The History Of Pop Part 10 aka I see the A Team the A Team the A Team

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the final Now poll of the year, starting slightly early to make way for a Wobs do. Next week people will be going home for the hols and so polls will resume when we all get back in January, bright-eyed and itching to vote for Climie Fisher. Meanwhile here's 1987 in full cry - several strong possibilities including a festive coinky-dink at the end.

NOW FACT: Madonna has never appeared on a Now album! Her ex shows up on this one though.

Now 9 elicited little enthusiasm, and whoever wins will win with the lowest % of votes ever, under 2/3 of ticks. It's between the Rasies, the Jovies and the Euries. Simply Red and UB40 seemed the most disapproved of.


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Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

are curiosity killed the cat the same people who did 'don't you worry bout a thing?' cos i heard that in the pub last night and it's a v special song indeed. i haven't heard this one. or the t'pau or the heart, both of which i suspect are ace.

i haven't heard my choice for the now 9 winner either but it has to be better than the other two MONSTROSITIES

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Lex you SURELY have heard the T'Pau!

I am not sure about CTTC - the only "Don't You Worry Bout A Thing" I can remember is a lot older, Stevie Wonder I think did it.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Not to my knowledge!

It probably was Stevie Wonder, there were lots of songs in the pub which I'd never heard before which were allegedly very famous, including the first Rolling Stones song I've actively enjoyed (it was called 'Brown Sugar')

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hah that's one of my least favourite Stones songs. Not that I'd class myself as a 'Stones fan' really.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

My only previous encounters with them came in the form of Exile On Main Street which is fucking terrible and which put me off all further investigation, and the original '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' which is not as good as either the Bjork/PJ Harvey cover or the Britney cover.

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The original Satisfaction is smart and sharp and funny, I think it's Good Pop.

I have never heard Exile: I once borrowed the tape off someone and it didn't work, unless the album actually is that sludgy.

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

exiles actually contains my favourite obscure songs = HIP SHAKE -- but it is more abt seedy "adult" ambience sukpop reinvention than "proper" pop

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the cd copy of the album i once owned is very sludgy.

i like 'satisfaction', it's a good song, but i heard the covers first and they're embedded in my head as the definitive versions, and the rolling stones can't compete with bjork or pj harvey or britney in terms of performance

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

incognito did an cover of don't you worry about a thing.

misfit is CCTC's best song, also it has andy warhol in the video pretending to be allen ginsberg in the subterranean homesick blues "video"

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ah THAT'S where i heard it before!

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

DOH should have read all the comments before adding my tuppence. BAH

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[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Carol Decker of T'Pau sounds somewhat like David Surkamp of Pavlov's Dog, except he is obviously more feminine and far higher-pitched.

Don't You Worry Bout A Thing

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Er wasn't that Incognito?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

The version of DYWBAT I remember is by Incognito in the early 90s