The History Of Pop Part 11 aka In my imagination there is no hesitation

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

If you're like me then you'll be feeling a bit fatigued by your first day back at work. What better way to de-cobweb than with a NOW poll from the first half of 1988: The Year Pop Changed (Again). An intriguing Now, this - a disc and a half of classics rubbing shoulders with barrel scrapings, and then suddenly BANG ZOOM Now goes DANCE CRAZY. Beats! Samples! Sudden eruptions of Slade-style spelling! The best house pun title ever! Spare a thought for Climie Fisher, the victim of sequencing circumstance. Also GOTH ALERT, let's see how the Mish do on this one.

Now 10 saw M/A/R/R/S and "Pump Up The Volume" winning near-universal acclaim, and Europe's "The Final Countdown" wrestle through from the mire of Now 9. Now it's time to once again take up the burden of democracy:


[Poll #644631]


Debate, despair and debilitation in the comments box pls...

Comments

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I remember the Nana song. Belinda Carlisle, yes, god yes. Best thing on this compilation by miles and considering the second best is "Always On My Mind" that makes it very bloody good indeed.

Jellybean ft Elsa Fiorillo - Who Found Who

Is this the same El(i?)sa Fiorillo who did the cracking "On The Way Up" from about 1990?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I guess so! My source for her name (and for all track names, details etc.) may well have spelt it wrong.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

Aha, Polyhex says it is. "On The Way Up" seems to have crashed out at #83 in the UK, but it was pretty big in Australia, at least.