I've been to hundreds of gigs over 40 years, and I've never seen anyone play a keytar live,the only time I've ever seen them is on TOTP.
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Mr C was so good on "Move any Mountain" I went straight to YouTube upon the end of tonight's show and watched it repeatedly. There's a touch of Dale Winton in the opening "Yessss... Bang to the beat of the drum!" How many degrees of separation are there between Mr C and Stormzy?
"Break break break... Break it down!"
For a man so fundamentally entrenched in the London dance music scene, he really is a bad dancer.
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Originally posted by Gangster Octopus View PostI think that I've got a cassette of Move Any Mountain that has all the different bits* separated out so that you can mix your own version.
*Brain can't think of the correct word at the moment...
They certainly got their money's worth out of the track - the record you have (which a mate of mine also had) had 20 odd mixes on it, which meant it charted on the album and singles chart simultaneously.
I was somewhat conflicted about them, (as they were conflicted about themselves, lots of line up changes) as they transitioned from a prog-psychedelia rock band, to dance music pioneers, to (very) mainstream tabloid merchants. This track was definitely their high point.
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From recollection (given that I was out last night and therefore didn’t see TOTP), they played and back-announced the promo for Move Any Mountain without a single mention of the heavily-featured* Will Sinnott - who had died just days after it was shot.
(*In the sense that he was in the video quite a bit - not that he had saggy eyes or a big nose.)
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostFrom recollection (given that I was out last night and therefore didn’t see TOTP), they played and back-announced the promo for Move Any Mountain without a single mention of the heavily-featured* Will Sinnott - who had died just days after it was shot.
(*In the sense that he was in the video quite a bit - not that he had saggy eyes or a big nose.)
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One thing that I remember before my Mam died ( October 1991) is watching TOTP and her talking about Nat King Cole while watching "Unforgettable" .I went on holidays shortly after this, when I got home she was in hospital, never to return home.
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Originally posted by steveeeeeeeee View PostJust Googling this, Will Sinnott died in May 1991 and this performance was August 8 1991. I think the promo video was shown a couple of weeks before.
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It's probably made non-creepy by the fact that Mr. C is doing a live vocal (effectively toasting) rather than miming to Sinnott's vocal, although Sinnott may be in the mix somewhere. It's not like a "new" Alvin Stardust miming to Peter Shelly (the original Alvin).
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I always thought Colin Angus (who hit his sixties a week ago) did the singing on Shamen records (that is, when it wasn't Mr C or chorus vocalists like Plavka or Jhelisa).
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Originally posted by Discordant Resonance View PostTin Machine don't appear to merit a critical reappraisal, judging by that unmemorable offering.
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It was an eclair apparently. On the song it's apparently a vibrator, but TOTP obviously wouldn't let that on there...
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Originally posted by Discordant Resonance View PostPretty much early-Kylie-by-numbers, where (aside from her collaboration with Nic Cave) she would remain until 2000.
If anything her sound gets more samey after 2000, after that point it's pretty much all disco and house-influenced electro-pop. Stop getting Kylie wrong!
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Yep, have to agree with Fussbudget. Kylie was a little more ‘under the radar’ as the nineties progressed, but offered up some of her best work along the way.
Step Back in Time (1990) showed previously-unseen deprecating humour, while Confide in Me and Put Yourself in My Place (1994) were both compelling pieces of sophisticated pop. My personal favourite, however, was Breathe - a largely-forgotten 1998 electronica outing co-written and produced by Dave Ball out of Soft Cell.
Freed from the SAW-shackles, Kylie showed a lot of versatility during that decade.
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