Top 10 Worst Top of the Pops Lip Syncs

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Жыл бұрын

Do they even know the words to their own songs? For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down the Top 10 Worst Top of the Pops Lip Syncs. We're looking at all the worst bits of miming from the long-running show. Let us know in the comments who you thought did the worst performance.
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@WatchMojoUK Жыл бұрын

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@Boycott_Wendys Жыл бұрын

The narrator has a funny voice "song--guh" at 2:06

@trinacollins2146 Жыл бұрын

Gary Glitter was more interested in scoping the audience for his next victims

@ajakuk1 Жыл бұрын

This👆

@davidlance5310 Жыл бұрын

Explains why the BBC still let him back on whilst Faith No More weren’t

@RIPCakebomb Жыл бұрын

Because he’s a paedophile after all.

@GuessMyName234 Жыл бұрын

I can't believe they put him on!

@RIPCakebomb Жыл бұрын

@@GuessMyName234 I bet Jimmy Savile might’ve had fun with Gary squeezing young girls’ knees!

@jekw23 Жыл бұрын

Cobain almost eating the microphone is one of my favorite Nirvana moments.

@njeevans5768 Жыл бұрын

Gary Glitter "Do ya wanna be in my gang?" Everyone watching this video "no, f off!"

@portcullis5622 Жыл бұрын

Many artists did it on purpose, as a protest or just pissing about. For example, Ian Anderson during Jethro Tull's 'Witch's Promise'. I think The Stranglers once mimed without strings and Oasis' Gallagher brothers swapped places in mid-song! In 1996, The Eels performed 'Novocaine for the Soul' with toy instruments (before smashing them up at the end)! Then, in 1988, there was All About Eve, who just sat there for what seemed like an age (and looked like a protest), but actually they couldn't hear the soundtrack to mime to. They played live the following week and sounded great, proving that the whole miming thing was an unnecessary nonsense.

@wardka 3 ай бұрын

What did Anderson do during Witch's Promise? He always acts frenetic and fun, even today, so it's hard to tell much difference.

@bobcaruthers4427 Ай бұрын

Some artists did this sort of thing to protest not being able to perform live. I seem to recall one band saying they wore boxing gloves to emphasise that they weren't really playing.

@sarahblunden4372 Жыл бұрын

Soul II soul had the right idea walking out when they were told they had to mime and they never went back to perform Back II life

@leebritnell2405 Жыл бұрын

Terry Hall often took the piss and would start grinning when called upon to mime.

@ZacabebOTG 11 ай бұрын

Kurt Cobain made a fantastic Morrissey impression in that performance. It's hilarious.

@Kat-mu8wq Жыл бұрын

Love Faith No More. I finally after all these years figured out what "it" is. 😂

@ChucksCherubs3 Жыл бұрын

Why did TOTP force the artists to lip sync? 🤐

@domenickmacri7936 Жыл бұрын

True. What's the purpose of live music then

@chriggle1 7 ай бұрын

Because the acoustics in the studio were terrible

@richardrichard5409 15 күн бұрын

Union rules, meant there had to be a TOTP band

@MJT409 Жыл бұрын

I remember when REM’s lead singer sung in to a load speaker in protest of being told to lip sync.

@millerhxc Жыл бұрын

I love that Eels performance. Mark may have seemed "unenthusiastic" but that's kind of his normal delivery. I think the whole toy playing fit the style of song perfectly. They wanted to put on a performance..and they did.

@jekw23 Жыл бұрын

Yep, fits their style. I see nothing wrong with that one.

@shi8457 Жыл бұрын

Not surprised most of the American bands (and Oasis lol) made a mockery of it. Only saying as one who grew up in that whole mix, they were asking musicians who were real musicians to mime. Of course, they are not going to play along & rebel against it. Very sure they saw it as a sell-out moment & industry insult to not perform live.

@manatarms7652 Жыл бұрын

I can’t believe “no more heroes” by the stranglers wasn’t even mentioned. That performance was legendary. 😂

@experi-mentalproductions5358 Жыл бұрын

They messed that up on purpose tho, so I don't think it counts...

@marguskiis7711 5 ай бұрын

It wasn`t TOTP.

@art.of.verser Жыл бұрын

Really? Pretty sure Nirvana and Oasis had their own way of giving the big ol middle finger due to the show's commitment to miming altogether, which they obviously didn't appreciate. Those performances are all the better for it.

