Curatorfest Qualifier 1! CURATED by Adrian R

Other fantastic nerd-fax about White Lines:

• It hung around the 1984 chart for so long, it ended up the 13th biggest seller of the year in spite of only peaking at 7. This being even more impressive when you consider that 84 was the 80s’ biggest-selling year for singles, with six million-sellers.
• Flash isn’t even on it – it’s all Melle Mel.
• Which also means that Melle Mel joins Stevie Wonder, FGTH and Wham! in appearing on two of the 15 biggest-sellers of the year. The other one for Mel *and* Stevie being Chaka Khan’s ‘I Feel For You’. (Wham! have three; The Power of Love is 16th; Band Aid excluded here)
• Like Rapper’s Delight and The Message, it was co-written by Sylvia Robinson. Who is also the ‘Sylvia’ on Love Is Strange (from Dirty Dancing).
• It’s mint.

It’s an “anti-drugs” song that deliberately makes drugs (cocaine) sound as sexy AF.
It is a work of absolute genius (especially in the long version), which I would probably vote for in any other group. And it was in my Uncool50.
Unfortunately:

• Biology is also a work of genius
• Biology was also in my Uncool50
• Biology (at 1:32-1:33) includes my favourite moment in all pop music, ever.
• The Modern section of the CC poll needs it more
• Girls Aloud need it more because their vote is likely to be more localised