So what is your favourite Top of the Pops performance? What did I miss? Trash Theory playlists - Spotify: tinyurl.com/yxp32pjf Deezer: tinyurl.com/y2mdp8h2 Also if you want to help out, here's my patreon link: patreon.com/trashtheory

@westonizzi

4 жыл бұрын

Should’ve covered oasis with Liam and noels switch for the song roll with it

@404dia

4 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed this, thanks. When I was a kid TOTP was fantastically diverse. Punk, two tone, soul, disco, reggae, post punk etc,; it's hard to believe now that UK families were sat eating their dinner when PIL appeared, almost miming to The Flowers of Romance! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gYCBzqqeYqbZnLw.html Or that anyone thought it would be good idea to have the TOTP dancers peform to Laurie Anderson's O Superman! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gH52vMufipe6ecY.html

@heppolo

4 жыл бұрын

Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" only reached #6

@colinp2238

4 жыл бұрын

Good video shit commentary, I mean who is/was Kirsty McCoyle? You mean Kirsty McColl. Your droning voice does not give the magic that TOTP did even in it's worst performances and we all knew that they were mimming.

@leetronix

4 жыл бұрын

Kirsty McCoil? Its Kirsty McCall...also spoken is not pronounced Spocken..other than that was enjoyable :)

"Cobain later said he wanted to sound like Morrissey" This is the best thing I heard all year.

@zachjollimore4339

4 жыл бұрын

best thing I hear every year mayne

@SteeeveO

4 жыл бұрын

and he meant Neil Morrisey - he was a great fan of men behaving badly.

@liammcnicholas918

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like a bad Barney impression

@timf7413

4 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is that I can actually hear a certain similarity.

@m.asquino7403

4 жыл бұрын

Cobain was high as a kite!

I remember when The Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ went straight in at number one. Presenter Nicky Campbell said “get your mums and aunties in front of the telly, cos they’re gonna hate this!”.

@JasmineSurrealVideos

2 жыл бұрын

My mum loved the Progidy lol

@manicstreetpreacher200

2 жыл бұрын

I interpret this as a rare moment of self-realisation from Mr Campbell.😂

@alukuhito

2 жыл бұрын

I remember first hearing that song and thought it was pretty dumb. I wasn't sure why anyone liked it. It seemed like maybe the music magazines of the day told the hipsters that they were going to like it, so they manufactured a sense of liking it.

@kostajovanovic3711

2 жыл бұрын

@@alukuhito nah

@alukuhito

2 жыл бұрын

@@kostajovanovic3711 Yeah.

I don't think New Order's 'Blue Monday' slipping a notch ever really mattered. That song has experienced so many remixed, rediscoveries, and use in commercials and films that as a track it has far outperformed most pop songs.

@davidhenderson9707

2 жыл бұрын

Yes just another live version there - no big deal

@nevrogers8198

2 жыл бұрын

And the commentary mentions "MIDI sequencers/sequences". MIDI was a new technology about a year later. For New Order, synchronisation was still a manual process.

@CuriousCritter17

2 жыл бұрын

None of them really do they are pop music legends

@samot8945

2 жыл бұрын

Is better to have music being made in the moment, rather than just another fake ass playback performance. Kraftwerk also programmed every song in every concert during 1981, they all sound different in each concert.

@jamesschulziii9098

2 жыл бұрын

I remember new order from about 87 onward and when I finally discovered the earlier stuff I'm like okay I think I've heard Blue Monday too somewhere, like you said discovering , rediscovering etc.i like their early stuff post Joy division ,that's some of the best stuff they've ever put out or anybody for that matter I mean movement is amazing as is the one with age of consent

14:45 - "The performance is pretty by-the-numbers for the first two-thirds of the song, apart from the lobster taped to the microphone" is a magnificently understated sentence.

Nirvana's performance was one of the best trolls ever

@IETCHX69

4 жыл бұрын

cuz he sang better than More ASS y .

@eoinmacdonnchadha5682

4 жыл бұрын

Hell ye bruther

@swampshack1018

4 жыл бұрын

emosh73 I wish I could have experienced it

@iaminsideyourhome69

4 жыл бұрын

now i get why weird al did that thing in his parody video

@Karmy.

4 жыл бұрын

That and Nirvana's appearance live on MTV for the music awards

No mention of Oasis, Noel and Liam switching places so Noel is miming the lyrics and Liam does the guitar solo?

