“Top of the Pops”: Mishaps, Miming and Music
Super Pop Karaoke Party The New Collection – 2 CD Collection
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Top of the Pops 1990 
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Pop Back in Time to the ’70s Customer Review: Same as “Pop Back To The 70s”: BE WARNED!
*Contributor’s Note*
Please don’t be fooled (as I was), this is another example of a Jive Bunny album being re-released under a different title. With the exception of a different sleeve, this is an exact copy of an earlier album, “Pop Back To The 70s”.
After almost a decade of sampling hits from the 50s & 60s, Jive Bunny moves to the decade that musical taste forgot! Split into four elongated megamixes, this particular CD begins with a ‘Glam Rock’ mix featuring snippets from all the top ‘tunes’ from that era. Yeah, you’ve heard them all before, but the mixing treatment given to the songs adds a little freshness. Mix 2 concentrates on the ‘disco’ boom of the mid-late 70s. Some tracks may not be ‘classics’, yet you’ll have no doubt heard each and every one of them.
Mix 3 is a brilliant ‘pop’ mix, featuring the likes of “Love Is In The Air” (recently covered by ‘Milk & Sugar feat JPY), “Baker Street”, “Living Next Door To Alice” and “Beautiful Sunday”. However, the fourth megamix, ‘Euro Pop’, is absolutely PANTS! As the title suggests, it samples ten European hits of the 70s, and in all fairness, it isn’t even worth playing, never mind writing about!
“Pop Back In Time To The 70s” is worth buying for all you nostalgia buffs out there, but it’s certainly not an album you’ll play time and time again.
(Incidentally, mixes one, two and three also appear in shorter versions on the Jive Bunny CD, “Hop Around The Clock”).
Jon.
“Top of the Pops”: Mishaps, Miming and Music
Customer Review: BUY IT!
If you’re looking, then you’ll love it. Made me wonder if the real reason for TOTP’s demise was trying to compete with MTV, Later With Jools Holland et al – when instead they should have been trading on irony and nostalgia, re-hiring DLT, Paul Burnett and Jimmy Savile, putting together a new all-female dance troupe, and going deliberately camp and trashy…
Customer Review: ‘Wonderful, Memory Filled Fest For Fans’
In July 2006 the very last edition of Top Of The Pops was aired. For me it was a very sad day and it felt somehow as if by losing the programme something fundamental about who I am and what I’d become was dying. In truth, the end had been coming for some time and the show had simply become outdated by the arrival of the internet generation and the birth of MTV and the like. Still, If you felt as strongly as I did and were worried by the fact, you will love this book which is a fitting and worthy monument to the lifetime of the show. Without giving too much away (I really don’t want to dilute the enjoyment of reading this one bit for you!) the text is written with an amazing amount of affection for the programme and Ian Gittins has interviewed and used quotes from hundreds of the shows stars over the years to help tell his story. Full of fantastic colour photos of the stars and presenters from every era of the show (so good to see Sir Jimmy Savile’s crazy costumes again!!), this is a real gem of a book and one that will evoke many a happy memory within those of us that grew up with what was a national institution. Who knows, it might even make you shed a few tears… ESSENTIAL.
