The Friday Canon: Shock, Aching & Watered-Down

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Last week the Narner girls garnered many a ticky from You The Voters! But how will they fare up against the rest of Mike, Matt and Pete's output? You get 12 ticks across this selection of singles taken from Stock Aitken Waterman Gold. Use them wisely!

[Poll #943127]

Last week's Bananarama-ding-dong:

1. Venus
2. Robert De Niro's Waiting
3. Love In The First Degree / Mr Sleaze
4. Cruel Summer
5. Really Saying Something [w/ Fun Boy Three]
6. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
7. I Heard A Rumour
8. I Want You Back
9. Shy Boy
10. Nathan Jones

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I AGONISED over having to untick 'Too Many Broken Hearts'. In the end that got ditched over 'Especially For You' because of the inferior video.

I MIMED ON STAGE TO RESPECTABLE IN DRAG

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i love all Mel & Kim stuff so much. more mel & kim in general plz

Re: I MIMED ON STAGE TO RESPECTABLE IN DRAG

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

hang on, where did MY vote go??? grr..

Re: I MIMED ON STAGE TO RESPECTABLE IN DRAG

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

fixed. i had to ditch divine in the end :-(

14 ticks on first go round

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I unticked the two Bananaramas in the end, since they got enuff luv last week.

Loads of these featured on the original Trivial Pursuit (TM) Pop Music Edition, which was where I learned of (and to like) things like Divine and Pat & Mike.

Re: 14 ticks on first go round

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Pat & MICK, I mean! (I was thinking of that Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn movie)

Sonia!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This is a brilliant song! "you'll never stop me from loving you, it doesn't really matter what you put me through, i'll never STOP, MEEEEE from loving YOUUUUU..." More ticks needed.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am really underwhelmed by this list. Where are all the famous Sonia/Jason Donovan songs? I have never heard of hardly any of these! Who are half these people?!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What famous Sonia songs?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Er.

The one which went, I think, "be young! be foolish! be happy!" maybe? not that I remember any of it beyond that.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

twas a cover, thus i'd guess they missed it off the comp to make all the money.

that sonia cannon in full:

1 Sonia You'll Never Stop Me From Loving You Jun 1989
17 Sonia Can't Forget You Oct 1989
10 Sonia Listen To Your Heart Dec 1989
16 Sonia Counting Every Minute Apr 1990
18 Sonia End Of The World Aug 1990
10 Sonia Only Fools (Never Fall In Love) Jun 1991
22 Sonia Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy Aug 1991
13 Sonia You To Me Are Everything Nov 1991
30 Sonia Boogie Nights Sep 1992
15 Sonia Better The Devil You Know May 1993

last 4 covers, arguably chart positions match fall in quality, YNSMFLY clearly the best...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Better The Devil You Know = NOT a Kylie cover but in fact UK's Eurovision entry for 1993. I remember being VERY confused about this.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I am lazy, and alas everyhit doesn't give producer details so rather than find out who produced what, what chart placing it got to & whittle down into reasonable poll ticking size, I opted for the compilation. I don't know much of the last third, but it gives a reasonable picture of the overall output I think (rather than being biased towards one or two artists).

Hazell Dean

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Who's Leaving Who" is triff but "Wherever I Go (Whatever I Do)" is a Hi-NRG MONSTER!! More love!

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I am very disappointed to see Divine's mighty 'You Think You're A Man', easily my favourite of SAW's output, doing so poorly.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Me too.

Also, I can't believe I'm the only person to tick DOA's even mightier 'Lover Come Back'. Kick it right down, Kick it right down, Kick it Right! Down! RIGHT!! DOWN!!

Random thoughts

[jauntyemma.livejournal.com]

1. Rick Astley used to remind me of this scary guy in our village called Hugh and for that reason I have never felt very comfortable around him (in a musical sense obviously).
2. I think Better the Devil you know is my no 1 favourite Kylie song of all time and I don't care what anyone else says so there :)
3. Mel & Kim Respectable was the first single I ever bought! so very old...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

how on earth am i meant to get this down to 12????? i mean even if one is ruthless and only does one track an artiste it's nearly impossible...

i think first run through would be about 30 ticks...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hehe, poptimists in GOTHtimist non-shocker (yes, pete burns is a goth!!)

haha, i know what is missing: YELL! (also damien's timewarp)

you'd think that some loony on the internet would've listed all of their hits (probably P Waterman himself hoho) somewhere. oh they have (http://www.stockaitkenwaterman.com/discogs/saw-sing.htm)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

wow, what a pile-up 91 is after 89 and 90! only Kylie and Jason going top ten the whole year as opposed to nearly EVERYTHING they released (except donna summer) in 89

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

What on earth are people ticking instead of "Cross my Broken Heart"?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i'd totally forgotten it. 'Toy Boy' nearly got a tick tho.

Sir Rick Of Astley

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

His voice is just heavenly. He is definitely one of my top singers of all time. Now THERE'S a list I am def going to make...

Re: Sir Rick Of Astley

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Cry For Help' wasn't too bad at the end of the day when all's said and done.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Why are people not ticking "Turn It Into Love", one of Kylie's most astonishingly underrated moments? Ah, only a single in Japan. Did Marcello once say it had a lyric like Morrissey once or did I hallucinate that in a beautiful dream? Anyway, it is GREBT and the best early early Kylie song.

I was very young when it came out, but is it ALSO my imagination that people thought "Never Gonna Give You Up" was rub but now accept it as a total classic - which it is? I liked "Cry For Help" too - didn't it have a serious video with him in a spotlight or something?

Anyway, SAW Gold is great but the results so far bear out that that first disc is hella front loaded.