@mattiemclean9882

4 жыл бұрын

no.... because it wasnt that interesting... at that point not many of the general public knew the difference

@SebChamp360

4 жыл бұрын

Joe McElroy or other oasis performances where they didn’t mime

@harrypainter7472

4 жыл бұрын

Mattie Mclean You sound like you’re fun at parties

@joemcelroy7202

4 жыл бұрын

@@mattiemclean9882 not known? theyd already done Definitely maybe at tha point, the fastest selling debut album of all time (at that point)

@mattiemclean9882

4 жыл бұрын

@@joemcelroy7202 i was talking about the general public. Not people who read the NME

6:55 Re: Jocky Wilson picture. "After 35 years no-one has confirmed if this was a mistake or intentional". Well, apart from about a month after event and during every interview Kevin Rowland has ever done since where he explained it was his joke. So no, it won't remain a mystery....

@tomstatham2135

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Thought this was very strange by Trash Theory who otherwise tend to do quite credible research.

@Diamonddogusa

4 жыл бұрын

...."print the legend"

@partlyironic

4 жыл бұрын

This whole video is a bit shit really

@exgren

4 жыл бұрын

Its so obviously a piss take by rowland, how could anyone confuse Jackie Wilson with jocky Wilson, the name of the song is Jackie Wilson said, for christ sake

@helenagackowska8398

4 жыл бұрын

@@partlyironic Glad its not just me lol

Orbital moved more in that clip than Kraftwerk have ever moved in ALL of their 90s shows.

@cloudbloom

3 жыл бұрын

So true haha

People took the piss but I think when you look back today, it shows how shows like this actually gave time to artists who, the like of, today can't get air time on TV. TOTP ran as a democracy. People voted in the record shops and TOTP then siad, the eight highest chart climbers, not featured on the show last week got air time no matter what.

@Ndlanding

4 жыл бұрын

Do you honestly believe that?

@markkavanagh7377

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ndlanding don't tell him about Santa either.😉

@KayEl58

3 жыл бұрын

True. The bad thing about that was when people 'voted' by buying stuff like 'Una Paloma Blanca' and you got to watch Johnathan King week after week 🤣 Until The Old Grey Whistle Test came along TOTP was the only music programe on TV. TOGWT was so much better, live performances by excellent musicians. TOTP had some crap in the mix but was always worth watching. I doubt if I was the only teenager who lived from Thursday to Thursday.

@lemsip207

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ndlanding It was a lot better then than it is now even though the artists first had to be discovered and then signed to record labels and after that the plugging and the DJ's playing their favourite singles more.

@Ndlanding

3 жыл бұрын

@@lemsip207 Dunno about now, as I've been abroad for a long time. When I used to play in a band, our rehearsals would stop for TOTP, mainly because it was compulsive, even when it was shite. Then we'd go back to rehearsing, without being even slightly influenced by the Top 20/30/40.

You mention Shane McGowan being drunk as if he wouldn't be if they were doing it live lmao

@colinp2238

4 жыл бұрын

It would have been more unusual if he was sober.

@raleighburner1589

4 жыл бұрын

Well he was born in pembury Kent so I think I'd be drunk too how fucking boring

@ExUSSailor

4 жыл бұрын

The fact that he was ONLY drunk was a friggin' miracle!

@nutcracker2916

4 жыл бұрын

@@raleighburner1589 Didn't know that ? Same with Phil Lynott I recently heard he was born in the Midlands. Ruddy Plastic Paddy's. lol

@trevorbarre5616

4 жыл бұрын

In actual fact, he appears relatively sober on this occasion. Bad call.

I still remember the excitement of Thursday nights waiting for TOTP to start. It was the highlight of the week, and Kate Bush was my all time favourite performer. I didn’t care if they were miming.

@colingeddes2172

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah as a youngster and teenager i used to watch t o t ps religously. At the time i wasnt too bothered about the miming.

@edwardalexander9486

4 ай бұрын

Kate Bush - the Taylor Swift of the 70s/80s. Kudos to Swift but she plays to the gallery in a way that Kate Bush wasn't interested in? Or just the wrong timeslot.

To be fair I think "off your face drunk" was just Shane McGowan's normal condition.

"Cobain said he wanted to sound like Morrisey" 😂😂😂 11:17

@borisbecker6433

4 жыл бұрын

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@dec0mposing

4 жыл бұрын

I think he nailed it 😂

@flightnesssnowbirb8318

4 жыл бұрын

To his credit, it was pretty on point during the chorus

@larry90944

4 жыл бұрын

sounds like joe swanson.

@jayfrank1913

4 жыл бұрын

@@larry90944 Or Jim Morrison.

"Blue Orb decided to release a 39 minute 57 second-long version of their track, Blue Room, as a single. A 3 minute snippet of the track was played over the top of producers Alex Patterson and Chris Weston playing chess, with Weston playing with a toy sheep. And that was it, that was the whole performance." The '90s were a strange time.

@Codex7777

4 жыл бұрын

Never heard of Blue Orb...

@brandonwachter2264

4 жыл бұрын

True. But I'd always rather have a strange time than a bad time. Sidenote: I do truly miss the 90's but lets see what the 2020's have in store...

