John Peel's TV Hell: Rock Bottom

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John Peel's TV Hell: Rock Bottom

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13 жыл бұрын

John Peel trawls through the Top of the Pops archives to find the worst records !! This was first broadcast in 1992 during BBC2's TV Hell Night, which showed the tackier side of television production and highlighting TV's worst programmes !!
Performances from Top of the Pops:
Jimmy Osmond: Long-Haired Lover From Liverpool
Clive Dunn: Grandad
St Winifred School School Choir: Grandma
Terry Wogan: Floral Dance
Laurie Lingo & The Dipsticks (aka DLT): Convoy GB
Jasper Carrott: Funky Moped
(Dancin' Queens - Pan's People, etc)
England World Cup Squad 1982: This Time (We'll Get It Right)
Chas & Dave: Come On You Spurs
Scotland World Cup Squad 1982: We Have A Dream
Chas & Dave: Ossie's Dream
Andy Cameron: Ally's Tartan Army
Chas & Dave: Ossie's Dream
(Fashion Victims - DJs, including Peel)
Toto Colelo: I Eat Cannibals
Demis Roussos: Forever And Ever
Boystown Gang: Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Jonathan King: Everybody's Gone To The Moon
100 Ton And A Feather: It Only Takes A Minute
Jonathan King: Una Paloma Blanca
Steve & Albert: Follow The Bouncing Ball
John Paul Joans: The Man From Nazareth
Philip & Vanessa: Two Sleepy People
Simon May: We'll Gather Lilacs
(Chart rundown of "the truly horrid")
Wurzels: I Am A Cider Drinker (#10)
Danny Mirror: I Remember Elvis Presley (#9)
Joe Dolce: Shaddap Your Face (#8)
Tweets: Birdie Song (#7)
Goombay Dance Band: Seven Tears (#6)
Sylvia: Y Viva Espana (#5)
Renee & Renato: Save Your Love (#4)
Father Abraham: The Smurf Song (#3)
Keith Harris & Orville: Orville's Song (#2)
Black Lace: Agadoo (#1)

Пікірлер: 150

@SuperDraax 3 ай бұрын

oh i remember this! I loved the day we could recieve TV Hell in the Netehrlands

@bobacrey1068 Жыл бұрын

Why did you have to leave us Mr Peel. We seriously need your genius RIP

@nicjones2985 11 ай бұрын

Is it me, or are the great Peel's closing comments eerily prophetic?

@jambutty2218 3 жыл бұрын

Only John Peel could encourage me to watch , what I originally avoided like the plague.

@alcockell 11 жыл бұрын

We've just suffered through a few of these in the TOTP197x run on BBC4...

@mejsmith1 6 жыл бұрын

A nice reminder that crappy music exists in every decade.

@anonUK 3 жыл бұрын

The Orville song, the Smurfs effort and There's No-one Quite like Grandma were musically the worst- although at least they were all made for kids. However, for Jonathan King's musical output and the various Spurs football songs in particular there is no conceivable excuse. The Two Sleepy People was the gloopiest love song I've ever endured- I never knew Chris Langham ever sang in drag. And who told Roussos to sing that song in that key?

@jeremypreece870 2 ай бұрын

They say that there is a rational explanation for everything. Watching some of these clips, I now doubt that!

@styxcreek 12 жыл бұрын

this has helped me get over any 70s nostalgia i might've had. thanks.

@vymmas 12 жыл бұрын

i'd take all those songs over the crap in the charts right now.

@michaelmarron8441 Жыл бұрын

Don't be ridiculous

@michaelturner4457 Жыл бұрын

Well some of those songs. I draw the lines at Orville, Jimmy Osmond, and St Winnifred School Choir.

@andywatts8654 Ай бұрын

Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep?!

@Agnethatheredhairkid 10 жыл бұрын

@ Richard Weir: Phillip and Vanessa weren't the only ones to use 'frigidaire' in their lyrics. Dana sang the line 'freezing in your frigidaire' in her 1979 hit 'Something's Cooking In The Kitchen'.

