It’s the the full-throated lady with the most unfortunate name ever to appear on easily-obscured bus stop posters, with her closing-weeks-of-1991 top ten smash that back then seemed like anathema to anyone following the waning fortunes of The Mock Turtles, but now sounds unspeakably fantabulous, not least on account of its deft [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Pick Of The Lazy YouTube Embedded Pops – Cece Peniston ‘We Got A Love Thang’
January 31, 2009Posted in Lazy YouTube Embeds |
Tags: "as she stands there begging for money LA DA DEE LA DU DA", "ha ha ha hey - look what we got!", "hey lemme tellya something - this song is the same as the last one", "i want to get back in time for further up pompeii!", "i've said it before and i'll say it again - dance while the record spins", 1991, cece peniston, is it time to admit to liking kym sims and the bassheads and oceanic and k-klass and xpansions now too?, it all went a bit sour in 1992 though, nathan petrelli's senior prom, still not sure about crystal waters though, strings and flowers, the great common room stereo battle, the mock turtles, wendy trehy's big bag of dancefloor smashes, why did me. in time only get to number 39?
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“I’m Avin’ ‘Oops!”
January 29, 2009
“Slurp! Sloo!” – Gene Hunt, yesterday.
Posted in 'Genre' Television, Current Affairs, Dragged From The Archives, Interactive Fun, Sociocultural Ponderings |
Tags: "i'm 'avin grits!", "it's called deely boppers guv", "now for a slap-up feed!", "they've made 'oops nuclear! now it's personal...", 'oops, alex drake, ananda shankar, annie cartwright, ashes to ashes, bbc schools diamond, chris skelton, denim, fatty fudge doing that thing where he used to have about fifty tongues at once, gene hunt, glam goose, heinz haunted house, knorr mysteries of the deep, life on mars usa, noodle doodle came to town AND I CALLED HIM A NANCY BOY FAIRY FOR MESSING ABOUT WITH 'OOPS!, ray carling, rubbish ending, sam tyler, sir alan potato, slurp! sloo!, TEH SEVENTIES DRISCOLL, that bloke who was always in the background, whatever did happen to denim take over?, whoever reported this blog for containing 'inappropriate content' can fuck off
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Arthur Petrelli – The Vegas Years
January 27, 2009Amen & Hallelujah – according to the latest reports, the forthcoming series of Heroes, Volume 4: Peppipam On The Road, will finally explain the backstory of the mysterious teh seventies alliance of various parental figures from the series, and how they came to form the shadowy ‘The Company’. As it’s something of a tradition for [...]
Posted in 'Genre' Television |
Tags: "thsgyznamersbaaaaaaarb", adam monroe, arthur petrelli, CHARLES DEVEAUX - you're damn riiiiight, dania ramirez tits, doctor who, drucker, heroes, lambton worm, nathan petrelli, peter petrelli, run peppipam run!, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes, slambash wangs of a compo gormer, sylar
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“nathan petrelli fights the lambton worm”
January 25, 2009FeedbackReport says:
The new Mental Search Results are in
FeedbackReport says:
Ouch, there’s some genuine mentals out there, looking for genuinely mental stuff too
Ben says:
I shudder to think
FeedbackReport says:
“john barrowman stage door rumours”
Ben says:
He sings the complete Fleetwood Mac LP every night after shows
FeedbackReport says:
“boss cat some alcohol phil silvers”
Ben says:
Its a magic trick
FeedbackReport says:
“rubik cube’s neil hannon”
Ben [...]
