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Top Of The Pops

 
  

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foolish fat finger
20:23 / 29.06.06
TOTP is getting a bit stale, but they'll never kill it off, it's too much of an institution... if they get rid of it, I'll eat my hat... oh, hang on a minute...

I saw the radio one roadshow in Brighton a few years ago, and quickly walked in the opposite direction...

John, I think I remember the Eels performance- I seem to recall they were all playing midget instruments as well... or maybe it was just the drummer. nice to see a drummer smashing up a half-size junior kit... I think he just kicked it once and it fell apart... I like pathos... or is it bathos? never can remember...

are there any other bands who have blatantly flouted the 'must mime' rule? I remember the singer from Faith no More mugging into the camera and waggling his naughty tongue around during his singing bits on 'you want it all'...

I liked Beck's performance a few years back, where his backing band was made up entirely of octogenarians. and octopusses. no, not octopusses. might have been a squid on bass tho.

mmm, tasty trilby...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
00:43 / 01.07.06
I don't know whether Later's music policy became more conservative or whether my own tastes have changed, but for the last five years or so it has been dreadful

I think Later became a show that really sank into its own format and as that happened it stopped being interesting. The people they invited on were originally given quite equal amounts of time to showcase their music, I recall it being quite unbiased. The range was wide given the type of programme it was. This seems to have been reduced into something more predictable- same type of sounds, varied amounts of time, a less interesting scope and more talking from Jools Holland. I think it's suffering because it's been on for too long.
 
 
Quantum
18:17 / 17.07.06
Less than two weeks until the last ever TOTP! ("They'll never cancel it", way to read the thread FFF, nice one)

did anyone ever go to a Radio 1 Roadshow?

Yes. On the Isle of Wight, around 1990, my best mate and I waited to one side while Right Said Fred got into a hot air balloon to leave, all rock 'n roll, and screamed at them repeatedly;

"YOU RIPPED OFF JIMI HENDRIX! YOU RIPPED OFF JIMI! YOU FUCKERS!"

(as you may recall, their hit record at the time featured a catchy riff lifted off 'Third Stone from the Sun' by Mr Hendrix. We were not pleased.)


So anyway,who's watching the very last ever TOTP to see if they finally reveal the crowd to be robot mannequins?
 
 
Spaniel
11:53 / 18.07.06
...We were not pleased.

Er, I hope you're a bit embarrassed now.
 
 
Quantum
14:06 / 22.07.06
we were 15 + I have no shame = not embarrassed
 
  

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