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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Haha yes very true but REMEMBER WE'RE BRITISH (or a lot of us are).

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was gonna say. Still, "Rapper's Delight" won and it hasn't exactly had a lot of effect on British music either. Maybe the DKs just haven't been properly rock-historically canonized? (Or I'm just wrong?)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well it had the same effect as it had on US music i.e. bringing hip-hop to public awareness. Was a huge hit here. There wasn't the grassroots movement to follow it up, but a lot of people listened.

POL BOSH POL BOSH

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

as regards canon, the DKs followed up the EPOCHALLY TREMENDOUS HiC with "Too Drunk to Fuck" (which = hook-free antipop of the most cynical kind) (I PAID REAL ACTUAL MONEY FOR IT JELLO YOU CROOK, and THIS I DO NOT FORGIVE) and "Kill the Poor" (which = pretty super-minor)

but yes, HiC is better than any joy div single (and indeed any clash single, any bruce single except candy's room, any jam single...) -- it is a NOVELTY HIT (except sadly it wasn''t a hit)

but to answer the question

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

DK were central to the US hardcore sotyr (along with ver flag blah blah); but had next to NO presence in the UK (local indie network couldn't pass across internationa boundaries; in the UK, JD after IC's suicide were similarly seminal i think, and similarly parochial

Re: but to answer the question

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think "Too Drunk To Fvck" gave them some kind of presence - when I was at school a few people had DKs shirts, or DKs tapes, or something, but that was why, and so "HiC" was kind of a bonus!

Re: but to answer the question

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Haha, and thus: indiepacolypse on the UK charts!

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Plus it wasn't competing with Joy Division, true.