Smash
Posted Wed Nov 22 09:18:31 GMT 2000 by Justin
Pop music again, I know. But did anyone see this first episode of History Of The Pop Single? Let's put it like this: you know when you made the mistake as a kid of sending off from the backs of cereal packets for "Gossip on all your favourite stars from the top 20 hit parade", and you received a little book (well, leaflet) informing you that Darts are the future of rock'n'roll, or that The Police were certainly number one in the good-looking charts? Well, that sort of stuff was Paul Morley compared to Smash.
In case no-one else saw it, it would seem that there have been four rock anthems in British pop history: "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", "Total Eclipse Of THe Heart", "Wonderwall" (inevitably) and "Bohemian Rhapsody" (even more inevitably). Clips that even my gran would be familiar with, rubbish comments from Bob Geldof and the world's most stupid pop journalist Kate Thornton, as well as a horrid, giggly, cretinous voiceover from Harriet Scott, who'd like to think she's famous for being on Virgin Radio, but is in fact best remembered for running off with Anne Diamond's husband. I counted eight factual errors.
Five more to go, though. Anyone brave enough?
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Posted By 'Tony Blackburn' on Wed Nov 22 09:32:47 GMT 2000:
I saw it but I didn't understand it. But it was grrrrreat! Can I go now?
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Posted By 'Jamie Theakston' on Thu Nov 23 09:24:27 GMT 2000:
Yeah, I remember it: it was big and scary and I wanted to hide behind the sofa ...
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Posted By 'Kate Thornton' on Thu Nov 23 10:48:17 GMT 2000:
Yes, I remember meeting this programme. He he he...
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Posted By 'Squidy' on Thu Nov 23 11:03:57 GMT 2000:
Although they were probably the best band of their era, I'ld like to publicly insult them to prove that I'm 'alternative' and 'contraversial', even though I write the rest of the show in which the narrator is gushing with praise.
I'm great, but everyone else was crap.
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Posted By 'Squidy' on Thu Nov 23 11:05:47 GMT 2000:
[I wrote the last message in the style of Stuart Maconie but I signed my own name cos I have the attention span of the goldfish. Sorry for breaking the satirical flow.]
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Posted By 'Radiator Head Child' on Fri Nov 24 17:51:54 GMT 2000:
what the mash substitute?
Yuck yuck yuck!
Yuck, did you all get that?
Yuk
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