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

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.

[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).

[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...

[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.

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.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

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