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poptimistsBeware the savage jaw of 1984! The Pazz and Jop poll takes some curious turns this year with plenty to analyse in the comments boxes. For once no holdovers from last time or entries from the EP list, though I was sorely tempted to put Into Battle With The Art Of Noise in.
[Poll #823959]
The Joptimist Metapoll Remix (1983 Dub) is as follows:
1. Billie Jean (35 votes)
2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (34)
3. Little Red Corvette (30)
4. Beat It (28)
5. White Lines (Dont Dont Do It) (26)
6. It's Like That/Sucker MCs (21)
7. Burning Down The House (18)
8. Every Breath You Take (17)
9=. Lets Dance (16)
9=. Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (16)
9=. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (16)
Much wider spread of voting last time btw.
[Poll #823959]
The Joptimist Metapoll Remix (1983 Dub) is as follows:
1. Billie Jean (35 votes)
2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (34)
3. Little Red Corvette (30)
4. Beat It (28)
5. White Lines (Dont Dont Do It) (26)
6. It's Like That/Sucker MCs (21)
7. Burning Down The House (18)
8. Every Breath You Take (17)
9=. Lets Dance (16)
9=. Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (16)
9=. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (16)
Much wider spread of voting last time btw.
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Meanwhile In England
Date: 2006-09-18 03:19 pm (UTC)Love Wars - Womack And Womack
I Wanna Be Loved - Elvis Costello
Free Nelson Mandella - Special Aka
Don't Look Any Further - Dennis Edwards
Slippery People - Staple Singers
Yah Mo Be There - James Ingram
What Difference Does It Make - The Smiths
Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
When Doves Cry - Prince
Jump - Van Halen
I Feel For You - Chaka Khan
No Sell Out/Malcolm X - Malcolm X
Hey Dj - World's Famous Supreme Team
War Is In The Dance - Frankie Paul
And I Don't Love You - Smoky Robinson
Love Has Finally Come At Last - Bobby Womack/Patti Labelle
Bachelor Kisses - The Go Betweens
Keep On Keeping On - The Redskins
Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown
We Need Money - Chuck Brown
You're The Best Thing - Style Council
Venceremos (We Will Win) - Working Week
Taxi - J Blackfoot
Madam Butterfly - Malcolm Mclaren
Track Three - Scott Walker
What Presence? - Orange Juice
Tinsel Town In The Rain - The Blue Nile
Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cindy Lauper
Calamity Crush - Foetus Art Terrorism
Small-Town Boy - Bronski Beat
What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend - The Special Aka
In The Ghetto - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Dark Streets Of London - The Pogues
Sensoria - Cabaret Voltaire
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
Don't Go Lose It Baby - Hugh Masekela
Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Peace In Our Time - The Imposter
It's A Man's Man's Man's World - The Residents
Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
Ain't Nobody - Rufus & Chuka Khan
I Bloodbrother Be - Shock Headed Peters
Do The Square Thing - The Three Johns
The Big Music - The Waterboys
The Killing Moon - Echo And The Bunnymen
Michael Caine - Madness
Abele Dance - Manu Dibango
Honey At The Core - Friends Again
Each And Every One - Everything But The Girl
Out Of The Flesh - Chakk
Re: Meanwhile In England
Date: 2006-09-18 03:23 pm (UTC)Re: Meanwhile In England
Date: 2006-09-18 03:23 pm (UTC)Re: Meanwhile In England
Date: 2006-09-18 03:28 pm (UTC)are we into the hip-hop wars now?
Re: Meanwhile In England
Date: 2006-09-18 03:29 pm (UTC)This was deffo the NME's soul boy phase.
Re: Meanwhile In England
Date: 2006-09-18 03:33 pm (UTC)ian pye is not yet editor
Date: 2006-09-19 04:01 pm (UTC)soulvoters here = nme old-skoolers barney h, (the other) a.gill, dick cook, cindy, the two dannies --- tho i haven't checked, this is just a guess
Re: ian pye is not yet editor
Date: 2006-09-19 04:04 pm (UTC)Re: ian pye is not yet editor
Date: 2006-09-19 04:18 pm (UTC)Re: ian pye is not yet editor
Date: 2006-09-20 02:19 pm (UTC)1984 was, unbelievably, the first year MM actually did a singles poll, and even then from 1984 through '86 only a Top 10.
Here's the '84 MM Top 10:
1. Frankie goes to Hollywood: Two tribes
2. Womack & Womack: Love wars
3. Echo & the Bunnymen: The killing moon
4. U2: Pride (in the name of love)
5. The Special AKA: Nelson Mandela
6. ZZ Top: Gimme all your loving
7. Orange Juice: What presence ?!
8. Bronski Beat: Smalltown boy
9. SOS Band: Just be good to me
10. Human League: The Lebanon
MM did also in the mid/late 80s, like Sounds had done before it, publish the staff writers' personal favourite tracks list. Here's a chuck eddy thread on ILM discussing part of the 1984 writers' lists:
http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=5577570
Re: Meanwhile In England
Date: 2006-09-18 07:47 pm (UTC)Re: Meanwhile In England
Date: 2006-09-18 10:04 pm (UTC)