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)

Comments

MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

so adam and shakey were totally the first pop stars i ♥ed. this may have been about the time i started to get look-in as well and thus had POSTERS ON WALL for first time (me = 7 at the time), although my older (female) cousins would nick the duran and spandau posters. tainted love was the soundtrack to the entire summer. i distictly remember asking my dad what his favourite record was when he was my age, but he said they didn't really have records then (=end of war) which confused me rather...

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

skool discos that i can recall from primary/secondary school changeover time is was just madness and adam and his ants all the time.

i really liked bucks fizz too! srsly.

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

God yeah Bucks Fizz too!

I wonder sometimes given that neither parent was especially into music why I got into it so much. I think the fantasticness of pop in 1981 surely had a lot to do with it (and also the occasional awfulness - there had to be something at stake to make the Top 40 so compelling). Definitely this is the year when I went from half-aware to hooked.

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes yes yes.

this is ALL CORRRECT. although i do wonder if everyone else (ie THE KIDS) will say the same about whichever year they were 7/8/9 and we shall scoff like old farts...

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

NO WE ARE RIGHT.

Eurovision 1981 = reason we all know each other basically.

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

KIDS IN AMERICA

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The video to "Planet Earth"

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

the birdie song!

shaddupa yr face!!

;)

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Stevens, B Fizz and Ant all my Pop entry points too! funny considering slight age gap between us (or just cos my Mum plonked me in front of TOTP at a v early age really - even letting me watch Kenny Everett etc.)

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

But the years I was 7/8/9 WERE all amazing years for pop!

Oh. I see.

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i was 11/12 in 1981. it was a marvy year

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

and abracadabra by the steve miller band, or am i a bit ahead of myself?

(oops, yes, one year out)

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

then a bit later, centerfold by the gay jiles band

Re: MORE ABOUT ADAM ANT AND SHAKEY

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

For a while as a kid I was confused because I thought the music to BBC medical drama Angels was similar to J Geils band so I thought they had done the music for it.