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Thread Author: Iffy	Replies: 75

Mon 30 Aug 10 14:19   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

Tony Blackburn is on R2 until 5pm counting down a chart of million-selling singles. I think he's a brilliant DJ, and some of the records sound pretty good, too. So who's going to be number one? Singles don't sell like they used to, so I think it will be an old one. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, or Mull of Kintyre by Paul McCartney and Wings are possibilities. Any other suggestions? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tknyg Last edited by: ifithelps on Mon 30 Aug 10 at 14:21 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 14:22   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - RattleandSmoke

Well Candle In the Wind is the biggest selling single in the UK followed by Do They Know Its Rains In Africa by lord Bonowhatsits. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 14:35   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Zero

>> Tony Blackburn is on R2 until 5pm Tell me about it. I was forced to tune to SMOOTH to get away from him. Personality and charisma of road kill. He really should have been put out to pasture 30 years ago. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 14:45   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...forced to tune to SMOOTH to get away from him... He did the Smooth breakfast show this morning, as he does most weekends. Candle in the Wind - the Diana version - is not a bad shout, rats. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 14:47   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

Is this show a repeat or am I having deja vu? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 14:55   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...Is this show a repeat or am I having deja vu?... New show - the last one was on the 1960s. I started a thread on that, to, so there's a bit of deja vu. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 14:49   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Fenlander

I bet these singles will by and large show what dross hit the very top of the charts. Likely I haven't owned one of them. Last edited by: Fenlander on Mon 30 Aug 10 at 14:50 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 14:58   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...I bet these singles will by and large show what dross hit the very top of the charts... One or two too many 'power ballads' so far for my liking. Hopefully what's left will be better. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 14:59   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - corax

>> >> Tony Blackburn is on R2 until 5pm God help us, I was always a John Peel man, and those two never liked each other much. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 15:50   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - bathtub tom

White Christmas, or am I out of touch? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 16:02   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...White Christmas... Not sure if people bought 'singles' in such large numbers when Bing released that, although it will have sold steadily in various formats since then. Christmas songs are an interesting thought - Tone's already played Last Christmas by Wham. I'd have thought the Slade one would have sold more, and the original Band Aid looks a good bet for the top three. Last edited by: ifithelps on Mon 30 Aug 10 at 16:03 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 16:16   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - RattleandSmoke

Most the stuff I listen to has never charted in the UK yet a lot of them are still very famous songs. The problem with singles is since 1980 has anybody actually bought one who isn't 13? I bought a few Indie 7"s a few years back and I remember buying Pulp's common people when I was 13 but thats about it. I suppose now with the download charts singles are coming back into fashion. I just hope a band like Rage Against the Machine can knock Cowel of the top spot again this Christmas! Actually I tell a lie, I have bought a few Morrissey singles a few years back but only to help him to get to number one, it didn't work he got to number two. Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Mon 30 Aug 10 at 16:17 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 16:55   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

The top five: 5. Brown Girl in the Ring/Rivers of Babylon - Boney M 4. Mull of Kintyre/Girls School - Paul McCartney and Wings. 3. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen. 2. Do They Know it's Christmas - Band Aid. 1. Candle in the Wind/Something About the Way You Look Tonight - Elton John. A little matter of 33m copies for the number one, according to Tone. Charity or not, a good few people will have made a nice few quid out of that. Last edited by: ifithelps on Mon 30 Aug 10 at 16:57 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:00   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Robin O'Reliant

I cannot believe that piece of pathetic, embarrassing drivel outsold The Beatles, Stones, Pink Floyd, Hendrix and others too numerous to mention. The time the nation lost it's marbles. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:02   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...I cannot believe that piece of pathetic, embarrassing drivel outsold The Beatles and... Candle in the Wind is mawkish sentimental drivel, but I suppose it's only one record. The artists you list sold many millions of albums and singles, so all is not lost. Last edited by: ifithelps on Mon 30 Aug 10 at 17:03 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:05   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

Shame it wasn't Elton John in the Mercedes in Paris. Vile man. I'm fairly indifferent to all royals but I would have done Lady Di. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:12   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Zero

After Dodi? no way jose Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:13   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

She would never have gone for Dodi if she'd met me first. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:23   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Zero

He had fancier boots than you Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:25   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - RattleandSmoke

I got the top two correct then :). Makes up for my emberassment about Whiskey in the Jar. At least it wasn't ABBA or Boney M :). Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:30   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Stuartli

>>At least it wasn't ABBA>> What's wrong with ABBA, Rattle? Great songs, vocals and arrangements - same for the Carpenters. Sometimes we don't realise at a particular time just how good some groups or musicians are until much later. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:34   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

