I want Smash Hits, TOTP and the SUNDAY night top 40 chart countdown

[Charley1988]

Just that really.AIBU?

I can remember seeing Haircut 100 for the first time on TOTP singing Favourite Shirt. The next day every single girl in third form (and probably beyond) was raving about the 'fittest lad ever', Nick Heyward. Those really were the good old days.

YADNBU

The chart countdown was to Sunday what watching the football results on the vidi-printer while my Granda filled in his pools coupon was to Saturday.

Plus it is really hard to find any decent pop music these days. Someone must still be making it surely?

I miss all of these things too. Smash hits was brilliant. Tapehead was really funny! And yy Thumbsaloft, Sir Billiam of Idol etc. And top 40 'record+play' and playing chicken with the pause button - do you cut your losses and hit it when there's five seconds of the song still to go, or chance it and hold on for longer but run the risk of your carefully compiled tape catching the DJ inflecting upwards as your button goes down "AAAAAND that's".

Morten Snorten Forten Harket
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Thanks to the person who posted the link

And Ken from Bros !

Vague memories now if Ken Weeble!

Wasn't there something about Rick Astley and a pig? They didn't call him a pig but they talked about pigs when they talked about him.

I looked forward all week to the Sunday charts, had my tape player ready to record my favourite songs! Aww feeling all nostalgic now!

Victory that was Ruddy Big Oig about a song he allegedly wrote

Ruddy Big Pig**

Running out of school at lunch on Smash Hits day to pick up my reserved copy from the newsagents was a proper highlight.

Yanbu.
I use to love smash hits! My bedroom wall was full of smash hit posters of my favourite musicians.
Was the Pepsi chart one with Dr Fox? I remember listening to his countdown.

Loved and adored Smash Hits from early 80’s onwards. I fancied Nick Heyward rotten too, did anyone see him in that Celebrity in a motor home thing? He has aged very well..god he must be nearly 60!
I am so glad I was a teenager in the 80’s it was the best and the music is so evocative of that time.

Does anyone remember when smash hits done the lyric cards?
I remember collecting them and mesmerising the words to 5ive keep on moving and glorious? By this singer called Andrew something.

@Charley1988 yes! Well remembered. Rick Astley and his ruddy big pig every time they wrote about him. Soooo funny. Journalists don't seem even half as irreverent now. They took the piss out of everyone.

There's no publication quite like it now

2 words op - absolute 80’s!

That’s the radio station I listen to more than any other now.

They do chart reminiscences (singles and albums) and play whole albums on I think a thu night.

My bedroom wall was COVERED in posters of wham!/George Michael, Tom cruise and a-ha. I found it very odd when dd wasn’t interested in doing similar and when I looked at her gave me a look like I was talking nonsense.

There was a line in George’s biography Bare that iirc was something like “hello smash hits! Goodbye NME...actually make that fuck off NME” 😂

Bloody hell, I can’t believe somebody else remembers Rick Astley’s Ruddy Big Pig!

That’s hilarious!

Smash Hits writer Sylvia Patterson write an autobiography called I’m Not With the Band and it’s brilliant. Loads of anecdotes about the interviews she used to do and the silly questions they used to ask that you can’t do any more (Have you ever grown parsnips in a gumboot...?) I met her at a book festival once and had a good moan to her about the lack of similar mags for kids nowadays.

I used to spend so much money on magazines.

Mizz, Bliss, Sugar, J17. When I got a bit older I switched to Heat and Cosmopolitan. Mark Frith edited Smash Hits before Heat so Heat used to be like a slightly more grown up version of that.

I used to collect some of the magazines for the free books. I still have my Buffy books now 😁

I remember rifling through the Smash Hits in WH Smith until I found one with a Human League badge. When Adam Ant or Phil Oakey was on the cover, I'd pretty much wet myself with excitement.

Oh, all of that AND Ski Sunday, just the music!

YANBU, but I don’t know any of the tunes/groups now.

Yes! And I miss stickers. Big magazine used to do huge pages filled with stickers of pop stars and kooky sayings, I think I had around 47,000 East 17 ones stuck to my bedroom wall.