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 :(

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

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

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Get one LJ account!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha oops that wz me -- i logged out to see if i could "be" lord sukrat but was duly punished for my boldness when i forgot to log in again

[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.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

So can you now not vote as yrself?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think there are some grebt tracks on it! "Good Thing"! "Americanos"!

[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]

Too rock1st to listen to r0ck! I can't remember anything about the Queen track apart from the obv, following that logic, the rest of it must be pish too.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

License to kill

TO KILL!

[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!

[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.

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

I think it was used in an Argos advert. And if it wasn't it should have been.

[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"!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The definitive version of course performed by vic_fluro

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a bit rub.

But it's still one of the few tracks here that I own (De La, Neneh and "Back To Life" being the others). I was pretty much buying only stuff endorsed by Reynolds, Stubbs et al in MM by this point.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

only when logged out! (i have voted as myself and vow never to pretend to be lord sukrat EVAH AGAIN)

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!

[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.

Re: ACID ON THE RADIO, ACID IN THE RAIN

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

I can't believe the Cure are beating the PSBs! Everything they told me about lj is TRUE!

Re: ACID ON THE RADIO, ACID IN THE RAIN

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I think this is one of the PSB's weakest singles whereas 'Lullaby' is one of The Cure's bestest.

[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.