_1989 Hillsborough R.I.P ladz_ ❤️

I was in the audience at this recording. The shows were not recording in one go. Robert Palmer was not there, it was pre-recorded. Also, Jason Donovan performed Sealed With a Kiss, but it wasn't shown until two weeks later.

In the middle of my GCSEs in may 1989. After this came the summer of love. Great being 16 haha!

@paulshaw4451

17 күн бұрын

amen to that bro, i was 15 then

To whomever did that edelweiss track may God have mercy on your soul

@peterhensey4265

4 жыл бұрын

Done due to the timelords ,,klf inventor bill Drummond giving tips saying anybody can have a no 1 song so they proved it

@columbannon9134

4 жыл бұрын

ABBA took them to court for it is a partly a copy of their song S.O.S but they lost.

@mikekaraoke

4 жыл бұрын

@@columbannon9134 How the hell did they lose?

@columbannon9134

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikekaraoke because they gived it, since only a small part of the song sounded like S.O.S which was not enough.

@mikekaraoke

4 жыл бұрын

@@columbannon9134 But that my friend i called a sample. And a sample is copyright as it is part of the song- Like when Flo Rida took a sample fro Dead or Alive-Spin me round-Flo Rida explained that he listened to "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" and similar records growing up as a result of the varying music genres his seven sisters listened to. Ultimately, his A&R Aaron Bay-Schuck came up with the idea to sample "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" in a song.[6] Bay-Schuck told HitQuarters that he had been listening to a shuffle beat produced by DJ Frank E on a CD of potential beats and had kept hearing in his head the melody of the Dead or Alive song over the top of it. Then they got permission to use the sample and paid for it

rest in peace Donna Summer, you will be truly missed

@AllenJeremy

Жыл бұрын

Also R.I.P Robert Palmer.

Donna Summers.....You were the best R.I.P

My mum loved lynn hamilton song ,love you and miss you till were together again.

80's music was at it's best in the early to mid 80's by the end of the decade I couldn't help feel something was missing.

@soeffingwhat

6 жыл бұрын

I have a soft spot for music from the late 80s cos I was coming into my teens and was starting to understand things a bit more, and though 1989 was a pivotal and tough year for me, I remember it with fondness, whereas my childhood in the early to mid 80s, though great in so many ways, was a confusing time for me.. That said I know what you mean. I think its why in the early 90s, Grunge coming into the fore was kind of a "welcome change" for many. Same with Britpop in the mid 90s.

@ajs41

5 жыл бұрын

My favourite band is Japan and they split in December 1982. David Sylvian was the lead singer. Albums were Tin Drum, Gentlemen Take Polaroids, Quiet Life and Oil On Canvas.

@plymouthtoleedsonaxchst9537

5 жыл бұрын

80s was the best,music now is just crap.All i hear on the radio now is shitty coldplay.

@kailashpatel1706

5 жыл бұрын

i thought the music at in the early to mid 80s was borderline outstanding, but something started going a bit wonky towards the end of the decade...

@TheFuneralDirector

4 жыл бұрын

Ditto

Everyone is hating on the music of this era, but personally I think it's pretty cool. You can totally hear the fusion the sound of the 80s along with what the 90s is about to bring. I like how this era of music heavily uses that classical piano sound in the background. That was such a thing during the late 80s and a huge chunk of the early 90s. The fashion was super fun as well.

@marguskiis7711

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, Yamaha DX7 piano sound and Roland DS50 synth always somewhere

I really enjoyed TOP OF THE POPS '85.. a lot more then '89.

this is a true epic episode!! the theme from prisoner c block and funky cold medina! just brought back the whole year to me this episode did

This has to be one of the most simultaneously upbeat, hilarious and dreary episodes I've heard in a while :D

@j.tshark3313

2 жыл бұрын

depressing as hell to me

@PREPFORIT

2 жыл бұрын

nothing dreary about it fuck face!

Just read someone’s comment the music was really going down hill then. Love the 80s , but that’s so true of the music here at the end of the 80s . Terrible

Tone loc !!I absolutely loved this guy and the album was ace,blasted it in my car with my mates!ah the good ol'days 😉

Some real classics in there. Rather liked that first song. Even PC Hollis turned up..And a by the book stock Aiken and Waterman song by Donna.

Wow, the music was really going down hill then.

@GeeB1

4 жыл бұрын

I can hear and see why some of those British groups never made it big in the U.S.A.....WOW! THEY ARE HORRIBLE.

@adm924s

3 жыл бұрын

totally. ... WTF !!!

@thow65

3 жыл бұрын

About the worst old episode I've ever seen. Especially when there was some seriously great, original music being made at the time. Midnight Oil were mentioned being in the charts in the run down, to mention just one that managed to sneak through the gap into foul smelling shit that was 99% thanks to the Stock Aitken Waterman, long may they rot in hell.

