The History Of Pop Part 36 aka So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

AROOOO! AROOOO! GOTH ALERT! Yes, it's Now: The Placebo Years, or Now: 1997 as you might otherwise call it. I remember this as a deeply fallow time for pop but then I was living back at my parents' house, working sub-minimum wage (OK there was no minimum wage back then) and listening to EARLY MANICS records. Oh to be 23 again (not in a grillion years). Other new faces include Mansun, Sash and the Chemical Brothers. And TEH FIRST EVER INTERWEB NUMBER ONE. Well, it was if you were reading USENET.

Now 35 saw the Spice Girls triumph at the second time of asking, "Say You'll Be There" beating Pulp into a close-ish second, with Suede, the Pet Shop Boys and Undiesworld tying for third. It also saw a sudden dip in the number of people voting, probably because they were all on holiday, or because the late-90s were rub. But they weren't really, where they? Were they??!!


[Poll #708236]


VOTE ME GOOD!

Comments

TWAT

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

Am I going to be the only person who admits to liking the Jamiroquai song?

Re: TWAT

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

no

Re: TWAT

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i ticked it then unticked cz i couldn't really remember this one -- i am not by any means a giant big JK-hatah

Re: TWAT

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i grudgingly ticked it because i realised i like the way it unfolds as a song!

by no means my favourite Quai track tho