Not Fade Away 2014: Daddy's Car, Eno Hyde
So here we are. 2014. Journey's end. After more than a year wandering around the highways and byways of pop's history we've arrived at the run-out groove on side two of this blog.
Not Fade Away: 60 years, 60 songs
Teddy Jamieson
Here’s the deal. Sixty years, sixty songs. One for each year since the first ever pop chart was published. It’s an impossible game but let’s play anyway. Who will be included? Who will miss the cut? Motown or the Beatles? Blur or Oasis? Not Fade Away is a celebration of the music we have loved over the last 60 years. This is my choice but we’d like to hear yours too. Comments welcome.
You can also follow on twitter @notfadeaway60
Here’s the deal. Sixty years, sixty songs. One for each year since the first ever pop chart was published. It’s an impossible game but let’s play anyway. Who will be included? Who will miss the cut? Motown or the Beatles? Blur or Oasis? Not Fade Away is a celebration of the music we have loved over the last 60 years. This is my choice but we’d like to hear yours too. Comments welcome.
You can also follow on twitter @notfadeaway60
Not Fade Away 2013: Where Are We Now?, by David Bowie
"I'm not an innovator. I'm really just a Photostat machine. I pour out what has already been fed in." - David Bowie
Not Fade Away 2011: Video Games, by Lana Del Rey
"It's you, it's you, it's all for you/ Everything I do" - Video Games, Lana Del Rey
Not Fade Away 2009: Secrets, Accusations and Charges, by David McAlmont and Michael Nyman
Whatever the reason, in 2009 I can't find anything much to like. What was I listening to five years ago? Old records, I guess.
Not Fade Away 2008: Wearing My Rolex, by Wiley
I'm very tempted to go with the latter actually. I doubt that Mariah Carey needs any defence from me. She just needs to look at her sales figures over the years. That and the fact that for the X Factor generation Mariah's melismatics are now pop's default setting.
Not Fade Away 2007: Be Mine, by Robyn
I know,I know. More tears. More heartbreak. What can I tell you? I'm a sucker for that stuff.
Not Fade Away 2005: 1 Thing, by Amerie
Or the thrill of a black planet, part 53,785 (at least). By the middle of the noughties pop music was - Damon Albarn, Xenomania and a few Scandinavians (more of whom later in this place) aside - black urban music. Pop was ruled by Timabland, the Neptunes and, in 2005, by the third great American R&B producer of the noughties, Rich Harrison.
