Chart Music Podcast 2 (Man Sound) - ITS PIPOU TIME!

[prelektric]

It's a shame to see how far Clint Boon has fallen. At least Johnny "Just For Men" Marr is there to help him out.

Tragic, yet oddly heartwarming. You'd have hoped Johnny offered Clint some of that "Just for Men" by the looks of it.

Plus - St. Ann's Square in Manchester? Looks like it to me. Bit too posh for the likes of me when I was still living there.

Also, finally got my shout-out for stuffing my wad in their G-strings in the latest episode. Having Al read out my real name was surreal, but certainly welcome. Unfortunately my name doesn't really give him the chance to exploit his extraordinary Notts accent in that way that we all love.

EDIT: New page hair dye shaming working class envy stuff.

[Johnboy]

Al comparing the melody of This is How it Feels to Invisible Sun by The Police is Chart Music gold.

I saw Inspiral Carpets twice in 1990, they were good. She Comes In the Fall, the next single was a banger.

[George White]

Completely O/T but seeing a pic of Desire in the Sandman, I immediately cried in a broad Notts accent, 'Bunteh!"
As one is supposed to do when anyone vaguely Clare Balding-ish appears.

[George White]

Also found a few more  Pipou sleeves (i.e. my new avatar)

[George White]

Reminded of the Chart Music-iest film ever.
https://youtu.be/hOWe5Zskjj0
Dennis Waterman is a streetwise Cockney priest in Chicago fighting crime and trying to turn Roger Daltrey into a boxer.
Apparently, Waterman lost millions on this thing.

[famethrowa]

Watch yer backs!

https://m.imdb.com/review/rw0267930/?ref_=tt_urv

[Brundle-Fly]

Reminded of the Chart Music-iest film ever.
https://youtu.be/hOWe5Zskjj0
Dennis Waterman is a streetwise Cockney priest in Chicago fighting crime and trying to turn Roger Daltrey into a boxer.
Apparently, Waterman lost millions on this thing.

I wonder if appearing in the stage musical, Windy City in 1982 gave Dennis the idea of showing people 'the other side of Chicago'. Did anybody tell him that ten pin bowling has existed in the UK since 1960?

[Epic Bisto]

I wonder if appearing in the stage musical, Windy City in 1982 gave Dennis the idea of showing people 'the other side of Chicago'. Did anybody tell him that ten pin bowling has existed in the UK since 1960?

As a loyal listener of Ask Any Buddy, a great podcast that examines gay porn films from the 70s and 80s, they've probably reviewed a number of films that document 'the other side of Chicago' long before the idea popped into Mr Here Comes Jism's brain.

And just like George White, I often find myself shouting "fookin' Boonty!" when Ms Balding or her hairalikes pop up on the telly.

[George White]

I've been listening to the 11th ep, and hearing Al talk of the German Look-In, Bravo made me look it up.
Christ, one of the covers has actual nudity.
There's typical 70s stuff - Shaun Cassidy, nostalgic looks on people like Gary Cooper and Bogie, but also a lot of Euro-stuff - Nastassia Kinski is on most covers c.1978-79 invariably alongside Smokie (who were massive in Germany).
But you also have culty Euro people like Giuliano Gemma, Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, Kabir Bedi as Sandokan and Pierre Brice as WInnetou (Karl May western character - adapted as a series of films which spawned a German/Mexican teleseries in the Eighventies), INgrid Steeger (German sex actress, who I know mainly from a film called Ich Ein Groupie, which is probably of interest to Pop-Crazed Youngsters).
A weird mix of stars - you have US stuff like Welcome Back Kotter, then Follyfoot or Space 1999,  a sexy pinup for the boys of a 44-year-old Sophia Loren in Michael Winner's Firepower, and then for the girls - a lovely shot of Cliff.  https://archive.org/details/bravo-1979-heft-44/page/n83/mode/2up

[gilbertharding]

NEW EPISODE!!!

[DrGreggles]

Perfect timing - driving back from Edinburgh tomorrow

[shiftwork2]

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Taylor and Neil

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June 9th 1977

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Wurzels!

