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

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

people who died is really cheap and easy, a sort of funeral mass forthe punks in carrols life, a litany of the dead and dying, i should hate it.

but i dont hate it, because of that mass bit--when you say intentions in the middle of church, and it seems like there will be power there, that talking to the heavens can actually do some shit, and then you walk outside, and some ones asking for change, or the alley smells like piss or the city is too humid that day, and you get beaten down, and you wonder, how do you get the magiv words to mean something/be effective outside of that pyschic landscape.

carroll is one of the last great catholics, and (one of the few/the only) man who managed to make (punk/pop/spoken word/?) liturgical. its a rare gift.

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