TOTP 1990

Remember Family on TOTP? They just stood there, not pretending to play or sing, the rest of the footage was odd angles of guitars and drums.... They didn't get invited back for the next single.

 

I Said on the jazz thread I like most genres of music but the exception was that dirge pumped out by a seemingly endless procession of C list soap stars singing a slight variation on the same song by Stock, Aitkin and Waterman. I remember at the time marvelling at the huge appetite there seemed to be for this trash, and I learned at that stage to never trust received wisdoms of the age or to judge anything based on its popularity.

 

Watching it. Dreadful

 

On the fish counter in Tesco

 

People bang on about the 60's as some great musical decade - for every beatles there was a cilla black.

 

This is how you should do TOTP

 

1990-1992 weird period in music, acid house, cheesy pop, thrash metal, **** rock, synth, Jive Bunny and Cliff Richard.

 

That's the badger, I saw this and realised what music was about. I felt I'd got a musical identity, my dad loved it being a rocker and to this day I'm still a bag head at heart. Followed Foo's and Dave Grohl since he formed the band, new stuff not so great but I'll be loyal to the day I die.

 

I was 14 when the Foos came out and I was totally obsessed with them. Ive got all sorts of rare vinyl stuff from the early days. Like you though i've lost interest a bit- mostly the stuff that followed Wasting Light.

Nirvana are probably my all time favourites if I had to choose one, mostly because they were the first proper band I got into.

 

that’s what happens when you take ecstacy for 2 years solid from 88

 

This one sticks in my memory too. Killing Joke in 1982. The bands frontman Jaz Coleman had been dabbling in the occult, and just before the single came out he ran off to Iceland, convinced that the Apocalypse was drawing near. The drummer played the part of a singer and they stuck a dummy in front of Coleman's synth.

 

Thanks to being a hairy chap I was able to get into Sheffield student union in 1996 and 97 when they played. I was 16/17 at the time. Saw the original album set with Pat Smeer and then Colour and the Shape. After that all they played were big venues. My mate is related to Ross Jarman through marriage from the Cribs, and he's mates with Mr Grohl. Always hoped I'd get to meet him or talk to him. Unfortunately though on our nights out chance never came up. Ross is a cracking lad, and brilliant drummer.

 

I saw them at the Manc Apollo in May 97 and it was recorded live for Radio 1 so I have CD quality audio of my first ever gig

Saw them again in Dec 97 supporting The Prodigy at the GMEX.

 

Strong links between Dave Grohl and Killing Joke in that the Foos covered Requiem early on and he later drummed on one of their albums

 

I was at that gig, brilliant day and night. Prodigy now they were something else. Again my old man loved them, still does. 63 and bangs em out whilst he's gardening.

 

Another underrated band, when I was working at Manchester airport got to meet the lads from Audioslave. They were shocked how many Brits enjoyed the Seattle sound. Chris Cornell was a pure gent, one of the best voices in music ever. Me and colleague met em at their plane, could have stood around talking to em all day. Genuine blokes no pretentious nonsense they were more interested in us and why we liked their music. Had the unfortunate experience of meeting quite a few supposed celebs and 75% were shits. Mrs Beckham being the worst, the most amazing was Dionne Warwick, she flew cattle class from Georgia. Her permit to work was done last minute she had to wait over 2 hours for paperwork to be sorted. She turned up to help Gladys Night out as a surprise. She sat had a laugh with us all, no complaints and had photos with us all.