ABBA was a marvel of production. Pete Waterman talks of how they must have spent weeks and weeks and weeks in the studio getting that wall of sound, multi-tracking voices and harmonies. He says it's no wonder the marriages ended. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:38   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - RattleandSmoke

Not sure if anything which merits a comment from Pete Waterman is worthy of a mention though! That said I have been known to dance to Never Gona Give you Up if they play it as a joke. I do like the guy though, but respect him for his knowledge of trains rather than music!. I think that is what I don't like about ABBA its almost a machine which is too polished, that said many of the American rock bands like Guns N Roses are just as bad for that. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 18:14   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

"Not sure if anything which merits a comment from Pete Waterman is worthy of a mention though!" Rattle, if you're so dismissive of the opinion of a guy who has enjoyed enormous success in his field, how do you expect us to take your opinions on computers seriously when you don't have a pot to pee in. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:36   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - RattleandSmoke

ABBA are talanted muscians BUT so are a trillion other bands which sold only a fraction of ABBA did. It is the same with Boney M, nothing wrong with them as such but I don't get how they could sell so many records in this country. My personal bad taste is the Bee Gee's, they get slated as they are not cool but they were fantastic song writers. People just think of them for their Night Fever stuff and forget about all the other good stuff they have written. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:47   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Focusless

>> ABBA are talanted muscians BUT so are a trillion other bands which sold only a >> fraction of ABBA did. But none of those trillion other bands could consistently write tunes that appealed to so many people; that was their strength. Last edited by: Focus on Mon 30 Aug 10 at 17:48 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:50   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...that was their strength... And they had their unique sound. Never been able to get away with the Bee Gees, though. Long career, sold many records, so good luck to them, but not for me. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 19:36   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - corax

>> But none of those trillion other bands could consistently write tunes that appealed to so >> many people; that was their strength. ABBA were great. Benny Andersson said in an interview that many of ABBA's songs were sad, but in a good way. 'Sad is good' he said. Thats the swedish way. I don't know why I like them, maybe it's because they remind me of where I was at the time, but each song just sounds so well crafted, they were perfectionists for sure. Also Agnetha and Anni-Frids voices are so strong and clear. It's always good to hear them on the radio. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:51   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - corax

>> My personal bad taste is the Bee Gee's, they get slated as they are not >> cool but they were fantastic song writers. People just think of them for their Night >> Fever stuff and forget about all the other good stuff they have written. Did you see the Bee Gee's walk out on Clive Anderson's show a few years back? You could see Barry Gibb getting more and more angry as the interview went on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdvfmGPDVkk Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 18:59   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...Did you see the Bee Gee's walk out on Clive Anderson's show a few years back?... Just been listening on and off to a Bee Gee two-hour interview special with Johnnie Walker on R2. There's been a couple of uncomfortable moments. I get the impression Walker's walking on eggshells with whichever Gibb he's talking to. They sound a bit precious to me. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:28   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

"He had fancier boots than you" Probably how they identified him. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:25   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

BBD, There's some evidence to suggest she liked a bit of rough, so you might have stood a chance. But only on the side, she liked to spend a lot and gallivant around the world, so any partner would need huge resources to underwrite her activities. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:30   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

Yes I would have wanted a relationship with her, just a few twonks and maybe slap her around a bit. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:37   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

"Yes I would have wanted a relationship with her" I meant to say "wouldn't", obviously Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:38   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Zero

I thought that was your idea of a relationship? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:40   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

Well that's just the honeymoon stage. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:32   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - corax

>> BBD, >> >> There's some evidence to suggest she liked a bit of rough, so you might have >> stood a chance. Lady Chatterleys Lover Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:33   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Zero

If BBD talks like Sean Bean, I am gonna fly to Warsaw and beat the crap out of him. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:36   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

I have a Salford accent. Which I try to hide. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 17:36   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Zero

Lucky, you'll live Last edited by: Zero on Mon 30 Aug 10 at 17:36 Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 31 Aug 10 20:47   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Perky Penguin

Quite so BBD but would she have done your ironing? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 1 Nov 10 20:08   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - MD

But would she have 'done' you? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 1 Nov 10 22:09   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - swiss tony

probably, there were stories going around she liked a bit of rough.. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 19:29   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - ....

