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

Old people!

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Tell me about Nick Lowe. I know "Cruel To Be Kind", and didn't he do "I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass" as well, but what was he? Pop or indie?

Re: Old people!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

PUB!

Re: Old people!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough I have been listening a lot to the old Basher just this very week (and i'll have the last.fm to prove it!) freakytiggerfreakytigger is correct, although a few of his mid-period solo singles were pretty smooth around the edges (viz. "Time Wounds All Heels," written with Simon Climie, and the reggae-lite version of "Heart" from 1982, which sounds very Langer and Winstanley to me)

Re: Old people!

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suspect this question would be less clear-cut if it wasn't for his dalliance with Rockpile.

Re: Old people!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

"Dalliance?" How can you separate them, given that he recorded most of his best stuff with them?

Since the late-80s everything he's done has had a country influence. The pop / indie dialectic is ill-suited to discuss him.

Re: Old people!

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

OK, I just meant that the stuff actually attributed to Dave Edmunds / Rockpile is a bit more pubrock than your average Nick Lowe record, tho I haven't heard much of his later stuff. I have 'I knew the bride when she used to rock n'roll', which is pretty awful and hasn't encouraged me to investigate further.

Re: Old people!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

His "So It Goes" was the first 7" released by Stiff Records (which was the first 1976 & All That indie label, even if some of their roster was more pub rock than punk rock).

If that helps.

Re: Old people!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

ah good i was trying to remember who did ILTSOBG. it has a real Bowie influence doesn't it? so i say...INDOP.

Re: Old people!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

ILTSOBG really really sounds like sound and vision, but for the life of me i can't recall which was first. (i'm bowie ignorant)

Re: Old people!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

S&V = 1977 (thanx wikipedia)

Re: Old people!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Sound And Vision' was first.