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

[(Anonymous)]

Fairly sure the chart version of the Climie Fisher song had the samples on it, because I have a vivid memory of them on ToTP miming along to the snatches of dialogue, which struck me as oddly stupid. But people still do it on Top Of The Pops occasionally, I think. Other than that, this was a terrific moment in pop history, with stuff like Beat Dis. Surprised there's no love for Come Into My Life – has the Mantronik revival passed? – Mark M

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

http://www.stockaitkenwaterman.com/interv/hc01.htm

has a bit on how Ian Curnow and Phil Harding at SAW made that "rise to the occasion" remix that became the official UK single

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

d-d-d-d-d-d-d-don't touch that! i got a little rough stomach...