NOW 66

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Hello poptimists, it's time to once more celebrate the great institution that is NOW compilations, giving your mum the chance to discard the popular music of a full six-month time period using only a handy two-disc/tape compilation since 1981.

We do this, like all things, with ticky boxes. Today we are ticking songs from NOW 66, released early in 2007, I think. Over the next indefinite time period I will be posting the rest of the compilations up to the current one for your ticking pleasure. Click the tag if you'd like to peruse back-issues of the NOW polls, the Hall Of Fame created from the polls is viewable in the userinfo.

[Poll #1226975]

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

this may be Girls Aloud's worst showing in a NOW poll ever.

where have half the acts on this one gone? we don't seems to have heard from them since...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I feel this is something to be profoundly thankful for!

(I think the answer is that given the timing of this poll most of them are in the middle of the usual two-year gestation period for their next album)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well I also think that a dirty secret of the Nu Indie is that it's shortened the band turnover cycle even more than in the high days of manufactured boybands etc. One album and a flop follow-up (if that) is pretty much yr lot these days I think. It was ever thus in the world of indie but the difference is that now the one successful album is an actual success, it's just that hardly any of the acts seem able to build up a loyal fanbase - probably because they're so incredibily identikit. How did the second Fratellis record do?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

surely "how did the second fratellis record dododo, dododo, dodo-dododo"?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Badly. But better than they'd been doing in 2007, actually.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I thought the GA covers might have aged well. YouTube corrected me.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"I Think We're Alone Now" is pretty good but still a bit pointless given how iconic (and endlessly revived) the Tiffany versh is.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i don't think anything is going to improve Walk This Way unless personkind suddenly evolves and no longer needs ears...