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

[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.

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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.