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Which decade is Tops for Pops? - the results.
3rd place - The 1980s. (33 points)
2005: 1st place, 34 points. 2004: 3rd place, 30 points. 2003: 2nd place, 35 points. 10: The Captain Of Her Heart - Double. 2nd place. 9: Living In America - James Brown. 2nd place. 8: Burning Heart - Survivor. 5th place, least popular. 7: System Addict - Five Star. 4th place. 6: Borderline - Madonna. 1st place, most popular. 5: How Will I Know - Whitney Houston. 3rd place. 4: Chain Reaction - Diana Ross. 1st place. 3: Eloise - The Damned. 3rd place. 2: Starting Together - Su Pollard. 3rd place. 1: When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going - Billy Ocean. 3rd place.  In contrast with the hapless, harshly judged 1990s, the decade of Big Hair, upturned collars, rolled-up jacket sleeves and saxophone solos has lucked out big time this year. Is this decidedly motley Top 10 from February 1986 really worth 12 more points than its nearest rival for third position? Did Double's weedy synth-pop and James Brown's over-produced ersatz funk really deserve to come second? Did Whitney's unexceptional dance/pop and The Damned's slightly desperate, give-us-a-hit-at-all-costs cover version really deserve to come third? And as for Batty But Loveable Su Pollard finishing any higher than fifth... HELLO, what were you thinking?So maybe the 1980s have benefitted from the luck of the draw this time. Nevertheless, in amongst all the dodgy (and remarkably similar) spray-on gloss effect production jobs lurked the odd gem or two. Madonna's "Borderline", Diana Ross's "Chain Reaction"... and OK, maybe even Billy Ocean's "When The Going Gets Tough" is ripe for re-habilitation, Guilty Pleasures style. Still, however you look at it, February 1986 really wasn't one of pop's finest hours. Little did we know that a whole clutch of era-defining moments were just around the corner: Prince's "Kiss", Cameo's "Word Up", Run DMC and Aerosmith's "Walk This Way", the renaissance of post-electro hip-hop as spearheaded by LL Cool J and Def Jam records, the dawn of DJ/sampling culture, and the emergence over the summer of Chicago house music. For me and for many other pissed-off music fans, 1986 was the year of The Rebirth Of The Groove. It's just that, looking at this little list, you wouldn't quite have known it yet. Labels: whichdecade06
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Which decade is Tops for Pops? - the results.
With apologies for the continued delay. We were out looking at prize poultry at the Manifold Valley Agricultural Show - don't scoff, the poultry was STUNNING - and then Clare Boob Pencil popped round for tea (and stayed for sardines). You know how it goes.
Equal 4th place - The 1990s. (21 points) 2005: 5th place, 26 points. 2004: 4th place, 27 points. 2003: 5th place, 25 points. 10: I Wanna Be A Hippy - Technohead. 5th place. 9: Slight Return - The Bluetones. 1st place, most popular. 8: Children - Robert Miles. 3rd place. 7: Do U Still - East 17. 5th place. 6: Open Arms - Mariah Carey. 5th place, least popular. 5: One Of Us - Joan Osborne. 4th place. 4: Lifted - The Lighthouse Family. 3rd place. 3: I Got 5 On It - Luniz. 5th place. 2: Anything - 3T. 5th place. 1: Spaceman - Babylon Zoo. 4th place.  Sharing its disgrace with the 2000s, this year sees the overall lowest scores awarded to any of our decades to date - and by quite some distance at that. (Previously, the lowest score ever awarded was 25 points.)Despite a promising start, with decent placings for The Bluetones and Robert Miles, the 1990s quickly tanked, with 50% of our selection finishing in last place. And yet, running my eye down the 1996 top ten, it looks on the face of it like a perfectly reasonable, diverse and representative selection, with Britpop, dance, soul, hip-hop, rock and pure pop all rubbing shoulders. Maybe 1996 just got unlucky, slammed into the lower positions by an unusually strong showing from the earlier decades. In particular, Robert Miles, Joan Osborne and Luniz seem to have suffered from this, with all three picking up plenty of favourable comments along the way. And I'd also put a good word in for Technohead's novelty toytown rave, and the Lighthouse Family's thoroughly pleasant MOR soul. In fact, I own a whopping 60% of the 1996 top ten on CD single, and have happy memories and associations with all of them. Nevertheless, this is a truly dismal result for the 1990s, which opens up an unprecedented 12 point gap between third and fourth places - a gap which has always existed between the oldest three and the youngest two decades, but which this year has become a yawning chasm. Labels: whichdecade06
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Which decade is Tops for Pops? - the results.
