So what is your favourite Top of the Pops performance? What did I miss? Trash Theory playlists - Spotify: tinyurl.com/yxp32pjf Deezer: tinyurl.com/y2mdp8h2 Also if you want to help out, here's my patreon link: patreon.com/trashtheory
@westonizzi4 жыл бұрын
Should’ve covered oasis with Liam and noels switch for the song roll with it
@404dia4 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this, thanks. When I was a kid TOTP was fantastically diverse. Punk, two tone, soul, disco, reggae, post punk etc,; it's hard to believe now that UK families were sat eating their dinner when PIL appeared, almost miming to The Flowers of Romance! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX2wnXubZ6imors Or that anyone thought it would be good idea to have the TOTP dancers peform to Laurie Anderson's O Superman! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHuli5ycj5mHf8U
@heppolo4 жыл бұрын
Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" only reached #6
@colinp22384 жыл бұрын
Good video shit commentary, I mean who is/was Kirsty McCoyle? You mean Kirsty McColl. Your droning voice does not give the magic that TOTP did even in it's worst performances and we all knew that they were mimming.
@leetronix4 жыл бұрын
Kirsty McCoil? Its Kirsty McCall...also spoken is not pronounced Spocken..other than that was enjoyable :)
@absinthefandubs91304 жыл бұрын
"Cobain later said he wanted to sound like Morrissey" This is the best thing I heard all year.
@zachjollimore43394 жыл бұрын
best thing I hear every year mayne
@SteeeveO4 жыл бұрын
and he meant Neil Morrisey - he was a great fan of men behaving badly.
@liammcnicholas9184 жыл бұрын
Sounds more like a bad Barney impression
@timf74134 жыл бұрын
The funny thing is that I can actually hear a certain similarity.
@m.asquino74034 жыл бұрын
Cobain was high as a kite!
@simonhaslam3 жыл бұрын
I remember when The Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ went straight in at number one. Presenter Nicky Campbell said “get your mums and aunties in front of the telly, cos they’re gonna hate this!”.
@JasmineSurrealVideos3 жыл бұрын
My mum loved the Progidy lol
@manicstreetpreacher2003 жыл бұрын
I interpret this as a rare moment of self-realisation from Mr Campbell.😂
@alukuhito3 жыл бұрын
I remember first hearing that song and thought it was pretty dumb. I wasn't sure why anyone liked it. It seemed like maybe the music magazines of the day told the hipsters that they were going to like it, so they manufactured a sense of liking it.
@kostajovanovic37112 жыл бұрын
@@alukuhito nah
@alukuhito2 жыл бұрын
@@kostajovanovic3711 Yeah.
@chariotdrvr143 жыл бұрын
I don't think New Order's 'Blue Monday' slipping a notch ever really mattered. That song has experienced so many remixed, rediscoveries, and use in commercials and films that as a track it has far outperformed most pop songs.
@davidhenderson97073 жыл бұрын
Yes just another live version there - no big deal
@nevrogers81983 жыл бұрын
And the commentary mentions "MIDI sequencers/sequences". MIDI was a new technology about a year later. For New Order, synchronisation was still a manual process.
@CuriousCritter173 жыл бұрын
None of them really do they are pop music legends
@samot89453 жыл бұрын
Is better to have music being made in the moment, rather than just another fake ass playback performance. Kraftwerk also programmed every song in every concert during 1981, they all sound different in each concert.
@jamesschulziii90983 жыл бұрын
I remember new order from about 87 onward and when I finally discovered the earlier stuff I'm like okay I think I've heard Blue Monday too somewhere, like you said discovering , rediscovering etc.i like their early stuff post Joy division ,that's some of the best stuff they've ever put out or anybody for that matter I mean movement is amazing as is the one with age of consent
@marcdavis75834 жыл бұрын
6:55 Re: Jocky Wilson picture. "After 35 years no-one has confirmed if this was a mistake or intentional". Well, apart from about a month after event and during every interview Kevin Rowland has ever done since where he explained it was his joke. So no, it won't remain a mystery....
@tomstatham21354 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Thought this was very strange by Trash Theory who otherwise tend to do quite credible research.
@Diamonddogusa4 жыл бұрын
...."print the legend"
@partlyironic4 жыл бұрын
This whole video is a bit shit really
@exgren4 жыл бұрын
Its so obviously a piss take by rowland, how could anyone confuse Jackie Wilson with jocky Wilson, the name of the song is Jackie Wilson said, for christ sake
@helenagackowska83984 жыл бұрын
@@partlyironic Glad its not just me lol
@Maerahn4 жыл бұрын
I remember Marillion's performance of their single 'Lavender.' Fish, the lead singer, had laryngitis at the time and (I think) had had to cancel some gigs because of it, but TOTP still wanted the band to perform their single because it 'didn't matter anyway,' because they were often mimed. So the band went ahead and did it - but Fish didn't lip-sync at all. Instead, he'd made a series of cards with the lyrics to the song written on them, and just held each one up in turn, in time to the song, for the whole duration of the performance.
@TheGiantKillers4 жыл бұрын
People took the piss but I think when you look back today, it shows how shows like this actually gave time to artists who, the like of, today can't get air time on TV. TOTP ran as a democracy. People voted in the record shops and TOTP then siad, the eight highest chart climbers, not featured on the show last week got air time no matter what.
@Ndlanding4 жыл бұрын
Do you honestly believe that?
@markkavanagh73773 жыл бұрын
@@Ndlanding don't tell him about Santa either.😉
@KayEl583 жыл бұрын
True. The bad thing about that was when people 'voted' by buying stuff like 'Una Paloma Blanca' and you got to watch Johnathan King week after week 🤣 Until The Old Grey Whistle Test came along TOTP was the only music programe on TV. TOGWT was so much better, live performances by excellent musicians. TOTP had some crap in the mix but was always worth watching. I doubt if I was the only teenager who lived from Thursday to Thursday.
