The History Of Pop Part 27 aka Life is demanding without understanding

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There are many tracks on Now 27 which I simply can't remember, so many in fact that I should probably have let alexmacpherson write the blurb. It seems to be another wide mix, and some of the things I do remember probably represent blind alleys - Credit to the Nation's agit-rap, Prml Scrm "going rock", and so on. A squib of ambient from Deep Forest and Enigma, belated acknowledgement of US alt.rock with Smashing Pumpkins and (ahem) the Gin Blossoms, and I'm still guessing it's going to come down to a straight fight between Swedish reggae and US dancefloor mentalism.

Pet Shop Boys' "Go West" won Now 26 comfortably, the third PSB track to win and quite probably the last. DJ Jazzy Jeff came in third with a surprisingly low percentile score (though with 45 or so voters the number of 90%+ crowdpleasers is surely dropping), and then a trio of Radiohead, Culture Beat and Take That. REM's "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" is, scientifically, exactly as good as Meat Loaf. EVERY track got a vote. The Levellers got seven!


[Poll #681019]


Over to you...

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Lexus did you hear Melissa Auf Der Maur's solo stuff?

No way is 'Anything' better than 'Mr Vain', or 'Adalante'!

I can't like 'Doop'. Although I suppose it's not really worse than the Richard Marx or Phil Collins songs here ('cept I don't remember those).

Remember kids, EYC stands for EXPRESS. YOURSELF. CLEARLY.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I find people not liking "Doop" more baffling than most of the bafflers we've had in Now polls.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

You can't dance to it without looking like a pillock. Although that's not really anything to do with why I never liked it.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

You can! It's just the Charleston but faster. You do the heel thing and the palm thing if yr a girl. I dunno what you're do if you're a bloke, I only ever seem to hear it from behind the decks.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

you do the charleston too and look silly, LIKE THIS IS SOME SORT OF BAD THING???

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i've never seen anyone actually do this. I remember 'Doop' being played at Club Popular but can't remember who danced and how.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I danced! I don't remember how though.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

for some reason i can imagine ms longmire charlestoning...

[cis.livejournal.com]

I danced! and then I fell over, if that song were any longer it would have killed me.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Dancing to it would be fine, it's just concentrating on not singing along at the same time.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

OMG! Anna did a high-speed charleston to this at one Poptimism! Possibly my most enjoyable viewing experience at a Poptimism (no offence to Alan). I suspect few people could pull that off so successfully, though.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

how many different kinds of fun can you hate in two sentences?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I thought MADM's solo stuff was OK but a little characterless - paled next to the Courtney album released in the same year. MDMA > MADM

'Anything' is WAY better than 'Mr Vain'!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Anything' is WAY better than 'Mr Vain'!

this is just you and your 'prefer the more generic follow-up' syndrome again innit

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

but 'got to get it' was the generic follow-up! 'anything' was the bizarro and slightly scary third single mentalism - cf xtina's 'fighter'

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Got To Get It" is good too!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I must YSI 'Adalante'. I reckon Chelonis R Jones or whoever could get away with playing it today!