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"...


[Poll #678617]

Comments

Re: "Go West" not Go West

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I remember hearing "Go West" for the first time in a car with a future 2 Pints Of Lager writer. He thought it was fantastic, I thought they'd totally lost the plot, we had a big argument over this. He was right, though, and it's now one of my favourite PSB songs.

Re: "Go West" not Go West

[tommymack.livejournal.com]

It was the first Pet Shop Boys song I ever heard. I didn't know it was a cover. I was pretty disappointed (and still am a little bit) at the comparitive subtlelty of the rest of their output!

Re: "Go West" not Go West

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Bah, this song now has a comfortable lead. I mean, I like it 'n' all (quite a lot actually) but PSBs really should be banned from competing in Now! Polls, such is the unconditional love they seem to attract round here.

And NO FRIDAY CANON POLL about them please!!