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Post by skuncle on Jul 6, 2013 17:47:40 GMT -5
I truly believe the VJ's simply read the script given to them and question nothing. I don't think they even realize what they are saying. If it said John Lennon was in the studio making a new album with Elvis, they would read it and let it go.
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Post by skuncle on Jul 7, 2013 7:22:59 GMT -5
It may have been just this airing, but the Sunday morning airing had the show intro music playing, then the song at #40 (Alice Cooper's "Clones") started playing underneath the intro music. There was no "going back to this week in 1980 and to start things off at #40.....".
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Post by gtross on Jul 9, 2013 23:01:32 GMT -5
This week Nina Blackwood kicked off the countdown, from February 1980, by saying that it was six months before MTV premiered. Is there some "lost year" of MTV broadcasts from August 1980-July 1981 we don't know about? I listen to the Big 40 countdown pretty regularly. Don't like it nearly as much as when they would play Casey Kasem's old show (they quit that about 4 years ago, I believe), but it's still pretty cool to listen to tunes that otherwise wouldn't even get played on 80s on 8. As far as mistakes go, all four VJs will occasionally make them, but Nina Blackwood has the most flubs by FAR, and hers are usually the most egregious too. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 12, 2013 22:30:55 GMT -5
I think Casey lite just said Startin' Something was MJs "5th consecutive top 10 single". Actually it was his 8th overall or 4th from Thriller.
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Post by gtross on Jul 13, 2013 0:03:21 GMT -5
I think Casey lite just said Startin' Something was MJs "5th consecutive top 10 single". Actually it was his 8th overall or 4th from Thriller. They must be counting a little known single called "Girlfriend", the last one released from the Off the Wall album. But yeah, even then, it would only be his 4th from Thriller--more proof that the talking points are all copied directly from a Wiki search. |
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Post by mkarns on Jul 16, 2013 14:25:36 GMT -5
Nina said "Rock of Ages" was Def Leppard's biggest hit to that point (summer 1983). In fact, it was only their second hit, and not the bigger of the two; it peaked at #16, four notches below its predecessor "Photograph". Perhaps ROA is better known or regarded as more of an anthem today due to the same-named musical, but that doesn't change the chart stats.
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Post by skuncle on Jul 17, 2013 3:46:58 GMT -5
It always bugs me that they never pick up on these errors, but I don't think they really know much music history. Back when they were on MTV they taped their four hour segments each day in one hour. They never saw the videos at the time (they eventually did ask to get to see the videos beforehand so they had some frame of reference when talking about them). But when they were shooting their segments they would walk in, read the prompter, look off to to the side (as if they were looking at a monitor with the video, but there wasn't a monitor to look at), and move on to the next thing. So even back then they only knew what was prepared for them.
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Post by mkarns on Jul 20, 2013 19:30:08 GMT -5
This week, between "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and "Shakedown", Alan started talking about the 1980s soundtrack scene (which included "Shakedown") and said that the just-played Whitney Houston was a beneficiary of it. I don't recall any Whitney hits in the 80s coming from soundtracks; she had a lot of movie hits, but they were all in the 1990s.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 28, 2013 21:53:34 GMT -5
OMG, Casey lite just said something like "as far as hits, this was it for Air Supply". After Nights, they would have two more top 40s that year, the monster #2 Making Love in 1983 and Just As I Am which Copycat Casey played a few weeks back on their 1985 show. Then they said REO had 5 hits from HI. Unless they are talking about rock radio, only 4 tunes made the Hot 100 from that album!
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Post by mkarns on Jul 30, 2013 16:20:55 GMT -5
OMG, Casey lite just said something like "as far as hits, this was it for Air Supply". After Nights, they would have two more top 40s that year, the monster #2 Making Love in 1983 and Just As I Am which Copycat Casey played a few weeks back on their 1985 show. Then they said REO had 5 hits from HI. Unless they are talking about rock radio, only 4 tunes made the Hot 100 from that album! In that same breath, Alan also said that "Even the Nights Are Better" "had the distinction of peaking high on the charts" at #6 before falling to #42; in fact it peaked at #5, slipped one notch, and then fell off the chart cliff. Here's a more egregious mistake he made in the same show: he said that John Lennon was killed in December 1981, a year after it actually happened. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 3, 2013 10:13:05 GMT -5
They just said "Missed Opportunity was the "other" top 40 song from Ooh Yeah" following up EYHD. There would be one more. The under-appreciated Downtown Life would reach #31 a couple months later.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 9, 2013 22:43:34 GMT -5
Casey lite is at it again tonight saying SOS was Jacksons last hit. The followup, Tortune would reach the top 20 a few months later.
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Post by Ponderous Man on Aug 16, 2013 5:09:38 GMT -5
They played the 1989 Into The Night rerecord, not the rereleased hit version. Wait a minute! Wasn't the rerecorded "Into The Night" the version that was charting in 1989? |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 16, 2013 20:16:58 GMT -5
Rough start already for Casey lite; they just said Dreamtime was Daryl's first effort away from John. Actually that distinction goes to Hall's 1980 solo Sacred Songs LP.
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Post by mstgator on Aug 25, 2013 21:36:42 GMT -5
They played the 1989 Into The Night rerecord, not the rereleased hit version. Wait a minute! Wasn't the rerecorded "Into The Night" the version that was charting in 1989? Nope, the original hit recording for Polydor was the version that charted in 1989. The re-recording for Curb Records didn't chart at all. |
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