I Love No.1's - 1994

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Last week showed the patchy knowledge of Poptimists where 1958 was concerned, however hip-wiggling burger fan Elvis was the winner with a respectable 29 ticks. Not so much love for Jane Morgan, who failed to receive a single tick! Bad luck, Jane. This week we fast forward to a year when, thanks to the age restrictions on Livejournal, I am 100% sure that all you lot had been born! It's one of my formative pop years - 1994.

[Poll #788245]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I own three of the above on cassingle!

Dedication's what you need

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I didn't like the Wets song, but I was still rooting for them to top Bryan Adams' record of 16 weeks at No.1. My resulting disappointment when they deleted their single knew no bounds.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Stiltskin doing well!

[dansette.livejournal.com]

If anyone disses Take That they'll have to answer to me!

Love,
Jason Orange's duffle coat

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I think we should do a 3x Wet canon some time. I would def. tick 'Wishing I Was Lucky' but no others.

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

Either I'm being a nostalgic old fool, or pop music was actually really good at this time. And good fun, too - the fun factor is missing in so much pop these days. That current Rihanna single is less fun than Nick Cave.

Yes with me colour TV and me CD collection of Bob Marley

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Are you covering up the involvement of A CAMPBELL in the Pato affair?

IN MY DAY

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I saw the video for 'Deep' on the telly the other day and it made me realise that WE ARE MISSING EAST 17 - not the reformed (!) band themselves, but an equivalent, whose videos are all about how they are a bunch of young, monged ruffians who have a sense of community and never do anyone any harm and just get monged and play pool all the time. Who do we have nowadays instead? Lily Allen slumming it and the Daily Mails Chiefs.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

D:Ream = evil

[koganbot]

Yikes! I know 1958 a lot better than 1994. Or, really, 1994 has way more divergence between Britain and the U.S. than 1958 does.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

It has suddenly occurred to me that this poll documents my descent from teenage poptimism into rockism. I bought FIVE of the first eight singles on cassette, but a combination of Wet Wet Wet's domination of the charts and Stiltskin (and actually Nirvana) turned me to ROCK.

I then pretended not to like everything from Whigfield onwards.