Scott Mills presents his first Top of the Pops - 2 April 1999

[@valerieselau7384]

My favorite decade .. so many memories 😊

[@xAngiePrincessx]

What a trip down memory lane… Desree is singing! What an angelic voice & love how she clearly didn’t want to mime x

[@JamaalABivens]

And then TLC and Mariah Carey have absolutely no issues with miming 😂

[@davidkeele9483]

That song should have been No.1, such a great song, along with the New Radicals - You Get What You Give !

[@rammingspeed5217]

You BECOME MY NEW WIFE!?

[@ageordieboy]

You’re right. I got the impression you had to be quite forceful to insist on singing live on TOTPs in the whole of the shows run to be honest. I’ve heard interviews of quite a few genuinely talented singers and bands who could sing live effortlessly but said they were new and young and didn’t know how to stand up to powerful execs and producers.

[@TheRealRodent]

I worked in the manufacturing sector of the music industry and recognise every single one of these songs... as I was responsible for the manufacture of all of them on tape cassette. Literally hundreds of millions of copies of these songs passed through my hands xD If you bought a cassette in 1998, 1999 and 2000, album or single, doesn't matter, the bets are it passed through my print machine.

[@spacedoge6540]

When music became awful

[@TheRealRodent]

@@spacedoge6540 music's always been 90% garbage tbh. I was watching a channel the other day that was showing all the 70s and 80s big hits and biggest pop artist... and I realised that rose tinted glasses are a powerful thing. All of the old classics that were being played was absolute dogsh*t. Music is one of those things that you need to dig around to find that 10% that's actually ok.

[@signoguns8501]

@@TheRealRodent So whats the decent 10% of the modern age? Say this decade, the 2020s? What is the best music weve produced...

[@signoguns8501]

@@spacedoge6540 Nah, 00s had good music. Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, cooper temple clause, The Coral (MASSIVELY underrated band), The streets, loads of good music. Some of the best indie music weve produced. Music died when social media became popular, now the internet dominates everything

[@Darkangel-A-c8z]

I wish we're all back there today's world is miserable 😢

[@Darkangel-A-c8z]

@@andrewrobinson8305 hmm, you can't go back in time, can you

[@andrewrobinson8305]

No you can’t. There’s a wonderful world out there waiting for you - you just have to get out there!

[@Darkangel-A-c8z]

@@andrewrobinson8305 yeah with our numpties to ministers and the bloody wars 🤔🤔

[@jenster29]

​@@Darkangel-A-c8z it was the same back then too. We just didn't pay that much attention to it all.. coz we couldn't change it, just like you can't, so fuck it

[@DanTheMan221]

The world wasn't perfect then... It was just slightly different!

[@karlJCompton]

What a trip back to my Childhood. Thanks for uploading this. 90’s was the best for TOTP.

[@h3arty]

Thanks for the upload, this is amazing!!! nostalgia!! i LIVED for TOTP!

[@Gone2war-q3i]

I left school a month after this 🎉❤😂 I remember watching this one with my bestie at the time. It's the scrubs song and the outfits. Wow new memories unlocked ❤

[@theancientsancients1769]

Many of this songs turned into classics replayed decades later on radio 📻

[@AmaanStorm]

I loved Desiree....that performance was sublime. I remember watching this when it was first aired and i ended up going out and buying her CD the next day.

[@brianmarshall4753]

I hope this will be show on BBC four in the near future

[@col8723]

Wish they would bring it back

[@kats8229]

I came here 2 say the same thing. U beat me 2 it 😂👍

[@shaundodd1512]

I think it was axed because of those music channels like the hits TV, TMF, people preferred the digital stuff back then.

[@hermanthetosser4219]

I wonder who could fix it

[@grith1983]

The 90's so do I

[@donniet685]

X-factor ruined music and then streaming killed it off . . .

[@cnrspiller3549]

I was working on local radio back then. On my second station after having been poached. It was a local evening slot, Monday to Friday, with 1 weekend gig in Coventry. I was so excited presenting my own show, playing all these great songs (even the Cartoons 🙄) Scott Mills is great - i never climbed to his heights, but i spun discs for 27 years on loads of great British stations. This was right at the start for me - all these songs have a special place in my heart. Now retired wondering what happened to radio, and what happened to Britain? God, i sound like an old fart.

[@shaundodd1512]

I think top of the pops still would have continued if all those digital music channels never existed.

[@wayneharvey]

"They'll be the the next big thing: The New Radicals!". Couldn't have been more wrong.