@skriptico

4 жыл бұрын

dr Alex is the man still :)

@dannad123

4 жыл бұрын

went to school with Kris "Thrash" Weston!

@splo1nger909

4 жыл бұрын

I remember the orb doing it

The manic street preachers performance is legendary.punk anarchy at its finest.Just amazing.

That candelabra - saxophone solo had me laughing so hard I was in pain!

@gedski100

4 жыл бұрын

You’d obviously laugh if your arse was on fire

@wcsxwcsx

4 жыл бұрын

From what I heard, a musician's union wouldn't allow him to mimic playing a saxophone because he wasn't a saxophonist.

@tonyjulius6011

4 жыл бұрын

Typical Bob Geldoff. Stupid.

@lisagreen8261

3 жыл бұрын

At the start of the performance, Geldof took a picture of Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, who they had just knocked off the number one spot, and tore it in two.

@colinwilkes8957

2 жыл бұрын

Lisa green ,cutting edge stuff,eh?

They gave artists 2 options, sing live to backing tracks or mime to live instruments. Which is why REM's Michael Stipe protested with his Orange Crush mimed through a megaphone for the entire track.

I love the bands that protested not being able to sing themselves by genuinely not trying.

I remember Marillion's performance of their single 'Lavender.' Fish, the lead singer, had laryngitis at the time and (I think) had had to cancel some gigs because of it, but TOTP still wanted the band to perform their single because it 'didn't matter anyway,' because they were often mimed. So the band went ahead and did it - but Fish didn't lip-sync at all. Instead, he'd made a series of cards with the lyrics to the song written on them, and just held each one up in turn, in time to the song, for the whole duration of the performance.

Now there's a name I've never heard before - Kirsty McCoil????? RIP Kirsty, you deserve better.

@Dermot2927

4 жыл бұрын

I recoiled from that.

@paulmartin6453

4 жыл бұрын

With Shane McCondom

@paulandjana

4 жыл бұрын

Kirsty McCoil with Shane Gowangowangowan...

@kanfall66

4 жыл бұрын

@herbert sherbert Idiot!

@aintnobodyherebutuschicken1418

4 жыл бұрын

@herbert sherbert I never heard that she gave money to the IRA?!?! She was Scottish not Irish.

Watching Bowie perform starman, and Jimmy saville fondling the girls in the audience probably sticks in my mind.

8:04 "The midi sequences are also wildly out of sync with everything else...." Proceeds to clip of what sound to me like perfectly synced midi sequences 🤔

@alfsmith4936

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I thought.. Plus, I never owned an Oberheim DMX with midi. There's a conversion kit now but there wasn't in those days.

@JohnnyF71

2 жыл бұрын

@@alfsmith4936 ahhh I didn't know that! I use an Oberheim DMX software emulation in my recording studio and I love it, but I don't know what I'd do without the ability to midi-sync it to everything else. I thought that performance by New Order on TOTP was actually really good and it was TOTP that let them down with a crappy mix.

@jasontopping7964

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Sounded good to me

@JasmineSurrealVideos

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it sounded in tune, in sync and fine.

The reason for the miming on Top Of The Pops wasn't entirely down to the bands not being able to play or the studio not set up for it, the union representing the BBC's house musicians had a part in it as well, they insisted only the BBC orchestra could play the music whilst the band could only supply the vocal parts, this eventually led to the bands having to supply a backing track and singing live to it, by which in time ended up with bands just using the original recording and miming everything.

First of all: we NEED a Trash Theory episode on the Manics. Second: the sanctity of stiff and awkward Blue Monday-era New Order must be protected... always.

@thegloriouspyrocheems2277

3 жыл бұрын

Very underrated band when talked about by the music analysts

Little known fact: After All About Eve's fiasco, singer Julianne Regan was upset, so Kylie Minogue sent her a huge bouquet of flowers.

@painbow6528

4 жыл бұрын

Little known because it's not interesting.

@NotMarkKnopfler

4 жыл бұрын

They also invited all about Eve back to the show the next week to say sorry, if I remember correctly. 👍

@kerrytaylor1795

4 жыл бұрын

@@painbow6528 I disagree

@portcullis5622

4 жыл бұрын

Nice gesture, if true, from the pop product. Sending flowers to a real singer and artist.

@resurgam75

4 жыл бұрын

@@portcullis5622 I actually love both but let's be fair, one was a blip, the other is a legend who is still smashing records, so your perspective is a bit out of touch with reality.

I actually like the New Order performance, it's like all the playback's pushed back and all the live/honest stuff is pushed up front and exposed, a sort of non-slickness about it that's in keeping with the band

@andyforsythe2565

4 жыл бұрын

It was always hit or miss with New Order when it came to live performances.

@thewoodentops.

