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The History Of Pop Part 13 AKA Acieeeed! Acieeeeed!

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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Ooh, I definitely had this one. Remember pretty much everything on it, lucky me. Think I even like 'she makes my day' at the time. Forgive, I knew not etc...

Only 5 votes for 'The Harder I Try'? Fools.

10 votes for the ffing Proclaimers. What kind of madness is this.

('Good life' should win, just for the shiny middle eight M1 bit. But it's not going to, of course. Pah)

'She Makes My Day' is one of those songs that pops up in my head now and then, inexplicably. There are only three good Robert Palmer songs (four maybe including 'I Dream Of Wires') that I know of and this bain't be one.

Yeah, me too. Always annoying. Low-key, slightly whingy 'soulful' ballad thi--GETOUTGETOUT.

Wee Papa Girl Rappers though. Have just put that on (aged top 40 cassette)and my god is it good.

hell yeah.

Wee Papa Girl Rappers never put a foot wrong, by virtue of having only released three or four singles (inc. a cover of 'Uptown Top Ranking' or did i dream that?) and they all being rather good.

No, I'm pretty sure I remember that. Although we could eb suffering from group hallucination.

'Blow the House Donw', though? HOW good?

Their LP - The Beat, The Rhyme, The Noise - is awesome too.

I don't remember any cover of 'UTR' tho.

not getting them confused with louchie lou and mitchie one (sp?) are you?

gah. quite possibly. duh.

BTHD still ace tho'

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