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stevebr20012 wrote: Fri 02 Oct 2020, 11:23 pm They showed Kinky Afro, not Loose Fit. Kinky Afro was released in 1990 and reached number 5, so I would say a fairly big hit and it was their joint highest chart placing with Step On.
Crap, you're right. I actually went straight on Spotify and started playing Loose Fit. Twenty-odd years on and that consumption still has repercussions. :wall:

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On “The Story of 1990” they showed a previously unbroadcast Liza Minelli performing Love Pains. As it stalled at 41, it never got on the show.
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Bucky Goldstein wrote: Fri 30 Mar 2018, 9:21 pm Just as an aside to this, anyone with even a passing interest in TOTP, or pop in general, should give the Chart Music podcast a listen...

https://chartmusiccouk.wordpress.com/

It's basically some battle-worn music jornos dissecting, at length, old Top of the Pops episodes. It's profane, insightful, scathing, celebratory and very entertaining. They've yet to cover a PSB episode (though their Blur remix has been given a passing nod of appreciation), but an appearance is bound to crop up soon....
The latest episode is from May 1988, just after Heart was number one.

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/s ... 0508/7501/

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Up to October 1990 on BBC4 next week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000t132

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Patrick Bateman wrote: Fri 05 Mar 2021, 8:31 pm Up to October 1990 on BBC4 next week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000t132
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8pm tonight folks - BBC4 - TOTP 4th October 1990

So Hard performance ;)
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canveyboy wrote:8pm tonight folks - BBC4 - TOTP 4th October 1990

So Hard performance ;)
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Was it worth it?
- No mate, that would be on a 1991 show if they had bothered to promote it.

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Being Boring just entered the chart at *checks* number 36. Looks like they're down the dumper then.....

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Patrick Bateman wrote: Fri 02 Apr 2021, 8:40 pm Being Boring just entered the chart at *checks* number 36. Looks like they're down the dumper then.....
Dizzy heights of Number 20 next week then!
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Their last studio performance until Can You Forgive Her?, although Neil appears in 1992 with Electronic.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-29111990

Actually they won't be appearing very much more on the TOTP repeats - only Can You Forgive Her?, Liberation, Paninaro 95, A Red Letter Day and Somewhere (kind of) were studio performances up to Nightlife. I assume that was partly because TOTP started to insist on acts performing live in the early 90s (I think Neil is singing live with Electronic) and also because they couldn't be arsed to promote Bilingual.

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Streets enters at number seven. TOTP omits the Boystown Gang part of the title and Anthea 'Cocaine' Turner tells us how fantastic U2's version was, which seems rather apt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-21031991

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Our heroes are off conquering the world, so Mark 'Goody Bags' Goodier introduces the video for Jealousy, which is still one of my favourites. I love how Neil's coat lapels perfectly match his newly dyed hair.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-06061991

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Rather surprisingly I've continued to enjoy the TOTP repeats even as they have moved into the 1990s. Whereas the 70s and 80s were its heyday, it remains great nostalgia for those of us who were still an impressionable age in the early 1990s. Seeing the crossover rave acts and early eurodance has been a thrill, even as TOTP has moved into the dreaded 'live performance' era (Erasure were the first act on for the new-look show a few weeks ago doing the brilliant Love to Hate You).

Anyway, PSB are now down the dumper again and reduced to the role of 'breaker' for DJ Culture, even though it was going nowhere but out of the top twenty the following week. Fantastic to see Carter USM too!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-24101991

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Patrick Bateman wrote: Sat 23 Oct 2021, 1:49 am Rather surprisingly I've continued to enjoy the TOTP repeats even as they have moved into the 1990s. Whereas the 70s and 80s were its heyday, it remains great nostalgia for those of us who were still an impressionable age in the early 1990s. Seeing the crossover rave acts and early eurodance has been a thrill, even as TOTP has moved into the dreaded 'live performance' era (Erasure were the first act on for the new-look show a few weeks ago doing the brilliant Love to Hate You).

Anyway, PSB are now down the dumper again and reduced to the role of 'breaker' for DJ Culture, even though it was going nowhere but out of the top twenty the following week. Fantastic to see Carter USM too!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... s-24101991

Without straying too far from the topic, it's always surprised me how little if any promotion Neil and Chris did for Was It Worth It? and DJ Culture. No TOTP performance for either, for example. Perhaps if they had performed either on TV it may have made a difference. Who knows..? In fact, looking back, I can't recall them doing much for these AND the Discography compilation.. Maybe I'm wrong..
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