Pop Eye 15/07/01

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Since no-one else seems arsed to do it...

Go here. Comment here.

― Tim, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

SFA only at 15... blah.

― John Davey, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

SHAGGY MUST DIE.

And what is this phobia that large media outlets have with "Hashpipe"? There, I said it. Nothing happened. Doesn't make me want to go out & score some reefer. But "H***pipe" - ooo, what's the starred-out part? Ooo, it's marijuana! Ooo, I'll smoke some. Silly authority figures...

― David Raposa, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

What is up with Robbie's hair? It's certainly more interesting than his single.

― Nicole, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Texas "I don't want a lover"? It's 1989 all over again. But why? Is the song featured in a film? Do they have a Greatest Hits compilation out?

― MarkH, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Did someone say it was 1989 all over again?

― the pinefox 1989, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I din't realise Blur has a new reocrd. I wonder if it will be as much of a yawn as their last.

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Texas have a greatest hits effort, hence this lame "invisible remix" (as Gary Davies memorably said about the '91 rejig of Madonna's "Crazy For You"). My greatest disappointment is how low "We Need A Resolution" came in.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

And what is it with this Wheatus? Is this the US answer to Bush - that is, a local product that fares better as an export?

― David Raposa, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I thought you meant George Bush for a moment there...

― John Davey, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

So did I! If only we could export Dubya, but every other country is far to intelligent to let him past customs. Drat.

― Nicole, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

A nation that can accept the election of GWB without exploding into [insert non-lame metaphor here] is not worthy to kiss the silly big shorts of the Mighty Wheatus!!

― mark s, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I was actually planning on relaunching pop-eye properly this week but I've been meditating on Goat Island so I've not heard the records.

The SFA single is....OK. I mean it's great that somebody's doing it, but it's only a hairsbreadth from that awful Bran Van 3000 thing. The vocodered cut-up verses are grate, the shuffly softly-softly soulisms less so.

The Aaliyah single should have charted so much higher. Anyone know if the album's good?

― Tom, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Eww, Robbie at #1 again! I HATE THAT MAN!

― DG, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like that Avalanches single, nice little silly song. I like that bit in the D12 song when they forget the words...and start winding down. Oh, the Robbie song, I've blocked it out. Wyclef Jean rules, he wrote that song when he was in high school apparently. I can't recall the N*Sync song, just the video, and the bit where Justin is making silly noises. I like the Ash song, it's hummable.

― james e l, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Frontier Psychiatrist", the only track that irritates me on _Since I Left You_, sounds much better as a single. I suppose it isn't surrounded by other Avalanches tracks which are really much more subtle and effective, so it stands out in its rather silly glory.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I was quite disappointed that Frontier Psychiatrist entered the chart at a lower position than Since I Left You. I was expecting at least a top 5 placing.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

N'Sync roXoR, incidentally: or anyway PoPsoR..

― mark s, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i'll have to be the odd one out, and say i think robbie has made some great singles. this new one though is quite clearly shit. the roger sanchez one dropped out before i even had a proper chance to hear it, sounded pretty good though

― gareth, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Tom - the Aaliyah album is v. good I say. Not as stunning as Kaleidoscope but as a "typical" modern R&B album I can't think of anything better. None of the tracks are actually a dud = absolutely amazing contradiction of inevitable law of universe.

I like the Bran Van 3000 track, but that might be because I heard MJ Cole's superlative remix first.

― Tim, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'We Need A Resolution' = super sluggish, too saggy-arsed for the club- heads, video is nast-eee! Also note Virgin Records seeming attempt to ghettoize Aaliyah, N*E*R*D and Kelis - check the artwork, check what they're releasing as singles - screams bizzare obsession with credibility over actual bleeding sales! More affection for 'You Remind Me' with every listen, love "better sit down, this may take a while" ... 'Pop' is supreme audio-visual fun-fun!

― joel, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Texas ONLY at 16?

― tarden, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

TotP results:

1. Robbie Williams twice in one show. This is a crime.

2. Texas: not an 'Invisible remix' but a cacophony.

3. I have now heard this 'Avalanches' band you folk go on about. On this evidence, they're terrible.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well Reynard, I didn't recognise what Stargate ("who?" you say) had done to "I Don't Want A Lover" the first time I heard it. I marginally prefer it to the original, but that's like preferring a small turd to a big turd.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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