Posted in Interactive Fun |
Tags: 'dinners', 'oops, andrew collins, andy williams, ant jones on saturday superstore, back to skool, band on the run, bear asking for 'cookies', beverley hills 90210, blur, bod, boss cat, brass eye, catherine tate, chris morris, cybermen, daleks, david mitchell, doctor who, eastenders (when it was good), eddy grant, eve myles tits, fleetwood mac, frosty the snowman, graham linehan, grange hill, here come the zanies! (del boy theme), holly willoughby, i'm your puppet, james & bobby purify, jason donovan, jaymi bantok, john barrowman, john lydon, jon pertwee signing a programme upside down, jonathan miller presents the body in question, julie graham, kate thornton, kristen bell, letitia dean, liza tarbuck, louis walsh, mel smith's greatest hits, melinda messenger, morph, nathan petrelli, neil hannon stealing snakes, only fools & horses, phil catterall, phil cool, phil oakey, phil silvers, puzzle trail, rik & ade, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, rolf harris, russell brand, slambash wangs of a compo gormer, stuart maconie, stylophone, sweet gingerbread man, telly addicts, that cat that looks like graham linehan, the adam & joe show, the grimleys, the human league, the magic garden of stanley sweetheart, the white one, tommy boyd, top cat, wonderful christmastime, zx spectrum
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This Is The Self-Importance Society
January 23, 2009Almost forty years after Troy Kennedy Martin explained how, if the sequel to The Italian Job had gone ahead as planned, Charlie Croker’s ‘great idea’ would have been revealed as running the fuel tanks dry and thereby allowing the cliff-overhanging coach to regain its balance, the news media are still running with it as an [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Our Feature Presentation |
Tags: "blackadder blackadder his wounds will not be healed blackadder blackadder he's fallen in a field", blackadder, blackadder escapes in a gyrocopter, blackadder goes forth, blake's 7 escape in a gyrocopter, dad from 'dad' escapes in a gyrocopter, david mitchell escapes in a gyrocopter, eve myles tits escape in a gyrocopter, father unwin escapleybold in gryrotateyscraven, gyrocopter escapes from alan driscoll, i'm against the eighties escapes in a gyrocopter, john barrowman escapes in a gyrocopter, michael caine, mr dagenham the salesman escapes in a gyrocopter, nathan petrelli escapes in a gyrocopter (THIRD SENSATIONAL YEAR!), roland rat tries to escape in a gyrocopter but still gets hit with a cricket bat, that bloke off interceptor escapes in a gyrocopter, the grimleys escape in a gyrocopter, the italian job, the master escapes in a cso gyrocopter, this is the self-preservation society, zx spectrum escapes in a gyrocopter
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This Was Easy (In 1996)
January 22, 2009Those of you with long memories and a fondness for buying themed compilation albums in the mid-nineties may recall the superlative This Is… series, a heavily-promoted and unusually well thought-out range that incorporated four soundtrack-raiding volumes of This Is… Cult Fiction, the self-explanatory This Is… Eurovision, and the rather more esoteric surfing of the short-lived [...]
Posted in Music To Watch 'Fingerbobs' By |
Tags: heroes, peter petrelli, andy williams, bear asking for 'cookies', blur, this is your right, aap kaa hak, herb alpert & his tijuana brass, animal magic, johnny morris, terry nutkin, did they use a sitar version of classical gas for aap kaa hak?, this is... easy, this is... 'dinners', count indigo, mike flowers, lee & herring, tony ferrino, james taylor quartet, burt bacharach, "that's a good tune i think i'll nick that our kid", dum sexism dressed up as example of 'classic songwriting', GRR GRR WHERE IS BANANARAMA?, a house is not a motel - get it right!!, hal david, panorama, "that's the one with somebody's knackers on the start", aujourd hui c'est toi, francis lai, un homme et un femme, k-tel's 'nice n easy' on the other hand should be avoided at all costs, the sound spectrum was still the best mind, sergio mendes, "there is a new invention - they call it cso - and it is my intention - to use it everywhere that i go", austin powers, "yeah chris!", laurie johnson, what no peter wyngarde?, this is your life, michael caine, this is... cult fiction, roy budd, get carter, yes alright bloody 'carter takes a train' then, a trio of very confused isley brothers, ray conniff, bj thomas, sebastian flight, the high life, the guy whose feet are too big for his bed, fisher-price, stereolab, music for the amorphous body centre, "raindrops keep falling on my BZZZT don't sleep in the subway CUCKOO CUCKOO NYHEOUWWWwwwwwww smith", auf weidersehen pet, mark knopfler, why aye man!, oo-we-oo-we-oo why-ayyyyyyyye, hugo montenegro, the good the bad & the ugly, the good the bad & the queen, tony hatch, crossroads, bitty maclean, "they crossing the road where there is a motel which i-is a pla-a-ace that's like a hotel RIBBI-DIBBI-DIBBI-DUM-DUM-DAY", the adventures of black beauty, classical gas, lord winstanley, "so remember to claim back that 37p water rate rebate - this is your right!", this is your right on ice, edgar winter, alice cooper, meatloaf, "now play classical gas!", quentin tarantino, martin denny, percy faith, northern soul, music to wash girls by, the new avengers, henry mancini, pink panther, "gemini gemini" OH SHUT UP!!!, "there was a little spanish flea", herb alpert, a taste of honey, superstars, kevin keegan, johnny pearson, bbc sporting themes, the champions, matt parkman, this is... eurovision, this is... eve myles tits, sandie shaw
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Banana Pertwee Minder
January 20, 2009In celebration of nothing much in particular, let’s have a look at the most popular search terms that have brought readers to Out On Blue Six over the last six months. As opposed to the most weird search terms, which would have to include ‘alison hannigan as tits out jester’, ‘break dancing citrus spring teacher’, [...]
