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

Ol' Donie · 16-04-2015 09:39PM

Ooh, that number ones programme looks good. Is it on again later? I won't be able to flick over to check tomorrow night. Y'know, in case I hear Sting singing. *shudder*

BBC 4 hasn't actually rocked in a while. Do they not realise the name of the thread?

Edit: Thanks Skid!

Skid X · 16-04-2015 09:45PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Ooh, that number ones programme looks good. Is it on again later? I won't be able to flick over to check tomorrow night. Y'know, in case I hear Sting singing. *shudder*

BBC 4 hasn't actually rocked in a while. Do they not realise the name of the thread?

Edit: Thanks Skid!

Cheers Donie

Yes, The Number Ones thing is on again at 12.20am, and then again on Sunday at 11.55pm.

Ol' Donie · 16-04-2015 09:51PM

12.20?

Think I'll give that a go. Haven't had a good ol Beebrock night in way too long.

FloatingVoter · 16-04-2015 10:07PM

Ever since the Beautiful south failed to make no. 1 with this little tune I have given up all belief in charts (that, plus a little known beat combo from Liverpool buying their way into the charts with bent record shop receipts).

Here we go...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XyzLp06Etc

...and to prove cheating gets you nowhere....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbt8oH5Lxto

Skid X · 16-04-2015 10:24PM

I agree with John Lennon's Aunt Mimi, Love Me Do is a bit weak ...

Upon first hearing an acetate of ‘Love Me Do’, John Lennon’s aunt Mimi supposedly informed her nephew: “If you think you’re going to make your fortune with that, you’ve got another think coming”. However, upon hearing an acetate of ‘Please Please Me’ some time later Mimi told Lennon: “That’s more like it, that should do well”.

http://blogcritics.org/please-please-me-turns-50/

I could have sworn Song For Whoever got to Number One. I would have been wrong

FloatingVoter · 16-04-2015 10:36PM

^ its like totes weak...as the cool kids say. Except for the harmonica. If anybody just heard that for the first time, apologies. It lasts for life.

Go Harvey Go · 16-04-2015 10:37PM

Skid X wrote: »

Elsewhere, Friday Night is Iron Maiden Night on Sky Arts, and the Snooker Marathon starts on BBC2. That's a tune.

Ah, "Drag Racer".

The Doug Wood Band were also responsible for the darts theme, "Cranes".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yi44khg3ao

Two great BBC sporting theme tunes that, like many others, have either been horribly re-recorded or scrapped altogether in recent years.

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Ooh, that number ones programme looks good. Is it on again later? I won't be able to flick over to check tomorrow night. Y'know, in case I hear Sting singing. *shudder*

Is it wrong that I'm a huge Sting and Police fan...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHOevX4DlGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27gTrPPAyk

Skid X · 16-04-2015 11:11PM

Spitting Image Producers "Sting, will you let us re-write the lyrics to Every Breath You Take" for our final show of the series?"

Sting "If you send me tapes of every episode of Spitting Image, I'll sing it myself"

True-ish story, apparently.

Welsh Megaman · 17-04-2015 05:58AM

Sting? A musical about shipbuilding? Jimmy Nail?

*shudder*

To date, The Beautiful South have only had one UK number one (A Little Time).

Welsh Megaman · 17-04-2015 10:16AM

Skid X wrote: »

http://blogcritics.org/please-please-me-turns-50/

Did anybody else have the voice of Brian Mathew in their head whilst reading this article?

17-04-2015 06:13PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Did anybody else have the voice of Brian Mathew in their head whilst reading this article?

I listen to his sixties show every Saturday morning on BBC Radio 2!

Welsh Megaman · 17-04-2015 07:17PM

zorro2566 wrote: »

I listen to his sixties show every Saturday morning on BBC Radio 2!

Me too, absolutely fantastic show! Rarely miss a show (listen back on the player if I do). I like the fact that Brian doesn't just play the obvious 'chart hits' - you'll also get b-sides, album tracks and other rarities.

Skid X · 17-04-2015 08:57PM

Gerry Marsden on that Number Ones programme, he could have a side gig as an Eddie Large double.

