…I think, combined maybe with some clunky Youtube script that has to vet each embedded video, that causes the problem. Regardless of your connection, some pages are almost unloadable. My machine is a quad, so no its not your computer thats to blame.

and are running Safari 5, then install the ClickToFlash plugin.

It replaces all flash video content with HTML5, and really speeds up pages like this one.

I'm at home at the moment with a big Virgin pipe. So to speak. Anyway. This page loads in a couple of seconds on my 2y/o lappie. Try it at work with a creaky BT Broadband hookup and it grunts and grumbles in over a fair time.

what this thread needs is a theme tune:

And whither the Scott? "Wanna be a gunslinger? Don't be a rock singer - Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Will Get You Where You Wanna Go...." As good a lyric as any in pop.

And her deadpanning the groove while pregnant - one of THE great TOTP perfs ever.

The week I was born. Never seen that before.

Game changing performance

do I suddenly feel the need to go and buy a VW Beetle after watching that?

Not one but two instances of the loin-stirring (for the younger bassclef) Sally Carr.

I must go and have a lie down, immediately.

Soleil, soleil, geddit? Do you think they changed the spelling so as not to confuse the average 1972 punter?

and I remember where I was when I saw it first (in a Youth Hostel in the Scottish Highlands.

This clip would also be my choice for TOTP.

...although I already had "Killer".

(Also was slightly miffed that the boppin' moppet in the pink floral smock refuses to be intimidated by Alice and rather upstages him...wonder who she was?)

...it was a total liberty for old Shane Fenton just to nick half of Bowie's Ziggy name to shirt-tail the glam wave. Surely he could could have altered it just a bit, but no. Alvin Stardust. I mean, they're not even related are they?

also - and very importantly - a rhythm section of the British variety that would offer you outside and beat the living crap out of you. Even the Beatles Bowie and T-Rex had that hard image too - that they could cope with it all kicking off in a WMC in Huddersfield. I like many modern bands but would like them more if they had more of that "don't mess"

I remember seeing Roxy doing 'All I Want Is You' on tele and even as a mere namby Southern bairn realising that under the sneery glamour that they were a bit 'tasty'

He just oozed charisma, talent and sex appeal. Every time I watch him I have a little "question my sexuality" moment. I must have amassed about 2 days worth of QMSMs by now. Bloody hell, if I'd been born a lass I'd have been bashing on the backstage door to be given an audience with the roguish charmer.

They really don't make 'em like that any more.

I don' think he's out of sorts. I think he's a mate who's been drafted in to replace someone, or is just doing it for a laugh. He has no idea what the words or dance moves are and is plainly rather amused before it all gets too much. I reckon one of the studio bods pulled him off (oo-er) whilst there's the closeup on the lead singer.

Thankyou so, so much for the Talk Talk fest. You even included my faves 'Living In Another World' & 'I Believe In You'. So many of those clips & vids are completely new to me; Sir, I salute you!

Blimey.

...when Foxx were on TOTP, too:

That one with the hat on (Jay or something?) was always considered a show-off when WE were young & what on earth was she wearing? A camisole tucked into her undercrackers? And as for the poor fellas...

...that Kurt had laryngitis and TOTP's ludicrous 'no-miming' policy meant he had to croak his way through the performance?

James Blast "it was like the aliens had landed" more ups than I can give.

I don't recall Frank Spencer having a record out.

with regards my utter antipathy towards 99% of contemporary rock bands. The thing is, they just don't look like they're having a very good time playing music. Surely belting out rock n' roll songs is a fun thing to do, something Bon Scott seemed to grasp effortlessly. There he was on Top of the Pops, probably really excited about his band being on the programme, grinning from ear to ear.

Enjoy it, you bastards... there are worse things you could be doing to earn a living. Scowling doth not entertainment make.

presumably they had nothing in their monitors

not seen this for years!! All hail Messrs Drummond & Cauty

entertainment!

said that she'd deliberately dressed down for the show, hence the not very fetching denim clobber, expecting the Mondays to turn up looking like scruffy urbin goblins. Unbeknown to her, Tony Wilson had given the Mondays a wad of notes and sent them off to buy some expensive designer threads....

......great stuff.

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It has.

The Hairy Cornflake really was hairy, wasn't he?

The Blockheads... what a strange, strange noise they made. When one really concentrates on what they are playing the music's sheer oddness hits home. It is unclassifiable... it's not jazz, it's not reggae, it's not rock... I suppose it's simply Blockheads music. And it is bloody fantastic.

Sigh

superb!!!

..well..

..a bit..

..odd?

I'm sure I remember my dad paying extra attention to TOTP that night.

to get this far down without this! Must be the slightly younger generation....

Good grief. Erased from memory. Riot Grrrl... oh lordy.

Anyone for a bit of Shonen Knife?

I had forgotten just how much that performance changed my life.
I will possibly go into it on a new thread as it has reawakened so many feelings from the past.
Thanks for the post.