Matt Frost from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels discusses People Hold On quite a bit in the comments to one of the Youtube videos of the song. Apparently Lisa's record label weren't happy initially, and that Tori's single did well because of the exposure from this remix:
Top of the Pops BBC4
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1997, got off to overall good start with those two episodes for me. I didn't even mind too much the People Hold On remix, of which I always thought was a bit inferior to the original. Still is of course, but not bad all the same.
I would say Gina had the last laugh – she landed a UK number one, plus a US Top Ten hit … which is more than can be said for 'The Voice'!
I've been singing No Mercy's Where Do You Go to myself on and off throughout the day and each time I've gone on to sing Barbie Girl by Aqua, leading me to think that too might have more than just a hint of that same sound.
Furiously playing catch-up with the deluge of TOTPs that dropped over Christmas and couldn't believe that dreadful 'Review of the 80s' hosted (and scripted …) by Mike Read and Paul Gambaccini. I was wondering why there was no mention of FGTH in the 1984 section, and then up pops 'Relax' later in a section marked 'Techno' (er – hello?!), in which it is bizarrely lumped in with '19', 'Jack Your Body' and 'Pump Up The Volume' as singles 'made possible by technology' … er – HELLO?!? That felt like a shed load of sour grapes directed at FGTH by one person whose pathetically prudish attempt to ban their debut single backfired in the most spectacular way.
I'm all for seeing as many old TOTPs as possible, but that is one edition I would quite happily leave in the archives to gather dust …
I'm all for seeing as many old TOTPs as possible, but that is one edition I would quite happily leave in the archives to gather dust …
Review Of The 80s as how they liked to remember it, it would appear!
Tbh that’s like the TOTP review of 1996 where they banged on about Fun Lovin Criminals and Finlay Quaye for half the episode despite them only having three top 20 hits collectively!
That's only because they were available and Celine, Spice Girls etc were not!
The whole 90s story of episodes, annoyed me for that exact same reason.
Early 97 felt very exciting.....Placebo, Eels, Texas, new Bowie, Blur etc. I remember buying lots of singles in Our Price at that time.
Unfortunately all the 'Story Of …' documentaries are dogged by three things: who is willing and available to do an on-screen interview; the budget to make those shows (low); and editorialising on the part of either the production team and/or someone higher up at the BBC. (I'm not going to start ranting about Five Star's deliberate exclusion from The Story Of 1986 while Paul Heaton was repeatedly fawned over – oops, I just did …)
There are repeats of the 1990 & 1999 Big Hits compilations from 10pm on Saturday 18th January (assuming the snooker doesn’t overrun):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl97/2025/01/18
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl97/2025/01/18
Oh I get the first two points but it’s the latter I take issue with. They could probably have got one of Vanilla in for cheaper and it would have been more relevant (this is where someone tells me they did!)
Finley Quaye did have a double platinum album though, was loved by the music press and won a Brit Award. Your perception of who was big would be different depending on whether you were a 12 year old teenybopper or a 25 year old NME-reading gig-goer.
I'd agree that they didn't always get the balance right in some of those 90s shows, but you can't really dismiss artists like them as irrelevant, and their approach to putting the programmes together would be taking into account the target audience would've been slightly older viewers who'd been watching the TOTP repeats since '76 (and yes, with a sprinkling of snobbery, too).
I'd agree that they didn't always get the balance right in some of those 90s shows, but you can't really dismiss artists like them as irrelevant, and their approach to putting the programmes together would be taking into account the target audience would've been slightly older viewers who'd been watching the TOTP repeats since '76 (and yes, with a sprinkling of snobbery, too).
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The album is good!
Label All Year: Here is Tricky’s cousin, super cool and affiliated with the coolest British artists
Finley: My cousin Tricky loves the record because he is cool and the album is cool.
*flash forward 6 months*
Tricky: I have never met Finley Quaye. That man is not my cousin.
Amazing times.
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I somehow never noticed it until but Looking For Love sounds bizarre on streaming, there's something very low quality about the file.
Sounds like a re-recorded vocal too