[identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] poptimists
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...
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Date: 2006-01-03 02:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
OF COURSE, stutter rap is the only truly indefensible song on this compilation.

having said that i still know all the words

Date: 2006-01-03 02:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
Was it a real trumpet tho?

was there a specific remix that had "i know you gonna dig this" sample at the start of the Climie Fisher? I know i've heard a slightly less erm "beat-y" versh of it, and assume that that was the original that got spiced up with Bomb Da Bass style phat dope gubbins.

what a great 3rd batch - minus minor. i bet "jack and chill" is great, i just don't recall, so left that unticked.

this is of the era of the best run of #1s ever (inc the first two tracks here)

Date: 2006-01-03 02:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
All the ones I've heard on this are pretty good yknow, except Elt-ron and Morris Minors. Hurrah for Jack n Chill!

Date: 2006-01-03 02:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com
Exactly why was Candle In The Wind out at this time? Diana hasn't been dead that long, surely?

I have a colleague who looks just like the very annoying Tony Hawks of Morris Minor and the Majors notoriety. Fortunately he is not inclined towards rapping.

Date: 2006-01-03 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
here is a way to remember the difference. jack to the sound of the underground is the one that goes "jack to the sound of the underground" and makes you think David Baddiel is going to appear

Date: 2006-01-03 02:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
he was going to throw a bottle he was gonna

chuck a can
chuck a can
chuck a, chuck a
chuck a can

how we larfed

Date: 2006-01-03 02:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
YES, the disky "more greatest hits of 80s" versh of RTTO is SAPPY and beatless, whereas REAL ACTUAL uk chart versh was aces.

Date: 2006-01-03 02:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
OOO-EEE, YOU BVGGER!

Date: 2006-01-03 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
...i was down on my luck
and dying for a ffff

riend to say YOU'RE GREAT
but i'm under the hammer
cos all i seem to do is stammer

ectectect

Date: 2006-01-03 02:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
was there not a "twomexicansapuertoricananda[somethingelse]" as well?

also i have recently seen a band listed in the graun guide with a wimilar name involving "hos", tut, these young people eh?

Date: 2006-01-03 02:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
CURSE YOU DISKY

Where RTTO drops in is one of the highlights of the DJ Yoda 80s album

Date: 2006-01-03 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
THIS IS WHY THE SLUSH FUND EXISTS!!!

Date: 2006-01-03 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
also i noticed fopp have been knocking out various older nows for a fiver!

Date: 2006-01-03 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

Date: 2006-01-03 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2006-01-03 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
wow, there's a real "3rd single after the hit" feel to the vast majority of that isn't there?
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