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poptimists2006-06-07 01:35 pm
freakytigger.livejournal.com) wrote in poptimists2006-06-07 01:35 pm
New Pop
If you haven't voted in the Poptimists demographic survey, please do!
It makes interesting reading (FOR ME!) so far - we have a couple of years clearly in front as far as pan-generational excitement goes, and the agegroup distribution patterns are intriguing too - more detail on all this when I've got more votes in. The agegroup distribution is shaping up as expected - the majority of Poptimists (about 2/3) are in their twenties, with a handful under and a chunk over.
Something which does interest me in terms of the results - very few votes so far* for the early 80s, 80-83, the years of New Pop. New Pop has been repeatedly invoked - often by people who wouldn't consider themselves 'poptimists' I grant you - as a kind of pop ideal. Certainly as far as this - hugely unrepresentative - community goes, though, the number of people who remember it as exciting is dwindling. To recall New Pop as a critical moment you need to be 35 or more, I'd guess - even to remember it clearly as a pop moment you'd need to have hit 30. At some point New Pop is going to shift from being a beacon of inspiration to a stick to beat the kids with - perhaps that point has already passed...?
*(it's v.unscientific of me to mention this as there may now be a spike).
It makes interesting reading (FOR ME!) so far - we have a couple of years clearly in front as far as pan-generational excitement goes, and the agegroup distribution patterns are intriguing too - more detail on all this when I've got more votes in. The agegroup distribution is shaping up as expected - the majority of Poptimists (about 2/3) are in their twenties, with a handful under and a chunk over.
Something which does interest me in terms of the results - very few votes so far* for the early 80s, 80-83, the years of New Pop. New Pop has been repeatedly invoked - often by people who wouldn't consider themselves 'poptimists' I grant you - as a kind of pop ideal. Certainly as far as this - hugely unrepresentative - community goes, though, the number of people who remember it as exciting is dwindling. To recall New Pop as a critical moment you need to be 35 or more, I'd guess - even to remember it clearly as a pop moment you'd need to have hit 30. At some point New Pop is going to shift from being a beacon of inspiration to a stick to beat the kids with - perhaps that point has already passed...?
*(it's v.unscientific of me to mention this as there may now be a spike).
My Effort from the Rough Guides ILX thread
The Rough Guide To New Pop aka The Rough Guide To Entryism
1. Subway Sect - Ambition
2. Fire Engines - New Gold Dream
3. Scritti Politti - The Sweetest Girl
4. Human League - Girls And Boys
5. The Associates - Party Fears Two
6. Adam Ant - Friend Or Foe
7. ABC - Tears Are Not Enough
8. Culture Club - White Boy
9. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
10. Haircut 100 - Fantastic Day
11. Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (12")
12. Orange Juice - Bridge
13. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
14. Act - Snobbery And Decay (12")
15. Win - Hollywood Baby II
16. Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy)
17. The KLF - What Time Is Love?
18. Richard X feat Liberty X - Being Nobody