[identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] poptimists
A close poll for Now 8 saw Run DMC come out winners with a record 30 tiXoRs - Cameo in second, and the Pet Shops and Mel and Kim in third. Glancing over the wurstvotes it seems that poor Nick Berry carries off the sausage.

And now onto Now 9. Early 87: a problematic time for pop in some ways, with questions being asked in the House the press over the sudden ad-inspired influx of old pop in the charts. I genuinely have no idea what's going to win this. Notice though the first sniffs of HOUSE MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG coming to save us from Kamen et all. UB40 and Genesis provide an air of cosy familiarity in this brave new cyberworld, though.


[Poll #632102]

Date: 2005-12-12 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
Everything on this album is terrible! (I haven't heard the Bananarama or Steve 'Silk' Hurley songs which I might be OK, but everything I have heard is WOEFUL)

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Date: 2005-12-12 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] boyofbadgers.livejournal.com
Jack yr body is ACE.

Date: 2005-12-12 04:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dorsalstop.livejournal.com
It's easily my favourite so far!

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Date: 2005-12-12 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
if Lex has not heard Taffy that is tragic. a YSI is on its way surely. also A-HA, come on, you must have heard this.

anyway, it's not that bad, but it does come after a very strong run of Nows. I think it compares quite well to recent Nows for egg.

Rockism confessional: I absolutely HATED "jack yr body" when it came out. i was not keen on this new sound. i was won round slowly.

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Date: 2005-12-12 02:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
i have never even heard of taffy before, and unfortunately a ysi will be of no use as i cannot download!

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Date: 2005-12-12 02:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
what in antirockism's dread name is the "real actual" mix? YOUR SCARE QUOTES ARE UNDERPOWERED SIR

Date: 2005-12-12 02:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] boyofbadgers.livejournal.com
I have absolutely NO recollection of that Nick Kamen record whatsoever. I do remember his pants, mind.

Date: 2005-12-12 02:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
why am i cursed to remember the mental as anything, but can't recall either Pepsi&Shirley, Bananarama or Five Star. bah

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Date: 2005-12-12 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chezghost.livejournal.com
this is a weird one for sure.

who the hell are the sodding Ward brothers?

why is Gary Moore on a NOW yet AGANE??!

'Jack Your Body' will always be good.

but come on, Livin On A Prayer! the second best 'hair metal pop' song of 1987 (before Europe, but after Def Leppard and the Mighty Mutt's 'Animal')

Date: 2005-12-12 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
i like g.moore but i wz also in mind to ask maybe did his MUM compile the nows?

Date: 2005-12-12 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chezghost.livejournal.com
I would really love to hear 'Heartache' again if anyone can YSI - in my mind it is good.

Date: 2005-12-12 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thenipper.livejournal.com
It is great - to all intents and purposes an old-skool George Michael record - P&S looked better in puffball skirts, tho.

(P&S feature in the nu GM hagiopic, incidentally, looking and sounding like the wives of Tory MPs/Daily Mail columnists.)

Date: 2005-12-12 03:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
I LUFFED Reet Petite cos of 1x claymation video!

Whoah-or-or-orh, uh-oh-or-uh-o! (PRECURSOR TO MIA METHINKS)

Date: 2005-12-12 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
how did ERASURE sneak up there to the fore --- i didn't even notice them when i didn't vote for em

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Date: 2005-12-12 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] umlauts.livejournal.com
Things to note:

People who do not like "Live It Up", "Living On A Prayer" or "The Final Countdown" are mental.

A-Ha really never put out a bad single, though "Velvet" from 2000 was a bit naff for various reasons.

Do any non-Brits like The Housemartins in any capacity?

Alcazar has not redeemed "Land Of Confusion" fully, yet.

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WHY

Date: 2005-12-12 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chezghost.livejournal.com
aren't more people loving on a prayer?

Date: 2005-12-12 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] braisedbywolves.livejournal.com
Heartache: http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2Q5HEO9K2K3CH32WQHR1ATH9I5

Taffy: http://s62.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3J734VP3XOWOY1GYMYU2H905SL

Date: 2005-12-12 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chezghost.livejournal.com
i thangk yow

Date: 2005-12-12 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com
haha, I have been vaguely in tune with all you youngsters on most of the polls so far, but I am a long way out on this one.

Date: 2005-12-12 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Crumb-buckets, this is a rum bunch to be sure. "Fuck that, let's have the JAMS", as a wise man once said on An Certain 1987 LP after replaying a typical chart rundown of the time.

I own "Reet Petite" and that's all.

"Trick Of The Night" initially got left off the Bananarama grebtest hits comp, so I don't even have that!

Date: 2005-12-14 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] plumsbitch.livejournal.com
Gordon Bennett, a weird selection. A weird selection of POO, mainly. Thank god for JYB.

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