DS Forums

 
 

Top Of The Pops 1982 - BBC4


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 17-06-2016, 23:59
LittleGirlOf7
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 5,171
That kid still manages to look bigger behind that guitar than Nick Hayward did behind his earlier.
LittleGirlOf7 is offline   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 17-06-2016, 23:59
Torch81
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 5,946
Oh dear, it peaked too soon and dipped at the end. Novelty time.
Torch81 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-06-2016, 23:59
vauxhall1964
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 5,800
didn't all of Musical Youth end up dead or in prison?
vauxhall1964 is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:00
koantemplation
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Wolf359
Posts: 96,692
I used to think they were talking about a joint.
koantemplation is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:00
highlander1969
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Scotland
Posts: 6,275
I keep expecting the kid singing to say 'Whatcha talkin bout Willis
highlander1969 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:00
koantemplation
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Wolf359
Posts: 96,692
didn't all of Musical Youth end up dead or in prison?
You're thinking about Different Strokes.
koantemplation is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:00
highlander1969
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Scotland
Posts: 6,275
didn't all of Musical Youth end up dead or in prison?
I'm sure one of them died.
highlander1969 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:01
faversham saint
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 1,265
Pity they didn't show the first time the Associates played TOTP. That performance saw Billy prancing around in a beige mac and beret like Frank Spencer, if Frank Spencer had been totally off his head!
AFAIK the clip shown was the first Associates TOTP performance from the Yewtree'd 25th February edition hosted by DLT.

IIRC he wore the beret and mac for the second appearance on the Simon Bates hosted edition two weeks later.
faversham saint is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:01
highlander1969
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Scotland
Posts: 6,275
I used to think they were talking about a joint.
I think that's what the orginal was about. They changed the lyric.
highlander1969 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:02
Jason C
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Bexleyheath, SE London
Posts: 17,408
I'm sure one of them died.
Patrick Waite, the bass player, died of a heart condition at the age of 22.
Jason C is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:03
highlander1969
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Scotland
Posts: 6,275
Patrick Waite, the bass player, died of a heart condition at the age of 22.
That was a shame.
highlander1969 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:04
SgtRock
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Essex
Posts: 6,360
Well, that was pretty much wall-to-wall wonderful.

Even though at the time I would have been listening to very different music.
SgtRock is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:05
koantemplation
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Wolf359
Posts: 96,692
There wasn't a single duff song there, 82 was just perfect for the most part.

Even Save your Love.
koantemplation is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:09
mb@2day
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 8,709
In 1982 Keren only had one chin.
Very true Faversham but I'll forgive her the extra poundage now. Keren Woodward in the 80s was one of the prettiest women around to my teenage eyes.


New Order said their live performance was deliberately bad or were they covering themselves ? I noticed

Bernard or Barney as he liked to call himself them had to stifle a laugh while singing out of tune. I didnt like their conceit with that song and found it funny how they lost money in its early production run.



Billy Mackenzie of The Associates what a unique voice and sadly missed.


Never liked Kid Creole and the Coconuts 82 had started to go sour by then for me and their music was a reminder of that time.



I had the George Michael quiff when I could grow it.
I had his hairstyle unintentionally and only realised it was similar when a couple of girls started singing a Wham song at me one day.

One other thing was Yazoo's male sounding vocals courtesy of Alison Moyet. I was quite surprised that it was actually a woman singing as I had no idea thanks to the uninformative radio at the time.

