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

Re: So what does the utter failure of some songs mean?

[koganbot]

Wait, the Pylon song is utterly great (I say this as someone who's heard a total of three Pylon songs in my life). And it was also way way way way way way more obscure than the Carroll, Simon, and Lennon, all of which got on the radio. So it was something the critics were myopically seeking out, by word of mouth or word of other critics.

Re: So what does the utter failure of some songs mean?

[koganbot]

Also, how many Poptimists have heard the Pylon?

Re: So what does the utter failure of some songs mean?

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Very few, I'd imagine, Frank. And I spent most of the morning looking before finding these two songs (although I had heard 'Crazy' at some point in the past). Neither of these impressed me that much -- liked the Bush Tetras much more, and that was also totally new to me.