Equal 4th place - The 2000s. (21 points)
2005: 4th place, 27 points. 2004: 5th place, 26 points. 2003: 4th place, 27 points. 10: That's My Goal - Shayne Ward. 5th place. 9: Say Say Say (Waiting 4 U) - Hi_Tack. 5th place. 8: Sugar We're Goin' Down - Fall Out Boy. 4th place. 7: You Got The Love (New Voyager mix) - The Source featuring Candi Staton. 1st place, most popular. 6: Check On It - Beyonce featuring Slim Thug. 4th place. 5: All Time Love - Will Young. 2nd place. 4: Run It - Chris Brown featuring Juelz Santana. 5th place. 3: Boys Will Be Boys - The Ordinary Boys. 4th place. 2: Nasty Girl - Notorious BIG featuring Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge & Avery Storm. 4th place. 1: Thunder In My Heart Again - Meck featuring Leo Sayer. 5th place, least popular.  With each passing year, as humiliation upon humiliation is heaped upon the beleagured 2000s, so my desire to see them do well increases. It's the usual Support The Underdog syndrome, in other words. But how can you help a decade which so steadfastly refuses to help itself?Despite having disqualified one single from this year's 2006 top ten (Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)") on the grounds that it was a straight re-release (and substituting the record at Number 11, Will Young's "All Time Love"), our top ten is still riddled with re-mixes, re-makes and re-hashes. Hi_Tack and Meck have slapped perfunctory dance beats and hackneyed sound effects on top of a couple of quote-unquote "forgotten classics". An old Candi Staton vocal from 1986 gets re-issued for the third time, with yet another backing track. A rapper who has been dead for 9 years is milked for cash yet again, surrounded by as many hangers-on - sorry, sincere admirers and upholders of his legacy - as could fit in the studio. And even one of the few original compositions is a re-release from June 2005, hyped up on the back of the singer's appearance on Celebrity Big Brother. Of the acts that remain, one is another direct product of Reality TV (Shayne Ward, the recent winner of X Factor), and another (Will Young) owes his inital exposure to winning Pop Idol. Which leaves two US R&B acts (complete with their now obligatory second fiddles in the "featuring who?" slots) and one young British indie band. Hardly a vintage selection, in other words - and containing precious little that could be held to encapsulate the best of contemporary pop. And didn't this just show up in your votes! Only two songs ("You Got The Love" and "All Time Love") placed inside their respective top twos, and the remaining eight all songs placed either fourth or fifth. Is this mere generational bias (after all, the Troubled Diva readership is a tad light on Yer Actual Young People these days) - or, four years into our survey, is the consistently low placing of the 2000s an indicator of a harsh objective truth? Labels: whichdecade06
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Friday, August 11, 2006
I love it when journalists quote my boyfriend verbatim.
They cheekily describe their particular style as 'rural minimalism', preferring a clutter-free look. "We're too particular to accumulate," admits K, "we take forever placing just one ornament!" Period Living magazine, September 2006. "I like Gieves and Hawkes, Paul Smith, that British-with-a-twist look. Right now I'm in Tim Little shoes, a pair of beige trousers by Hackett and a light blue striped shirt by Gieves and Hawkes." Last night, about an hour into watching the delightfully funny and unpredictable (*) Paris When It Sizzles, starring Audrey "Goddess" Hepburn in a succession of exquisite Hubert de Givenchy tulip skirts:Nottingham Evening Post: Is It The End Of The Tie? K: Can you pause it for a moment? Now, shall we stick with the Chablis? I thought that the first bottle went so well with the film. Do you match your fine wines to your classic movies? A ballsy Bourgogne with your Truffaut? A nice drop of Gewürztraminer with your Fassbinder? Blue Nun with your Ken Russell? If so, then do share your recommendations with the group.M: You know, it's a good job there isn't a journalist on hand to write this down. (*) And suprisingly filthy for its day, if subtly so. Watch what William Holden does with the cushion while talking about censorship, just after explaining the "slow dissolve"...
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It's not often that I open my daily newspaper and shriek with delight...
 ...but that's what happened to me this morning, as I unwrapped my Guardian and saw Abby "Girl With A One Track Mind" Lee adorning the front cover of the G2 supplement. Inside, there's another gorgeous full page colour photo, and an excellent article/interview from Zoe Williams, which makes all the right points, brings up the right issues, and represents Abby to the world in a way that I found instantly recognisable.(It has also allowed me, at the privacy of my own breakfast table, to sneak the peek at her cleavage which I so rigorously denied myself when we met for cocktails in the spring - a self-denial which did not go unrecognised. ("You've been really good! You've not looked at my tits once!") But I have parenthesised long enough, and risk indiscretion.) As with Petite Anglaise before her, I am delighted to see Abby intelligently and courageously playing the hand that she has been dealt. And I can't wait to get stuck into her book, on the train down to London on Sunday afternoon (I have an appointment at Wembley with Her Royal Madgeness, of which no doubt more later). Update: Well well! It would seem that The Girl's nemesis has decided to dip her toe into the world of blogging! (Someone, somewhere - and lest you think otherwise, NOT me - is Having A Larf.)
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Stylus Singles Jukebox / Which Decade voting deadline.
(Yes, I know I've posted about almost nothing but music for the past few weeks. I'll be getting back to more of the usual balance once the Which Decade stuff is done and dusted, OK?)
In this week's Stylus Singles Jukebox, I say comparatively pleasant things about Laura Lynn (the "Schlager queen of Flanders", no less), Kasabian (you can't go wrong with a schaffel-glitter-stomp, I always say), Marisa Monte (classy Braziliana for grown-ups) and Shanadoo (yay for Japanese Eurobosh!), whilst blowing farly lukewarm over Sistem (Eurovision-related Romanian dance music can do so much BETTER). I also make a couple of appearances on the accompanying Singles Jukebox Podcast, doing the "recitative" thing. (Next time round, I'm going to make a stab at the "ad-libbed off the cuff ramble" thing, as this seems to be emerging as the predominant mode of address.) The voting deadline for this year's Which Decade Is Tops For Pops project is midnight on Thursday (UK time). I'll be announcing the results during the course of As for the next Troubled Diva podcast, that's more likely to appear on Monday (although judging by the TOTAL LACK OF RESPONSE to the first one, I MIGHT JUST NOT BOTHER, hah, that'll show them, etc etc etc.)
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