I was 5 and a half! But I still remember seeing all this weird new romantic stuff on TOTP in 82! Never been anything like it since in any following decade! The early 80’s were unique to say the least!!!!
Wooooow! That beautiful face and beautiful voice of Gary Numan still rocks! 😘✌️💕How i miss those 80's! Good old memoriessss!!! Love it! Wish there was a time machine! Please take me back!!!! ✨🪽✨🕊️☄️💥🙏💥
I saw them live (well, miming) at a Radio One summer roadshow when I was a kid. They performed 'Body Talk' - prancing around in their gold sequin shorts and crop tops.......oh, the 80's!
Classix Nouveaux ************ xoxoxoxoxo AND ... Gary Numan in the studio - My favourite Numan era! - And my all time most cherished Visage masterpiece "The Damned Don't Cry" + And of course ... Japan. NEW ROMANTIC HEAVEN! + Adore Imagination *** The guy from Tight Fit was so FIT!
Lov e this song and group. ...me and my mate taking over local small club dance floor in our early 20s. Greta dsys and great times . It was brilliant miss it ♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️👍
Between 1981 and 1983 there were only six studio albums by British groups that spent 15 or more weeks in the UK top 10. Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants | 33 weejs Dare - Human League | 22 weeks Rio - Duran Duran | 25 weeks Lexicon Of Love - ABC | 16 weeks True - Spandau Ballet | 22 weeks Colour by Numbers - Culture Club | 17 weeks All were associated to a greater or lesser extent with the New Romantic movement. Let's not forget that the movement was not something exclusive to the UK. For example, in Germany, "Fade To Grey" was #1 for 7 weeks, in Spain, the most popular Spanish group during that period of time was Mecano, who began imitating the English New Romantics, in aesthetics, videos and music. Also something to highlight is how the New Romantics aesthetic became a general fashion of the 80s, regardless of who wore it, which is why people like Olivia Newton-John or Sheena Easton could be seen using that aesthetic. On May 10, 1981, while in the UK Adam And The Ants was #1, in Germany Visage, in Belgium and the Netherlands Ultravox, and in Australia Roxy Music avoided a sixth week of Adam & The Ants at #1. In the USA, "Bette Davis Eyes" reached first place, a song with enormous influence from the New Romantics. Kim Carnes herself commented that they decided to work with director Russell Mulcahy after seeing his work in a video by Classix Nouveaux. the director, who had also worked with Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Ultravox and The Human League, made a magnificent video, where you can see several New Romantics in it, just as Bowie had already done in Ashes To Ashes almost a year before. The song turned out to be the best-selling song of the year in the USA! Which ended up resulting the following year with the second British insavion full of New Romantics groups.
My review to read as you enjoy the tunes: Classix Nouveaux: Pinched the bass line from Japan, lads? So many groups around this time looked like the Nazis won WWII. The song is haunted by David Bowie, as so many were around this time. Muscular. ABC: great band, great song, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow all gave us some great 80s pop and we had a great club life hear in the North, so the records by the Human League, ABC, New Order, Orange Juice and many others were in touch with the club scene and the sort of records which would get everyone up and dancing. Leo Sayer: I was left wondering what it was all about. If I’m happy I don’t want to listen to this. If I’m depressed I definitely don’t want to listen to this. Imagination: I might be OK with this if I was in the trough of a depression, it’s gently uplifting. As a 15 year old straight kid I was under no illusions about their sexuality but had no problem with them flaunting it, I always loved their tunes and welcomed their appearances on the telly. Derek and the Dominoids: beautiful dancer, classic rawk and rawl. The backbeat that ended up on so much seventies rock, was this Klaus Voorman drumming like Ringo would? And the over-emotional delivery, somebody help this guy! Japan: I loved them, I loved this, it was indeed brave to release a fully ambient single with no drums and Sakamoto-san’s electronic dream-burbles unsettling the listener throughout. The space! The pauses! I can’t stand it! I was tall and blond and combed my hair long like David Sylvian, similar Anglo-looks and I had no shortage of interest from the ladies I can tell you! I perform a version of this on my TH-cam Channel if you can find it! More and more adverts these days, anybody else notice? Gary Numan: I don’t really remember this, but it has similarity with Japan’s song. Oh, now I recognise it, from Alan Partridge 😅 It is so, so much like a Japan song, though, from the Mick Karn style bass on up. Oh oh, play the Associates. Oh, they played Visage instead. Sounds exactly like Fade to Grey. Do I remember Conny Planck being somehow involved? I willing to bet that the damned do cry, if they’re having a particularly bad day. Oh oh, play Bow Wow Wow. Oh, it’s a bunch of health-fascists instead, straight from the gym. The promise of erotic ecstasy is one of fascism’s lures. I like the Tokens’ version, this isn’t a bad update. Kool and the Gang; Kool indeed, beautiful groove and bass-line, it has several rhythms going on, like all the best dance music. Good episode, this one. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!
