Tonight's recordings went a bit more sucesfully having been in attendance on and off whilst watching the launch of this year's Big Brother and an all female house. Well until Friday at least but I doubt I'll become that attached.
As planned I had a gander at the musical video highlights of 1992 and in post viewing mode I feel the need to write my own take on the offerings.
The Best New Act of the year was the superb Tasmin Archer with "Sleeping Satellite" who after the success of her debut album ended up with writer's block. I'm glad I watched this episode sober as the video for that song had a lot of turning around for some odd reason.
Curtis Stigers was the Best Solo artist of that year although a more deserving winner for me would have been Dina Carroll who launched a succesfull solo career with "Ain't No Man" and the very sweet and sassy "Special Kind Of Love".
Moving onto the three specialist charts and Indie featured a few early performances by The Verve and P.J. Harvey and the Rock Chart included some crackers by Def Leppard, and Mr Big with "To Be With You". The Dance Chart was just as good with Janet And Luther's "The Best Things In Life..", SL2 "On A Ragga Tip" and Shanice with "I Love Your Smile" which will be forever associated with a girl who I had quite a crush on during my AVCE media course.
1993's Sneak Previews were pretty moderate in terms of success with Michael Jackson and "Give Into Me", the seventh release from his "Dangerous" album featuring a guest performance by Slash on guitar. Also on offer were Annie Lennox and "Little Bird" as performed at Live 8 two years ago, and Peter Gabriel's "Steam" which could have been a contender for the best video of 1993 although the ex lead singer of Genesis beat himself at his own game with "Kiss That Frog".
The Worst Video of 1992 was nowhere near as bad as Barry Manilow; ageing rockers The Troggs and an updated version of "Wild Thing". It was revealed during the video that the band had recently worked with R.E.M. who ironically won the Best Video of the year with "Man On The Moon". There's also another bizarre link between the two songs and that happens to be Jim Carrey; R.E.M. being the most obvious as Jim went onto portray Andy Kaufman in the film of the same name. And on a lower note Carrey ended up giving his own rendition of "Wild Thing" on Jonathan Ross's chat show alongside Johnny Vegas banging one of the Four Poof's heads on their piano.
The Top Ten for that year was a bit of a mixed bag, I felt the need to sing to "Deeply Dippy" by Right Said Fred and "End Of The Road" by Boyz II Men as they both contain bass vocals. However there were a few shockers in there such as Undercover's SAW produced take on "Baker Street" and the incredibly bland "Hazard" by Richard Marx. Number 1 in both the Top Ten and the Dance Chart was Snap! with "Rhythm Is A Dancer" and yes, they did show the rather tastless line as delivered by rapper Turbo.
As I've said before I'm living the perfect lifestyle, the popular culture of yesteryear in living condtions I'm happy with now. It's going to be hard parting with a few things albeit temporarily when Mum comes over to take my belongings back to Canters.
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