The History Of Pop Part 6 aka Just look towards the west and find a friend

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's Thursday, it's 2'o'clock, it's time for the Now poll. The series reaches surely its lowest ebb with Now 6, and evidence of penny-pinching abounds with minor hits and follow-ups all over the shop. Luckily those old faithfuls UB40 and Phil are around to 'steady the ship'. Did they ever team up? It seems inconceivable that they didn't and yet I can't remember - or my brain won't let me.

It has to be admitted that the 'bookies' have a clear favourite this time, but then the bookies certainly wouldn't have tipped Katrina and The Waves to beat out the competition on Now 5. Jimmy Nail seems to have attracted most of the DAILY HATE.

Comments, complaints, love letters to Baltimora, and musings on the impossibility of love across the iron curtain in the comments box, please.


[Poll #624179]

Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Eurythmics shd win this. It is their best song.

I also own "Fried Chicken", KT Bush, Siouxsie, Cameo. And Feargal is "on tape". All are good.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

I am hanging on for the late 80s NOWs, where it all starts to cheer up again...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

COLOSSEUM II >>> sukrat's YS-eyes light up!!

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Eurythmics were on my shortlist for worst!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I don't even remember what it sounds like!

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Do da da da da da da daaa daaaaaa daaa daaaaaa daahahaa! etc

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No-one on earth could feel like THeee-eee-EEE-eee-EEEs
I'm thrown and overgrown* with BL-EEE-EEE-EEEE-EEEEE-eeee-eeee-eees
There must be an angel
Playing with my parts**

*surely not right lyrics, correct me someone
**ok ok but that's what it's about RIGHT

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Also, the point at which Simple Minds became indefensibly awful.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Ah no they're kind of on the brink here I think.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Miami Vice Theme' was my favourite song on Now 6 at the time. During car journeys to Tamworth to visit grandparents we would fast forward the tape to it but often misjudge and have to endure the closing 30 seconds of Paul Hardcastle.

'Tarzan Boy' and 'Body Rock' obv. ace although I suppose 'Running Up That Hill' IS the best on here.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Trouble with 'Alive and Kicking' is that it got overused in adverts and football montages and the like for the next 10 years...

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Really? I would have put their on-the-brink point at Sparkle In The Rain, with DYFAM being a one off semi-successful attempt at anthemic AOR glitch. This is well over the edge into big bad gusty bollocks.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Why are you a "Blue" hata you hata?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

DYFAM is obviously better than this, but they haven't quite lost it yet. The chorus is lame, but the build up and the "What you gonna do when...?" bits are good.

Also I have a top EUROBOSH version of it which improves the original in my mind.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

well again i remember hating it at the time despite liking all other FYC songs. and when i looked at the list i thought well at least the Marillion song makes me laugh.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I can see the EUROBOSH treatment working well here, especially if Jim Kerr's voice is replaced by that of an anonymous German lass. Any chance of a YSI?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

The UB40 song is about Ali Campbell being AN STALKER (as pointed out by M Carlin one time if by no-one else) and is creepy as fcuk.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

When I found out Elton was gay I didn't believe it. 'But what about Nikita?!' I exclaimed. Obv. I was also too young and naive to realise she was only planning to marry him to get UK citizenship.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

JA.

Tomorrow.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Creepy songs about stalking not intrinsicly bad tho!

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"overblown"

the lyric AND the song hurrah! Listen to that angel voice descend through four octaves ppl!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

this was My First Now (my sister had 1 (i got thriller that year)), and thus almost perfect.





apart from all the cr@p obv.

isn't now 8 worse than this btw?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"overblown" is the word which led to the first EVER USE of "use other words plz" (the other words jimmy the mod used = "blow me")

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Disc 2 of NOW 8 is pretty dire. But Disc 1 has a good five or six classics.