Same goes for PHD with their hit I won't let you down who had the very feminine sounding Jim Diamond fronting them and it was only when I watched TOTP that I learned the truth.
mb@2day is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:13
Torch81
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 5,946
Have to say, that was a pretty excellent 'Big Hits of '82' show. And much better than the 'Story of...' show earlier. Generally very good stuff. Utter highlight The Associates, closely followed for me by Joan Jett and Bow Wow Wow. But where were Soft Cell. They ruled '82. I wanted 'Say Hello...' or 'Torch' where Marc did a duet with his then drug dealer or 'What' where he attempts to playfully whip a black guy dancing at the front with his microphone lead. And then the later in the year 'Where The Heart Is' performance which was great but ultimately the start of their decline and attempt to move away from the Smash Hits crowd onto the NME one. Hopefully they'll all be up coming highlights though.
Torch81 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:19
highlander1969
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Scotland
Posts: 6,275
Have to say, that was a pretty excellent 'Big Hits of '82' show. And much better than the 'Story of...' show earlier. Generally very good stuff. Utter highlight The Associates, closely followed for me by Joan Jett and Bow Wow Wow. But where were Soft Cell. They ruled '82. I wanted 'Say Hello...' or 'Torch' where Marc did a duet with his then drug dealer or 'What' where he attempts to playfully whip a black guy dancing at the front with his microphone lead. And then the later in the year 'Where The Heart Is' performance which was great but ultimately the start of their decline and attempt to move away from the Smash Hits crowd onto the NME one. Hopefully they'll all be up coming highlights though.
I have to agree I'm surprised that 'Torch' or 'Say Hello Wave Goodbye' didn't feature.
highlander1969 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:34
tortfeasor
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 3,140
I was quite lucky to get to see Kid Creole at one of those 80s reunion gigs a few years ago. Come to think of it Clare Grogan and Kim Wilde were at that one too.

This Kid Creole clip is "Jimmied" as is their only TOTP performance of "I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby".
I'm gutted that we're not going to see 'I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby.'
Tropical Gangsters is one of my favourite 1980s albums. I picked up my CD copy, which features some great extended mixes as bonus tracks, in the sadly now longer there Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus. I spent a considerable amount of time in that shop.


I heard Stool Pigeon for the first time a few months ago and it instantly became my favourite Kid Creole hit. Worth listening to if you haven't heard it.
It is a superb track and the lyrics are excellent.
tortfeasor is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:43
Straker
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 36,979
Bernard or Barney as he liked to call himself them had to stifle a laugh while singing out of tune. I didnt like their conceit with that song and found it funny how they lost money in its early production run.
I'm positive that's a myth that's acquired the aura of truth just because of how often it's repeated. There's an economy of scale that kicks in at a certain point so as the biggest selling 12 inch of all time there's no way they were still losing money on every copy sold when it was massive. The die-cut for the cut-out bits is the main expense so once that's done the money's been spent and the more they do, the cheaper each one is.
Straker is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 00:47
tortfeasor
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 3,140
... But where were Soft Cell. They ruled '82. I wanted 'Say Hello...' or 'Torch' where Marc did a duet with his then drug dealer or 'What' where he attempts to playfully whip a black guy dancing at the front with his microphone lead. And then the later in the year 'Where The Heart Is' performance which was great but ultimately the start of their decline and attempt to move away from the Smash Hits crowd onto the NME one. Hopefully they'll all be up coming highlights though.
I've yet to watch The Big Hits of 1982 and am surprised that Soft Cell weren't featured because like you've already alluded to they had some of the biggest hits of the year, particularly your namesake and 'Say Hello Wave Goodbye.' Speaking of which, what do you think of Marc's early 90s version of 'Say Hello Wave Goodbye?' I've heard it on Radio 2 a few times and have been disappointed they weren't playing the original.

I'm sure we've exchanged posts about 'Torch' before and I will once again state it is one of the most criminally underplayed and overlooked 80s songs.

I've had a wee look through the Popscene site and it's fair to say you should be pleased! There is one Jimmied episode and I'm not too sure whether that had a separate performance of 'Torch' to the one that was on a non-Jimmied or BLT () episode the fortnight before.

