I can testify that "just before going to bed" is the absolute worst time to discover that you can sing the bit from WB Yeats's The Second Coming that goes "Things fall apart/The centre cannot hold" to the tune of the chorus of The Bucket of Water Song.
Gone. Proof that modern TV drama can achieve in six hours what a mediocre episode of Thriller did in fifty minutes.
Richard Stilgoe's Finders Keepers theme. He'd been listening to Cabaret Voltaire, hadn't he?
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I find those sorts of videos are often made by someone who's freshly graduated in some media subject, and just wants to share their knowledge, so they rarely come from a place of total cynicism. But on the other hand, they're rarely worth watching.
Composed, of course, by Fritz Spiegl, the musicologist who also compiled several toilet books of amusing misprints. Not to be confused with Denys Parsons, the musicologist who also compiled several toilet books of amusing misprints.
That brief period in the late seventies when Radio 4 experimented with audio idents.
1977: Brian Walden makes his debut on Weekend World. The jokes start almost immediately.
Absolutely, but the other events had more direct impact on people's lives, and if you didn't follow the news that closely (which I'd say most kids don't) the Berlin Wall would have seemed more distant.
I'm *fairly* sure I saw at least one of them in situ when the show first aired on BBC2. I was definitely somehow able to make the connection when I first saw The Simpsons proper at Mate With Sky's house. I've also got very vague memories of another cartoon the show had, about a psychiatrist.
That explains the b-side, Leave the Floats Alone (They're Not For Us).
Yes, it sounds like the theme from something forgettable with Marisa Tomei in it.
One thing I noticed on hearing it again: a bizarre excess of reverb. Weird.
Yes, it sounds like the theme from something forgettable with Marisa Tomei in it.
One thing I noticed on hearing it again: a bizarre excess of reverb. Weird.
This is about having it off in corsets, right?
It's that striving, yearning, clenched fist balladeering that surely nobody asked for.
The downside of watching The Old Top of the Pops last thing at night is you wake up with The Sodding Postman Song blundering through your head.
That Smith and Jones sketch is a bit of an uneasy watch these days, now we know it was made at the height of Mel's own addiction problems.
Griff hands Mel a large pink pill as the punchline to a sketch about prescription tranquillisers.
Morris in a never-used scene from Brass Eye (which is, however, clipped in the title sequence) brandishing the very same prop.
As someone who never caught the Oxide Ghosts film on tour, I'm enjoying the outtakes now going up on Michael Cummings YouTube channel, especially the revelation that the original Cake prop was repurposed from a 1995 edition of Smith & Jones.
The top brass take a quick look at the Golden Suitcase Int Used Tele. othmonfiations Superintensknt, the I hither Executive !Meer, and the Executive Engineer—the top brass from the GPO—discuss with The Golden Shoe pro-ducer Wilke Lloyd, the signifi-cance of 'The Golden Suitcase. Would the SUIIC2St interfere with low flying aircraft? No, it was decided it wouldn't. Would the Golden Suitcase in-fringe air space? No It sounds almost lames Bond-like. But the Golden Sumaw which will be rushed around the country by Golden (In is a box of tricks that adds new glom to The Golden Shoe. By operating a by stick in the case, contestants raise and lower the gun in the studio. But there is one proviso. .ontathed in the Golden Suit-case mechanism is a button to her the bolt. In fact what will really happen is that when a contestant at home pushes the fire button technicians in the studio will meive a signal, they will also push a button. and then the bolt is fired. "You sec," said filske Lloyd, "we don't want any nut shoot-ing the audience or Bob Monk-home. We still have a lot of technical problems to sort out before it goes on." Our picture below shows (left to right) A. E. Luck, J. Atkinson, and M. P. Tamblin looking at the suitcase with producer Mike Lloyd.
The Golden Shot pioneers interactive television with the high tech Golden Suitcase. I've never found confirmation one way or the other on this, but - this is a load of made-up publicity bollocks that couldn't possibly have really worked, isn't it?
Oh, good heavens.
I will say, despite a tempting premise - Trigger is an architect designing a building shaped like a giant knocker, so for inspiration he has to look at loads of knockers - the best bits are the shots of '70s Soho, and the all-pervasive traffic noise during the interior scenes.
Working on that scale, what would you have to give Confessions of a Sex Maniac? Do fractions go down that far?
I'm guessing "international" still means "mostly America" by default. But its still odd how, for instance, there's so little R&B and so much heavy metal.
Even the fifty top-selling singles in the UK are more diverse. (And there's *very* little crossover between the two lists.)
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Everyone's mocking the extraordinary whiteness of that Top 50 Most-Streamed '80s Songs list, but is there an explanation for that? Who compiled it?
Of course, in the near future we'll come across a bunch of teenagers singing Banned From the Pubs or something due to an untraceable social media trend that's already been and gone, and we'll be driven mad by not knowing what it is.
It's been used on quite a few film soundtracks (mainly horror) in the last decade or so. Wasn't it always one of the Pixies Songs Everyone Knows, though? It just happened to outlast the likes of Gigantic and Debaser.
Yes, "Gat Fresh". Presented by Nas Top.
Let it be noted that at one time there was a nearly com-plete record. Jack had films of all his shows, but like the filmed and taped records of the Steve Allen and Johnny Carson years, they are all gone now—except for the few films Jack gave to Margie, Alexander King's widow, and, among a few others he gave away, those he turned over to the Kennedys for their archives. Much of the record was dated, of course, and of little value except to historians of one of the most important media of communication in his-tory. Jack realized this. So, after storing the films for years, he finally decided he could do so no longer. He began tip-ping his garbage man for picking up three films a visit. Jack still had fans. One day, the garbage man stopped by to say, "There was no sound on that last segment, Mr. Paar." The garbage man was showing the films to his family at home. His was perhaps the last family in America to see Jack Paar in his vintage period.
These days the phrase "lost media" can refer to something as tepid as an edition of Gat Fresh that doesn't happen to be on YouTube at the moment. For the strong stuff, you need to track down the descendants of Jack Paar's binman.
I'm so old now that celebrity editions of game shows just look like ordinary editions with particularly self-regarding contestants who are all as thick as mince.
Documentary maker Tony Palmer was a devoted chronicler of sixties rock. The seventies stuff he wasn't quite so keen on.
