The Friday Canon: Adam And/Or Ants

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Today's canon is early 80s new pop* sensation Adam Ant, with or without his trusty backing band of Ants. You get five(-diddly-qua-qua) ticks. Ridicule (in the comments box) is nothing to be scared of!


[Poll #909784]


*was he even considered New Pop, actually? What DID the music press make of him?

Comments

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

This was the toughest canon yet. I wanted to tick almost all of them. Not to say that all of them are GREAT, but nearly all of them are at least good. So he doesn't have any 10/10 songs, but he has a whole mess of 8/10 songs, including all the ones I ticked and at least a couple I didn't.

This poll is missing "Wonderful", which I wouldn't have ticked, but I'm a stickler for accuracy. Adam always had more success in the UK than the US, only about half of these would be on the US canon, and he only has only one song that went US top 40 but not UK top 40, "Physical (You're So)".

OK, I can't resist, for those curious, the US Adam and/or the Ants canon is: "Dog Eat Dog", "Antmusic", "Physical (You're So)", "Stand and Deliver", "Goody Two Shoes", "Wonderful". And most of those barely scraped in. Other than "Goody Two Shoes" he is pretty much forgotten in the US today.