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: i REALLY REALLY hate the smiths --- they were LOLZ

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"the 'humour' thing was always a little bit of a red herring, in that few people first fell in love w/the Smiths because the band were funny."

I'll say I'm one of those. The words of a song weren't something that really jumped out at me then so much, so when this did I really took notice. And it really ws a line here or there, all the wider 'issues' as discussed elsewhere weren't something I 'got' into so much at the time. Its a wordplay quality where I bracket MORRISEEY w/ CAPTAIN BEEFHEART.

At the same time those issues did slip through, I distinctly remember thinking I had 'got' what England and the english were kinda like. Did anyone have a look at the Folk Britannia doc on BBC2 the other day where guitarist Davy Graham talked about of Shirley Collins' voicings as something very English and a particular type of English (Thomas Tallis, green fields, etc.) so in the same way I think of Morrissey and his voice as something out of high rise flats and er, Thamesmead, or whatever the Manchester equiv of that would be.