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BeebRock - The BBC4/BBC3/BBC2/BBC1 Music Programmes thread

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    #8732
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,224 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Indie music invades TOTP!


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    #8733
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,391 ✭✭✭cml387


    Errm why is Morrissey twirling some lupins.
    OK I am not nor never was a fan. There. I've said it.


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    #8734
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,224 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    From The Smiths to...Marilyn! :O :O


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    #8735
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Mar on this appearance

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    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #8736
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,391 ✭✭✭cml387


    Is that from the "Penguin Classic"?

    (Not a fan etc etc.).


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    #8737
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Simple Minds...shivers

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #8738
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,391 ✭✭✭cml387


    After a few meh shows, this is more like it.


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    #8739
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    saw them in Croke Park 86 , great gig

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #8740
    [Deleted User]
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    Looking forward to the Buddy Holly documentary tonight on BBC Four!


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    #8741
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,224 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    The Style Council...shivers


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    #8742
    infogiver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭infogiver


    cml387 wrote: »
    Errm why is Morrissey twirling some lupins.
    OK I am not nor never was a fan. There. I've said it.

    He looks so young and yet so old.
    Mozza. Irreplaceable.
    My favourite song is Late Night Maudlin Street.


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    #8743
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 72,224 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    infogiver wrote: »
    He looks so young and yet so old.
    Mozza. Irreplaceable.
    My favourite song is Late Night Maudlin Street.

    Always been a fan of 'Alma Matters'.


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    #8744
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,391 ✭✭✭cml387


    For older TOTP fans, here's a clip of the camera rehearsal for a TOTP in 1975, with assorted floor managers and Noel Edmonds helping out on "Hold Me Tight.
    Followed by the talkback of the vision mixer counting bars for the camera shots on "Island Girl".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MHeMEc32C4


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    #8745
    OldRio
    Registered Users Posts: 5,946 ✭✭✭OldRio


    The Who and now the Stones.
    This is more bloody like it. About time.


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    #8746
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,391 ✭✭✭cml387


    The Buddy Holly doc on BBC4 tonight would want to be pretty good to improve on the BBC Arena documentary from 1985 which you can see on Youtube.


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    #8747
    OldRio
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    Very enjoyable show that.


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    #8748
    [Deleted User]
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    cml387 wrote: »
    The Buddy Holly doc on BBC4 tonight would want to be pretty good to improve on the BBC Arena documentary from 1985 which you can see on Youtube.

    Oh yes, got that on vhs somewhere!


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    #8749
    [Deleted User]
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    I so love Buddy Holly, what he would have become only for that plane crash, who knows! So influential, it's as if he knew he wouldn't be around for long as he packed in so much music in such a short space of time.


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    #8750
    inajock
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭inajock


    18 month career.some legacy


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    #8751
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,272 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    Confession time.

    This is all I know about Frank Zappa:

    He has a kid called Dweezil or something.
    Steve Vai was in his band for a bit.
    In my head, he looks like Weird Al Yankovic.
    I think he's supposed to be good.

    I think it's time I took Run DMC's advice, and the next time someone is teaching I WILL get taught.

    Frank Zappa was a true genius, one of the best guitarists ever, and died all too young :( (prostate cancer)

    He was often lumped in with the '60s counterculture, but was a classically trained musician, hated hippies, regarded them as brainless and took the p*ss out of them and the likes constantly :) he abhorred drugs

    If you want an accessible Zappa album, Sheik Yerbouti is a good one.

    Parental advisory: bad language and sexual explicitness abound in his work :)

    He was a huge believer in free speech and appeared in US Congress hearings about censorship of music.

    Great video here, he blows these guys out of the water

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc


    silverharp wrote: »
    Simple Minds...shivers

    Simple Minds were great up to and including New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84, a great album.

    After that they went to complete US Top 40 Radio Friendly Unit Shifter sh*t.

    Can never get over the accent Jim Kerr sings in either, other Glasgow bands like Teenage Fanclub sing in their actual speaking accent and in interviews took the p*ss out of him over it :)

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #8752
    infogiver
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Frank Zappa was a true genius, one of the best guitarists ever, and died all too young :( (prostate cancer)

    He was often lumped in with the '60s counterculture, but was a classically trained musician, hated hippies, regarded them as brainless and took the p*ss out of them and the likes constantly :) he abhorred drugs

    If you want an accessible Zappa album, Sheik Yerbouti is a good one.

