The History Of Pop Part 26 aka My life is a cage but onstage I'm free

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now 26 stakes a claim for 1993 as BEST YEAR EVAR - a line-up packed with heavyweights and it's a sad quirk of fate that only one can qualify. Compare if you will Now 25, which "All That She Wants" won at a canter from New Order, and then a chasing pack of relatively low scorers (including though a disgracefully high mark for "Everybody Hurts" of all things!).

But this - this is a different matter! Post-Soviet gay disco! Jacko-tweaked R'n'B! Will Smith! Mr Raider! And a wealth of brilliant bit players like Stakka Bo and Apache Indian too. Which will be the winner? I'm hoping for a play-off frankly. The overall impression here is of a thriving, bustling, multifaceted and multicultural pop landscape, a chart happy to gobble the best from the UK, US and Europe, a rich pop ecosystem which it will be instructive to compare with the soon-coming "Britpop years"...


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Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have a norful feeling that SWV are going to face Gabrielle-style poptimist ignominy :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Not as much as Dina Carroll or Lena Fiagbe!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

En Vogue >>>>>> SWV

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In general yes but this single is sublime.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

This is true, but En Vogue >>>>>> most music made by anyone else

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

this is because you are teh only person in the world to rememebr Lena Fiagbe...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think THIS one even charted! It was an uptempo and V V CATCHY number about saving the planet I believe, I can remember the chorus even now - it went "gotta get it right, gotta get it right, we owe it to OURSELVES and GOD", it was brilliant.

DA LEXI CODE broken!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

lena fiagbe is an anagram of BIG LEGGY

Re: DA LEXI CODE broken!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Disco Inferno = Nicer Sin Food

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i thought it was terribly preachy At The Time (although i wuvved Jammy Urukai, hmm).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Much as I loathe JK and his furry hats, this song isn't that bad considering - the bassline and the "worrdle-y-worrdle-wooodle-weeedle wardle-y-warrrr" noises just about save it. I still don't like his voice though.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Or Eternal :o