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

WHAT THE WORDS SOUND LIKE WHEN YR A TINY

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Sher-ler-taxi!
Sess-arsey!
Oh no, Columbo!
Ammer-tay-ash!

Re: WHAT THE WORDS SOUND LIKE WHEN YR A TINY

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i heard it as:

shirley crabtree! (aka Big Daddy)
says have thee! (prone to old-skool theatrics was he)
on a column gorge! (a well known wrestling move)
armoured A-large (he's well padded)

phew