P.S. Here's a taster for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heGr1sS7Bmo
tortfeasor is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 01:15
faversham saint
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 1,265
One other thing was Yazoo's male sounding vocals courtesy of Alison Moyet. I was quite surprised that it was actually a woman singing as I had no idea thanks to the uninformative radio at the time.
Conversely, when I first heard Breathe's feminine sounding vocals on 'Hands To Heaven' on the radio in 1988, courtesy of David Glasper, I assumed it was Alison Moyet. When I finally saw Breathe on TOTP2 some 13 or 14 years later I was quite surprised that it was actually a man singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkuDHj-bzp4
faversham saint is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 01:31
Andy_JS
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Lichfield
Posts: 817
I've yet to watch The Big Hits of 1982 and am surprised that Soft Cell weren't featured because like you've already alluded to they had some of the biggest hits of the year, particularly your namesake and 'Say Hello Wave Goodbye.' Speaking of which, what do you think of Marc's early 90s version of 'Say Hello Wave Goodbye?' I've heard it on Radio 2 a few times and have been disappointed they weren't playing the original.

I'm sure we've exchanged posts about 'Torch' before and I will once again state it is one of the most criminally underplayed and overlooked 80s songs.

I've had a wee look through the Popscene site and it's fair to say you should be pleased! There is one Jimmied episode and I'm not too sure whether that had a separate performance of 'Torch' to the one that was on a non-Jimmied or BLT () episode the fortnight before.

P.S. Here's a taster for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heGr1sS7Bmo
Does anyone know whether Cindy Ecstasy actually sung the vocals on Torch? She's from New York I think, but the female vocalist on the song sounds very English. On the other hand, when Cindy is singing on Memorabilia she sounds American, although on that track her part is more of a rap than singing as on Torch. So it's possible she was imitating an English accent on Torch...

Just my opinion but I think Torch was better than Goody Two Shoes and therefore deserved at least one week at number one.
Andy_JS is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 01:32
mb@2day
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 8,709
Conversely, when I first heard Breathe's feminine sounding vocals on 'Hands To Heaven' on the radio in 1988, courtesy of David Glasper, I assumed it was Alison Moyet. When I finally saw Breathe on TOTP2 some 13 or 14 years later I was quite surprised that it was actually a man singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkuDHj-bzp4
My impression is back then in the pre internet days there was a little bit of industry made mystery / confusion that drew buyers in. I bought the Yazoo single knowing nothing about it except I liked the song.

It makes me realise that I was a bit blinkered about other groups outside my tastes or not paying enough attention.

Watching this show tonight its fairly obvious Boy George is a bloke despite the soft vocals and the dreads.
mb@2day is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 01:38
Andy_JS
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Lichfield
Posts: 817
My impression is back then in the pre internet days there was a little bit of industry made mystery / confusion that drew buyers in. I bought the Yazoo single knowing nothing about it except I liked the song.

It makes me realise that I was a bit blinkered about other groups outside my tastes or not paying enough attention.

Watching this show tonight its fairly obvious Boy George is a bloke despite the soft vocals and the dreads.
Apparently a lot of people thought Boy George and Rick Astley were black when they first heard their records: Boy George a black woman and Astley a black man. Pete Waterman mentioned this on one of those 80s music shows a few years ago.
Andy_JS is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 02:20
tortfeasor
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 3,140
Glad we're getting the 'Jockey' joke. I think that edition's Yewtree'd.
Now for some reason I thought the Jockey Wilson picture was an actual BBC cock-up, though possibly the media fallout referred to on the documentary might have helped that; it was good to hear the actual story behind it. Either way it's got to be one of the best things that ever happened on TOTP in my book.

I prefer the original version of the song mind you.
tortfeasor is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-06-2016, 05:43
Miss Ann Thropy
Inactive Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 541
Conversely, when I first heard Breathe's feminine sounding vocals on 'Hands To Heaven' on the radio in 1988, courtesy of David Glasper, I assumed it was Alison Moyet. When I finally saw Breathe on TOTP2 some 13 or 14 years later I was quite surprised that it was actually a man singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkuDHj-bzp4
I've heard this said a lot but either in Yazoo or solo I never associated masculinity in her voice. Might be a case of seeing her before hearing her though.
Miss Ann Thropy is offline   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 13:15.