The History Of Pop Part 24 aka TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1993 and yes it's the SUMMER OF RAGGA, all 3 hits of it. During the early 90s every summer was going to be the Summer Of Ragga but this one actually WAS, sort of. What happened to them all? Snow turned into an N@zi! Shaggy hooked up with Rayvon! Shabba said bad things and was DISSED on The Word by a rockabilly revivalist! And meanwhile the rest of the charts were turned over to proving the proposition that anybody can rap - Brian Harvey, the crusty bloke from Stereo MCs, him out of Capella, you name it they tried it.

The dog that isn't really barking in these polls is Grunge, which was a presence in the charts but whose practitioners didn't seem to want it on Now comps (or the compilers considered it too horse-scaring).

Meanwhile on Now 23 East 17's "House Of Love" topped the poll by one vote, ahead of ABBA, with Eezer Goode in third.


[Poll #673545]

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed then, and am disappointed still, that the Snap! song is not about a DARLEK.

Really shocking drop-off in quality on this one but the first half is nearly all gold.

"Is It Like Today?" No it is like YESTERDAY arf arf. Guy Chambers had the last laugh tho.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Virtually everything in the first two bits is amazing! Apart from the Bluebells, I still don't know who or what they were but I loathed it with a passion then.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

>rockabilly revivalist

Rednex?

Rest upon my chest

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

1) I do like that L. Kravitz song but I wanted to tick My Humps!

2) CD1 = best cd out of all Nows so far.

3) I used to have the Sunscreem song on Energy Rush Presents Dance Hits '93 but I lost the tape somewhere in the Canadian Rockies. It had Sub Sub on it as well. I mourned that tape much longer than I mourned graciousviv's high top black Reeboks that I mislaid in Vancouver.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

thebarnetape thinks - or claims to think - that "Ordinary World" is the best single of the 90s.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

braisedbywolves EXPLAIN WHY YOU DID NOT TICK THE SUB SUB PLEASE.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

YOU TOO dubdobdee I AM SHOCKED AND APPALLED, this is like when fine upstanding pillars of the community are found to be DEVIANTS

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

It's a pre-emptive protest against those that claim (EG shortly below this) that Sub Sub are a better band than Doves.

Also, I don't remember it.

QUIZ: what are the lyrics to INFORMER?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

"In-for-MER! Yknow me so don't misnome me I go play 'em, a licky boom boom down."

Re: QUIZ: what are the lyrics to INFORMER?

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Detective man say daddy Snow me stab someone down de layy-an! A licky boom boom down!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

WTF is BORN TO B.R.E.E.D?!??!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I heard it recently and it was good! Kind of dancey hip-hop. No enlightenment on what B.R.E.E.D. stands for tho.

Question

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

Has there ever been a more calamitous butterfly-into-slug pop transformation than that of Sub Sub into Doves?

Re: Question

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

No there hasn't. They should have at least kept their little sister on vox.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

GOOD OLD 'YOUNG AT HEART'.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Now that is my PRIMARY SCHOOL disco classiX0r.

Christ I am doing 0 werk today! Curse you interesting LJ day.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Ain't No Love: http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0TVYV2RXDDYP012X9MEWY961IS

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

BAH!!!!!!!!

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I feel like a little outcast, what with NOBODY loving Faith No More but me.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i ticked it too

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

what the FVCK is Vienna doing back in the charts?

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Good point. Perhaps there was a comedy moustache revival we've all forgotten about.

Some light can be shed on this:

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"In February 1993, the album 'If I Was - the Very Best of Midge Ure and Ultravox' was released. To date it has sold just over one hundred thousand copies in the UK alone. To support the release of the record, Midge undertook a groundbreaking twenty-two date tour of Britain, on his own, with just a couple of guitars and a keyboard. Yet another unique and innovative way of touring for the Grammy-award winning Scotsman.

The tour, titled 'Out Alone ', was a reaction to becoming bored with being a studio musician. Ure explains, "It's completely bizarre, the more successful you are, the less touring you do". The shows were welcomed with widespread critical acclaim, not to mention huge box-office success. Midge enjoyed the shows so much that on one occasion he had to be dragged off stage because the management were wanting to close the theatre!

So successful were these initial dates that Midge went back out on the road to complete a further two tours under the 'Out Alone' guise. One of the shows included an appearance at the Oxford University Debating Society - an honour amongst others previously bestowed upon Billy Joel, Richard Nixon, Malcolm X, Jimmy Carter and His Holiness the Dalai Lama!"

(note fantastic prioritising of these famous names!)

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

In the intervening 12 years, I had completely forgotten that Dina Carroll ever existed. Probably for the best I guess.

DOVES 2 WIN!!

[cis.livejournal.com]

I haf this problem that practically everything I remember from this period I love, I don't know whether it's mad nostalgia or I just mental-blocked-out the tripe. So this isn't serving to remind me of how great all that 92/3 dance was, o no, it's reminding me how much I loved Ugly Kid Joe! seriously, that almost beat 'no limits' on best track for me.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Most of the J-Pop you upload sounds like some insane collision between No Limits and Ugly Kid Joe, so this explains much!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

There are about 10 Doves tracks I like more than this Sub Sub one.

Half of these are instrumentals mind you.

Sub Sub's Balearic ambient stuff is alright too, if you like that sort of thing.

Good thing Stone Temple Pilots are not on this NOW is all I can say...

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

you tell em (re doves)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

As with the prev NOW!, I only own two of these: Stereo MCs and Sunscreem (unless I have "No Limits" on a comp, which is v. possible - I'm glad that's winning anyway).

Answer to bonus question = "Blue Monday" (that's showing my age)

Top 5 Butcher Knife Tracks

[(Anonymous)]

Top 5 Butcher Knife Tracks*:

1. "We Are Family (Sure Is Pure Remix Edit With a Butcher Knife)"
2. "Looking Through Patient Eyes With a Butcher Knife"
3. "This Time With a Butcher Knife"
4. "Aint No Love (Aint No Use) With a Butcher Knife"
5. "I Put a Spell On You With a Butcher Knife"

*When it was first released, Chuck Eddy insisted that "Constant Craving" should have been entitled "Constant Carving" anyway and that therefore it for sure belonged in the Top 5. Judges on all levels, however, dismissed this reasoning.

[(Anonymous)]

Oops, forgot to sign that last one.

Cuisinart Spice

[(Anonymous)]

Bonus Q:

Linda Ronstadt "Heatwave"

(They called them "mixers" not "discos" and I never went, so the above is a guess, but as I recall, everyone at college had terrible taste but me, so it wouldn't have been "I Wanna Dance Wit' You (Do Dat Dance)" or anything else I liked.)

Old Spice

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Tony Thompson, one of my three favourite drummers ever, went from Chic, when they stopped, to Power Station. That seems a comparable decline to me.