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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it's better than the music one; i think he does a good job of bringing out a surprisingly strong melody and making the lyrics seem less insufferable but it's just that VOICE.

i think jlc would do a great job of 'dirrty' especially those formless backing hollers towards the end.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Even I haven't dared the Music one.

I dl'ed a good non-JLC remix of the Killers the other day, they seem to be a very remixable bunch.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

which song/who by? it might be their much-vaunted but in the original forms completely indiscernible hooks which make them so. and while his voice is a bit unpleasant in its natural state, i don't think jlc tweaked it that much to make it amazing for the rmx - killerbloke can at least hold notes.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Morel's Pink Noise mix of "All These Things That I Have Done" - he can''t quite redeem THAT lyric but most of it becomes a pretty rousing tune.