The History Of Pop Part 32 aka On my knees in the night sayin prayers in the streetlight

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OK, let's see if I can actually post this and not fvck it up.

IN BRIEF:

Now 32! Britpop in charge! Dance goes superclub! Goldie! Weller! Ricardo Da Force!

Now 31! Pulp walk it! Most votes ever! Commiserations to Ini Kamoze! Weezer liked by US posters, not by UK!

Now 30! Portishead on the hall of fame! Well done plucky Beth!


[Poll #694466]


TICKY BOXY!

EDIT: God knows why I've put Now 36 in the poll, this is Now 32 obv.

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I Feel Love is obv grebt, but IIRC that remix is bluddy appalling.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it's not a bad remix really - workmanlike perhaps with Rollo & Bliss on auto-pilot at that time but obv. nothing can ever top the original anyway

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This is the worst NOW! yet. I didn't actually vote for Pulp this time, mostly because

a) Gangstas Paradise deserves to storm this.
b) I don't actually like Sorted... that much.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Zero memory syndrome:

- Happy Clappers
- Wild Colour
- E'Voke

I don't, strictly speaking, remember Sacred Spirit but I bet I know exactly how it went.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

See also: Whigfield and Alex Party! I'd like to hear those. Actually, the Berri song might be the best...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Happy Clappers was bog-standard piano house. Fine handbag fare really, but nothing remarkable.

I am lost on the Wild Colour. E'Voke rings a bell som tiny I can't actually hear it, but I know the name from their other single 'The Arms Of Loren'.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha this is a pretty dreadful Now. I don't even remember if I bought it, if I did it was probably out of brand loyalty alone. Pulp are going to walk it again, and again I have contributed to that :(

'Lucky' is my favourite Radiohead song! Still doesn't merit a tick though.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I kind of feel Pulp deserve the walkover less this time - there's some fantastic handbag here, and Shaggy and Coolio both ought to run them close, too. "Sorted" is great, though.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The first half is awful, isn't it?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

How I hated Fairground at the time, even though it was filmed on the PEPSI MAX BIG ONE. Now I think it is GRATE!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I liked Fairground then and I like it still. "It sounds like Laika", claimed AN INDIEIST back at the time. It's sort of true, too! Except it has a chorus.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

This looks pretty poor compared to the last couple. I own at most two of these, I think: Goldie (the 20 min. version) and EBTG. I may have Coolie on tape somewhere.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

er, "Coolie" being the bastard offspring of Goldio obv.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We have this in the kitchen at the moment.

The Human Legg mix is AMAZING. Cannot stress this enough. AMAZING. Still not as good as Boombastic though.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

In fact, the Human Leg mix sounds like my icon. If my laptop was working I'd YSI but alas innit.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

This wins my vote for Worst Now Compilation Ever. Picking one worst track would have been difficult were it not for the fact that my dislike of Simply Red's 'Fairground' is matched only by my dislike of the Lighthouse Family and M People. But so many terrible songs... Queen, Meat Loaf, Louise, Suggs, Everything But The Girl, Eternal. God almighty!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Attn The Lex: this version of Wildchild is POOR, I assure thee.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can never remember which version came out when or where they ended up or anything, all I know is that RENEGADE MASTER = GREBT.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I was never too familiar with the original 'I'm Only Sleeping' and in '95 I went to see Madness at Wembley Arena. Pathetically this was my first actual gig. I liked the ska-ness of his version anyway.

I think the Eternal song is pretty good for them too.

[tommymack.livejournal.com]

That's a cool first gig though! Mine was The Who, which would have been cool if it had been 1966 and not 1996 and I hadn't been with my mum. Dodgy were support.

that's morethan lucky...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

is lucky the only radiohead song it's still acceptable to like then?

Re: that's morethan lucky...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I hope not, a) it's rubbage and b) I like some others.

[tommymack.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, we had this album on in the kitchen the other day and I commented on how very toss much of it was/is.

Sorted... is a pretty limp song with a surprisingly boring lyric for Cocker singing about getting on one matey. It's one of the few songs I skip on Diff. Class. Still head and shoulders above most of this toss.

Meatloaf stays true to his core values without raising the game at all. Queen phone in a well below par last gasp. Britpop starts to turn rancid in the heat of exposure...

For my sins I was a big Cast fan. Alright is their one song I can still stand to hear. It's...alright. In a Gerry and the Pacemakers sort of way.

Renegade master surprisingly leaden in it's original form, but still a stand-out among such chequered company...

[tommymack.livejournal.com]

Also Suggs' Beatles cover wasn't half as shit as I remembered it.

[tommymack.livejournal.com]

Actually, change my vote for worst track - Goldie! Intelligent Drum'n'Bass. The depressing subversion of a vital and visceral music by spliff-addled students pretending to like jazz...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

no you're thinking of 'Renegade Snares' there ;)

You all on that crack again? [+MP3 E'voke]

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

I ticked 18 out of the bottom 21. Classic NOW, therefore. (OK, top half is shitz with 6 ticks or so)

You very much need to hear E'voke (http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=39HA8SP1KZERU27LRI8VRR4YKX)!

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I went for Pulp and 'Yes', which I like very much, pre-Coolio. Lots of good stuff from there on.