Top of the Pops on BBC4 Friday nights thread

[sparkus]

Makes staying in worth it (almost £7 for a pint earlier!)

Boyz II Men wailing, can't beat it.

Anyone else watch it?

[ppunterr]

Every week. Grew up on 80s and 90s music and TOTP was a must watch growing up so loving the nostalgic vibes when watching this every week!!

[Liverpool]

Love the old TOTP. When they do the chart rundown I'm always going "who?" at some of the acts that made the top 40.

[suttonporksword]

I remember a good friend of mine going to the studios for filming of the show in the late 90s. We would have been in our early 20s and she said it was basically full of randy teenagers trying to get off with the acts

[Liverpool]

I remember a good friend of mine going to the studios for filming of the show in the late 90s. We would have been in our early 20s and she said it was basically full of randy teenagers trying to get off with the acts

And randy presenters trying to get off with the teenagers? 

[ShadowProclamation]

The 'Story of (insert year)' is also good (Saturday nights on BBC2). 1994 tonight - the start of Oasis.

[stampjones]

Makes staying in worth it (almost £7 for a pint earlier!)

Boyz II Men wailing, can't beat it.

Anyone else watch it?

Saw 6 live or something. Some festival in cardiff. Highlights from pixies, idles, little simz and others. WS pretty good and worth a watch. Bbc2 friday 8th

[Dickled]

I've watched the occasional episodes recently, from 1992.
Almost impossible to believe I'm seeing episodes from thirty years ago, you watch them and it could be yesterday.
The performances I enjoy most are from the late 1960's and early 1970's. I tend to prefer the music from that era, but also because the girls dancing in their mini skirts are so incredibly sexy.

[PatMacGroin]

I always enjoy watching TOTP reruns. People complain about repeats on the BBC but I think they have a massive back catalogue of stuff that I'd happily watch again. Actually, alot of it I probably didn't see the first time round.

Re Top of the Pops, is there any show on any channel or streaming service which captures the current culture/atmosphere/feelings/zeitgeist (whatever you want to call it), the way that TOTP clearly did for decades?

[mr.bluesky]

I bet there's a lot of shows they cannot show when the presenters were jimmy Saville or Dave Lee Travis  Always remember watching the original shows on a Thursday I believe just after Tomorrow's World. Watching Pans People ( showing my age now) then Legs and Co dancing hopelessly out of co ordination

[PatMacGroin]

I bet there's a lot of shows they cannot show when the presenters were jimmy Saville or Dave Lee Travis  Always remember watching the original shows on a Thursday I believe just after Tomorrow's World. Watching Pans People ( showing my age now) then Legs and Co dancing hopelessly out of co ordination

That's a show I wouldn't mind seeing again, I remember enjoying it the few times I saw it. Maybe some sort of retrospective review. E.g. How many of the predicted advances came true. How many are we still working on. What stuff did none of them see coming.

Would "Click" on BBC news or "The Gadget Show" on Channel 5 be the closest approximations now?

[Rufus Firefly]

I've watched the occasional episodes recently, from 1992.
Almost impossible to believe I'm seeing episodes from thirty years ago, you watch them and it could be yesterday.
The performances I enjoy most are from the late 1960's and early 1970's. I tend to prefer the music from that era, but also because the girls dancing in their mini skirts are so incredibly sexy.

 If you  like the 60s/70s stuff with girls in their minis take a look at YouTube, one girl in particular in more than one video, wearing different minis always looks horny.

[MilleMiglia]

On the subject of music, has anyone seen that new ice cream advert, that has The Runaways "Cherry Bomb" playing in the background?

External Link/Members Only

I'm guessing that whoever used it doesn't know much about The Runaways:

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NSFW if you work with an office full of overweight, purple haired feminists.

[sparkus]

On the subject of music, has anyone seen that new ice cream advert, that has The Runaways "Cherry Bomb" playing in the background?

External Link/Members Only

I'm guessing that whoever used it doesn't know much about The Runaways:

External Link/Members Only

NSFW if you work with an office full of overweight, purple haired feminists.

Kim Fowley was certainly an interesting character too.