The Friday Canon: BANANANARAMA

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Woo woo! It's the biggest girl group of the 80s! Siobhan & co have racked up 24 UK Top 40 hits! You get to pick your favourite EIGHT Narner songs. Well go on then!

[Poll #938493]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Bums, stupid Everyhit, I forgot to add in the other Fun Boy Three stuff. That'll teach me to do polls in a rush.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

OMG! When you click on 'view answers' it pops them up in-line! Hurrah!

I was considering a Comic Relief singles canon but that can wait till nearer Red Nose Day. 'Help' is pretty dire though, French & Saunders & Kathy Burke. I thought it was poor at the time!

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

I love them and so does Mark Kermode!

Full house for Madness (DYS)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Madness/Suggs: (link (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/316363.html)
=1. House Of Fun
=1. Our House
3. One Step Beyond
4. Baggy Trousers
5. It Must Be Love
6. My Girl
7. Embarrassment
8. Driving In My Car
=9. Michael Caine
=9. Wings Of A Dove
=9. Work Rest And Play EP

1. Cecilia [ft Louchie Lou & Michie One]
2. Camden Town
3. I'm Only Sleeping / Off On Holiday

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I remember hardly any of these! I also think I have confused 'I heard a rumour' with 'love in the first degree' in my head.

[koganbot]

Early returns show "Cruel Summer" lagging way behind "Venus." I ticked 'em both, but this makes no sense to me. "Cruel Summer" is one of the most shimmeringly scary songs ever, while "Venus" is just a good bosh cover.

(Wish I'd had several more ticks.)

Interesting fact: Paul Cook and Steve Jones produced their first track, "Aie a Mwana," which I'd have ticked if it had been on the board. Think in some ways Bananarama are a legacy of punk, the unison melody-singing really being an anyone-can-do-it thing, and the girls bringing that spirit into glitzy fashion sense.

All hail the Doobies

[koganbot]

So far I am the only one to tick anything after 1989.

Heard A Rumour / Love In The First Degree

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

These are the ultimate SAW tracks pretty much aren't they - a band who did "anybody can do it" well with the great anybody-can-do-it producers.

Both really awesome. I bet "I Want You Back" is too but I can't remember it.

SAW canon!

VENUS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Surely one of the greatest songs ever. I much prefer the Narner version to Shocking Blue's!

BARNETS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Blimey. Didn't they have AMAZING hair?

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I hardly remember ANY of these, but then again I was barely paying attention to pop music during the Bananarama era and the revival hasn't really rolled round, has it?

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I'm sure this has been commented on/questioned before, but are they about the biggest UK act that completely didn't make in the US? I mean, yes, "Venus" was a worldwide hit, but if you told your average Yank that Bananarama was the biggest UK girl group of the 80s, they would probably just stare dumbly at you.