Time for BEST of the WORST Top 10 Worst Top of the Pops Lip Syncs kzread.info/dash/bejne/nIibo6aqqsSfYZc.html

@G8GT364CI

2 ай бұрын

You had one of the worst in this one here: Chirpy Chirp Chirp, hard to think nothing but utter schlock was going to come afterward but you did redeem yourselves, from Queen on it was great and of course you ended with the greatest band of all time: The Beatles.

@richardplume3212

Ай бұрын

Ha there wernt any if u remember it u wernt there peace

@jameshogan6142

Ай бұрын

@@G8GT364CI I loved this version back in the day but check out the original by Lally Stott singing it while walking through the streets of Amsterdam.

As an American who grew up in the 80s, discovering Top of The Pops has been like finding a time loop into 80s music from a distinctive British perspective. We had a steady diet of MTV in the States during the 80s which introduced us to brilliant British pop music..Great Stuff..

@CashelOConnolly

5 ай бұрын

Top of the pops only showed popular dross,it avoided more controversial hits

@KenLieck

5 ай бұрын

@@CashelOConnolly Yeah, well, you run out of (Peter Cook's) Revolver episodes pretty effin' fast, so what are you gonna do?

@Isleofskye

5 ай бұрын

Thanks ,My Friend. Lovely comment and Good Luck from London:)

@keithespinoza2064

5 ай бұрын

Yep, I agree. Love watching old TOTP episodes. The early 80s and MTV were essentially a second British Invasion: Culture Club, Bananarama, Human League, Tears For Fears, Wham, Spandau Ballet, etc. Loved it all!

@lexkanyima2195

5 ай бұрын

​@@keithespinoza2064that was at their peak

Why don’t you let us hear what they are singing without talking all over it

@frangavilan901

Ай бұрын

Exactly, it is so annoying

@handebarlas6248

Ай бұрын

Exactly!!!

@kieranflynn1306

Ай бұрын

Because most of the performances are woefully bad.

@stevebaker6149

Ай бұрын

Just ridiculous and a waste of time

@shaunprior4977

Ай бұрын

Fucking annoying all I wanna do is listen to the music not his voice

In terms of which song on TOTP do I actually remember thinking "woah, what is this, I love it". I remember a ten-year-old me at my aunt's when Gary Numan performed Cars. It was like nothing I'd heard before. I still remember being that mesmerised kid.

@zenabraithwaite1934

5 ай бұрын

I loved Gary Numan "Are friends electric".

@markthomas3858

4 ай бұрын

I agree with you :), I was the same age.. The other song that blew me away was Ashes to Ashes in 1980..

@melanieannpearson4640

2 ай бұрын

Yes! Mine were ‘we don’t need no education” by Pink Floyd, and “Ashes to Ashes” by Bowie. Both videos absolutely terrified me but I loved the songs, so I had to sit facing the other way from the tv!

@okee9

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I think Are friends electric came out first was mesmerised by that and Cars, was 11 at the time, also remember the Police performing Roxanne and thinking “This band are going to be big” 😁

For me it has to be Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights' in '78. I was 9 and part of me found her ridiculous and part of me was mesmerised. Adults and kids alike talked about it the next day. Her voice was screechy and beautiful at the same time. The 'screechy' part has left my ears now and she just sounds beautiful to me. Her voice is a much loved old friend and quite comforting

@mritzs5142

Ай бұрын

One great Album “The Kick Inside” and “Man with the child in his Eyes” still gives me goosebumps

@alangrant5278

Ай бұрын

A new girl started part way through the term at intermediate school. On her first morning she danced on stage to withering heights. Oh my what a splash. She later became a model. On time we wife and I were in a bathroom shop and there was a shower brochure with her naked from behind on it looking over her shoulder at the camera. Oh wow that’s Tracey I told the wife. She wasn’t happy.

@pateris

Ай бұрын

@@mritzs5142 Been a fan for more than 40 years. It must be a phase…

@Anglo_Saxon1

Ай бұрын

She sung live vocals too.

Sparks doing "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us" in 1974. A charismatic singer looking like a cross between Jim Morrisson, Marc Bolan and Johnny Rotten and the keyboard player with his hair slicked back with Brylcreem and a Charlie Chaplin moustache scowling without moving a muscle except for his fingers. Iconic!

