I was in the audience at this recording. The shows were not recording in one go. Robert Palmer was not there, it was pre-recorded. Also, Jason Donovan performed Sealed With a Kiss, but it wasn't shown until two weeks later.
I agree with you, some of my earliest memories were from 1989 and it had some great tunes from the Bangles, Nina Cherry, Madonna, Donna Summer, Kylie, Alice Cooper, Tears for fears to name a few. Music has become rubbish nowadays especially since 2016/'17, far too many twits with guitars and bland tunes.
I have a soft spot for music from the late 80s cos I was coming into my teens and was starting to understand things a bit more, and though 1989 was a pivotal and tough year for me, I remember it with fondness, whereas my childhood in the early to mid 80s, though great in so many ways, was a confusing time for me.. That said I know what you mean. I think its why in the early 90s, Grunge coming into the fore was kind of a "welcome change" for many. Same with Britpop in the mid 90s.
My favourite band is Japan and they split in December 1982. David Sylvian was the lead singer. Albums were Tin Drum, Gentlemen Take Polaroids, Quiet Life and Oil On Canvas.
16 AS WELL COULDNT WAIT GET OUT SCHOOL 52 YRS OLD IN SEPTEMBER, WANNA GO BACK TO SCHOOL ENJOYED EVERYTHING ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD NOW MISS MY DEPARTED PARENTS. ANYWAY FOR ME MUSIC 80S AND 90S BEST
About the worst old episode I've ever seen. Especially when there was some seriously great, original music being made at the time. Midnight Oil were mentioned being in the charts in the run down, to mention just one that managed to sneak through the gap into foul smelling shit that was 99% thanks to the Stock Aitken Waterman, long may they rot in hell.
Given the state of the music industry today where you have the likes of Ed Sheeran occupying 16 places in the top 30 at one point, (yeah I couldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes thinking that was just......wrong) I never ever in my wildest dreams would have considered myself saying this but Stock, Aitkin and Waterman........please come back, all is forgiven. I used to be a religious listener of the Radio 1 top 40 on a Sunday afternoon but now I find listening to Radio 1 "or" commercial radio for that matter too painful. It would appear that no station can go any longer than 3 minutes without bangin on about some reality tv crap or playing a cardboard manufactured reality tv artists song that no one is going to remember approximately 6 weeks later. At least the songs that appear here we "STILL" remember to this day and some of the bands and artists are still performing. You can't say that about anything created in the 21st Century almost like the generation today were either absent or just weren't interested when that longevity skillset was being passed on.
Alice Cooper's Poison, Aerosmith's Pump, The Bangles Eternal Flame, Texas I don't want a Lover, and Beautiful South's Song For Whoever.....they are good ones, to name a few.
Well some of this stuff obviously. That's just my opinion and whats it to you anyway? You don't like it then the answer for you is simple...."Don't listen to it" and don't bother coming on to RUclips to watch stuff you don't like. Simple really.
Just read someone’s comment the music was really going down hill then. Love the 80s , but that’s so true of the music here at the end of the 80s . Terrible
Wow, only two tracks worth a listen here. Dark dark period indeed. The only good music back then was underground only to explode in 91... Glad I was a teenager in the 90's!
1989 that was the year I'd had enough. of drugs and raves so I decided to move abroad, I went to holland for 5 years ,then came back to England because I'd had enough of Dutch drugs and raves ,that's when I realised I just needed to go with the flow
There was some crap songs and/or albums back then, But nowhere near as much as now, And this was only in May of 1989 a month later June 25th episode -Plenty of good/really good singles + albums came out in whole of 1989-And you must of seen the other songs in singles charts in the top 40 countdown they weren't awful were they
A rare live performance from Robert palmer before anyone reply I aware he might be miming. This is a good song it should have gone higher up the charts at least top twenty bill withers would be proud of palmer yodelling at least he can also hold notes.
89 and onwards is where music started to be pure crap its amazing that 1 and 2 years before this video top of the pops was full of fantastic songs other thaan donna summer in this video
2 songs in the top 40 that featured yodeling and a Gangster Rapper rhyming about pulling a ladyboy after spiking his/her drink with an afrodisiac. The 80s were fcukin awesome!
