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Popular ’92
I give a mark out of 10 to every track – this poll is for you to tick all the songs you’d have given 6 or more to, and you can discuss the year in general in the comments box.
Loading ...A year of few number ones, though it took me an age to finish. My highest marks were 8 for Shakespear’s Sister and Charles And Eddie; lowest was a 2 for Wet Wet Wet. Onwards!
Bobby “Boris” Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers “Monster Mash” stands out for me. 1962 might be a bit late for R&R parodies, but it’s really a parody of dance crazes than the music itself. It got the #3 slot in 1973 and has been a required feature of any Halloween party I’ve been to. Bobby Pickett has subsequently made a lucrative career from this one song or derivatives of it. It also works as a stand-alone pop song, which the best novelty records seem to achieve. I’d count “Yakety Yak” among those, definitely.
There were novelty punk singles the very moment “Anarchy” was issued. jking, for one
What’s JK’s novelty punk single? None of his ’75-’76 releases seem to fit the bill. Perhaps it was a bit like this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELKb-lcW4e0&feature=player_detailpage#t=70s
I’m surprised about the comments about disco above – I thought it was one of the (few?) musical developements when it was agreed on exactly what year it not only started (1974) and that it became very big (pop number 1′s etc) straight away (George McRae) by the end of 1975 it was so big there were already articles saying was it was on the way out. Little did they know!
#78: It was “God Save The Sex Pistols” by “Elizabeth.” Which wasn’t very funny.
Yes. I’m assuming it wasn’t funny, never heard it.
Mind you, as Jonathan King would doubtless be the first to tell you, he recorded a song called “Anarchy Rock” as a b-side to The Weathermen’s “Honey Bee keep on stinging me” (ooh if only!), back in 1971.
He also recorded a “punk” single in 1972 entitled “Supershit.”
Let’s not talk about him too much, he might turn up.
He really might. Maybe here’s here already.
Good spot FG, Monster Mash was the signified that the dance craze started by Chubby Checker was in decline. No hits for Chubby, Dee Dee Sharp, The Orlons or The Dovells – all Philly dance craze specialists – after MM.
Is it ‘affectionate novelties’ I’m thinking of? Snidey ‘satire’, whether it’s J King or Stan Freberg, only tends to happen when a genre emerges. Not sure where Disco Duck fits into this pattern.
Signifier, I meant.
That’s probably it, yes: The “Think” sample of James Brown going “yeah, hoo!” never got used again after Bombalurina’s “Itsy bitsy”, also the “ah yeah” too,.
Also, Aneka’s “Japanese Boy” killed the NME sponsored JapPop movement stone dead!
an article in this week’s edition of the New Statesman magazine identifies 1992, with John Major’s victory in the General election as the ‘end of socialism’ in the UK:
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/education-labour-benn-school
Those Finnish 1992 no.1s in full:
Good year for Felix. And Lithium at no.1! I’d like to hear Moogetmoogs. Neon 2 I’m guessing were a Finnish 2 Unltd-alike?
Jan 20 The KLF – Justified & Ancient
Feb 17 Moogetmoogs – Kolmen minuutin muna
Mar 2 Hausmylly – Gigolo
Mar 16 Popeda – Kersantti Karoliina
Mar 30 Kurre – En rakkauttas saa
Apr 13 J. Karjalainen – Telepatiaa
Apr 27 ZZ Top – Viva Las Vegas
May 11 DJ Konnat – 9700-Irma
May 25 Wilson Phillips – You Won’t See Me Cry
Jun 8 Kaivo – Kun olet mennyt
Jun 22 Erasure – Abba-esque
Jul 20 Nirvana – Lithium
Aug 3 Madonna – This Used to Be My Playground
Aug 17 Shamen – L.S.I.
Aug 31 2 Unlimited – The Magic Friend
Sep 14 Neon 2 – Polku
Sep 28 Felix – Don’t You Want Me
Oct 12 East 17 – House of Love
Oct 26 Neljä Ruusua – Juppihippipunkkari (Remix)
Nov 9 Felix – It Will Make Me Crazy
Nov 23 KCD – Simo Goes Poing!
Dec 21 Colours – Help Us Back Home Sarajevo
The final Number One of 1992 presumably a comment on the Bosnian war, which began in April of that year.
Colours, whoever they were, beating U2 and Pavarotti to the punch by three years.
Yes, intriguing. The official British line was still “they’re all as bad as each other”, and would be for some years.
The penultimate no.1 was presumably a comment on Gabber.
Kat of this parish is doing OneWeekOneBand again. She’s going to be talking all week about The Fall!!
http://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/67987229739/coming-up-the-fall