Sort of, but they kept on having minor hits until 1982 (Was it Who put the Bomp? )
i was randomly checking out some of their minor early 80's 'hits' a couple of months ago and was struck by how bizarre they looked performing this on their last ever TOTP appearance in sep '82, they seem totally out of place amongst the new style 'paid to dance' audience :eek:
Not understanding how there coud have been a grease cip shown originally, as David Jenson quite clearly sais 'to illustrate the nation's number one single, legs and co.' Unless theres a very clever bit of editing going on.
Quite a good episode last night overall. Not one of bob marley's best songs though, shame he wasn't there for Is This Love. And where was David Soul? Pops up for a quick chat with Peter Powell a few weeks back and doesn't bother to perform his single. I like the way most acts now are coming back for a second performance rather than showing a repeated clip, makes it feel a lot more like a proper show and not a clip show.
Poor thing, she's only 16 and likely reckons Little Mix & Olly Murs (sorry for swearing on the thread) are the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel.
What a shame we can't place a firewall around this TOTP 1978 thread against such deluded and inarticulate posts!
Off to a music re-education camp for the Egg girl.
stand back i can smell mintballz from here
if u think musizc is just Olly Murs thats why you like this old rubiish. right now on shuffle ive got
skillex
bassnectar
nero
zomboy
skream
if i want to chill its cinematic orchesrta or robbie glasper. robbies got more talent in his little finger than all the dinosaruz on this page
but itz cool ill leave you to your timewarp
black radio black radio black radio oh oh oh oh ohhhhhhh
:cool:
PS layZboyz i wrote EMFDYSI not EMFDYWI guess you cant tell the diff - BOOMSLAP
i was randomly checking out some of their minor early 80's 'hits' a couple of months ago and was struck by how bizarre they looked performing this on their last ever TOTP appearance in sep '82, they seem totally out of place amongst the new style 'paid to dance' audience :eek:
Its weird, its like someone had flicked a switch and everything had changed, there was colour and life in the show, but the "old guard" - acts and presenters looked so out of place. Maybe it was things like C4 starting and being younger and brasher with more youth based music shows, the gap between the 70's and 80's looks vast.
I do like playing "flare bingo" on this series. The old established acts are still donning their trusty Lionel's but the younger ones (as I was at the time) wouldn't touch them with a barge pole:D
if u think musizc is just Olly Murs thats why you like this old rubiish. right now on shuffle ive got
skillex
bassnectar
nero
zomboy
skream
if i want to chill its cinematic orchesrta or robbie glasper. robbies got more talent in his little finger than all the dinosaruz on this page
but itz cool ill leave you to your timewarp
black radio black radio black radio oh oh oh oh ohhhhhhh
:cool:
PS layZboyz i wrote EMFDYSI not EMFDYWI guess you cant tell the diff - BOOMSLAP
So ironic, as you obviously don't ...
The roots of the music you are listening to can be found in the past. Clearly a concept you cannot bring yourself to open your mind to.
I do like playing "flare bingo" on this series. The old established acts are still donning their trusty Lionel's but the younger ones (as I was at the time) wouldn't touch them with a barge pole:D
Damn right. Wearing flares at my school back then was the equivalent of putting a 'KICK ME' sign on your own back. Nobody wanted to be 'Flary Mary'.
if u think musizc is just Olly Murs thats why you like this old rubiish. right now on shuffle ive got
skillex
bassnectar
nero
zomboy
skream
if i want to chill its cinematic orchesrta or robbie glasper. robbies got more talent in his little finger than all the dinosaruz on this page
but itz cool ill leave you to your timewarp
black radio black radio black radio oh oh oh oh ohhhhhhh
:cool:
PS layZboyz i wrote EMFDYSI not EMFDYWI guess you cant tell the diff - BOOMSLAP
i was randomly checking out some of their minor early 80's 'hits' a couple of months ago and was struck by how bizarre they looked performing this on their last ever TOTP appearance in sep '82, they seem totally out of place amongst the new style 'paid to dance' audience :eek:
Not understanding how there coud have been a grease cip shown originally, as David Jenson quite clearly sais 'to illustrate the nation's number one single, legs and co.' Unless theres a very clever bit of editing going on.
