The History of Pop Part 52 aka It's all about the dog in me

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Great rejoicing at Lex Towers as Aaliyah finally wins a Now poll - she's in it again, as are a few other former winners, as are the Sugababes, and Scooter, Ms Dynamite, Nelly and...Idlewild. Summer 2002 - it was really hot, there was some terrific pop in the charts and a World Cup was on. How times change...


[Poll #746498]


TICKNO TICKNO TICKNO TICKNO!

This will be the LAST Now poll for over TWO WEEKS as I'm on holiday from Wednesday, so enjoy it while you can. The final 12 volumes in the series will occupy us nicely during July and August I'm sure.

Comments

Re: Memory fails me on...

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

It was 1 Giant Leap (rather than 'Giant Leap') and it was the project by Jamie Catto (ex-Faithless) and some guy called Duncan Bridgeman.

Wikipedia entry here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Giant_Leap) contains more info.

The song that appears on this Now was, as Kat rightly points out "horrible trip hop with Maxi Jazz AND Robbie Williams" but some of the other stuff on the album was absolute genius, particularly a beautiful duet between Michael Stipe and Asha Bhosle, a great tune with Neneh Cherry and Speech (from Arrested Development) and a fantastic Michael Franti tune.

I have the DVD of it... got it as a freebie cos I was doing work experience at the eNeMyE the week it was released.

Cognitive Dissonance

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"a beautiful duet between Michael Stipe and..."

Re: Cognitive Dissonance

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. First time I heard it, my finger was hovering over the 'skip' button, but there's something about Asha Bhosle's voice that seemed to bring out the best in Stipey. It's a very weird song can't remember much more about it except that vocally, one of the best performances I ever heard, from both artists.