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[Epic Bisto]

I'm not clicking any of those spoilers, but going by the year they're reviewing one word springs to mind:

Naughty (repeated 3 times).

[jamiefairlie]

I'm not clicking any of those spoilers, but going by the year they're reviewing one word springs to mind:

Naughty (repeated 3 times).

Ooooh Arrrrr!

[Norton Canes]

I'm not clicking any of those spoilers, but going by the year they're reviewing one word springs to mind:

Naughty (repeated 3 times)

Don't, you had my hopes up for Ebeneezer Goode for a moment there

[dr beat]

I am barely 2 minutes in, and I can recall clearly now my Mum objecting to

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Kate O'Mara

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turning up in the family's appointment programme

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Howard's Way

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more to follow

[Nice Relaxing Poo]

I've never heard of Triangle (I was only 5 when it was on TV) but Taylor's description of it had me laughing all the way around the shop today. I'd happily advocate for him to be a permanent host, the bloke is exceptional.

[LordMorgan]

I've never heard of Triangle (I was only 5 when it was on TV) but Taylor's description of it had me laughing all the way around the shop today. I'd happily advocate for him to be a permanent host, the bloke is exceptional.

I would totally agree with that
 I think it should be Al hosting obviously. But with Taylor every episode and with the rest of the gang rotating

Love them all, but Taylor's just takes it up a notch when he is on

[bigfatheart]

Watched the episode in question, part of the way into the podcast - I think I'm most excited about them covering

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Honky

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partly because

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they're awful, they end up sounding closer to Funky Gibbon than Funkadelic, and one of the horn players looks like Kevin Keegan in the early 2000s Man City shirt

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but mostly because

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I can't wait to hear Al say their name.

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[George White]

Watched the episode in question, part of the way into the podcast - I think I'm most excited about them covering

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Honky

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partly because

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they're awful, they end up sounding closer to Funky Gibbon than Funkadelic, and one of the horn players looks like Kevin Keegan in the early 2000s Man City shirt

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but mostly because

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I can't wait to hear Al say their name.

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Just googled them.
Christ.
Initially thought they were a rejigged Wigan's Ovation.
No. But close. Albeit from London.

[bigfatheart]

Shakin' Wigan's Ovation!

[bigfatheart]

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"'ONKEH ARE FUCKIN' 'ONKEH"

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Everything I hoped for and more.

[DrGreggles]

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Skem shout out!

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[Satchmo Distel]

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The podcast treating GSTQ as the 'real' No. 1 is a surprise, but they do show their workings very convincingly

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[bigfatheart]

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With the perfect Chart Music circularity of Johnny 'Judie Tzuke satin tour jackets/B.A. Cunterson's mate' Frewin being the culprit.

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[shiftwork2]

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Berni Flint's Pallet Palace

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is a rabbithole, be warned.  Like a surreal deadpan Chuckle production.

[George White]

Rewatched the Blue Tuilip Rose Reid doc I'm Your Number One Fan.
I'd seen it before, but forgotten the other people.
There's a Cliff-obsessed woman who looks uncannily like a90s Anne Widdecombe who eventually converted her mother into the obsession who are there to show us relatively normal super-fandom. As she says, 'we love Cliff but we're not in love with Cliff'. But the mother embarrases the daughter by telling us she should have married Cliff. THough her impromptu version of Shout's a bit weird.

Klaus Wagner fascinates me with his ludicrous ideas of the Queen being the Devil. Especially that he resembles a Patrick Marber character from The Day Today.
NOte he died in 2007. Did Diana's death turn him worse?

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

"Honky... are fuckin' Honky!"

Loads of laughs in this episode, as usual, but that one really got me.

[George White]

I've been trying to change my avatar to the lead singer's extraordinary face, but

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

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I find myself fascinated strangely by Taylor's life. He really has just watched hours of Triangle. Most people would give up after a couple of episodes, but no, he's fully committed to this bleak endeavour.

And I say that as a depressive, single, middle-aged man mired in faded pop culture detritus. But even I wouldn't go that far.

Someone needs to give him a book deal. An epic sociopolitcal history of the last 100 years shot through the prism of pop music, films and television. We'd all read that.

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