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

gotta have some enya here too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrk4X9ACtw&ob=av2n

Basia's New York London Warsaw was an integral part of winter and summer road trips in 1990.

well into the 90s i confused swing out sister and everything but the girl

this basia.. i do not know. that song is pretty annoying though? enya is in a league of her own

good call re everything but the girl

sorry that screen name was tasteless

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Uh...quickest poll yet?

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

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.

The correct results were nonetheless achieved.

Hahaha, I did not get to vote!

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

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

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.

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

'new day for you' is still so ufw

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

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)

Fuck, the Barbara Acklin original is so good

Basia is better than Xanax imo.