[identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] poptimists
RIGHT. Let's get this one over with. Now 61 is not a very good Now album. The impression of badness is enhanced by Now's sudden decision to move all the great pop tracks to the arse end of disc 2, part of the general loss of faith in pop that was sweeping the blogosphere world in 2005, at least before this very community came along to SORT IT OUT.

Gwen Stefani is your winner on Now 60, by the way.


[Poll #782192]


TICKSEL F
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Date: 2006-07-31 02:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
The good stuff isn't at the arse-end of Disc 2! It's at the start of Disc 2 - 'Lonely' through to 'Crazy Chick' is a bloody good run.

Date: 2006-07-31 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com
joss stone, you jest

Mariah Scary

Date: 2006-07-31 02:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
'It's Like That' is, overall, amazing, but what totally lifts it into GREATNESS is the outro - just after Fatman Scoop does his solo thing, Mariah without warning starts shouting along with him - she's shouting "THIS IS MY LIFE! THIS IS MY LIFE!" and he's shouting "LET'S GO NOW WHAT! LET'S GO NOW WHAT!" and it is sonically incredible.

'We Belong Together' is the best Mariah single ever though.

Date: 2006-07-31 02:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
WITH ONE EXCEPTION

Date: 2006-07-31 02:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
If they'd only called it DON'T PHUNK WITH MY HUMPS.

Date: 2006-07-31 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
This was when I was doing the Stylus jukebox => I HAVE HEARD EVERYTHING ON THIS NOW :(

Also stop ticking Gorillaz and start ticking Miss Mariah you LOSERS!

Date: 2006-07-31 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
And Miss Faith! And 'Slow Down' which is just gorgeous and romantic and swoonsome but also just a tiny bit...odd. "Never seen anything so lonely" as chat-up line, hmm.

Date: 2006-07-31 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
Joss Stone is v bad but I would take her in a heartbeat over ANYTHING on this now prior to 'Lonely'. It's all so horrific.

Rhyming Slang

Date: 2006-07-31 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
According to today's Metro, James Blunt was voted 4th most annoying thing in the UK in a recent survey of 2000 Brits. Only one other of the top ten was even a person, let alone a pop act.

I've still not heard "You're Beautiful". I know how the chorus goes obv, having encountered snatches of it on chart rundowns and the like, but I've never heard the entire song (to the best of my knowledge).

Date: 2006-07-31 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chezghost.livejournal.com
I continue to miss something re love for what sounds to me like a very very ordinary Mariah ballad in 'We Belong Together'

I like the Faith Evans tho

Date: 2006-07-31 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
Bodyrockers? Deep Dish?

Date: 2006-07-31 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
Surely one of the ex-Jukebox crew will have it.

It's v v v lite crunk'n'b.

'We Belong Together' might be on the next one? It makes me cry and everything, all those different phrasings, Mariah kind of swimming through the lyrics as if they are her tears, the kind of song which is your bestest friend and you know everything about it and it knows everything about you, and "wait a minute this is too deep, too deep".

Also I am going to do a CD of pop ballads called ABJECTION, and this will be its centrepiece.

Re: Rhyming Slang

Date: 2006-07-31 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chezghost.livejournal.com
i managed to avoid Band Aid 20 but managing to not have heard 'Yer Beautiful' is an astonishing feat. Do you not have a TV?

Date: 2006-07-31 02:13 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-07-31 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
This is my lowest ever "turnout" for a NOW. A mere FOUR ticks! I didn't really like the first Gorillaz single off that album; the Caesars' Palace song was overplayed in all the indie discos I frequented back in 2003; poor efforts from Kylie, McFly and BEP.

:-(

Q

Date: 2006-07-31 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chezghost.livejournal.com
Why don't people like/remember this Jem song?

PLEA FOR A NEW POLL

Date: 2006-07-31 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
what is it about James Blunt that makes him so very hated?

- Face
- Voice
- Class
- Ubiquity
- Tune
- Words
- Definitely the face

Date: 2006-07-31 02:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
Actually make that five, I forgot to tick Roll Deep.

Re: PLEA FOR A NEW POLL

Date: 2006-07-31 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
The incredibly grating vocal hook.

Date: 2006-07-31 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] juror8.livejournal.com
Is this the first time the final third of a Now has been it's best?

Anyway, great songs abound on here moreso than the last few polls. Only one other person has ticked "Lonely No More" though!
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