A massive shot of nostalgia via Jude Rogers’s weblog. There’s massive amounts of Chart Show content on You Tube. The indie chart that Jude embeds is a bit before my time in 1991 I was 100% about the rock chart. I only got into indie around the time of the chart below (1993) before which point the indie chart was always a source of dissapointment in our house esp. if it had the Soup Dragons on….
Singer Tanya’s nickname of “T” comes from a childhood habit of sucking herbal teabags!
… anyway, I was of the opinion that Tanya Donelly was totally hott. Amazingly she now has a website where she’s posted the original demos that went on to become Star the first Belly record which is really great. I remember skating around Altrincham ice rink on Paul’s birthday listening to Feed The Tree.
The chart I most looked forward to was the dance chart, I was totally captivated by the cheapness of it all and the massively over the top aesthetic that some of the videos displayed, none of the tasteful artiness of the indie chart or the ‘darkness’ of the rock chart instead you get juddering strobe cut footage of people wearing stupid clothes crudelty video toastered on top of swirling, palette cycling, Mandlebrot sets. Of course there was also a lot of that kind of light garage stuff, but just check out the brief snippet of the Altern8 video in the chart below, how cool is that?
SL2’s latest fan is Paul Mcartney who heard this track whilst listening to London’s Kiss FM!
For some reason there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of rock charts on the site.
And then Neil said:
I saw this post, it’s a great one! Hours of fun watching those charts, with loads of bands lost in the mists of time. I love the Chart Show’s aesthetics too, they look so clunky now but seemed so cool back in the day!
And then KateG said:I have 4 videos’ worth of footage of a similar era culled from the chart show/TOTP/The Word etc. If anyone would be kind enough to let me in on the technical secret of how to convert VHS to MP4(!?!) I would gladly start my own homage to the glory years of the early 90s. The mix is eclectic, if I am being kind to myself, undiscriminating if not. There’s an excellent live performance of Ebeneezer Goode by the Shamen as a highlight.
And then tom said:The secret of converting VHS to some kind of digital format elludes me too. It’s really anoying as I have a couple of VHSs that I desperately want to convert.
To be honest though I’ve not been trying particularly hard. I don’t have a VHS player so the first link in the chain is missing.
You can get stuff off your video camera into your computer right? Maybe we could do something with that…
And then Jim said:Number 7 on the dance chart is fantastic. They were simpler times then, when three minutes of throaty screaming constituted a floor-filler.
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