Posted January 6, 20232 yr Second one of these threads now :magic: as a 1979 TOTP repeat was on tonight. It's a great year for #1s albeit Village People not quite top tier :kink: but fun. 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick' though *.* 'September' turned out to be a lot more enduring than Legs & Co routines :lol:
January 7, 20232 yr There's a good case for 1979 being the greatest pop year of all-time. So many genres all on fire and setting a path for the future, punk, New wave, synth, disco, rap, ska, reggae, europop, indie, folk, Yacht-rock, jazzfunk, lush orchestra movie themes, and much more. early January not so much, maybe, Boney M & YMCA, Ian Dury all million-selling monsters though. :)
January 7, 20232 yr Is ‘Tragedy’ coming for no1 next? Yeh legs and co very of their time mad to think that was allowed back then, different cultures! They would be gone by 1981!
January 7, 20232 yr Author There's a good case for 1979 being the greatest pop year of all-time. So many genres all on fire and setting a path for the future, punk, New wave, synth, disco, rap, ska, reggae, europop, indie, folk, Yacht-rock, jazzfunk, lush orchestra movie themes, and much more. early January not so much, maybe, Boney M & YMCA, Ian Dury all million-selling monsters though. :) It does seem like a really progressive year musically, can't imagine how something like 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' must've sounded pre-80s. Is ‘Tragedy’ coming for no1 next? Yeh legs and co very of their time mad to think that was allowed back then, different cultures! They would be gone by 1981! Ian Dury and Blondie rise to the top first before the Bee Gees! :lol: yeah definitely a product of their time and not the best executed one - I saw a routine to 'How Deep Is Your Love' by the Bee Gees recently which didn't match the mood of the song at all :kink:
January 7, 20232 yr Pans People diverting attention from the lyrics of Gilbert O'Sullivan's Get Down by having some dogs on stage with them is the classic terrible idea. It's on Youtube I think... :lol:
January 7, 20232 yr I’ll post some of my 70s faves later, but I think the best band of the 70s for me is The Carpenters. Always been a huge fan.
January 8, 20232 yr I’ll post some of my 70s faves later, but I think the best band of the 70s for me is The Carpenters. Always been a huge fan. Total class and they had to put up with snide Rock critics slagging them off for not being "cool". Rock critics always think "if I don't like it it must be bad because I'm so cool" rather than the reality "just because the public rate something that doesn't mean they are wrong if it's not my thing". I have a long memory and I enjoy time proving critics wrong and a skinny pop music fan kiddie sometimes right :teresa: :lol:
January 8, 20232 yr It does seem like a really progressive year musically, can't imagine how something like 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' must've sounded pre-80s. Ian Dury and Blondie rise to the top first before the Bee Gees! :lol: yeah definitely a product of their time and not the best executed one - I saw a routine to 'How Deep Is Your Love' by the Bee Gees recently which didn't match the mood of the song at all :kink: All the best songs rose to the top back then no held back no1 for one week nonsense! But yeh max to think woman were allowed to dance to the songs back then half naked, so sexist. Shows how things do change culturally over time for the better. Still plenty of work to do though of course in 2023!
January 10, 20232 yr Author I was watching a 1977 EOY chart video and it reminded me how strong that year was for futuristic electronic instrumentals *.* both of these are brilliant: P_ukfGAd8T4 kSIMVnPA994
January 10, 20232 yr I was watching a 1977 EOY chart video and it reminded me how strong that year was for futuristic electronic instrumentals *.* both of these are brilliant: P_ukfGAd8T4 kSIMVnPA994 wow 2 of my all-time faves there mad on them in my first months at Uni (and Abba) :wub: We had Bowie's Sound & Vision, Donna Summer I Feel Love, then Magic Fly, then Oxygene, then Giorgio's From Here To Eternity and it seemed like synths were the future of pop music, and the future generally. They were!
January 14, 20232 yr I have to disagree with what's being said about Legs & Co. Most modern female singers wear far less to promote their music these days.
February 5, 20232 yr So I checked this Mud song out that Popchart mentioned in Rich's #1's of the 00's thread and well... quite the change from their normal style :lol: it's ok but takes time getting used to them doing a Disco track! BOUXpZyXEOk
February 5, 20232 yr ooh thanks for that Rob, an unearthed video gem for me there :yahoo: The money moment is Rob Davis' wailing guitar hook underneath the "La La La Laaa"s - I'd love that to be sampled it sounds awesome on full blast stereo. They were writing their own songs by this time and trying different genres, so I'm sure Rob was making notes for his future career...
May 30, 20232 yr Last Friday's TOTP from 1979 had one of the best line-ups I've ever seen: McFadden and Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now [over countdown at start] The Skids - Masquerade Roxy Music - Dance Away Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric Donna Summer - Hot Stuff [with Legs & Co] Liner - You And Me Electric Light Orchestra - Shine A Little Love David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Accidents Will Happen Blondie - Sunday Girl Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me [over end credits] Aside from the Liner song which didn't even make the Top 40, those are all great songs with a few absolute classics!
May 30, 20232 yr Author Oh wow I definitely need to catch up on that one *.* on the other end of the spectrum, this was an experience on another recent 70s episode :lol: KMPth4LlO2M
May 31, 20232 yr Yes, it was an experience having to listen to it at the time, I grew to quickly loathe that one - Ah Hah, oh no you don't! :lol: Even as a small child I never liked Punch & Judy. Give me The family-friendly Woodentops anyday, who needed domestic misogynistic violence as entertainment! I might have been young but I knew unfairness when I saw it and hated this when I was sweet 19 and on my way to Uni :lol:
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