The History Of Jop Part 8 aka It started with a little kiss, like this

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Away from the Hip-Hop Wars the Pazz and Jop poll moves smoothly onward to 1986 - some great singles here but very few names that had not previously appeared in P&J. You get NINE ticks from these 25 tracks.


[Poll #829550]


1985: The Joptimised Version

1. Into The Groove (45 votes)
2. How Soon Is Now? (40 votes)
3. Raspberry Beret (37 votes)
4. Running Up That Hill (35)
5. Walking On Sunshine (24)
6. The Boys Of Summer (23)
7. Money For Nothing (22)
8. And She Was (21)
9. Smooth Operator (19)
10. I Wonder If I Take You Home (18)

Surprising mass support for VER STRAITS there!

Comments

Meanwhile in Britain

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Away from the hip hop warzzzzzzzz, here's the MM top 10 (cross-overs in bold):

1. Kiss - Prince
2. Some Candy Talking EP - Jesus and Mary Chain
3. Word Up - Cameo
4. Human - The Human League
5. Rise - PIL
6. E=MC2 – Big Audio Dynamite
7. Tokyo Storm Warning - Elvis Costello
8. Panic - The Smiths
9. Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
10. Who Snatched the Baby - The Band of Holy Joy

Re: Meanwhile in Britain

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha THANK GOD FOR BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE eh

Re: Meanwhile in Britain

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

They're in the NME singles list too!

In fact all of these make their Top 60, except - oddly - "Papa Don't Preach". (Madonna = the real casualty of the Warzzzzzz?)

Re: Meanwhile in Britain

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I still think that first BAD album is amazing!!!!

Re: Meanwhile in Britain

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

oh and Band of Holy Joy obv

Re: Meanwhile in Britain

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think MM's communal identity had not yet quite got off the ground yet actually -- the slowpoke writers not yet whirled up i nthe slipstream of the vanguard -- so the poll still reflects a broader crit community consensus?

band of holy joy def had an nme fanclub -- b.kopf. d.watson, d.fadele -- but i think watson was possibly awol at this time