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poptimistsThe 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)
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)
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Date: 2006-09-21 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 12:36 pm (UTC)I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac
Date: 2006-09-21 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 12:39 pm (UTC)I am not sure I've ever heard Freeway of Love!
Worth noting maybe that Sun City got almost twice the votes of anything else. Again, don't think I've heard this since its release, though obviously "will stand the t.o.t." wasn't necessarily a factor in this placing.
Roofdog OTM
Date: 2006-09-21 12:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 12:42 pm (UTC)Just look at his FACE!
Date: 2006-09-21 12:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 12:44 pm (UTC)Re: Roofdog OTM
Date: 2006-09-21 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 12:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 12:50 pm (UTC)only when i'm dancing can i feel this free
Date: 2006-09-21 12:51 pm (UTC)I had to really struggle to pick a ninth, plumped in the end for a Eurythmics song I'd never even heard of as continued reward for 'Sweet Dreams'.
Really really love 'Smooth Operator' and Sade generally.
Why are so many charity-type records making these lists? This is supposed to be a critics' list, right? I can't imagine stuff like Band Aid 20 making the equivalent list these days.
Re: only when i'm dancing can i feel this free
Date: 2006-09-21 12:52 pm (UTC)i REALLY REALLY hate the smiths
Date: 2006-09-21 01:00 pm (UTC)Re: only when i'm dancing can i feel this free
Date: 2006-09-21 01:04 pm (UTC)we're taking our own lives <-- WELL DONE THAR lyricists.
At the time
Date: 2006-09-21 01:07 pm (UTC)1. The Smiths - "The Headmaster Ritual"
2. Tears For Fears - "Everybody Wants To etc."
3. The Woodentops - "Move Me"
4. Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill"
5. Scritti Politti - "Perfect Way"
6. Jesus & Mary Chain - "Just Like Honey"
7. Scritti Politti - "The Word Girl (Flesh and Blood)"
8. The Men They Couldn't Hang - "Ironmasters"
9. New Order - "Perfect Kiss"
10. Rush - "The Big Money"
11. Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin - "Sisters Are etc." *
12. Go West - "We Close Our Eyes"
13. The Fall - "Paint Work" **
14. The Woodentops - "Well Well Well" (12" extended version)
15. Prefab Sprout - "Faron Young"
*Clearly, with benefit of hindsight, not as good as "There Must Be An Angel", which was my #16.
** ex-post substitution for "19" by Paul Hardcastle, which got bumped way down the list. But this is probably too high a position for MES as well, especially given that I put "Into The Groove" at a mere #24.
I overrated #6 and #8 at the time.
Re: i REALLY REALLY hate the smiths
Date: 2006-09-21 01:13 pm (UTC)Re: i REALLY REALLY hate the smiths
Date: 2006-09-21 01:18 pm (UTC)it always seemed very wet and wimpy to me, which is obv kind of the point, but wet and wimpy indie boy music has always repulsed me a bit - i feel like shouting GET 1X BACKBONE at them. i never got the supposed 'humour' which was meant to have leavened this with the smiths, either. the lyrics make me cringe more than most because they're so arch and mannered and self-pitying, and above all i cannot listen to morrissey's voice.
Re: Just look at his FACE!
Date: 2006-09-21 01:22 pm (UTC)Re: i REALLY REALLY hate the smiths
Date: 2006-09-21 01:23 pm (UTC)There was a Taylor Parkes piece once where he said that he hated the Smiths and Smiths fandom (speaking I think as a former fan) because it seemed an admission of defeat, a glorification of a certain kind of loneliness. You can take this analysis too far but there's definitely truth in it (and it applies more widely than the Smiths). However Smiths fandom - like most indie fandoms - was usually INTENSELY social, so the idea was more "how to live happily and morally without a backbone" rather than "oh woe is me i haven't got one".
How Soon Is Now is a great record because it bothers to actually sonically dramatise the singer's loneliness, rather than just stating it.
Re: Eurythmics
Date: 2006-09-21 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 01:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 01:25 pm (UTC)http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=3857166
Re: At the time
Date: 2006-09-21 01:26 pm (UTC)