@user-lm2vs1sl3v

Ай бұрын

I remember that so well. We just sat there mesmerised.

@carlamoss2625

Ай бұрын

BLEW MY MIND WHEN I FIRST SAW IT

@Nuttybott

Ай бұрын

I was just about to mention this one...IMHO Ron Mael's deadpan performance on keyboards contrasting with brother Russel's quintessential 70s "glam rock" turn as frontman stands out as possibly the greatest moment I ever witnessed on TOTP...

@richardplume3212

Ай бұрын

Ha iz up town top rankin

I remember seeing Blondies first appearance with Debbie Harry jiggling about in a bikini and a blazer when i was about 13. Thinking my father wouldn't approve I offered to get up and change the channel. "Leave it on if you like" he said with a bit of a wry smile. A definite "moment" in our relationship....

@GeeCeeWU

2 ай бұрын

As a teenager, my father used to criticise the music I liked until I caught him watching The Old Grey Whistle Test.

@nhhdjdhdj6496

Ай бұрын

I'm not far off 60 and still in love with debbie harry. That woman blew the minds of my entire generation.

@nessiferum6200

Ай бұрын

@@nhhdjdhdj6496She's up there in age but still a beautiful woman and amazing performer :)

@nessiferum6200

Ай бұрын

Haha lovely story :)

Bowie looks like he knows he is a very naughty boy on his Starman TOTP performance.

I'm blown away by these great legends because I actually took all this talent for granted! Gosh we were so privileged. (hope the spelling is ok) to be there. ❤

@GeeCeeWU

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely we were and your spelling is fine.

@andersdottir1111

Ай бұрын

Exactly- the music gods walked the earth back then.

Thank you very much for this video. My ToTP performance has to be The Specials performing "Ghost Town", which went to no.1 in 1981.

@WatchMojoUK

5 ай бұрын

Great now you've gone and made us listen to it again! 😄

The Smiths - This Charming Man. I remember seeing this performance and thinking wtf.

I hadn’t realised how much of a resemblance there was between Sally Carr and Agnetha Fältskog.

@buddhabder

2 ай бұрын

My first and second blonde crushes!

Rod Stewart performing Maggie May on TOTP. They were really have fun😂

@andrewashdown3541

2 ай бұрын

with that louse John Peel

@miguelurdaci7884

2 ай бұрын

You know, I was gonna post the same, with John Peel on mandolin ... and on the football

Dexys Midnight Runners and "Jackie Wilson says" was pretty amusing viewing.

@kitmoore9969

4 ай бұрын

Oh yes!

Blockbuster by Sweet was iconic!

@user-lm2vs1sl3v

Ай бұрын

We were all singing that on the school bus the following day.

The greatest for me would be T.Rex - Get It On. Brilliant and very talented guy was Marc Bolan. Died too young.

@alanseward4979

4 ай бұрын

Ditto.Bolan was an absolute class act who never really got the credit he deserved

@sg3843

21 күн бұрын

Love T. Rex!

@sg3843

21 күн бұрын

It’s where Slash from GNR got his look.

I watched another top 10 Top of the pops performances a while ago. This one is better, but still can't believe T Rex's Get it On with Elton John on the piano isn't here!

@Mick_Ts_Chick

5 ай бұрын

I agree 100 percent!

Killer Queen performed by Queen, was actually a late replacement, when the originally booked band, pulled out. I'd say serves that band right, their thunder was totally stolen. The clip itself was originally wiped, but found in the video recording collection of a late famous comedian, who was actually recording the next show on, but got the last 10 minutes of TOTP, with this iconic performance. I'm sure those of us who had video recorders years back remember setting them to go off early, recording part of the previous program, so we could get what we really wanted. It's an amazing and serendipitous save for musical posterity of one of the UK's all time great bands. 🎶❤️

@OnlyGoodMusic_

5 ай бұрын

The band originally booked was David Bowie, thanks to him canceling his presentation, Queen began their career.

@julianaylor4351

5 ай бұрын

@@OnlyGoodMusic_ They ended up doing a separate vocals recording years later for Under Pressure.

@Spectrescup

4 ай бұрын

Well the Sex Pistols only did their BillGrundy interview cos Queen pulled out, so what goes around etc

@GeeCeeWU

2 ай бұрын

Along with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, the list is endless.

