostly into cheesy dance-pop. Rat in Mi iamspamspamamiis great fun, and that Randy Crawford ballad was nice enough, she has a good voice. That 'Curiosity Killed The Cat' band I haven't heard much before but they sound much like Hue and Cry or early Wet Wet Wet in style (both of which we will be seeing later in 1987). The song was quite good. 'Wheel's On Fire' was quite good too, guitar based alternative music was clearly really starting to become popular ahead of the 90s boom in the genre. And a number one that really paves the way to the future, 'Jack Your Body' which sounds absolutely nothing like anything else in the chart at the time. Edited January 20, 20196 yr by The Snake
February 1, 20196 yr How many times did Curiosity play that hit single on totp?? And how did it not reach no1? Some amount of NEs and chart entries on the Thursday episode this week!!
February 1, 20196 yr That's three times for Curiosity Killed The Cat. I wasn't expecting Eric Clapton to turn up in the studio. Behind The Mask is a good song and I also like that Carly Simon one.
February 2, 20196 yr Yeh two legendary artists for totp in 1987, the Bee Gees were to come as well; late 87 had some fantastic songs to look forward to as I feel the year started slow then from now got better with so many huge new releases a lot of which flopped such as Duran Duran/Frankie/Bananarama etc!
February 2, 20196 yr In 1987, Curiosity's album outsold George Michaels Faith album. Who'd of guessed!
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