That's 28 minutes of my life I will never get back - 29 if you include me writing this message...:))

@markST24

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with that chart or what was shown...Good and bad music is what made the 80's so good...Something for everyone unlike the music now...🙂

1989, last of the great music, as by then the music was really starting to decline, got even worse when a new wave took over in the 90's, like grunge, rap and rave and ''Bomp, bomp, bomp''. The best music was 60's, 70's and 80's. RIP great music. 1960 - 1989.

@adamcsor

5 жыл бұрын

Area OAP suggests best music occurred in his youth.

@klawlor3659

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah who can forget those hits of the 60s, 70s and 80s. "Grandma", Abergavenny by Marty Wilde and Black Lace amongst others. I think people forget (esp Boomers) that there were plenty of stinkers in those years. And there's some pure stinkers from '89 on this episode of TOTP!

Fun Fact: Edelweiss were sued by Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA as they did not have their permission to sample SOS on their song heard here.

The following evening, George Graham’s finest moment....Liverpool 0 Arsenal 2, these songs always remind me of that night! The 80’s was my favourite decade for music, football & my life.....how I miss those days 😔😀

@donniet685

5 ай бұрын

It's up for grabs now . . . . .

Edelwiess was class haha. Love a bit of crazy german music. Shame Sandra never made it big in our country, she was better than Madonna

@tracydavidson8524

Жыл бұрын

shite

I loved all these songs and they make me happy so screw all the haters.

@MsBananasmel

6 жыл бұрын

Especially Donna Summer. What a legend of a song !

@soeffingwhat

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I do have a soft spot for the year. It was a difficult one for me but I still have a soft spot for it.

@maymurphy845

2 жыл бұрын

😃👍

People say music was shit at the end of the 80's but I loved Capella with Helyom Halib - technotronic, Raze, DJ Fast Eddie, Joe Smooth, Black Box etc - I think house was at its peak then. Clubbing certainly was before the rave shite took over

Edelweiss was written to a formula created by KLF and described in a book called The Manual.

I was 16 the day this episode was broadcast :D

Quality theme from my favourite tv show Cell Block H , then playing out with W.A.S.P 🤘💀🤘

Plenty good acts 89 Madonna Gloria Estevan Texas neah cherry Cyndi lauper Donna summer and Belinda Carlile to name a few.

@memeagain4106

4 жыл бұрын

soul to soul?

Apart from Donna summer I've no idea who rest are and no memory of the songs .I was past watching it by then .my time was early 80s.the best

I think there were plenty of Good hits in 89 from Madonna Gloria Estevan, Texas, neah cherry,Cyndi lauper,Donna summer and Belinda Carlile excuse my spelling. I loved early mid and late 80s my favourite would be mid 80s between 83-87.and 89 don't forget Milli vanilli lol

Donna Summer wow shes stunning ....What a goddess

First song is a banger

I was one of those kids that taped the best tunes from the Top 40 on a Sunday - '88 was still quite a good year for pop hits, but '89 was terrible. I'd turned 11 and hearing pirate radio for the first time, I discovered that the best music wasn't being played on Radio 1.

@kailashpatel1706

5 жыл бұрын

I can almost pin it to 1989 oddly enough..1988 was still some gems interspersed with some moderate stuff but 89 they was a slide..

@donniet685

5 ай бұрын

Atlantic 252. LOL.

Ferry Across The Mersey was a good rendition. Liked it!

I glad donna summer after 11 years made first performance with dinner with Gershwin was also made brief cameo in 1977with David Jensen in a brief interview I glad she appeared in the studio for the show as the video for the song never appeared at all.

Like alwaya you discover tons of totally forgotten artists.

Thankfully in 1989 I was in a secure psychiatric care unit and they didn't let us watch disturbing shit like this. I was one of the lucky ones.....

@soeffingwhat

6 жыл бұрын

There might have been a lot of shite in 1989, but there was some good stuff. I have a soft spot for the year personally.

@20thCB

6 жыл бұрын

100% shite. There was literally nothing good in 1989. Even Morrissey was shit.

@soeffingwhat

6 жыл бұрын

Alice Cooper's Poison, Aerosmith's Pump, The Bangles Eternal Flame, Texas I don't want a Lover, and Beautiful South's Song For Whoever.....they are good ones, to name a few.

@20thCB

6 жыл бұрын

I'd hate to think what you'd call shite then.

@soeffingwhat

6 жыл бұрын

Well some of this stuff obviously. That's just my opinion and whats it to you anyway? You don't like it then the answer for you is simple...."Don't listen to it" and don't bother coming on to KZread to watch stuff you don't like. Simple really.

Sexy Donna Summer. Continue resting in peace.

Never mind kids, Madchester/baggy is just around the corner and things will never be the same again...

