ext_40430 ([identity profile] atommickbrane.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists2006-03-30 02:47 pm
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SHINE TOO: NOW THEY'LL SLEEP

Shine Too, then! Not expecting the popularity of the first focused Shine, featuring not only indieism but GOTHISM in the form of Sheee-sheee-sheee-YEEENE ONNNN, a crack team of Addidas wearing 'yoof' was pulled together to create today's poll fodder in the form of Shine:2. Or, SHINE TOO, because, they were clever, do you see. Gigolo Aunts perhaps the first symptom of the Britpop drivetime tendency? I mean, guys. Like, SRSLY. Although, I think I liked it at the time. Young pups Ash get to mingle with their elders and betters whilst the retro factor is continued with The Div, as no-one ever calls Joy Division, and some old todgers qui s'appelle, Le Happy Mondays. ON WITH THE VOTING!

[Poll #700965]
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[identity profile] braisedbywolves.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I ticked well over half of this, OH DEAH. I spent 5 minutes (okay, only 15 seconds) going to and fro on Love Spreads. First ever single I bought, don'cha know.

I am v. glad to see Ash in the medals, though I suspect Pulp might do better if the titlehadn't been 'humourously' defaced.

[identity profile] braisedbywolves.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh hang on, they are doing better now. Never mind.

[identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Even the Pulp is a sodding B Side.

Ash = AWFUL. This was where they lost it, unless "Oh Yeah" was earlier.

[identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
SHADDUP you. girl from mars is TRIFFIC. Goldfinger is iffy, oh yeah is a bit poor, and then oh my...

"Jack Names The Planets" — (February 1994)
"Petrol" — (August 5, 1994)
"Uncle Pat" — (October 17, 1994)
"Kung Fu" — (March 20, 1995) UK #56
"Girl From Mars" — (July 31, 1995) UK #11
"Angel Interceptor" — (October 9, 1995) UK #14
"Goldfinger" — (April 15, 1996) UK #5
"Oh Yeah" — (June 24, 1996) UK #6
"A Life Less Ordinary" — (October 25, 1997) UK #10
"Jesus Says" — (September 21, 1998) UK #15

[identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
NOPE. "Kung Fu" obviously their last good one (best sleeve too). The fact that their sudden and precipitous decline coincided with me leaving University is just one of those cosmic coinkydinks.

[identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
i carnt believe kung fu did so poorly in the charts.

[identity profile] atommickbrane.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
HERESY! Angel Interceptor is brilliant. And Oh Yeah is a HEARTSTIRRING WARMER! The fall, not Marky Smith's Fall, but the fall of the band ASH from GREBTNESS was A Life Less Ordinary. BUT THEN AGAIN, the single with the cheerleaders was good, whatever that one was called.

[identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Burning Babies?

[identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
see i like a life less ordinary, i realise i am in 1 x minority here...

alang, it was c. 3 months before britpop proper, OF COURSE it only got to 56, that's where all indie records went...

[identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Lost what?! They never had anything! His voice was so grating.

[identity profile] tommymack.livejournal.com 2006-03-30 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not wrong about his voice. Only Danny MacNamara, from your fave raves Embrace, is worse.
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