    Parental advisory: bad language and sexual explicitness abound in his work :)

    He was a huge believer in free speech and appeared in US Congress hearings about censorship of music.

    Great video here, he blows these guys out of the water

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc





    Simple Minds were great up to and including New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84, a great album.

    After that they went to complete US Top 40 Radio Friendly Unit Shifter sh*t.

    Can never get over the accent Jim Kerr sings in either, other Glasgow bands like Teenage Fanclub sing in their actual speaking accent and in interviews took the p*ss out of him over it :)

    I'm not a Simple Minds mega fan but this video seems to somehow capture the electric atmosphere of the early 80s, or maybe it's just the fact that it was my teens. I just love this:

    https://youtu.be/b7XZPhgmTaw


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    #8753
    Hotblack Desiato
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    infogiver wrote: »
    I'm not a Simple Minds mega fan but this video seems to somehow capture the electric atmosphere of the early 80s, or maybe it's just the fact that it was my teens. I just love this:

    https://youtu.be/b7XZPhgmTaw

    Ooh I'm being followed :pac:

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #8754
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Hard not to think of the song Dont you forget about me and the movie the Breakfast Club and vice versa

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUN-8TvevGU

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #8755
    infogiver
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    I wonder do they intend to continue into 1984 with these old TOTPs?
    84 was pretty good too, to be fair.


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    #8756
    infogiver
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    http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1984.shtml
    Bit of a nightmare for the Beeb with Frankie being banned and the 2 songs being No. 1 for so many weeks.


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    #8757
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,272 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    silverharp wrote: »
    Hard not to think of the song Dont you forget about me and the movie the Breakfast Club and vice versa

    Which is where it all started to go wrong (or right, $$$$) for them

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #8758
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    infogiver wrote: »
    I wonder do they intend to continue into 1984 with these old TOTPs?
    84 was pretty good too, to be fair.

    I think they will, they have already made "Top of The Pops - The Story of 1984" and they are pushing the TOTP repeats on Twitter a lot more recently. Someone has The Story of 1984 on his CV https://www.thetalentmanager.co.uk/talent/44151


    Just an idea I'd be interested in getting peoples opinions on - should we spin off the TOTP shows into a separate thread "Top of The Pops on BBC Four" or something like that?

    I think maybe it might attract some more passing traffic when the shows are on than this thread currently does. There could still be some crossover with this thread if it happens, and if the new thread didn't catch on we could revert to the Status Quo.

    I don't mind either way, to be honest.


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    #8759
    silverharp
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Which is where it all started to go wrong (or right, $$$$) for them

    at the time it was just a natural progression, get big in the UK then crack the US, would be right to class them as Scottish U2? Also the big outdoor stadium gigs were starting to become a thing and they were a part of that. the 3 big concerts I went to at that time were U2 in Croke park in 85 then lucky me I was over in the US and my aunt brought me to see Bruce Springsteen in Giant Stadium and then I saw Simple Minds in Croke again in 86.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #8760
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Skid X wrote: »
    infogiver wrote: »
    I wonder do they intend to continue into 1984 with these old TOTPs?
    84 was pretty good too, to be fair.

    I think they will, they have already made "Top of The Pops - The Story of 1984" and they are pushing the TOTP repeats on Twitter a lot more recently. Someone has The Story of 1984 on his CV https://www.thetalentmanager.co.uk/talent/44151


    Just an idea I'd be interested in getting peoples opinions on - should we spin off the TOTP shows into a separate thread "Top of The Pops on BBC Four" or something like that?

    I think maybe it might attract some more passing traffic when the shows are on than this thread currently does. There could still be some crossover with this thread if it happens, and if the new thread didn't catch on we could revert to the Status Quo.

    I don't mind either way, to be honest.
    What's wrong with Status Quo?


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    #8761
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,849 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Skid X wrote: »
    I think they will, they have already made "Top of The Pops - The Story of 1984" and they are pushing the TOTP repeats on Twitter a lot more recently. Someone has The Story of 1984 on his CV https://www.thetalentmanager.co.uk/talent/44151


    Just an idea I'd be interested in getting peoples opinions on - should we spin off the TOTP shows into a separate thread "Top of The Pops on BBC Four" or something like that?

    I think maybe it might attract some more passing traffic when the shows are on than this thread currently does. There could still be some crossover with this thread if it happens, and if the new thread didn't catch on we could revert to the Status Quo.

    I don't mind either way, to be honest.

    Maybe just amend the heading to add TOTP so people spot it?

    hope they do 84 and 85 , that covers off my early teenage year :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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