The History of Pop Part 33 aka Got the cash, feeling flash in Leicester Square

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Back. Back! BACK!!! It's the Now poll, this time muscled into 1996 by an Oasis track on each arm. Now 32 was a second win for Pulp, closer this time though with Coolio and Shaggy trailing. Can Pulp make it 3 in a row? On paper this looks like a weak opposition but who knows which way the whim of Poptimists will wend?


[Poll #701568]


V FOR VOTEGETTA

Comments

HELL MEMORY RESURFACES

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I GOT A LITTLE PUPPY

Re: HELL MEMORY RESURFACES

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

It wasn't an electronic puppy.

The Quo is the best thing on this.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I think this is the worst one so far.

Re: The Quo is the best thing on this.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's pretty rotten. I think once they went to 3 a year the first of the year was always a bit of a stinker, see upcoming Now 63 for further 'proof' of this hastily formed theory.

Also:

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Disco 2000 is the worst good Pulp track.

Re: Also:

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's my favourite Pulp song!

Can't Remember

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

East 17 - "Thunder"
Gusto
Ken Doh
this Louise song

Ken Doh makes me think of Ken C made out of play-doh, so no tick there.

Re: Can't Remember

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can't remember Gusto or Ken Doh either but ticked them on the basis that they're probably a bit ravey.

Louise goes "in walked - love! in walked - you! in walked something something something". bouncy pop fun as per.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OK some positivity: St Etienne, Luniz, Gabrielle, Lush and Dubstar are all terrific!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i never got Lush. RLY

[insert standard gag about IndieLex here]

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

WHO VOTED FOR CAST??????

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I LIKED IT AT THE TIME AND LIKE IT NOW and if YOU don't like it I'll bury you in J.Power's perm.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

And now I have 'awwwhhhhhhhhh Sally can wait' on repeat in my head.

THANKS POPTIMISTS

Can remember all too well

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Too Much Love Will Kill You" - bad enough on first release but to put it out under the name of Queen...!

"Spaceman" - I thought of putting "Spaceman (first 20 seconds)" and "Spaceman (rest)" as separate though. The lyrics to Spaceman are v.funny

Mike and the Mechs - "'96"???

Lush - least convincing reinvention as 'pop' act ever?

"Street Spirit" - truly APALLING video, boring song.

Dubstar - finger-wagging song about old people, vile.

Saint Etienne ought to be walking this. And Gabrielle ought to be in second or third.

Re: Can remember all too well

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Lush did good Britpop! but they did better shoegaze-lite, obv.

oh you and your Glazer hatred

the Gabrielle song is her best one. i had it in my head this morning, by coincidence.

i ticked the Dubstar tho can't quite remember it, naughty. well it's no 'St Swithuns Day' anyway.

didn't tick Bab Zoo. prefer 'Animal Army'!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

The Cher track is good! it deserves more love/remembrance. it was a bit like 'Love And Understanding' if you can remember that one you can tick it on that basis.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

And WHY on Earth aren't more people ticking Technohead? Call yourselves bosh lovers? for shame.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have the cd single with the mentalist "Dreadlock Holiday" mix on it.

From discogs:

"Technohead is Lee Newman and Michael Wells. Also known as Greater than one (GTO), Tricky disco, John and Julie, Signs of chaos, TD5, Church of XTC, etc..... Lee Newman and Michael Wells were married and escaped the English dance scene and moved to Amsterdam. They worked for different labels and magazines all over the world. Lee Newman died on the 4th of August 1995. She had a sever form of skin cancer. She never saw the golden record "I wanna be a hippy" on number one. They escaped England because Fashion and trends obsessed the music scene. The british drugs policy is to not look at it, so there were too many criminals. He studied Visual Communication and has doctorates in Clean Arts. (Royal college of arts). Michael believes Techno began in Germany, experimental music from the 60's and not from Detroit!"

