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

Re: Next Prog:

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I OWN NO BRITPOP ALBUMS. THIS IS LIBEL!

Re: Next Prog:

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

For Some Values Of "Britpop"

Re: Next Prog:

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Britpop ∩ ( suede ∪ pulp ∪ something lex owns) = ∅ )

(i am trying to be too clever for a cheap joke)

Re: Next Prog:

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't own any Suede albums in any meaningful sense, and Pulp can't be Britpop cos they were good.

HERE WE GO AGAIN

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What are Pulp then?

Re: HERE WE GO AGAIN

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Art-pop! Like the Pet Shop Boys and Tori Amos, though obv nowhere near those heights.

Re: HERE WE GO AGAIN

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

This art-pop must be a mighty capacious genre.

Re: HERE WE GO AGAIN

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

There isn't nearly enough of it for me :(

Rufus Wainwright is in it, though!

Re: HERE WE GO AGAIN

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha i *knew* pulp wd be the leXend! ahem "get-out clause"

Re: Next Prog:

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

This is MOMUS logic!

Re: Next Prog:

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The truth is though that if a (DJ) martian were to listen to the five most commonly named "Britpop records" (how I wish I had asked this in family fortunes!) they would be very hard pressed to identify everything as belonging to the same "genre".

Re: Next Prog:

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I'm more interested in what 'any meaningful sense' means.