Never mind the dance floor - to TOTP now! (And you can add Shalamar to that list!)

Gott im Himmel - that is beautiful. I love the piano as an instrument and this version is sublime.

Thanks for the heads-up. It's going on the pod imminently.

Easily the best recommendation I have had on this thread. I played it twice in a row.

Have a look at my original post Mr Magoo!
Shalamar : present and correct.

Sorry - head full of a summer cold!

Wow, what a wonderful take on the song.

Thanks for posting the link LGO7. It's a simply superb cover and it's wonderfully melancholic.

Reference Albert Hammond OBE, this is his breakthrough hit with "The Family Dogg", summer 1969.
He's the one in the snazzy shirt --->>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wopK...ature=youtu.be

Start a party with The Associates and then wind it down later, when everyone's in a sweaty stupor and cooling off, with the Heaven 17 version.

















With Atmosphere by Russ Abbott somewhere in the middle, obvs.

I'll send Little Miss Show-Off round with the lemsip!
Get well soon.

On the same subject many Europeans pronounce the letter " i " as "ee" whilst singing - I shall also be testing that you have taken note, when the next European group appears on TOTP!

- I can't believe I've just read that!!

I would've thought that song was as well known as most of their other big hits!! But then I grew up with lots of Beatles records in the house, so maybe I just always knew of it.

I'm calling it 'very average' for now - but compared to some of the TOTP yet to come in the late 80s/early 90s it may even be referred to as "above average" one day!!

Although ''The Ballad Of John And Yoko'' is viewed as a Beatles single, only John and Paul appear on it, and for me, it almost seems more like a John Lennon solo single, with a little help from Paul. Even the title relates to just John and new wife Yoko, and their antics that were causing so much commotion at the time. I almost think of it as being detached from the rest of The Beatles catalogue for that reason. Good single release like the rest of The Beatles singles, but possibly the easiest to overlook.

I thought you wanted Servalan to get better, not send her over the edge!

Get well soon Servie!

Another simply gorgeous cover of "Party Fears Two" is this one by King Creosote. Kenny Anderson is surely one of Scotland's best kept secrets - he's released dozens of albums which are all superb, yet hardly anyone knows him!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GaXdmdirvY

Hope to have got this done sooner, but here's my comments on Thursday's edition.

I'm scoring it a 6.25 out of 10 - a .5 of course being lost for Garth Crooks. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but I can't get over how he cocked the intro to Buck's Fizz's My Camera Never Lies. Mind you, I suppose calling them Buck Fizz wasn't as bad as if he'd got the first letters of their name the wrong way round!

It was off to a promising start with Altered Images, which I'd actually forgotten was on this show. I really like See Those Eyes, though admit its not as instant as Don't To Talk To Me About Love and certainly Happy Birthday. Loved Clare's ra-ra dress, but the hat was too much!

I wouldn't have minded Julio again had it been a different performance and not the video again. He obviously couldn't have been bothered to visit the TOTP studio and there's nothing about the video that's particularly interesting.

Yay - Bucks (not Buck!) Fizz! My Camera Never Lies is one of my faves of theirs and I've quite a few clips of them performing it on various TV shows. I just love the way the verses too and fro between the boys and the girls. Not sure what was going on with Cheryl and Jay's outfits, though. Who told Jay that bloomers were in fashion?

Definitely couldn't sit through Foster and Allen again. It's probably not that bad a song, but their outfits were just so distracting. I'm guessing this was a hit because of St Patrick's day.

I couldn't bear to watch the Boomtown Rats. I know Bob Geldof's known for being scruffy, but he looked ten times worse than usual and I'm not sure what the body builder poses were all about. Shame really, as I don't think its that bad a tune.

Don't mind The Nolans, but Don't Love Me Too Hard isn't one of their best by any means - I don't think bit where it goes quite low works at all, and the video isn't that interesting. I did feel sorry for bellboy, though.

Killing Joke did liven things up a bit in the context of this edition, but its certainly not something I'd want to see/hear again until I forget how bad this edition is and end up watching it again.

I'm not sure if this was the second or third showing off Pluto's Your Honour, probably because I foget how this goes as soon as I've finished hearing it.

At last something great - Chas and Dave! Their finest moment, as far as I'm concerned and definitely in my top 5 of 80s no. 2s. The grammar is absolutely terrible in the lyrics, but that what makes it work as it comes across as so real.

I think I'm right that the Seven Tears performance hasn't been on before. I definitely prefer it to the other one. If I had to choose between Seven Tears and The Lion Sleeps Tonight I'd have to go for The Lion Sleeps Tonight, but know I'm being biased because I love Fantasy Island so much.

As much as I'm not overly fussed with Party Fears Two, it's certainly better to me than some of the other songs on this edition so it was quite disappointing it was relegated to play out song.

After watching last Thursday's 'poor' edition of TOTP again - I wonder why they chose 'Party Fears Two' as the play out song? I mean they spend the whole show featuring some of the most mediocre songs & performances - & then save probably the best song of the 1980s to be played out to camera shots of dancers & credits only to be cut off at the end!!

Surely play out songs should be either new releases or dance numbers that the audience can dance along too. Party Fears Two is a song that should be listened to & appreciated to the full - not just some afterthought.

I just find it very bizarre scheduling ... Just saying!

Mind you - having said that - 'The Alabama Song' by David Bowie was played out the other year & must be one of the weirdest play out songs in the history of TOTP!!

Apparently Killing Joke's frontman Jaz Coleman whose voice is on Empire song had fled to Iceland to escape the forthcoming apocalypse hence the rest of the band miming the song and the appearance of Jacques Cousteau on synths

Correct. Top of the class Ursula.

Serious question time. Is Servalan male or female? I always thought male. Am I wrong?
Or ... do you mean that 5 minutes in the presence of Servalan would push our much beloved LMSO over the edge? :

RSVP.

Very palatable indeed. Similar rendition to Glen's. I'm ashamed to say, although I am a Scot, I am unaware of KIng Creosote.

Well, the real Servalan was all woman …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMmguqS1Ofs

I think one minute of LMSO in the presence of that Servalan would be enough to get her incinerated, never mind pushed over the edge (the Supreme Commander of the Galactic Federation had a reputation to maintain).

But I might have to take a leaf out of that book if I had LMSO as a nursemaid in my current state - that would be enough to make my condition ten times worse! (At least she's behind the TV screen on the TOTP repeats)

Thank you for the 'Get Well Soon's!

Thank you Mr Ramraid!

Have to say while watching it first time I wondered who was singing, until I saw the drummer was miming the lead vocal.

Me too - it was hard to tell! - Looking forward to 'Love Like Blood' in the mid 80s, if we get that far!