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.


[Poll #648625]

Comments

YOU ARE AN OCEAN WAVE MY LOVE...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of rub on here but nothing actually THAT awful, except 'A Groovy Kind Of Love' perhaps but I can't seem to really stir up real hate for that myself.

I can't remember how the Duran song goes. Or the Human League one.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

erasure cannot win surely!!? *jabs repeatedly at bobby mcferrin button*

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

close between yazz and wiedlin there (for me).

Breathe - Hands To Heaven??

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This could be a close one.

"Kiss" - pop classic, embarassing novelty, or both? (or neither?)

Transvision Vamp ditto.

Was this some kind of era for knowing chart pop I wonder?

I quite fancied the laydee from All Abt Eve.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

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)

IF YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A DRUG, NOW YOU KNOW YOU'RE WRONG

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I do think the listing of Duran Duran after Transvision Vamp is INSPIRED. Are there any other examples of this meta-hilarity within the NOW! tracklistings?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

To my eyes few golden greats

Oh I don't know. This looks like a good NOW to me. I own:

Yazz
"Wee"
PP (not keen on this one actually)
AA Eve
Acieeeeeeeeeeeed
"Teardrops"
B. Ferry (but this, like The Hollies, is a re-release due to a TV ad or something so doesn't count)

and I like a few of the others (Jane W, Robert P, Bobby McF, Yello, "Big Fun" and... Phil Collins, which is one of the very few modern i.e. post-1959 pop records that my late mum ever liked. I had to tape it for her.)

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

I feel compelled to point out that the Womacks' 'Teardrops' contains the only mention of Everett True in a top ten hit.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't actively know how any of these go except WPGRs and Yazz, I'm voting almost entirely on principle here.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Why isn't "Can I Play With Madness" on there? It got to number 3, and is way more pop than most of these.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Phew, that's good to know.

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

I should have voted for Transvision Vamp as the best. :(