September 3, 20186 yr Author The charts for 3/4/1986 & 1/8/1959 both have cliff livin doll & duane eddys peter gunn at numbers 1 & 9 respectively! Chart stat of the year :o
September 6, 20186 yr Author Yes, I don't know why they've done this. It's in line with the BBC website and my EPG, so it seems to have been a deliberate decision rather than a cock-up.
September 6, 20186 yr Presumably as this was the first show of The Wizard era, they wanted to repeat it at a decent time.
September 28, 20186 yr How fitting that we get a double showing this week of the Match Room Mob with Chas And Dave's Snooker Loopy, after the recent sad passing of Chas. Love Chas and Dave and love the snooker players from the 80s - They were real personalities.
September 30, 20186 yr Author How fitting that we get a double showing this week of the Match Room Mob with Chas And Dave's Snooker Loopy, after the recent sad passing of Chas. Love Chas and Dave and love the snooker players from the 80s - They were real personalities. It didn't make the song any better. Sadly, there was rather a lot of dross in this week's double bill.
October 2, 20186 yr Welcome to 1986! Unfortunately possibly the worst number one ever is probably coming soon on the re-runs :( At least it does get better musically from about September to the end of the year, quite a few classic songs in this period. As for 1987 it seems to be like 1985 really, loads of well known 80s pop songs, some on the cheesy side will appear.
October 5, 20186 yr Did the Doctor from Doctor and the Medics inspire a certain famous scene in 'There's Something About Mary'?
October 6, 20186 yr I'm interested in the new house sound appearing soon tho! The first big house hit 'Love Can't Turn Around' will appear in August 1986, and doesn't sound much like the 1987/1988 style of house, it sounds more fun and disco influenced which is probably why it did so well at the same time that 'Don't Leave Me This Way' was #1!
October 12, 20186 yr I take it back the current top 10 on totp tonight had a lot of classic tracks in there - the last of Bucks Fizz, Venus by Bananarama, The Edge of Heaven by Wham, Madge Papa Don't Preach!
October 17, 20186 yr OK watched the latest episode. The Housemartins track 'Happy Hour' is good too, I didn't know who that song was by, sounds a bit Fine Young Cannibals actually! Anyway it sounds like a precursor to the sort of upbeat alternative songs like 'Sit Down' and 'Two Princes' that would be popular in the early 90s. The Gary Numan song 'I Can't Stop is good too ', a rare New Wave/new romantic-y song at this stage of the 80s. The Samantha Fox song was rather good too, better than 'Touch Me' imo. The Bucks Fizz song was good. Sly Fox's 'Let's Go All The Way' is a bit of an anthem! The Art of Noise song was good but bizarre, the video for it is a bit creepy though. Wham's 'Where Did Your Heart Go' sounds nice enough, I didn't really know it before I saw it on this TOTP re-run.
October 17, 20186 yr I think the Wham song was new to most of us as the other A Side 'The Edge Of Heaven' got most of the airplay. The Art Of Noise song was an instrumental on their album. They added Max Headroom for the single version. He had his own show on Channel 4 at the time. 'Happy Hour' is a great song. You may have spotted Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) as one of the Housemartins. Two of the others formed Beautiful South.
October 17, 20186 yr You may have spotted Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) as one of the Housemartins. Two of the others formed Beautiful South. Yes Norman Cook didn't move to dance music until 1988. 'Blame It On The Bassline', his first hit away from the Housemartins is good fun. The Beautiful South's songs I remember hearing a lot on the radio when I was younger in the late 90s. I was discussing on the shoutbox a while back about how I only realized recently that 'Perfect 10', a song I remember innocently hearing a lot on the radio when I was younger has some rather rude references in the lyrics!
October 26, 20186 yr Author Good to see plenty of love for Camouflage on Twitter this evening, although there were also a fair few who hated it. I always rather liked its utter weirdness. Opinion on Lady In Red was pretty much unanimous.
October 26, 20186 yr At least Lady in Reds success led to A Spaceman Came Travelling being a top 40 hit in December 1986 after it was released in 1973 firstly!
October 27, 20186 yr Author Yes, I've always been rather fond of A Spaceman Came Travelling. The same cannot be said of Lady In Red.
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