[@andrewrobinson8305]

Exactly! They were never really a band as such anyway - it was just Gregg Alexander and varying sessions musicians. He said he pulled his hat down over his eyes so people couldn’t see how bored he was with the song. The album was brilliant though, and he became a prolific songwriter.

[@ryanmusiker8702]

Too bad he was a one-hit wonder under that name, he did write Lovin' Each Day and I Love It When We Do for Ronan Keating, which were both Top 5 hits, though.

[@marcuslavaggi-bowen6539]

​@@ryanmusiker8702He also wrote "Inner Smile" for Texas and "I Can't Deny It" for Rod Stewart. "Life is a Rollercoaster" for Rowan Keating I think was one of his also?.

[@AmaanStorm]

The thing with the New Radicals was that Greg was never comfortable with fame, and being in a band with others would somehow make him more comfortable. But I remember reading an article/interview where he said it didn't turn out that way and he suffered from anxiety being in the limelight. Hence why he retreated to songwriting for others. And he's a great songwriter too, so in a way, he had plenty of success over the years, but not under the New Radicals banner.

[@Sphat90]

Well, the band may not have lasted as long as the label hoped, but it did the trick in getting Gregg recognisable - from about 2000-2003 every pop star's manager wanted them to work with him.

[@artcregod]

RIP Lisa Left Eye Lopez ❤

[@JollyOrangeEntertainment]

I remember her doing Never Be The Same Again with Mel C from The Spice Girls 😢

[@abdulmumin6251]

Lisa left eye Lopez omg what a beautiful human being so full of fun and life

[@nickyperryman2683]

Yes so sad she is gone. RIP.

[@Legenda20SLO]

she was also f* in the head and you know it.

[@pkdude5334]

when I was young and naive I actually thought these were performed live, but now watching it it's painfully obvious it's all on a backing track. I guess that allows them to change the stages quickly.

[@kristianTV1974]

Go look at New Order on TOTP 1983 when they did 'Blue Monday' live. You'll quickly change your mind.

[@PBL187]

Some acts played fully live, many sang for real to backing tracks, and a lot were completely mimed and lip synced

[@user-yb6tk1ru6x]

Desiree seems like she's singing live

[@theancientsancients1769]

​@@user-yb6tk1ru6xYep she was singing live!

[@DonHomersdonut]

@@kristianTV1974 ha ha very true. Peter Hook said New Order were the only band whose songs went down the charts after they went on TOTP 😂 Gotta love them for sticking to their punk ideals though

[@olliepriddey1161]

The first 3 performances were live and the rest was all dubbed on top, the first 3 were amazing!!!

[@phillipwallace7211]

This marked the end of a great era of music. Britpop and indie music gave way to a much more commercial style of music.

[@PBL187]

Britpop was very commercial

[@donniet685]

Pop Idol (2001) and then X-Factor was the beginning of the decline . .. . .

[@DillioSmithers]

This is current club bar culture in the UK 2024, spent the last ten years as a DJ making sure not to play this dross

[@rosshendry8589]

Wow 25 years from hold tight what happened to this UK 😢😢WERE FCKD BRITAIN HAS FALLEN 😅😅😅😅😅 WE HAD THE MUSIC IN US AND THE GOV SOLD US OUT 😮😮😮😅😅 HOLD TIGHT YOU ONLY GET WHAT U GIVE ❤

[@rammingspeed5217]

And if we complain they will replace us with b0at migrants.. We are just "replacable cogs".. Not a rooted people

[@donniet685]

So I've been watching random TOTP programmes from the 90s and someone is dead from each show so far - Roxette singer, Cranberries singer, Charles from Charles and Eddie, Whitney Houston, The singer from OMC (how bizarre) and on this one Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopez from TLC. . . . R.I.P. The 1990s indeed.

[@GaryJohnson-wg3iu]

Des'ree was such a class performer.

[@brandongill2577]

The following week, Eminem was the highest new entry at 2 with My Name Is.

[@MultiVince95]

Friday 2nd April 1999

[@Welsh_Dragon1976]

Well done for repeating the information

[@Stick1983z]

Man United were about to win the treble 😮

[@annafitzpatrick548]

Billie was brilliant - looking at this performance, she totally inspired All Saints

[@Mistysmudge1]

Great episode! I remember seeing the radio one 'The Big One' on Plymouth Hoe, Scott was one of the DJs :D

[@LordStraightBanana]

That guy from the New Radicals is like 90’s Sia

[@danielseaton3504]

I feel in love for the first time watching Billie singing honey to the bee...she's was so fine haha

[@larrydavid6852]

She looks like a completely different person now.

