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Old 14-12-2016, 02:44
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I hate to dent your enthusiasm, but the TOTP forum legend that is Rich Tea has beat you to it …

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2191824

Mods, please could you merge these threads? Thanks!
What's happened with Rich Tea? He is still posting at DS but seems to have stopped posting in this thread. Has he vanished for good from the TOTP thread I wonder.

If you're reading this RT - get posting here once again!
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Old 14-12-2016, 05:27
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What's happened with Rich Tea? He is still posting at DS but seems to have stopped posting in this thread. Has he vanished for good from the TOTP thread I wonder.

If you're reading this RT - get posting here once again!
I'd imagine he's compiling the Mother of all multi-quotes that'll make 'War & Peace' look like a flyer from your local take-away! 😎
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Old 14-12-2016, 05:37
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1982 was an OK year, but no way would I call it vintage.
Yes Boz, 1982 was hardly a vintage year for me either. There are many songs i think are just ok, as well as a fair few i don't like at all. However, the ones that really excel, and transcend the moment seem few and far between. Yes, there are songs like The Jam's "A Town Called Malice" and The Stranglers "Golden Brown" i like, and which i could have put in my list, but i know that if given a choice between those and some of their earlier output, i'd snap that older stuff up, in preference, in an instant.

There are still a few exceptional songs about, mind!
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Old 14-12-2016, 05:41
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You really were a child of 1982 Ursula!
I know!
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Old 14-12-2016, 05:45
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What's happened with Rich Tea? He is still posting at DS but seems to have stopped posting in this thread. Has he vanished for good from the TOTP thread I wonder!
Maybe he's had enough of 1982 & jumped ship into 1983 already!! I'm sure he will return!

I'd imagine he's compiling the Mother of all multi-quotes that'll make 'War & Peace' look like a flyer from your local take-away! 😎
- You could be right there! - He hasn't commented on here, since about November - so it may be pretty long!!
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Old 14-12-2016, 09:04
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Top 5 - 1982

1. The Jam - Town Called Malice/Precious (same as a 14 year old and at 48 )

2. Kid Creole - Annie I'm not your Daddy (bought it at the time)

3. Monsoon - Ever so Lonely (probably wouldn't have put it in then, but am as a result of watching the repeats).

4. Wham! - Young Guns (for the impact on their first TOTP performance, plus I bought the Fantastic album the following year)

5. Shalamar - Night to Remember (loved it at the time, and I don't think it has dated all that badly - good representative of dance/"disco" track of the era.
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Old 14-12-2016, 09:21
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Top 5 - 1982

1. The Jam - Town Called Malice/Precious (same as a 14 year old and at 48 )

2. Kid Creole - Annie I'm not your Daddy (bought it at the time)

3. Monsoon - Ever so Lonely (probably wouldn't have put it in then, but am as a result of watching the repeats).

4. Wham! - Young Guns (for the impact on their first TOTP performance, plus I bought the Fantastic album the following year)

5. Shalamar - Night to Remember (loved it at the time, and I don't think it has dated all that badly - good representative of dance/"disco" track of the era.
BIB - how could I have missed that off my list?

Another belated addition: 'Uncertain Smile' by The The (original 12").
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Old 14-12-2016, 09:41
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I bought 'Let Me Go' at the time, loved that single. It almost made the top 40, stopping short by just one place.

I bought 4 of the first 5 singles that Heaven 17 released (all in 1981 and 1982), none of them made the top 40. The only one I didn't buy is the totally forgotten 'I'm Your Money'. I can't even remember that one.

With 'Temptation' they seemed to decide to move in a more commercial direction, presumably to actually have a decent sized hit. I can remember an interview the band did with The Face magazine in 1981 or 1982 where they seemed to be very dismissive almost to the point of jealousy at the success their former bandmate was having with his version of The Human League. Indeed, they came over as sounding bitter that Virgin Records were pouring more money in to promoting the League ahead of themselves. Given that at least The Human League were having more success with a more commercial sound it's no surprise that Virgin were bankrolling them more.

