Comments on: BUGGLES – “Video Killed The Radio Star”

By: wichitalineman

wichitalineman — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:08:45 +0000

K-Tel watch: side one of Night Moves, sandwiched between Blondie’s Dreaming and Every Day Hurts by Sad Cafe.

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:37:49 +0000

“bang! bang!”

By: mike

mike — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:01:05 +0000

Hadn’t realised that there was a Bollywood version (of sorts) until just now. Featuring the irrepressible Usha Uthup, it penetrates the absolute outer limits of Camp: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyIq9gm9KY

By: Malice Cooper

Malice Cooper — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:30:51 +0000

I can’t find anything unpleasant to say about this. It has everything a classic pop song should have and seems timeless.
I thought the Buggles were superb as a duo and bought all of their singles. (I don’t buy LPs as 7″ was always enough for me).

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:09:55 +0000

Gold really have shot their bolt. Not only have they moved Bottom To The Top (WITHOUT updating their Web Player settings so if you want to hear it retrospectively you have to click on the Tuesday repeat option – and ffs Gold improve your crappy Web Player with rewind and forward buttons that don’t work) but they’ve got rid of Greg Edwards, whose retro-soul and dance shows were fantastic listening when winding down of a Friday evening, and even Nicky Horne. Definitely looks like they’re moving to 100% automated Robot Dean Martin programming which is a total bullet to their own head. As current events are proving, it’s not all about pleasing the shareholders.

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:50:27 +0000

What’s with moving Bottom To The Top anyway? It used to be a really good fit in its old timeslot.

Er, oh yeah, Buggles. Don’t really like it. Don’t really like Trevor Horn’s productions generally.

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:37:44 +0000

TOTP Watch: Buggles only performance of this song on Top of the Pops was on the 25th of December 1979 edition. See ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’ for the full stellar lineup.

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:36:34 +0000

#96: the same member who currently appears on the cover of their new solo album with an expression which reads “yeah I’m ageing, you wanna make something of it?”

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:35:14 +0000

(I’m already getting a headache from looking at that list of POTP “attractions”…)

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:34:36 +0000

Thanks for the warning Bill; I’ll use the time to catch up with this week’s Bottom To The Top – 19 Nov ’66, Mike d’Abo Out Of Manfred Mann in the studio and at #2 with the brilliant, Blur-inventing “Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James.”

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:23:51 +0000

I see that next Sunday “Dale Winton counts down the charts from this week in 1987 and 1993, with music from Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Meat Loaf and M People’ – incorporating both the Reynolds Girls and Fleetwood Mac- liking demographics…

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:23:03 +0000

Welll…. I do remember Mike Read playing The Farmers Boys´ More Than A Dream a fair bit on the breakfast show. And he REALLY tried to push Don McLean´s Jim-Webb-in-1982 Castles In The Air into the Top 40. Probably more obscurities too.

But, Beat The Jock, point taken. Can anyone cite an example of Mike R refusing to accept he was wrong?

DJP, don´t hide your light under a bushel, man! Which member of Fleetwood Mac? That´s a great story.

I´d rather jack than Nickelback, myself.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:12:46 +0000

They should totally do a new version, aimed at the aging Matthew Bannister Generation:

“I’d rather jack, than Steve Lamacq…”

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:39:34 +0000

I played that song a few years ago to a certain member of Fleetwood Mac who (a) loved it and (b) was in total agreement with its sentiments.

Although the impact was rather dulled by (a) the twee video and (b) the Simon Reynolds Girls admitting in Smash Hits that they “quite liked Fleetwood Mac.”

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:22:19 +0000

“No heavy metal rock & roll music from the past… Who needs Pink Floyd, Dire Straits? That’s not our music – it’s out of date! … Golden oldies, Rolling Stones, we don’t want them back. I’d rather jack! than Fleetwood Mac!”

How right those Reynolds Girls were…

By: Mark G

Mark G — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:20:58 +0000

There is that, yes.

However, no obscurities from any time at all are now played. (tracks maximum age five years old tops now?)

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:23:35 +0000

Point taken but I would have preferred it if he’d played “obscurities” from the time rather than from 20 years previously since one of the major problems with R1 in the eighties was its inability to extract itself from the sixties.

By: crag

crag — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:37:32 +0000

I have to at least partially come out in defence of Mike Read too(never thought i’d be typing that sentance when i woke up this morning)- His playlist on his early-to-mid80’s Radio 1 show regulalry included- alongside the obligitary Owen Paul and Falco hits-the likes of “My Friend Jack” by the Smoke, “Days of Pearly Spencer” by David Mcwilliams, and a bunch of Byrds, T Rex and Floyd obscurities which otherwise i wouldnt have heard so soon-def not what u normally get on the Radio before lunch on a Sunday!As such his show was a big part of my musical education in those pre-Peel days….

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:21:18 +0000

Have no memory of Wogan´s barely suppressed rage prior to his TV show. I can´t stick him now – every time I tune in he seems to be whining about the bus lane on his way in to work being empty while his lane is chocka (quite incredible that he doesn´t see the reason for this). And I wish we had the option of losing his ´commentary´on the Eurovision.

In the early/mid 80s, I loved the run of Wogan, Ray Moore (before) and Ken Bruce (after) – always preferable to the Radio 1 morning djs for me. But I have to stick up for Mike Read here, sorry DJP. He´s always available for a quote, and is at least partly responsible for the Guinness book which for good or bad had a big influence on my life.

I did have his mobile number until this afternoon, but some cunt in Barcelona stole my phone and now I don´t have anyone´s number. Spain, eh? Last time it was my wallet.

(sound of sulking)

By: Waldo

Waldo — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:36:17 +0000

# 86 – Yep, I too avoid “Children in Need” now, not only to escape the non-stop wretched Tibetan prayer wheel pleadings from Wogan and his junior ministers but also because the army of phantom Tiny Tim’s one is urged to give money to, I suggest, is actually in most part a slush fund for those maggots, Evans and Ross to stop them fucking off, which I dearly wish they both would.

It will be interesting to see how much this year’s campaign realizes, what with most people fucking potless just now. I’ll just be lobbing a goldie into a bucket at Sainsbury’s and that will be it. That’s 40p each for Wossy and Ginger Bollocks, 18p for Mr Badger at Number 11 and twopence for the little bastards.

By: Venga

Venga — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:28:24 +0000

#30

Sorry about the ginormous xpost but…

My comment not necessarily aimed at just your review Tom, which would (typically) put any of my attempts at pop “criticism” to endless shame.

By: lonepilgrim

lonepilgrim — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:37:02 +0000

#66 ‘Drive in Sunday’? uh…yeah…that would be the early demo for ‘Drive in Saturday’

the shit DJ debate is worthy of it’s own thread.
The whole psychology of these guys who can only communicate with an imaginary audience is pretty scary. I mentioned the guy I worked with at my local hospital radio station back in the Anita Ward thread who was full of bonhomie on air and blanked everyone off air.
I’d have to confess a morbid fascination with Terry Wogan, whose mixture of menopausal whimsy and barely suppressed rage I find oddly compelling on my journey to work each morning. I have to switch off during Children in Need week when the ego masturbation becomes unbearable

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:05:26 +0000

Roy Kinnear morelike.

By: Erithian

Erithian — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:03:31 +0000

IS DJP really Joe Kinnear?

By: DJ Punctum

DJ Punctum — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:58:19 +0000

I know, it’s hard.