The History Of Pop Part 39 aka Life In Plastic, It's Fantastic

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now then, the last couple of Nows have been described - perhaps rightly - as the "worst ever". Could the series turn the corner as it headed into 1998? The answer is a mighty YES IT COULD - this Now is a MONSTER: whether you love or hate the records here you'll probably find it contains stacks more memorable pop than recent polls.

So - pausing only to inaugurate Gala's "Freed From Desire" into the Pop n Poll Hall of Fame - I'll leave it to you.


[Poll #715994]


Can Now 40 follow that? Well...no. But it can have a very good go.

(Pop World Cup match to appear tomorrow, by the way)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

All I remember of the Vanilla is the chorus, I don't remember the beat or them or anything else. I was talking about it with Cis the other day and she said it was one of those songs where people go "haha it's so bad it's good" except it was actually bad (cf 'My Humps').

Yes, someone YSI Lutricia, I don't have a copy but at this moment in time feel that I cannot live another second without it!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I only have the AAC version of the file (from my iPod), but if someone wants to convert this to mp3 then feel free... otherwise you can listen to it through iTunes. It's saved on my webspace so please right-click and 'save as' to preserve my bandwidth.

Lutricia McNeal - Ain't That Just The Way (http://www.superleaguefooty.co.uk/Lutricia_McNeal.m4a)

Enjoy.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I totally remembered her name - this was from the period when I'd just started listening to mp3s and was spending too much time trying to figure out what songs were what so I could search for them. But I don't think this is single I knew.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

but 'My Humps' is great! it's only the reference to 'ladylumps' that is bad.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

No the reference to lady lumps is great as well, all the bad things about that song are great!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it's just the word 'lumps' i find unpleasant.