I can picture many of these discs, my sister was 16 years older than me, and had many of these records, Winchester Cathereral was on a blue label, the Sandpipers a pink one... (Pye I think!)
Wish they'd put POTP back to Sunday afternoons as I'm rarely in to listen live to it on Saturday. Not going to disagree with some points made re the 88 chart, though I'm going to enjoy it and seeing if Tony plays any different tracks to what Dale did and, if so, which ones.
Must admit that listening to that 1988 chart confirms everything I thought about the year while I was living it,....:(
Probs because I'm younger than you, lol, I remember finding 1988 quite exciting at the time. But very little to do with these records.
Bomb The Bass entering high with Beat Dis was very exciting, I loved all the sampling and scratching tracks that came out at the time. It was the first time that I became aware a new musical movement was happening, though I was years off being able to go into clubs and dance to them.
I listened a lot to pirate stations on FM such as WBLS out of Manchester, who were playing more sampling house tracks than you could shake a stick at.
Many of them did make the charts, but this October chart is nothing like the 1988 I remember. Even the Bomb the Bass track at 21 in the chart posted here, Radio 1 played 'Don't Make Me Wait', I preferred 'Megablast', and got into the film 'Assault on Precint 13' because of it.
Yazz wasn't as important to me as Coldcut, they gave her a hand before she went off and did the poppy rubbish ('Doctorin The House' still excites me even now!), but Coldcut continued to make innovative music, including this from 1994... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8CI6kEnWbY
I didn't mind Domino Dancing, but much preferred 'Left To My Own Devices', which came out a month or so later... that is EPIC, you must agree.
Interesting that next week is playing two 80's charts, from 1982 and then 1987, which makes the fact that today's programme decided to play another late 80's chart with 1988 appear somewhat curious. Maybe a subtle shift in emphasis beginning to take shape? Would have thought they'd have avoided an 80's chart this week if doing 2 next weekend. Also, just last week we had two years just 5 years apart, and next weekend will be the same, which is not something POTP has generally done.
Don't know how old you were Lazlo St Pierre but in '88 I was still a teenage boy at the time of the hits played today.
Interesting that, as you enthused about 1988, in the same way that I enthused about 1981 from last week, the month I began at big school, aged 12. :cool:
Ooh, and as I write and listen to Dance Anthems on Radio 2, what comes up....a dance hit from 1988 from Inner City!
Interesting that, as you enthused about 1988, in the same way that I enthused about 1981 from last week, the month I began at big school, aged 12. :cool:
Yes, I could bore everyone by posting off the top of my head 20 fantastic tracks I loved hearing on the radio in 1988.
Still loved my hearing my brother's Bunnymen and Lotus Eaters tapes and my mum's Carpenters lol, but house was the first thing I got into of my own accord.
Saturday mornings before going to football... or listening to Clive Tyldesley on the radio if away... THE CHART SHOW! No presenters, just really cheap computer graphics but you got to see all the videos. I'll get murders for this, but what's not to love?
Only heard the 88 hour yesterday and enjoyed that. Glad everybody has picked up on The Revolution bit, I am guessing this is Swern's poor research rather than Tony's fault as I'm guessing he's only reading what he's given.
Personally I loved the Duran track along with the Big Thing album it came from although the follow up, All She Wants Is was far better.
Looking forward to the 2 80's charts next week, what are the years?
So Tony substituted the Wee Papa Girl Rappers track with Inner City. Like both would have preferred to hear Wee Papa Girl Rappers as it rarely gets played.
I can't believe no one on twitter corrected Tony over the Yazz and the Plastic Revolution. It was so annoying to hear it said more than once.
I totally agree about Left To My Own Devices being much better than Domino Dancing. I think I Don't Want Your Love is a good track too, though not as good as early Duran.
I was just turned 15 when these were in the charts, and I'd say I started to lose interest in the charts from about 1992. I probably thought I was too old to be interested in the charts then.
Who were the Plastic Population anyway? Sounds good on the record titles, but they were nothing in reality as far as I can tell. It was really just Yazz all along. Tony mistakenly said Plastic Revolution not once, not twice, but 3 times including in the countdown. That is poor for such a record that was a massive No1 hit, and the follow up that made No2 later in '88 also was styled under the same Yazz & The Plastic Population, so it was hardly obscure.
1981's newcomer Kim Wilde had a rennaissance in 1988 with a string of top tens, including a song that charted a couple of weeks after this 1988 chart, Never Trust A Stranger which was/is a brilliant little track that sounded more like her earliest output to me. Easily one of the better singles to hit Top Ten in 1988.
I think it was initially just a name made up so that Coldcut could use that 'The Plastic Men are coming' sample on Doctorin the House.
Coldcut produced TOWIU but didn't want to be credited as Coldcut as it wasn't cool enough, but I think the other stuff she did was done with different producers so the PP name was quietly dropped.
