I Love #1's - 1988

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Last week everyone's favourite Russian faux-lesbians Tatu won their battle with Bouncey & the 'Babes to claim best number one of 2003, with a whopping 46 ticks. Poor old Snedders fared as badly as his follow-up single with only 2 votes of confidence, though looking at the text box some might say Gary Jules was the greater hate figure of the year (blatantly because you all had a tenner on 'Proper Crimbo' to hit the Xmas top spot instead). Now we come to the year where SmallKat first discovered the the magical world of the pop charts - 1988!


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Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I know this U2 goes "a red guitar...ON FIRE...desire!" but is it also the one which goes on about "three chords and the truth!"?

Thing is when Springsteen does this kind of stuff I wuv it but U2 always sounded so puritan about it.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

but 'Desire' is more raucous than anything I can think of by Springsteen...depends if you see that as good or bad (and obv. Le Boss has other advantages in any case). This was the first U2 song I liked, having hated The Joshua Tree singles SO. MUCH. at the time.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Thing is I have never bought into U2 as raucous - the lambent plangent J Tree stuff seems to work much better, Bono's strength is as - can hardly believe I'm writing this - a JIM MORRISON style preacherman meandering away at something rather than as a rocker.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

my fave thing about U2 has always been Edge guitar noizes tho so any track where they're quite dirty or screechy tends to work for me (he toned it down after 'Pop', the poxy fewl)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Surely tho the best Edge guitar noises are the delicate ripply Eno-esque ones?

I was a Q reader at the time and you could hardly move for Daniel Lanois.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yes but he toned the Eno down as well, bah. Edge is wasted on all 00s U2. WHY DO THEY STILL MAKE RECORDS?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Because occasionally they make singles like Elevation and Beautiful Day (Er, assuming these were in the 00s)

Elevation: inspiration for Harry Hill

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Mole!
Bowl!
Pole!
GOAL!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

3 chords + truth is one of the live tracks on R&H, possibly pride, or mabe bullet the blue sky. i believe he again has his red guitar along with chords and truth, but is a different track

god, they were awful, although i did have a sneaking regard for it at the time.

bb king was their buttplug

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i ph34r it would take a TANYA HEADON to pick out the full horror in "three chords and the truth"

tho here is a start --- they DON'T just use 1xguitar, 3xchords, so where is yr SO-CALLED TRUTH NOW mr "vox"