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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i. along w. d.edmunds he was in the ill-fated BRINSLEY SCHWARZ
ii. he was well-respected as a PRODUCER even tho his motto was "just bash it dahn"
iii. HE MIGHT BE THE AVATAR OF THE PURE POP MEME = one of his LPs wz called "pure pop for now people"!!
iv. i dl-ed one of his LPs off of geir
v. dom you wd like the song MARIE PREVOST

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

edmunds only produced the SCHWARZ, as i recall. they were together in ROCKPILE, tho

[juror8.livejournal.com]

I am currently downloading "Jesus of Cool". Will report back.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

wz tryin to upload marie provost for you but it is takin an age

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I think about half of each of Jesus of Cool/Pure Pop and Labour of Lust are aces!

Bowi

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

Marie Prevost appears on the Bowi EP - so-called because Dame David had just brought out an alb called Low, DO YOU SEE

That whole EP is fantastic, miles better than the Rockpile snoozeblooze dadrock stuff - "She was a winner/who became a doggie's dinner2 has to be one of the all-time great pop couplets