[@danielseaton3504]

@larrydavid6852 sadly yes

[@donniet685]

I am so glad Billie Piper and Chris Evans never had a baby together . . .

[@danielseaton3504]

@donniet685 haha he's a weird looking dude

[@harrywright2408]

Love Billie ❤ had to skip through the cartoons though. That song sticks, I can’t handle it 😂

[@anthonyduncalf-uk]

New Radicals and TLC . Both tunes !

[@AlperAlpara]

Yeah I miss it very much

[@phillipwallace7211]

I know, it was so hard to hand the torch over to the next generation.

[@GalaxyGamer_YT665]

Wow Desiree smashes it

[@cathycooper5606]

New radicals song ❤❤

[@lucydawson1344]

Wow I was in year 7 at school then and now my twins are. And the music was definitely better then 😂 as was the world in general. Or perhaps that’s just because I was 12 years old and loving life

[@StuartH2709]

I was 17/18 at college when this was broadcast and had a huge crush on Billie Piper at this time!!

[@stevenparsons5553]

I was yr9 at school then. No worries in the world for me and much simpler times! Took 30mins to load a static pic on the internet tho and used the phoneline. Lol

[@Buff_Cupcake]

They wouldn't be dancing to this in the audience nowadays, they'd just be standing dead still watching it through their phones as they record.

[@keepyourvisionstoyourself1932]

A tip for the commenters whining about how 'all music today is rubbish' (why do I see this bullshit under every single TOTP clip from the 1990s?): stop listening to Ed Sheeran and look up some modern indie bands. There's bloody loads of good music around now. We just don't get to hear it because streaming has skewed everything. (Oh, and Cartoons, Billie and Mr Oizo? All great artists of our time. Sure.)

[@theancientsancients1769]

The UK charts always loved hyping one hit wonder of something cheesy 😂 . But if you look around so much of great music was around in the charts tested through time played decades later. . The 90s peaked mid 90s though like 1997 post that music was changing. To compare trash 🗑️ of Gen Z today to the 90s ? Is unanimously condemned by all generations starting from 50s to 00s from their taste of music to their lazy behaviour 😂

[@theancientsancients1769]

​@Ayat78Well the 60s were great but the gap was huge . Both though 60s and 90s managed to lived on unlike what we have e seen more recent times . Of course lots of bad stuff existed in all era.. but the ratio of mad was much lower

[@Dee-wz6nn]

What's wrong with Billie like? She was bigger than the Beatles.

[@seemourbutts6679]

Who is making good music in 2024??

[@AmaanStorm]

I think that the issue of today's music is that the industry takes itsself FAR too seriously. Everyone's a singer/songwriter and wants to be taken seriously. The difference with the 90's and now is that there was a lot less seriousness back then, and much more music that was carefree, fun and great to party to. I think that's the gripe.

[@sheisveryfamous]

Who came here after he won Race Across The World?!

[@itsthegasman449]

Did you have to cut out the end bit for copyright? Wanted to see Scott meet flat eric :(

[@unofficial_mills]

It was the one thing that KZbin kept blocking sadly!

[@randerson2525]

Wow - memories!!

[@JamaalABivens]

I'll forgive the guy at 19:02 for messing up because that routine was worse than Jazzercise, Hip Hop Aerobics, and Insanity put together. Sheesh. Lol

[@leestockton9367]

The music wasn't a patch on the '80s, but it was far superior to the diarrhoea we get nowadays

[@adam007ize]

The cartoons???

[@chrisclose7793]

The last decade of proper music none of the rubbish out today

[@chrisclose7793]

What great memories back when music was still great not the rubbish out today

[@ROC14088]

I'm reading this while listening to ooh eee woot tha tha walla walla bing bong

[@keepyourvisionstoyourself1932]

@@ROC14088 Thank you!

[@al81yoo]

Such a lazy comment, to say all music back then was great and all music today is rubbish. Did you watch this episode of TOTP? Lots of rubbish too!

[@andrewrobinson8305]

Seriously?! With a few exceptions, the late-90s and early-00s was one of the worst periods EVER for pop music.

[@chrisclose7793]

@@andrewrobinson8305 better than the crap today

[@Darkangel-A-c8z]

I loved my early 20s

[@juneyspoon]

Desree - such class in amongst s#&t

[@ajs41]

The year I gave up on chart music.