Wow and they say music today is crap...lol

Wow, only two tracks worth a listen here. Dark dark period indeed. The only good music back then was underground only to explode in 91... Glad I was a teenager in the 90's!

@PREPFORIT

2 жыл бұрын

You are so WRONG.

1989 had some great tunes. Guns n Roses Paradise city , The Bangles Eternal Flame and No Sweat Heart and Soul.

CAPELLA track is MAMMOTH EARLY ANTHEM TACKLE! So futuristic (when you look back at it now!) '"Work it to the bone" sample is classs!

Always had the feeling that, once great acts were putting tosh just for the sake of it. Even so, still a few great tracks around by new artists

When it all started to go wrong!

@MilesBellas

5 жыл бұрын

10:37 Robert Palmer yodels

@davidk1d

5 жыл бұрын

What went wrong?? This is GREAT

I must have been asleep most of this year. I don't remember any of these songs on this show just the artists!

Edelweiss may have been a bit of a goof, but they nailed it on TV xD

The theme tune to Prisoner cell block H... and we tell the younger generation how better our music was back then. This episode says different 😂

@mikekaraoke

4 жыл бұрын

Not all of it was shit in May of 1989, singles + albums wise, I mean the showing of the singles chart in this come on now pal

@redmozzy

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikekaraoke of course not all but there was a lot of shit that year.

2 songs in the top 40 that featured yodeling and a Gangster Rapper rhyming about pulling a ladyboy after spiking his/her drink with an afrodisiac. The 80s were fcukin awesome!

Given the state of the music industry today where you have the likes of Ed Sheeran occupying 16 places in the top 30 at one point, (yeah I couldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes thinking that was just......wrong) I never ever in my wildest dreams would have considered myself saying this but Stock, Aitkin and Waterman........please come back, all is forgiven. I used to be a religious listener of the Radio 1 top 40 on a Sunday afternoon but now I find listening to Radio 1 "or" commercial radio for that matter too painful. It would appear that no station can go any longer than 3 minutes without bangin on about some reality tv crap or playing a cardboard manufactured reality tv artists song that no one is going to remember approximately 6 weeks later. At least the songs that appear here we "STILL" remember to this day and some of the bands and artists are still performing. You can't say that about anything created in the 21st Century almost like the generation today were either absent or just weren't interested when that longevity skillset was being passed on.

Oh wow !! ...the night before Anfield 89 ....." its up for grabs now "

Notice the mistake after the Lynne Hamilton performance, Simon says it was Lynne Anderson!

@WNP2013

2 жыл бұрын

I beg your pardon?!😂

Hit in south of chile colony german 1989 lake llanquihue summer. From chile 2019

So this is what finally finished of music as we no it

1989 that was the year I'd had enough. of drugs and raves so I decided to move abroad, I went to holland for 5 years ,then came back to England because I'd had enough of Dutch drugs and raves ,that's when I realised I just needed to go with the flow

I don't care what anyone thinks this was brilliant music much better than the crap today

@murphy9039

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, some of my earliest memories were from 1989 and it had some great tunes from the Bangles, Nina Cherry, Madonna, Donna Summer, Kylie, Alice Cooper, Tears for fears to name a few. Music has become rubbish nowadays especially since 2016/'17, far too many twits with guitars and bland tunes.

The lady clapping next to Simon at the beginning seems so happy... (I would be the same)

@markcoleman3855

4 жыл бұрын

Probably happy it was Simon Mayo not Jimmy saville lol

WASP was great

I am fascinated by the guy in the Cappella video...

Hillsborough 😢

A rare live performance from Robert palmer before anyone reply I aware he might be miming. This is a good song it should have gone higher up the charts at least top twenty bill withers would be proud of palmer yodelling at least he can also hold notes.

@JohnTaylorMusicClips53

5 жыл бұрын

He should have done Addicted to Love on Top of the Pops.

@donniet685

5 ай бұрын

What the fuck was with yodelling back in 1989?

Lol, PC Reg Hollis from 'The Bill' in the dock at 08:07

Sorry Simon, 15:50, but it was Lynne Hamilton singing the ‘Prisoner’ theme, not Lynne Anderson! Both sang about roses though in one way or another lol

Only after watching this do I realise how by 1989 the 80s had gone down the shitter... Star Trekkin in 1987 and Edelweiss in 1989... awful

@mikekaraoke

4 жыл бұрын

There was some crap songs and/or albums back then, But nowhere near as much as now, And this was only in May of 1989 a month later June 25th episode -Plenty of good/really good singles + albums came out in whole of 1989-And you must of seen the other songs in singles charts in the top 40 countdown they weren't awful were they

Deacon Blue's 'Fergus Sings The Blues' is the only song there that's any good. The 80's were dead by then in my opinion. SAW crap, sampling and bad cover versions. The music scene did have a revival with the Manchester groups but apart from that there was just a load of shit in the charts.

