Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 1: Backstreet's Brack 2v7

[chvrchbarrel]

“I’ll put it to you this way, when Radiohead in the middle of ‘Karma Police’ dropped that bit in of ‘Sexy Sadie,’ to all the people down here that’s fucking brilliant, but when I do it I’m accused of some kind of plagiarism.”

-Noel Gallagher, The Art of Noise: Conversations With Great Songwriters

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"Janet Jackson's "Together Again" is laden with banal reassurances: "Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me, dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free..." The accompanying music video features Jackson and a coterie of friends in the African savannah and other exotic locales, with no signifiers that this is an AIDS memorial."

-The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness

[llamaoftime]

Look, the Radiohead song is better, but if I'm throwing on a Now Thats What I Call Music Volume from the 90s I'm turning that on for bangers like "Together Again" and if any fucking Radiohead comes up im skipping it, so in the spirit of this competition Janet Jackson gets my vote here every time

[claypoolfan]

In the spirit of good music I also voted against Radiohead

[clouddead]

Jul 1, 2024 11:14:10 GMT -6 llamaoftime said:

Look, the Radiohead song is better, but if I'm throwing on a Now Thats What I Call Music Volume from the 90s I'm turning that on for bangers like "Together Again" and if any fucking Radiohead comes up im skipping it, so in the spirit of this competition Janet Jackson gets my vote here every time

this is right on. Radiohead shouldn’t have made it out of the previous round.