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

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

i really like all of the versions of candle in the wind--and i cant exactly pinpoint why, i think it might be because Sir Knight is so fucking shameless, his lurid taste for melodramatics, his faggy tastes for "dead blondes", all of that, has this kind of panto qaulity, this silly sad thing, where he is the most genuine in the world, but also completely fake, there is no tension between inauthentic and authentic, between real and commerical...

it reminds me of vegas era, bad taste, elvis, singing the America triology:silly, overblown, odd, and lurid, obv. almost done, but everytime i hear it i get a lump in my throat and i believe in a country where the poor boy from tupelo can get to this point in is own decay...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I like this reading. Doesn't make me want to hear the rekkid tho.

I think it's interesting that they put Morrissey next to Elton, though Moz at this stage wasn't full-on into his street-fighting, death and sentimentality kick.