I haven't. Its a direct output recording of my Sagemcom freeview recorder to DVD recorder through scart (and ripped to PC to upload). It is how it was broadcast (and played back on the recorder). It has better quality probably as it was a re-broadcast in 2016 rather than an original found on VHS.
@Dylan Squires Why was Goombay Dance Band Seven Tears cut from this?? You’d think with their ONE hit they would be glad anyone was listening to this now wouldn’t you?!
Great episode, art rock , love it. I think my young hormones were activated watching that episode with Tight Fit and their gyrating leopard print clad ways . Good times 😉
Great edition of top of the pops prosented by Steve Wright and Richard skinner with classic newvon and ABC on video and Japan and cool and the gang am imagine and tight fit and Derek and the dominoes and visae and Leo sayer and yellow pearl and the charts and an amazing number one
People often talk about the 80's being a fantastic decade for music but this particular episode is a reminder of just how much crap there actually was too.
I can't comment on Steve Wright in terms of BBC Radio however, I stand by it, he was never very good as a presenter on TOTP. He seems very uncomfortable and always did.
@@eightiesmusic1984 To be fair to the record buyers of the time, if you look at the 27/3/83 Top 40, pretty much every song higher than it in the chart is a banger!
Steve Wright, shite in the afternoon as elsewhere. The un-thinking person's DJ, with a posse, no taste (he hated the Simpsons, had never heard of New Order in the 2000's, loved Go West, and had a mullet, bad tash and sleeve pulled up on his jacket- the 1980's worst diplomat), and now no life. Won't be missed. Not for one second.
Steve Wright RIP 1955 2024 😢
Steve Wright in the afternoon...classic radio😢
A legend sadly passed on; it was criminal what the BBC did
Ones of the best vintage TOTP I’ve ever seen…
Japan and Gary Numan. What an episode…. I was 13!
I was 5 and a half! But I still remember seeing all this weird new romantic stuff on TOTP in 82! Never been anything like it since in any following decade! The early 80’s were unique to say the least!!!!
Japan are the most boring group ever. Wouldn’t play them at a funeral
My favourite music year by far.
You are correct, I even narrowed it down to september 1982
@@carlleedham6256 Yep, not at all bad. I remember late 82 quite fondly.
Great year agreed , not the best one though 🤫🤫🤫
100% mine tooooo!!!!
Leo Sayer singing live…brilliant.
Wooooow! That beautiful face and beautiful voice of Gary Numan still rocks! 😘✌️💕How i miss those 80's! Good old memoriessss!!! Love it! Wish there was a time machine! Please take me back!!!! ✨🪽✨🕊️☄️💥🙏💥
Gary Numan's better these days.
I agree i wish i could go back to the 80s.
Rest in Peace Steve Wright thanks for the memories, God bless.
Who’s Steve Wright……..?
and...
Terry Hall
J Geil's...
I saw Japan in 1982, they were absolutely brilliant. RIP Mick Karn xx
Got to be the most amazing new wave episode of totp🎉❤
Japan: "Stuff commerciality, we're doing arty".
Radio DJs: "We've got this on the right speed, yeah?"
Gary Numan: "My turn..."
R.I.P Steve Strange. We love you! 💜🖤💜🖤
But I always thought he was immortal. Damn!
@@BavonWW If only 🥰
So mamy bangers in this episode - simply incredible.
Wat a fantastic episode ❤ 1982
Just An Illusion by Imagination is still being played in radio stations everywhere
I saw them live (well, miming) at a Radio One summer roadshow when I was a kid. They performed 'Body Talk' - prancing around in their gold sequin shorts and crop tops.......oh, the 80's!
Goombay Dance Band stopped them getting to #1!
Criminal! And Leee John still not happy about that.
This is incredible. Several absolutely quality songs. I was only four - the '90s was nowhere near as good.
Take me back. :)
1982, so many memories, Plymouth, Trader Jacks.
Steve and the afternoon boys, great memoriee!
Such a good episode!
RIP Steve Wright
Yes, Rest in peace Steve Wright.
One of the best songs by Visage, everyone always says fade to grey but this is far better. Video directed by Midgure Ure & Chris Cross
Classix Nouveaux ************ xoxoxoxoxo AND ... Gary Numan in the studio - My favourite Numan era! - And my all time most cherished Visage masterpiece "The Damned Don't Cry" + And of course ... Japan. NEW ROMANTIC HEAVEN! + Adore Imagination *** The guy from Tight Fit was so FIT!
