ITV Chart Show Indie Chart February 1991

[oogie11]

Motown Junk, oh yes , damn good song :)

[jaseywasey50]

Maybe not quite the defining single of Revolution, but still pretty good!!

[DigitalPrinciples]

Okay, who kept buying Birdland records? I've yet to meet anyone who actually liked them.

[jaseywasey50]

@DigitalPrinciples Wasn't a fan, but i thought Wake Up Dreaming wasn't a bad song!!

[mlteyt]

@DigitalPrinciples That'd be me :)

[ylt123]

wwoww spacemen3 and the my bloodyvalentine thats cool u cant buy man

[mercuriopiccoli]

fucking hell.... spacemen 3 were at number 1....

[mercuriopiccoli]

fookin Birdland number 2???? Spacemen 3 at number one is great

[Andrew077]

It's probably the only time My Bloody Valentine have received daytime airplay, and what a joy too. The leading track off that EP was "To Here Knows When" but I guess the Chart Show didn't want to show that for fear of scaring kids (shame as I think that's an amazing track), and opted for "Swallow" instead.

[mcatling]

manic street preachers before getting signed a major label

[DJFairborne77]

I've just found out "The Chart Show" has returned for a brand new series on the Chart Show TV channel (Sky channel 365). It's the same format as the original series with the specialist charts, video graphics & information about the artist during the video etc. It's on weekdays at 9 a.m & 7 p.m, with obviously a new episode each week etc. So check it out if you're in the UK!...

[DJFairborne77]

It's funny seeing this now, as I used to really hate the "Indie Chart" when I was a kid, as I guess at the time I was more into the proper Top 10! This was the time when the Indie chart was 'proper' indie music & before it all went mainstream in the "Britpop"-era of '94 - '96. Whatever happend to My Bloody Valentine btw?...

[TseTseFlyMan]

Reformed and touring... They just played ATP in New York City

[DJFairborne77]

Who'd have thought My Bloody Valentine would've reformed & are touring again in 2008! Maybe Birdland & Spacemen 3 will follow suit? Lol

Shame the Bruce Willis video was cut off btw!...

[DJFairborne77]

Good video btw. Had to laugh though that the 2 members of Spaceman 3 had fallen out with each other, but recorded their album seperately and still wanted to continue with the band! If only some other bands would take note; The Verve, Tears For Fears & Pink Floyd for example!...

[SimonDolan]

Did you see the end - classic video was Bruce Willis. What a knob!

[Jodamu]

That Nirvana song 'Sliver' does have a video, so not sure why they didn't show it. Great to hear MBV played in full

[razdan1974]

Nirvana only made the 'sliver' video in late 1992/early 1993, after the record company told them to make a video of sliver to promote the album "Incesticide". Incesticide was an album of sessions Nirvana made between 1988 to 1991.

[Jodamu]

Ah right, I knew I'd seen a video for it but I didn't know that. Thanks for the info

[razdan1974]

Another chart show blooper rears its head. This time they forgot to count - There are two no.4's (Throwing Muses and Manic Street Preachers). Hmmmm maybe the no.3 is on holiday !!!

[stwikehimcenturion]

BIRDLAND. Shit on me!!! Complete and utter blast from the past. Cheers for that.

[Idol2Idol]

Fuckin Classic Manics afore they became shite!!!!!!!!!!

[sheepsick]

those were the days when music wasn't musak....then reality tv came and death was amongst us....Britain's got talent,...hmmm me thinks it has talons - bullying is the new religion. Alan Sugar and co

[ttasi7]

in my day tv was better, and we had proper indie music not this bloc party rubbish

[jaseywasey49]

Throwing Muses an underated American band, early Mancs too legend!!

[perksperksperks]

I adore the idea of MBV playing at lunchtime on a Saturday for some reason...

[jabbso]

Thats a beautiful sentiment and made me laugh out loud. it would certainly be a confusing 5 minutes, luckily there's not too much white noise on this track :-)

[CoalMiningPolak]

Anyone know where to find the "God Knows it's True" video? I can't seem to find it posted anywhere

[staffs73]

Love the Spaceman 3 song. Ideal for the earphones whilst walking through your bog-standard British shopping centre.

This Indie Chart is the 9th February 1991 featuring 'Swallow' from the Tremelo EP (My Bloody Valentine) and Spacemen 3: Big city.

