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

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I didn't tick N-Trance because:

a) hated it at the time/DEATH TO FALSE RAVE
b) it will get loads of ticks and probably win


apologies for ticking 'This Cowboy Song' tho!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

How is/was it false??? I was not up on raver rockism politix at the time.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Set You Free' was handbag rave as opposed to warehouse rave - that's about the size of it, a lot of people into 'ardkore' sneered at it I think (dance purism working exactly like indie/rock purism innit).

Also by the time it actually came out warehouse rave had become either jungle or happy hardcore so it sounded a bit dated(!).

All of which put me right off. I thought Kelly Llorena's vocals were really awful as well - this was the main problem for me (seeing as I liked a lot of the 'Toytown Techno'/inauthentic/overground stuff from before).

And er, I was jealous of the fun they were having in the video, but I accept that last point is certainly no reason to harbour anti-pop grudge ;)