The Historiography of Pop Part 9 aka TEH FINAL

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Right, after 72 polls and a squidillion votes it's come down to this. In one corner the Pet Shop Boys, in the other Pulp.

I would do pictures of them but we all know what they look like.

[Poll #806433]

Please answer both questions!

Comments

Longer Why

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

My pet theory abt ballads is that the best ones have to be covers because there's always a moment when the fact that you know what's coming next becomes suddenly and shiningly secondary to the fact that it's STILL TRUE - the best example I can think of for this is 'There's nothing I confess/ Could make me love you less' in the Girls Aloud 'I'll Stand By You', it seems impossible and then true and heartbreaking and important. I totally agree with Tom that in AOMM "tellll me" is that moment only yeah, he knows and we know that it hasn't died, for better or worse...

Re: Longer Why

[cis.livejournal.com]

YES.

(but but but you see this is grammar, or theory, or long division, or the BREAK of a trance record, or the LEAP of a house one - the moment when logic and instinct suddenly coincide, when something you long suspected was true is confirmed, when something you've just heard turns out to be what you've always known, when objective and subjective truth meet like the kiss of two parabolas, when the world for just one blissful second WORKS)

Re: Longer Why

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

YES.