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

[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.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It was the thing I feared might do really well. I mean, 4th is still pretty good, but it's well off the leading pace.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Praise the gods of trip-hop. (I didn't realise it would be so popular!)

Talking of abominations, the Oasis rationale is escaping me - 'Whatever' is actually their best song! It's still dreadful dreadful dreadful, but it's WAY more listenable than their other atrocities. Yet loads of people voted for the last one, and hardly anyone for this.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No, "Whatever", is ghastly. Cigs and Booze was a pastiche, and I didn't like it, but it was a pastiche with verve. "Whatever" was the - shockingly early - point where the pastiche became the point of things.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I do think 'Whatever' is ghastly as well but 'C&A' just sounded like an awful tuneless racket (I definitely don't hear any of this alleged verve!), 'Whatever' had a) a vague melody and b) a cello.

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

ner nerrrrrr nernernernerner nernernernernernerrrnerrrnerrrrrner

what a shit melody

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

yes yes 'whatever' is shit I completel agree, but 'C&A' is EVEN SHITTER yet managed to get a degree of love!

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

we all love cigarettes and alcohol, but it is shameful to like 'cigarettes and alcohol'. perhaps people got confused.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it is the only explanation.

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

live forever is obv the worst wasis from this period

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

'the verve' mentioned above is obv of the r. ashcroft variety, har har.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I FUCKING HATE THEM TOO! AAAARGH

[avv.livejournal.com]

http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_1672049.html?menu=

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

well, that fits - r ashcroft is a cunt whose dreadful band got far bigger than they should have, l gallagher is a cunt whose dreadful band got far bigger than they should have, and j christ is a cunt whose dreadful religion got far bigger than it should have.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

oh get a room, you two ;)