4 жыл бұрын

agreed. it was cool at the time. sounded like the record and def live. That the single dropped a bit matters not a jot. It lasted for years in all kinds of high spots worldwide. Probably the record of the decade.Oh wait, the final countdown :)

@OkSharkey

3 жыл бұрын

it was even good that sales went down given they were losing money on each sale because of the packaging costs

The Shamen getting away with shouting "Es are good!" on national telly was mint

@Claymor621

4 жыл бұрын

Just goes to show, one person’s ‘mint’ is another person’s irritating wannabe naughty-boy slop.

@davidadams2395

4 жыл бұрын

@The Radiant Mrs Gloop _"Well, I never!"_

@joepublic3933

4 жыл бұрын

@Sean Wilkinson Wicked, my son!

@08mlascelles

4 жыл бұрын

@@Claymor621 you must be fun at parties

@anonb4632

4 жыл бұрын

Many of us didn't have a clue... I was young, I hadn't even started drinking then.

I think we’re missing the point of these performances, good old British humour, aka taking the piss lol

@grahamd4764

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. These artistes are just pointing out how absurd TOTP's really was.

@carolsnook4659

4 жыл бұрын

Well said Toddy..my sentiments exactly...

@tonyjulius6011

4 жыл бұрын

British humor is only funny in Britian.

@anonb4632

4 жыл бұрын

@@tonyjulius6011 American humor is funny nowhere. With some honorable exceptions.

@tonyjulius6011

4 жыл бұрын

@@grahamd4764 it was the 80s. Everything was absurd/over the top. Classless Brits acting as they are above everything. Props to bands like Maiden that still had respect for their performances. You didn't see the US acts acting ridiculous. Solid Gold was the equivalent here in the states and I don't recall this ever happening. I do recall it happened a few times on AB. No surprise it was the Sex Pistols. Zero talent.

That dummy was more genuine than 95% of all the other acts on TOTP.

I remember Eels 'playing' novacaine for the soul on toy instruments, and smashing everything at the end! Brilliant!!

@portcullis5622

4 жыл бұрын

So do I (1996). I bought their debut album after that, and have been listening to them ever since.

@Somnogenesis

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! I thought it was only me who remembered that. One of the best ever TotP moments for me, having been born too late to witness anything much before about 1993 first-hand.

@eole123456789

3 жыл бұрын

oh wow I remember that was a huge hit

9:52: "Despite this, the track rose in the charts the preceding week". Impressive time-travelling rise up the charts there.

@Ndlanding

4 жыл бұрын

And before that, fell to Number One.

@danielgardecki1046

3 жыл бұрын

*proceeding

Wow! I've never seen Shane McGowan with teeth. I did see him live once, he almost made it through 2 songs.

@matthewwilderbrokemystride2972

3 жыл бұрын

David Zanke got him on a good day did you?

@melissawright1979

3 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised the bloke is still alive tbf

@whi5tler_1337

2 жыл бұрын

_now your just showing off_ 🙄

“ When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend” is a line from the end of “Who shot Liberty Valance”

"As he fellates the microphone" The best sentence I've ever heard

@Ndlanding

4 жыл бұрын

Then you haven't heard many sentences.

@WordsofHeresy

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ndlanding naw, I've heard quite a few

@Ndlanding

4 жыл бұрын

@@WordsofHeresy Naw, ye huvnae. Yer corned beef!

"Shane MacGowan was off his face and couldn't sing the words in time." Otherwise, it's Shane being Shane.

@allwrighty100

4 жыл бұрын

Along with Kirsty McCoyle(?) whoever she is.

@msstarlight4770

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm surprised anybody noticed. (I really like that song though).😄😄😄

@msstarlight4770

4 жыл бұрын

@@allwrighty100 Kirsty MacColl, (they said the wrong name in the video), she was a great singer, but wasn't really well known, in general. Sadly, she died in 2000 in a boating accident that was fairly big in the news because of the people involved & that there was clearly a cover up.

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music

4 жыл бұрын

Shane was 100% proof

@frogindeed

4 жыл бұрын

@@msstarlight4770 Even fewer people know that her dad wrote Dirty Old Town and The First Time Ever I Saw your Face. RIP Kirsty.

Thanks for that little nostalgia trip - I remember nearly all of those f*ck-ups, with my ol' man puffing and blowing in the background from the sofa about the "bunch of flippin' freaks". 😆

"Asked about it later, Cobain stated he wanted to sound like Morrissey." JFC Kurt XD

@comettamer

4 жыл бұрын

Good ol Kurt

Little known fact: Jackie Wilson was actually really good at darts and hit a 9 dart finish in his televised match with Elvis

@snakemanpete55

4 жыл бұрын

Cool I didn't know that

@Somnogenesis

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but he missed loads of easy doubles in the next round and got knocked out by Little Richard.

@EricIrl

4 жыл бұрын

@@Somnogenesis Leapy Lee was best - he even had a song called "Little Arrows".

