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mr_popquiz Posts: 28,150
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14/06/24 - 18:18 #1777
Did you spot the edit there ?
Mark originally said that Sarah wrote to Jim'll Fix It asking to meet the Beatles .
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aiwacat Posts: 17,220
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14/06/24 - 18:18 #1778
Curse of the ropy live vocal strikes again.
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14/06/24 - 18:19 edited 14/06/24 - 18:20 #1779
The quality as risen. Starts is being performance excellently here
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14/06/24 - 18:20 edited 14/06/24 - 18:20 #1780
Was Sarah Blackwood genuinely just going through the motions here or was that her natural performance style?
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14/06/24 - 18:20 #1781
mr_popquiz wrote: »
Did you spot the edit there ?
Mark originally said that Sarah wrote to Jim'll Fix It asking to meet the Beatles .
She had a lucky escape!
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14/06/24 - 18:21 #1782
Almost a year after the album Picture This came out, the Wets release the 6th and final single from the album.
The first single Love Is All Around was the big hit spending 15 weeks at number 1.
We the had - Julia Says ( 3 ) / Don't Want To Forgive Me Now ( 7 ) / Somewhere Somehow ( 7 ) / She's All On My Mind ( 17 ) / Morning ( 16 ) .
Mark said they will be around for many years to come after signing a huge new record deal. That sounds like a threat.
Their next appearance will be in March 1997 with If I Never See You Again.
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14/06/24 - 18:21 #1783
"They'll be making music for years to come."
What a terrible thing to say, Mark.
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14/06/24 - 18:21 edited 14/06/24 - 18:22 #1784
Later years wets thankfully.
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14/06/24 - 18:22 edited 14/06/24 - 18:23 #1785
And we'd only just got the Wets' myriad performances in '94 and '95 out of our systems.
This is so middle of the road it's almost painful.
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14/06/24 - 18:23 #1786
Looks like Marti's been to the barbers for the first time since 1989?
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14/06/24 - 18:23 #1787
mr_popquiz wrote: »
Did you spot the edit there ?
Mark originally said that Sarah wrote to Jim'll Fix It asking to meet the Beatles .
I did think it seemed a bit abrupt.
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14/06/24 - 18:23 #1788
Anyone else getting the feeling parts of this Wets number sound like Mr Mister's Kyrie sung more slowly?
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14/06/24 - 18:24 #1789
To think, the Wet's did release some Okay music in the 80's
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14/06/24 - 18:24 #1790
Oh god. First time I've been able to watch Topty Pops live (ish). I switch over and what do I get? Marti bloody Pellow and Wet Wet Wet.
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14/06/24 - 18:24 #1791
SONG OF THE NIGHT
It's not very often that the number 1 is Song of the Night ( in my opinion ) but Firestarter sounded fantastic in 1996 and still sounds fantastic today.
Firestarter samples 3 songs:
The vocal "hey hey" comes from Close To The Edit by the Art of Noise
The wah wah guitar loop comes from SOS by the Breeders
The repeated drum pattern comes from the Voice of Paradise Mix of Devotion by Ten City.The Prodigy never appeared in the Top of the Pops studio so we have the video for the 3 weeks at number 1.
Week 1 of 3 at number 1 on sales of around 119,000 last week.
The video was filmed at a disused London Underground tunnel at Aldwych.
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14/06/24 - 18:25 #1792
That X Files song was at Number 2
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14/06/24 - 18:25 edited 14/06/24 - 18:25 #1793
New entries at number 1 and 2 at the same time - UK Singles Chart
15 Dec 1984
1 - Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
2 - Last Chrisatmas - Wham !10 June 1989
1 - Sealed With A Kiss - Jason Donovan
2 - The Best Of Me - Cliff Richard26 Aug 1995
1 - Country House - Blur
2 - Roll With It - Oasis28 Oct 1995
1 - Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
2 - I'd Die For You ( And That's The Truth ) - Meat Loaf11 Nov 1995
1 - I Believe / Up On The Roof - Robson and Jerome
2 - Wonderwall - Oasis30 Mar 1996
1 - Firestarter - Prodigy
2 - The X Files - Mark SnowThere will be 2 more additions to the list before the end of 1996.
The top 3 will all be new entries for the first time in May 1997
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14/06/24 - 18:25 #1794
Well now, here's a song and video that defines the time period it emerged in.
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14/06/24 - 18:25 #1795
Always looked laughably ridiculous, the Firestarter video.
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14/06/24 - 18:26 #1796
I think with firestarter it was more the passing of time before I appreciated it
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14/06/24 - 18:26 #1797
Wasn't this filmed in the jubilee line while under construction?
Was quite startling to hear for the first time but has probably lost its edge a bit over the years.
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14/06/24 - 18:27 #1798
I did like this Prodigy song. Keith Flint was a charismatic frontman. Shame what happened to him.
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14/06/24 - 18:28 edited 14/06/24 - 18:29 #1799
Great Number 1, I remember the shock around Kieth Flint look at the time
Fantastic songI just wish Kieth have found the help he needed back in 2019, he should still be with us, running teams in BSB and Isle of Man and performing his great back catalog
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14/06/24 - 18:28 #1800
The Equals were the first major interracial rock group in the UK and were founded in 1964.
The guy second from the left with the guitar singing secondary vocals was Eddy Grant who wrote the song.
Baby Come Back was their 1st top 40 hit - number 19 at the time, the song will top the chart for 3 weeks in a months time.
Eddy will also top the charts as a solo artist in 1982 with I Don't Wanna Dance.
This footage is from the 6th June 1968 - the episode still exists in the BBC vaults but, you've guessed it, was co-presented by Jimmy Savile so no chance it will ever be screened in full.
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14/06/24 - 18:28 #1801
The Equals with anachronistic track of the episode.
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