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Hanson had a massive number one! Backstreet Boys! N*sync!

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link

they were all shit.

srsly though, none of them were that impactful, especially not n*sync.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Mmm Bop! is the best song ever!

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Sketchy details of Noel G's state of the nation address:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6364089.stm

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Mmm Bop! is the best song ever!
-- acrobat (kowalski9...), February 15th, 2007.

http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/ritalin/gfx/ritalin_large.jpg

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly though, none of them were that impactful, especially not n*sync.

backstreet boys gave the world the max martin sound which basically ruled pop for a few years, you may have heard of this singer called britney spears for example

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Destiny's Child didn't mean anything until summer 99 over here when "Bills Bills Bills" and that one about bugs menaced the charts, and you'd have a hard time convincing anyone that DC are a 90s band not a 00s one.

N'Sync never went top 10 in the UK until 1999 as well.

xxxxp

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i think you mean max martin gave backstreet boys the max martin sound, and it did not rule pop, it produced some very successful records, mostly for britney, for a couple of years.

xpost

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"backstreet boys gave the world the max martin sound"

gets more wtf every time i read it.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

1999 is the late nineties! Backstreet Boys had a UK no 1 in 99 but had been charting solidly since 1996. Blink 182 didn't break in the uk until 2000! thats only a year before sum 41!

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

a *lot* of people had #1s in 1999. backstreet boys were just not a big noise in pop music! and anyway they were shit.

Blink 182 didn't break in the uk until 2000! thats only a year before sum 41!

QED

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll give you Backstreet Boys tbh, their chart run from 1996 is pretty impressive. And 1999 is not the late 90s, it's one year of it.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

"What's My Age Again?" only charted at 38. That seems ridiculously low considering how much I remember it being played out.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh but blink were around a long time before and are certainly a lot older than sum 41. motivation is so great.

backstreet boys were just not a big noise in pop music!

wrong

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"What's My Age Again?" re-entered at 17 the following year.

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i suppose i forget that the media landscape of ten years ago was v diff, so you could still sell lots without being 'impactful'. i watched a lot of tv and listened to a lot of radio back then but don't remember the backstreet boys at all (other than 'backstreet's back' and that one ballad). whereas i hardly listen to the radio at all now but seem to osmose bullshit about rubbish pop stars (winehouse, allen) anyway.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

paul as the only person on this thread who seems to want to talk about the subject at hand (i've lost track of what this even is) with any enthusiasm, why on earth do you do it with people whose only interest is in snarking at everything and anything regardless of what it is?

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

If you don't know what the subject at hand is how do you know we're not talking about it?

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

um the subject is the brit awards, not boy bands of the late '90s.

but we are now on 'impactful US bands of the late '90s'. i'm not merely being snarky, i just never drank the kool-aid wrt backstreet boys. i feel no enthusiasm for them!

or the max martin sound. which other than britney's early stuff, seems to consist in the aforementioned BSBs, some n*sync, and fucking 5ive. oh and the odd bryan adams track. kudos to max.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

This kinda impacts on a thread that I was gonna start earlier in the week but couldn't think of a decent opening for, which is that 1999 is the most mis-remembered year in popular music ever.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

it is round these parts, aye.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

People think it was this wonderous sugarland of happy pop music created by magical Swedish wizards and sang by happy smiling young things. In reality, the top 40 was 39 trance singles and a Travis song.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

and 'tequila'.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Terrorvision appearing on Noel's House Party: the moment that rock came back. Everything since has just been dressing.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched Dragons Den followed by The Verdict. Hard to know where one ended and the other began.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

'the truth is what you believe' is a truly scary tagline for a show about a rape trial.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Did any Britpop bands appear on Noel's House Party?

