The History Of Pop Part 21 aka It's a fine day, people open windows

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

More 'heartbreak' for Drummond and Cauty as for the second Now Poll in a row they lose out by a single vote, this time to 2 Unlimited's "Get Ready For This", whose 1-point advantage also saw off the Pet Shop Boys and Salt N Pepa in an absurdly close contest. Only one person picked Ver Limited as their actual favourite, and there was a broad spread of worsts, with Python, MacLean and "Dizzy" all getting much dissing as well as a healthy level of actual-poll support.

Pop fate however seems to have smiled on the KLF, as they get two tracks on Now 21* and a frankly weak line-up going against them, packed full of second-single-syndrome, which is particularly grievous at a time when a lot of dance acts only really got one big single. Will they prevail? Let's see.


[Poll #667724]


*even if neither of them are nearly as good as "It's Grim Up North", le sigh.

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This stuff ought to have personal significance for me, as it was what was in the charts when I met my future wife, and what's more we met at a disco, so presumably this kind of stuff was played. But the only ones I can remember were "Justified And Ancient", which she thought was weird and I quite liked, and "Bohemian Rhapsody", which we both agreed you couldn't dance to (wrongly). I can't remember any of the slow dance ones.

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

Is is it a clerical error or does Freakytigger really not like 'Justified and ancient'?!?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't like it much, no, at the time I quite liked it but thought it was disappointing after the Stadium House stuff, and it's never really grown on me since.

To be fair I like it as much as some of the stuff I did tick, so there's an element of the tacticals at work.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this is the fewest i ever voted in favour of!!

admittedly i am in a slightly take-no-prisoners mood

the answer to the third question could throw my team's entire strategy into turmoil!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Fewest I've ever voted for, too.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Also: where is the Shanice love?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Bo Rap has own Wiki entry! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Did I not vote for Shanice? That WAS a clerical error.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I cannot hear it in my head.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Maybe I should insert SPOILER WARNINGS.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Has anyone got an mp3 of BOSHemian Rhapsody I can have?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Arf!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

just in advance: SHANICE WOZ ROBBED :(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

People not voting for Opus III apall me :(

I very nearly put the Wonder Stuff as worst and the reason why is the way they garble that line at the end of the chorus, it's always infuriated me beyond reason (before Never Loved Elvis I was a good indie boy and quite liked the Wonder Stuff, this song in particular killed them for me)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Do-do-do di doo-deedle-oo
Di-di-di-di der ner ner
Do-do-do der do derdle oo derdle
I love yr smile!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

DO IT.

I wuv yr smile

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(I really do)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

See, it keeps turning into OTHER songs with doo doo doo bits! I *know* I know it but I cannot recall it.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

if only for the ORBITAL love later on.

this was my teacher training year - just to really accentuate the age range here

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, I must make my first morehardcrew post.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I used to dance around my bedroom to Opus III pretending I was a hippy innit.

I also made up several dance routines to Open Your Mind by Usura. Oh dear.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i remember Her from off of Opus III telling ver kids on a saturday morning phone in that she got her groovy hair by superglueing it. BUT DON'T DO THAT AT HOME KIDS

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I also made a clerical errosr and failed to vote for Shanice. Nevertheless, I maintain that this is the worst compilation in the entire Now series.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I shall SING it at you next time we are within singing distance.

Or I can ysi when I get home.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Cor! Maybe that's where my hair styling teknique is going wrong!