Posted in Interactive Fun |
Tags: "we played one of sammy's records earlier" - "really which one?" - "sweet gingerbread man" - "sweet. gingerbread. man.", "smoother than the cream in a twinkie", alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb, alias the jester, alison hannigan, american pie, andrew 'wiggers' whittam, beagle 2, blur, boney, catherine tate, charles & eddie, charlie dimmock, christmas wrapping, david mitchell, don mclean, eight million 'hits' for the peppipam!, elle bishop, eve myles, eve myles tits, gardener's world, heroes, jennifer aniston, large hadron particle collider, nobody looking for 'wears pepe' then?, oucho, peter petrelli, phil cool drinking citrus spring, prominent chain of card shops not allowed in trumpton (sez mayor), randall & hopkirk deceased, rolf harris, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes, stuart maconie, super furry animals freaking out while watching bbc wales continuity, sweet gingerbread man, sylar, the last five minutes of gardener's world, the magic garden of stanley sweetheart, The mayor (you could tell he was a mayor because he was wearing his hat and chain things) sitting in a bath eating chips in the opening titles of Look North West, the waitresses, the worst adverts in the world... ever!, tv's mr pastry, ultra quiz, waltham green east wapping carpet cleaning rodent and boggit extermination association, zachary quinto
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“What’s Unbelievable About That, Tank?”
January 17, 2009Remember ‘Tank’, the portly youngster from a long-running serial of pre-Lineker post-Comedy Racism Walkers Crisps ads who professed to have eaten ‘a hundred packets in a day once’, and who was fleetingly considered so iconic that he was even namechecked by The Mary Whitehouse Experience, taking a rare breather from their [...]
Posted in Dragged From The Archives |
Tags: "WAL-KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH", "you want honest john's crisps me ol' china", 'tank sting' at 0:36, any relation to CRIIIIIIISPS off of heroes?, captain zep space detective, gary lineker only wants his walkers, how much more bloody 'citation' do you need than a series of adverts that ran for about eight years???, i'm in pieces for bitza pizza, rambling synth instrumenal called 'old muir' recorded onto a c60 that starts with the 'tank sting', tank, the mary whitehouse experience, walkers crisps, we want zep on the net!, where's peppipam.com
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You Don’t Get This At Your Glastonbury!
January 14, 2009Some time back, one of those internet ‘meme’ things went flying around, and although most are highly ignorable this one – asking you to list all of the bands that you had ever seen live – looked like it might be quite fun. And it was, and it eventually became one of the most popular [...]
Posted in Music To Watch 'Fingerbobs' By |
Tags: "anyone in called helen? this one's for you helen", "bloody americans and guitars", "bloody hell cameron diaz is giving you the eye!", "can i have my necklace back please?", "danny kendall wants his blazer back!", "dave! it's me! it's me dave!", "fucking big bird over there is doing my fucking head in", "fucking hell what was that? do we want to sell the album or not?", "how many 'bow-ie' and how many 'bo-wie' have we got in tonight?", "i'll bowlhead you in a minute!!", "it was supposed to be a 3D effect but as you can see it doesn't work", "it's 'sorry!'!", "it's the pertwee titles!", "joe!joe!joe!joe!joe!joe!joe! etc", "nice 'cette'!", "no we won't do fucking 'punka'", "not in liverpool larry!", "play a new one you fuckers!", "see those screens? that's you that is", "shall we let sarah sing one?", "something about a victorian drawing room", "sorry - me bloody bra keeps coming undone", "sorry - this bass is fucked", "speech bez speech!", "thanks for not buying popscene", "that bloke with the mohican's clearly enjoying it", "that song belongs to dinosaur jnr - give it back!", "they don't know me at all BEEP BEEP BEEP", "this is called pet sounds - not that we're suggesting we're matching that kind of greatness", "to get the attention of those lounging at the bar i'll say 'my lovely horse' loudly", "we'd like to thank mr kendall", "we've just been dropped by our label and i'm about to cry... please buy me a drink afterwards because i need it", "what is 'tits' - i don't speak very good english", "what no hecklers?", "you don't look old enough" - "well neither do you!", "you might recognise us from tv's the 8:15 from manchester", "you! fuck right off that fucking stage now you pair of absolute cunts"
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There’s So Much More Than TV Times In TV Times Magazine (There’s Some Pictures Too)
January 13, 2009It’s Lazy Post-Filling Time with a quick plug for the splendid Broken TV and their hugely enjoyable rundown of Those Weird Sort Of Woodcut Illustration Things That The TV Times Used To Use To Identify The Genre Of A TV Show. Enjoy hugely!
Posted in Uncategorized |
Tags: broken TV, can you guess what they used for tv-am, grimley-friendly viewing schedule 'ready reckoner' in picture form, GRR GRR WHY DOES 1987 ELECTION SPECIAL NOT GET ITS OWN PICTURE?, how about one of amanda barrie being assaulted by humphrey cushion's nose?, the torchwood one would write itself, tv times, where's the 'space' one that they used for space 1999?
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