The History Of Jop Part 2 aka Clap your hands everybody if you got what it takes

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The second instalment of this poll series takes us to the Pazz and Jop poll of 1980 - if you don't know what Pazz and Jop is, refer to the previous episode (or ignore it and do the poll anyway). You get to pick NINE of these.


[Poll #810979]


And now here's the results of the 1979 poll: the Joptimists Top Ten

1. Don't Stop Til You Get Enough (44 votes)
2. Rapper's Delight (40)
3. We Are Family/Greatest Dancer (37)
4. Good Times (34)
5. Pop Musik (31)
6. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick/Reasons To Be Cheerful (30)
7. My Sharona (28)
8. Dreaming (26)
9. Hot Stuff (25)
10=. Gangsters (21)
10=. Life During Wartime (21)
10=. Damaged Goods/It's Her Factory (21)

Comments

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person who thinks Joy Division are dull and overrated? (Though I don't dispute their influence.)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

well even the LEX ticked LWTUA so probably YES.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i have never understood why people play it at indie clubs? i mean, seriously, it is V DEPRESSING and NOT V FAST. mmm yes dancefloor aktion!

it's the only joy division song i know - i suspect i would, generally, like them, but i can't be arsed.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

it's not as bad as when Clodplay's 'Yellow' gets dropped at 'indie clubs'.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

oh my god surely not.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

This only happened to me once actually, at Collide-A-Scope which is/was really a Kings College student union night open to the public. Rub night but lovely view of the Thames from their building.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

"Love Will Tear Us Apart", like "The Birdie Song" and Usher's "U-Turn" has its own specific dance though that teh indie kidz all know and love.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

because you can do ian curtis dancing to it, obv ;)

it's not that slow either.

search: transmission, she's lost control, atmosphere
leave: the rest of it, uber-miserablist proto-goth/em0 whinging...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I like 'Shadowplay' (I think this is the one I mean). Can't remember how 'Digital' goes.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

which is the UnkPle song which goes "and turns into a tree!"?

new order are 10000000000000000000000x better as they got a PROPAH SINGAH at last [/the lex]

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

but Sumner really isn't that good a singer either!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

dare i ask what constitutes "ian curtis dancing"?!

[juror8.livejournal.com]

It's quite easy. Pretend you have no muscle control in your neck and then flail your limbs around like a puppet trying to bat a fly away. Simple.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ian+curtis+dancing

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

LWTUA is deceptively fast if you listen to it again. Faster than most hip-hop and house music, actually.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think love will tear us apart is their worst song and very poor generally but i like atmosphere -- they were better when they were metal

can i assume that jim carroll is garbage?

[koganbot]

No, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is a great great great song getting a miserable performance ("miserable" may or may not be derogatory).

Once, a reviewer of Stars Vomit Coffee Shop said that it kicked Jim Carroll's butt.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't find myself listening to them very often but these are my two favourite singles by them I think.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

transmission is there RLY ace song tho innit

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

I should explore their catalogue a bit more thoroughly than a couple of half-hearted listens to Unknown Pleasures (all I actually own by them), I suspect, but have not ftb 'Why DERE GOD IN YR HEAVEN ABOVE put myself through more JD when there is plenty of good pop out there I know nothing about'? Why, there's that Jim Carroll fella listed right here, I have never heard of...

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, which is the one with the refrain "Dance, dance, dance to the radio"...?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

THAT is transmission

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that's a jolly song. Still not entirely my thing, but good.

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

Never got into 'Unknown pleasures' though its cover is a fave.

the 'substance' compilation is great and so is 'closer'. Many of their tracks are improved by their rougher versions which you can get on one of the CDs of the 'heart and soul' boxset with some nice goodies that don't have a proper studio version. Can't remember which exact disc as I borrowed the boxset years ago from the record library.