I think it was initially just a name made up so that Coldcut could use that 'The Plastic Men are coming' sample on Doctorin the House.
Coldcut produced TOWIU but didn't want to be credited as Coldcut as it wasn't cool enough, but I think the other stuff she did was done with different producers so the PP name was quietly dropped.
Oh, god, that Plastic Man bit at the end of Doctorin' The House freaked me out at the time and still does. Not that I play the song very often, though do have it on a compliation CD, I would have to turn it off before it got to that bit.
Oh, god, that Plastic Man bit at the end of Doctorin' The House freaked me out at the time and still does. Not that I play the song very often, though do have it on a compliation CD, I would have to turn it off before it got to that bit.
That's one of my favourite bits!
And I do play it often.
EDIT: if you bought the single, the B side was 'Theftapella', where you could hear all the dry spoken samples used - eg "Oh Boy what a great rekkid! That wicked plastic man!" - and presumably use them to make your own house record.
I *really* wanted to make my own house record when I was 11. I videoed a match at Wimbledon where some player (not McEnroe) was having a tantrum and shouting "I didn't KICK THE COURT" and I thought it would sound great to have a house record where you heard him saying "KICK THE COURT!" all through... but I had no idea how to do it. I probably could now though with all the technology available.
Used to like Stu Allan on a Sunday night on Key 103 "shout out to the boys in the Big house":D
Ha ha, yes I used to listen to that under the bedclothes, very tired for school the next day... but I would hear some exciting new house sound like Gene and Jim Are Into Shakes or something.
And wasn't that the days when daytime Key 103 was for yuppies?! Playing Fleetwood Mac and Phil Collins all day, then 10pm it would go all housey housey!
City just stayed City for a while, Liverpool didn't have any yuppies...
Ha ha, yes I used to listen to that under the bedclothes, very tired for school the next day... but I would hear some exciting new house sound like Gene and Jim Are Into Shakes or something.
And wasn't that the days when daytime Key 103 was for yuppies?! Playing Fleetwood Mac and Phil Collins all day, then 10pm it would go all housey housey!
City just stayed City for a while, Liverpool didn't have any yuppies...
Yes I remember that well, I was working with a guy who was there at that time when I was in advertising and he said that there was a fella there who use soap characters for his analogies. "Jack and Vera Duckworth" would listen to AM which retained a general service and wasn't just Gold and "The Farnham's from Brookside" would listen to FM. They aimed it at commuters / students etc. The specialist evening shows were amazing, the whole Manchester scene was kicking off and they tapped into it nicely, it was just that no one was listening to the daytime output.
City was a pretty cool station, Snelly's evening show was fantastic, local indie bands and house music, daytimes were good i thought, Johnny Kennedy, a local comedian got the balance of music, talk, humour spot on, Phil Easton in the afternoon was good too.
Gone way o/t here but I liked my time in the North West. When Key 103 settled on what they were going to be, you had them playing A Guy Called Gerald, 808 State, Mondays and the like and Radio 1 playing Collins and Clapton and being completely out of step with what was going on.
Why would it? Freeman is dead and Tony Blackburn does POTP.
Because if the BBC can get tetchy with the merest mention of "fighting like girls" (Fowler) and demand an instant retraction and also ban from our screens someone not yet found guilty (Travis), they would certainly be very tetchy with the Pick Of the Pops association.
As FMLover points out this chap is synonymous with POTP's and the theme tune is his, so at the very least expect a change of theme tune if not a change of name, especially if this is the further expose on TOTP that Mark Williams Thomas is producing for this series of ITV's Exposure.
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What occy is trying to convey is that there will be two eighties
decades charts.
Two different 80s years
Listen to the show on Sunday listen again.
Probs because I'm younger than you, lol, I remember finding 1988 quite exciting at the time. But very little to do with these records.
Bomb The Bass entering high with Beat Dis was very exciting, I loved all the sampling and scratching tracks that came out at the time. It was the first time that I became aware a new musical movement was happening, though I was years off being able to go into clubs and dance to them.
I listened a lot to pirate stations on FM such as WBLS out of Manchester, who were playing more sampling house tracks than you could shake a stick at.
Many of them did make the charts, but this October chart is nothing like the 1988 I remember. Even the Bomb the Bass track at 21 in the chart posted here, Radio 1 played 'Don't Make Me Wait', I preferred 'Megablast', and got into the film 'Assault on Precint 13' because of it.
Yazz wasn't as important to me as Coldcut, they gave her a hand before she went off and did the poppy rubbish ('Doctorin The House' still excites me even now!), but Coldcut continued to make innovative music, including this from 1994... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8CI6kEnWbY
I didn't mind Domino Dancing, but much preferred 'Left To My Own Devices', which came out a month or so later... that is EPIC, you must agree.
Don't know how old you were Lazlo St Pierre but in '88 I was still a teenage boy at the time of the hits played today.
11
Just started Big School.
