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@ChucksCherubs3

6 ай бұрын

I kept waiting for a-ha to turn up, but they never did. Well played, Mojo.

Japan and David Sylvian just awesome

Any band that managed to convince TOTP producers that they should sing and play live are worthy of a mention... not many did

@bungle3912

Жыл бұрын

Nirvana barely managed it. They look him sing live and the musicians had to mime - look how that turned out.

@LCO82

Жыл бұрын

Eternal singing ‘I wanna be the only one’ live with a gospel spin stands out - in the nineties UK girl groups were questionable vocalists

@jjperera3389

Жыл бұрын

Did Iron Maiden do it ? Or did they refuse to do it because they could not play live, I can not remember

@jimmytgoose476

Жыл бұрын

Maiden did Running Free live 🙂👍

@mr.y.mysterious.video1

Жыл бұрын

It's all down to the time period. During the era when Chris Cowie produced anyone could perform totally live or indeed totally mime depending on their choice

Love 'Break it Down Again'! And is that Gail Ann Dorsey?

Kate Bush is incredible pure talent!

I would also add Bjork & Skunk Anansi's duet of Army Of Me back in '95 too - transforming Bjork's gloomy techno song into a full-on screaming metal tune was a classic TOTP moment.

You tricked me with the a-ha intro.

I consider Crazy performed live by Gnarls Barkley at a much slower tempo to be one of the best live performances on TOTP. Much better than the recorded version

Tears for fears so underrated

@WatchMojoUK

Жыл бұрын

They're incredible

@Stesano

Жыл бұрын

Never underated in UK ! Definitely loved! Always and even tho Kurt had left it that point " break it down again" is amazing an amazing tune!! I

Brilliant Blur from their brilliant 1999 album "13".

Kate Bush her voice is so evocative. .genius ☺

Loved TOTP/TOTP2 so really appreciate this video. I know it would be hard work for the uploader and perhaps too long a set for some BUT, I for one would actually REALLY LOVE to see ALL of these performances in FULL. Just putting it out there as I'm sure it would be MAGIC to see! x

Thanks for the shout out to our Canadian band barenaked ladies

I’d add Manic Street Preachers doing Faster to the mix for the sheer insanity, so many people complained!

One of the best live performances in my opinion, also my favourite song .. Tears For Fears - The Working Hour (Live). Instrumental intro/ Roland's voice / Audience captivated/ Enough said. :)

Bowie singing Jean genie live should be number 1

It's great to see a sarcastic Welsh twang make it onto this list. Catatonias International Velvet was required listening when I was at Cardiff (Mulder and Scully top track) and Cerys Matthews just absolutely smashed the vocals. Superb artist and a great lady

I have a soft spot for The Wildhearts' performance of Caffeine Bomb. For years that performance stuck in my head but I didn't actually know who it was until decades later when I became a fan.

Killer is such a great track

@WatchMojoUK

Жыл бұрын

Heck yeah

@MrSinclairn

Жыл бұрын

Re-released by Seal in its own right,reaching No.9;as Adamski refused to split the revenue on its original No.1 hit release with Seal ! 🙄

Blur are awesome. Tender is such a beautiful track, I don't even care about the runtime.

@EwanMathewson

Жыл бұрын

Tender is compete horseshit.

❤ Blur

Great to have Blur at number one.

11:36 there was an excellent performance of ‘Landslide’ by The Dixie Chicks around 2001/2002 I believe. That was a really underrated performance.

Only Tears for Fears are live here. Superb live and the greatest live TFF song is Working hour. Sylvian sang to the limits of his vocal chords

@charliegeorge9393

Жыл бұрын

Sylvian was in Japan. TFF were Roland Orzabal and Kurt Smith

@charliegeorge9393

Жыл бұрын

ignore me - just seen Ghosts

@danielbentley0

Жыл бұрын

TFF aren’t playing their instruments live. There are no guitar amps or microphones on the drums.

@marguskiis7711

Жыл бұрын

all the 90s performances are live here, at least vocals

Anyone love smells like teen spirit on totp? I saw it at the time and thought it was brilliant!

@WatchMojoUK

Жыл бұрын

Legendary moment

Faith no more's "ashes to ashes"......ditto, Watchmojo, ditto🤘

walk on by - the stranglers my favourite totp performance

Killing Joke's Millennium in 1994 is one of the first that come to mind

Return of the mack!!