@eyevocal 3 жыл бұрын

Dean and the Weenies had the line "You'd look cooler if you wore a Frigidaire" in their song "F*** You."

@Agnethatheredhairkid 3 жыл бұрын

@@eyevocal Thank you for that, my friend.

@pigknickers2975 10 жыл бұрын

Almost died laughing when Peel did the bit about wigs and then Wogan appeared! BRILLIANT! Just miss Peel loads still though ;(

@raylooney1788 10 жыл бұрын

WHAT!!!!Wogan had a convincing and healthy full head o hair!how dare you!!!!

@pigknickers2975 10 жыл бұрын

Not only that but two other full sets for spare xD

@raylooney1788 10 жыл бұрын

I reckon they could be used for herding up sheep!! that hair has not changed in 30 years,maybe time for an elton john!!

@twitchygiraffe4636 6 жыл бұрын

Wogan did the floral dance because charity shops need some worthless vinyl to hold on to, and that ones sure to never ever shift! Although it would be nice if another square character like alan partridge did a version of it! I'd buy it!!!!

@ZXwarp 12 жыл бұрын

One or two cheesy bombshells that had totally slipped my mind in there.

@vanillaorchid 7 жыл бұрын

Why did Toto Cuelo wear bin bags? Because they were rubbish. Best Smash Hits joke ever.

@blakes8126 2 жыл бұрын

Danny Mirror?!... On reflection...

@JFBridge 11 жыл бұрын

Love that final comment : "You'll have to pay me more...."

@TomthatiscalledTom 12 жыл бұрын

'Grandma' by St Winifred's School Choir is what sent Dr Harold Shipman over the edge

@stephenchappell7512 2 жыл бұрын

The present government is Harold Shipman on steroids

@KaydeyRai 3 жыл бұрын

Worst was Simon May’s horrifically tuneless performance of We’ll gather lilacs and the Orville song imo

@michaelturner4457 Жыл бұрын

I always liked Pan's People

@stephencampbell2115 8 ай бұрын

They played 2 sleepy people on Boom radio and yes i can confirm its still bloody awful

@sharona1981 5 жыл бұрын

Jonathan King should have been burned at the stake for things a lot worse than his music. I do miss John Peel; loved his deadpan humour.

@victorray2011 3 жыл бұрын

Did/Does DLT have any discernable talent?

@barbarakirk1451 7 жыл бұрын

There was the routine for Status Quo's Living On An Island during the Pan's People/Legs & Co bit! The one where Queen Elizabeth 1 and other historical characters are dancing on a map of the UK.

@MrDannyDetail 11 жыл бұрын

I defintitely must have watched this at the time. I knew I remembered Man from Nazareth, I Remember Elvis Presley and the Johnathan King stuff from some show or other when I was a kid. This show must've had a big impact on 8 or 9 year old me at the time as I have had a fondness for the cheesy hits ever since and many of the featured tracks are on my iPod and regularly played (did I just admit to that in public :-o ?).

@Tautolonaut 12 жыл бұрын

ah, Paul and Angus in happier times...

@jameschavez6400 Жыл бұрын

If the man in the rocking chair is bell chain me to the wall,no rather chain me to his rocking hair for I’d❤️🥰

@garycoombs6523 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t unsee this shit

@Algahiem 5 жыл бұрын

Well, they don't make 'em like that anymore...thank God.

@zetetick395 6 жыл бұрын

Fuck me dead some of this is truly excruciating! :S

@meahoola 5 жыл бұрын

I always thought German television was uniquely embarrassing. Good to know this isn't so.

@MilesBellas 5 жыл бұрын

Clive Dunn : Grandad = classic song

@Ndlanding 5 жыл бұрын

I've only got to "Grandma" and I'm spewing. It comes flooding back, and up, and flying out my geggie! Can I carry on through Terry W? Yes, and it only got worser! Some true classic shite here, although there are plenty of songs that just didn't make it. Maybe we could revive John Peel and have the Top 10 of Pathos ("Honey" has to be Nº 1) and the Top 10 of Crashes (e.g. Leader of the Pack, Dead Man's Curve, Terry). Anyway, many thanks for ruining my week! :)

@personmcpersonface8894 5 жыл бұрын

Top of the Plops?

