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.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the most horrible evenings of my life was spent trying to revise for an exam while hearing someone in the distance trying repeatedly to play the fiddle riff from Young At Heart.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Urgh.

This Now is so quality that even though the last bit is full of the usual horrors, it's basically all the usual horrors being not quite as horrific as usual - eg 'lady godiva's room' is rub obv but not quite as vomitous as all other simply ging songs.

i am shocked that dom appears not to like kd lang!