The History Of Pop part 17 AKA Hey rainmaker come away from that man

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1990! TIME FOR THE GURU! Except Josh can't muscle his way in such is the amazing all-star line up on Now 17. The Now series discovers baggy and goes indie crazy, except at the same time it goes dance crazy (again!) and it's a shame only one of the stellar tracks here can win. I may be showing my age here a little - I was 17 years old and sticking the funky drummer beat under some flared mumbling was the MOST EXCITING THING POP COULD DO, bring it on Candy Flip. Phil Collins may pop up to harsh the buzz but rejoice that his perhaps worst ever hit is represented here in its comedy dance version by Jam Tronik.

The vibe was strongly felt on Now 16 with Technotronic's "Pump Up The Jam" ending up walking it, "Street Tuff" 5 votes behind in second and De La Soul third. Kate Bush got under 50%. No real consensus on worst though Wet Wet Wet and Richard Marx got a certain amount of disapproval. Definite consensus on Bros - "When Will I Be Famous?" is the one. But enough of history (like a beat up car), on to the FUTUR as it was at the dawn of an new decade...


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Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have voted for everything in the third section on RAVE PRINCIPLE! I haven't heard a couple but surely nothing called 'Everything Starts With An E' can ever be bad.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It is completely fantastic - MC Kinky is a "fast rapper" (every home shd have one) and the chorus is "ECSTASY! Everything starts with an E!" just for the hard-of-subtlety among us.

This was the era of great straight-bat "not about drugs" interviews in Smash Hits.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That sounds AMAZING. Any chance of a gmail?

(I don't know if I am going to get to download the World Cup songs by the deadline :( Am going to try my flatmate's uni computers but don't hold out much hope, mine never let me download music)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm going to YSI it tomorrow so I'll gmail it then.

Free me from this day....

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

Everything starts with an E is JOY.

There is so much JOY on this NOW, I'm finding it hard to contain myself.

sticking the funky drummer beat under some flared mumbling was the MOST EXCITING THING POP COULD DO, bring it on Candy Flip.

I have NO IDEA what you are talking about here. None.

Mind you, for me, this NOW marks the beginning of =songs which I have liked ever since then (there will be a later drop-off during my indie-student-muso-zzzzzz period, sadly) and of my 'ooh, see the liking of the indie and the dance music AT THE SAME TIME' halcyon days. (ho ho)

Got To Have Your Love Is One of The BEST things EVAR - that bassline=shivers up spine whenever I here it. Less so the 12" with the ever-so-slightly dated RAP.