I once read something about him getting done over by his accountant, part of which was his being questioned over how much he spends on flowers. It was, apparently, excessive.
Listening to Chart Music podcast has led me to questioning some of the acts that got onto #totp
And really, given that it's a show for teenagers, which of them were buying Scarlet?
Don't get me wrong, it's a decent pop track, but in a world where the likes of Alex Party and Nightcrawlers are climbing up mount pop, this seems awfully retrograde.
@DJDarren yeah but it wasn’t just one homogenous monolithic demographic, there were people lamenting what was in the charts these days, while buying older-targeted stuff the style of which older people five years prior were lamenting being in the charts, etc #TOTP
Faith No More are one of those bands that other people love. I like what I've heard of theirs, but just never hooked into the records despite them ticking pretty much all of my boxes.
With this boring shit being number one, I can once again trot out my favourite fact; that Think Twice was written by the guy who wrote Making Your Mind Up for Bucks Fizz, and the singer from King Crimson.
Ooh, just saw Arnee & The Terminators in the chart rundown there.
I was 14 when that came about, and was therefore stupid. I thought it was hilarious, and wondered why the song that came from Steve Wright's R1 show wasn't getting played on the local commercial station my mum listened to.
REM were a tremendous band once they hit their peak radio-bothering pomp. I never could get into the earlier stuff, but from Green onwards there weren't many bands who could touch them.
The rave scene completely passed me by. I skipped straight from the soundtrack to the first Ninja Turtles movie to Guns n' Roses, and really didn't get this stuff at all.
Fair play though, if you were mashed off your tits you'd probably think this was ace. #TOTP
Every now and then I go off on a Scott Walker tip, and can think of little finer than driving along with the windows down, belting this out with as much gusto as I can muster.
Coincidence that this track from this movie is the number on this episode tonight, given the famous tree they filmed a scene next to was cut down yesterday.
Also, oblig. fucking hell, who the shit is still buying this?
@DJDarren close, but no cigar (Crim geek here). Pete Sinfield was KC’s lyric writer (and lampy), not singer, and he wrote Land Of Make Believe for Bucks Fizz, not Making Your Mind Up. Greg Lake was KC’s singer when Sinfield was working with the band
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