I do believe there are a lot of TOTP myths. Record sales being my personal gripe that I began with on here exactly a year ago now. But I'm not certain that you can genuinely take one single edition of TOTP to make a statement about certain genres. A full month of 4 would be a better sample size. However I certainly agree that with Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy and that abysmal Whitesnake track, it was as if the punk and new wave explosion never was.
For some reason I was expecting Sex Pistols to be coming up with a top tenner, Holidays In The Sun next month, but just grabbed my book to see it was an October 1977 hit, yet I cannot recall it ever being shown once on TOTP despite it's No8 position? We do get another Sex Pistols top tenner next month however, must have been the one I was thinking about, a No7 double A sided hit called No One Is Innocent / My Way. I'm guessing if they put this one on TOTP in the next few weeks then they ignore My Way and go fro No One Is Innocent. But clearly the sound of the era was dormant in this late June 1978 edition, and I'm also assuming it was the full TOTP we saw and not a trimmed down one, as the late night showing appears to be the same length.
In lots of ways TOTP is not the place in 1977 to 1978 to see the New Wave. Once its influence is established from 1979 the extent to which even the singles chart had been transformed. The New Wave revitalised British music, but the singles chart was still a potpourri. That it remained of course, but the next few years come close to the mid sixties peak.
Also, note that the big New Wave/punk bands were not having big hit singles. The Clash, The Buzzcocks for example were all having minor hits; classics now, but minor hits then.
What is interesting is what happens to pop. That will be worth checking out in the coming months. I think even pop raised its game. Bucks Fizz for example, and Dollar were a whole lot better than Brotherhood of Man.
Thanks, but I do not think they were half-bad at all. They seemed so naff back then, but they were pros.:)
no i'm not disagreeing with you, showaddywaddy were good guys but their look and style seemed out of place for the 80's thats all...and give me the 'normal' totp audiences from the 70's any day over this lot :sleep:
I would imagine that to show clips for all of the hits would be far too costly for the BBC. I assume that for one or two of the songs the track will have to be completely edited out of TOTP as there will be nothing they can replace the film clip with.
Can someone explain to me again why it is costly now in 2013 to show the film clips - but back in 1978 it wasn't!!?
Quite annoying really. Another re-writing of history. This means a lot more hit records in 1978 are going to suffer the same fate then, John & Olivia's Summer Nights, Frankie Valli's Grease, Olivia's Hopelessly Devoted and also Travolta's Sandy, all massive hit singles in the next five months.
Maybe it would be easier to jump ahead 5 months and restart the reruns from about October! - Afterall, I think the best of 78 has been and gone now!
if u think musizc is just Olly Murs thats why you like this old rubiish. right now on shuffle ive got
skillex
bassnectar
nero
zomboy
skream
if i want to chill its cinematic orchesrta or robbie glasper. robbies got more talent in his little finger than all the dinosaruz on this page
but itz cool ill leave you to your timewarp
black radio black radio black radio oh oh oh oh ohhhhhhh
:cool:
PS layZboyz i wrote EMFDYSI not EMFDYWI guess you cant tell the diff - BOOMSLAP
skillex
bassnectar
nero
zomboy
skream
if i want to chill its cinematic orchesrta or robbie glasper. robbies got more talent in his little finger than all the dinosaruz on this page
but itz cool ill leave you to your timewarp
First to find a 70's or 80's sample in one of the above's tracks, gotta be a touch of Nile Rogers somewhere?
These repeats will not end, but you could not have invented it that thirty-five years on we are awaiting the results of a court case to see how many we will get. Wierd.