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

apart from the famous denim/auteurs ep obviously.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i went for lunch. i dunno these things can be good if they get going.

xp to lex

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Noels House Party didn't feature bands till really near the end of its run BUT i do remember the spice girls opening the show and the introduction of a liam galleghar look a like who smashed mellons into the audience.

interesting point about 1999 cos the brits of that years are really odd. des'ree, belle and sebastian, manics all winning ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_Awards#1999 . i think the thing about this years is that for all the snark and so forth uk pop at the moment really has it sewn up, commercially at least. this current fecundity has been going on for what 3 or 4 years british acts are starting to really make it in the US. the weird thing is that the brits can't actually be triumphant about it. well they can but it rings hollow. you have all these acts making serious money but for some reason it all needs to be wrapped up in this mythos, all this baggage from punk and britpop. things can’t just be a collection of good songs or whatever they have to at once dangerous and prove the collective musical / moral worth of the nation.

There is this bit in the middle of What’s My Age Again that is almost unspeakably beautiful. It's like 74-75 moving but in the middle of this upbeat tune. Wow.

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6365325.stm

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, so it was controversial after all. Well done, Russell.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh and what was all that "plunging the sound into the bottom of the swimming pool" ?

There wasn't any swearing during the lead break in "Don't look back in anger" was there?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

The sound kept going off "at their end" during Oasis. I didn't think it was anyhting to do with swearing, I thought it was just incompetence.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

ha it's weird that seemingly controversy = relevancy to these people. why can't the music alone be enough. if the presenter is supplying the "edge" or whatever how bloody contrived is that. all ther performances were rote, really unexceptional. why can't britain ever do things like prince at the superbowl, why can't we seemingly do big music events with any pizzaz. tbh the big stories of the last few brits have been americans (and australians) coming over and doing good shows last year prince and kanye, 2003 timberlake and kylie bum grabbing. is the biggest uk music buying demographic really 20 something with i-pods?

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

DJ Marcrobat

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't know what you want from it, paul.

i guess sneakingly i want it to be shit, and for someone to show it to be shit. but the modern MO is 'get your retaliation in first' ie have a presenter who hates it and bands no-one could possibly care about either way. what would be the point of 'upstaging' something so desperate to shock.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

But yeah, British bands don't understand showmanship AT ALL.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

In that case they should have brought back Noel Edmonds to present (xp).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i want fireworks and a marching band which lights up and huge fucking explosions and i want a medley that starts as a greatest hits set then goes into pie jesu and fall out boy and i want 100s of dancers and i want a fucking awesome shreddy guitar solo and i want a stage that lights up like something out of final fantasy 7 and i want some great songs and i want more fireworks and i want an omg duet and more fireworks

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

oh i get it now. you're one of these emos.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh that was your average sunny day real estate show back in the day

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I'd like the Stooges on.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh, there teaming up with kode 9 and the spaceape next year, it's booked already.

― acrobat (acrobat), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Was there anyone involved in the ceremony this year who wasn't a complete and utter cunt?

-- Sick Mouthy (njsouthal...), February 15th, 2007.

nick gets it, although i can't say i watched the blessed thing.

― unfished business (Scourage), Friday, 16 February 2007 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

what no one explained to me was how joss stone seemed to have *planned* and (under)rehearsed this whole thing. the whole out-in-front-of-the-podium-i-wanna-tell-you-a-storee affair. the arrogance of the womanchild! hillariously she's been 'serrenading the president' lately which perhaps accounts for the wee poppet thinking that now teh whole world wants to hear what she has to say!

even more hillariously she has no auto-filter or whatever on her myspace page leading (by last night at least) to a deluge of 'oh you have let us down so badly' type comments on there for teh world and his wife to gawp and cringe at.

― pisces (pisces), Friday, 16 February 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i was thinking about how they could improve the show

― resumo impetus (blueski), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

see my post about 8 or 9 up

― acrobat (acrobat), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Tits and guns.

― White Collar Boxer (DomPassantino), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i think kirsty wark should compere. give it a bit of frisson.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Friday, 16 February 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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