By this time the best music was behind the scenes in clubs, pirate radio stations, alot of great rap coming over from america etc, unless you were a youthful 18 year old like myself it would probably would have seemed that pop quality was on a downward spiral. I suppose that's when acid house took over as it was something new and fresh, a trend like punk in the seventies. Being a synth fan I found my calling at this time, so many great tunes with great baselines just kept on coming and coming, Hifi was all Cd and cd single, vinyl went ballistic with tons of EuroDance and American Stuff, trying to nab the latest tune in the back street record stores that were everywhere. Great times. Music was reborn but you had to like and be in the acid house scene to get the best of it, otherwise you were given what you were given from the charts and a mixed bag it was. But oh boy if you loved dance, synth and rap and a cracking baseline with many quality samples this was the best time
Always liked Funky Cold Medina. I’ve got a respect a rapper who doesn’t take themselves too seriously, for that I like Prof Green’s Need You Tonight both have very clever lyrics.
YIKES!!! I LIVED THROUGH THIS, WELL I'M GLAD THE CAPELLA SHIT PASSED ME BY. WOWZAS!! I THINK A CAR ALARM WOULD BE PREFERABLE. PWL WAS WAY TOO PROMINANT PUMPING OUT ALL HIS SIMPLISTIC SYMPHONIES AROUND THIS TIME TOO.
Edelweiss - how did that make it to #5?? I don't remember it, and for good reason! Some great artists and tunes in the charts, bit for me Stevie Nicks - Rooms on Fire is the best of that lot.
I used to feel bad for the younger generations with the pop music they have to endure, but after hearing Edelweiss from 1989, I don't feel so bad for them anymore.
@@columbannon9134 But that my friend i called a sample. And a sample is copyright as it is part of the song- Like when Flo Rida took a sample fro Dead or Alive-Spin me round-Flo Rida explained that he listened to "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" and similar records growing up as a result of the varying music genres his seven sisters listened to. Ultimately, his A&R Aaron Bay-Schuck came up with the idea to sample "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" in a song.[6] Bay-Schuck told HitQuarters that he had been listening to a shuffle beat produced by DJ Frank E on a CD of potential beats and had kept hearing in his head the melody of the Dead or Alive song over the top of it. Then they got permission to use the sample and paid for it
Deacon Blue's 'Fergus Sings The Blues' is the only song there that's any good. The 80's were dead by then in my opinion. SAW crap, sampling and bad cover versions. The music scene did have a revival with the Manchester groups but apart from that there was just a load of shit in the charts.
I think there were plenty of Good hits in 89 from Madonna Gloria Estevan, Texas, neah cherry,Cyndi lauper,Donna summer and Belinda Carlile excuse my spelling. I loved early mid and late 80s my favourite would be mid 80s between 83-87.and 89 don't forget Milli vanilli lol
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rest in peace Donna Summer, you will be truly missed
Also R.I.P Robert Palmer.
I was in the audience at this recording. The shows were not recording in one go. Robert Palmer was not there, it was pre-recorded. Also, Jason Donovan performed Sealed With a Kiss, but it wasn't shown until two weeks later.
I thought everyone knew this 😂
I don't care what anyone thinks this was brilliant music much better than the crap today
I agree with you, some of my earliest memories were from 1989 and it had some great tunes from the Bangles, Nina Cherry, Madonna, Donna Summer, Kylie, Alice Cooper, Tears for fears to name a few. Music has become rubbish nowadays especially since 2016/'17, far too many twits with guitars and bland tunes.
80's music was at it's best in the early to mid 80's by the end of the decade I couldn't help feel something was missing.
I have a soft spot for music from the late 80s cos I was coming into my teens and was starting to understand things a bit more, and though 1989 was a pivotal and tough year for me, I remember it with fondness, whereas my childhood in the early to mid 80s, though great in so many ways, was a confusing time for me.. That said I know what you mean. I think its why in the early 90s, Grunge coming into the fore was kind of a "welcome change" for many. Same with Britpop in the mid 90s.
My favourite band is Japan and they split in December 1982. David Sylvian was the lead singer. Albums were Tin Drum, Gentlemen Take Polaroids, Quiet Life and Oil On Canvas.
80s was the best,music now is just crap.All i hear on the radio now is shitty coldplay.
i thought the music at in the early to mid 80s was borderline outstanding, but something started going a bit wonky towards the end of the decade...
Ditto
this is a true epic episode!! the theme from prisoner c block and funky cold medina! just brought back the whole year to me this episode did
In the middle of my GCSEs in may 1989. After this came the summer of love. Great being 16 haha!
amen to that bro, i was 15 then
16 AS WELL COULDNT WAIT GET OUT SCHOOL 52 YRS OLD IN SEPTEMBER, WANNA GO BACK TO SCHOOL ENJOYED EVERYTHING ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD NOW MISS MY DEPARTED PARENTS. ANYWAY FOR ME MUSIC 80S AND 90S BEST
Wow, the music was really going down hill then.