By this time the best music was behind the scenes in clubs, pirate radio stations, alot of great rap coming over from america etc, unless you were a youthful 18 year old like myself it would probably would have seemed that pop quality was on a downward spiral. I suppose that's when acid house took over as it was something new and fresh, a trend like punk in the seventies. Being a synth fan I found my calling at this time, so many great tunes with great baselines just kept on coming and coming, Hifi was all Cd and cd single, vinyl went ballistic with tons of EuroDance and American Stuff, trying to nab the latest tune in the back street record stores that were everywhere. Great times. Music was reborn but you had to like and be in the acid house scene to get the best of it, otherwise you were given what you were given from the charts and a mixed bag it was. But oh boy if you loved dance, synth and rap and a cracking baseline with many quality samples this was the best time

Always liked Funky Cold Medina. I’ve got a respect a rapper who doesn’t take themselves too seriously, for that I like Prof Green’s Need You Tonight both have very clever lyrics.

music had so lost its way

89 and onwards is where music started to be pure crap its amazing that 1 and 2 years before this video top of the pops was full of fantastic songs other thaan donna summer in this video

Best year for music edelwiss yes 😘

Prisoner sell block age great song and episodes

The zooming into the Hillsborough video to cut off the banner with the names of the victims feels disrespectful.

Then 15:50 'first time on totp that's Lynne Anderson' - obviously made an impression then lol !!

@denzil4

6 жыл бұрын

The 80's were dead at this point in my opinion. Too many manufactured acts and too many samples and DJ's who can't tell an Anderson from a Hamilton !!!!!!

Tone Loc - absolute classic. Can you imagine the uproar if these lyrics (@4:25) were heard by today's "easily offended?!"

This confirms it. The 80s left wth their worst year.

Wow, I forgotten just how bad it got towards the end of the 80s. Luckily for me I was literally days away from being introduced to Industrial Music...

@redmozzy

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s when I turned to rock / metal at this time

@PREPFORIT

2 жыл бұрын

it did not get bad you just got Old and boring.

Lol Reg from The Bill in that Sam Brown vid. Jeff Stewart

LOL wtf is Simon Mayo wearing that awful stripey jacket for?! Remember the theme tune from Prisoner: Cell Block H - great show- loved it!

I'd have HATED the Edelweiss song at the time (even as a pre-teen, I liked to think of myself as musically superior) but these days I'd be bopping around the office without a care...

🖐🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🖐🏼🤝

wow !you can tell its all going downhill at that point !WOrST set of crap ever strung together !

@zorbario

4 жыл бұрын

I was gonna write the same thing word for word just now! Ha thats funny

ah the latest hits

no matter how many drugs you take theres no way that robert Palmer song sounds good. And yes I tried.

@leontl1

6 жыл бұрын

I thought he was Shakin' Stevens for the first few seconds.

@thevoid99

4 жыл бұрын

yeah, robert palmer yodeling. that doesn't work at all. i like the dude but that was bad.

@marguskiis7711

2 жыл бұрын

Where are the thousands of RP hardcore fans calling anything he ever did brilliant???

Unwatchable. Going to watch some old ABBA videos.

Is there a decade pattern? Its a coin toss, every ten years you will have period. Late 2000s to now - plagiarism Early 2000s-Late 90s - Ace Mid 90s - Boy Bands Late 80s- early 90s - the sampling era. Mid 80s- Ace Late 70s to early 80s - the cross over 60s - awesome ... actually theres no pattern, its just what i like, as you were 🤣

Tone Loc won't feel the benefit wearing that heavy coat indoors when he goes outside

ferry across the mersey

Tone Loc, promoting Rhypnol and GHB to the masses, lol.

Compare this to 1979.

Is that Micky Pearce in the Sam Brown video? 😆 Lol

@alexdolling

4 күн бұрын

No it’s Reg from ‘the bill’ 😂

‘C’mon lets work’....🙉🙈

Damn why couldn't they get PIL on this one lol.

Isn't that Reg from the Bill, in Sam Browns video

@andrewparker8806

6 жыл бұрын

Beverly Bradley yeah, it’s Jeff Stewart, well spotted! 👍🏼😄

The first one was strange & horrible. Did ABBA sue them for ripping off SOS? The Brits had that noise as a top 10? WOW!

EPIC :-)

Appeared on TOTP with a few dogs... Ended up in Ace Ventura.. No not Simon Mayo.

NOTTINGHAM FOREST FOREVER

Robert Palmer always looked really uncomfortable performing his stuff....He was on ‘Star Test’ once and the computer asked him how much he earns...He was outraged!

I'm sure this bunch were sued by Abba

Tone loc!

I really liked 'Pump Up The Jam', 'Ride On Time', and 'Voodoo Ray', in 1989. Not too keen on this selection though. Apart from Funky Cold Medina!