SHINE 7 AKA: I met this girl, she was a poll princess

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Yeah yeah canon, yeah yeah "what's in the charts these days", SNORE SNORE more like. As it's sunny today, I was reminded about the glorious SHINE POLLS that I stopped doing at some point last year - goodness knows WHY! I'm pleasantly surprised by how many of these songs are of course, BLUDDY GRATE, and I hope you are too! Fighting Fit! Beautiful Ones! And Lost Myself by perennial Shine Poll favourites The Longpigs could mean this is a tuff battle! I tried to wear slides like Manda Rin, but my hair is too tough and big for it to work properly, though it did mean that Claire's Accessories (Blackpool branch) made a lot of money out of my valiant attempt to buy cutesy hairclips. On with the voting!!

[Poll #942460]

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Ah - my lj-cut did not work! Oh well! All the better to see the voting with, my precioussssses!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Oh man, so many ticks from ME! Yippeee. Who on earth were Aloof? Also for some reason I have had Frog Princess stuck in my head for two days so obviously I had to vote for it. I sense tonight I might t0rr3nt some L0ngp1gz.

Fans of the Shine Polls may wish to note that the Pillars of Hercules was EXTREMELY Sheeeeyine friendly last Sunday afternoon.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Aloof were some sort of "intelligent" dance band.

i blame the shineiness of the HoP for my STATE on monday...

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

So err looking at myself and Kat's answer to the last question I conclude that she is the (p)optimist and I am the pessimist :(

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Poor Ktee! Cheer up! Think of Sci-Fi Steve's little face!

[pot80.livejournal.com]

I won't lie to you, I really like that Soundgarden song a lot!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I don't remember it! but on the basis of remembering other RLY terrible songs of theirs I picked them, quite unfairly! The real worst I spect is Catatonia, I hav always loathed Ceryseses voice but I can't remember this song by them either.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I think this could actually be the Shine Poll where it's not a super easy run for Pulp!

SHAME SE7EN MORE LIKE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I loved Skunk Anansie so much! Except the ballads.

Re: SHAME SE7EN MORE LIKE

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

What of Getting Better,, BULLY BOY ?

The Sheddos >>> The Skunks.

My Mum said Shed 7 were good, and she should know.

REPRESSED EARLY MEMORIES!!!one111!! GLEE!!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Nearly all of this is AMAZING. The rest of it I can't remember so is probably also AMAZING but did not lodge in tiny primary school mind under weight of SATS exams.

Actually, on that note, what year was this out? I can't have been more than about twelve at the very most because I got that Shed Seven song on, like, NOW32 or something in year six. Whatever year it was was possibly my formative one for muzak.

Re: REPRESSED EARLY MEMORIES!!!one111!! GLEE!!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

as a representative of 1997 (there's a couple of out of time blur/wasis songs on here to confuse you) i can only apologise (mind i love most of it too).

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

actually the timing of this comp must have been APPALLING, there's like two "first singles off alBUMs" at most, all the rest are third or fourth singles...

also WHERE IS LEMONGHEADS LUF PLS???

(i haf given up hope of boo radleys luf...)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Oh but the Lemonheads don't really COUNT on Shine compos do they!

Disco 2000 now level with Blurs but WAY more people are saying Girls and Boys is the best song!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah despite my ENTIRELY ACCURATE statement that this is the low point of the entire century of human culture, I still would have ticked half a dozen more if the penny-pinching compilers had shelled out for the good singles.

John Power - poet, scholar.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

You've got to fly
You've got to fly
You've got to fly
You've got to fly
It's just like flying thru' the air


Indeed it is.

ATTN WHALEFISH

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Please "rep" for Aloof! And what is yr issue with Gurls'n'Boyz?

Re: ATTN WHALEFISH

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

There was this remix of One Night Stand that was really pretty! It was just a load of strings and the guy singing. Though this is just half-remembered from about ten years ago, so it might be cack really.

Girls And Boys just sounds horrible to me. Everything about it makes me feel a bit ill...the sound of it, the melody, Damon being all smug and sneery. Argh. It could be worse, it could be Stereotypes or Charmless Man or something like that. I never was a Blur person.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

So yes, I had two favourites in this poll, and no-one else has either of them as their favourites, whilst quite a lot of you had one of them down as your Most Hated. 'Lost Myself' is a true classic, and since it has received no criticism here, I don't feel any need to defend it. Shed Steven on the other hand (no, that's not a typo, it's what I always called them) were a poor to average Britpop band with one good song. And this be it. I discovered on a trip to Magaluf of all places (aged 17) that 'Chasing Rainbows' is just about the ultimate drunken singalong song, certainly far better for that purpose than anything Wasis ever managed. I still know most of the words by heart I think... let's see...

There's things that I regret
Like being called a nervous wreck
And working out another sweat for you

There's nothing I can do
Like counterparts and bleeding hearts
And all the things that fall apart for you

I don't keep my secrets that well
I hide them everywhere

I could deny, but I'll never realise
I'm just chasing rainbows, all the time

Not bad for drunken memory!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i have warmy fluffy love for the ramshackle-ness of SS, esp w the scorn poured on them for it. they have a good 4 or 5 songs i rly like. come on Going For Gold is grebt too!

Ocean Bummer Scene

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hands up who bought Mosely Shoals on tape because of the Riverboat Song being on TFI Friday then tried to flog it at Record & Tape Exchange and they said NO TA!

*waves*

Re: Ocean Bummer Scene

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

BRIMMING OVER WITH WRONGABILITY

Re: Ocean Bummer Scene

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

No, but I did buy the Bluetones' 'Expecting To Fly' and returned it two days later once I'd got sick of 'Slight Return' on repeat.

BABY BIRDSHIT MORE LIKE

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

.

Re: BABY BIRDSHIT MORE LIKE

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Concurred. Had temporarily forgotten how much that song made me cringe when was filling out poll or else would have definitely won the 'worst' category, for me. Is just rubbish and horrible from start to finish, am not sure have ever disliked a song so much in whole life before or since.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

It's all b0ll0cks innit?