The History Of Pop Part 30 aka In this new frame of mind a thousand flowers could bloom

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now 30, like 1995, starts slow but then explodes into full-on dance mania as high street clubbing meets pop and a flood of great, blink-and-you-miss-them hits follow. Handbagmania! In amongst the dance tunes we have dadpop, Britpop, a bit of r'n'b and a sprinkling of trip-hop. It's a big poll with some big questions: have at it.

One of the big questions is - what's going to win Now 29? Kylie and Shampoo were tied on 34 votes each, just ahead of Whigfield and Corona, so there's a straight choice to be made here. Meanwhile Oasis highpoints clustered around Cigs and Boose, Live Forever and Supersonic: Wasis make the first of several reapparances on today's poll.

1995 - what were are we thinking?


[Poll #686986]

Comments

HOOCHIE BOOTY

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I ticked the Ultimate Kaos song with no memory of it at all, purely on title.

Also need memory jogs on:

Deuce (intuition tells me - quite good)
Sean Maguire (soap guy??)
This MC Sar track
This Corona track

Re: HOOCHIE BOOTY

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

deuce = kinda precursors of steps, completely ridiculously camp pop fluff, two boys and two girls, i can remember the tune but not the lyrics. i think they dressed up. pretty good!

mc sar = very odd lyrics, "run awaaaay! run awaaaay! run awaaaay and save your life!" music is the same as 'another night', basically

Re: HOOCHIE BOOTY

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

HOOCHAY!
Hoochay boootay
Hoochay Bootay all night Loooooooong

Corona I could hum the chorus to you but not the verse. Chorus goes "Baby Babaaaay! Baby Babaaaay! Baby Babaaaay! Baby Babaaaay!" and not a lot else. Sean Mugwump is drippy ballad as expected.

Re: HOOCHIE BOOTY

[cis.livejournal.com]

run away, run a-way, run away if you want to survive!
got to break free: woah-oh-ey-oh
run away: wo-oh-ey-oh

also:
baby baby, why can't we just stay to-gether, eyeay-yay-yay
(she kind of stuttered the beat on 'together', that was a ot of the charm of it)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Trip and the Hops!

Have Tin Tin Out based an entire career on doing covers?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it's not actually a cover this one

just the title repeated over and over plus the same line in Spanish iirc

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Before this poll started I had a grim feeling that it might be the first time something I actually detest won. So far we seem to be making the Right Choice though (but it's early days).

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

no one else remembers 'whoops now'?! it's the most utterly charming bubblegum'n'b thing ever. "whoops now! sorry i can't go, i'm out having FUN in the SUN with my FRIENDS!"

trip-hop makes me happy.

n-trance makes me do involuntary raving and TYPE ALL IN CAPS.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

60%????? For "Set You Free"??? Shame on you boshcrew. Where are you? Let's be having you?? etc.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of these on Dance Tip 95 if people want YSIs later on. However YSI wasn't working the last time I tried it at home so this is not an guarantee.

Songs on here I like now that I didn't like at the time:
Ultimate Kaos
R Kelly
Clock
Scarlet
Jimmy Nail
E17

Songs on here I don't like now that I did like at the time:
Freak Power
Mike et MechaniX0r

Songs that are really grebt then and now:
Humang League
Pigbag remix
Bucketheadz
Rednex
Bobby Brown

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

um, i love 'protection' but i so would not have picked it as an early leader! ('glory box' is better.)

Obligatory Memories Post

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

- "Protection" was my big getting over a break-up song.
- Must listen to the first Portishead album again, ubiquity staled it but "Glory Box" really is good
- By this time I'm much more aware of nows as jukebox artefacts than as commercial CDs.
- I had a great time in 1995, once it got going.

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

is it really going massive attack, portishead, east 17, boo radleys. call yrselfs POPtimists fergawdsakes.

i like the bobby brown A LOT still. it is the only one of these that i own. on single. i bought it, or my sister did. but i have it now.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

that boo radleys song really is an abomination.

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

why was it ever a draw. confide in me is rubbish.

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

the now polls really are the slow death of simple minds eh

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I can't remember this one at all, it sounds mucky though.

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

cock i missed whoops now. i shouldnt skim these things should i :(

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

1995 is the year that Muzik magazine started which was a huge epiphany for me with dance music generally. Because although I was already well into it, I still had no idea about people like Juan Atkins or Masters At Work at that point. They made me feel very bad for not knowing tracks like 'Hardtrance Acperience' too. I guess the founding Muzik writers were crazy-purist but from a Dance Music perspective this was quite refreshing as they were, for me, the first to write about Dance Music and Rave Culture as History. I guess Reynolds was starting to do this around this time too, but alas I was not aware of his work (and would remain unaware until ILM!).

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah I bought the first dozen or so issues of Muzik and drooled over the specialist reviews without ever actually setting foot in a dance shop. Ben Turner had been the Melody Maker dance 'guy', he hated jungle at first though. Muzik was v.down on handbag.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

sbp, catsgomiaow, barrysarll, marnameow and avv: due to a technical error, your votes for Stay Another Day aren't showing up. Please rectify.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

East 17 and Spice Girls oddity: despite spending 99% of their career churning out awesomely frothy dance pop, both groups' finest moment came with a one-off Xmas slush-ballad!

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I want this album!

Thoughts

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

- hardly know any of these songs. And loathe most of the ones I do. Boo Radleys, which I loved at the time, really can fuck off with this one
- which would seem to make'95=me in bands/buried in ultra snobbish student muso'ism. I recovered, but it took Take That to do it.
- Due to which, handbag seems to have passed me by. See stevem above for reasons why. Went to see Richie Hawtin/Platikman/did things like Tribal Gathering which were life changine, but only from guitar purist>>>>>>dance purist.

Fuck you Boo

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

My total hatred of Wake Up Boo should be cross-referenced to my (continuing) love for the Boo Radley's early work, man, so is not the pop-ist gesture it might appear to be.

Bobby Brown rulzes you are all teh gay, innit.

Re: Fuck you Boo

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think "WUB" was the song I got into most arguments with friends over that year.

BEST NOW YET

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

OMG

Re: BEST NOW YET

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

dunno about "yet", but best one in quite a while that's for sure

CORONA

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

3 votes??? I know it was the single AFTER Riddim of Nite but Baby Baby was still a cracker! THIS COUNTRY.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

poor old tegsy sean maguire, only three votes, and one of those was a sympathy vote from me...

[cis.livejournal.com]

My copy of this actualy has dots next to the ones I liked because I copied them over to tape! I keep meaning to find it again and compare the ones I liked then with those I like now: primary diff is that I no longer like Croc Shooz or Mike And His Mechanics, also I seem to remember that I implausibly left off some AMAZING stuff but I can't think quite what.

I'm tempted to withdraw my votes for portishead and massive attack because neither deserve to win.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I dunno, it's interesting. 'Glory Box' and 'Protection' are so 90s mope-hop canon so tempting to hate on, but they're still great tracks. not soppy fun like 'Stay Another Day', but no less deserving of victory than that, or any of the abundant dance cheese on this NOW. How to judge a worthy winner? Should it be the best song? The most fun song? Other?

I tend to think the winner should be whichever track would go down best on the floor at Poptimism the club night. So on that basis maybe Strike should win (can't recall N-Trance or Alex Party ever being played) although I never liked any of those much :/

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

i havent heard any of these