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 THE
RESURRECTION SHUFFLE
As the perceptive
among you will realise, once something becomes part of the fabric of popular
culture it is there for good. Either it bubbles along just below the surface
of the zeitgeist retaining enough adherents and picking up enough new devotees
to ensure that every so often it bursts back through into the mainstream
of popular consciousness. Alternatively, a brief exposure to the full glare
of the fashion spotlight is followed by a rapid descent into seeming cultural
oblivion. But as with comic-book super villains even the most truly naff
and despicable can never be killed off entirely. They just lie buried in
the sediment created by continuous churn-over of popular culture until
they rise or are conjured from the earth to torment some unsuspecting future
generation.
What about
the current crop of revival trends then ? Which are the phoenixes gloriously
risen from the ashes and which are the killer zombies coming to suck your
brains out ? The Retrometer probes for the answers. |
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BATTLE
OF THE POP CHARTS
Slagging off the detritus that floats to the top of the pop charts has
always been a favourite pastime of those who consider it their duty to
stand in judgement on the musical tastes of the mindless majority. Recently
this chorus of disapproval has reached a crescendo of disgust. But has
chart music genuinely reached its all-time nadir or are the legion of critics
just displaying selective memory syndrome. Let's roll back the years to 1981 and compare the UK Top Ten of the equivalent week in that year with
the current crop of bestsellers. How do the contenders stack up head
to head ?
The
Pulse Panel give their verdict here.
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