@lemsip2073 жыл бұрын
@@Ndlanding It was a lot better then than it is now even though the artists first had to be discovered and then signed to record labels and after that the plugging and the DJ's playing their favourite singles more.
@Ndlanding3 жыл бұрын
@@lemsip207 Dunno about now, as I've been abroad for a long time. When I used to play in a band, our rehearsals would stop for TOTP, mainly because it was compulsive, even when it was shite. Then we'd go back to rehearsing, without being even slightly influenced by the Top 20/30/40.
@thefewerstream24674 жыл бұрын
Nirvana's performance was one of the best trolls ever
@IETCHX694 жыл бұрын
cuz he sang better than More ASS y .
@eoinmacdonnchadha56824 жыл бұрын
Hell ye bruther
@swampshack10184 жыл бұрын
emosh73 I wish I could have experienced it
@iaminsideyourhome694 жыл бұрын
now i get why weird al did that thing in his parody video
@Karmy.4 жыл бұрын
That and Nirvana's appearance live on MTV for the music awards
@joemcelroy72024 жыл бұрын
No mention of Oasis, Noel and Liam switching places so Noel is miming the lyrics and Liam does the guitar solo?
@mattiemclean98824 жыл бұрын
no.... because it wasnt that interesting... at that point not many of the general public knew the difference
@SebChamp3604 жыл бұрын
Joe McElroy or other oasis performances where they didn’t mime
@harrypainter74724 жыл бұрын
Mattie Mclean You sound like you’re fun at parties
@joemcelroy72024 жыл бұрын
@@mattiemclean9882 not known? theyd already done Definitely maybe at tha point, the fastest selling debut album of all time (at that point)
@mattiemclean98824 жыл бұрын
@@joemcelroy7202 i was talking about the general public. Not people who read the NME
@Somnogenesis4 жыл бұрын
14:45 - "The performance is pretty by-the-numbers for the first two-thirds of the song, apart from the lobster taped to the microphone" is a magnificently understated sentence.
@vikinglord75454 жыл бұрын
To be fair I think "off your face drunk" was just Shane McGowan's normal condition.
@LoxleyMusicАй бұрын
He changed so much after he got on the cover of the magazine "The Lapsed Catholic".... kzbin.info/www/bejne/qniqZHmoZtVnh9ksi=3r-9Gj5BzizHkGgA&t=990
@suej39594 жыл бұрын
I still remember the excitement of Thursday nights waiting for TOTP to start. It was the highlight of the week, and Kate Bush was my all time favourite performer. I didn’t care if they were miming.
@colingeddes21723 жыл бұрын
Yeah as a youngster and teenager i used to watch t o t ps religously. At the time i wasnt too bothered about the miming.
@edwardalexander94868 ай бұрын
Kate Bush - the Taylor Swift of the 70s/80s. Kudos to Swift but she plays to the gallery in a way that Kate Bush wasn't interested in? Or just the wrong timeslot.
@merlinambrosius4398Ай бұрын
Kate sang live, iirc. That's why her voice was so shaky to start with... nerves, she was only 18.
@petejones87924 күн бұрын
I always wanted to see Kates Bush 😮
@GerardPerry4 жыл бұрын
"Blue Orb decided to release a 39 minute 57 second-long version of their track, Blue Room, as a single. A 3 minute snippet of the track was played over the top of producers Alex Patterson and Chris Weston playing chess, with Weston playing with a toy sheep. And that was it, that was the whole performance." The '90s were a strange time.
@Codex77774 жыл бұрын
Never heard of Blue Orb...
@brandonwachter22644 жыл бұрын
True. But I'd always rather have a strange time than a bad time. Sidenote: I do truly miss the 90's but lets see what the 2020's have in store...
@skriptico4 жыл бұрын
dr Alex is the man still :)
@dannad1234 жыл бұрын
went to school with Kris "Thrash" Weston!
@splo1nger9094 жыл бұрын
I remember the orb doing it
@oldskoolfool1414 жыл бұрын
I actually like the New Order performance, it's like all the playback's pushed back and all the live/honest stuff is pushed up front and exposed, a sort of non-slickness about it that's in keeping with the band
@andyforsythe25654 жыл бұрын
It was always hit or miss with New Order when it came to live performances.
@thewoodentops.4 жыл бұрын
agreed. it was cool at the time. sounded like the record and def live. That the single dropped a bit matters not a jot. It lasted for years in all kinds of high spots worldwide. Probably the record of the decade.Oh wait, the final countdown :)
@OkSharkey3 жыл бұрын
it was even good that sales went down given they were losing money on each sale because of the packaging costs
@ThreadBomb17 күн бұрын
What went wrong was partly the primitive technology of the time, and partly user error. To play the song live, they had to put two or three different discs into their Emulator sampler-synth and Stephen Morris started with the wrong disc, which is why there is a synth choir where you'd expect a thunderclap. That is what Morris says in his memoir 'Fast Forward'. The confusion might have been caused by the fact that they were playing a specially shortened version of the song for TOTP.
@ajs4113 күн бұрын
I agree in a way, but I think if the studio version had been played they might have reached number one instead of number 14 (and number 9 the second time around in 1983).
@charleskuckel31734 жыл бұрын
That candelabra - saxophone solo had me laughing so hard I was in pain!
@gedski1004 жыл бұрын
You’d obviously laugh if your arse was on fire
@wcsxwcsx4 жыл бұрын
From what I heard, a musician's union wouldn't allow him to mimic playing a saxophone because he wasn't a saxophonist.
@tonyjulius60114 жыл бұрын
Typical Bob Geldoff. Stupid.
@lisagreen82613 жыл бұрын
At the start of the performance, Geldof took a picture of Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, who they had just knocked off the number one spot, and tore it in two.
@colinwilkes89573 жыл бұрын
Lisa green ,cutting edge stuff,eh?
