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

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Arthur Daley wrote: »

If top of the pops went into decline around 85/86 it was just a reflection of the music industry surely. The period 79-85 truly was a golden age for the sheer quality knocking about in the mainstream chart music, it could be said. By 87 music was a bit clapped out in general. Although we did get some highlights over the next few years like the zenith of U2 and the rave/dance scene, until things picked up again in 90/91 with Nirvana and some of the indies.

Indeed. The charts became pretty much a wasteland for good music after 83 (not that there wasn't mountains of crap before then, but there was a good deal of quality too.) I refuse to believe it's just my age.

Hotblack Desiato

W'hen the Stock, Aitken, Waterman assault gets started I think I'll delete the series link

Welsh Megaman

Let’s be honest, nobody remembers the period between Live Aid and The Second Summer Of Love/Madchester with any fondness.

Stock Aitken Waterman, Johnny Hates Jazz, Living In A Box, T’Pau, Wet Wet Wet, Swing Out Sister...none can hold a candle to The Second British invasion in the first half of the 80’s.

R.I.P eddie clark (fast eddie)guitarist with motorhead
The last member of the classic motorhead line up is gone to the great gig in the sky to join philthy animal and lemmy.thanks for all those great headbanging concerts back in the day.....born to lose....live to win.....

dasdog

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Let’s be honest, nobody remembers the period between Live Aid and The Second Summer Of Love/Madchester with any fondness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqiS1CVuLWU

Thrash metal filled that void :pac: The Metallica footage in part 2/6 was shot a few days after they played here in 1988. This is a great and humorous snapshot of that period. I still can't get my head around the fact some of them are not just still going but are household names now.

Ol' Donie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Let’s be honest, nobody remembers the period between Live Aid and The Second Summer Of Love/Madchester with any fondness.

Stock Aitken Waterman, Johnny Hates Jazz, Living In A Box, T’Pau, Wet Wet Wet, Swing Out Sister...none can hold a candle to The Second British invasion in the first half of the 80’s.

Yeah, it's not as if anyone still secretly loves Swing Out Sister even though they would never, ever admit it to their mates.

Skid X

An enjoyable six minutes of David Bowie's Photographer talking about their time on tour on Newsnight during the week

Go Harvey Go

Skid X wrote: »

Ah sure ... I'm thinking of something like "BeebRock - Music Shows on BBC Four, Sky Arts and everywhere else"

Keeps the branding in place (which is increasingly important in an increasingly fragmented social media marketplace!) while staying faithful to the thread origins and giving almost but not quite equal billing to Sky Arts.

...Of course! Why didn't I think of any of this before?!

And I suppose there's nothing wrong with a *tiny* bit of bias, either.

There would probably have to be *some* reflection of it being a continuation thread, however. "BeebRock 2", for instance.

Arthur Daley wrote: »

If top of the pops went into decline around 85/86 it was just a reflection of the music industry surely. The period 79-85 truly was a golden age for the sheer quality knocking about in the mainstream chart music, it could be said. By 87 music was a bit clapped out in general.

Very, very true.

Still didn't mean that TOTP had to have so many videos in it, mind. MTV may not have launched in Europe until August '87 - but The Chart Show first appeared on Channel 4 in April '86...

Welsh Megaman

Dancehall reggae. With a horn section courtesy of Scotland Yard.

Welcome to 1985.

Welsh Megaman

Two songs by Alvin Stardust in the Top 40 :O

Like I said, a golden age for British music

Skid X

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

There would probably have to be *some* reflection of it being a continuation thread, however. "BeebRock 2", for instance.

Good Point, that'll be in the title.

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Dancehall reggae. With a horn section courtesy of Scotland Yard.

Welcome to 1985.

I suspect SL2 might have borrowed bits of that for 'On a Ragga Tip' a few years later. Lovely stuff.

Welsh Megaman

SHOUT!

