Top of the Pops Repeats

[thehamish]

Definitely haven't heard of that one!

i acquired a dvdr which turned out to be the same tv broadcast version id seen in a fever dream years previously! ahem. truly a piece of tat, but i love it. Mud's "acting" oooh lord, only the kiss movie beats it for "why??????"

[thehamish]

saturdays repeat was a hoot for all the wrong reasons, havent seen it for a couple of weeks, so not sure if tonights episode was the first to feature predominately "live" vocals.
so we had The Moments, Thelma Houston, the Rubettes, Mr Big all singing their little hearts out. shitelight of the week was Legs &Co "dancing" to The Manhattan Transfer. childhood trauma aside, twas interesting to see this song "in context" etc, still fucking awful though. turned off before Leo Sayer, as he is another horrible memory from the mists of time.

[drterror666]

The Manhattan Transfer! They used to be on everything I ever used to watch. I couldn't go anywhere or watch anything without them being there! Bloody nightclub jazz bollox! Filed down there with The Brotherhood of Man and Showaddywaddy!

[thehamish]

The Manhattan Transfer! They used to be on everything I ever used to watch. I couldn't go anywhere or watch anything without them being there! Bloody nightclub jazz bollox! Filed down there with The Brotherhood of Man and Showaddywaddy!

sing it brother! dont forget Peter bastard Skellern as well

[drterror666]

Peter Skellern deserves nothing more than to be raped anally with spiked metal objects, stripped of his flesh and lowered into a pot of corrosive acid! This treatment would also be relevent in the case of Neil Sedaka.

[thehamish]

Peter Skellern deserves nothing more than to be raped anally with spiked metal objects, stripped of his flesh and lowered into a pot of corrosive acid! This treatment would also be relevent in the case of Neil Sedaka.

Don't you mince your words now! say what you mean, all friends here and that.

[Sgt Sunshine]

Peter Skellern deserves nothing more than to be raped anally with spiked metal objects, stripped of his flesh and lowered into a pot of corrosive acid! This treatment would also be relevent in the case of Neil Sedaka.

lol.......What's poor Neil Sedaka ever done to you...
me bloody smilies won't work....Bah

[thehamish]

Hello there Sgt!

I feel my rants have "encouraged" people here to revisit a few old sores cough cough, but its all in fun (mostly).

[drterror666]

lol.......What's poor Neil Sedaka ever done to you...
me bloody smilies won't work....Bah

Neil Sedaka ruined my childhood! Fact!

[thehamish]

ELO are graverobbing bastards. Was a bit tipsy last night, so will properly review saturday's repeat hic!

[drterror666]

ELO are the Frankenstein's Monster of Prog!

[Sgt Sunshine]

Hello there Sgt!

I feel my rants have "encouraged" people here to revisit a few old sores cough cough, but its all in fun (mostly).

Hello hamish....

Having fun is what life should be all about.....
Great to see your all still here...
Cheers
Sgt S

[Sgt Sunshine]

Neil Sedaka ruined my childhood! Fact!

Pitchforks at the ready........lets go hunt him then.....lol
Cheers
Sgt S

[thehamish]

Hello hamish....

Having fun is what life should be all about.....
Great to see your all still here...
Cheers
Sgt S

Indeed, ta chief! Annnd i went on a film binge (see reviews thread) so missed sat's repeat. not heartbroken. this weeks for sure though!!

[thehamish]

tuned into last nights episode, the Hairy Cuntache was presenting, which set my teeth on edge to start with, lord i hated him on the radio during my formative years! his leering face reminding me of one of the miners from the Monster of Peladon...

ahem. And the Dead Eyed Kids? sheeeesh, where's my Carpenters records? They were more outrageous in their cosiness...
tonights could be a recommendation, if only for the Legs & Co "routine".
Though i see the bastard Manhattan Project er Transfer are still at the top with "that song". Playout was Bowie's Sound & Vision, which sounded like the future compared to the redcoats and novelty acts preceding it.
next weeks will be more "balanced" hahaha.

[drterror666]

Well, at least there was some pre-funk bollox Bowie to keep you entertained. Let's Dance? Fuck off!

[thehamish]

Well, at least there was some pre-funk bollox Bowie to keep you entertained. Let's Dance? Fuck off!

In my agony, forgot to "big up" the other glam titan Bolan looking trim (mer) than he did in '76, possibly due to all the speed he took with The Damned??? regardless he made the rest of them look like failed New Faces auditions.....

[Dave Jay]

Caught this episode yesterday... bloody awful, 'Sound & Vision' not withstanding (that piss-poor cover of 'Gimme Some' was just hideous... ditto that even worse cover of 'Have I The Right'... and that goes double for Brotherhood of feckin' Man).

The funny thing is that despite it being 1977 it felt more like 1974. Nothing much had changed - still the same old end of the pier/cabaret crap that blighted the charts during much of the '70s. As much as punk is documented as being an instant phenomenon nowadays, it didn't really bother the charts much initially - by and large, it was simply tabloid fodder for the scared masses. It wasn't until the new wave and Two-Tone bands started hitting big in '78/'79 that things started to get interesting again within the mainstream. But we've got a whole load of episodes to wade through before that kicks in...

[thehamish]

Hmmm. Stranglers in june if my memory serves me well......

Plus remember that this was the period were all "disc jockeys" were boring scummers like DLT, Simon Bates etc. with zero interest in playing new music, unlike a certain John Peel. Plus marc had punk bands on his show (ok, this was on ITV but telly is telly)

[Dave Jay]

I'm not saying it wasn't seen on telly at all, thehamish. Just that it initially failed to transform the mainstream in any measurable way until a couple of years in. And, in the meantime, 1977 TOTP still looks as though it's been preserved in aspic since 1973.