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

Re: i like everything you hate

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

not just "doesn't" but "HAS NEVER"!

i remember liking a run of beautiful south singles at the time - i've never had a strong position on them as a band either way, i fail to see what's so hateful about them!

Re: i like everything you hate

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

if you were that unbotherd you could take em to record & tape exchange or similar innit ;)

Re: i like everything you hate

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't actually own any of these songs! I just thought they were OK on the radio at the time.

Re: i like everything you hate

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hold on i thought we were still talking about sonic youth?

Re: i like everything you hate

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh no it's Beautiful South I don't own. I like the Sonic Youth albums I own too much to sell them! They're not proper indie, they have a girl in them.

Re: i like everything you hate

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

you should be glad this is concertinaed away so only like 3 people will see that last comment...

...you really are just taking the p!ss with this whole indie thing now, aren't you?

Re: i like everything you hate

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

But "indie" is what I stand against with every fibre of my being and this is not that sort of indie!

I think I am much more OK about indie if it's American, it's the whole UK indie culture I hate. But then I hate Bright Eyes and so on just as much. Hmm.

Maybe we can just call Sonic Youth "art-pop".

Re: i like everything you hate

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

they may well be art-pop, they're still indie as well. you don't get to define the boundaries (well ok, maybe a bit, but not for sonic youth!)

Re: i like everything you hate

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

B-b-but they are not indie in the bad way!

Re: i like everything you hate

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I still totally get The Lex's argument re indie

Do I win some sort of prize?

Re: i like everything you hate

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Dude, female bassist = indie cliche par excellence!

Re: i like everything you hate

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

surely sy = goth

ps dylan moran was mentioned at kate's bday shimuras gig
the lex: "i don;t know who that is"

Re: i like everything you hate

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Having encountered his routine on hip-hop the other day I think the Lex would probably not approve.

Re: i like everything you hate

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I still don't know who he is! And I looked at the picture on the Shimura blog and everything.

Re: i like everything you hate

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

SY = indie-goth-improv-Grateful-Dead-fans.

Now, Band Of Susans, they were a female bassist Goth band.

Re: i like everything you hate

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

REX ICON!!!!!!

kewl.