The Friday Canon: SIMPLY RED

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Quick! While bengraham's at Glastonbury! BRING ON THE HUCKNALL!

You get 10 ticks.




[Poll #1007960]


The Guns N Roses canon posted on my own LJ by mistake this morning is NOT canonical. Results of outstanding Canons will be compiled when Kat gets back from Glasto too.

Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of a non-canonical canon. Perhaps we can have a poll sometime to decide which of the Friday canons are canonical.

I cannot find a single GnR or Simply Red track I would want to tick.

helpful image to have in yr head while voting

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"for yr babies!" is what MH yells at climax

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I think I actually have danced to a Simply Red song while I was hammered once in Y hen Bae (har har my welsh grammar is so bad) which they were trying to clear the dancefloor with (Stars, I believe it was) which I subjected, along with anything in my vicinity, to my usual wild flailings. To be fair that's the kind of thing that's perfectly acceptable by 4am in a town where everyone complains about the outrageous post-midnight pricing of £2.30 per pint (£1.50 b4 12) anyway.

I do quite like several of their songs, though, including aforementioned dancefloor nightmare and 'Money's Too Tight To Mention' is ace.

Hucknall's Voice

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I frequently see people - fans and detractors - saying stuff like "Mick Hucknall is the great British soul voice of his generation" (detractors then accuse him of wasting his voice). Is this true? If so, how come his covers of great soul tracks are so unmemorable?

Also - is his Blood & Fire thing the biggest ever example of someone having very open and public and passionate musical interests which are utterly unhearable in their own stuff?

Ambushed By Unexpected Hucknall

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was travelling round Europe in 1992 when the General Election happened, and the Tories under Major won a slim and unexpected majority. The friend I was travelling with had "Wonderland", off the Stars album and about the fall of Thatcher, on a tape he'd made for the trip, and I found myself listening to it again and again and feeling very melancholy and moved. So that's Simply Red's finest hour, for me. I sort of wished he'd made more 'political' soul/pop, however oblique.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

So terrifying to realise that 'Stars' was in the first of the three polls (IE they'd already fallen off the cliff by that point)

I don't get the hate at all

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I think one can put together a perfectly fine SR Greatest Hits album, and "Holding Back the Years" really is a remarkable song. Sure it's all a bit easy listening, but I don't see how that's any worse than some of the other slightly tripped-out folk that people listen to.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

They are worse than the Beautiful South.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

"Fairground" has more ticks than "If You Don't Know Me By Now". I don't understand this. I couldn't hear what was good about "Fairground" then, and certainly can't now. Was it as ubiquitous on radio as the average UK #1? To me, none of Hucknall's redeeming characteristics are on it!

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Ha, you thought I wouldn't see this, but I did. However I will not leave Poptimists as promised, since you did this in my absence, and clearly no-one could be bovvered to vote anyway because he is so RUB.