@WatchMojoUK Жыл бұрын

yup

@Dim4323 Жыл бұрын

Kurt Cobain was doing it to self sabotage

@JulianHBurchill Жыл бұрын

Or to just have a bit of a laugh.

@lyramckenzie8550 4 ай бұрын

He was trying to avoid deceiving his fans, which I admire

@maguffintop2596 3 ай бұрын

Cobain doing Morrissey is one of the funniest things I've ever seen - period!

@kandipiatkowski8589 Жыл бұрын

Gee.....and to think Milli Vanilli got in trouble for lip syncing. If they had their gig on TOTP, the controversy might never have come to life. I liked their songs....and I didn't even care that they didn't actually sing them!

@anthonyscully2998 4 ай бұрын

Im sure that everyone in the audience was deeply touched by gary,s performance

@yadielenielbellecolon982 Жыл бұрын

Thank For The Video 💞💗

@wisteela Жыл бұрын

Love the Faith No More and Nirvana performances

@tjd9975 Жыл бұрын

Flying Saucer by The Wedding Present is one I remember. The guitarist even subtly flips the bird at the camera during close ups

@timothyhumphreys8361 Жыл бұрын

when taking a piss at the expense of television gets you listed on 'bad miming' video for youtube creators.

@michaelanderson2886 3 ай бұрын

How bout when Siouxsie and the Banshees performed “Dear Prudence” with Robert Smith on guitar? Watch it he’s hilarious 😂

@ronaldwilkin5662 Жыл бұрын

Yes but some of the artists hated pretended to sing on TOTP so use to do it on purpose

@gcooper642 Жыл бұрын

This lyp syncing rule is New Order's fault for messing up when they insisted on playing live.

@SluttChops 11 ай бұрын

It isn't at all. Lip-synching had been the norm and standard at TOTP for decades before that.

@gcooper642 11 ай бұрын

@@SluttChops They made sure it didn't change in the 80s

@shadowpapito Жыл бұрын

LMAOOOOOO ... Some of my Favorites are just Goofy as hell ...

@bidvision 7 ай бұрын

It's ironic that someone describing poor performance sounds like a poorly robot from the 1950s.

@themoose5811 2 ай бұрын

Faith No More are legendary there;-)

@FixerUK Жыл бұрын

Didn't know we had fidget spinners in 1979 @1:27

@davidblank420 Жыл бұрын

Never heard of Eels but they are absolute legends for that.

@davidblank420 Жыл бұрын

Mike Patton is a genius. A God among mere mortals.

@ResidentRob 10 ай бұрын

I honestly don't know why TOTP didn't just lean into people goofying around on stage, it was far more fun. I feel sorry for All About Eve, at the time they got criticized when really them missing the queue (and being made to mime at all) wasn't their fault. The funny thing was that was the first time I'd heard Nirvana, not realzing Kurt was dorking around my first thought was "Why would anyone listen to this shit?"

@tdk9518 2 ай бұрын

They were always on a hiding to nowhere with Patton!

@lyramckenzie8550 4 ай бұрын

I loved nirvanas vocals, it sounds loungy and humourous at the same time

@Adam-pu6jg Жыл бұрын

Iggy Pop -performing- actually being a real wild child, but Michael Hurll's priority would've been to make sure there weren't any teddy bears available for Iggy to bugger 😂

@ajakuk1 Жыл бұрын

You wanna be in my gang.......not really paul gadd

@ragepunx9342 Жыл бұрын

its more of a register these days not really a gang :P

@freya8133 Жыл бұрын

He's the leader of the gang he is....a leader of a gang of dirty old men!!

@ajakuk1 Жыл бұрын

@Ragepunx93 ahhh that special club

@Pandora7985 Жыл бұрын

Does no one ever sing live on that show?

@darrenwilson99 Жыл бұрын

This show went through phases of allowing live singing, not allowing it, or letting the band choose.

@JulianHBurchill Жыл бұрын

Well it doesn't exist any more (ended in 2006), but the policy changed over the years, and a few bands stamped their feet enough to be allowed to perform live. There was a period in I think the mid 90s when they actually insisted on live vocals at the very least, although obviously a lot of bands didn't perform, but they'd show music videos.