@luvstellauk3 жыл бұрын
The reason for the miming on Top Of The Pops wasn't entirely down to the bands not being able to play or the studio not set up for it, the union representing the BBC's house musicians had a part in it as well, they insisted only the BBC orchestra could play the music whilst the band could only supply the vocal parts, this eventually led to the bands having to supply a backing track and singing live to it, by which in time ended up with bands just using the original recording and miming everything.
@Havanacuba1985Ай бұрын
Finally someone mentions the true reality I couldn’t be arsed to type it in
@Spectrescup22 күн бұрын
A lot of bands replaced the rerecording with the original tape
@PHDarren4 жыл бұрын
They gave artists 2 options, sing live to backing tracks or mime to live instruments. Which is why REM's Michael Stipe protested with his Orange Crush mimed through a megaphone for the entire track.
@mr.x95664 жыл бұрын
Orbital moved more in that clip than Kraftwerk have ever moved in ALL of their 90s shows.
@cloudbloom3 жыл бұрын
So true haha
@franciscotorres94864 жыл бұрын
"Cobain said he wanted to sound like Morrisey" 😂😂😂 11:17
@borisbecker64334 жыл бұрын
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA
@dec0mposing4 жыл бұрын
I think he nailed it 😂
@flightnesssnowbirb83184 жыл бұрын
To his credit, it was pretty on point during the chorus
@larry909444 жыл бұрын
sounds like joe swanson.
@jayfrank19134 жыл бұрын
@@larry90944 Or Jim Morrison.
@probablygraham4 жыл бұрын
Now there's a name I've never heard before - Kirsty McCoil????? RIP Kirsty, you deserve better.
@Dermot29274 жыл бұрын
I recoiled from that.
@paulmartin64534 жыл бұрын
With Shane McCondom
@paulandjana4 жыл бұрын
Kirsty McCoil with Shane Gowangowangowan...
@kanfall664 жыл бұрын
@herbert sherbert Idiot!
@aintnobodyherebutuschicken14184 жыл бұрын
@herbert sherbert I never heard that she gave money to the IRA?!?! She was Scottish not Irish.
@JohnnyF713 жыл бұрын
8:04 "The midi sequences are also wildly out of sync with everything else...." Proceeds to clip of what sound to me like perfectly synced midi sequences 🤔
@alfsmith49363 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I thought.. Plus, I never owned an Oberheim DMX with midi. There's a conversion kit now but there wasn't in those days.
@JohnnyF713 жыл бұрын
@@alfsmith4936 ahhh I didn't know that! I use an Oberheim DMX software emulation in my recording studio and I love it, but I don't know what I'd do without the ability to midi-sync it to everything else. I thought that performance by New Order on TOTP was actually really good and it was TOTP that let them down with a crappy mix.
@jasontopping79643 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Sounded good to me
@JasmineSurrealVideos3 жыл бұрын
I thought it sounded in tune, in sync and fine.
@theinaudibles6077Ай бұрын
Absolutely agreed, it sounded spot on 😂
@toddy5054 жыл бұрын
I think we’re missing the point of these performances, good old British humour, aka taking the piss lol
@grahamd47644 жыл бұрын
Exactly. These artistes are just pointing out how absurd TOTP's really was.
@carolsnook46594 жыл бұрын
Well said Toddy..my sentiments exactly...
@tonyjulius60114 жыл бұрын
British humor is only funny in Britian.
@anonb46324 жыл бұрын
@@tonyjulius6011 American humor is funny nowhere. With some honorable exceptions.
@tonyjulius60114 жыл бұрын
@@grahamd4764 it was the 80s. Everything was absurd/over the top. Classless Brits acting as they are above everything. Props to bands like Maiden that still had respect for their performances. You didn't see the US acts acting ridiculous. Solid Gold was the equivalent here in the states and I don't recall this ever happening. I do recall it happened a few times on AB. No surprise it was the Sex Pistols. Zero talent.
@vermilliongecko4 жыл бұрын
Little known fact: After All About Eve's fiasco, singer Julianne Regan was upset, so Kylie Minogue sent her a huge bouquet of flowers.
@painbow65284 жыл бұрын
Little known because it's not interesting.
@NotMarkKnopfler4 жыл бұрын
They also invited all about Eve back to the show the next week to say sorry, if I remember correctly. 👍
@kerrytaylor17954 жыл бұрын
@@painbow6528 I disagree
@portcullis56224 жыл бұрын
Nice gesture, if true, from the pop product. Sending flowers to a real singer and artist.
@resurgam754 жыл бұрын
@@portcullis5622 I actually love both but let's be fair, one was a blip, the other is a legend who is still smashing records, so your perspective is a bit out of touch with reality.
@RLonHubbard4 жыл бұрын
My autobiography will be called “I was the dentist for The Pogues.”
@davidbaines14254 жыл бұрын
Author died prematurely from overwork..
@jimbehr22914 жыл бұрын
You sucked then.
@HeadacheMachine4 жыл бұрын
A single line then: I waited alll day but...
@derfscreechenhowser75484 жыл бұрын
@@HeadacheMachine Shane MacGowan's dentist IS the loneliest dentist. Loved your comment.
@markfox77644 жыл бұрын
Will it be a toothfull account?
@SuspenduAuGaffa4 жыл бұрын
9:52: "Despite this, the track rose in the charts the preceding week". Impressive time-travelling rise up the charts there.
@Ndlanding4 жыл бұрын
And before that, fell to Number One.
@danielgardecki10463 жыл бұрын
*proceeding
@lordred41164 жыл бұрын
Watching Bowie perform starman, and Jimmy saville fondling the girls in the audience probably sticks in my mind.
@VicvicW4 жыл бұрын
I love the bands that protested not being able to sing themselves by genuinely not trying.
@martmako14 жыл бұрын
The Shamen getting away with shouting "Es are good!" on national telly was mint
@Claymor6214 жыл бұрын
Just goes to show, one person’s ‘mint’ is another person’s irritating wannabe naughty-boy slop.
