The History Of Pop Part 13 AKA Acieeeed! Acieeeeed!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Our friends at Now squeeze the lemon of 1988 for one final time in a compilation perhaps most notable for the sequencers allowing their granite mask to slip for a DO YOU SEE moment at the end of disc 2. To my eyes few golden greats but a melange of covers, ill-judged revivals, former Go-Gos, new boy bands, big hippie goths, lip-synchers, blondes, thick accents and Level 42 that should at least provide fertile comments box mulch.

Now 12 saw Salt N Pepa and S Express run neck and neck for a good 25 votes until "Push It" pulled ahead. Tiffany and the Timelords close behind, Sabrina beaten by Morrissey. Glen M and "the Wets" (o horror) fighting it out for worst. Lu Cont vs The Beatles? Tomorrow Never Knows, Hey Jude, ROCKTOPUS' Garden, Free as An Bird. Oh dearie.


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Comments

I AM A GALLEY SLAVE MY WUB

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

My problems with 'Kiss':

Art Of Noise officially 'becoming' a joke, or rather the joke no longer being 'funny'

Tom Jones re-invention at this point a chilling portent of what was to come in the 90s and 00s

Prince did it better obv.

Re: I AM A GALLEY SLAVE MY WUB

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah this is all fair enough, and it's no "Peter Gunn" either. Props to Tom Jones though for sustaining his ironic career longer than his actual career.

(or was there even a difference)

Re: I AM A GALLEY SLAVE MY WUB

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

No