The History Of Pop Part 40 aka Whats She Gonna Look Like With A Chimney On Her?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Popfrenzy '98 continues in Now 40 with Billie, Fatboy Slim and DJ DAZ!!!! making their first appearances on a Now (the latter in the guise of BUS STOP). The Spice Girls slide towards their end but the pop world they left behind is thriving.

Now 39 was closely fought but "Never Ever" pulled ahead to win it - double All Saints for your consideration this time - with Pulp, Cornershop and the Spice Girls close behind among a number of high-scoring contenders.


[Poll #717928]


IT'S TICKY!

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No memory at all of:

Lucid!
Perpetual Motion!
Barbara Tucker!
Adam Garcia! (tho I can guess what the song is)
Kerri-Ann!
LOS UMBRELLOS??????? They sound great tho.

(I would also like to make it very clear that I am not ticking "Under The Bridge" because the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are irredeemable, NOT because their version is inviolate. That shouldn't need saying in this company I hope! (But say it I must))

Babs Tucker

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i can just about remember the Barbara Tucker one. had a nice brass hook (as the title suggests) and i remember the opening line as:

me and some friends went to a club the other night

and the chorus as:

everybody dance..all night
cos the DJs doin it just right...
blah blah

typical groovy mainstream US house effort. ah it's come back to me fully now. i shuffled around Hatfield's Galleria shopping centre hearing it in every retail outlet.

Lucid

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Lucid's 'I Can't Help Myself' was dark handbag - a cross between 'Encore Un Fois' and Grace's 'Not Over Yet' perhaps only with a screamier female vocal. typical pizz-strings hook ala Faithless 'Insomnia' with big build-up.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i didn't tick 'Lady Marmalade' because all covers of this song are pretty useless compared to the majestic original. although i do like the way Xtina belts it out on the version she and some chums did a couple of years after this one.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Lucid was a sort of electro-ish song sung by a girl who went on TOTP in a straight-jacket.

Barbara Tucker is on that new song that's on Radio 1 a lot, though I forget it's name - I hate it.

Adam Garcia was in Saturday Night Fever and released this, and since then has been in some films, most memorably Coyote Ugly. When Kylie did "an audience with..." he sang Better The Devil with her.

Kerri-Ann was an Irish pop girl who didn't get very far at all.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I will be very sad, by the way, if Massive Attack's (extremely pretty and atmospheric) record thrashes all the delicious trash-pop in section 1. I wouldn't begrudge it a close win, I guess, but it's a bit boring in comparison.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I concur completely, but 'Be Careful' is even better than the trash-pop!

('Feel It' should by rights walk it, Sparkle aside. And actually THIS is my favourite Spice Girls song!)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

How will you feel if the only song with a chance of beating it is the Rockefella Skank?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'BE CAREFUL' BY SPARKLE IS THE GREATEST SONG EVER WRITTEN THAT IS ALL.

I talked about it (http://alexmacpherson.livejournal.com/112989.html) earlier this week and even put a WMA of it up so there are no excuses for not ticking it! I do not want it to be a forgotten classic!

Basically if you have any affection for Trapped In The Closet and do not tick 'Be Careful' you are lying to yourself.

She's the aunt of the girl in the R Kelly sex tape innit.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Seriously, Sparkle has less ticks than SODDING THREE LIONS.

I am going to have an apoplexy! Or cry!

Everyone apart from dubdobdee has some explaining to do!

Talking Points

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Grease Megamix - surprisingly dirty! I used to h8 this record (and its components what it is better than)

Three Liongs 98 is a worse record than Three Liongs 96 but I like the idea of a record continually being updated topically.

Steps begin to come into their own here.

3 votes ALREADY for Eagle Eye Cherry - the mind boggles!

What is Don Henley doing here?

Re: Talking Points

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

A week ago the girl next to me was listening to an iPod on the bus, and holding at such an angle that I could see the song titles, and she went from 'Hollaback Girl' to 'Round Round' to...'Save Tonight'!!!

It's not a bad song really. And he gets bonus points for being related to Neneh.