@vymmas 12 жыл бұрын

What the hell is 'Seven Tears's doing in the top 10 worst songs? It's a classic.

@j0hnf_uk 2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, some where better than others, with the others being even worse.

@gallafey 12 жыл бұрын

The Saint Winifreds School beat John Lennon to the Christmas Top spot in 1980 dam!

@Eleventhearlofmars 5 жыл бұрын

gallafey sacrilege

@Eleventhearlofmars 5 жыл бұрын

Like that fake Italian cunt beating ultravox with shut up ya face

@YAHUAHsgotmysix 4 жыл бұрын

@@Eleventhearlofmars Midge Ure actually decked him in a BBC stairwell on hearing it kept Ultravox off top spot.

@robertperry9576 2 ай бұрын

I liked a few of these. Not many...

@vymmas 12 жыл бұрын

actually maybe not all of them

@EuropeanQoheleth 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately these songs weren't the worst things Jonathan King did.

@knshinn2 10 жыл бұрын

"I Eat Cannibals"? Great song and a great group! What is it doing in this list of crud? Put any Spice Girls number in in its place,

@Agnethatheredhairkid 10 жыл бұрын

Because it is crud! But to like it is your right and I respect that.

@Ndlanding 5 жыл бұрын

@@Agnethatheredhairkid And I respect his right to add the Spice Girls!

@Eleventhearlofmars 5 жыл бұрын

Lyrically appealing

@Agnethatheredhairkid 5 жыл бұрын

@@Ndlanding Your point being???

@johntitor. 7 жыл бұрын

Even as a child I wanted to throttle jimmy osmand

@vanillaorchid 7 жыл бұрын

He had the most slappable face.

@twitchygiraffe4636 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah! He looked like a twat who was bound to have a successful business when he got older and never get his comeuppance for this shit! Honestly he REALLY deserved to suffer for this little shit!!!!

@paulmanly3694 5 жыл бұрын

I still do.

@BillyBlagg 10 жыл бұрын

..and let's not even start with Jonathan King who out-saviled Jim by almost a decade.

@sonnyday6210 7 жыл бұрын

how did even get famous when he did a spoof thinking Pet Shop Boys Its a Sin sounded like Baby its a wild world, needed locking up for that

@twitchygiraffe4636 6 жыл бұрын

He wants killing just for ripping 10cc off alone! And naming them after a level of ejaculate dirty bastard!!!!

@Eleventhearlofmars 5 жыл бұрын

Ndlanding admiration of paedos ain’t the way to go fella.🤣

@Ndlanding 5 жыл бұрын

@@Eleventhearlofmars Admiration of individual skills is fine, I reckon. Plenty of people are black & white. I carefully mentioned "choirboys" in order to point this out.

@lewisner 10 жыл бұрын

Peel would have been OK with Jemima Osmond.

@eyebrowman1 Жыл бұрын

Orville's Song. Jeesus. That's gotta be the most kitsch and dreadful of all umho.

@chrisvalkyrie 10 жыл бұрын

Black LACE AWESOME...

@zetametallic 9 жыл бұрын

I was happy with all of it except for Black Lace- Agadoo. Learnt the moves off the Wide Awake Club and still remember them😆

@Ndlanding 5 жыл бұрын

Black LACE AWE NO!

@eyebrowman1 Жыл бұрын

@@NdlandingAgadoo earned a gold disc (half a million copies plus) in the UK.

@Cribblet 11 жыл бұрын

I will hear NO bad talk of 'CIDER DRINKER!' It mades me wot oi am tdayeeee

@anonUK 3 жыл бұрын

Arrr!!! And it's a parody of Jonathan King.

@gallafey 12 жыл бұрын

I disagree with no 6 record Seven Tear is rather good song, better than anything boyand 2000 as for Renie & Ranarto & Black Lace well there a gulty pleasure really arn't they but Keith Harris Orvil & The Smerfs, SOMEBODY GET THE GRANADE LAUNCHER

@TomthatiscalledTom 9 жыл бұрын

4:11 is what sent Dr Harold Shipman over the edge

@Eleventhearlofmars 5 жыл бұрын

TomthatiscalledTom 😂

@jreefers1 11 жыл бұрын

....omfg.....The HUMANITY!

