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

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

People not voting for Don't Speak:

why aren't you voting for Don't Speak?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Didn't like it then. Not bothered now. 'Just A Girl' is still the second best thing Gwen has ever done tho! Quick table:

1) What You Waiting For?
2) Just A Girl
3) Let Me Blow Your Mind (with teh Scorpion Queen Eve)
4) Bubble Pop Electric
5) Hollaback Girl
6) Hey Baby
7) Hella Good
8) bored now but quite a few other good things actually, enough to make a top 20 if bothered

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

So it's a preference for shouty over, um, "melodic"? I can deal with that, thank you, it is useful.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

probably yes

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it is one of the best pop powerballads...ever.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I think it one of the best songs, ever, unexagerratedly? Top 5, possibly - 10 easily.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think you are definitely right. Its ebbs and flows are exquisite!

Gwen's finest vocal performance, too.

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

THAT voice.

(it's much more palatable in shouty fashion indeedi)