I can hear and see why some of those British groups never made it big in the U.S.A.....WOW! THEY ARE HORRIBLE.
totally. ... WTF !!!
About the worst old episode I've ever seen. Especially when there was some seriously great, original music being made at the time. Midnight Oil were mentioned being in the charts in the run down, to mention just one that managed to sneak through the gap into foul smelling shit that was 99% thanks to the Stock Aitken Waterman, long may they rot in hell.
I loved all these songs and they make me happy so screw all the haters.
Especially Donna Summer. What a legend of a song !
Yeah, I do have a soft spot for the year. It was a difficult one for me but I still have a soft spot for it.
😃👍
I really enjoyed TOP OF THE POPS '85.. a lot more then '89.
Given the state of the music industry today where you have the likes of Ed Sheeran occupying 16 places in the top 30 at one point, (yeah I couldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes thinking that was just......wrong) I never ever in my wildest dreams would have considered myself saying this but Stock, Aitkin and Waterman........please come back, all is forgiven. I used to be a religious listener of the Radio 1 top 40 on a Sunday afternoon but now I find listening to Radio 1 "or" commercial radio for that matter too painful. It would appear that no station can go any longer than 3 minutes without bangin on about some reality tv crap or playing a cardboard manufactured reality tv artists song that no one is going to remember approximately 6 weeks later. At least the songs that appear here we "STILL" remember to this day and some of the bands and artists are still performing. You can't say that about anything created in the 21st Century almost like the generation today were either absent or just weren't interested when that longevity skillset was being passed on.
Thankfully in 1989 I was in a secure psychiatric care unit and they didn't let us watch disturbing shit like this. I was one of the lucky ones.....
There might have been a lot of shite in 1989, but there was some good stuff. I have a soft spot for the year personally.
100% shite. There was literally nothing good in 1989. Even Morrissey was shit.
Alice Cooper's Poison, Aerosmith's Pump, The Bangles Eternal Flame, Texas I don't want a Lover, and Beautiful South's Song For Whoever.....they are good ones, to name a few.
I'd hate to think what you'd call shite then.
Well some of this stuff obviously. That's just my opinion and whats it to you anyway? You don't like it then the answer for you is simple...."Don't listen to it" and don't bother coming on to RUclips to watch stuff you don't like. Simple really.
Some real classics in there. Rather liked that first song. Even PC Hollis turned up..And a by the book stock Aiken and Waterman song by Donna.
Just read someone’s comment the music was really going down hill then. Love the 80s , but that’s so true of the music here at the end of the 80s . Terrible
Fun Fact: Edelweiss were sued by Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA as they did not have their permission to sample SOS on their song heard here.
Wow, only two tracks worth a listen here. Dark dark period indeed. The only good music back then was underground only to explode in 91... Glad I was a teenager in the 90's!
You are so WRONG.
Apart from Donna summer I've no idea who rest are and no memory of the songs .I was past watching it by then .my time was early 80s.the best
Notice the mistake after the Lynne Hamilton performance, Simon says it was Lynne Anderson!
I beg your pardon?!😂
Plenty good acts 89 Madonna Gloria Estevan Texas neah cherry Cyndi lauper Donna summer and Belinda Carlile to name a few.
soul to soul?
Always had the feeling that, once great acts were putting tosh just for the sake of it. Even so, still a few great tracks around by new artists
1989 that was the year I'd had enough. of drugs and raves so I decided to move abroad, I went to holland for 5 years ,then came back to England because I'd had enough of Dutch drugs and raves ,that's when I realised I just needed to go with the flow
Donna Summer wow shes stunning ....What a goddess
Absolutely loved Edelweiss- its so shit its good!!!!
The theme tune to Prisoner cell block H... and we tell the younger generation how better our music was back then. This episode says different 😂
Not all of it was shit in May of 1989, singles + albums wise, I mean the showing of the singles chart in this come on now pal
@@mikekaraoke of course not all but there was a lot of shit that year.
The zooming into the Hillsborough video to cut off the banner with the names of the victims feels disrespectful.
CAPELLA track is MAMMOTH EARLY ANTHEM TACKLE! So futuristic (when you look back at it now!) '"Work it to the bone" sample is classs!