@Agnethatheredhairkid 9 жыл бұрын

'The Birdie Song' should have been #1 in that list of the crap de la crap. Awful tune.

@libman2006 10 жыл бұрын

Oh thank god it's only 25 minutes, any longer and I might of had to kill myself. :p But seriously he really does know how to pick the bad and should of known what I was getting into before I started watching.

@user-vg5rv5xf4u 3 жыл бұрын

Windfuck is not a fair comment

@simonmoore2380 8 жыл бұрын

There was 2 lads in the St.Winifreds School Choir singing the grandma song among the dozens of girls. I wonder how many times they got beaten up over that LOL

@conscienceaginBlackadder 5 жыл бұрын

You posting on a TOTP video in post-paedo time + openly telllng us that irrational unjust malreatment of kids is lol and funny, are you?

@andrewmatthews6861 5 жыл бұрын

john r I p 🕶️

@styxcreek 12 жыл бұрын

i quite like the jonathon king song.

@Eleventhearlofmars 5 жыл бұрын

Nathan Parsons nooooooooooooo blaspheme

@Neptuneman07 9 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's a load of crap but still like 3 cornball novelty tunes in it.

@petergoode4737 6 жыл бұрын

jimmy Osmond worst annoying song ever!!!

@johnking5174 2 жыл бұрын

As Jimmy Carr called the programme "Tops Off For Pops"

@warren218 10 жыл бұрын

Of all the girls in that Grandma choir they picked that one??

@thewholetwelveinches2509 5 жыл бұрын

Apparently she'd recently lost some front teeth so it messed her singing up!

@paulmanly3694 5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Hilda Baker.

@eyebrowman1 Жыл бұрын

Yeah you'd think there'd have been a better soloist than that. She's got a lisp.

@Rich27014 11 жыл бұрын

possibly the only use of 'frigidaire' in song lyrics...? Dear God.....

@Eleventhearlofmars 6 жыл бұрын

Richard Weir I’m sure a Dana song also featured that word? Somethings cooking in the kitchen

@Agnethatheredhairkid 6 жыл бұрын

@ Neil Stevens: I told you that 3 years ago!

@Ndlanding 5 жыл бұрын

@@Agnethatheredhairkid 3 years and 3 months ago

@Agnethatheredhairkid 5 жыл бұрын

@@Ndlanding Bloody well right, darlin'!

@twitchygiraffe4636 6 жыл бұрын

I was born in the week "forever and ever" by demis roussos got to number 1 in mid july 1976! Thanks demis couldn't I have arrived a week earlier and then it would've been "you to me are everything" by the real thing, which I know isn't much better but it would've been easier to admit to than that drossy crooner crap!! Still could've been worse! I REALLY feel for anyone born in the week renee and renalto got to the top! Poor bastards!!!! And it was a christmas number 1!!!!

@Agnethatheredhairkid 6 жыл бұрын

@ Twitchygiraffe: My nephew was born in the first week of January 1983 when that abomination was #1!

@Eleventhearlofmars 5 жыл бұрын

Demis Roussos was great man , don’t knock Demis, basil brushes best friend, king of the kimono, won hairiest man alive award three years running, and was an impressionists wet dream, god rest his soul.🤣

@Cribblet 11 жыл бұрын

Yeah at least they are taking the mick outta themselves:)

@baronoflivonia.3512 6 жыл бұрын

Now I have Aural Rot.

@JasmineSurrealVideos 3 жыл бұрын

I think it's what you are universally meant to find excruciating, I don't personally like any of these songs except Toto Coelo I Eat Cannibal which was er incredible lol! There's some bands and singers around that I personally find unlistenable and cringe that lots of people think are brilliant, as well.

@steveat22 9 жыл бұрын

saville introduces king - 2 pedos !

