f*** me! 'whistle test years 84/85' Bob Harris? the geezer's a dummy. I was half hoping we'd get either As It Is & When It Was or Sunrise from The Hacienda link December 85. nope. try the very two bob awful 'Kane Gang' though anyone spot Donald Johnson on drums? Billy f****' Bragg, Suzanne Vega and erm, R.E.M. all non important, underachieving watered down 2nd division pop tosh. FORGET YER MAN FROM IRAQ, WAR ON BOB HARRIS.
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Totally agree. I wish they'd given me the job of compiling those programmes by going through the old tapes. I think it would be obvious to anyone who was in their teens or twenties at the time what was the relevant music from the Whistle Test Years. Trouble is the people who ran it were in their 40s then, so they must be touching 60 by now, still pining for the release of a Barclay James Harvest boxed set.
It's at times like these I wish there was a music channel that just re-ran entire shows of The Tube, Oxford Road Show, Switch and Whistle Test etc so I could tape the lot and do my own editing.
I was thinking that was Donald Johnson too. Never realised he joined the Kane Gang.
dont think you can really call rem non-important underachievers
& as for writing the braggster off like that.....
Originally posted by blackthorn me up dont think you can really call rem non-important underachievers& as for writing the braggster off like that.....
whoops! sorry, R.E.M. vastly overrated responsible for bringing the likes of The Cranberries, Travis, Shack, The Thrills, The Bluetones, JJ72, Toploader, The Flaming Lips, zzzzzZZZ, into your homes.
Billy Bragg vastly overrated responsible for Chumbawamba, These Animal Men, Johnny Marr & The Healers, Busted, Northern Uproar erm Al-Qaeda.............
also on that episode were the pogues, the cocteau twins & lou reed.
why was the braggster & REM responsible for bringin us those acts - did they used to organise tours or something?
Originally posted by Nathan J. Reid > Originally posted by blackthorn me up> dont think you can really call rem non-important underachievers> > > & as for writing the braggster off like that.....
whoops! sorry, R.E.M. vastly overrated responsible for bringing the likes of The Cranberries, Travis, Shack, The Thrills, The Bluetones, JJ72, Toploader, The Flaming Lips, zzzzzZZZ, into your homes.
Billy Bragg vastly overrated responsible for Chumbawamba, These Animal Men, Johnny Marr & The Healers, Busted, Northern Uproar erm Al-Qaeda.............
can I take it you're not a big rem/ billy bragg fan then?
no. the point I'm trying to make is that it was just another missed opportunity to show New Order on terrestrial TV. what really rattled me is that the "Hacienda" link up (Sunrise BTW)was considered vital enough to be included on the "Whistle Test" highlights of the year programme on New Years Eve 1985.
maybe they're saving them up for the definitive ogwt appearance - though sunrise would have been good to see.
Originally posted by Nathan J. Reid no. the point I'm trying to make is that it was just another missed opportunity to show New Order on terrestrial TV. what really rattled me is that the "Hacienda" link up (Sunrise BTW)was considered vital enough to be included on the "Whistle Test" highlights of the year programme on New Years Eve 1985.
If you want to see the Whistle Test appearance - get in touch via e-mail Nath. BTW - I'm a BB fan - so behave;)
Originally posted by Nathan J. Reid no. the point I'm trying to make is that it was just another missed opportunity to show New Order on terrestrial TV. what really rattled me is that the "Hacienda" link up (Sunrise BTW)was considered vital enough to be included on the "Whistle Test" highlights of the year programme on New Years Eve 1985.
If you want to see the Whistle Test appearance - get in touch via e-mail Nath. BTW - I'm a BB fan - so behave;)
what's big brother got to do with it?
...another BB apreciator here too. And leave REM alone as well - or at least write something half as good as "Fall on me" before you start bitching.
Originally posted by CTB ...another BB apreciator here too. And leave REM alone as well - or at least write something half as good as "Fall on me" before you start bitching.
Fuck Me! where's Karen James when you need her?
i am confussed on this REM / flaming lips thing...
the later F.L. albums have some flavor, while listening to REM is (and always will be) like eating an entire box of matzo without anything to drink.
Originally posted by Nathan J. Reid > Originally posted by CTB> ...another BB apreciator here too. And leave REM alone as well - or at least write something half as good as "Fall on me" before you start bitching.
Fuck Me! where's Karen James when you need her?
Slight over-reaction, don't you think? I like REM, but surely that doesn't put me on the same axis as KJ, Peregrine whatsit et al. does it?
Originally posted by Sean Taugher i am confussed on this REM / flaming lips thing...the later F.L. albums have some flavor, while listening to REM is (and always will be) like eating an entire box of matzo without anything to drink.
what's matzo?
Originally posted by CTB > Originally posted by Nathan J. Reid> > > > Originally posted by CTB> > ...another BB apreciator here too. And leave REM alone as well - or at least write something half as good as "Fall on me" before you start bitching.>
Fuck Me! where's Karen James when you need her?
Slight over-reaction, don't you think? I like REM, but surely that doesn't put me on the same axis as KJ, Peregrine whatsit et al. does it?
Sorry, I meant James, erm Walsh. CTB get over your fuckin' self will yer?. R.E.M. (IMO) are shite. You beg to differ. let's leave it at that. Fuck sake.
