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

[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

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yes, I completely agree.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I am not sure Disco 2000 is my actual favourite here, but I didn't want to pick an ancient rerelease, i.e. the great Etta James. Nothing else came close to those two for me.

I have never been able to listen to any Radiohead without at the very least grinding my teeth.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

In so far as you can answer this (which obviously may or may not be that far): why?

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have an answer to that. I've always instantly disliked anything I've heard that has turned out to be by them, and this has meant that I avoid them as much as possible, and I'm good at not registering things I don't like, mostly. Nothing by them has come to my attention enough times that I've absorbed it to the point where I could offer even a cursory analysis - they made enormously less impact on my consciousness than Oasis and Blur, for instance. I've never had to review anything by them - although I did write about a cover of Just a few weeks back on Stylus. I liked the record and wrote that it was let down only by the very horrible indie song, and that was before I knew it was any kind of cover.

I realise this is no help, but console yourself with the thought that even if I'd spent weeks listening closely to them, I would probably still have nothing useful to say.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Disco 2000' is definitely one of the ten best Pulp singles ;)