First song is a banger
Ferry Across The Mersey was a good rendition. Liked it!
Only after watching this do I realise how by 1989 the 80s had gone down the shitter... Star Trekkin in 1987 and Edelweiss in 1989... awful
There was some crap songs and/or albums back then, But nowhere near as much as now, And this was only in May of 1989 a month later June 25th episode -Plenty of good/really good singles + albums came out in whole of 1989-And you must of seen the other songs in singles charts in the top 40 countdown they weren't awful were they
So this is what finally finished of music as we no it
Sexy Donna Summer. Continue resting in peace.
A rare live performance from Robert palmer before anyone reply I aware he might be miming. This is a good song it should have gone higher up the charts at least top twenty bill withers would be proud of palmer yodelling at least he can also hold notes.
He should have done Addicted to Love on Top of the Pops.
What the fuck was with yodelling back in 1989?
89 and onwards is where music started to be pure crap its amazing that 1 and 2 years before this video top of the pops was full of fantastic songs other thaan donna summer in this video
2 songs in the top 40 that featured yodeling and a Gangster Rapper rhyming about pulling a ladyboy after spiking his/her drink with an afrodisiac. The 80s were fcukin awesome!
Wow, I forgotten just how bad it got towards the end of the 80s. Luckily for me I was literally days away from being introduced to Industrial Music...
Yeah it’s when I turned to rock / metal at this time
it did not get bad you just got Old and boring.
Hit in south of chile colony german 1989 lake llanquihue summer. From chile 2019
By this time the best music was behind the scenes in clubs, pirate radio stations, alot of great rap coming over from america etc, unless you were a youthful 18 year old like myself it would probably would have seemed that pop quality was on a downward spiral. I suppose that's when acid house took over as it was something new and fresh, a trend like punk in the seventies. Being a synth fan I found my calling at this time, so many great tunes with great baselines just kept on coming and coming, Hifi was all Cd and cd single, vinyl went ballistic with tons of EuroDance and American Stuff, trying to nab the latest tune in the back street record stores that were everywhere. Great times. Music was reborn but you had to like and be in the acid house scene to get the best of it, otherwise you were given what you were given from the charts and a mixed bag it was. But oh boy if you loved dance, synth and rap and a cracking baseline with many quality samples this was the best time
Lol, PC Reg Hollis from 'The Bill' in the dock at 08:07
Always liked Funky Cold Medina. I’ve got a respect a rapper who doesn’t take themselves too seriously, for that I like Prof Green’s Need You Tonight both have very clever lyrics.
YIKES!!! I LIVED THROUGH THIS, WELL I'M GLAD THE CAPELLA SHIT PASSED ME BY. WOWZAS!! I THINK A CAR ALARM WOULD BE PREFERABLE. PWL WAS WAY TOO PROMINANT PUMPING OUT ALL HIS SIMPLISTIC SYMPHONIES AROUND THIS TIME TOO.
Edelweiss - how did that make it to #5?? I don't remember it, and for good reason! Some great artists and tunes in the charts, bit for me Stevie Nicks - Rooms on Fire is the best of that lot.
Tone Loc - absolute classic. Can you imagine the uproar if these lyrics (@4:25) were heard by today's "easily offended?!"
Is that Micky Pearce in the Sam Brown video? 😆 Lol
No it’s Reg from ‘the bill’ 😂
Unwatchable. Going to watch some old ABBA videos.
Prisoner sell block age great song and episodes
7:01 who's that? It looks like Reg Hollis offa 'the bill'!!
Sam Brown
I think it is him
Pretty sure it is.
Definitely Reg Hollis lol
Yes. It's a young Jeff Stewart from The Bill.
Damn why couldn't they get PIL on this one lol.
ah the latest hits
The cusp of the planned descent of British popular music into unadulterated trash.
What a mess of a show in terms of music. Especially the first one...what the hell?!
Isn't that Reg from the Bill, in Sam Browns video
Beverly Bradley yeah, it’s Jeff Stewart, well spotted! 👍🏼😄
Never mind kids, Madchester/baggy is just around the corner and things will never be the same again...
I love the 80s but at the end it really had got bad (for the most part)
NOTTINGHAM FOREST FOREVER
Only good bit was wasp at end
Is that the KLF in disguise?
Too many annoying music samples in 1989, practically every other song was a song remix of another song.
True, and sounds like what a music critic might say about 2010s music!
i wouldn't know, as far as i know music stopped being made about 25 years ago.
