Late '80s Female Sophistipop Showdown (White Chicks Division): Swing Out Sister vs. Basia

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Uh...quickest poll yet?

Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 November 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link

it's like the breakdown at the end of 'breakout', all you can do is hold on to yr seat and marvel at it

balls, Friday, 11 November 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link

i meant for this poll to end on 11/11, meaning tomorrow in my time, not "today" in the rest of the world's time.

patio hunter (get bent), Friday, 11 November 2011 02:21 (twelve years ago) link

The correct results were nonetheless achieved.

Sean Carruthers, Friday, 11 November 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link

Hahaha, I did not get to vote!

Tower Feist (Eazy), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 06:57 (twelve years ago) link

Damn, I missed this poll. I just got Basia on mp3. My little sister had it in high school....I have to go with Basia here.

Intro of Breakout sure sounds like West End Girls. Missed the poll, but I'm with the sister

Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link

Corinne Drewery's vocals on the chorus of this ACR track are lovely. I think, making a rather starchy funk tune something quite special, esp towards the fade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YQ92tluUC4

sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

So weird that these were the options in this poll I've never seen before, because I've been volleying these songs back and forth on Spotify for a good part of the past hour.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 22 February 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link

I listen to way more Basia than is in any way defensible.

Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Saturday, 22 February 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

'new day for you' is still so ufw

maura, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link

two years pass...

Latest Swing Out Sister album is a pretty decent slice of sophistipop.

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link

two months pass...

Something tells me this paragraph violates Wikipedia’s style guidelines:

Although Corinne Drewery rendered what is possibly the definitive vocal interpretation of the song, the Swing Out Sister recording contains a lyric which their fans have interpreted as being "Am I the same girl who knew her soul?" Still others have interpreted the line as "Am I the same girl who knew YOUR soul?" If one listens to the song as sung by the very first vocalist to record it, (Barbara Acklin, literally before the piano instrumental hit which debuted the song in 1968) one hears Acklin sing "Am I the same girl who you hurt so?" This would seem to be the original line in the song—because of Barbara Acklin's personal relationship with the writer of the song, in 1968. This is somewhat confounding in light of how the Swing Out Sister recording sounds to those who have been motivated to present the lyrics online.

(via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_I_the_Same_Girl)

a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link

Fuck, the Barbara Acklin original is so good

a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

Basia is better than Xanax imo.

Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Thursday, 12 March 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link


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