Heaven 17 were another act that I saw drinking in a pub when I was living in Notting Hill in 1987. They were often seen drinking in a pub called the Slug & Lettuce (a very 80s sounding name for a pub!) in Ladbroke Grove. As that pub was just around the corner from the Sarm West studios (owned by Trevor Horn and where Band Aid's single was recorded and filmed in 1984) and seeing as they released an album a few months later I assume they were busy recording that album at the time. By then their chart days seemed to be over, which remixes in the early 90s aside, it was.
I'm glad you and Andy are also members of the 'Let Me Go' fan club! Strangely, it's the group's only US Hot 100 hit - and was also a big hit in the dance charts at the time. Why it didn't register here beats me - maybe got lost in the run-up to Xmas '82?

I can half understand why Heaven 17 might have been bitter about The Human League's success - Penthouse And Pavement is a brilliant album and, for me, their best work. Having said that, as I understand it, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh benefitted financially from the success of Dare!, under the terms of the agreement that allowed Phil Oakey and Adrian Wright to keep The Human League name … so they shouldn't have been that bitter!
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Old 14-12-2016, 09:57
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I got the 5 album box set of Heaven 17 albums.
I want to get the Level 42 and Aha ones as well.

But I have Hunting High and Low as a 24bit download which sounds great.
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Old 16-12-2016, 16:23
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Is this thing working again now?
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Old 16-12-2016, 16:27
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But I have Hunting High and Low as a 24bit download which sounds great.
Scoundrel Days is their masterpiece.

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It seems we'll be able to witter along with the show tonight then? My life has meaning once more!
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Old 16-12-2016, 16:47
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Is this thing working again now?
I think so!
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Old 16-12-2016, 17:09
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Where are all the promised changes to the forum?
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Old 16-12-2016, 17:40
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A few thoughts on the Mike Smith episode, which I watched this afternoon.

The Hall & Oates performance looked like a studio performance, but not in the TOTP studio. It would have been interesting if they had been in the studio at the same time as Wham, because I can imagine Andrew Ridgley and John Oates getting together backstage to air their grievances - "We're the stars, man - they're holding us BACK!"

Really not that keen on "Jack & Diane" - it just seems like a never-ending stream of rock 'n' roll cliches, lyrically and musically.

Never thought this at the time, but listening to "Living On The Ceiling" now, it seems to have a strong David Byrne influence. Good record, though.

The Diana Ross video is hilarious thanks to the not-so-special effects trying to make us believe that Ms Ross is flying. I quite like the song, though. Nice use of rising and falling dynamics.
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:00
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Where are all the promised changes to the forum?
I must admit, nothing seems to have changed!

The was supposed to be getting retired (and it's also the first time I've ever used that one. It's also the last time too!) and we were also supposed to be getting new features.

Perhaps the techs couldn't get anything different to happen
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:07
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I must admit, nothing seems to have changed!

The was supposed to be getting retired (and it's also the first time I've ever used that one. It's also the last time too!) and we were also supposed to be getting new features.

Perhaps the techs couldn't get anything different to happen
The announcement at the top of the page seems to imply that the changes will be made in a second - and bigger - transitional phase than the one that's just happened.

How soon that will happen, though, is anybody's guess.

The Hall & Oates performance looked like a studio performance, but not in the TOTP studio.
It might have been another one from 'The Late Late Breakfast Show' as the background of tube lights looked similar to the one Kool and the Gang were in front of for their performance from the same show.
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:09
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I can't see any obvious differences either. Oh well, at least we're good to go for tonight's show. Just time for a quick bite to eat first.
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:24
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Oh, we're back in time for tonight's! Nice surprise, wasn't expecting that.
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:26
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Glad DS is back in time for TOTP.

Also lucky we had Sky at Night last night while DS was down.
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:27
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Where are all the promised changes to the forum?
You probably can't see them as I've just downvoted your post.
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:28
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You probably can't see them as I've just downvoted your post.
Liked.
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:30
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A song that is pretty much definitive 1982!
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:30
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Well, he won't be using that dry cleaners again.
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:31
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And to think that gender bending seems to be the in thing now.

All the youngsters today thinking they invented transexuality.
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Old 16-12-2016, 19:31
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Yay, nice to see Blue Zoo get a showing on the early edition this time round. (Not that they were likely to cut the opening act...unless it was an early Shaky performance)
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