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poptimistsNow 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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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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Date: 2006-02-23 01:59 pm (UTC)Go the whole hog, be bigger than god
Date: 2006-02-23 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 02:06 pm (UTC)i'd say this was a really mixed bag, the good ones are AMAZING, but there's a fair old bit of filler and second single ignominy...
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Date: 2006-02-23 02:08 pm (UTC)I like the position of THE LOAF, bringing the BIG TUNE at the end of the indie section.
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Date: 2006-02-23 02:09 pm (UTC)Re: Go the whole hog, be bigger than god
Date: 2006-02-23 02:09 pm (UTC)Burn Hollywood Burn
Date: 2006-02-23 02:10 pm (UTC)Yes it is ace. Can YSI this evening.
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Date: 2006-02-23 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 02:11 pm (UTC)Re: Go the whole hog, be bigger than god
Date: 2006-02-23 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 02:11 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-02-23 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 02:15 pm (UTC)Michie One and The Mad Stuntman should've got married.
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Date: 2006-02-23 02:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 02:17 pm (UTC)also WIENERITE amirite?
Date: 2006-02-23 02:17 pm (UTC)POINTS OF ORDER from someone who listened to this album non stop in 1993
Date: 2006-02-23 02:17 pm (UTC)- This version of Disco Inferno is ACE on a STICK
- Relax 93 = indistinguishable from original Relax
- Stakka Bo = Brilliant and could someone YSI pls
- Ditto The Goodmen
- How many appearances have the Tlimited had now?
- UB40 song in actually bearable shockah (but not worth a tick)
- Sping Doktors = NOT REAL DOKTORS!!!
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Date: 2006-02-23 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 02:18 pm (UTC)Also
Date: 2006-02-23 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 02:18 pm (UTC)Re: also WIENERITE amirite?
Date: 2006-02-23 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 02:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 02:19 pm (UTC)