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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ah i never read vox! (or indeed any music mag growing up, really.)

i will admit that i totally, totally privilege music which smacks of 'sonic innovation' (ugh what a phrase) - most of my enrapturement with portishead, bjork etc at the time was sonic, like wtf are these amazing sounds i have never heard them before. and this has consistently carried over into my taste! timbaland-r&b, trendy dahnce and so on. oasis et al were the total antithesis of this hence super-hatred.

i can't believe l gallacunt got in j17. i am appalled.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

He was quite the sexpot!

This subthread has been really interesting. I will reply in a new post!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

he looked like an ape!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

but despite this you didn't get into drum&bass/techstep no? of course it was often quite far from Pop (more than Portishead etc.)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i didn't have as much access to it - i heard and liked the little which got into the charts, and really enjoyed goldie's album, but this was pre-internet and i was a teenager in rural somerset: no access to the scene itself (ie the clubs) and no real way to hear the music.