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Next week is is some world classical music singing competition thing on every night from 7.30, no room for TOTP next week.
i was randomly checking out some of their minor early 80's 'hits' a couple of months ago and was struck by how bizarre they looked performing this on their last ever TOTP appearance in sep '82, they seem totally out of place amongst the new style 'paid to dance' audience :eek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJyWf3UhWCE
stand back i can smell mintballz from here
if u think musizc is just Olly Murs thats why you like this old rubiish. right now on shuffle ive got
skillex
bassnectar
nero
zomboy
skream
if i want to chill its cinematic orchesrta or robbie glasper. robbies got more talent in his little finger than all the dinosaruz on this page
but itz cool ill leave you to your timewarp
black radio black radio black radio oh oh oh oh ohhhhhhh
:cool:
PS layZboyz i wrote EMFDYSI not EMFDYWI guess you cant tell the diff - BOOMSLAP
Its weird, its like someone had flicked a switch and everything had changed, there was colour and life in the show, but the "old guard" - acts and presenters looked so out of place. Maybe it was things like C4 starting and being younger and brasher with more youth based music shows, the gap between the 70's and 80's looks vast.
I do like playing "flare bingo" on this series. The old established acts are still donning their trusty Lionel's but the younger ones (as I was at the time) wouldn't touch them with a barge pole:D
LMFAO
So ironic, as you obviously don't ...
The roots of the music you are listening to can be found in the past. Clearly a concept you cannot bring yourself to open your mind to.
So shall we leave you to your blinkered vision?
Damn right. Wearing flares at my school back then was the equivalent of putting a 'KICK ME' sign on your own back. Nobody wanted to be 'Flary Mary'.
Translation please?
Thanks, but I do not think they were half-bad at all. They seemed so naff back then, but they were pros.:)
Grease came out in the UK in October 1978.:)
The moral is that the memory plays tricks on you.:eek:
In lots of ways TOTP is not the place in 1977 to 1978 to see the New Wave. Once its influence is established from 1979 the extent to which even the singles chart had been transformed. The New Wave revitalised British music, but the singles chart was still a potpourri. That it remained of course, but the next few years come close to the mid sixties peak.
Also, note that the big New Wave/punk bands were not having big hit singles. The Clash, The Buzzcocks for example were all having minor hits; classics now, but minor hits then.
What is interesting is what happens to pop. That will be worth checking out in the coming months. I think even pop raised its game. Bucks Fizz for example, and Dollar were a whole lot better than Brotherhood of Man.
We'll see. Well, we hope we will see.:)
no i'm not disagreeing with you, showaddywaddy were good guys but their look and style seemed out of place for the 80's thats all...and give me the 'normal' totp audiences from the 70's any day over this lot :sleep:
your havin a laugh
your blinkered cuz your stuck in 78 and the other guy dissd r&b music thats happening now
hymns and stuff are from the past but i dont want to listen to that either. i dont care whats gone befroe if its rubbish
your gooing to have to leave the tardis one day grandad
Never got the point of Bob Marley, even by his standards an awful insipid dirge.
BOM...oh dear, poor effort, still fancy the blonde lass though.
That lad dancing with Legs and Co......definately Gay or I'm Tina Charles' love child.
Can someone explain to me again why it is costly now in 2013 to show the film clips - but back in 1978 it wasn't!!?
Maybe it would be easier to jump ahead 5 months and restart the reruns from about October! - Afterall, I think the best of 78 has been and gone now!
Yes - I hope RT is wrong as well as we don't want to be having to write to the BBC again this year!
- 1979 is one of the best years of the decade!!
Yes - I noticed that too - Ian Dury, Sham 69, Boomtown Rats, Elvis Costello etc etc...
?
- Mind you - I have heard of bassnectar
Oh come on! everyone knew Floyd was gay.............didn't they? :rolleyes:
First to find a 70's or 80's sample in one of the above's tracks, gotta be a touch of Nile Rogers somewhere?
It might make your ears bleed trying!
Hope you're right!