The History Of Pop Part 45 aka Up your butt with a coconut

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Now 45 is - appropriately - the biggest now ever, with 45 45s, BLIMEY DO YOU SEE, anyway this means that for once we have no room for the "BUM MORE LIKE" no-ticks-here options. And do you know what? You won't be needing them anyway! This Now has the first appearances of Craig David, Atomic Kitten, Daphne And Celeste, Kelis....and Kevin and Perry. It's a new millennium and pop rules o'er all - get your ticky fingers ready...

Now 44? Britney walked it.


[Poll #731283]


It's a kind of dance music, m'lud.

Comments

Re: The Lurking Fear

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

play has one great song - the single rmx of 'honey' with kelis

Re: The Lurking Fear

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

play is a tremendous album, rather ruined by moby milking it, not by selling to ads, but by continuing to make more of the same - something he'd previously scorned.

Re: The Lurking Fear

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Run On" is the only track on Play where the add-blues-vocals gimmick works, I think.

Re: The Lurking Fear

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

That's the one with the longest uninterrupted sample to the point that Moby is just adding in a bassline, but Honey, and Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad, and this one (Natural Blues) so work really well (i.e. it doesn't sound gratuitous or forced, it sounds like the right thing to do, natural). also, tho porcelain didn't have (much of?) a blues vocal sample isn't that's the one most people recall form play?

Re: The Lurking Fear

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Is it still a gimmick if it appears on half of the songs on the album?

Re: The Lurking Fear

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes! Why wouldn't it be?

Re: The Lurking Fear

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

As jauntyalan points out, I was confusing gimmick with distraction. Why doesn't the gimmick work on the other tracks, then?

Re: The Lurking Fear

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i don't think gimmick is used pejoratively by mr tigger, tho others would. it's a notable feature of the album = it is a gimmick.

Re: The Lurking Fear

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah gimmick is never a bad word in my book. Though some gimmicks are rubbish obv.

Kraftwerk pretending to be robots = a gimmick.

the problem here is

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

moby pretending not to be a robot

Re: the problem here is

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

moby is a dick HA HA HA. (no he is tho)

Re: the problem here is

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

(cosigned)

Re: the problem here is

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

more of a tangent really