The History Of Pop Part 42 aka A Halfwit In A Leotard Stands On My Stage

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Last time: Stardust wins by two votes from the Cardigans.

This time:



[Poll #724716]

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

re. start of section 2 - they are taking the piss surely.

A+ ?
Deetah ??
DJ Sakin ???!!???
FOOL BOONA ???!??!?!?!

Mr Now compiler it is you who are the fool if you think I will fall for this.

Clarification also needed on:
- Emilia
- This particular Justin
- How Ladysmith Black Mambazo come to be here, exactly

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

Were LBM on here cos they were used in a baked bean (or possibly soup) commercial?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ladysmith Black Mambazo did a song for some rugby world cup thing once, this is surely not it with a title like that but maybe the follow-up?

This is quite a curious compilation.

I saw Mr Oizo DJ at Canvas this weekend!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

A+ = 16 year old rapper, Beethoven sample. And all time legendary lyric:

I have the baddest foundation ever established
Me and my team bubble like Alka Seltzer tablets

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Emilia went "I'm a big, big girl in a big big world it's not a big big thing if you leeeeave me" or something. Hilariously bad!

[vivalabridgetta.livejournal.com]

Justin was some Scottish popstar.
He sung with Michael Jackson at his 'legendary' Glasgow Green gig, donchaknow?

omgwtf imhorofl

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i proudly played my iranian picks for victory to geeta and she said "The VOCODER is a STEP TOO FAR"!!!???

Which is the worst

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

first time i've had a definitive answer (that i can recall)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

This is actually actually the least ticks ever (=6) though I'm willing to believe I could possibly double it if I'd heard more than half of the tracks. Still, worst NOW so far.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty good, cos I'm assuming most of the stuff I don't know is pleasant eurotrance, and it's only that 'phonics/kravitz/divine comedy bit that's actively grisly.

(Yes OK Thank ABBA For etc is perhaps not the tribute they quite deserved)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's not great, is it? Considering the large amount of top Balearic Bosh around at the time the picks for this Now are indeed curious.

TO BOLDLY GO

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

what is this craven "i did not know it so i did not tick it" rule?

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

Not much ticky over here either. I think this is the first time I've ticked a NONE OF 'EM option.

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely. I think I only ticked four. I would have voted for Dusty if not for my rule about not voting for reissues.

WAR OF THE VIDEOS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Cardigans' Erase & Rewind vs Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity.

THEY ARE THE SAME

Re: WAR OF THE VIDEOS

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

There was a sale on at the mobile walls shop that week.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Oizo = head and shoulders above everything else here. A startling amount of the best dance music of the last three years is totally indebted to that track. As Vahid pointed out elsewhere it is impossible to listen to Smagghe's Fabric mix without imagining the little yellow chap bashing his head along to all the fvck-off big buzzy noises.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

all this oizo love is totally due to last night's "top 50 one hit* wonders", although it is good. not as good as terrorvision though.

*FSVO one hit

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

also, what is dusty doing here? this is possibly the first time i've ticked a re-release, but she looked so lonely there, on the end...

OI CARSMILE YOU UNFEELING BRUTE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

How can you hate Cher and her plastic nose?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha if you look at VIEW ANSWERS for the gimmick question everyone has gone orl TENTATIVE

Praise be damned

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i'm surprised by how poorly time has treated poptimists love for fat boy's Praise You, which was ENORM at the time (and i still think is the best thing here)

Re: Praise be damned

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I honestly always disliked it. I remember reading Reynolds' review of the album before hearing it, and SR was saying "This is an incredible tune, so uplifting, life-changing stuff, fantastic, he's really done it now" etc etc and I heard it and was SO disappointed.

Poor people be using coaches!

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Can the (as it stands at time of writing this message) eight people who've voted for "National Express" please defend their choice?

Re: Poor people be using coaches!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The poor people use them to laugh at the fat women who work on them, Dom. What other entertainment can they get?

Weird

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Every single person who picked "Vocoder" I have met (except bengraham AFAIK).

NONE of the people who picked "Gospel Choir" I have met. (well I don't think I have anyway).

This is clearly the secret yardstick by which I choose my social circle!

Re: Weird

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

I am also a vocoder-er. How do I apply to join this hallowed circle?

How to make friends and...

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

Everyone who has not voted for Mr.Oizo is WRONG.

Everyone who has chosen it as best song is RIGHT.

In a deeply contradictory and subjective world, it is good to encounter some solid TRUTH.

CARTOONS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Omg I totally forgot abt them!



Arrrrgh!

Re: CARTOONS

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ooh eeh ooh ahah, ting tang, wallah wallah bing bong!

VENGA-JUSTICE

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Why no discussion of the AWESOME might of the VENGA ARMY???

I demand you acknowledge their MIGHTY, erm, awesomeness.

yrs, the
Venga A-venga

Re: VENGA-JUSTICE

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i ticked 'em, what more do you want?