The History Of Pop Part 56 aka My texture is the best fur, of chinchilla

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

For the second Now running, Girls Aloud find themselves in second place, this time by one vote to Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me A River". They get a third shot in the Now 56 poll, covering the end of 2003 - and Justin's back too, though it may well be that neither of them wins it.

Good times, bad times? You decide.


[Poll #765906]


(Also go and nominate for the the birthday poll if you haven't already...)

Comments

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

can i go back and untick cry me a river :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

Your bridges were burned, and now it's your turn
To cry, cry me a river

This was the summer that "uh oooh"s ruled the chart

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

And Lumidee's was best of them all.

'Never Leave You' is EXQUISITE.

Re: This was the summer that "uh oooh"s ruled the chart

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

AND IF MORE PEOPLE DON'T START TICKING IT THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.

BE FAITHFUL

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Fatman Scoop composed this track in order to make enough money to put his little brother through college. Fun fact for you there.

Re: BE FAITHFUL

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i can't believe how low Scoop is doing here.

ALL THE CHICKENHEADS, TICK BOXES

owen takes an early lead

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

100% at 9 votes ahead of EVERYONE

Re: owen takes an early lead

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

at 12. rachel pulls fwd and owen falls back, and they are level

Re: owen takes an early lead

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I had to tick this cos I just remember his little face lighting up when he was reading the press reviews of it in the office (we hid the bad ones innit) awwww leetle Mark! It's not a bad song either.

[dansette.livejournal.com]

Such a great summer for pop records! I have to go download loads of these as soon as I get home.

Crashed the

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This lot was also the soundtrack to my wedding, pretty much. (Minus Gazza J of course, and plus BUSTED'S BEST EVER TRACK passed over here in favour of their worst grrr)

Stacie Orrico

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have heard the sampler of her new album. It's not very good.

'Stuck', however, is one of the finest pop songs EVAH and if it weren't for Lumi would have been a runaway winner for me. My favourite bit is right at the end, the Max Martin-style backing vox coming in just once as the song finally admits to itself that it isn't an Avril-esque rocker after all, it is pop through and through: "don't - know - what - to - DO! I'm stuck on you!"

Re: Stacie Orrico

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oh it's THAT one!

(dashes back to poll)

Re: Stacie Orrico

[juror8.livejournal.com]

I (l) Stacie O, "Stuck" is amazing for how it combines that kinda Max Martin laboratory pop with a kind of... I mean, you know more about R&B than me but it sounds kinda She'kspere (or whatever he was called), a real retro late 90s feel.

Also, the lead single from her new album reminds me of that Shaznay single that went wood.

Also being criminally overlooked

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Liberty X's 'Jumpin' is a really superb example of the fizz-crash-bang hypercuberpop which was so in vogue this year, it's all broken machine beats and hyped-up super-banging robovox and is superb.

There are several songs that I can't imagine not ticking, you would have to be inhuman to think 'Crazy In Love' or 'LA Ex' or 'Superstar' or 'Finest Dreams' don't qualify as any good at all, yet they are not getting 100% which I find CURIOUS.

Re: Also being criminally overlooked

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Again you may be seeing racism where simple ignorance lies - for example, I've never knowingly heard Finest Dreams.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Life Got Cold is easily the worst track on first GA album. I still don't understand why they didn't release Some Kind Of Miracle as a single instead.

That Busted track sounds like an Ash b-side. Very poor.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

arf, i was listening to some ash last week, thinking how busted they sounded!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i remember that glorious week when both Blu Cantrell and Lumidee beat 'Something Beautiful' into #3 spot. glorious not least because i predicted this in your Top 40 predictions game.

SCOUSE HOUSE!!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Ultrabeat -- Pretty Green Eyes!!! WHAT A GREAT RECORD.

Re: SCOUSE HOUSE!!

[juror8.livejournal.com]

I'M DAVE PEARCE JOIN ME.

I loved how the vocallist from Ultrabeat did look like he'd just wandered out of singalong evening at the Working Men's Club, totally tickworthy.

Crazy In Love is super-great and awesome

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It is, however, only the fifth best solo Beyoncé single.

1. Baby Boy
2. Work It Out
3. Deja Vu
4. Naughty Girl
5. Crazy In Love
6. Check On It
7. Me Myself & I

Re: Crazy In Love is super-great and awesome

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i like Deja Vu :)

and Check On It really grew on me

as did Baby Boy!

Beyonce is somehow Queen Of The Instant AND Queen Of The Slowburn!

Once again I salute her ample self.

WHERE IS THE RUB

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This song almost made me write off the Black Eyed Peas.

Re: WHERE IS THE RUB

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I hated it at the time. Loathed it! Partly, I guess, because it was so ubiquitous - because I heard it again the other day, and completely adored it and couldn't understand why I'd ever hated it. It's so endearingly hopeful.

OH NOES!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

After the last Now, which I professed to be so good that I was considering going and buying a copy, this Now reaches new lows. I had NO TICKIES on parts 2 AND 3. This is BAD. If it wasn't for the presence of Beyonce, Sugababes, Rachel Stevens and Jamelia, I might well have not ticked anything AT ALL!

Re: OH NOES!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

But the first section is basically ALL GOLDEN without exception! It goes downhill after that but GOLDENNESS plus crap >>>> bronzeness and no crap

Gary J being unfairly maligned?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The last question should really read 'the Michael Andrews treatment', no? I think he was the one actually responsible for turning "Mad World" into dreary busker fodder.

Re: Gary J being unfairly maligned?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

hate needs a figure head. perhaps andrews knew this all too well, and gave us something xtry hateful to look at too. well done him!

Rachel Rachel Rachel

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Once the Americans start voting, Beyonce will pull ahead of Rachel, which is tragic, because this is a wonderful track, and I say this as someone who quite enjoyed S Club and was initially put off by the new "sexy girl" image. An absolutely irresistible rhythm that still conjures up images of steam engines whereas The Other Song we'll meet later uses much more up-to-date technology.

Re: Rachel Rachel Rachel

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

This is true and unfortunate - however I am hoping that Lumidee (who no one else has mentioned! I have resorted to talking to myself about her at the top of the page) will pull ahead then.

Unfortunately Jamelia, who is already lagging behind when she should not be, will probably go further back :(

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Someitmes I wonder if you people actually like pop at all. "4 Minute Warning" and "Mixed Up World" and "Maybe" and "Hold On Me" and "Surrender" are all BRILLIANTLY underrated singles, and ALSO "Under The Thumb" is Amy's best.

They are all miles better than bloody Crazy In bloody Love and that shit Timberlake number. YOU ARE ALL MENTALISTS AND ALSO QUITE INDIE NGAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Dude, pop isn't all about OK tunes!

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

My first ever all-ticky disc! Weirdly though I don't actually think think this NOW has anything that blinding on it - Mixed Up World is probably closest but it has horrible memories attached.