@davidadams23954 жыл бұрын
@The Radiant Mrs Gloop _"Well, I never!"_
@joepublic39334 жыл бұрын
@Sean Wilkinson Wicked, my son!
@08mlascelles4 жыл бұрын
@@Claymor621 you must be fun at parties
@anonb46324 жыл бұрын
Many of us didn't have a clue... I was young, I hadn't even started drinking then.
@timz9794 жыл бұрын
That dummy was more genuine than 95% of all the other acts on TOTP.
@mytrailofdisgrace4 жыл бұрын
When I was a child, I lived in England briefly and was able to see numerous original broadcasts of TOTP in late 70s. While it had its share of crap, the weird mix of artists who appeared on it during that time period really made an impact on my impressionable mind. It was one of the formative influences on my eclectic musical taste - both in first real exposure to punk & new wave, but also in being able to appreciate multiple genres & styles (something that continues long after).
@mercedesgarciacarrillo17364 жыл бұрын
First of all: we NEED a Trash Theory episode on the Manics. Second: the sanctity of stiff and awkward Blue Monday-era New Order must be protected... always.
@thegloriouspyrocheems22773 жыл бұрын
Very underrated band when talked about by the music analysts
@mattshaw51794 жыл бұрын
I remember Eels 'playing' novacaine for the soul on toy instruments, and smashing everything at the end! Brilliant!!
@portcullis56224 жыл бұрын
So do I (1996). I bought their debut album after that, and have been listening to them ever since.
@Somnogenesis4 жыл бұрын
Yes! I thought it was only me who remembered that. One of the best ever TotP moments for me, having been born too late to witness anything much before about 1993 first-hand.
@eole1234567893 жыл бұрын
oh wow I remember that was a huge hit
@spiderjerusalem1004 жыл бұрын
Growing up being in to rock and metal i used to watch TOTP nearly every week in the hopes of seeing some rock music on there. My fondest memory of the show is Faith No More performing "Ashes to ashes". They play live and and it actually sounds heavier than the album version. It's on KZbin, check it out.
@melll19724 жыл бұрын
FNM performing From Out Of Nowhere on TOTP is what got me into them.
@davidellis51414 жыл бұрын
Al Pacino.
@spiderjerusalem1004 жыл бұрын
@@davidellis5141 Yep!
@anonb46324 жыл бұрын
I remember Faith No More doing Digging the Grave on TOTP. They were pretty good.
@davidzanke39134 жыл бұрын
Wow! I've never seen Shane McGowan with teeth. I did see him live once, he almost made it through 2 songs.
@matthewwilderbrokemystride29724 жыл бұрын
David Zanke got him on a good day did you?
@melissawright19793 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised the bloke is still alive tbf
@whi5tler_13373 жыл бұрын
_now your just showing off_ 🙄
@DamoBloggs4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that little nostalgia trip - I remember nearly all of those f*ck-ups, with my ol' man puffing and blowing in the background from the sofa about the "bunch of flippin' freaks". 😆
@joannaoconnor94184 жыл бұрын
I will never forget being 9 yrs old and sat on the living room floor, mesmerised as Boy George dressed in full regalia performed Do You Really Want To Hurt Me. It was 1982 and much apart from loving the reggae vibe ( a family full of rude girls and rude boys) a mass debate broke out in the family as to whether he/she was a guy or a girl!!!! Bloody iconic and I’ll never forget that moment. No matter where you were or what you were doing, everything stopped for TOTP’s. Playing out during summer holidays, we’d all run home at 7pm to watch it! Classic!
@joelonsdale4 жыл бұрын
I remember the family discussion well - was it a boy or a girl?
@deannilvalli65794 жыл бұрын
It may have been a flawed icon, but it was, as you suggest, a uniting cultural force. The whole of the UK paid attention and came together in a shared moment. WIth that gone, the atomization of the country continues faster than ever.
@ericwincentsen5874 жыл бұрын
"Shane MacGowan was off his face and couldn't sing the words in time." Otherwise, it's Shane being Shane.
@allwrighty1004 жыл бұрын
Along with Kirsty McCoyle(?) whoever she is.
@msstarlight47704 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'm surprised anybody noticed. (I really like that song though).😄😄😄
@msstarlight47704 жыл бұрын
@@allwrighty100 Kirsty MacColl, (they said the wrong name in the video), she was a great singer, but wasn't really well known, in general. Sadly, she died in 2000 in a boating accident that was fairly big in the news because of the people involved & that there was clearly a cover up.
@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music4 жыл бұрын
Shane was 100% proof
@frogindeed4 жыл бұрын
@@msstarlight4770 Even fewer people know that her dad wrote Dirty Old Town and The First Time Ever I Saw your Face. RIP Kirsty.
@archstanton61024 жыл бұрын
Little known fact: Jackie Wilson was actually really good at darts and hit a 9 dart finish in his televised match with Elvis
@snakemanpete554 жыл бұрын
Cool I didn't know that
@Somnogenesis4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but he missed loads of easy doubles in the next round and got knocked out by Little Richard.
@EricIrl4 жыл бұрын
@@Somnogenesis Leapy Lee was best - he even had a song called "Little Arrows".
@Somnogenesis4 жыл бұрын
@@EricIrl Not to be confused with Jerry Lee Lewis - who of course did Great Bulls of Fire about his favoured checkout.
@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music4 жыл бұрын
You schooled me.
@WordsofHeresy4 жыл бұрын
"As he fellates the microphone" The best sentence I've ever heard
@Ndlanding4 жыл бұрын
Then you haven't heard many sentences.
@WordsofHeresy4 жыл бұрын
@@Ndlanding naw, I've heard quite a few
@Ndlanding4 жыл бұрын
@@WordsofHeresy Naw, ye huvnae. Yer corned beef!
