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.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

OH WAIT i just rememberd Shaznay's rap - "Yes my kitty kat is all that"

(*rethinks outlook*)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

All the covers are GREAT! I love the Xtina/Mya and co version, it is PUMPING.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

'Lady Marmalade' would've been classic even if everythingn else the Saints did was shite. This is a perfect pop song. And I actuallly disagree with you, Alex - I think the Moulin Rouge supergroup is terrible. I remember it as all oversing, although at the time I was angry because the Saints version was totally forgotten in light of this total marketing ploy.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love the ego-oversing of US divas though, and the production totally fit into the Golden Age of R&B. I also love that in the video, Mya and Pink looked like they were dressing up especially while Kim and Xtina looked like they were just wearing their everyday clothes (Kim, in fact, looked as if she'd had to put extra clothes ON for it).

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Mya looked superhott there. I miss her a little.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I hope she comes back soon, at least she's not retired like Brandy or dead like Aaliyah.

[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.