@711honved

2 ай бұрын

We can thank Bob Monkhouse for the recording. When he died the full extent of his recording collection was revealed. He owned one of the first VCR's in Britain & recorded thousands of hours of TV content from the era.

Adam Ant's Goodie Two Shoes. He totally owned that stage.

Roxy Music "Virginia Plain"

Superb collection of the time, space & energies that happened at the time..Much love'n'light you beautiful souls...❤️❤️❤️

I was expecting to see Roxy Music "Virginia Plain" Top Of The Pops - 24th August 1972 at Nr.1 but i enjoyed the ones you showed anyhow.

@antoniocrawley

Ай бұрын

Agree, just for the line ' throw me a line I'm sinking fast' classic.

My younger brother loved Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep as a kid. If we had a record player in the house at the time, we would have had no peace. 😁

Bowie's performance was a revelation, like Boy George's first performance....no one like either of them, totally unique. All us kids and teens, etc were like wow and although I didn't see Boy George until I was in my twenties, I know both performances bemused my late father.

@andrewashdown3541

2 ай бұрын

and Ian Dury ‎- Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (TOTP 1979)

SLADE were the kings of TOPS and WHERE ARE THEY ?

@seanclark6438

2 ай бұрын

Slade were anarchic, completely unconventional, styled themselves unlike any one else before, at the time or since

1. Queen, 2. Kate Bush, 3. Elton John

@frauleinmona

Ай бұрын

1. The Beatles. Because the footage is gone forever and because of the obvious. 😁

You should do a list of the best Madness performances in a best of order. 🎶❤️

@andrewashdown3541

2 ай бұрын

and Bad Manners - Lip Up Fatty, for instance

So good miss pop of the pops 🔥

Good selection.

Motorhead's 'Ace of Spades'. As a teen headbanger late '70's/early '80's I couldn't believe my eyes when on the TV, much to the annoyance of Parents, was Lemmy (RIP) belting the track on TOTP of all places.

I’m addicted to Top of the Pops because I favored British bands in the 80’s. It’s just great performances.

Ah, my childhood!

The Orb playing trippy chess to Little Fluffy Clouds was a particular highlight of mine

Top 4 is awesome. Kate Bush, Elton John, David Bowie and the Beatles. Best of British right there. Feeling proud! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I like the unagitated and relaxed PSB intro on the subject of "iconic performances". That's the British humor I just love, as well as the self-deprecating PSB. Great😅👌

For me, it's I Need Love by LL Cool J. It's a long, long way from being a 'classic' in the Hip-Hop world, but I remember being amazed at how he was _saying_ the words instead of singing them and how he made them rhyme. I was absolutely fascinated by it. A depressing number of years later and I'm still deejaying and MCing and have a fairly large vinyl collection that I still use.

The Hare Krishna Mantra by the Radha Krishna Temple with George Harrison joining in since he produced them as one of his Apple Artists. I think he also appeared on another tune called Govinda Jaya Jaya. I contacted BBC to find out if they still had the original footage, and they thought they had taped over it. It would be great to know if someone had their own copy todady! Would love to see it

I was hoping for Fox on the Run but these were all great picks

Two Tribes by Frankie Goes to Hollywood is quite splendid...

Madonna doing Holiday very early in her career.

School's Out was a terrible omission from this list.

George Michael and Bonnie Tyler. I'm an 80's kid. Never seen either of these performances. Thanks for the great stuff!

Wow!! Bowie! Queen! Elton! Kate! What an iconic mix!! Pity about the lost Beatles tape, but at least we have the original music video 🌟🌟🌟

Bonnie Tyler is my guilty pleasure Kate Bush is my lifelong crush

@ronaldomadrebien7045

5 ай бұрын

I’m in the same queue !!

Most iconic for me was one Xmas special with the lead singer ignoring the song completely, eating an orange and chatting to the crowd!

@WatchMojoUK

5 ай бұрын

haha

@KenLieck

5 ай бұрын

@@WatchMojoUK But what about Neil the hippie knocking over a giant flower prop and realizing in horror that "These flowers are made of paper! How many trees had to die to make these flowers?!?"

