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

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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

Re: Christgau reviews the Smiths

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

At school they INFURIATED people who didn't like them, more than any other band. I loved that, of course, but equally there is no way I'd have talked to the people infuriated by them to unpick why - I suspect they'd have offered reasons along similar but less articulate lines to Christgau.

The one hater I did talk to at length about them - someone even less cool than me and so not frightening to approach - explained that he hated them because they were technically sloppy players, and as a tit-for-tat made me listen to all of Dire Straits' very long "Telegraph Road".