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Luniz is about a bazillion times better than everything else on this compilation put together.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

I do not remember this track at all. Whassit like?

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

This is going to be my favourite now ever by ticks, isn't it? I think it probably is.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

How is Perseverence on under 50%!??

[tommymack.livejournal.com]

Let us pause to remember how boss Terrorvision were.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

THEORY: the past few Now albums have seen a lot of people saying things along the lines of "omg this one is so bad". Maybe it is not that the Now albums were bad per se, but pop in general was actually rather horrible around this time? (due entirely to sodding horrible vile britpop of course.)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

People have been saying that on all of them since about No.3 though. I think release schedules have a lot more to do with it.

I WANT TO GET HIGH BUT I NEVER KNOW WHY

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I loved and still love the Technohead song. It's absolute BLISS.

i got 5 on it YSI

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=124PDLYOB5JK42OT40GCD38ANL

Re: i got 5 on it YSI

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU ALAN

ATTN LEX

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Fav Radiohead song

"alexmacpherson -- 'lucky'"


I THINK NOT YOUNG LEX COFF COFF

Re: ATTN LEX

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it is! i like the music (ok the opening chords) of 'everything in its right place' better but yorke's voice is unbearable on it.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I'm annoyed at the consensus for the first time ever (er, not counting Portishead, which I expected). I'd be much happier scratching Pulp and having St. Et - Luniz - Radiohead.

Surprised that there's reasonable support for Just as the best Radiohead - I picked it myself, but I thought the votes would be all over the place (or they'd go to Big Songs like Creep or Paranoid Android)

Also surprised that Martin hates all the singles - I know some people dismiss certain phases of the band, but that's usually from a perspective of overpreciousness about a different phase.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

it is prob between st et and luniz for best song from the "Which is the best?" question. the ticky boxes are a consensus not to do with best, but LCD innit. disco 2000 is good enough to reach out, but it's far from pulp's best stuff (tho still fun). i.e. pulp is a dancefloor filler, but st et will get things started

And it contains my favourite ENYA track too

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

An amazing NOW. The first and second batch aren't very good generally, but contain some of my fave singles of the decade (The Universal, I Got 5 On It). The third batch though... this is the first time I TICKED ALL OF THEM.

ALL. OF. THEM.
(That's because all of them are superb (St Et, Gat Decor), great (Dubstar, Technohead, Gusto), or at the very least, 'any good' (the rest).

Re: And it contains my favourite ENYA track too

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Could you YSI up Gat Decor at some stage? I've never heard of it, I think.

Gat Decor YSI

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Vocal Mix: http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WVNK6WAONHGV26CJQI7HUS493

Re: Gat Decor YSI

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Original Mix: http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=110GZAIBE6L1620Z93D1RR6AH5

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

bah i would have just ticked spaceman alone if it weren't for regional solidarity and been required by law to tick status quo

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Where is the Boyzone love??

This is the best Now so far.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

what possible justification can there be of Boyzone here (other than 'well it won't actually, literally KILL you to listen to it'?)

[juror8.livejournal.com]

WE KNOW WHERE HE'S COMING FROM (and we know the score)

Best "drop instrumentation" bit in a song ever.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I listened to it again this morning and it's astonishingly proto-Girls Aloud. Someone needs to do a cover of it but replace Camden with Dalston.

Gat Decor

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Am assuming the version of Gat Decor on here is the one with the vocals from Degrees Of Motion's 'Do You Want It Right Now?' rather than the original version sans vocals from '92.

Funnily enough, because both tracks involved in this house mash-up originally came out in '92 I recreated this mash-up for the Ultramix 92 mix, and it sounds much the same, although the D.O.M. acapella I found was not the best quality.

Of course The Source 'U Got The Love' still predates this as first chart mash-up.

Re: Gat Decor

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Yes, unfortunately it is. But both are YSI'ed above.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

This is where Saint Etienne started to go bad and never recovered. I'm sorry I'm a week late but my computer was broken...