The History Of Pop Part 43 aka Come Around We'll Kick Your Ass In

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It was a close thing in the end, but MR OIZO ended up a winner in the Now 42 poll, by one vote over Cher and Dusty Springfield. Hooray for squelchy bass puppet rock!

Now 43 has some absolute monsters on, as we enter the sunny uplands of 1999, and a nation waits trembling and expectant for Westlife's millennium record. While they waited, they listened to some amazing pop music (and a number of stinkers).


[Poll #726716]


I FOUGHT THE TICKY BARON OF DINOSAUR CITY!

Comments

Re: ALSO

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Big Beat without arsing around and failed attempts at "comedy" is like gangsta rap without misogyny and racism.

Re: ALSO

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah but no, Dom - big beat is fundamentally DANCE music and the only thing fundamental to any sort of dance music is its bangingness. If it succeeds at banging, pretty much everything else about it and its genre is irrelevant, I mean draw a line from 'Get Ready For This' through 'Set You Free' through 'Right Here Right Now' through 'La Rock 01' 'Lola's Theme' through 'Washing Up' through 'Body Language' and it doesn't matter that they're all technically different subgenres - what they have in common is far more important.

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[chezghost.livejournal.com]

the 'comedy' element is overplayed in criticism of Big Beat. Only Bentley Rhythm Ace did 'comedy'.

Everybody Needs A 303/Everybody Loves A Carnival is more bangin than Right Here Right Now tho!