It's Friday! Despite having a week to think of a new idea for this opening spiel, we've completely failed to come up with anything even remotely good. Still, no-one reads this bit anyway, do they? Here's what we learnt from this week's
Top of the Pops:-
- The rather ace Shine by Lovefreekz includes handclaps, an Electric Light Orchestra sample and appears to be spearheading a line-dancing, body-popping and, if the video is anything to go by, roller-blading revival. Could an E-Male comeback be on the cards?
- No.
- The lower than average sales, and given the state of the singles chart right now, lower than average sales means about 5 copies, have allowed a number of surprise new entries into the charts, with both Iron Maiden and Erasure finding themselves in the top 5. TotP decided to let Erasure come on and do their thing, but given that it was entirely dull, we wish that they'd let Iron Maiden have the slot.
- Kasabian have clearly heard Radiohead's Just and have clearly decided that what the record buying public really wanted was a less good version performed by a bunch of twats, which is why they've released the badly spelt single Cutt Off.
- U2's next single, Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own, is a tribute to Bono's dad, bringing new meaning to the phrase "A fate worse than death"
- Despite the fact that we only got one verse of Filthy/Gorgeous, the new Scissor Sisters video set in their sex club/hairdressing salon, it still managed to piss all over everything else on the show.
- Top of the Pops believe that Busted are, sorry were a "manufactured boy band". Still, to mark their departure from the pop landscape we were treated to their performance of Thunderbirds from the Top of the Pops Al Fresco gig last year. Charlie may wish to remember this as the time where people actually cared about the music he was making.
- The original, though not the best, Bedingfield did his new single, Wrap My Words Around You. Daniel really needs to learn that it's vertical stripes which are slimming, not horizontal.
- Ummm, Elvis Presley is number one, with his paean to homosexual relationships in prisons, Jailhouse Rock. TotP was not allowed to show a video for this track, so instead showed some photos of Elvis for thirty seconds, just in case there was anyone who didn't actually know what he looked like.
