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 think people are usually honest in these things which seems good even if that means the 'right' tracks don't always win i.e. good stuff not ticked simply because people never knew it or don't remember well enough etc. - it's a big factor.

As mentioned before there's another dilemma in the 'loved/hated it at the time but not now' thing. often i judge tracks too much on how i felt about them at the time - this probably counts as dishonesty if the view has changed (e.g. from annoyance to indifference), argh

this is my ongoing problem. i could just decide that Shampoo or N-Trance is great but NO - it feels like a betrayal! lame! but it is easier with other similar tracks...these are often ones i came round to over the ensuing tracks, independently of POPTIMIST GOADING ;)

generally it seems that most people here stick to their guns with one foot in the past (nothing wrong with nostalgia) and the critical view gets pushed aside. I do think 'Trouble', 'Set You Free', 'U Sure Do' etc. are great pop but i'm not evidently not judging them on that basis here...which is probably WRONG, but does make things interesting re people's prejudices.

But I ticked Shampoo over Kylie in the tie-breaker, deciding to judge on consensus idea of which one is most fun. Go figure.

You are right about Poptimism floor test vs my personal taste of course! but I don't think there'd be any real difference in reaction to Strike/Alex Party/Outhere Brothers really - they're prob. all on the same tier.

[cis.livejournal.com]

They are honest! That's why we end up with such indie-skewed results! DAMMIT PEOPLE, LIE MORE: ACT POP, TOM IS WATCHING! The not remembering factor is huge - I'm sure there's a load of things which are amazing but completely slip my mind, I find on these I can never decide on the worst track because I only remember the ones that I think are good, or maybe I think they're good because I can remember them. I can never work out whether to go with my thoughts at the time or now, either; I usually settle for an uneasy compromise or ticking everything i ever liked at some point ever. I'm quite proud of my ticking 'love me for a reason' - recognising that I did like it, i have evidence of my liking it, even if within the year i'd be mocking someone in my class for liking boyzone; and I do like it still, or perhaps like it again, or perhaps admitting that I once liked it and with reason mean that I've no reason not to like it now. But I don't seem to have the same problem with admitting to liking things I once hated (hello, uk garage!).

I have to be very careful of my susceptibility to peer pressure on these things. ^^;;

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the not remembering factor is fine right now because i owned and played to death nows 23-33, so if i don't remember it, it CAN'T have been good.

most of my ticks are current-taste ticks, though sometimes i will remember that i loved a certain song and tick it despite a) not particularly caring about it now or b) even remembering much of it now (eg 2wo 3hirds)