The History of Pop Part 15 aka Dictation enforced in Afghanistan

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The summer of 1989 getting going and a very intriguing Now - two previous winners, a Bond theme, Fat Goth Bob, Soul II Soul and JIVE BUNNY!!!! battling for your kind affections and ticks. It's all going off in 20 different pop directions - which horse do you back?

Have pity on poor Erasure, meanwhile, who lose out in a second play-off as Yazz takes Now 13 by one vote. Now 14 was won at a canter by Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance", acclaimed in the comments box as one of the great achievements of the 20th centry. The Fine Young Cannibals, Inner City and Paula Abdul provided cursory resistance. Opprobrium descended largely on M.Ball and Simple Minds (who are back again for more this time).

To the votemobile - let's go!


[Poll #653333]

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

it already displays as votes -- once morei am shut out :(

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Get one LJ account!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Bluddy hell, I don't know ANY of these songs. I was v. rockist aged 8 obv.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

The first CD is rock1st heaven ! Heavens, it's poor

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

When a lot of these songs charted I was doing my first ever summer job, on a tomato picking farm. So I associate a lot of them with having weird GREEN GOO on my hands, this has spoiled eg "Days" by Kirsty M.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Very thin pickings here in terms of wot I know... Fortunately I found a tape of NOW 17 in my flat the other day, so I loom forward to pwning that round, yes.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

License to kill

TO KILL!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The definitive version of course performed by vic_fluro

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Good to see Double Trouble and the Rebel MC made it onto a NOW! Though I don't recall "Just Keep Rockin'". The follow up "Street Tuff" was their anthem; I shall prolly start quoting the lyrics if that features on the next NOW!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

there is a line in "street tuff" which is something like:

"just keep rocking" was my last track (jam?)

street tuff is considerably better.

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

I only realised the daftness of the line about dictation being enforced a couple of years ago; clearly secretarial schools were no cakewalk under the Soviets.

I also liked to think he was singing "People in Erasure on the brink of oppression".

I really hope Snooze II Snooze don't win this one.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I kind of hope that too, I voted for them but it's never been a favourite. Their best track is "Get A Life"!

BLUE JEANS AND CHINOS, COKE PEPSI AND OREOS

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I ticked a scary amount of songs this time. but NO SHAME. although I did nearly tick Jive Bunny such is my love of the shonky megamix conceptola.

IIRC 'The Best Of Me' was Cliff's ONE HUNDREDTH single and much fuss was made about this at the time. I'd misheard them and thought they were saying it was actually he himself who was a hundred (years old).

I'd forgotten 'Jus Keep Rockin' as Rebel MC's first hit. Didn't it sample the bassline from 'The Liquidator'? Anyone YSI?

YSI of 'It Is Time To Get Funky' would also be nice as I haven't heard this since it was in the charts. L.R.S. = London Rhyme Syndicate?

The BYOBY Brown track is quite sweet, euphoric bombast - tho. I preferred 'On Our Own' from the Ghostbusters 2 soundtrack. A shame that Prince's 'Batdance' isn't on here as that was my other favourite song of the Summer.

'Manchild' really did creep me out. And it reminds me of reading 'The Trolltooth Wars' by Ian Livingston.

'License To Kill' is a good song if not a good Bond theme.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

HE WAS 100!

Jive Bunny is good and you should have ticked it, shame on you so-called 'mr bootleg'.

"Manchild" is a million per cent great.

ACID ON THE RADIO, ACID IN THE RAIN

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I can't believe it's beating Danny Wilson right now!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I agree (about "Manchild"). It has totally bonkers chord progression, something like:

Verse:
Db => E => Ab => Db => F(!) => Gb => D(!!) => E => C(!!!) => D => Daug =>

Chorus:
Bbm(!!!!) => Eb => Db => B (running out of !s here)

It's also a superior song to 'Buffalo Stance'.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I ticked teh Jive Bunny, hooray! I hated the Soul II Soul song at the time but like it now, but TRANSVISION VAMP IN GETTING MUCH POPTIMIST LOVE SHOCKER! Thank goodness we're not on ILM here, we'd all be mocked, but hey, fuck it, TV were GREAT. "I Want Your Love" was better though.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

TV were total sh1t but then I founded ILM so I would think that.

I thought a year or two ago, wow, I bet I like them now, downloaded them but - nope - still awful.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

haha, i am THE ONLY VOTER for both WATERFRONT and HUE AND CRY. i am a gurl and a wet, clearly...

for those not paying attention at the back, waterfront were kind of like a poor man's climie fisher and it took three or four attempts to get cry into the charts.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That is a very poor man indeed.

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Wow, I ticked *almost all* of the third batch. Not Gladys or Jive Bunny though. Jive Bunny were NOT the 1989 Go! Team, they were the 1989 Stars on 45 Rub Rockabilly cartoon nonsense.

The lack of love for Swing Out Sister is baffling.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I was half expecting you to berate us all for blanking Donna Allen. How about a YSI of that one? If this (http://www.soultracks.com/joy_and_pain.htm) is even half right, might be worthwhile.

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

I can barely remember most of these. I think this Now marks the point when teenage me gave up on pop.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Luckily for you we are only about 2 nows away from Now GOING INDIE CRAZY.

(well, baggy crazy)

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I am annoyed with all of you who didn't tick Inner City! I know it's not one of their peaks, but even so!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I think there's a lot of "I can't remember this at all" at play again.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i am disappointed that the poll title isn't "acid on the radio"

acid on the radio
acid on the brain
acid everywhere you go
acid in the rain

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Only 9 votes for License TO KILL???

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Soul II Soul! Arrrrrghhhhhh! An awful reminder of high school. Please forewarn me, which NOW is Killer on?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

why would you dislike Soul II Soul?

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

I almost voted for "My Brave Face" because it is very catchy -- I can instantly remember the chorus and melodies.

Then I remember that the reason that it's so catchy is because my sister played this song 100 times a day when it came out and I am suffering from sort of traumatic brain injury and/or stockholm syndrome.