Schooled

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( Australia )

Meanwhile: http://takeyourmedicinemp3.blogspot.com/2005/11/uks-hottest-47-acts.html - that poll on 'hot new UK acts', I didn't enter in the end. No grime/hip-hop at all, or none except for MIA, which is kind of depressing.

The History of Pop Part 5 aka What is wrong in my life that I must get drunk every night?

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So, yeah, you know when I said in the last Now Poll that Now 5 was tons better than Now 4? Erm, well...that was before I typed it out. And also I remember this particular 'era' (first half of 85) with especial sharpness so my judgements may well be softer than yours. There are a few big hitters though - by now of course we're into the period where the success of Now had spawned rivals, and the brand's compilation predominance wasn't assured, so there was a hard fight for the good tracks. Things get gradually better from about Now 7 onwards (I think). As ever, "go for it" in the comments box.

Note a particularly annoying Now syndrome where the follow-up hit shows up on a comp and the better, bigger hit doesn't. PETE BURNS wuz ROBBED in other words.

Note the first thought given to actual sequencing w/the 'soul section' on disc 2!

RESULTS of Now 4 - a comfortable, perhaps too comfortable, win for "Together In Electric Dreams" over "Ghostbusters" and the Pointer Sisters. Nool Pwah to Eugene Wilde, though Limahl seems to have fared the worst in the write-in votes.

( Yes yes I could be wrong )

Now 5 YSI requests part one

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As requested in the comments to the NOW 5 poll below, here's N-n-n-nineteen not out by the Commentators. I used to think it was Tony Hawks, but apparently I mixed it up with The Stutter Rap. Being Dutch I don't know who Rory Bremner is, I think. (So how do I know Tony Hawks? Well, indeed)

Also, this is Loose Ends - Magic Touch. It's everything Kelley Polar tries to be, IMO.