[@gordonhotchkiss646]

They were miming. Its well known most of the acts on Top of the pops mimed

[@laganas2008]

You can't mime ooh eeh ooh ahh ahh, it's totally unmimeable.

[@gordonhotchkiss646]

@@laganas2008 Top of the pops wasa kmown for it

[@user-tm7zt1eq1n]

That's Billie Piper not Billie Jean!

[@joemichael5150]

Who is number 1?

[@Me-ji2pn]

"Flat Beat" is an instrumental by French musician Mr. Oizo.

[@ryanmusiker8702]

@@Me-ji2pn in fact, Oizo is a play on "oiseau", the French word for "bird".

[@rammingspeed5217]

The Cartoons hopefully

[@donniet685]

The shittest song of the lot - as per usual.

[@davidreaney8955]

Billie!!! 😍🥰❤️

[@jhjh321]

Whatever happened to synchronised dancing

[@Tameeka-py5oq]

Billie piper looks like a English version of Faith Evans

[@Didi-iq9wo]

9:44 ROSE TYLER!

[@LUFC123]

Reaching out to a higher ground.......

[@WillScarlet1991]

David Brent?

[@LUFC123]

@@WillScarlet1991 To a warm and peaceful place

[@WillScarlet1991]

@@LUFC123 You've charmed me.

[@187lockedown]

why couldn't they play Oizo?

[@avalonvalley2722]

Love whatever im doing to abuse the algorithm rn

[@yorkshirecatdad3702]

The amount of sticky socks I had over mariah

[@awreckingball]

Billie's voice doesn't sound like it has any processing applied to it at all.

[@Catty19748]

Whats with the skirt over the trousers? 😂

[@melgrant7404]

It was the fashion back then I had some trousers with a skirt that came with them.

[@jenster29]

​​@@melgrant7404I saw them out shopping recently 😂 was so tempted to buy them loll

[@melgrant7404]

@@jenster29 I actually liked them.

[@jp-i]

Billie Piper: Gorgeous Lady. Nice voice. Good actor. Likeable character. Unfortunate taste in men.

[@EleanorBeggs-n7e]

Wecwill lovescaguines song s.❤

[@pauldoherty6413]

That first “song” , wow, so bad.

[@DavidHarries-w5m]

Should have been his last he’s on everything at the pure overkill 🤨

[@TheIceyeddy]

Billie's Honey to the Bee song is really catchy, but it is a clear rip off of Never Ever by All Saints.

[@KevinAnderssonW]

Why is Mariah Carey lipping on Top Of The Pops?

[@AndreaJones-eh3sd]

Guess they just took the easy route with having so many different artists and needing to sound check etc

[@KevinAnderssonW]

@@AndreaJones-eh3sd That's a copout. My guess is being the spoiled human being that she is, she probably thought it was beneath her. More importantly, why is she performing a song that isn't in that week's Top 40?

[@AndreaJones-eh3sd]

@@KevinAnderssonW I didn’t decide it lol, I’m no Mariah fan but they’re all lip synching by the looks of it.

[@KevinAnderssonW]

@@AndreaJones-eh3sd TOTP demanded that all acts performed live during the fourth quarter of 1991. Most did, except acts who weren't the real singers: Whigfield, Corona, Capella...

[@JP28X]

Flat Eric 😊

[@KevinAnderssonW]

Aqua, good. Cartoons, utter shït.

[@Ste2023]

Mariah Carey God the 90s should be "DELETED FROM History" ....decline of America

[@lizichell2]

All good apart from mariah carey snd tcl

[@gdsuperstar5657]

I cant stand scott mills , he's ruined radio 2 . absolute rubbish ....😡 . songs are ok tho

[@tf2368]

Billie Piper worst lip sync ever

[@JamesBarker-qt3pb]

Dont Say That About A Beautiful Wonderful Human Being

[@MiniLemmy]

A decade of debauchery copying the 70’s resulted in this crap towards the end of it! Truly sad ending to the 90’s, which up to this point was the greatest ever decade…..

[@deadhead-s7t]

Awful music.

[@marton349]

Every song on this was poppy shite!

[@paulkazjack]

Flippin hate desiree woman song.

[@tonemc6047]

At least she was singing live .

[@Verrando678]

Rubbish😢😊

[@MrBigMAC88]

Brilliant post just come across it 2024 👌🏻 88 Baby 😀

[@richardc316]

6:10 They got that wrong. They were 1 hit wonders.

[@awgazzm]

possibly the most arrogant rude person ive had the misfortune to see

[@TheHilikus89]

Who?

[@creynolds094]

Friday 2nd April 1999