@SirAntoniousBlock

4 ай бұрын

The Stranglers were the first ones to do it with No more heroes in 77, they got bored and started mucking about and then destroyed the crummy stage. 😂

Ozzie was a great songwriter, sang this with a band I was in Houston Tx who were 1/2 originals half cover. Over The Mountain...another one I loved singing

TOTP is why I appreciate the live performances on Saturday Night Live (and Fridays back when)

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - the most infectious, happy-go-lucky, bubblegum pop song about child abandonment YOU'LL hear today...

@richard6440

2 ай бұрын

No one listened to the music. They were all looking at Sally's legs !

@jameshogan6142

Ай бұрын

I grew up listening to this cover and loved it but recently came across Lally Stott's original and it has really grown on me.

No T Rex?? Are you kidding?

@merlinhotspurs

4 ай бұрын

I know, Bowie always gets the credit.😡

@user-lm2vs1sl3v

Ай бұрын

I agree! Where’s Ride a White Swan?

@alanseward4979

Ай бұрын

20Th Century Boy ?? Metal Guru???

I would have put ( love grows ) by edison lighthouse in there, loved that one.

Top 10 while i talk shite all the way through them 😂😂😂

Bonnie Tyler's "big hair" is totally hilarious after forty years.

Absolutely love this song Chirp 😂❤

As a lifelong Sabbath fan? What a giggle watching people attempting to dance to Paranoid.

Queen should of been much much higher, British music royalty, deserve better 😊😊😊

Would have been nice if, and I admit it's infrequent, people wanted to enjoy more than 5 seconds of one of the tracks without the crashing voiceovers.

One of the most iconic for me w@s Culture Club Do you really want to hurt me because Boy George was so exotic nobody was sure whether he was a fella or a girlie.

This town ain't big enough for the two of us

Killer Queen always number 7. Top 10 Queen Songs Top 20 Queen Songs And now, Top 10 Iconic TOTP performances

Heaven 17, with Carol Kenyon, Temptation. TOTP.

@ 1:36 some of us do....and can you believe we know how to (in 2024) use a PC too! lol

I love the pads taped to Roger Taylor’s Tom Tom’s on the queen clip.

I believe the most poignant TOTP performance of my life came in December 1996 and the memorial version of Knocking on Heaven’s Door, it was no. 1 until the Christmas week

Re: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. How did they kidnap the blonde lass from ABBA and why did they force her to inhale helium?

Total Eclipse of the Heart takes me back to 1983.

The Prince by Madness

Whitney Houston "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" in 1987. In an age of lip-synch, Whitney does a live vocal and knocks everyone in the studio off their feet. Amazing talent.

The video showed, but didn't comment on, Bowie putting his arm around Mick Ronson's shoulder. Nowadays you wouldn't even notice but back then it was jaw-dropping.

@callithowiseeit5806

4 ай бұрын

I don't get the hype over that, like a man hadn't casually draped an arm over another mans shoulder before, it just smacks of a degeneracy agenda claiming mythical milestones

@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim

2 ай бұрын

why would that be jaw dropping

@seanclark6438

2 ай бұрын

I think these days most people wouldn’t read anything into it other then a friendly gesture between two good friends but then I suppose it was a bold statement of Bowie’s sexuality

@pateris

Ай бұрын

@@seanclark6438 Exactly. I think that I did the same thing performing with one of my bands (none real went anywhere) and I never thought anyone would see it otherwise !

Thanks very much. Keep on blabbing through everything and by all means never show one complete and uninterrupted clip.

For me Rod Stewart and the Faces doing Maggie May springs to mind, while making a mockery of the BBC insistence that the

I was only 12 at the time but distinctly remember baby come back by the equals in 68.

@GeeCeeWU

2 ай бұрын

With a young Eddie Grant as the frontman on Vocals.

@MyraMarks

2 ай бұрын

@@GeeCeeWU The frontman on vocals was Derv Gordon. Eddie Grant was playing guitar and doing backup vocals.

I question "the acoustics of the studio" being the reason for miming. It was filmed in various studios across the years anyway! It's actually because it was technically too difficult to mix all the live instruments from multiple bands in one episode, or, in some cases, an actual band didn't exist (session backings or electronic). For some years, the Musician's Union insisted on bands re-recording everything for TOTP (although, they still had to mime to it!) Also, in 1983, New Order hated what the BBC did with their sound when they tried Blue Monday live, which put the BBC and artists off the idea for a good while. Eventually, producer Stanley Appel after an overhaul in late '91 insisted on all lead vocals being live, which lasted a few years.

