The History Of Jop Part 4 aka God is smiling on you but he's frowning too

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's 1982!! NEW POP!! (and some other stuff)

Procedural note: Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" actually got #5 in this, but it was in the poll last time so I didn't put it in again.

PLEASE ONLY PICK NINE!


[Poll #815795]


The Joptimists Top Ten for 1981:

1. Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? (43 votes)
2. Ghost Town (etc.) (40 votes)
3=. Bette Davis Eyes (26)
3=. Pull Up To The Bumper (26)
5=. The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel (25)
5=. Our Lips Are Sealed
7. O Superman
8. Genius Of Love
9. Super Freak
10. Ceremony

Comments

Most Important:

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

1999 or It's Raining Men? I can't decide! I have a feeling it is the latter. I don't really have very stringent criteria to apply to the qn though.

Re: Most Important:

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hang on people appear to be hatin' on It's Raining Men. I am shocked. This is not the Halliwell version!

Re: Most Important:

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Yes, 2 ticks out of 8 so far, apparently - that astonishes me. I thought everyone loved it.

Re: Most Important:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I do love it! I just love the others more!

Re: Most Important:

[celentari.livejournal.com]

I have given it love. Fat black wimmin in raincoats, what's not to love? It is not their fault it soundtracked a fight scene in Bridget Jones.

Re: Most Important:

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

I hate the 'most important' question. I don't really understand it/do 'importance' as a musical term. Prince is an odd one though, as for years he was doing stuff out there on his own.

Sometimes I answer with my favourite, sometimes with the artist I think is most influential, the artist/band who did something very original....

Re: Most Important:

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I went with Planet Rock or The Message - there was the sense of these leading to hip hop's acceptance as canonical quality music, for better or worse. Much as I adore It's Raining Men, say, I can't really see it as a terribly important record.

Re: Most Important:

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, hence my going for Planet Rock (probably more so GoF, come to think of it)

Re: Most Important:

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have vague "influenced lots of people"/"became across-the-board cultural touchstone" in mind when answering - not my favourite as that is what the favourite box is for (but I couldn't bring myself to name a song I hated here).

'1999' influenced lots of subsequent artists sonically and thematically AND is cultural touchstone - 'It's Raining Men' possibly more of one though, plus massive massive significance to teh gays and teh hen parties.

Re: Most Important:

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Wasn't 1999 the first video by a non-white artist to air on MTV? If so, then that's pretty important too

Re: Most Important:

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

my memory is that the first video on MTV by a non-white artist = billie jean

tho AHAHA i see now the retroactive flaw in that claim :\