Re: Talking Points

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

STEPS CANON PLS.

Man, Steps were *really* good, weren't they?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I bought the Fat Les song.

Imaani came 2nd in Eurovision didn't she? Twas the year after Katrina & The Waves IRRC.

Best video = Aqua captured by savages and being cooked up in a big cauldron!

Gobmug = crush-velvet jacket but has some top dance moves in her little Coronation St backdrop innit...

Please let her know that I'm well, as you can tell...

[juror8.livejournal.com]

This is where I fight a dying battle with regards to the genius of "Dance The Night Away", right?

Re: Please let her know that I'm well, as you can tell...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I would say I know how you feel (see uphill struggle re Sparkle: also YOU are one of those people LYING TO YOURSELF, because you are a Trapped In The Closet fan, yes? And yet you did not tick Sparkle). Except to compare Sparkle and the yucky Mavericks would be more than my already-weakened soul could bear.

Jordan's Ghey Husband

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is "Kiss The Girl" from the Little Mermaid soundtrack?

Re: Jordan's Ghey Husband

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Haha! Just checked at werk database! IT IS!!!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

PLS PLS PLS Poptimist readers - don't let Massive Attack win with one of the most over-rated songs of all time.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Also, that Karen Ramirez song was bloody massive wasn't it? She must surely join the Poptimists' legendary one-hit wonder canon?

Catatonia

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

The best thing Cerys Matthews ever did was this children's TV theme tune (I think). Also available in Welsh! Which sounds like she's singing backwards.

Cerys Matthews - Sali Mali (English) (http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0S8EAFGU3GPEB1DFOGRXADPBY8)

Cerys Matthews - Sali Mali (Welsh) (http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1SG2O47R0ESBW2R9BE4W04A7Z1)

Re: Catatonia

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

filed under sukratpop

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Less of this Catatonia bashing! They is ace and no more to be said about it.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Apart from their last album, obv.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'M NOT GOING TO SHUT UP ABOUT SPARKLE, YOU KNOW

(*insert ANGRY FACE*)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I think you and Mr Popjustice should release a cover of it.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Please hate Fatboy Slim more.

A few observations (+YSI fun)

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

-Karen Ramirez at 21%?? Do you not remember how good this was?
-I'm now listening to this NOW, and it really is the best of times and the worst of times. End of the second batch and start of the third batch possibly the worst run in any Now so far.
-The real shame (if I take the non-love for Karen Ramirez as temporary insanity) are the low scores of the final seven, though. Some choice cuts there, for all their obscurity.

YSI fun with:
* Kerri-Ann - Do you love me boy?
http://download.yousendit.com/947E048C349A3FA5
* Los Umbrellos - No tengo dinero
http://download.yousendit.com/2C193AC15E94AB38
* Perpetual Motion - Keep on dancin' (let's go)
http://download.yousendit.com/EEFAFBD66D749659

Re: A few observations (+YSI fun)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Looking For Love' is one of those songs which proves the dictum that all great bangers are really ballads, and vice versa.

You didn't tick Sparkle either :(

[(Anonymous)]

Los Umbrellos were Al-Agami, Mai-Britt, and Grith, a black man and two white women, each attired in cowboy hat and not much else. I think they're from Denmark or somewhere, so they performed in English and in Spanish. "No Tengo Dinero" is a fake Mexican melody w/ a disco-funk rhythm and sound effects and token mariachi horns. Even better is "Obsession," a smooth disco version of Max Steiner's theme to "A Summer Place" with moaning and sighing and our love man Al-Agami talking seductively about obsession.

A Summer Spice

Kerri Ann

[(Anonymous)]

Seems this thread hasn't been updated since april but if anyone has that Kerri Ann song "Do You Love Me Boy?" would you be able to yousendit to sallybags@gmail.com . Cheers

Kerri Ann

[(Anonymous)]

Seems this thread hasn't been updated since april but if anyone has that Kerri Ann song "Do You Love Me Boy?" would you be able to yousendit to sallybags@gmail.com . Cheers