@Somnogenesis

4 жыл бұрын

@@EricIrl Not to be confused with Jerry Lee Lewis - who of course did Great Bulls of Fire about his favoured checkout.

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music

4 жыл бұрын

You schooled me.

My autobiography will be called “I was the dentist for The Pogues.”

@davidbaines1425

4 жыл бұрын

Author died prematurely from overwork..

@jimbehr2291

4 жыл бұрын

You sucked then.

@HeadacheMachine

4 жыл бұрын

A single line then: I waited alll day but...

@derfscreechenhowser7548

4 жыл бұрын

@@HeadacheMachine Shane MacGowan's dentist IS the loneliest dentist. Loved your comment.

@markfox7764

4 жыл бұрын

Will it be a toothfull account?

The Nirvana performance was one of my greatest teenage memories of TOTP, utterly mocking the mine 😂

For the longest time, i thought lonely this Christmas was by Elvis. Until I was talking about it with my Dad and he was like it was by mud. Who i'd never heard of before haha

@theutilitymonster2615

4 жыл бұрын

Might you have been mixing it up with "Blue Christmas"?

@colinp2238

4 жыл бұрын

Les was an Elvis impersonator.

@sladeippie5841

4 жыл бұрын

@but why He co wrote 2 off his 40 greatest hits, or at least gets credited on 2. Basically Elvis was a voice & actor

@oldskoolfool141

4 жыл бұрын

@but why Yep Elv liked 'em 'fresh', his thing was if he liked your song he would sing it in return for 50% ownership, that's how the bugger got so rich, he wanted Dolly Partons I will always love you but she refused him, clever gal

@vordman

4 жыл бұрын

@@oldskoolfool141 Actually, he wasn't that rich. In terms of rock star "rich" that is. He was forced into doing Las Vegas cabaret because his manager and entourage were literally bankrupting him. Remember, he had no songwriting royalties to fall back on.

Orbital's "performance" on TOTP led to them creating their now legendary live shows. If you noticed, not any of their equipment was plugged in either. Phil Hartnoll said in 2018 about the experience: "They wouldn’t let us play live, so we performed in T-shirts reading “No” and “Poll tax”. We placed the mains plugs on top of our instruments so that everyone could see we weren’t really playing. They didn’t let us back on the show for six years."

@Somnogenesis

4 жыл бұрын

"They didn’t let us back on the show for six years." To be fair, that was about how long it took them to have another big hit.

@JonMichaelDeShazer

4 жыл бұрын

@@Somnogenesis Halcyon, Belfast, Satan and let is not forget their legendary Glastonbury performance were within 5 years of this performance.

@Somnogenesis

4 жыл бұрын

@@JonMichaelDeShazer Oh, granted, and I know I sounded facetious there - but in pure singles chart terms they didn't have another decently-sized hit until The Box made no.11 in 1996. The year after that Satan finally became a big hit in a remixed live version that reached no.3, as did follow-up The Saint (I always thought those two titles made a great juxtaposition). In the 6 years after Chime though they barely scratched the top 30. Edit: here we are - www.officialcharts.com/artist/13342/orbital/

@sarahmillard6401

4 жыл бұрын

Jon-Michael DeShazer I was there - amazing performance! Oh happy days 😀

When I was a child, I lived in England briefly and was able to see numerous original broadcasts of TOTP in late 70s. While it had its share of crap, the weird mix of artists who appeared on it during that time period really made an impact on my impressionable mind. It was one of the formative influences on my eclectic musical taste - both in first real exposure to punk & new wave, but also in being able to appreciate multiple genres & styles (something that continues long after).

I will never forget being 9 yrs old and sat on the living room floor, mesmerised as Boy George dressed in full regalia performed Do You Really Want To Hurt Me. It was 1982 and much apart from loving the reggae vibe ( a family full of rude girls and rude boys) a mass debate broke out in the family as to whether he/she was a guy or a girl!!!! Bloody iconic and I’ll never forget that moment. No matter where you were or what you were doing, everything stopped for TOTP’s. Playing out during summer holidays, we’d all run home at 7pm to watch it! Classic!

@joelonsdale

4 жыл бұрын

I remember the family discussion well - was it a boy or a girl?

Growing up being in to rock and metal i used to watch TOTP nearly every week in the hopes of seeing some rock music on there. My fondest memory of the show is Faith No More performing "Ashes to ashes". They play live and and it actually sounds heavier than the album version. It's on KZread, check it out.

@melll1972

4 жыл бұрын

FNM performing From Out Of Nowhere on TOTP is what got me into them.

@davidellis5141

4 жыл бұрын

Al Pacino.

@spiderjerusalem100

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidellis5141 Yep!

@anonb4632

4 жыл бұрын

I remember Faith No More doing Digging the Grave on TOTP. They were pretty good.

