A while ago on ebay I brought a home made DVD entitled Punk On Top Of The Pops. Its by no means a definitive collection and focus's mainly on the period of 1978/79 but its not totally exclusive to those years and the songs are in no kind of order. Whoever made this DVD obviously ripped it from VHS as the quaility isn't perfect but its good enough. Just about all of it was recorded from the much later broadcasted UK Gold programme (cheers for the correction Marky!)
Theres so much stuff on this so its going to be divided into 10 parts making it easier for you to download (and much easier for me to upload) There will be a daily part uploaded until its completed next week (hopefully!) I think theres 50+ songs altogether.
Top Of The Pops wasn't the best programme for Punk music in the UK by any means (that title went to the short lived "Revolver") but thats the point really. Top Of The Pops was stable and long lived and was broadcasted weekly. Many bands made the programme and many got on it more than once too as you'll see just by watching all this over the next week and a half.
So I hope you enjoy what you are about to recieve. Enjoy the hilarious miming from the likes of The Stranglers,The Damned,Sham's Jimmy Pursey and especially Sir Bob Geldorf with his Boomtown Rats. Theres plenty of The Jam to spread about,drool over Blondie once more or if you can't quite make the toilet in time,then theres always the Skids! Plus many many more to enjoy.
Part 1 (re-upped)
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
Sham 69 - Hurry Up Harry
The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Sham 69 - Questions And Answers
The Skids - Charade
Blondie - Picture This
http://rapidshare.com/files/306441155/Punk_On_TOTP_s_-_01.avi
This is the last part of this series (at last) Not a bad line-up to finish with.
Like most things on this blog this is a bit arse about face and due to the techinal problems mentioned on the last post,I am unable to up parts 8 and 9 at the moment. As part 10 only has 4 songs on it and is only 93mb I can upload it without the "dreaded" winrar. So this is an unwrapped errorless avi file.
The highlights on this segment has to be the one and only appearance on the show of The Vibrators and another look at the beautiful Faye Fife.
Part 7 featuring the first TOTP's appearance from the Cockney Rejects and more hilarious drumming from the Damned's Rat Scabies.
A Blue Peter chufty badge for the most sarcastic "thank you" comment that makes me laugh :-)
Faye Fife can't help but a smile on any mans face,Pete Shelley not looking camera shy,The Stranglers looking hard,Billy posing as usual,the innocence of Poly and Weller being Weller. All packed into part 5 of Punk On TOTP's.
I must admit If it was me making this compilation,I wouldn't of stuck Tubeway Army in there.
Todays predictable upload is part three of this excellent TOTP's series.
The second part of this epic series.
A while ago on ebay I brought a home made DVD entitled Punk On Top Of The Pops. Its by no means a definitive collection and focus's mainly on the period of 1978/79 but its not totally exclusive to those years and the songs are in no kind of order. Whoever made this DVD obviously ripped it from VHS as the quaility isn't perfect but its good enough. Just about all of it was recorded from the much later broadcasted UK Gold programme (cheers for the correction Marky!)
