The Friday Canon: EAST 17

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's Britain's second biggest boyband ever from the early nineties! The chaps from Walthamstow had a great run over five years, but which FIVE of their UK Top 40 singles are the best?

[Poll #991212]

Bob Dylan: (link)
1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
2. Like A Rolling Stone
3. I Want You
=4. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
=4. Times They Are A-Changin
6. Lay Lady Lay
7. Positively Fourth Street
=8. Knockin On Heaven's Door
=8. Maggie's Farm
=10. Can You Please Crawl Out Of Your Window
=10. Rainy Day Women Nos 12 And 35

Depeche Mode: (link)
1. Enjoy The Silence
2. Just Can't Get Enough
3. Personal Jesus
4. Everything Counts
=5. Never Let Me Down Again
=5. People Are People
7. New Life
8. Master And Servant
9. Shake The Disease
=10. See You
=10. World In My Eyes

Comments

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I am cross with E17 bcs the Walthamstow Stadium was a place of CHILDHOOD WONDERMENT and they ruined it with their stupid lame crappy pop. I HATED ALL POP AT THE TIME. I still kind of hate E17, even though I did the ticks :(

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I adored 'House Of Love' at the time, but didn't like the mushy stuff. Now I love that too!

Sauce!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

On Monday I saw the video to 'Steam' on Hits!Tv, and BY GOLLY no wonder I was shocked and intimidated as a young'un! They THRUST their groins out on each beat of the intro!

It's great!

Re: Sauce!

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Part of their appeal was that they felt like a band that was slightly naughty to listen to. Or it was when I was ten, at least. Take That, you could tell your mum all they wanted was a nice chat, but East 17 were unambivalently into rudeness.

God Bless You Mr Mortimer

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"I wanna rough, I wanna tumble, I wanna do it till my belly rumbles"
"Nation against nation, LIKE PLANETS THEY COLLIDE"
"So many bombs in the world it's like a livin' mine!"

& "Stay Another Day" is just beautiful, best boyband ballad of all time possibly.

Re: God Bless You Mr Mortimer

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Eskimo suits! Best original video to be replaced by rubbish 'recording studio' video ever:

Re: God Bless You Mr Mortimer

[mippy.livejournal.com]

There was a big argument on GUT about what Stay Another Day was actually about once. It featured the resident nymphomaniac village idiot insisting it was about a girlfriend. FOOL.

E17

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Bums, I forgot about their 'Resurrection' singles:
- Each Time (1998)
- Betcha Can't Wait (1999)

ISTR they weren't any cop anyway. Phew!

Canine Conundrum Clue

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Re: Canine Conundrum Clue

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Was it PATCH??

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Actually East 17 are the perfect canon band, as all the titles of their singles feature prominently in the chorus and are BLIMMIN CATCHY. "Alright! Alright! Everything's gonna be alright!"

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Oops, I've just realised what "Its Alright" is and I've had to hastily change my vote.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

WTF did the tall one with the earrings actually DO in East 17? And the short one who wasn't Brian Harvey?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

They went like this *crosses arms in ghetto stylee*

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Deep' was my first ever CD single :)

'If You Ever' - the original (by a US r&b boy band called...Shai? Or something) was better but it's a gorgeous song and they didn't fuck it up.

Serious Political Protest

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Blimey! In retrospect, 'Gold' seems rather a strange choice for a second single:

Placed here with the Lord's care to share this earth
stop bitin' and fightin' we're just denyin ourselves
life and love is one the deeper you delve
stop killing and selling
buying and thinking of gold
forget the body and remember the soul
life is worth more than gold
a soul should never be sold
a lie should never be told
'cos life is worth more than gold

Gold we don't need it do we [etc]

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

This is the first canon ever where I have not even heard of the band in question.

FUTURE CANONS (actually maybe they've already been done): Roxette, Phil Collins/Genesis

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Phil/Genesis is already on the list. Roxette is a good call!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(By already on the list, I mean that it is lined up for a canon spot in the near future, not on the list of completed canons (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/tag/canon+index)!)

[jauntyemma.livejournal.com]

One of my friends at college had a HUGE crush on Tony Mortimer (this must've been around 1993/94 and she was about 21 so this is kind of embarrassing for her). I have to say I didn't see it myself but then I suppose he is the lesser of 4 evils in the E17 hunk stakes.

[jauntyemma.livejournal.com]

In fact this has just made me realise that my indignation at men ranking the Spice Girls in order of shaggability was deeply hypocritical as I remember doing the exact same thing with Take That in 1992.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Loved this lot at the time, but man, these songs haven't dated well except "Stay Another Day", "It's Alright" and "Deep".

Ugliest boyband ever?

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Very possibly.

I think House of Love has this one sewn up but there are other mini-House of Loves AKA It's Alright, Steam that are almost as good.

Re: Ugliest boyband ever?

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Ugly was, in this case, a synonym for "edgy".

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

It will not let me fill in the poll. :(

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Boo! LJ has been playing up for the last couple of days :(

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

If you want to know the sad case who ticked "Do You Still", and can't be botherd to look at answers, um, it was me. I'm sorry.

Still finkin' abaatcha

[greatesthit.livejournal.com]

I did too!

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Between Habitat on Kensington High St and Hyde Park, actually the next bus stop up from the high st, you can still see a faint EAST 17 logo sprayed onto a wall. I have a picture somewhere, which I cannot be bothered to dig out.