The History Of Jop Part 7 aka We're Rockers And Rappers United And Strong

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Pazz and Jop polls take us to the fairly unheralded year of 1985, and the selection is.....well, judge for yourself and discuss below. You get NINE votes, cast them wisely.

Notes: The John Fogerty song that got in last time rose to #3(!!) this time. It was excluded.


[Poll #826538]


The Joptimists 1984 Vote Verdict:

1. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (38 votes)
2. When Doves Cry (37 votes)
3. Jump (31)
4=. I Feel For You (28)
4=. Time After Time (28)
6. Let's Go Crazy (23)
7. What's Love Got To Do With It (21)
8. Dancing In The Dark (20)
9=. Free Nelson Mandela (19)
9=. Let's Hear It For The Boy (19)

Comments

1985, a very good year, but P&J didn't know it?

[koganbot]

My ticks are provisional (don't even have nine), but this is a TERRIBLE list (compare to 1983). I believe* this is not due to the year but to where P&J tended to look, and P&J hadn't yet kenned to the fact that postpunk was beginning to really suck. And that the mainstream wasn't that bad. And that hip-hop was quite amazing and generating much. And that disco was not going away not going away not going away but had merely spread out and changed its name. But then, it might take me a bit of research to recall/discover in retrospect what was great in 1985. Debbie Deb's "Lookout Weekend" (which was not as great as "When I Hear Music," but then nothing is).

Re: 1985, a very good year, but P&J didn't know it?

[koganbot]

OK, Divine's great "Walk Like a Man" was 1985; "Unexpected Lovers" by Lime was 1985; La Nueva Fattoria's "Disco Pollo" (en Anglais it's "Disco Chicken") was 1985; Sylvester's "Take Me To Heaven" was 1985; the Flirt's "Helpless" was 1985"; Silver Pozzoli's "Around My Dream" was 1985; Magazine 60's "Don Quijote" was 1985 (unless it was 1986); Spoonie Gee's "Street Girl" was 1985; LL Cool J's "I Can't Live Without My Radio" was 1985 (I think); the original Exposé's "Exposed to Love" was 1985; Nayobe's "Please Don't Go" was 1985; (Needless to say, most of these I didn't hear at the time.)