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!


[Poll #814293]

Comments

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I took an interest in the charts from late 1986 (late starter!) so 1988 still seems shiny fresh and exciting to me! I love most of these, and can still sing the ones i don't like, pretty much. I was also in lust with both the first two artists in this poll having seen their videos on the chart show. Tiffany's song is sexier by miles though, I just liked the camera angle in the Carlisle video which looked down her top.

Ladies' Nite

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should have done a "which of these popstrels did you have 1x crush on" poll?

Yazz had brilliant hair.

Re: Ladies' Nite

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I thought that's what this poll was! Or are other people somehow able to magically take the s3x out of pop when they vote?

Re: Ladies' Nite

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

PITY the poor indie kid of 1988-89 as the only pop star he could in all conscience fancy was WENDY JAMES.

(Who to be fair looked a good deal DIRTIER than Tiff or Kyles.)

Re: Ladies' Nite

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Well I fancied her and all, but then I fancied any female in pop pretty much. Including unlikely candidates eg. Tanita Tikaram. This presumably had a lot to do with the onset of adolescence, but why hasn't it gone away?

Re: Ladies' Nite

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I always thought it looked a bit like fondant icing.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

haha, i remember the SCANDAL in smash hits when everyone realised JUST HOW ANCIENT belinda carlisle was in comparison to eg kylie/tiffany/debbie

however, kylie flouncing about on her bed tops both T and BC in my opinion...

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Yes, I took an interest in the charts from '86 as well, but only became truly obsessed in '88 (hunched over my tape recorder with the finger on the pause button to record everything I liked). So seeing this poll made me both excited and warm and fuzzy but just a teeny bit sad that I can't quite recapture that feeling - in this year music WAS my life, a completely all-enveloping obsession to the exclusion of all else. That wouldn't quite be practical now but I kind of miss the feeling that this this was utterly 100% the most important thing in the world.