📺 How Good Was it Really?: TOTP, Popworld, CD:UK 📺

[cutthelights]

Basshunter played a nightclub in Mullingar recently and one of my mates got off with him

[sadpunk]

Actually also worked Alex Zane - on two events - and he was really funny and worked really hard. GBOL TBF.

[Icarus-Smicarus]

on Top 30 Hits they would just show the artwork spinning round and round (was usually a dance track)

[jalfrezi]

We think most of these programs were great because one band we liked were on there, once. Miming. I suspect if we watched a mid-90s TOTP in its entirety now it would be pretty shit.

[EVI]

Yeah i love 'em. Takes me about 3 weeks to listen to one though. I like everyone involved but any combo of Taylor, Simon, and Neil is always brilliant.

[Shoebox1976uk]

My missus got in the audience for TOTP once back in the 90’s and she lucked out with what appeared to be a solid bill of (at the time) indie big-hitters. Forget who she saw, but I now Garbage were among them.

Think it might have been this one, which isn’t as great as I’d been led to believe:

https://www.thetvdb.com/series/top-of-the-pops-uk/episodes/5864316

[andyvine]

this is three pictures of the same kid right

[roastthemonaspit]

I listened to the one from 2000 the other day where Neil completely let rip about the demise of Melody Maker. That man can sure hold a grudge, as he admits himself!

[almal100]

I used to love it when channel 4 used to show a random video at 6.55pm,because whatever they had plus Hollyoaks couldn’t be stretched to an hour without too many ads

I remember seeing Cake’s “the distance” once and fucking loving it

[1101010]

TOTP was occasionally great, obviously

The amount of time I spent as a teenager sitting through a load of music I hated, just for 1m50s of Pulp or Suede. (I never got the editing policies on TOTP. It always seemed like the Celine Dion songs would be played in full but then they’d cut The Boo Radleys off before the middle 8).

Obvs the TOTP brand has been badly tainted by Savile and others, but it had its moments

This feels more like The Chart Show? I never really recall harsh editing on TOTP. The most annoying thing was when the artist wasn’t in the country and you were like, “YES! FINALLY I GET TO SEE A COOL VIDEO,” and then they’d have a live satellite link to a special rehearsal from their concert or something. LAME!

[1101010]

I used to love it when channel 4 used to show a random video at 6.55pm,because whatever they had plus Hollyoaks couldn’t be stretched to an hour without too many ads

I remember seeing Cake’s “the distance” once and fucking loving it

Think this was that slot they had called Fresh Pop maybe? Although that was mid to late 90s.they had an interview with the band then the video.

1999 I worked as a temp at Ofsted fresh from Uni and it turned out a woman in her late 30s temping there was the one who made that show. Said it got canned by Andi Peters when he took over that section.

[1101010]

Remember that C4 Jo Whiley show from 99/00?

[almal100]

That’s the one!

Goddamn andi peters

[almal100]

I remember it, can’t recall the name though, might have been “the Jo whiley show”. It featured her sitting around with bare feet talking to Billy Bragg, intercut with performances by bands

Like a late review but for middling indie

[Gnometorious]

5/5 for Popworld alone

[no-class]

they got the Hoff for that

[AQOS]

I’d really like this to get 20 votes so it can be included in the table

[colinzealuk]

I can vote if you like, even though I’ve literally never heard of it…

[marckee]

This is the first (and I think only) edition of the PopJustice magazine. Look who’s on the cover.

[tilty]

Absolutely brilliant