Almost all music shows were like this. My favorite was Smokie s performances. Hilarious. Glad you put this out. Thanx. Brought back lots of memories

Everyone knew the bands mimed. If I recall correctly in early episodes viewers watched the tone arm lower onto the vinyl.

I can clearly remember the episode that had Dexy's Midnight Runners and the photo of Jocky Wilson in the background. I can't believe that it was 37 years ago 😮 Wow time flies, I was only 12 at the time. 👍

@oldskoolfool141

4 жыл бұрын

Ha me too, I remember rolling with laughter and calling my mum to come see it 😂

@al201103

4 жыл бұрын

Can you believe we're nearly 50? It seemed like such an old age back then. Now it's like "no, I'm twenty something, I'm sure of it"

@Dermot2927

4 жыл бұрын

I credit someone at the Beeb with a sense of humour.

Nirvana's is the best ever, but I love the Smiths, with Morrissey singing into a bunch of flowers too

@davidbaines1425

4 жыл бұрын

You should check out Nirvana on The Word then. If I remember rightly we were treated to a bit of bush.

@DaleDucktail

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidbaines1425 L7

@tonyjulius6011

4 жыл бұрын

It's pathetic. It's like saying, hey you have a good song and we'd like to give you some exposure here in England. Here's a chance to promote yourself. Then you act like fking idiots. Shoulda bought that gun sooner, Kurt.

@LiamGervaise

4 жыл бұрын

@@tonyjulius6011 Completely missed the point and then tried to be edgy yeah you ain't funny my guy

@tonyjulius6011

4 жыл бұрын

@@LiamGervaise I am as funny as Kurt was, and I wasn't trying.

An unmissable show from my childhood and through my teenage years ... Sweet were my favourite band and the glam rock era was a real spectacle and great fun !!!

@eliminatorofevil8140

4 жыл бұрын

TheHumbuckerboy. Sweet were my favourite too, bought every single and their first Album. SWEET F.A.

The Jockie Wilson thing was defo deliberate....

@raithrover1976

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, pretty sure someone from the band has confirmed that it was a joke they came up with in rehearsal and that the production staff needed quite a lot of convincing lest it look like they'd messed up.

I just did what I should have done when I first subbed... I'm now a patron! Amazing content at documentary level quality. Peace, love and rock & roll.

New Order were great in that TOTP performance.

@drkatel

4 жыл бұрын

Miguel S. P., Yeah, it didn’t seem especially bad to me either.

@miguimau

4 жыл бұрын

@@drkatel I think it´s crude but… in a good way. Anyway, they could have easily performed on a taped version of Blue Monday and they dared to go live ;)

@justmadeit2

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing, it sounded good from that snippet they played, now I need to search out the whole performance

@ThreadBomb

3 жыл бұрын

@Jetsonic The problem might have been that they and their crew got wasted every night during the US tours.

Loved this video!! I am so sad that this era of pop culture has passed

Julian Cope, TOTP live 1981, stood bare foot on a piano, tripping on LSD and fronting The Teardrop Explodes.

The Manic Street Preachers song included such dark and humourous lyrics as, "Anamabadabanafamamamafaaa". ... I played that about 6 times and I still got no idea. Lol

@MattJames1958

4 жыл бұрын

His kind of rapid fire style doesn't help, "I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing"

@Ndlanding

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey used the same technique. Maybe.

It may have been a flawed icon, but it was, as you suggest, a uniting cultural force. The whole of the UK paid attention and came together in a shared moment. WIth that gone, the atomization of the country continues faster than ever.

Reminds me of Jethro Tull's performance of "Witches Promise" on TotP. Ian Anderson spends the whole performance gurning at the camera and not even trying to look like he's actually playing his flute. The only band member that seemed to be happy to be there was Glenn Cornick, rest his soul. Anderson has been very vocal through the years about his aversion to performing to cameras, but especially miming.

it should be noted that Orbital were one of the few techno acts that regularly toured and performed live, and put on some of the best shows to this day. Chime being their first single, and thus, not having performed much to that point (nor introduced their live performance trademarks) and being asked to mime, they were most likely taking the piss. such is their humour after all.

Iron Maiden 'Running Free' 1980. Best ever performance on what was a totally naff show and one of the few to play live and not mime.

ps... the Dexys one is an urban legend... It was actually a joke that the band were fully aware of: "Most viewers naturally assumed that clueless TOTP producers were behind this screw-up, and interviewers were probably too scared of Dexys' inscrutable frontman Kevin Rowland to ask him about it. When they finally did, though, he explained that it was his idea all along. "For a laugh, we told the producer to put a picture of Jocky Wilson up behind us," he told the Guardian in 2002. "He said: 'But Kevin, people will think we made a mistake.' I told him only an idiot would think that. The morning after, the [Radio 1] DJ Mike Read said: 'Bloody Top of the Pops. How could they mix up one of the great soul singers with a Scottish darts player?'"