Yeh, I lost count of how many songs had the sample 'Aaah Yehh' 😆
It's been like that ever since.
Mayo messes up his introduction to Lyn Hamilton by saying Radio 1 rather than Top Of The Pops. LOL.
At this time TOTP was show live and simulcast on Radio 1, so not entirely wrong. Saying TOTP would have made more sense though.
Appeared on TOTP with a few dogs... Ended up in Ace Ventura..
No not Simon Mayo.
Sam Brown's video featuring Jeff Stewart aka Reg from The Bill.
2.08 dj david guetta in his earlier years
The music was great for its time ⏲️ but where did they dig that 🤔 fake audience from 🙄😳 ?
What is that bloke doing with that doll in the back during Edelweiss.
the first 2 songs were the kind of stupidity pop music hasn't even yet recovered from
Used to hate it when they would all be pretty much rubbish one week ..
I thought the show was starting losing its way in 1989 the producer had changed in 1988 mite be why pluss the rave Sean was coming in
The end of an era; what a load of rubbish!
Funky Cold Rohypnol
Bring me edelweiss
I used to feel bad for the younger generations with the pop music they have to endure, but after hearing Edelweiss from 1989, I don't feel so bad for them anymore.
Wow! Worst ever TOTP ever??
PCBH
Late 80s really was a shit time for music....
no words can ever describe how shit that episode was
Thats why the UK left the eu
Prisoner cell block H
to be honest 88 onwards was pretty shite
love the chick 17.30
Worst TOTP ever
1:37 darn, that's annoying!! What the heck is that?
The ancient religion of androgyny.
Only good thing about 89 was The Stone Roses
Yes 80s music was great,but crap from around 1988 onwards,this episode is truly terrible.
Separated at birth: Robert Palmer and Willem Dafoe
You must have fucking dementia, 2 very different looking people
@@mikekaraoke as
@@petercrawley7272 As what?
What on earth are you talking about??
That first song was beyond terrible.
Sam Brown very boring and inexplicably popular.
back when ballads we're allowed to be played.and ballads videos we're made.now is garbage everywhere.
I can't even remember the last time I heard a new ballad.🙁
Crap music - true.
Aggravated by euro-pop and too many chemicals!
I hated the 80s
Embarrassing
Okay,so there was some crap in the 80's too,as this episode proves. Pretty dire
This was terrible.
Compare this to 1979.
The beginning of the 1980,s pop scene was proper spectacular
The end was Fuckin Awful,
Anyone agree?....................
Not me, I love 1988 and 1989
Shite
I loved the sound of music and abba this is am gay 55 years old this is a load of crap
Bloody awful!!
ABBA rip offs, soap stars singing and singers singing theme tunes to soaps. It was the fag end of the 80s.
To whomever did that edelweiss track may God have mercy on your soul
Done due to the timelords ,,klf inventor bill Drummond giving tips saying anybody can have a no 1 song so they proved it
ABBA took them to court for it is a partly a copy of their song S.O.S but they lost.
@@columbannon9134 How the hell did they lose?
@@mikekaraoke because they gived it, since only a small part of the song sounded like S.O.S which was not enough.
@@columbannon9134 But that my friend i called a sample. And a sample is copyright as it is part of the song- Like when Flo Rida took a sample fro Dead or Alive-Spin me round-Flo Rida explained that he listened to "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" and similar records growing up as a result of the varying music genres his seven sisters listened to. Ultimately, his A&R Aaron Bay-Schuck came up with the idea to sample "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" in a song.[6] Bay-Schuck told HitQuarters that he had been listening to a shuffle beat produced by DJ Frank E on a CD of potential beats and had kept hearing in his head the melody of the Dead or Alive song over the top of it. Then they got permission to use the sample and paid for it
Edelwiess was class haha. Love a bit of crazy german music. Shame Sandra never made it big in our country, she was better than Madonna
shite
Deacon Blue's 'Fergus Sings The Blues' is the only song there that's any good. The 80's were dead by then in my opinion. SAW crap, sampling and bad cover versions. The music scene did have a revival with the Manchester groups but apart from that there was just a load of shit in the charts.
I think there were plenty of Good hits in 89 from Madonna Gloria Estevan, Texas, neah cherry,Cyndi lauper,Donna summer and Belinda Carlile excuse my spelling. I loved early mid and late 80s my favourite would be mid 80s between 83-87.and 89 don't forget Milli vanilli lol