Ending with a Classic from the Rubettes.
Pick Of The Pops - Radio 2
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I liked some Rubettes songs but not Sugar Baby Love. Never liked the Bay City Rollers although always liked Sparks.
Tony, it was 'Kissing the Pink' not 'Kissing the Park'.
You should have played it because I liked it.
You should have played it because I liked it.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Kissing The Park?
Tut tut Tony, hope you have a suitably pink face now!
”
“Kissing The Park?
Tut tut Tony, hope you have a suitably pink face now!
”
Posted at the same time.
Hour 2 - http://www.officialcharts.com/archiv.../1/1983-05-21/
TOTP -
19/05/83 (Simon Bates & Gary Davies)
D Train – “Music” (27) This video has been removed due to terms of use violation
New Edition – “Candy Girl” (3) (video)
David Grant – “Stop & Go” (34)
Blancmange – “Blind Vision” (10) (video)
The Beat – “Can’t Get Used To Losing You” (5) WATCH
Wham! – “Bad Boys” (12) (video)
JoBoxers – “Just Got Lucky” (38) WATCH
Yazoo – “Nobody’s Diary” (20) WATCH
The Fun Boy Three – “Our Lips Are Sealed” (7)
Spandau Ballet – “True” (1) (video/credits)
TOTP -
19/05/83 (Simon Bates & Gary Davies)
D Train – “Music” (27) This video has been removed due to terms of use violation
New Edition – “Candy Girl” (3) (video)
David Grant – “Stop & Go” (34)
Blancmange – “Blind Vision” (10) (video)
The Beat – “Can’t Get Used To Losing You” (5) WATCH
Wham! – “Bad Boys” (12) (video)
JoBoxers – “Just Got Lucky” (38) WATCH
Yazoo – “Nobody’s Diary” (20) WATCH
The Fun Boy Three – “Our Lips Are Sealed” (7)
Spandau Ballet – “True” (1) (video/credits)
Modern Romance are a group I liked at the time but can't believed I ever liked. The poor man's Spandau Ballet.
Modern Romance are one of the more forgettable acts of the early 80's, and this song by them barely registered with me. Discovered only recently that the lead singer became one of Cliff Richard's well known backing singers for many years afterwards.
Recall this Hot Chocolate track from the time and thought it sounded like they were on the wane as it wasn't anywhere near as good as all their previous hits. Proved correct and the hits dry up soon after.
Recall this Hot Chocolate track from the time and thought it sounded like they were on the wane as it wasn't anywhere near as good as all their previous hits. Proved correct and the hits dry up soon after.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Modern Romance are one of the more forgettable acts of the early 80's, and this song by them barely registered with me.
Recall this Hot Chocolate track from the time and thought it sounded like they were on the wane as it wasn't anywhere near as good as all their previous hits. Proved correct and the hits dry up soon after.”
“Modern Romance are one of the more forgettable acts of the early 80's, and this song by them barely registered with me.
Recall this Hot Chocolate track from the time and thought it sounded like they were on the wane as it wasn't anywhere near as good as all their previous hits. Proved correct and the hits dry up soon after.”
Agree about Hot Chocolate. I've always liked them but this was only OK and far from their best.
Kid Creole & the Coconuts were another group I liked at the time but can't believed I liked. I never liked Wham.
Originally Posted by paulca66:
“Agree about Hot Chocolate. I've always liked them but this was only OK and far from their best.”
“Agree about Hot Chocolate. I've always liked them but this was only OK and far from their best.”
Although they went on to have two No1 albums (in 1987 and 1993) many years after their last original hit singles. Infact they never did well with albums other than greatest hits ones, strangely.
Hot Chocolate were always more of a singles rather than albums band. I've always liked the Thompson Twins and Blancmange.
Blind Vision, a wonderfully oxymoronic title! A very long time since I have heard this. Almost has a later Pet Shop Boys sound about it. Can definitely hear Neil Tennant doing this one.
As I said on the 'When Did Great Top 40 Radio Die?' thread I think 1987-89 was when music went rubbish. I can't believe people think it was a better period than 1980-83 or even 1984-86.
Originally Posted by paulca66:
“As I said on the 'When Did Great Top 40 Radio Die?' thread I think 1987-89 was when music went rubbish. I can't believe people think it was a better period than 1980-83 or even 1984-86.”
“As I said on the 'When Did Great Top 40 Radio Die?' thread I think 1987-89 was when music went rubbish. I can't believe people think it was a better period than 1980-83 or even 1984-86.”
There is a lot of widespread agreement on this on the POTP and TOTP threads, me included. Never did a decade begin so wonderfully and end so disappointingly as the 1980's unfortunately.