Classic

Jordan 199

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

SHOUT

Let it all out

Welsh Megaman

Oh god

Welsh Megaman

Sorry Madonna, I can’t see you lasting more than a year...Cyndi Lauper has the ‘kooky girl next door’ image wrapped up.

Nice try though :pac:

Welsh Megaman

Andrew Ridgeley’s suit :O :O :O

Gizmo55

Bono with some serious shoulder motion during the famous line.

Welsh Megaman

Never understood why Curt and Roland from Tears For Fears didn’t receive a songwriting credit for ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ (the intro samples ‘The Hurting’ ).

Welsh Megaman

Already two classics in the shape of ‘Everything She Wants’ And ‘Nellie Th...’, I mean, ‘Shout’ on TOTP 1985.

Gizmo55

Ah here, this Good Old Days lark would do your head in when you’re settling in for a night of BeebRock. No idea why they have it on in the middle of that schedule.

Edit: But tallyho, chaps!

Skid X

It's a shame to have to stop at 10,000 posts - we should keep going until we are dragged out kicking and screaming / until the thread gets locked, in the style of Rex Bob Lowenstein**

** Note to Mods, we wouldn't do that, honestly

Gizmo55

Bowie singing, ‘Five years, that’s all we got’.
Me singing, ‘18 posts, that’s all we got’.

corkie

Meet the BBC’s Sound Of 2018 winner

Sigrid beats off competition from Pale Waves, Rex Orange County and IAMDDB

The BBC have named Norwegian pop sensation Sigrid as the winner of the Sound Of 2018.

The 21-year-old has seen an explosion in popularity across the globe over the last two years after acclaimed festival sets and with huge singles ‘Don’t Kill My Vibe’, ‘Strangers’ and ‘Plot Twist’.

Hotblack Desiato

dasdog wrote: »

Thrash metal filled that void :pac:

For me, U2 and INXS filled that late-80s void. I can't bear to listen to U2 now, but INXS are still acceptable

Then I discovered Sonic Youth and my musical world changed forever. I bought a ticket to see them in the Top Hat and a little known band from Washington State were in support.. six weeks later Nevermind came out and Nirvana went massive. It was strange to watch. I think Kurt had an inkling of what was to come when he wrote In Bloom:

He's the one who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun
But he don't know what it means
He don't know what it means and I say, yeah


Still think Sonic Youth have never been equalled as a band in the history of music, mind.

"Does this sound simple? Fcuk you. Does fcuk you sound simple enough?" - that was the first assertive feminist voice I heard in my whole life. Thank you Kim Gordon.

Hotblack Desiato

Sigrid is great, more power to her.

Gizmo55

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

For me, U2 and INXS filled that late-80s void. I can't bear to listen to U2 now, but INXS are still acceptable

Then I discovered Sonic Youth and my musical world changed forever. I bought a ticket to see them in the Top Hat and a little known band from Washington State were in support.. six weeks later Nevermind came out and Nirvana went massive. It was strange to watch. I think Kurt had an inkling of what was to come when he wrote In Bloom:

He's the one who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun
But he don't know what it means
He don't what it means and I say, yeah

I was in the Purty that night, a mate dragged me along to see the Frames. We all ended up outside the Top Hat. Everyone said Sonic Youth were great but were all raving about the support band. As you say, it was just before Nirvana broke big. Was raging I didn’t go.

Arthur Daley

Beebrock - the weekend starts here -BBC4/BBC2/sky etc.....

Gizmo55

Suzi Quatro - the bass looks feckin huge.

Hotblack Desiato

Gizmo55 wrote: »

I was in the Purty that night, a mate dragged me along to see the Frames. We all ended up outside the Top Hat. Everyone said Sonic Youth were great but were all raving about the support band. As you say, it was just before Nirvana broke big. Was raging I didn’t go.

SY were kickin' ass and taking names that night, but their support band made a name for themselves by being extremely loud... and having very catchy songs

Hotblack Desiato

Gizmo55 wrote: »

Suzi Quatro - the bass looks feckin huge.

That's because she's so small