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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I bought it on cassingle!

[tommymack.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, cassingle; the snidest of all formats. I had a few of those... Nostalgia, eh? What were we thinking etc etc.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Other cassingles from my youth that I can remember: 'Humpin' Around' by Bobby Brown, 'Anything' by Culture Beat', 'No Limit' by 2 Unlimited.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I had LOADS. Incl Swamp Thing by the Grid, Whigfield's Saturday Night, Status Quo & Man Utd's Come On You Reds, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Theme...