@Showing_the_car_22 күн бұрын
here's a better one... "He was shaking like a shitting dog"
@bravotronalpha37874 жыл бұрын
"Asked about it later, Cobain stated he wanted to sound like Morrissey." JFC Kurt XD
@comettamer4 жыл бұрын
Good ol Kurt
@lukesymonds18874 жыл бұрын
Nirvana's is the best ever, but I love the Smiths, with Morrissey singing into a bunch of flowers too
@davidbaines14254 жыл бұрын
You should check out Nirvana on The Word then. If I remember rightly we were treated to a bit of bush.
@DaleDucktail4 жыл бұрын
@@davidbaines1425 L7
@tonyjulius60114 жыл бұрын
It's pathetic. It's like saying, hey you have a good song and we'd like to give you some exposure here in England. Here's a chance to promote yourself. Then you act like fking idiots. Shoulda bought that gun sooner, Kurt.
@LiamGervaise4 жыл бұрын
@@tonyjulius6011 Completely missed the point and then tried to be edgy yeah you ain't funny my guy
@tonyjulius60114 жыл бұрын
@@LiamGervaise I am as funny as Kurt was, and I wasn't trying.
@JonMichaelDeShazer4 жыл бұрын
Orbital's "performance" on TOTP led to them creating their now legendary live shows. If you noticed, not any of their equipment was plugged in either. Phil Hartnoll said in 2018 about the experience: "They wouldn’t let us play live, so we performed in T-shirts reading “No” and “Poll tax”. We placed the mains plugs on top of our instruments so that everyone could see we weren’t really playing. They didn’t let us back on the show for six years."
@Somnogenesis4 жыл бұрын
"They didn’t let us back on the show for six years." To be fair, that was about how long it took them to have another big hit.
@JonMichaelDeShazer4 жыл бұрын
@@Somnogenesis Halcyon, Belfast, Satan and let is not forget their legendary Glastonbury performance were within 5 years of this performance.
@Somnogenesis4 жыл бұрын
@@JonMichaelDeShazer Oh, granted, and I know I sounded facetious there - but in pure singles chart terms they didn't have another decently-sized hit until The Box made no.11 in 1996. The year after that Satan finally became a big hit in a remixed live version that reached no.3, as did follow-up The Saint (I always thought those two titles made a great juxtaposition). In the 6 years after Chime though they barely scratched the top 30. Edit: here we are - www.officialcharts.com/artist/13342/orbital/
@sarahmillard64014 жыл бұрын
Jon-Michael DeShazer I was there - amazing performance! Oh happy days 😀
@MarcNeilson14 жыл бұрын
For the longest time, i thought lonely this Christmas was by Elvis. Until I was talking about it with my Dad and he was like it was by mud. Who i'd never heard of before haha
@theutilitymonster26154 жыл бұрын
Might you have been mixing it up with "Blue Christmas"?
@colinp22384 жыл бұрын
Les was an Elvis impersonator.
@sladeippie58414 жыл бұрын
@but why He co wrote 2 off his 40 greatest hits, or at least gets credited on 2. Basically Elvis was a voice & actor
@oldskoolfool1414 жыл бұрын
@but why Yep Elv liked 'em 'fresh', his thing was if he liked your song he would sing it in return for 50% ownership, that's how the bugger got so rich, he wanted Dolly Partons I will always love you but she refused him, clever gal
@vordman4 жыл бұрын
@@oldskoolfool141 Actually, he wasn't that rich. In terms of rock star "rich" that is. He was forced into doing Las Vegas cabaret because his manager and entourage were literally bankrupting him. Remember, he had no songwriting royalties to fall back on.
@dambrooks75784 жыл бұрын
The Nirvana performance was one of my greatest teenage memories of TOTP, utterly mocking the mine 😂
@Paddy.C3 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest TOTP trollings was performed by the writers on guest presenter, boxer Chris Eubank. Being famous for having a pronounced lisp, they got him to announce "Next, at number six, it's Suggs, with 'Cecilia'".
@Chromaticosomaermati4 жыл бұрын
I just did what I should have done when I first subbed... I'm now a patron! Amazing content at documentary level quality. Peace, love and rock & roll.
@bloodboughtbigphilr82664 жыл бұрын
Iron Maiden 'Running Free' 1980. Best ever performance on what was a totally naff show and one of the few to play live and not mime.
@wingnut8574 жыл бұрын
I can remember the Eels preforming Novacaine For The Soul, pretending to play the song with toy instruments. Hilarious
@Somnogenesis4 жыл бұрын
Then smashing them up at the end like a pre-school Who! Brilliant idea.
@colinstock3253 жыл бұрын
Everyone knew the bands mimed. If I recall correctly in early episodes viewers watched the tone arm lower onto the vinyl.
@Onizukachan9154 жыл бұрын
“ When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend” is a line from the end of “Who shot Liberty Valance”
@BctassАй бұрын
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend" American director John Ford in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
@chroniclesofbap61704 жыл бұрын
ps... the Dexys one is an urban legend... It was actually a joke that the band were fully aware of: "Most viewers naturally assumed that clueless TOTP producers were behind this screw-up, and interviewers were probably too scared of Dexys' inscrutable frontman Kevin Rowland to ask him about it. When they finally did, though, he explained that it was his idea all along. "For a laugh, we told the producer to put a picture of Jocky Wilson up behind us," he told the Guardian in 2002. "He said: 'But Kevin, people will think we made a mistake.' I told him only an idiot would think that. The morning after, the [Radio 1] DJ Mike Read said: 'Bloody Top of the Pops. How could they mix up one of the great soul singers with a Scottish darts player?'"
@TheRobman Жыл бұрын
"only an idiot" ... Mike Read, LOL. Yes, Mike Read was an absolute twat, let's not forget how he contributed to Frankie Goes to Hollywood history
@JammyGit4 жыл бұрын
I can clearly remember the episode that had Dexy's Midnight Runners and the photo of Jocky Wilson in the background. I can't believe that it was 37 years ago 😮 Wow time flies, I was only 12 at the time. 👍
@oldskoolfool1414 жыл бұрын
Ha me too, I remember rolling with laughter and calling my mum to come see it 😂
@al2011034 жыл бұрын
Can you believe we're nearly 50? It seemed like such an old age back then. Now it's like "no, I'm twenty something, I'm sure of it"
@Dermot29274 жыл бұрын
I credit someone at the Beeb with a sense of humour.
