22 March 1990
You’re kidding, right? The Berlin Wall had fallen, Nelson Mandela was free, but we still have Jive Bunny records at number one? So much for the end of history.
Wait: it gets worse. Amazingly, the sweatshop owners behind this wretched enterprise have found the formula to make a Jive Bunny single that is approximately 38% more dreadful than its predecessors. Their secret? Instead of a mashup of samples of classic oldies, ‘That Sounds Good To Me’ is a mashup of covers of classic oldies, mainly ‘Everybody Needs Somebody To Love’, hence the Blues Brothers get-up on the sleeve (above). Naturally, those covers sound like they’re all performed by the same Saturday morning keyboard teacher. It’s a relentlessly cheap and amateurish record. And still, enough copies were bought to send it to number one in the pop charts of a developed country. You people of 1990 sicken me.
