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

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

James are really really awful. I have liked a few of their singles in my time (my fave was probably 'Born Of Frustration') but there's no denying the simple troof.

I loved 'Two Princes' At The Time. I loved 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite' At The Time. I even liked the Lenny Kravitz one At The Time. 1993 really was a mental year for me in which all kinds of toss slipped through the stevem taste net.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I should probably have ticked "The Sidewinder", of course as triffidfarm is happy to remind everyone I rated this era REM very highly indeed for a couple of months, "Sidewinder" at least has a few hooks.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it's almost like some sort of primitive mash-up innit ;)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that is because two princes is GREAT. this whole thing is the soundtrack to august/september/october 93, ie first trip to edinburgh festival, going back to uni for second year "here we go again" DO YOU SEE? and, for me at least, a fair amount of snogging and fumblings, hurrah!