Am I Just Old Or Was 90S Music Forgettable?

[bednobs]

i ask because im watching top of the pops on BBC it's 1990 and it's all rubbish! and completely unmemorable

[Mozz71]

Sunk, James are still the best band I've seen live. They were electric.

[pixie374]

Did cross my mind, roy :-)

[Mozz71]

Togo //Remember ... the BBC stopped showcasing anything that was appealing musically in the early 70s. Watching tot plops after then wasn't, and still isn't a good way to judge the output of anyone that hadn't "passed" their unannounced woke agenda.//

Absolute bow locks mate. TOTP was governed by the charts, it always was. There's no "woke agenda", if the public put a record in the chaets, it had a shout at appearing on the show. If it reached the top 20, it was guaranteed to appear.

[pixie374]

Not sure about that, mozz. Wasn't it Bring your daughter... that went straight into number 1 and the radio and totp refused to play it?

[bobbinwales]

they showed a live clip on TOTP of Iron maiden bring your daughter ..

[pixie374]

//Bruce Dickinson said "We're going to release this as a single on Christmas Eve to scare the living daylights out of Cliff Richard"//. Lol

[pixie374]

Ah,ok. A full 90 seconds...
//This was in spite of a ban by the BBC,[11] who refused to play the song on Radio 1 and only showed a 90-second live clip for Top of the Pops. //

[Mozz71]

There are always exceptions Pixie, but Maiden appeared regularly on TOTP throughout there careers in the 80s and 90s, although usually by video.

[tiggerblue10]

I was more scared of hearing Mistletoe and Wine than anything by Iron Maiden.

[pixie374]

Me too,tiggs :-). My point, mozz, was just that they did censor a number 1 due to PCness. That's all.

[fender62]

[Mozz71]

Well, the BBC did ban songs from time to time: J'Taime, God Save The Queen, Relax etc, but they were the exception to the rule.

[Mozz71]

Was it due to PC-ness though Pixie? Radio One never played much metal outside Tommy Vance's show, as it just didn't fit their preferred output. I'm not convinced it was lyrical content that led to the ban, they just didn't want to play a metal track during the day.

[tiggerblue10]

Did they ever play James Blunts You're Beautiful?

[bobbinwales]

They banned songs in the late 50s/early 60s too- was it Tell Laura I love her, Lola. I;m sure they allso banned Tom Robinsons Glad to be Gay even tho it was Woke

[Mozz71]

I don't think woke existed in 1976 (or whenever Glad To Be Gay came out - pun intended)

[pixie374]

I don't know honestly, mozz. I thought they played popular stuff, so to say it was "banned", sounds more deliberate than the hundreds of others that didn't make the playlist. I just thought Togo had a point, that the BBC prefer to tell us what we need. As I don't watch or listen to them, I'm not too bothered.

[Mozz71]

Lola wasn't banned because of it's references to tranvestism though Bob, but because.of it's reference to Coca Cola infringed on the BEEB's advertising rules. When Ray Davies rerecorded the line as "Cherry Cola", it got plenty of airplay.

[fender62]

[Mozz71]

Yeah, it was his idea that bans were becaise of some kind of perceived wokeness that I was disagreeing with. All radio stations, whether BBC, commercial, pirate or whatever have playlists that they stick to, and songs they don't play because they don't fit their usual style.