Of course there a plenty of great singles even in the latter period, but what I consider the high continued consistency of good top forty records had diminished.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“There is a lot of widespread agreement on this on the POTP and TOTP threads, me included. Never did a decade begin so wonderfully and end so disappointingly as the 1980's unfortunately.
Of course there a plenty of great singles even in the latter period, but what I consider the high continued consistency of good top forty records had diminished.”
“There is a lot of widespread agreement on this on the POTP and TOTP threads, me included. Never did a decade begin so wonderfully and end so disappointingly as the 1980's unfortunately.
Of course there a plenty of great singles even in the latter period, but what I consider the high continued consistency of good top forty records had diminished.”
I agree. Growing up in the mid 70s-mid 80s (I was 6 in 1975 and 16 in 1985) I thought there would always be good music.
Temptation-Heaven 17. Great song.
I also liked the follow up 'Come Live With Me' which seems to be forgotten about.'True' is a song I liked more at the time than now. I wished 'Temptation' had been No 1 this week.
Originally Posted by paulca66:
“I agree. Growing up in the mid 70s-mid 80s (I was 6 in 1975 and 16 in 1985) I thought there would always be good music.
Temptation-Heaven 17. Great song. I also liked the follow up 'Come Live With Me' which seems to be forgotten about.
'True' is a song I liked more at the time than now. I wished 'Temptation' had been No 1this week.”
“I agree. Growing up in the mid 70s-mid 80s (I was 6 in 1975 and 16 in 1985) I thought there would always be good music.
Temptation-Heaven 17. Great song.
I also liked the follow up 'Come Live With Me' which seems to be forgotten about.'True' is a song I liked more at the time than now. I wished 'Temptation' had been No 1this week.”
You are exactly the same age as me then. I think I agree with your point about always expecting good music. By the time I was only 19 I actively detested so much that was about and the poor production on singles, almost as much as I actively loved so much that was about and how it sounded in my early teens, so 1983, just a mere 5 years earlier. I actively despised all the SAW and house music stuff with a passion.
Having said that, I was quite enjoying listening to top forty chart music as recently as 2007-09 when things got a bit decent again, and wondered if in my late 30's I really should be past doing such things! But if the charts got great again I'd be listening just like when I was 14 in 1983.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“You are exactly the same age as me then. I think I agree with your point about always expecting good music. By the time I was only 19 I actively detested so much that was about and the poor production on singles, almost as much as I actively loved so much that was about and how it sounded in my early teens, so 1983, just a mere 5 years earlier. I actively despised all the SAW and house music stuff with a passion.”
“You are exactly the same age as me then. I think I agree with your point about always expecting good music. By the time I was only 19 I actively detested so much that was about and the poor production on singles, almost as much as I actively loved so much that was about and how it sounded in my early teens, so 1983, just a mere 5 years earlier. I actively despised all the SAW and house music stuff with a passion.”
I was born September 1969. I didn't mind some house stuff. I liked 'Ride On Time' but hated Soul II Soul and Lisa Stansfield. I liked Rap at the time. My favourite album of 1989 was Raw and the Cooked-FYC.
Originally Posted by paulca66:
“I was born September 1969. I didn't mind some house stuff. I liked 'Ride On Time' but hated Soul II Soul and Lisa Stansfield. I liked Rap at the time. My favourite album of 1989 was Raw and the Cooked-FYC.”
“I was born September 1969. I didn't mind some house stuff. I liked 'Ride On Time' but hated Soul II Soul and Lisa Stansfield. I liked Rap at the time. My favourite album of 1989 was Raw and the Cooked-FYC.”
I thought the two Soul II Soul tracks of 1989, Keep On Moving & the one that went to No1 for my 20th birthday in June that year, Back To Life, were a couple of the better tracks of that year. As a dance music track I feel that Black Box is much more of a dated sound than the disco & dance hits of a decade or more beforehand in the late 70's. Just about the only rap track I like is Rapture by Blondie!
Originally Posted by paulca66:
“I was born September 1969. I didn't mind some house stuff. I liked 'Ride On Time' but hated Soul II Soul and Lisa Stansfield. I liked Rap at the time. My favourite album of 1989 was Raw and the Cooked-FYC.”
“I was born September 1969. I didn't mind some house stuff. I liked 'Ride On Time' but hated Soul II Soul and Lisa Stansfield. I liked Rap at the time. My favourite album of 1989 was Raw and the Cooked-FYC.”
I never got Lisa Stansfield. She was hyped as UK soul. No way.
Anyone hear Tony read out a message from Steve Penk? It was in the first hour, about 10 minutes in, wonder if that's the first time a fellow DJ has text in and had it read out.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“Sounds like a good pair of charts today. Remember this point in 1983 very clearly indeed and all the hits then.