That appearance of Kate Bush singing Babooshka wasn't on TOTP. It was a guest appearance on a Dr Hook TV Special.

Filter's performance in totp 2000 on the song Take a picture should have been in this list too that was epic

It's a bit strange this one, particularly when you consider the fact that nesrly all artists who are invited to be on Top of the Pops aren't actually playing live. It's all lip-synching with the relevant song playing over the speakers.

@WatchMojoUK

Жыл бұрын

Most of these listed are from later in the show's life where they played live

@mr.y.mysterious.video1

Жыл бұрын

Depends on the time period. 70s, sing live to a rerecord track with the totp orchestra, 80s, mime, 90s live vocals to backing track, mid 90s totally live or totally mime depending on your tastes

I like that Damon Albarn is wearing sunglasses, almost as if he's trying to disguise his sadness.

@sophielou2929

Жыл бұрын

he was probably hungover

Go DMode!!!! :)

I think the main issue with TOTP over the years was not if the songs were played live or not, but if they were played full length or (mostly) not.

You completely missed that FNM performing Ashes to Ashes doesn't have Mike Bordin on drums, he was on tour with Ozzy Osbourne. Robin Guy of Rachel Stamp was drafted in for the show, and apparently was supposed to wear a mask of Bordin's face, he didn't, and throughout the performance, Mike Patton gives him his middle finger several times.

Check out Howard Jones playing HIDE AND SEEK, live and solo.

I am sorry, but there is no way in hell that Depeche Mode performance is live. So we are basically adding lip syncs into the Top 10 and calling that a great performance...?!

Most of bands tried to perform live in TOTP in 90s.

The video title had me perplexed. I wondered how or who deemed these underrated! As it happens there's a load of dross in there...and then there's Kate Bush.

'withering' heights hahaha

Return of the mack!!! Really

👏👏👏👏

Great performances, shame we couldn't hear any of them!! as someone was blabbering throughout the song!!

Keep them where they are

Tender wasn't written about his relationship, No Distance Left to Run Was

Tears for fears only one of the members on stage so not them but him

Top of the populists

Bnl for ever

Hmmm....how much of the Tears For Fear performance was live? The drums and strings aren't miced up for a start. Depeche Mode have none of their synths plugged in.....

blur really did not appeal to me but good performance nevertheless.

Damon......GOAT........

Where's Sophie George?

Ah, Mojo, talk over exactly what you try to describe

@WatchMojoUK

Жыл бұрын

fair use

Why does it look like Noel Gallagher as copied Damon’s look from this

Jamiroquai?? 🤷‍♂️

Where's Smiley Culture?

kate bush makes me want to pull my ears off. I like that one she did with Peter Gabriel, but I'll pass on the rest

Somehow I expected to see some classic stuff from the 70s. Kinda disappointed except Tears for Fears...

Nobody says TOTP

no suede😭

Depeche mode was NOT live no mic in sight

BABOOSHKA

This channel would be a lot better if we could actually hear more than a few seconds of a song at a time rather than talking over everything

Blur (and Oasis for that matter) where utter shite.

@Monkeypole

Жыл бұрын

Nah.

@EwanMathewson

Жыл бұрын

@@Monkeypole yah.

Blur over the Manics or Suede or countless others 🙄, lame tbh. You should have doubled down and made Coldplay number one. Personally, I would've had someone like Stereo MCs on the list, along with We Are The Pigs and maybe La Tristesse Durera. They were great on totp.

@sophielou2929

Жыл бұрын

legit. when they said underrated i straight away thought of metal mickey performance

Does this guy talk like this at home?

shame the commentator talked over literally 90% of the tracks?? pointless video

Really terrible list. Tender is one of the worst songs Blur have released.

@rayosullivan4398

Жыл бұрын

I think i'm going to puke

@barnigranero5882

Жыл бұрын

@@rayosullivan4398 Yes that's how I feel when I hear that song as well.

so you go and ruin them by talking all over them!

Mark Morrison is miming to. And if it's 'live', where is the band?

Kate Bush Is NOT performing 'live', She's miming. She's not even using a micrphone for christs sake!

Depeche Mode ain't playing 'live' either. There's no mic on the snare drum.

Depeche mode were miming. There were no mics. Take it off the list it's not milli vanilli

I give up now. I watched them all. None of them are playing 'live'. Watch Mojo should be ashamed. Click, click, click.

It in't Tears For Fears on stage. It ain't 'them''. Curt Smith isn't there.