The History Of Jop Part 5 aka The Kid Is Not My Son

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A delay in the poll caused by my having some work, but finally the ship of retrospective metapop criticism sails into the waters of 1983 - Jackson the winner, Culture Club getting some serious vote-splitting, and this year the P&J poll included a BEST VIDEO section for the first time, which we might well discuss in a separate YouTube-enabled poll later (I can't get YouTube at work).

Procedural Note: I've excised "Back On The Chain Gang" by the Pretenders as it featured last time.

You only get EIGHT votes this time - use them wisely.


[Poll #819820]


The Joptimists Poll Remix for 1982:

1. Don't You Want Me (49 votes)
2. 1999 (46 votes)
3. The Message (43 votes)
4. Temptation (37 votes)
5. The Look Of Love (36 votes)
6=. Mickey (31 votes)
6=. Sexual Healing (31 votes)
8. Planet Rock (28 votes)
9. Rock The Casbah (26 votes)
10. Pass The Dutchie (24 votes)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I WAS FOUR OR FIVE. I WAS NOT READING TIME MAGAZINE.

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

You being a child when Byrne made the cover is very much besides the point, Lex. I offered the Time Magazine cover as a benchmark of name & face recognition you might understand, not as an event I expect you to remember.

A parallel example: if I said "It is a fact that the name and face of Salmon P. Chase was put on the American $10,000 bill in 1928," I would expect that one of the things you *could* deduce from this would be that Salmon P. Chase must've been somebody sorta important to America, even if you didn't know who he was or weren't alive in 1928.