@woohooboy4 жыл бұрын
TOTP was made for pop artists who could stand there and mime a song. Not surprisingly, many bands *LOATHE* being on the show as they had to "pretend" their way through a performance and it shows with a majority of these groups who appeared on the program throughout the years. On one hand, a lot of bands understood the exposure that being on TOTP would bring them, but on the other hand it's obvious how many of them thought of it as a joke and would not take it seriously. TOTP rode that line of instant fame and chart recognition vs credibility and respect......
@AdjustableSquelch4 жыл бұрын
New Order were like that and in the 80s refused to do show where they would have to mime. Considering they could either be epic or pants from one moment to the next its a brave stance! For another fun one look up on here their live appearance on Radio 1s Rock Around The Clock. Although musically a million times better they are ALL pissed off and hilarious. look up the Gillian and Steve talking about it 'New Order's Steve & Gillian talk about the band's performance on Rock Around The Clock, BBC in 1984'
@Shannie4114 жыл бұрын
From what I have read, Syd Barrett hated TOTP and that was a contributing factor to him leaving/getting kicked from the band.
@PeterCamberwick4 жыл бұрын
The Manic Street Preachers song included such dark and humourous lyrics as, "Anamabadabanafamamamafaaa". ... I played that about 6 times and I still got no idea. Lol
@MattJames19584 жыл бұрын
His kind of rapid fire style doesn't help, "I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing"
@Ndlanding4 жыл бұрын
Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey used the same technique. Maybe.
@jibjab3513 жыл бұрын
The last person seen on TOTP was Jimmy Savile turning the lights out.
@TheHumbuckerboy4 жыл бұрын
An unmissable show from my childhood and through my teenage years ... Sweet were my favourite band and the glam rock era was a real spectacle and great fun !!!
@eliminatorofevil81404 жыл бұрын
TheHumbuckerboy. Sweet were my favourite too, bought every single and their first Album. SWEET F.A.
@fus149hammer5Ай бұрын
The days when bands didn't take themselves too seriously. I mean look at Mick, Andy, Steve, Brian, Noddy, Dave Jim and Don? How could you? But their music is the music I grew up to and still love.
@miguimau4 жыл бұрын
New Order were great in that TOTP performance.
@drkatel4 жыл бұрын
Miguel S. P., Yeah, it didn’t seem especially bad to me either.
@miguimau4 жыл бұрын
@@drkatel I think it´s crude but… in a good way. Anyway, they could have easily performed on a taped version of Blue Monday and they dared to go live ;)
@justmadeit24 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing, it sounded good from that snippet they played, now I need to search out the whole performance
@ThreadBomb4 жыл бұрын
@Jetsonic The problem might have been that they and their crew got wasted every night during the US tours.
@GerardPerry4 жыл бұрын
"With performances from the most exciting bands." And Bob Geldof as well.
@amthatdad34504 жыл бұрын
But then again who among us likes Mondays?
@ronwhite85034 жыл бұрын
"singing" Rat Crap/Clap Trap........ nobody cared because he's a twat.
@davidbaines14254 жыл бұрын
Supported by fucking Travis.
@karlosdeevs4 жыл бұрын
i always wondered why people were always so pissed of by Travis (i never really got the chance in england or scotland)
@schmozzer4 жыл бұрын
Bob prancing around like a berk then falling over at the end of one number just summed it all up.
@pabloplato4 жыл бұрын
it should be noted that Orbital were one of the few techno acts that regularly toured and performed live, and put on some of the best shows to this day. Chime being their first single, and thus, not having performed much to that point (nor introduced their live performance trademarks) and being asked to mime, they were most likely taking the piss. such is their humour after all.
@ConkerKing4 жыл бұрын
The Jockie Wilson thing was defo deliberate....
@raithrover19763 жыл бұрын
Yep, pretty sure someone from the band has confirmed that it was a joke they came up with in rehearsal and that the production staff needed quite a lot of convincing lest it look like they'd messed up.
@chroniclesofbap61704 жыл бұрын
As this is Top of the Pops there may be flashing images. Jimmy Saville flashing kids.
@14rnr4 жыл бұрын
That made me chuckle, thanks for that.
@doctorlolchicken74784 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately the beeb can’t show many TotP reruns because Jimmy Saville was often the presenter.
@splo1nger9094 жыл бұрын
gary jones or dead or a mental patient or .....you get the idea
@paulandjana4 жыл бұрын
On the very last TOTP Saville turned the lights off as he left the studio. The BBC knew of his nonciness but had him pinned as a legend.
@matthewwilderbrokemystride29724 жыл бұрын
Paulus thewoodknome nonciness. I learned a new word today.
@VileplumeTea4 жыл бұрын
"The presenters were as cheesy as the pop music." really thought Saville was getting brought up there lol
@eddiewillers14 жыл бұрын
Well, it's well known that cheesy Tony Blackburn and hairy Dave Lee Travis were the inspiration for Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse's pisstake with 'Smashie & Nicey'.
@portcullis56224 жыл бұрын
@@eddiewillers1 I thought that they were based on David 'Kid' Jensen and Alan Freeman.
@thedutchessofdragonshyre46304 жыл бұрын
Almost all music shows were like this. My favorite was Smokie s performances. Hilarious. Glad you put this out. Thanx. Brought back lots of memories
@andrewjgreen1673 жыл бұрын
So many memories; Faith No More taking the piss out of the whole miming thing, Wildhearts just stopping the song and singing; "If you want to hear the rest of the song, go and buy the record", Shakin Stevens' with two male dancers in a homoerotic performance, Madness marching into the audience, David Bowie doing the same (in an unbroadcast performance), Fat Les starting out on the EastEnders set, Eric Idle causing chaos and disaster, Eels playing on children's instruments, Carter USM sitting round a camp fire, Buster Bloodvessel wearing Keith Michael's Henry VIII costume for Lorraine...
