The History Of Pop Part 57 aka I could teach you, but I'd have to charge

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The titanic clash that was the Now 56 poll is NOT OVER YET, with Beyonce and Rachel Stevens slugging it out in a tie breaker. Meanwhile Now 57 also has its share of modern giants, as well as debut appearances by Keane, Snow Patrol, Joss Stone and the RETURN OF INDIE (ok ok it never left).

Click below the cut if you want a chance at sorting it all out.


[Poll #768484]


STICKY TICKY

Comments

Fya!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten about Fya! They were going to be the Mis-Teeq of dancehall, you know - oh dear. Three years on I still get 'Must Be Love' stuck in my head on a regular basis, especially when the sun is out - if anyone has forgotten I will upload this tomorrow, it really is a marvellously great pop song.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

GOLDEN AGE FOR POP ALERT

Re: Fya!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It is Fya ft Smujji by the way.

The line I most get stuck in the head is "I'm crazy but I don't know why - I'm not that kind of guy, must be love!"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It really is! I would love to believe that there's always something worth listening to in the charts but I think the past couple of Nows reveal that, regardless of where we as individuals were 'at' at various periods and how this might have affected our relationship with chart music - it is unarguable that 2003 >>>>>>>>>> 2006.

[cis.livejournal.com]

hah there was this glorious moment where the results were like the ultimate intersection of alexmacpherson/umlauts/cis-brand poptimism.

(i'm seriously contemplating going out and buying nows 55-7 at least as they seem from here golden.)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is edging into 04, now.

A lot of big club FT songs here, happy memories.

Also quite a lot of horrible shite, as ever.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I thought it was going to be good, but there are some real monsters on here: Toxic vs Thank You vs Jump vs Comfortably Numb vs Leave Right Now vs I Miss You vs Take Me Out vs She Wants To Move (which I suspect some people have probably forgotten as it seems too normal a title - the real name of the song should be written in Atlantean or something)

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

How does 'Come with me' by Special D go? I suspect I know it, but not from that nondescript name.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

At the end of every week
Each one of us becomes a freak

very very bouncy handbag-hardcore

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I get the impression that this is where some kind of backlash against good music begins - maybe 2002/2003 felt exciting because, while I may be wrong, I seem to think there was nothing quite as simultaneously objectionable and ubiquitous as Melua and Stone and Cullum, who in turn have begat Blunt and Thom etc...

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Basically, mid-2003 to mid-2004 is the BEST POP EVER and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.

I could easily have named 200 singles from both those years I adore.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Half of these were in the infamous Hey Ya! Focus Group that never saw the light of day due to being racist.

In the absence of that Focus Group can I just say 'Comfortably BUM more like!"

'Leave Right Now' is fantastic, isn't it? Still, this is Toxic v Milkshake all the way.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hey Ya! is on the next one - v. v. interested to see what happens there.

[cis.livejournal.com]

it goes BOSH BOSH BOSH BOSH BOSH, mostly. And there is chipmunk-voicing!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, at the time nobody realised that the forces of bad would Win.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I haven't forgotten it, I remember it as "the moment just before the Neptunes went bad" - okay, so they still produced good things after this, but that album is an abomination!

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Ah, then it's not the song I'm thinking of, but thanks! Carry on.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I would replace "just before" with "when".

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Alex Parks is doing better than expected and that makes me happy! Were we all watching that series of Fame Academy then?

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

It's the kind of song that if it were the weakest song on a good album you could forgive, but noooooo...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

No I think this is exactly when the Neptunes jumped the shark, I think it's a pretty bad song. Though they would go on to do 'Hollaback Girl'...

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

You say that as if it were a good thing.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Leave Right Now' is exquisite. The lyrics are AMAZING.

Deadlock

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I feel bad for Rachel S. - leading till the last minute in the last Now poll and now getting pummelled in a head-to-head with Bouncy.

Britney and Kelis tho - this could go all the way!