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]

Comments

[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).