All that and you forgot ABC!
Lov e this song and group. ...me and my mate taking over local small club dance floor in our early 20s. Greta dsys and great times . It was brilliant miss it ♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️👍
Lots of train stations at the start of videos in this episode
Very early '80s gloom. "One man on a lonely platform" n' all that.
Lorrenzo Manzin playing piano on the stairs is so funny and such a gabrawn song 😂😂😂
My era 79 - 83
Top of the pops ❤
Steve wright 😊😊🎉awesome legend 👏 god bless you 🙏 ❤️.
Gary Numan, what a sound Pino Palladino on the bass what a tune.
Ghosts by Japan is the greatest song of all time - Never heard any other song like it
Wow, the BBC gave the New Romantics almost as much airtime as Nigel Farage
Between 1981 and 1983 there were only six studio albums by British groups that spent 15 or more weeks in the UK top 10.
Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam & The Ants | 33 weejs
Dare - Human League | 22 weeks
Rio - Duran Duran | 25 weeks
Lexicon Of Love - ABC | 16 weeks
True - Spandau Ballet | 22 weeks
Colour by Numbers - Culture Club | 17 weeks
All were associated to a greater or lesser extent with the New Romantic movement.
Let's not forget that the movement was not something exclusive to the UK. For example, in Germany, "Fade To Grey" was #1 for 7 weeks, in Spain, the most popular Spanish group during that period of time was Mecano, who began imitating the English New Romantics, in aesthetics, videos and music. Also something to highlight is how the New Romantics aesthetic became a general fashion of the 80s, regardless of who wore it, which is why people like Olivia Newton-John or Sheena Easton could be seen using that aesthetic. On May 10, 1981, while in the UK Adam And The Ants was #1, in Germany Visage, in Belgium and the Netherlands Ultravox, and in Australia Roxy Music avoided a sixth week of Adam & The Ants at #1. In the USA, "Bette Davis Eyes" reached first place, a song with enormous influence from the New Romantics. Kim Carnes herself commented that they decided to work with director Russell Mulcahy after seeing his work in a video by Classix Nouveaux. the director, who had also worked with Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Ultravox and The Human League, made a magnificent video, where you can see several New Romantics in it, just as Bowie had already done in Ashes To Ashes almost a year before. The song turned out to be the best-selling song of the year in the USA! Which ended up resulting the following year with the second British insavion full of New Romantics groups.
Damned Don't Cry - What a Banger
Greatest episode of all time.
A beautiful time in my life
ABC, what a great song and band
Even more poignant now that Steve Wright has passed away
The guy from Tight Fit was a beauty
Japan visage abc Gary numan and classic Nouveau just bliss.
This is the greatest episode of Top of the Pops of all time
Loved sal solo, also classic Nouveau
Tight fit , you can say that again 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
How that Man kept his loin Cloth under control is beyond me 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Is that Sting in the background with blonde spiked hair at 0:25 . Sure looks like him !
Best time for music
Sal solo looked very much like the baddie in Salems lot Mr Barlow
There was a picture of Sal Solo in Smash Hits and my older sister wrote Gay Slap Head across his brow 😂😂😂😂
Very! Very!
My review to read as you enjoy the tunes:
Classix Nouveaux: Pinched the bass line from Japan, lads? So many groups around this time looked like the Nazis won WWII. The song is haunted by David Bowie, as so many were around this time. Muscular.
ABC: great band, great song, Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow all gave us some great 80s pop and we had a great club life hear in the North, so the records by the Human League, ABC, New Order, Orange Juice and many others were in touch with the club scene and the sort of records which would get everyone up and dancing.
Leo Sayer: I was left wondering what it was all about. If I’m happy I don’t want to listen to this. If I’m depressed I definitely don’t want to listen to this.
Imagination: I might be OK with this if I was in the trough of a depression, it’s gently uplifting. As a 15 year old straight kid I was under no illusions about their sexuality but had no problem with them flaunting it, I always loved their tunes and welcomed their appearances on the telly.
Derek and the Dominoids: beautiful dancer, classic rawk and rawl. The backbeat that ended up on so much seventies rock, was this Klaus Voorman drumming like Ringo would? And the over-emotional delivery, somebody help this guy!
Japan: I loved them, I loved this, it was indeed brave to release a fully ambient single with no drums and Sakamoto-san’s electronic dream-burbles unsettling the listener throughout. The space! The pauses! I can’t stand it! I was tall and blond and combed my hair long like David Sylvian, similar Anglo-looks and I had no shortage of interest from the ladies I can tell you! I perform a version of this on my TH-cam Channel if you can find it!
