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??!!


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Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Er I am not sure - Dirty is the one I really like, there was a new one last year which I listened to once and can't remember if I liked, and I own but have never listened to Goo and possibly some others.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oh bah i have all those -- murray street is nice

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

when I get home I must dig them out - I keep meaning to go through them but I burnt a load off my ex-housemate when I left Cardiff and the thought of ploughing through 4-5 Sonic Youth albums was a bit daunting.