[luqas99]

'Bruce Willis..?'

'Respect Yourself..?'

Thanks for sharing that with us!

[UKArchiveTV]

Yeah, a 'vintage video' from about four years previously! He must have had a film out or something.

[jamesb1977]

If anybody has some old chart show recordings from back in it's day please contact me and I'll be happy to trade in some of my recordings for a copy of yours.

[jamesb1977]

I was not struck on the "bloody v" song they played, however the indie chart was good. It would of been nice for me if they played the manics.

[Lowfrequency]

mbv: "they say their next ventue could be sweden or italy" f***ing shame on them to go and play in danmark and not in sweden when in the common lovelesstour back then.

[minedarea]

Pretty damn cool actually. Love MBV and Spacemen 3. It's a shame about those piss-poor Clash imitators, though.

[jaychristie909]

Please sign this petition to get The Chart Show back on TV

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[missRbeckett]

Wow wow wow! I have loads of these on vid that are squirelled away like museum relics somewhere!

[adeworks]

Load em up!

[missRbeckett]

I currently have not the vast amount of time it would take me to lovingly perform this task. One day tho!

[joecostello]

Good Lord. Spacemen 3's foray into "there's always been a dance element to our music" completely passed me by. Thank you 23Daves, excellent work.

[tk1873]

Amazing!! I was looking through a box of my old videos tonight and found one marked "Chart Show". Stuck it on, came online and guess what...it`s this exact show!! I was 10 at the time and had football training when it was on so I taped it to watch when I got home. The music back then was fantastic!! Carter USM, Muses, Manics, the list goes on. Cheers for this!! Now I don`t have to worry about wearing out my tape!!

[rosaquartz]

Thank you so much! This is fantastic! I loved "The Chart Show" and really miss the repeats on The Vault...

I have a feeling I 'should' know this (I SHOULD know this!) but what is that MBV song? I really like it... (I will KICK myself when I find out, I know... )

I 'must' investigate Spacemen 3...

[Noonday100]

The MBV song is Swallow.

Watching that brings back memories. Amazing to think that 6 mins of an Indie chart every three weeks was the only fix of decent-ish music on TV back then.

[rosaquartz]

Thanks. :) (I was really racking my brains - I was thinking I 'should' know it, as I actually have two MBV albums... Shame on me... )

I think that 1991 is my favourite year for music! Watching these charts, and taking other '91 music into account - it's definitely in big contention... :)

[jaseywasey49]

totally agree, think i have said this on another post. Have to say my fave ever spaceman 3 song was revolution

[UtilityPlayer]

Let the good times roll...

Awesome to see these old clips up here (I used to do the same on Saturday mornings - hovering over the remote for the Indie charts). Cheers!

[luistua]

yeah the manics!!!!

[pokemon169]

will they show the chart show on the vault again i hope they do

[craydee75]

I hope so too

[pokemon169]

spacemen 3 - big city song is fantasitc

[runescape228]

Another chart show graphic cock-up. The No.4 graphic is done twice... :P

[dmtubeuk]

'God Knows The Truth' should read 'God Knows It's True'...maybe the graphics op just made it up as they listened to the track

[neverbeg]

BIG CITY the first tune I got out my nut to.Aged about 13.

[scutzerchillin]

carter and manic street preachers!!!

amazin!!!

[mcgeechan6600]

The chart for Feb 91 is quite inclusive check out Dave McAleer's book "Hit Singles - top 20 charts, 1954 to the present day" . Simpson s - KLF - Rod Stewart - 808 state - EMF - Madonna to name but a few !

[greger2121]

They showed this edition on The Vault.

[PrincessXLaura]

Thank for this i would of only been a month old or maybe less than that because i was born at the end of january lol

[luigi65]

when i first heard spacemen 3-big city, i thought it was from the 80s cause it had that early 80s thing

[nicck]

thanks for this, haha i was 0 at the time

[greger2121]

I love those 2 songs that they play in full. I like the irish sound that my bloody valentine has.

[grapefruitzzz]

omg. I actually have this on tape because I love the Spacemen 3 song, but that's quite a list!

[daegrant]

Perhaps we can all kid ourselves that this was the real chart and a halcyon era in music. Regrettably, Bryan Adams was probably in his eleventh week at number 1 at this stage...