The Friday Canon: TRIP-HOP BATTLE

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It's Bristol! It's the Nineties! What are the kidz listening to on their 'walk-mans' on the back seat of the bus? Well, East 17 probably, but who was the real winner of the Wess Cunnry Coffee Table war? You have EIGHT ticks to dish out between Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky's UK Top 40 hits.

[Poll #1119484]
Manic Street Preachers: (link)
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. You Love Us
=3. Faster / PCP
=3. Little Baby Nothing
5. A Design For Life
=6. Everything Must Go
=6. La Tristesse Durera
8. From Despair To Where
9. Kevin Carter
=10. Revol
=10. Roses In The Hospital
=10. Theme From M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)

NB: This canon was meant to be put up in December, but I forgot. Look out for all-new Friday poll action next week!

Comments

where did triphop go in the end?

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Tentative answer: commercial apotheosis in DIDO?

The triphop = goth truth mentioned here is surprisingly undermentioned isn't it? Playing through these things now I notice they are not notably, erm, chirpy or cheery. That reminds me somehow (ok I've had a pint of red wine) of Emilíana Torrini*'s "Unemployed in Summertime" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30x3DJodf2E) (number 63 for one week in 2000, UK chart fans), which is unapologetically carefree while clearly in the triphop slipstream soundwise.

(And plus also I just noticed (rambling away from core subject here, sorry) that the colour scheme** of this vid is similar to UK top-two hit "Put Your Records On" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNK_VDQY8I) which though nohow triphop to me falls in the same ahem chickhit feelgood department; has any critic/analyst/writer ever gone seriously into colour choices for different genres in videos, photos, covers etc?)

*) sang "Gollum's Song", the end theme of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers after fellow Icelander Björk had to cancel for reasons of pregnancy

**) if this is incorrect I shall not argue, have red/green colourblindness