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

[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!