Sparks really did deserve a massive No1 with This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us. Should be grateful that it even managed to reach No2 in 1974 as it was such a leftfield sounding track, that apparently even Elton John thought was excellent but could not possibly become a big hit. It would almost sound more at home in the next chart 9 years later in 1983 to me.
Followed by the worst of the 70's, Bay Shitty Rollers. What a contrast.”
“Sounds like a good pair of charts today. Remember this point in 1983 very clearly indeed and all the hits then.
Sparks really did deserve a massive No1 with This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us. Should be grateful that it even managed to reach No2 in 1974 as it was such a leftfield sounding track, that apparently even Elton John thought was excellent but could not possibly become a big hit. It would almost sound more at home in the next chart 9 years later in 1983 to me.
Followed by the worst of the 70's, Bay Shitty Rollers. What a contrast.”
I have to say this. I hope I don't offend anyone as we all have our favourite era. I was eighteen in 1974 and that year for me seemed like the worst ever year for pop music ever. Not just music but everything was bad about 1974. The miners were on strike, there was a three day week at the beginning of the year and two general elections. It seemed like the country was on auto pilot. To make matters a million times worse the biggest selling singles group were The Wombles. You couldn't imagine how bad it was if you weren't there.
Listening to todays show Tony made it sound like it was a brilliant time. It wasn't. The mid seventies were crap.
On the 1974 Eurovision front, Tony played Mouth and MacNeil and of course he played Abba. It is interesting to note that although Abba are hailed as the best thing ever to come out of Eurovision the UK jury gave them nil points. Our top marks went to the song that came second in the contest. From Italy a fantastic ballad that Tony neglected to play. You can hear it here though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3tdLu5gyxE
Originally Posted by david1956:
“I have to say this. I hope I don't offend anyone as we all have our favourite era. I was eighteen in 1974 and that year for me seemed like the worst ever year for pop music ever. Not just music but everything was bad about 1974. The miners were on strike, there was a three day week at the beginning of the year and two general elections. It seemed like the country was on auto pilot. To make matters a million times worse the biggest selling singles group were The Wombles. You couldn't imagine how bad it was if you weren't there.
Listening to todays show Tony made it sound like it was a brilliant time. It wasn't. The mid seventies were crap.
On the 1974 Eurovision front, Tony played Mouth and MacNeil and of course he played Abba. It is interesting to note that although Abba are hailed as the best thing ever to come out of Eurovision the UK jury gave them nil points. Our top marks went to the song that came second in the contest. From Italy a fantastic ballad that Tony neglected to play. You can hear it here though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3tdLu5gyxE”
“I have to say this. I hope I don't offend anyone as we all have our favourite era. I was eighteen in 1974 and that year for me seemed like the worst ever year for pop music ever. Not just music but everything was bad about 1974. The miners were on strike, there was a three day week at the beginning of the year and two general elections. It seemed like the country was on auto pilot. To make matters a million times worse the biggest selling singles group were The Wombles. You couldn't imagine how bad it was if you weren't there.
Listening to todays show Tony made it sound like it was a brilliant time. It wasn't. The mid seventies were crap.
On the 1974 Eurovision front, Tony played Mouth and MacNeil and of course he played Abba. It is interesting to note that although Abba are hailed as the best thing ever to come out of Eurovision the UK jury gave them nil points. Our top marks went to the song that came second in the contest. From Italy a fantastic ballad that Tony neglected to play. You can hear it here though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3tdLu5gyxE”
I liked the Wombles but I was only 5 in 1974 and that's my excuse! I would have probably had a different opinion of them if I'd been a teenager in 1974. I like a lot of mid 70s music, even though people say it was a bad period for music, probably because I associate it with pleasant childhood memories.
Originally Posted by paulca66:
“As I said on the 'When Did Great Top 40 Radio Die?' thread I think 1987-89 was when music went rubbish. I can't believe people think it was a better period than 1980-83 or even 1984-86.”
“As I said on the 'When Did Great Top 40 Radio Die?' thread I think 1987-89 was when music went rubbish. I can't believe people think it was a better period than 1980-83 or even 1984-86.”
1987-89 wasn't as good as the superb 1984-86 but was certainly far better than 1980-83.
Originally Posted by Rich Tea.:
“There is a lot of widespread agreement on this on the POTP and TOTP threads, me included. Never did a decade begin so wonderfully and end so disappointingly as the 1980's unfortunately.
Of course there a plenty of great singles even in the latter period, but what I consider the high continued consistency of good top forty records had diminished.”
“There is a lot of widespread agreement on this on the POTP and TOTP threads, me included. Never did a decade begin so wonderfully and end so disappointingly as the 1980's unfortunately.
Of course there a plenty of great singles even in the latter period, but what I consider the high continued consistency of good top forty records had diminished.”
... And yet 1989 is one of the great years of pop music. Certainly better than the dreary 1982 and 1983.
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