@TheRobman

Жыл бұрын

"only an idiot" ... Mike Read, LOL. Yes, Mike Read was an absolute twat, let's not forget how he contributed to Frankie Goes to Hollywood history

I think this is the video that made me sub, and I’ve watched it at least 5 times, since I first clicked on the link. Great stories!!!

@Trash Theory your boring narration is boring me to tears. I'm almost asleep. Are you stoned or jet lagged? I can barely keep my eyes open now to watch the great nostalgic clips! I've just saved this to listen to each night to treat my insomnia. Thank you!👏🥰👍

Nicky Wire is the Manics' bassist, not guitarist.

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music

4 жыл бұрын

No, he was their bongos player: FIGHT ME

@Ndlanding

4 жыл бұрын

@Welsh Simon A guitarist is not a bassist. Fact. There is also a difference in IQ.

"I've been too honest with myself, i should have lied like everybody else" Faster Manic Street Preachers

From what I understand, it was Mike Patton of Faith No More who broke the camel's back when he goofed around during an appearance in 1990. The program insisted on live vocals from that point on. Mud were great, RIP Les Gray.

I wasn't going to watch this because I am 60 and I loved the show. But it is one of the best pop videos I have ever seen. My mate worked as a tech on TOTP and swears the Jockie Wilson picture was a mistake. Great work.

I can remember the Eels preforming Novacaine For The Soul, pretending to play the song with toy instruments. Hilarious

@Somnogenesis

4 жыл бұрын

Then smashing them up at the end like a pre-school Who! Brilliant idea.

Manics are definetly underrated in terms of what they have done while Richey was there as well as post-Richey trilogy

Didn't know about this guys channel - glad I did now!

Not gonna lie this video was really good even though I don't know anything about Top Of The Tops (I'm from France) and this makes me want to watch even though it doesn't exist anymore lol As always this video was amazing thank you for always putting so much effort in your creations

@nathanpollard1223

4 жыл бұрын

Well, if you can get BBC Four, you'll get a bunch of oldies.

"The presenters were as cheesy as the pop music." really thought Saville was getting brought up there lol

@eddiewillers1

4 жыл бұрын

Well, it's well known that cheesy Tony Blackburn and hairy Dave Lee Travis were the inspiration for Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse's pisstake with 'Smashie & Nicey'.

@portcullis5622

4 жыл бұрын

@@eddiewillers1 I thought that they were based on David 'Kid' Jensen and Alan Freeman.

The manics performance was iconic

There's a great performance of the Stranglers playing No More Heroes on TopPop where they've all swapped instruments - JJ Burnell gives animal a run for his money!

@apemoon1731

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen that, but I don't think it was on TOTP.

The last person seen on TOTP was Jimmy Savile turning the lights out.

"It was the system and had to be Raged against" when he said that I thought "oh imagine if Rage Against The Machine appeared on that show"

Another car crash I remember was the Spoof of Grease track "You're the One That I want" by Arthur Mullard and Hilda Baker. Track was rising up the charts until they went on TOTP. The performance was so bad that the single bombed the next week!!

@ChrisHow

4 жыл бұрын

My god, I hadn't thought about that for about 40 years! Here it is: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qpOBtctpfcuzj8Y.html

@al201103

4 жыл бұрын

Yes - some things cannot be unseen. This along with "Grandma" and "Grandad". Though at least the Mullard/Baker one wasn't serious....

@14rnr

4 жыл бұрын

Still better than any "hit" of the last 12 or more years though! haha

@14rnr

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHow I'll have a laugh at this now.

@nutcracker2916

4 жыл бұрын

@Tone. Yes according to his daughter.

You said it - I DO remember my first glimpse of Ziggy Stardust. It was the exact shots you have shown. I was 12 - I am now 60. I wouldn't swap that moment for anything. x

As this is Top of the Pops there may be flashing images. Jimmy Saville flashing kids.

@14rnr

4 жыл бұрын

That made me chuckle, thanks for that.

@doctorlolchicken7478

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the beeb can’t show many TotP reruns because Jimmy Saville was often the presenter.

@splo1nger909

4 жыл бұрын

gary jones or dead or a mental patient or .....you get the idea

@paulandjana

4 жыл бұрын

On the very last TOTP Saville turned the lights off as he left the studio. The BBC knew of his nonciness but had him pinned as a legend.

@matthewwilderbrokemystride2972

3 жыл бұрын

Paulus thewoodknome nonciness. I learned a new word today.

Orange Juice’s performance of rip it up is legendary

The Dexy’s Midnight Runners incident gets me every time

@alternativeglasto

4 жыл бұрын

And contrary to the claim here, it was actually Kevin Rowland's idea to have Jocky Wilson; the claim that this was a mistake by somebody at the BBC (come on!) has been long debunked.

