Top of the Pops 2

breakstuff

Saturday night,a bottle of Jim Beam,watching TOTT2.

I could literally sit up all night watching this show just for the nostalgia alone.Just brilliant.

Antique_Guitars

So what is the deal with this now, are they avoiding showing any of the episodes presented by Jimmy Saville?

Hootsmon

wife was watchin' it tonite......."where do you go tae my lovely......!

Hootsmon

shit! it's twenty tae two...I'm of tae bed......Viagra's kickin' in

Hootsmon

finished...havin' ciggy now

Nunogilberto

The thing I could never understand about that show is that the songs were seemingly picked on the fact that it was the singer's birthday that week etc...

Iamnobody

Nunogilberto;357639" said:

The thing I could never understand about that show is that the songs were seemingly picked on the fact that it was the singer's birthday that week etc...

Let me explain it for you.

The songs were seemingly picked on the fact that it was the singer's birthday that week etc...

maltingsaudio

hootsmon said:

shit! it's twenty tae two...I'm of tae bed......Viagra's kickin' in

hootsmon said:

finished...havin' ciggy now

Never buying scottish viagra!

richardhomer

hootsmon;357616" said:

shit! it's twenty tae two...I'm of tae bed......Viagra's kickin' in

Given your countrymen's enthusiasm for independence, presumably this was a 'solo' endeavour?

Hootsmon

 ^ nah,this was a better taegether campaign

richardhomer

hootsmon;357831" said:

 ^ nah,this was a better taegether campaign

That really made me laugh....

Hootsmon

 ^

ICBM

Antique_Guitars said:

So what is the deal with this now, are they avoiding showing any of the episodes presented by Jimmy Saville?

Or some of the others...

It wouldn't surprise me if some wholesale editing of the archive material to remove the DJs is going to have to take place, if they don't just can the whole lot. (Which would be a shame.)

HAL9000

What surprised me was how 'just about adequate' some of the performers were. I guess this was in the days before on-line lessons, YouTube, college courses in modern music, etc.

Don't get Mr wrong, I enjoyed the programme immensely and am not trying to put anybody down, but it seems to me that nowadays you need to be more proficient, professional, and more media-savvy than ever before.

mart

richardhomer said:

hootsmon;357831" said:

 ^ nah,this was a better taegether campaign

That really made me laugh....

I don't think that was Alistair Darling's intention, but it was the effect it had on most people.

mart

Totp 2 is fun, but I get so sick of seeing the same clips over and over again. If I see the Dave Clark 5 doing Bits and Pieces once more I'll scream. And is Devil Gate Drive really the only song Suzi Quatro ever did on TV? Etc etc.

It's the same with the Whistle Test compilations. Each band played a handful of songs, but the compilations always feature the one same song for each artist.

johnnyurq

During the long run of the 70's TOTP reruns uo until a wee while ago the only one airbrushed out was JS. Even when DLT was in court they didn't omit him IIRC,maybe that was the relative seriousness/shocking litany of JS' deeds.

I was hoping they would carry the reruns inot the 80's but no sign as yet. Maybe then DLT and others will get bumped too.

axisus

I particularly love the stuff around '78-'79. End of school years for me.

holnrew

HAL9000 said:

What surprised me was how 'just about adequate' some of the performers were. I guess this was in the days before on-line lessons, YouTube, college courses in modern music, etc. 

Surely you made a mistake and meant to write "That was real music back then, not lie all this modern shite where you just need to turn up at an audition and get famous"

chillidoggy

I noticed it's always TOTP2 but in 1979. Is that the year clear of pervs?

FelineGuitars

There was a real upturn in the quality of bands in my opinion by about late 78 early 79.

Punk gave way to new wave and some real creativity came with it.