The Friday Canon: George Michael

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Poor George. He wrote some of the best pop tunes of the eighties, and thanks to owning a large stake in Capital FM secured plenty of radioplay in the nineties despite having questionable facial hair. But recently his output has shown that smoking too much weed is bad for you, kids. OR HAS IT? Only you, the poptimists can decide! Now, this isn't a Wham! canon, it's a Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou canon, so tick wisely: you get TEN picks across these UK Top #40 singles!

[Poll #869739]

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Everybody needs a lover like that

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Too Funky is a great song. One of the highlights of Now 23!

Do you love the monkey or do you love me?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

This is a contender for Mysteries Of Pop surely.

Re: Do you love the monkey or do you love me?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

He is singing from the perspective of Driscoll in King Kong.

Re: Do you love the monkey or do you love me?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I'd totally forgotten about those! Ah well. Hmm, George isn't provoking much debate, is he?

[dansette.livejournal.com]

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go was the first single I ever bought and thus will always have a place in my heart if not my record collection (as I seem to have lost it, prolly during my teen indie years).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Knew You Were Waiting For Me was my first 7"! It remains amazing to this very day.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't have much to say about Yog. (how different from usual arf arf)

Wham - The Final is one of the greatest greatest hits of all time. George's first two solo ballads are his best songs. "Wham! Rap" is magnificent. "Praying For Time" has a very, very funny video. "Outside" doesn't really. Erm...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The texty box seems to say that Georgious is a decent talented chap who's chucked it away in favour of Da 'Erb. Are we making unreasonable demands of an exhausted genius? Or does he owe it to his fans to make use of his talents?

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

George Michael is one of those brilliant popstars whose music is awful, isn't it? Very very few of these are any good.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes. I had to get a colleague over to pick two final ticks. (Then I remembered quite liking "Monkey" and switched one of them back).

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

More ticks for "Jesus To A Child" and "You Have Been Loved" please. Both gorgeous, swoony, heartbreaking, with no-expense-spared production.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I nearly ticked JTAC but it as a Capital listener in 1996 I was subjected to it thrice an hour. Thankfully Xfm got its licence soon after and I could listen to Fatboy Slim thrice an hour instead.

OH HANG ON...

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

... I didn't notice the Wham first time round.

Last Christmas is still head shoulders and everything else above all the other songs here though.

Re: OH HANG ON...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

And the video!!!

Re: OH HANG ON...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

oh the video!

the HAIR! in partic.

it's possibly the single most 80s video, just about beating off rio/wild boys and ashes to ashes (which is kind of a 70s video rly)

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's an incredibly idyllic winter scene too, in 200 years time our descendents will think of the Wham "Last Christmas" video as we do Victorian frost fairs.

Re: OH HANG ON...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i think this needs working up into a LOLLARDS OF POP piece ;)

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

"Freedom 90" is my favourite single of all time. God it tails off badly after "Fastlove".