Yet Another Year In Pop: 20

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The Peas finally nab their 2nd number one, Eminem and Shontelle scrape into the top 40. Plus, what do you get when a duck attempts re-entry? Geddit? RE-ENTRY.

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Lower reaches watch: this week's bizarre re-entry is Dizzee Rascal's Fix Up Look Sharp at #78. Any ideas?

Comments

[koganbot]

Wow, great song ("Who Is He"), which I don't recall ever hearing. I love the four-chord turnaround at the end of each measure. Hypnotizing.

1973 was a crucial year for my music listening, the end of the old "rock" and the mind-flipping discovery of the Dolls and the Stooges, but meanwhile I completely overlooked the music-melding and transforming evolution going on in soul and funk, and the start of disco. This track was a year after "Papa Was A Rolling Stone"; you can hear the genre seizing white "head music" and make it its own (which had been going on since the late '60s; Sly and Funkadelic would have said, correctly, that a genre divide - the one between Hendrix, Cream, etc. and James Brown - was simply being erased. But new divides were also being erected).