@revalesq 3 жыл бұрын

Winner winner tofu dinner. WOW such garbage!!!!

@NeilThompson30 8 жыл бұрын

John Peel's TV hell?! - doesn't really make sense does it - none of this has anything to do with Peely - it's common knowledge (to me) that Peely hated certain bands and the three that come straight to mind are (cue fanfare) - The Police, Dire Straits and U2 - and I hate them too - why aren't these on here?

@sonnyday6210 7 жыл бұрын

uhh poor you

@Eleventhearlofmars 6 жыл бұрын

Why do you hate those 3 bands you mentioned? Is it because they started off as underground bands and ended up becoming mainstream? The same boring old story that I see many early Genesis fans think as well, all I can say is it’s much better to open your mind to everything, that way you’ll get to enjoy much more.

@arianrhodhyde7482 6 жыл бұрын

Madrigalman22 the police are creamed shit, i think we can all agree. U2 had some ok songs but it is far from their punk roots they strayed, often into bland garbage, and Dire Straits were just kinda meh. Yes people mindlessly despise them for being avidly commercial but disliking music that's been thrown in your face is pretty reasonable. more reasonable than liking the police

@Eleventhearlofmars 6 жыл бұрын

Arianrhod Hyde I don’t think we can all agree mate. The police aren’t shit ffs, I don’t want to argue the toss if your not willing to substantiate on why your calling a band like the police shit? For what reason are they shit? They were all talented musicians who sold stadiums out in the 80s and again more recently when they reformed for a series of shows.

@arianrhodhyde7482 6 жыл бұрын

all their songs sound the exact same, and what they sound like is bland cod reggae. in fairness that's Just My Opinion and you're entitled to yours, but i'll also point out that popularity isn't an indication of quality, especially during the age of heavy promotion/payola in the UK

@martinfarnworth6659 10 жыл бұрын

you're not going to hear that DLT song on the radio anymore

@StanPomeray 12 жыл бұрын

There's no-one "quite like" Grandma? Of course there is....there's probably millions of people who are "quite like" your grandma. There may not be that many who are exactly like her of course........

@Ndlanding 5 жыл бұрын

i DON'T AGREE.

@lotterytipster538 6 жыл бұрын

Rock bottom, I would go further and say Rubbish

@michaelleacy 6 жыл бұрын

LOng haired Lover from liverpool - who actually bought that? It's so awful I couldn't sit through 20 seconds of it. Had to turn it off. Imagine deciding to buy it and then listen to it on repeat

@Ndlanding 5 жыл бұрын

I had a giant LJO poster on my wall, next to Donny and a couple of other turds. Flatmates hated it, but it sure made the girlies love me. :)

@Eleventhearlofmars 5 жыл бұрын

michaelleacy people with long hair from Liverpool could be a possibility?🤣

@Ernest_Thesiger 9 жыл бұрын

The thing is, all these songs are better than 99% of the songs John played in the last 20 years of his radio show!

@sonnyday6210 7 жыл бұрын

You have to take into account that when yo u get to a certain age you stop liking the modern music, I like mostly the older heavy rock songs but like new stuff asswell

@Agnethatheredhairkid 7 жыл бұрын

Very true, Sonny.

@Ernest_Thesiger 7 жыл бұрын

"You have to take into account that when yo u get to a certain age you stop liking the modern music" I agree. I'm 34 and I personally don't think there's been more than 10 good songs recorded in the last 10 years! The songs here came out when John was in his 20s, 30s and 40s. Nobody in radio played as many modern, new songs as John did. My original point was that John liked, or at least played modern, new unlistenable rubbish which was worse than the so-called rubbish listed here.

@Nautilus1972 7 жыл бұрын

Balls. Peely was the first to put bands like Public Enemy on the airwaves. Didn't he put Tubular Bells on repeat once?

@concatinate 5 жыл бұрын

@@Nautilus1972 wrote: Peely was the first to put bands like Public Enemy on the airwaves Mr P. may have exposed plenty of fine bands, but putting moronic bilge like that on the airwaves is an aural and cultural sin up there with the Osmonds, thanks.