ext_88055 ([identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists2007-05-25 12:43 pm
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The Friday Canon: EAST 17



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

[identity profile] catsgomiaow.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
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 :(

Re: Sauce!

[identity profile] ms-bracken.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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God Bless You Mr Mortimer

[identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"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

[identity profile] mippy.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

Re: Canine Conundrum Clue

[identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Was it PATCH??

[identity profile] ninebelow.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oops, I've just realised what "Its Alright" is and I've had to hastily change my vote.

[identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
WTF did the tall one with the earrings actually DO in East 17? And the short one who wasn't Brian Harvey?

[identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
'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.

[identity profile] justfanoe.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
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

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[identity profile] jauntyemma.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] jauntyemma.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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[identity profile] umlauts.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] awesomewells.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] ms-bracken.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugly was, in this case, a synonym for "edgy".

[identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It will not let me fill in the poll. :(

[identity profile] umlauts.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] greatesthit.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I did too!

[identity profile] mippy.livejournal.com 2007-05-25 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
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.