The History of Jop Part 3 aka If you start me up I'll never stop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Part 3 of the series takes us to 1981, and really an awful lot of great singles from which you must pick ONLY NINE.

Procedural notes: Laurie A. and the Stones were joint winners this year. Also, "Ghost Town" topped the separate EPs poll but I threw it in here anyway. I may do this with some future EPs too.


[Poll #813728]


And now the Joptimists Top Ten of 1980:

1. Blondie - Call Me (45 votes)
2. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (37 votes)
3. Lipps Inc - Funky Town (35 votes)
4=. The Clash - Train In Vain/London Calling (32 votes)
4=. Diana Ross - Upside Down (32 votes)
4=. The Dead Kennedies - Holiday In Cambodia (32 votes)
7. The Vapors - Turning Japanese (31 votes)
8=. Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach (29 votes)
8=. Joy Divison - Atmosphere/She's Lost Control (29 votes)
10. Devo - Whip It (25 votes)

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NME Singles

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Crossovers in bold

Ghost town - The specials
Adventures on the wheel of steel - Grandmaster flash
Me no pop I - Coati Mundi
Fascist groove thang - Heaven 17
Love action - Human league
Mama used to say - Junior Giscombe
Tears are not enough - ABC
Pull up to the bumper - Grace Jones
O Superman - Laurie Anderson
Walking on thin ice - Yoko Ono
Burn rubber on me - The gap band
Tainted love - Soft cell
Papa's got a brand new pigbag - Pigbag
Rapp Payback - James Brown
Wordy Rappinghood - Tom tom club
Let's groove - Earth wind and fire
The razor's edge - Defunkt
Being with you - Smokey Robinson
Four Movements - Thomas Leer
Just can't get enough - Depeche mode
Going back to my roots - Odyssey
Intuition - Linx
Rapture - Blondie
Plan B - Dexys Midnight runners
Happy birthday - Stevie Wonder
Chariots of fire - Vangelis
Der Mussolini - DAF
Good year for the roses - Elvis Costello
Shoot the pump - J. Walter Negro & the loose joints
Doors of your heart - The beat
Kitchen Person - The Associates
Can you feel it - The Jacksons
Favourite shirts - Haircut 100
Pocket calculator - Kraftwerk
Another one bites the dust - General saint and Clint Eastwood
Launderette - Vivien Goldman
Genius of love - Tom Tom Club
Chant No.1 (We don’t need this pressure on) - Spandau Ballet
Out come the freaks - Was(not was)
W.O.R.K. - Bow wow wow
Flowers of romance - P.I.L.
Ceremony - New Order
Beggarman- Pablo Gad
The longest day - Sound of the valleys
The ‘Sweetest Girl’ - Scritti politti
Pretty in pink - Psychedelic furs
The art of parties - Japan
Computer love - Kraftwerk
To drunk to fuck - The dead Kennedys
Show me - Dexys midnight runners

year of c81!!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yay coati mundi!!
boo chariots of fire!! (!)

this year's l.bangs award = "laundrette" by viv goldman -- assume nothing! (it's not very good)

Re: year of c81!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Fascist Groove Thing" is a bit rub I think.

Re: year of c81!!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

great bobbly bass! heav17's choice of singer baffles me to this day

Re: Unseal Yr Lips!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

eh?????

it's aces, it has better mental noises on (at least the 12" does) than T Love. I SHALL PLAY IT ON THURS.

Re: Unseal Yr Lips!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I remain unsure that it has a tune. Plus I think they threw the groove baby out with the fascist bathwater.

Re: Unseal Yr Lips!

[the-roofdog.livejournal.com]

No. 1 Chant is a bit like it but better.

Re: Unseal Yr Lips!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

BROTHERS!

SISTERS!

WE DON'T NEED THIS FASCIST GROOVE THING!!

aces srsly :)

Re: Unseal Yr Lips!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

If I am convinced on Thursday I will buy you 1xpint!

"reagan's president-elect"

[spittake.livejournal.com]

although what's with the weird pronunciation of it?

REEGAN!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

call him by his name!!

RAYGUN

[spittake.livejournal.com]

all the better to make apocalyptic joke songs about ray guns with!!!!

Re: NME Singles

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ha! at least two thirds of these tracks have been played at poptimism/live on my ipod (in comprison to a handful on the P&J). 1981 roX0red.