The Friday Canon: NO DOUBT & GWEN

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The runaway winner of the last week's Canon Selecta was Gwen & No Doubt, whose first eponymous album has been priced at £3 in HMV for the last ten years! 18 hits overall, SIX ticks to dish out for our yodelling princess & her ska-punk chums.

[Poll #1097759]
Stevie Wonder: (link)

1. Superstition
2. Living For The City
3. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
4. Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours
=5. For Once In My Life
=5. Higher Ground
=5. Sir Duke
8. He's Misstra Know It All
9. I Was Made To Love Her
10. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

Comments

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Really difficult... That's a very good list of singles, that is.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Indeed it is. I've been agonising over this list for a good 10 minutes before deciding which two of my 8 favourites to leave out. I'm not too upset about not having to tick 'Hey Baby' but I absolutely love 'Spiderwebs' so I'm gutted it had to miss out. For the record, the 6 ticks ended up going to 'Just A Girl', 'Don't Speak', 'Ex-Girlfriend', 'Hella Good', 'Let Me Blow Ya Mind' and 'Hollaback Girl'.

'Tragic Kingdom' was one of the defining albums of the 1990s. Discuss.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

I went straight to Youtube for a 'Spiderwebs' fix! What a song!

Don't Speak, Spiderwebs, Let Me Blow Ya Mind, What You Waiting For, Cool, and The Sweet Escape.

My favourites are Spiderwebs and Cool. Why does nobody else like Cool?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Cool is ok but the rest are much better!

I think I tried to ebay TK a few years ago but there were 10000x copies up there for 1p so never bothered. I'm glad I didn't!

Excuse Me Mister (http://youtube.com/watch?v=aAiySyQxQwc) is worth a listen as well - released in the US but not over here.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I HEART 'Cool'. I can never decide whether she's lying to herself or not.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Cool is great. And the Richard X remix is even better, it adds lots of sexy throbbing noises.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Cool is the best song there, I think.

[genie22.livejournal.com]

Agreed TK helped to define the nineties - ND were one of an explosion of girl-fronted groups back then.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Gwen was definitely a role model for me - even though I couldn't sing to save my life & Gwen didn't play a guitar! I think it was the lack of girliness (possibly why Don't Speak pissed me off so much!) & apparent respect she got from her bandmates (tho obv one of them was her brother and one of them she was shagging in secret, tsk how unrealistic, dunno any bands like that....)

[genie22.livejournal.com]

Gwen, Sonia, Justine, Kat B, Tori Melissa - we were spoilt for role models way back when.

Girls nowadays are deprived.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that - there are LOADS of solo women in pop right now (Lily Allen? TashBed, Roisin, Sophie E-B), just not many in indie bands (hahaha sensibly fleeing the sinking ship & going down the folk road instead, hello Feist). And what about Beyonce? I bet you anything she's more famous than Madonna at the moment - brilliant example of talented performer with an excellent business acumen, in control of her sexuality and plenty of attitude left over. I suppose it depends on what sort of role model you're after.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(also Luxurious only got to no 45!)

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

"What You Waiting For", "Just a Girl", and "Hella Good" were the three that I ended up having to give the axe. No question Tragic Kingdom was a defining 90s album.