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Post by Ape Bro'ho on Jul 20, 2025 16:45:48 GMT
It's use of sound is so imaginative. Every beat, twangy bass riff, sampled background vocal is used to create maximum drama. An amazing record. See, I hear the exact opposite. It's a 'what else can we throw at it' production, to make up for the fact that there is actually nothing interesting/good there. It's a collection of game show jingles cobbled together with an appaling vocal. Still, the public have bought much worse and praised so little in the past. Whatever gets you through the night,right. Indeed! |
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 20, 2025 18:15:56 GMT
See, I hear the exact opposite. It's a 'what else can we throw at it' production, to make up for the fact that there is actually nothing interesting/good there. It's a collection of game show jingles cobbled together with an appaling vocal. Still, the public have bought much worse and praised so little in the past. Whatever gets you through the night,right. Indeed! OOoooh...are the indie boys threatened by the dance beat.. |
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Post by Ape Bro'ho on Jul 20, 2025 18:26:29 GMT
HA ha ha
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Post by Ape Bro'ho on Jul 20, 2025 18:30:45 GMT
One of your favoured narratives that, G 🙂
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Post by Ape Bro'ho on Jul 20, 2025 18:31:23 GMT
Nice to see it again on this fine Sunday evening
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Post by DayoRemix on Jul 20, 2025 20:37:06 GMT
For such an amazing time for music, that 1991-1999 stretch is seriously lacking.. Outside of Common People, not much there.. Maybe the Nirvana track is ok, but otherwise..
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Post by Ape Bro'ho on Jul 20, 2025 21:26:13 GMT
Agreed. I wonder why. Maybe just that 'alternative' music was at its best/most interesting in the eighties.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 1, 2025 13:39:23 GMT
The most surprising and mystifying entry is The Motors 'Dancing The Night Away' winning the 1977 poll (when it was still an all-time list). Granted Peel, and his listenership, had yet to go full punk/post-punk, it was more of a mix, so it has the feel of a transitional pick. It's not a bad record as such, just a very ordinary, inoffensive slice of power pop. Difficult at this remove to know why thousands of listeners were inspired to vote for it.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 1, 2025 14:10:16 GMT
And here's its sleeve:  Interesting how quickly New Wave developed its own distinctive visual vocabulary - shortish (but not too short) hair, slightly spikey (without going the full Sid), black clothes, wacky body postures suggesting raucous, though good natured, behaviour....but a couple of members haven't got the full memo, they're still wearing flares. |
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Aug 1, 2025 14:11:23 GMT
or not
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