The History Of Pop Part 48 aka Pure and simple, I'll be there for you

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

2001: A Pop Odyssey! As the Now series gets ever closer to today, a significant first - the first (modern) reality TV pop hit in the form of "Pure And Simple". Also debuting: Gorillaz, Bob The Builder, unlikely Poptimist icons Feeder, and nu-metal in the apologetic shape of Papa Roach.

All Saints' "Pure Shores" won Now 47 - hatas can reflect that it got one of the lowest winning %ages ever, with only 2/3 approval. Modjo second, Nelly third, and EVERYTHING got at least one vote - will we be able to say the same after this poll?


[Poll #738675]


TICKY TO RIDE.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I can remember the bulk of these but Chocolate Puma??

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hmmm, i remember the name, but didn't think this is what it was called, i thought they were either "the trouble with me" or "lady"...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Chocolate Puma = 'spooky' handbag with 'i wanna be with you be with you be with you' chorus. not much cop.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Chocolate Puma = ok. Innocuous handbag.

Cut my life into pieces

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Let me clarify, I have only ticked Papa Roach due to their absolutely hilarious performance at Reading 2001. I thought I might as well hang around to watch them being as they were betwixt QOTSA and Marilyn Manson and me being right at the front and unable to leave easily.

This is an appalling Now.

Re: Cut my life into pieces

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I bought this one to give to my small cousins as an example of where pop was At in the UK - very poor choice.

Re: Cut my life into pieces

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

This is an appalling Now.

And is universally accepted as such.

Biddly biddly

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

After years of unfairly dissing them, I finally admitted to myself this weekend that Feeder are actually kinda OK.

Re: Biddly biddly

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Don't be silly. Were you drunk?

And you told me that she turned trick when y'all broke up in '96

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Best lyric EVAH! The use of the word "y'all" to denote two people is immensely satisfying.

Also I think 'Whole Again' is really momentous - I was expecting to tick it but Mya popped up at the last minute. Because it's by a group who were on the whole dire, who REALLY can't sing very well, there's not even any clever production (the beat is the most basic of Casio presets), and yet somehow it transcends all of this to become completely heartbreaking and true and soul-searing. I love ballads! (A further example - this is the first Sclub song I've ticked.)

Re 'Stronger' - for ages I thought Our Brit was singing "I'm not your property, I swing both ways".

Re: And you told me that she turned trick when y'all broke up in '96

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Whole Again, yes! Heard it for the first time in ages on Saturday and was v.impressed. Pity it was on telly and I was therefore subjected to their horrible faces as well.

ALSO

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

nostalgia fans, this was the very first (dearly departed) freaky trigger focus group (now seemingly deleted from the interweb) what i went to and [Unknown site tag] and i sat in the corner feeling a bit scared...

Re: ALSO

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

atommickbrane obv.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

This one seems a bit rub, for sure: I'm assuming that 'I can't remember them' means that most of these weren't really big hits.

ENDURANCE TESTING

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

Eva Cassidy > U2 > Stereophonics > Coldplay > Texas

Ouch.

Re: ENDURANCE TESTING

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That Texas track is excellent, one of the best things on this (admittedly poor) Now.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this is the first NOW i own i think!

Modjo

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i'm pretty sure almost all of you would like this Modjo track if only you could remember it :(

from now on i'm going to see what's on the NOW and upload any tracks that are good but i suspect people won't remember

weird thing about 'Chillin' is that it turns up in karaoke lists a lot. quite an easy song to do as well but i still always bottle it - and there's the unfamiliarity problem too of course, but good for early doors.

Re: Modjo

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

NO SPOILERS! Or rather, this is a grebt plan but make sure the upload post is after the poll post please!

Because I'm worth it

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

American Dream = excellent marimba noise from that certain Kevin Spacey film MURDERED by overuse in haircare adverts.

Re: Because I'm worth it

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Kat Stevens OTM. I can't believe only six people ticked this.

"Mr Writer" vs "Last Resort" bad lyrics SMACKDOWN

[juror8.livejournal.com]

You line them up
Look at your shoes
You hang names on your wall
Then you shoot them all

You fly around in planes
That bring you down
To meet me who loves you, like
Me crashing to the ground

vs



Would it be wrong, would it be right
If I took my life tonight
Chances are that I might Mutilation out of sight
And I'm contemplating suicide

Re: "Mr Writer" vs "Last Resort" bad lyrics SMACKDOWN

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

my first pwopah girlfriend wuvved Papa Roach when i first met her. inexplicably we prevailed!

When I'm with you it's paradise! You kiss me once, I kiss you twice!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

More people need to remember Kaci. (though to be honest I don't remember it from the time - I harvested it from the internet about two years ago and have wuvved it ever since.)

Re: When I'm with you it's paradise! You kiss me once, I kiss you twice!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

She was about 5 wasnt she?

HANG ON

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

stevem has put emma bunton as worst! "what took you so long" is great!

Re: HANG ON

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

GINGHAMMMMMMMMMM

honey came in and she caught me red-handed

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think I was the only person not to hear this song in 2001 (being at collej and hence not near an radio or telly or cheesy nightclub and surrounded by Indie on all sides). I first heard it some time last year and it is AMAZING. Shaggy had been quiet for some years but HE BE BACK WIT A BANG!

Re: honey came in and she caught me red-handed

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

shaggy is like some kind of giant cactus in kew that only flowers once every 6 years or summat.

i was really upset that his n-th comeback single with TOK last summer got nowhere, it was tops...

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

You know, this is a Now of a time I can remember clearly (the others have all been a bit 'oh, erm, yeah, I'll tick everything I know') ie: when I was fourteen and didn't buy Now compilations, in favour of Kerflange! ones and I feel it's unfair that my age group gets landed with this sort of rubbish to pubesce to. No wonder all the kids have ASBOs these days.

Also, I apologise for ticking U2 but stand by the fact that is actually a good song.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose there's any chance "pure and simple" is a Lightning Seeds cover?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

no it's actually a cover of Oasis 'All Around The World'

Nelly and Gorillaz

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

My feeling is that both these frontrunners are being massively assisted by the happy vibe created by their good recent material.

Re: Nelly and Gorillaz

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Nelly yes, but this was the only good Gorillaz song EVER (and I speak of the rmx not the original OBV). Neither deserve to win though, and neither does Shaggy. I don't know why Mya is not a frontrunner in a field this weak.

LEST WE FORGET

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

blurillaz!

Re: LEST WE FORGET

[spittake.livejournal.com]

oh, no one could forget THAT

Last post as usual

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I've never heard this Mya song.

Great Tracks On This Now

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

Is this a generational thing or something? This is an astonishing NOW to me: that Fragma track is one of the loveliest records ever ever ever, Feeder is poptimist-reappropriation-indie heaven, Gorillaz only great or even decent moment is here, the Eva Cassidy is gorgeous, FIVE VOTES FOR SAMANTHA MUMBA!? Nelly, Shaggy, Atomic Kitten all on career-topping form... I guess you can argue that this is year-I-discovered-pop rosy memorisin' but I think this was the year that pop was so great that it burst in on me!