I Love #1's - 1997

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

What ho, pop-pickers! Last week's jaunt back to 1954 was something of a non-starter, with only 12 voters having heard anything on the list! Secret Love, Such A Night and This Ole House all tied with a piffling 8 votes each, but our Doris was the overall victor in the tie-break box. This week we have something for everyone. The last death throes of Brit-rock, teenpop perfection, lots of songs about dead people and...Tubby Toast? It's 1997!

[Poll #824745]

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Tell me more of yr love of SNOW PATROL!

[cis.livejournal.com]

I have not got that far yet but I am working on it! Amazingly sentimental stuff with string sections tacked on for ADDED EXTRA GRAVITAS is kind of amazing, though, how it pounds and chimes and soundtracks preview commercials for One Tree Hill with people sighing mopily!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I would agree but I wish they'd drop the singing style, LET JEFF BUCKLEY REST.

[cis.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that weedy overhigh straining that remembers how "jeff buckley never had any vocal training" but forgets the "however he was a singing genius" bit! I like to think of it as the beating, yearning, frailly fluttering heart of the stuff. (oddly enough one of the things that 180'd me on it was r'n'b use of the general eggy-sentimental sonics, but twinned with female voices that have such things as depth, ability to hold a tune, control of emotion, etc.)