― Tom, Monday, 9 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Pity Mariah and Westlife had to spoil it. Nice to hear you've hear the hooktastic Sugarbabes track as well. Of course any follow up single will be pap but its a good debut.
I'm looking forward to U2's debut, following A1 with "The Sun Always Shines On TV"
― Pete, Monday, 9 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
On the same topic, ToTP seems to me to have gone massively downhill in the last 6 months. They have all but stopped showing videos, since presumably it's cheaper to show footage of the bands 'live'; they now ignore anything above the Top 20l; and in what I can only take to be another cost-cutting measure, regularly re-run performances by big name acts, even when the single is on its well-earned (Robbie Williams) way down the chart.
I do agree about the All Saints record. However vile they may appear to be personally, how loathsome their public personae, fashion sense, etc. etc., they do seem to be producing some pretty acceptable dream-pop, rather than doing the predictable (Spice Girls) thing, and going for that cutting-edge R&B sound. Talking of which, isn't it time someone took Mel B out and shot her?
― alex thomson, Monday, 9 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Also re All Saints, yeah it's good that "Pure Shores" and "Black Coffee" are quite different to the general r&b, but the b-side to "Black Coffee" ("I Don't Want To Know" or something) is, on brief listening, one of the best mainstream stabs at cutting edge r&b I've heard. I'm hoping the album has a mixture of both styles personally. And some garage! ;-)
― Tim, Tuesday, 10 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Tuesday, 10 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
listening to the real-audio excerpts on worldpop.com, which is the only way for an US-exiled Englishperson to get the charts decently, it seems (any other suggestions, save tuning in to the Radio 1 live feed at the right time?) - I was particularly struck by the new Vengaboys track - 'Cheekah Bow Bow (The Computer Song)'. Wow, how Kraftwerk is that? Rawk.
My friend Keef says the Zombie Nation track sounds a lot like it was composed on a Commodore 64, which is probably why we all like it so much. :)
― h0l, Tuesday, 10 October 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
These days we have seen.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 15 February 2008 10:43 (sixteen years ago) link
A glance into another world. Gratifyingly, my former self wasn't posting his usual useless one-liners on this occasion.
Somewhere between then and now, I had to ask a taxi driver to turn off "Black Coffee" on the radio, it was making me choke so much. It still kills me.
― February Callendar, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh, positively or negatively?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 February 2008 03:11 (sixteen years ago) link