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

bah!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

can't find NME xmas 1980 -- i think it featured the slits but that bit of my "archive" is in a big useless unsorted pile at the moment

Fear not!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Crossovers in bold. Strong showing for UB40 here.

Love will tear us apart - Joy division
Going underground - The jam
Mirror in the bathroom - The beat
Atmosphere - Joy division
Ashes to ashes - David Bowie
Your cassette pet - Bow wow wow
Private life - Grace Jones
Fashion - David Bowie
C30 C60 C90 go - Bow wow wow
Master blaster - Steve Wonder
Treason - Teardrop explodes
Geno - Dexys midnight runners
Start! - The jam
Food for thought/King - UB40
New Amsterdam EP - Elvis Costello
Shack up - A certain ratio
Rescue - Echo and the bunnymen
My way of thinking - UB40
The breaks - Kurtis Blow
Stand down Margaret/Best friend - The beat
I can't stand up for falling down - Elvis Costello
Drug train - The cramps
Fiery jack - The fall
Dance stance - Dexies midnight runners
Johnny & Mary - Robert Palmer
Hands off .. she's mine - The beat
My flamingo - The subterraneans
A song from under the floorboards - Magazine
Independence day - Comsat angels
My perfect cousin - The undertones
Runaway boys - The stray cats
At last I am free - Robert Wyatt
Looking for clues - Robert Palmer
There, there my dear - Dexys midnight runners
My girl - Madness
Another nail in my heart - Squeeze
Flight - A certain ratio
Diet/It’s obvious - The Au pairs
Funkin’ for Jamaica - Tom Browne
Seconds to late - Cabaret Voltaire
I’m coming out - Diana Ross
Hi-Fidelity - Elvis Costello
Warrior charge - Aswad
Love comes in spurts - Richard Hell
Edward fox - Smack
Don’t stand so close to me - The Police
Hello I’m your heart - Bette Bright
Rise and shine - Linx
Happy house - Siouxsie and the banshees
Dog eat dog - Adam and the ants

Re: Fear not!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

comsat angels there, marvellous!

only three american tracks in the top 20 too, interesting...

of what's not in P&J, these are all grebt

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Mirror in the bathroom - The beat
Your cassette pet - Bow wow wow
Private life - Grace Jones
C30 C60 C90 go - Bow wow wow
Treason - Teardrop explodes
New Amsterdam EP - Elvis Costello
Shack up - A certain ratio
Rescue - Echo and the bunnymen
Drug train - The cramps
Fiery jack - The fall
Dance stance - Dexies midnight runners
Johnny & Mary - Robert Palmer
Hands off .. she's mine - The beat
A song from under the floorboards - Magazine
Independence day - Comsat angels
My perfect cousin - The undertones
At last I am free - Robert Wyatt
Looking for clues - Robert Palmer
There, there my dear - Dexys midnight runners
My girl - Madness
Another nail in my heart - Squeeze
Flight - A certain ratio
Diet/It’s obvious - The Au pairs
Funkin’ for Jamaica - Tom Browne
Seconds to late - Cabaret Voltaire
Hi-Fidelity - Elvis Costello
Warrior charge - Aswad
Don’t stand so close to me - The Police
Happy house - Siouxsie and the banshees

note: My flamingo - The subterraneans = UK answer to lester bangs single = nick kent's band! [assume nothing!! it's not terribly good]

INDEPENDENCE DAY do you see!!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this is the apex i think of the moment when being on an indie label -- ok loosely defined -- was seen as a way to MAKE THE MOST OF POP AND THE CHARTS

as opposed to the charts-in-exile second-best stance of only two years later

Re: Fear not!

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Kind of weird "Love Comes in Sprurts" isn't on P&J.

Re: Fear not!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

released 77 in US i think