The Friday MEGA Canon: CARTER USM vs THE WONDER STUFF vs PWEI

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's the Grand Battle of Grebo: just ELEVEN ticks across all three bands' UK Top 40 singles!

[Poll #1062623]
Green Day: (link)

1. Basket Case
2. Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)
3. Welcome To Paradise
4. American Idiot
5. Longview
6. Warning
=7. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
=7. Holiday
=7. Minority
=7. Wake Me Up When September Ends

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

THANKYOU KAT YOU HAVE MADE ME A HAPPY WORKER

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Pleasure :)

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Wot no Neds?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Only 5 top 40 singles.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yeah! we want neds!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This was actually quite difficult! PWEI's best singles (Can U Dig It excepted) didn't go Top 40; I ticked all the Carter traXoR I actually like that are on this list, and I couldn't bring myself to tick more than one thing by the awful Wonder Stuff.

Moonshine Firewater Captain Morgan Johnnie Walker

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I actually thought Carter had more hitZoR than that too - shame no room for Anytime Anyplace Anywhere in the hearts of the UK public.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I only realised Def Con One wasn't in the list just after posting the poll, hence Big Mac Fries To Go being a question heading... It only got to number 63!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

do i get a tick limit?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

much as i love carter, pwei just got better and better.

WHO WANTS TO BE THE DISCO KING

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This is a very bad record. But not even the worst Wonder Stuff single. Did the one where pop's Mr Controversy Miles Hunt expressed the shocking opinion that paedos were bad chart?

Re: WHO WANTS TO BE THE DISCO KING

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I have absolutely no recollection of this record, which I can only reckon a good thing.

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

I had Sheriff Fatman in my head all morning, and had only just shifted it. Damn you.

Slightly random qn

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

When did PWEI become so beloved of thee children ov thee night? When I went to their reunion gig a couple of years ago fully half the audience were of a gothickal persuasion, but I don't remember them having any significant goth following at all the first time round.

Re: Slightly random qn

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

nu metal nexus?

Be Honest Now

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

If "Beaver Patrol" had charted, would you have ticked it?

Re: Be Honest Now

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Not if Def Con One and Wise Up Sucker had also charted.

my conclusion

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

none of you have HEARD bulletproof :-(

Re: my conclusion

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I have. Many times. It's a bit pants.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

There was a time when indie-punk outfit Carter USM were always in the charts but their distinct sound has seldom been copied. (http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/09/atwhich_successful_bands_havent_been_influential.html)

Favourite quote:

"When Britpop happened everybody realised that they could rip off Oasis and so there were hundreds of new bands. Then Radiohead came along and nobody could work out how Jonny Greenwood played his guitar so it all went a bit quiet. Now, if they want to rip off The Libertines and the Arctic Monkeys, it's a fucking doddle!"

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I am shocked and horrified.

NO TICKS EVER!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hein? whut?? you love it :)

NEXT SATURDAY!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ALL GREBO, ALL THE TIME! if i hadn't had my poppies t-shirt nicked at glasto 2000 (THE BASTARDS) i'd get it out of storage...

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

very much like scruffy pigs to look at

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i am listening to box frenzy as i type

Rubbish

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Did this single get many humourous one-word reviews?

Coldest stream guards of them all

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I can't believe Bloodsport For All didn't chart!

Re: Coldest stream guards of them all

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it was BANNED, BANNED I tells ya!!!

Attn Jeff

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

We've already done an ELO canon!

Re: Attn Jeff

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

It is not in the index (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/311732.html)!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

We got lines fly like an eagle
The rhythm it smokes more than a beagle

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

I remember a LOOOONG time ago on ILM, Tom started a thread that was basically "Convince me I was wrong" where people dare others to listen to songs or artists they had stated in the past disliking.

So I uploaded The Wonder Stuff's "Who Wants To Be The Disco King?"

Tom listened, and wow, I had to back away from the bile! I never knew until that point how fearsome Tom could be!

This is the only Wonder Stuff song I still occasionally listen to, and the CD-single is the only Wonder Stuff item I still possess... I don't share the sentiments expressed in the song at all, however being that it's the Stuffies' most danceable song (imho), I enjoy the irony. I love the rolling tambourine during the chorus. (The B-sides are also XLNT.)

Then again, I think the U.S. was more friendly to the Stuff than the UK ever were, despite the huge UK press they got. (or am I wrong?)

Where Is The Love For There Is No Love Between Us Anymore?

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

Many essential PWEI singles were left off the poll! There were even two version of "There Is No Love" even, containing the excellent scratch remix.

No "Love Missile"? No "Def Con One - The Doomsday Powermix"? No "Another Man's Rhubarb"? No "Beaver Patrol"?

Re: Where Is The Love For There Is No Love Between Us Anymore?

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

None of them were Top 40 hits, unfortunately.

I feel fairly confident in saying

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

this scene is one of the brightest examples of a sound (or scene? you tell me) that failed to cross the ocean. i have sound dim concept of all of these groups, but couldn't tell you a thing about any of their songs if my life depended on it.

(but i would've voted for Neds if they'd been in the list)