The History Of Jop Part 1 aka Everybody's Talking About Pop Musik

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Obviously nothing can replace the Now Polls in our hearts. But koganbot suggested doing polls bassed on the Village Voice Pazz and Jop feature, and that seemed a good idea to me.

The what and what? The Pazz and Jop poll* is an annual poll published by the Village Voice newspaper** in New York. The idea is that every rock critic in America - and latterly in THE WHOLE WORLD (sort of) - gets to vote for their favourite albums and singles of the year. We'll be looking at the singles polls here, historically the poor relation of the albums polls ftb loads of critics not bothering voting in them.

These polls will be done canon-style, i.e. you pick your favourite ten out of the top thirty singles. Or in this case, because this first one was a small enfeebled thing, you pick your favourite NINE out of 26.

The point of the polls, as well as the usual timewasting comment fun, is to get a handle on how critical opinion works and has shifted and where you agree and don't and all that fun stuff.

Without further ado - TO THE TICKY BOXES.


[Poll #809394]


*don't worry too much about the Pazz bit.

**whether there will still be a Pazz and Jop poll following the VV's recent takeover by The Man, I do not know.

Comments

ooh, controversy (a bit)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

so i ticked Rapper's Delight in the end, it just about beating out McFadden and Whitehead, but, is it really all that?

Re: ooh, controversy (a bit)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

the answer is: no. and it's about 3 hours too long.

Re: ooh, controversy (a bit)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I should have put that the listing was EXPLICITLY the 12" (i.e. long) version.

I like it more long than short though, the best bits are all around the middle.

Re: ooh, controversy (a bit)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

the best bits are about superman, obv ;)

Re: ooh, controversy (a bit)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

actually, the best version of "Rapper's Delight" is the b-side of the 7", which IIRC* is neither the long version nor the single edit but something in between / something different again!

*I haven't actually done a side-by-side comparison of all the mixes. My memory could be faulty on this.

Re: ooh, controversy (a bit)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have actually swapped my vote now bcause it is a real shame McFadden and Whitehead has so few votes.

Re: ooh, controversy (a bit)

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

Also where is the lizard love :(

Re: ooh, controversy (a bit)

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Nah, it is this (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/232820.html?thread=4850804#t4850804) in action.

Re: ooh, controversy (a bit)

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Just think - if there had been no Rappers Delight, there would have been no Ketchup Song. I'll leave it up to you Poptimists to decide if that would have been a good thing or not.