5:57 my queen should be number one Kate Bush is the definition of perfection all these present-day female musicians wishes they could be like her

@GeeCeeWU

5 ай бұрын

Is it my imagination or do most of the female singers today sound exactly the same?

@chris26479

5 ай бұрын

@@GeeCeeWU no Kate Bush is one of a kind

@GeeCeeWU

5 ай бұрын

@@chris26479 I meant todays era of music and I agree with you; Kate Bush is one of a kind.

@kimpoulsen6623

4 ай бұрын

You're absolutely right. The days of great pop music are over,@@GeeCeeWU

@anethers7545

2 ай бұрын

Sade was on a Level of her own too

Sarah Harding’s dad was actually on TOTP himself. Was in a 70’s band called Sunfighter, signed to EMI records. Many years later his late daughter followed his footsteps with Girls Aloud. 🌟🎵✨🩷🤍

Honestly, the one that got my spine tingling and for me was the stand out - Kate Bush. Magical, and like all true art it gets even better with time.

Losing a Beatles short film: Tragedy.

Steeleye span all around my hat was a belter

It was bloody well mimed in the old days. Check out Paul Heaton singing.😂

@miguelurdaci7884

2 ай бұрын

the singing was mostly live with a backing track for instruments

@garypayne4284

2 ай бұрын

​@@miguelurdaci7884mostly? on the whole, no, most artists lip synced, these here on this list only Kate, Bowie, Kurt have live vocal.

Could you imagine some family in Bath sitting down for some family entertainment only to hear black sabbath

So many great songs/perfornances. Sadly most talked over.

Queens good old fashioned lover boy on TOTP was semi live rare for TOTP.

Wasn't the appearance of The Beatles singing Ticket to Ride in Doctor Who taken from a now lost episode of TOTP?

@sg-zd8eb

5 ай бұрын

It was, it was shown in episode 1 of The Chase, the third Dalek story in 1965. The tapes of each episode (all 6 of them) survive as telerecordings as all master transmission tapes of episodes up to 1970 are lost. The context of the clip is that the Doctor and the companions at the time were watching certain events in history on a Time-Space Visualiser (a sort of time tv). In addition, the Beatles were supposed to record a cameo of themselves in the future as old men for the Visualiser but I believe their manager Epstein said no to the idea prior to filming.

Curt Cobain sounds like Mike Flowers

Can't complain at the choices. Contenders T-rex, The Sweet Ballroom blitz, The Housemartins Happy Hour, Gary Newman Cars, Culture Club Karma Camelion...

Blondie Denis! That Red Dress with Debbie Harry! That is Iconic!

I loved the stranglers performance. They kinda destroyed the stage

I’m a bit surprised that Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep is up there with so many greats. It was a catchy song, but really??? Kate Bush will always be my favourite. She was mesmerising.

Always the Sun by The Stranglers .

You DO know that Careless Whisper was mimed, surely?

@fayesouthall6604

2 ай бұрын

It pretty much all is.

No Rolling Stones?

@kimpoulsen6623

4 ай бұрын

Who?

@hesekie1

Ай бұрын

No, Rolling Stones.

Ich hätte Starman von David Bowie auf Platz 1 gesetzt. Er war ein toller Sänger und sah toll aus. Die Beatles mag ich auch. Mir gefällt die Pilzkopffrisur nicht. Aber ihre Musik 🎶 war klasse.

The Beatles at Top Of The Pops. One hit. One shot.

mick ronson on guitar for bowie..amazballs...

No withering with Kate.

Mate - it was all pre-recorded! They were miming! You must be the only person in the world not to know that

Song of Temma Harbour - Mary Hopkin - Pan's People dancing.

i can't make up my mind who got the nicest hair - George Michael or Lady Di......

@amystickle9398

4 ай бұрын

Brian Connolly from Sweet had some nice hair too

@gerrym4540

Ай бұрын

This is not as inconceivable as you might think, Chris. George and Lady Di were besties IRL, so they nay have had a shared celebrity hair stylist, like Vidal Sassoon, for example.

Cool

Could easily have made this Top 100!

Manics doing Faster, with James Dean Bradfield singing with a balaclava on. It garnered the most complaints ever on TOTP!

@fayesouthall6604

2 ай бұрын

Odd isn’t it? James is such a sweetheart