@dimitrispodilatis5814 Жыл бұрын
The manic street preachers performance is legendary.punk anarchy at its finest.Just amazing.
@tonymack664 жыл бұрын
Julian Cope, TOTP live 1981, stood bare foot on a piano, tripping on LSD and fronting The Teardrop Explodes.
@RUDI-UK4 жыл бұрын
"I've been too honest with myself, i should have lied like everybody else" Faster Manic Street Preachers
@anyotherdayortime4 жыл бұрын
I think TOTP began to collapse as the singles chart rapidly became irrelevant with digital downloads being added into the count. That, and the format was stale, had been for a decade at least by the time of it's end.
@splo1nger9094 жыл бұрын
And it was shite commercial crap
@joelonsdale4 жыл бұрын
@@splo1nger909 What? That was the ENTIRE point of TOTP - it was the top selling songs.
@anonb46324 жыл бұрын
It died in the early 2000s in my view. There were always issues, but it was how a lot of us got to hear about music as small children (and I lived in a rural area...)
@ajaku3 жыл бұрын
Loved this video!! I am so sad that this era of pop culture has passed
@euanelliott36134 жыл бұрын
From what I understand, it was Mike Patton of Faith No More who broke the camel's back when he goofed around during an appearance in 1990. The program insisted on live vocals from that point on. Mud were great, RIP Les Gray.
@n64glennplant4 жыл бұрын
Surprised fire starter by prodigy didn’t make it to this list - I’m sure that was at the time of its release one of the most complained about episodes as I remember it being on the news that Keith flint was too scary for prewatershed viewing 😂
@medes55974 жыл бұрын
I remember that and expected to see it too. Also expected Brian Molko's Nancy Boy drag act that also made the news (he performed in a dress and make up and suggestively rubbed his body while he sang). Damn a lot of weird stuff happened on TOTP in hindsight. Having said that, glad the Manics got a mention for causing all that fuss about nothing. I assume we're gonna get a whole episode on the prodigy as part of the New British Canon series.
@Codex77774 жыл бұрын
That was a video...
@davidbaines14254 жыл бұрын
Yeah wasn't it just the video .. lol
@splo1nger9094 жыл бұрын
Where they in the studio performing this video?
@kevinmoppett47604 жыл бұрын
Another car crash I remember was the Spoof of Grease track "You're the One That I want" by Arthur Mullard and Hilda Baker. Track was rising up the charts until they went on TOTP. The performance was so bad that the single bombed the next week!!
@ChrisHow4 жыл бұрын
My god, I hadn't thought about that for about 40 years! Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpCwhJxmgs2AlcU
@al2011034 жыл бұрын
Yes - some things cannot be unseen. This along with "Grandma" and "Grandad". Though at least the Mullard/Baker one wasn't serious....
@14rnr4 жыл бұрын
Still better than any "hit" of the last 12 or more years though! haha
@14rnr4 жыл бұрын
@@ChrisHow I'll have a laugh at this now.
@nutcracker29164 жыл бұрын
@Tone. Yes according to his daughter.
@bosco78374 жыл бұрын
It really made me laugh that the last act ever in the history of this sacred programme was Snow Patrol...like, I couldnt think of a more inglorious ending...
@SueMead4 жыл бұрын
Clearly Nickelback weren't available.
@badgerbhoy95344 жыл бұрын
Yeah mate, from Bowie to Snow Patrol....the errosion of real genuine talent is for there for all to see!
@Hertfordshire2474 жыл бұрын
That is because TOTP, the clue is in the name only played chart songs, rarely breaking this rule example: John Lennon's death when they played the no 1, then played a song not in the charts, "Imagine". Same here, the song that ended TOTP was actually "When Will I See You Again?" by the Three Degrees so there is a bit revisionist history going on.
@colinwilkes89574 жыл бұрын
Badger buoy yes one of the most boring overplayed songs ever!
@Ndlanding4 жыл бұрын
At least it wasn't Terry farting Wogan. Or Scaffold. Or (millions more crap...)
@Torahboy129 күн бұрын
Regards Blue Monday performance…. I was myself in a band at the time. Synthesisers, notably Moogs, would ‘drift’ out of tune regularly. Often due to the heat and humidity, but also due to rough handling by roadies. We would retune after every couple of songs. Tuning the Moogs first, the retuning the guitars to the synths. There’s a version of ‘Are Friends Electric’ by Tubeway Army performing on Old Grey Whistle Test. By the end of one short song, the synths are off by about a semitone.
@thegloriouspyrocheems22773 жыл бұрын
Manics are definetly underrated in terms of what they have done while Richey was there as well as post-Richey trilogy
@burkezillar4 жыл бұрын
There's a warning about flashing images, but no warning about Jimmy Saville?
@Patrick_Bateman924 жыл бұрын
He can't hurt you anymore
@emlix14 жыл бұрын
Shudder.
@davehoward224 жыл бұрын
Should have been warnings about a flasher full stop
@bertiodvonrastenburger11294 жыл бұрын
He's dead
@edmundblackaddercoc85224 жыл бұрын
Thought that was a given
@burnthetrolls59714 жыл бұрын
"It was the system and had to be Raged against" when he said that I thought "oh imagine if Rage Against The Machine appeared on that show"
@noizyneighbour57903 жыл бұрын
I always remember Jim Reilly from Stiff Little Fingers taking the practice pads off his drum kit, playing with his hands, and hitting imaginary drums in the air whilst only having half a drum kit 😅
@rosemarymills16714 жыл бұрын
I see lots of Top Of Pops on videos, an being from U.S., didn't understand much about it; you opened my eyes a bit. Thank you!