Although I don't know if there would be much business in that. He'd probably need to find a Sid Little to appear with him. And a time machine back to the Eighties.

Harry Palmr · 17-04-2015 09:00PM

The first single I bought myself was - Merry Christmas Everybody!*

I love the fact it topped the French charts at Easter.

*shrugs*

*a whole generation can say likeswise!

Ol' Donie · 17-04-2015 11:04PM

GRRRAAAAGH!

Got impatient and flicked over early. Saw some Sting.

Stupid impatience.

Ol' Donie · 17-04-2015 11:08PM

GRRRAAAAGH!

Got impatient and flicked over early. Saw some Sting.

Stupid impatience.

Ol' Donie · 17-04-2015 11:29PM

So far, all I can tell is that there have been some baaaaaaad number ones.

Bryan Adams? Wet Wet Wet?

Number 1? Number 2, more like. (Sorry)

Ol' Donie · 17-04-2015 11:36PM

Dancing Queen?

*points to Beebrock EXIT door*

FloatingVoter · 17-04-2015 11:42PM

OK, Dancing Queen is brutal. But I'll admit a sneaking regard for "Winner Takes It All".....and that's not just the beer talking.

No mention made of the most famous double A side to fail to top the charts - Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever. Engelbert Humperdinck was occupying pole position at the time.

efb · 17-04-2015 11:44PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Dancing Queen?

*points to Beebrock EXIT door*

you leave dancing queen alone!

Ol' Donie · 17-04-2015 11:44PM

Humperdiiiiink! Look what you've done!

*shakes fist*

Ol' Donie · 17-04-2015 11:45PM

efb wrote: »

you leave dancing queen alone!

I'll very happily leave Dancing Queen alone. If it leaves me alone.

Then we'll all be happy!

efb · 17-04-2015 11:46PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I'll very happily leave Dancing Queen alone. If it leaves me alone.

Then we'll all be happy!

what did it do to you?

Ol' Donie · 17-04-2015 11:48PM

efb wrote: »

what did it do to you?

Hurt my ears!

Ol' Donie · 17-04-2015 11:55PM

T'Pau

First vulcan to have a number one.

Bit of a Star Trek joke for you there.

What's vulcan for tumbleweed?

Ol' Donie · 18-04-2015 12:05AM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The first single I bought myself was - Merry Christmas Everybody!*

I love the fact it topped the French charts at Easter.

*shrugs*

*a whole generation can say likeswise!

That's the best thing I've heard in aaaages.

Ha, good one France!

efb · 18-04-2015 12:12AM

Abba

Ol' Donie · 18-04-2015 12:21AM

Wait a second...

Ed Sheeran didn't even write that song? Is that right?

Skid X · 18-04-2015 12:29AM

I'm fairly sure that Nizlopi song is the only UK Number One to mention Don't Forget Your Shovel if you want to go to work in the lyrics.

I might work that into a quiz question whenever Christy is on the LLS again.

Go Harvey Go · 18-04-2015 02:31PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

To date, The Beautiful South have only had one UK number one (A Little Time).

Maybe "Don't Marry Her" would have reached #1 if the single version had kept the swear words, and if the Spice Girls (much as I love them) hadn't recently become massive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXGLy6XF7SY

Ol' Donie wrote: »

So far, all I can tell is that there have been some baaaaaaad number ones.

Bryan Adams? Wet Wet Wet?

Number 1? Number 2, more like. (Sorry)

Plus, Wet Wet Wet were not the first group to cover "Love Is All Around"...

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

For no less than seven of the fifteen weeks that Pellow and Co were at the top, All-4-One were at #2. You can see why some people call "I Swear" the Jimmy White of the UK charts...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XKMPCJfq_k

"Crazy for You" by the perennially-underrated Let Loose was also denied the top spot by "Love Is All Around", as was Kylie's "Confide in Me" - which certainly had an awesome video. :cool:

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

Of course, "Saturday Night" was the song that finally pushed WWW off the summit.

But it would actually be unfair to call Whigfield a one-hit wonder - "Another Day" and "Think of You" both reached #7, which was perfectly respectable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1mCzfvkdNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKe71FTc9aE

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