Interesting that, as you enthused about 1988, in the same way that I enthused about 1981 from last week, the month I began at big school, aged 12. :cool:
Ooh, and as I write and listen to Dance Anthems on Radio 2, what comes up....a dance hit from 1988 from Inner City!
I do agree on Left To My Own Devices by the way.
From WBLS pirate radio from some flat in Moss Side to Radio 2.
It's been a loooong journey and I start to feel old...
Yes, I could bore everyone by posting off the top of my head 20 fantastic tracks I loved hearing on the radio in 1988.
Still loved my hearing my brother's Bunnymen and Lotus Eaters tapes and my mum's Carpenters lol, but house was the first thing I got into of my own accord.
Saturday mornings before going to football... or listening to Clive Tyldesley on the radio if away... THE CHART SHOW! No presenters, just really cheap computer graphics but you got to see all the videos. I'll get murders for this, but what's not to love?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwcgLf96vo0
Personally I loved the Duran track along with the Big Thing album it came from although the follow up, All She Wants Is was far better.
Looking forward to the 2 80's charts next week, what are the years?
I can't believe no one on twitter corrected Tony over the Yazz and the Plastic Revolution. It was so annoying to hear it said more than once.
I totally agree about Left To My Own Devices being much better than Domino Dancing. I think I Don't Want Your Love is a good track too, though not as good as early Duran.
I was just turned 15 when these were in the charts, and I'd say I started to lose interest in the charts from about 1992. I probably thought I was too old to be interested in the charts then.
1981's newcomer Kim Wilde had a rennaissance in 1988 with a string of top tens, including a song that charted a couple of weeks after this 1988 chart, Never Trust A Stranger which was/is a brilliant little track that sounded more like her earliest output to me. Easily one of the better singles to hit Top Ten in 1988.
I think it was initially just a name made up so that Coldcut could use that 'The Plastic Men are coming' sample on Doctorin the House.
Coldcut produced TOWIU but didn't want to be credited as Coldcut as it wasn't cool enough, but I think the other stuff she did was done with different producers so the PP name was quietly dropped.
Used to like Stu Allan on a Sunday night on Key 103 "shout out to the boys in the Big house":D
Oh, god, that Plastic Man bit at the end of Doctorin' The House freaked me out at the time and still does. Not that I play the song very often, though do have it on a compliation CD, I would have to turn it off before it got to that bit.
That's one of my favourite bits!
And I do play it often.
EDIT: if you bought the single, the B side was 'Theftapella', where you could hear all the dry spoken samples used - eg "Oh Boy what a great rekkid! That wicked plastic man!" - and presumably use them to make your own house record.
I *really* wanted to make my own house record when I was 11. I videoed a match at Wimbledon where some player (not McEnroe) was having a tantrum and shouting "I didn't KICK THE COURT" and I thought it would sound great to have a house record where you heard him saying "KICK THE COURT!" all through... but I had no idea how to do it. I probably could now though with all the technology available.
Ha ha, yes I used to listen to that under the bedclothes, very tired for school the next day... but I would hear some exciting new house sound like Gene and Jim Are Into Shakes or something.
And wasn't that the days when daytime Key 103 was for yuppies?! Playing Fleetwood Mac and Phil Collins all day, then 10pm it would go all housey housey!
City just stayed City for a while, Liverpool didn't have any yuppies...
Yes I remember that well, I was working with a guy who was there at that time when I was in advertising and he said that there was a fella there who use soap characters for his analogies. "Jack and Vera Duckworth" would listen to AM which retained a general service and wasn't just Gold and "The Farnham's from Brookside" would listen to FM. They aimed it at commuters / students etc. The specialist evening shows were amazing, the whole Manchester scene was kicking off and they tapped into it nicely, it was just that no one was listening to the daytime output.
City was a pretty cool station, Snelly's evening show was fantastic, local indie bands and house music, daytimes were good i thought, Johnny Kennedy, a local comedian got the balance of music, talk, humour spot on, Phil Easton in the afternoon was good too.
Gone way o/t here but I liked my time in the North West. When Key 103 settled on what they were going to be, you had them playing A Guy Called Gerald, 808 State, Mondays and the like and Radio 1 playing Collins and Clapton and being completely out of step with what was going on.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-tells-agony-hands-bbc-2292125
I heard a whisper of this a while ago and hoped it wouldn't be picked up on.
Although it should affect the show Alan is synonymous with the POTP brand and it may well be dropped or suffer a name change.
Because if the BBC can get tetchy with the merest mention of "fighting like girls" (Fowler) and demand an instant retraction and also ban from our screens someone not yet found guilty (Travis), they would certainly be very tetchy with the Pick Of the Pops association.
As FMLover points out this chap is synonymous with POTP's and the theme tune is his, so at the very least expect a change of theme tune if not a change of name, especially if this is the further expose on TOTP that Mark Williams Thomas is producing for this series of ITV's Exposure.