More and more adverts these days, anybody else notice?
Gary Numan: I don’t really remember this, but it has similarity with Japan’s song. Oh, now I recognise it, from Alan Partridge 😅 It is so, so much like a Japan song, though, from the Mick Karn style bass on up.
Oh oh, play the Associates. Oh, they played Visage instead. Sounds exactly like Fade to Grey. Do I remember Conny Planck being somehow involved? I willing to bet that the damned do cry, if they’re having a particularly bad day.
Oh oh, play Bow Wow Wow. Oh, it’s a bunch of health-fascists instead, straight from the gym. The promise of erotic ecstasy is one of fascism’s lures. I like the Tokens’ version, this isn’t a bad update.
Kool and the Gang; Kool indeed, beautiful groove and bass-line, it has several rhythms going on, like all the best dance music.
Good episode, this one. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!
Richard, obrien 😂😂🎉at the beginning. 😮😅.
the sound quality on this is amazing , have you tweaked around with the sound?
I haven't. Its a direct output recording of my Sagemcom freeview recorder to DVD recorder through scart (and ripped to PC to upload). It is how it was broadcast (and played back on the recorder). It has better quality probably as it was a re-broadcast in 2016 rather than an original found on VHS.
The ra ra skirt.
Why were the Goombay Dance Band cut 🤔
Copyright issues. Video would had been blocked worldwide
@Dylan Squires Why was Goombay Dance Band Seven Tears cut from this?? You’d think with their ONE hit they would be glad anyone was listening to this now wouldn’t you?!
I had to cut it out due to copyright as the video would had been blocked worldwide. I'll upload a full version onto the Internet Archive
Goombay Dance Band cut. Copyright issues or a matter of good taste? Lol.
Genuine copyright issues lol
Who Broke My Heart archer... what's wrong with that picture @6:27 Gets righted 5 seconds later.
Staying Power by Queen is GREAT. It is really Queen.
Double Dylan Friscott 😂😂😂
Great episode, art rock , love it. I think my young hormones were activated watching that episode with Tight Fit and their gyrating leopard print clad ways . Good times 😉
Leo Sayer,what a voice. Better when he did ballads.
Gary numan providing alan partridge air guitar.
2 days after I was born
Yeah, don't rub it in
Music for Chameleons just makes me think of Alan Partridge 😂
Dylan Squires Friscott
Man vs Bee shower scene
Great edition of top of the pops prosented by Steve Wright and Richard skinner with classic newvon and ABC on video and Japan and cool and the gang am imagine and tight fit and Derek and the dominoes and visae and Leo sayer and yellow pearl and the charts and an amazing number one
The year of girls in Ra Ra skirts and pixie boots
Top of the pops used to be good in 1982 i got it on blu ray disc recorder after BBC four didn't show Jimmy savile Dave Lee travis and Mike Smith
why what did mike smith do?
If I were to say to you
Playing air guitar to Gary Numan😂
PINO.
People often talk about the 80's being a fantastic decade for music but this particular episode is a reminder of just how much crap there actually was too.
Tight Fit and Goombay Dance Band...numbers 1 and 2. You might have a point!
Respectfully you don't know what you're talking about! Your taste in music must be hideous
Has Lisa Vanderpump has always looked old.
I can't comment on Steve Wright in terms of BBC Radio however, I stand by it, he was never very good as a presenter on TOTP. He seems very uncomfortable and always did.
I’d forgotten just how dreadful the eighties were.😂
The music since 2010 is dreadful. At least in the 80s they had lyrics, could sing and play music instruments.
Can't stand Leo sayer
@@eightiesmusic1984 God dammit! I was gonna say that!
@@eightiesmusic1984 It is! I have an 80's playlist, where each artist gets one song each. _Orchard Road_ is Leo Sayer's entry.
@@eightiesmusic1984 To be fair to the record buyers of the time, if you look at the 27/3/83 Top 40, pretty much every song higher than it in the chart is a banger!
30:29 Agent Krycek from the X-Files
Looks more like Richard O'Brien - original presenter of 'The Crystal Maze' game show!!
Steve Wright, shite in the afternoon as elsewhere. The un-thinking person's DJ, with a posse, no taste (he hated the Simpsons, had never heard of New Order in the 2000's, loved Go West, and had a mullet, bad tash and sleeve pulled up on his jacket- the 1980's worst diplomat), and now no life. Won't be missed. Not for one second.
Weird
simpsons and new order BOTH over-rated.
Go TROLL elsewhere