@TheHumbuckerboy

4 жыл бұрын

180 !!!

I see lots of Top Of Pops on videos, an being from U.S., didn't understand much about it; you opened my eyes a bit. Thank you!

This was awesome thank you!

Pleased to see James' Balaclava get a mention.

"With performances from the most exciting bands." And Bob Geldof as well.

@amthatdad3450

4 жыл бұрын

But then again who among us likes Mondays?

@ronwhite8503

4 жыл бұрын

"singing" Rat Crap/Clap Trap........ nobody cared because he's a twat.

@davidbaines1425

4 жыл бұрын

Supported by fucking Travis.

@karlosdeevs

4 жыл бұрын

i always wondered why people were always so pissed of by Travis (i never really got the chance in england or scotland)

@schmozzer

4 жыл бұрын

Bob prancing around like a berk then falling over at the end of one number just summed it all up.

Great lil Doc..THANK YOU!

One of the greatest TOTP trollings was performed by the writers on guest presenter, boxer Chris Eubank. Being famous for having a pronounced lisp, they got him to announce "Next, at number six, it's Suggs, with 'Cecilia'".

TOTP was made for pop artists who could stand there and mime a song. Not surprisingly, many bands *LOATHE* being on the show as they had to "pretend" their way through a performance and it shows with a majority of these groups who appeared on the program throughout the years. On one hand, a lot of bands understood the exposure that being on TOTP would bring them, but on the other hand it's obvious how many of them thought of it as a joke and would not take it seriously. TOTP rode that line of instant fame and chart recognition vs credibility and respect......

@AdjustableSquelch

4 жыл бұрын

New Order were like that and in the 80s refused to do show where they would have to mime. Considering they could either be epic or pants from one moment to the next its a brave stance! For another fun one look up on here their live appearance on Radio 1s Rock Around The Clock. Although musically a million times better they are ALL pissed off and hilarious. look up the Gillian and Steve talking about it 'New Order's Steve & Gillian talk about the band's performance on Rock Around The Clock, BBC in 1984'

@Shannie411

4 жыл бұрын

From what I have read, Syd Barrett hated TOTP and that was a contributing factor to him leaving/getting kicked from the band.

The Mud one with the dummy was awesome.

@lewisner

4 жыл бұрын

Iconic. When Mud were on TOTP you knew you were in for a laugh. Wizzard too.

@kevinprior3549

4 жыл бұрын

This bloke sounds dull

@colinwilkes8957

2 жыл бұрын

Loved Les Gray,mud were a fun band.

"Mud" used the puppet, because it is hard to mime to the spoken (not sung) word.

One of your most entertaining videos I’ve seen

I'd love to see a punk dance interpretation of "Holydays in Cambodia" 😍

@CIMAmotor

4 жыл бұрын

I can actually remember the DK's on TOTP.

Faith No More, around 1990; I think they mimed to From Out Of Nowhere and the singer Mike Patton spent quite a bit of the performance with his tongue hanging out.

My fave TOTP moment is at the end of one of Neil the hippie's appearances doing "Hole In My Shoe" when he makes a horrifying discovery about part of the stage dressing: "Oh, noooo! These flowers are made of PAPER! HOW MANY TREES HAD TO DIE TO MAKE THESE FLOWERS?!?"

Loved Thursday night's in the sixties and seventies. TOTP was great back then.

Surprised fire starter by prodigy didn’t make it to this list - I’m sure that was at the time of its release one of the most complained about episodes as I remember it being on the news that Keith flint was too scary for prewatershed viewing 😂

@medes5597

4 жыл бұрын

I remember that and expected to see it too. Also expected Brian Molko's Nancy Boy drag act that also made the news (he performed in a dress and make up and suggestively rubbed his body while he sang). Damn a lot of weird stuff happened on TOTP in hindsight. Having said that, glad the Manics got a mention for causing all that fuss about nothing. I assume we're gonna get a whole episode on the prodigy as part of the New British Canon series.

@Codex7777

4 жыл бұрын

That was a video...

@davidbaines1425

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah wasn't it just the video .. lol

@splo1nger909

4 жыл бұрын

Where they in the studio performing this video?

In the early 70s there was the 'Album slot'. The Groundhogs were on it and when they finished no body clapped!

@KonoShunkan

4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if someone would mention the album slot. Didn't last long, of course. I remember that Yes did Yours Is No Disgrace. Don't remember the Groundhogs, although I probably saw it.

@colinwilkes8957

2 жыл бұрын

I find it hard to believe they would play yes or the groundhogs on top!wish I’d seen it ,would have pummelled most of the shit singles into dust!

This was fascinating, as someone who grew up in the usa I never had the chance to watch top of the pops until the KZread era came about

This is such a fun and entertaining video! Great idea