@hatandbeardmedia59254 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Jethro Tull's performance of "Witches Promise" on TotP. Ian Anderson spends the whole performance gurning at the camera and not even trying to look like he's actually playing his flute. The only band member that seemed to be happy to be there was Glenn Cornick, rest his soul. Anderson has been very vocal through the years about his aversion to performing to cameras, but especially miming.
@PhilRemington4 жыл бұрын
Nicky Wire is the Manics' bassist, not guitarist.
@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music4 жыл бұрын
No, he was their bongos player: FIGHT ME
@Ndlanding4 жыл бұрын
@Welsh Simon A guitarist is not a bassist. Fact. There is also a difference in IQ.
@trashley79374 жыл бұрын
The Dexy’s Midnight Runners incident gets me every time
@alternativeglasto4 жыл бұрын
And contrary to the claim here, it was actually Kevin Rowland's idea to have Jocky Wilson; the claim that this was a mistake by somebody at the BBC (come on!) has been long debunked.
@TheHumbuckerboy4 жыл бұрын
180 !!!
@jasoncromwell42064 жыл бұрын
Actually Kurt sounds more like Ian Curtis to me. Actually all of these except maybe the New Order performance are more funny than anything. It's like "taking the Piss out of" the traditional we're going to stand here and mime our song. I loved all of these clips. I would imagine Bernard and the gang were just nervous without Ian leading them. The Orbital guys look the very same way.
@alexwestconsulting4 жыл бұрын
ermmmm Ian Curtis had been dead for 3 years by this point. New Order had performed many times before this and was just wrapping up their second album, Power, Corruption & Lies, one of the greatest albums of all time, with Bernard's vocals on tracks like Age of Consent going places that Ian Curtis never could. MANY New Order fans think that the TOTP Blue Monday performance was spot on, had exactly the effect it was meant to (if not noting the obvious mixing issues). Here's a quote from Bernard about Blue Monday: "‘Blue Monday’ connects with people because of the startling lack of emotional content within the song." New Order fans understand that they did exactly what they meant to do, shitty vocals and all. That was the point.
@dirtybird3113 жыл бұрын
I think this is the video that made me sub, and I’ve watched it at least 5 times, since I first clicked on the link. Great stories!!!
@petergedd933026 күн бұрын
It didn't matter, we loved it all, even the cheesy DJ's who by the way were very professional. Loved Loved it Loved it all. Can't beat it today.
@lyndadale217522 күн бұрын
Well, most of the DJ’s - setting aside the Jimmy Saville paedo / grooming / groping role …
@cleaningmyroom10004 жыл бұрын
Orange Juice’s performance of rip it up is legendary
@jonathanwalker87304 жыл бұрын
Faith No More, around 1990; I think they mimed to From Out Of Nowhere and the singer Mike Patton spent quite a bit of the performance with his tongue hanging out.
@hallamhal3 жыл бұрын
There's a great performance of the Stranglers playing No More Heroes on TopPop where they've all swapped instruments - JJ Burnell gives animal a run for his money!
@apemoon17313 жыл бұрын
I've seen that, but I don't think it was on TOTP.
@dbburkeman55923 жыл бұрын
Hi, I'm recovering at home from surgery, so spent a bonkers amount of time falling down various youtube rabbit holes. Yours being one of my faves! What a complete surprise to be one sec enjoying your round up of worst TOTP performances, to then see my ex girlfriend KB dancing for Orbital! Cheers! db
@gideonharris14933 жыл бұрын
@Trash Theory your boring narration is boring me to tears. I'm almost asleep. Are you stoned or jet lagged? I can barely keep my eyes open now to watch the great nostalgic clips! I've just saved this to listen to each night to treat my insomnia. Thank you!👏🥰👍
@desperatemohammedantheworl58334 жыл бұрын
"A Short History of the Best Bad Top of the Pops Performances" Promptly opens with one of the most iconic surviving performances from the show's 1970'a run. Can't decide if that's a fail or not.
@djvoid14 жыл бұрын
Iggy Pop's appearance on Countdown on Australian TV has to be the best troll performance ever.
@kerrytaylor17954 жыл бұрын
I miss the days of watching Countdown. It was my favourite show way back when
@matthewwilderbrokemystride29724 жыл бұрын
I saw that. Not bad wasn’t it?
@halfabeet4 жыл бұрын
This is great, now do The Word, the L7 performance is legendary as is the Nirvana performance
@NateB19764 жыл бұрын
Bush
@COL3214 жыл бұрын
And Dinosaur Junior... iirc they couldn't shut him up when he started a humungos solo, they went to an ad break and he was still going when they came back! I might be misremembering this, I was pretty drunk at the time...
@matneyself4 жыл бұрын
@@COL321 yep they had to pull the plug. Remember it well.
@AmethystDew4 жыл бұрын
You said it - I DO remember my first glimpse of Ziggy Stardust. It was the exact shots you have shown. I was 12 - I am now 60. I wouldn't swap that moment for anything. x
@Cliffjumper24Ай бұрын
My favourite 'Bad Performance' was spring 1994 when Four Weddings and a Funeral came out, with Wet Wet Wet's version of "Love Is All Around" was the movie theme. The song was performed live, but the lead singer forgot the the lyrics for the second verse... so he "La la la"d instead!!
@brandbird4 жыл бұрын
"Guitarist Nicky Wire"??! He's the bassist ffs.
@thegloriouspyrocheems22773 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@melissawright19793 жыл бұрын
Hahaaaa! Well spotted x
@rehabwales3 жыл бұрын
I know this may come as a shock but the bass is a guitar. Players of the bass guitar and the lead guitar are both guitarists.
@tomahzo4 жыл бұрын
That Nirvana performance was fucking LEGENDARY ;D
@charliehead944 жыл бұрын
When Jimi Hendrix appeared to perform Hey Jo and they played a different tune. His comment,”I don’t know the words to this one!”
@zulubeatz16 күн бұрын
Great video. I feel I lived my life alongside this show.