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Lottie Long Legs posted:
NorthTonight posted:
Quite surprised that Song for Whoever debuted so low in the charts. Must have went against the trend as mentioned previously in the thread about songs peaking in week one then falling down the chart. Think it was a new entry at 34.

Natalie Cole’s video also suffered the same fate as Queen... she hardly got going before it was cut off.


That is what songs did back then... they debuted low, and climbed. It was more a 1995+ thing for the songs to enter high and almost immediately plummet.


I think it depends on a band. If they have a larger following then they debut high, maybe go up the following week and then drop out. Doesn’t Queen’s Innuendo hold some sort of record for how quickly a number one fell out the Top 40?
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james-2001
Been pointed out during these re-runs how Iron Maiden had a following who rushed out and bought their singles on the first week, so they charted high then rapidly fell out the charts.
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Colm
Back to a dodgy guest presenter mic again tonight, you could barely hear Simon Parkin on the chart rundown.
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Colm
...and no dodgy mics on Edition #2 tonight.

Hazing the noob?
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Rich Tea posted:
9 years this week since the BBC4 re-run began, which is a remarkably long run.


And in about a month's time the repeats will have been running for half the time that BBC Four has been in existence!
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Richard
Robert Williams posted:
Rich Tea posted:
9 years this week since the BBC4 re-run began, which is a remarkably long run.


And in about a month's time the repeats will have been running for half the time that BBC Four has been in existence!


And for me, TOTP is now entering its “golden age”...
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james-2001
Faux-widescreen effect on the Clannad performance on this week's second episode, presumably so it matched with the clips from the video they intercut with it. They don't do this when they do another video/studio mix with Chris Rea later in the year, though.
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Colm
james-2001 posted:
Faux-widescreen effect on the Clannad performance on this week's second episode, presumably so it matched with the clips from the video they intercut with it.


And they even made the intro caption widescreen-safe! Now that's forward-thinking.
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james-2001
That did that with all three psuedo-widescreen video on that edition.

On another note, I noticed towards the start of the Back To Life video you can see some of the adjacent film frame at the top of the screen in one of the shots, clearly the telecine not aligned as well as it should be. Something that's lost when the video's shown these days with every UK music channel cropping 4:3 content to some degree. The TOTP repeats are literally the only place on UK TV now to see 4:3 music videos uncropped.
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james-2001
Only one episode on the 24th, as there's "perfect pianists at the BBC" on between 7-8.

Next week we get Jakki Brambles' first episode, and as she's the last presenter to join the show until the 1991 revamp that means we know for sure there'll be no more Mike Smith-esque issues with any presenters until then at least, so if we do lose any more episodes, it's for other reasons. With the current scheduling, we're up to the end of July with no skipped episodes from 1989, the longest uninterrupted run since the repeats started.

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