I'm surprised Bryan Adams and his 16weeks at number one in 1991 everything I do dirge was not in there. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 19:39   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - corax

>> I'm surprised Bryan Adams and his 16weeks at number one in 1991 everything I do >> dirge was not in there. Urghhhhh! Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 18:37   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - CGNorwich

Personality and charisma of road kill. Hardly fair to road kill. I'd sooner have a rotting fox in the car then listen to that pathetic old fool. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 18:46   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...listen to that pathetic old fool... His broadcasting style is matter of taste, but he's certainly no fool. Blackburn's made a long and successful career out of, arguably, a modest amount of talent. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 18:48   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Zero

Far far too long. The reason he is on the radio a lot is because he is cheap. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 18:49   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...on the radio a lot... Hardly. Smooth breakfast show twice a week and the very occasional special for R2. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 18:56   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Zero

thats far too much Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 19:21   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

"a long and successful career out of, arguably, a modest amount of talent" which is probably just what we're all trying to do Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 19:24   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...which is probably just what we're all trying to do... Yep, I've not been found out - yet. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 21:17   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - R.P.

We listened to this on part of our trip today - R4 wasn't available apparently in the MX5 option list. The lowlight was that discordant Whiney Houston mangling some song or other I lost the will to live after "Football's Coming Home" - the whole thing spoke volumes. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 21:33   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Focusless

>> The lowlight was that discordant Whiney Houston mangling some song >> or other Didn't hear it but I'm guessing that's 'I will always love you'? Never sing one note where you can squeeze in 5. Personally I much prefer Dolly Parton's simpler original rendition, which I've got on 7" somewhere. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 21:37   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Iffy

...that's 'I will always love you'?... Certainly was. Dreadful record - real emotion for those who live in council houses. There were a few too many 'power ballads' in the countdown for my liking. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 21:41   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - ....

Heart's Alone was in there too was it ? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 21:43   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - R.P.

Dunno - Dunno what they were smoking at R2 earlier on (lunchtime) but they were playing Christmas songs, including Slade. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 21:47   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - ....

No Gaynor Hopkins from your part of the world then PU with Total Eclipse of the Heart ? :) Last edited by: gmac on Mon 30 Aug 10 at 21:47 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 21:45   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

"Dolly Parton's simpler original rendition" One of my favourite tunes, I've loved Dolly Parton since I was sooooo high. I like a bit of country. Whitney Houston should be tied to a rocket and shot into space for what she did to that song. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 21:51   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - R.P.

Dolly made a pile of dough out of Whiney's warble. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 21:52   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - R.P.

Don't start me on Celene Dion - she was on it as well... Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 21:54   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - MD

Nah, she was on large Chins. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 22:24   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Focusless

>> One of my favourite tunes, I've loved Dolly Parton since I was sooooo high. I >> like a bit of country. Tried Laura Cantrell? www.we7.com/#/album/Laura-Cantrell/When-The-Roses-Bloom-Again Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 22:26   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - R.P.

Loaded question that to BBD Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 22:32   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Focusless

whoops :) Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 22:46   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - BiggerBadderDave

Yeah that's right up my street. And yes, I'd do her. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 30 Aug 10 22:57   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - RattleandSmoke

My comment about Waterman is similar to what Clarkson things about Cowels musical opinions. They both know a lot about producing teeny bob records and selling millions of products in a commercial environment. It is just 'music' for the masses, its not going to set the world on fire. It just gave us a load of now 22 year olds called Kylie. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 31 Aug 10 11:03   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Fenlander

More of a treat.... BBC4 tonight 8pm-12.50pm. Hello Glastonbury - Glastonbury at 40 - Glastonbury 2010 Best Bits. Reply to this message | Report message

Tue 31 Aug 10 12:36   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - helicopter

I get the feeling BBD that you would 'do' anything with a pulse.......... Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 1 Nov 10 12:45   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - R.P.

He was on breakfast telly this morning promoting his programme - whilst I agree with iffy that he has a certain "something" , but not for me - there are a number of superannuated presenters on the BBC - time to move on for younger cheaper blood ? Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 1 Nov 10 13:00   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Zero

The semolina in a 1960's school dinner had a certain something too. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 1 Nov 10 20:15   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - MD

Especially when preceded by Cheese pie. YUK! Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 1 Nov 10 20:17   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - CGNorwich

here are a number of superannuated presenters on the BBC - time to move on. Totally agree - they can start with that old fool Bruce Forsyth. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 1 Nov 10 21:08   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - R.P.

He sees himself as a National Institution. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 1 Nov 10 22:15   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - Zero

So is Joseph Bazalgettes sewer system. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 1 Nov 10 23:30   Poptastic Tone worth a listen - CGNorwich

Both full of crap Reply to this message | Report message