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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

is graceland this year? i do like a lot of that -- partly as an abreaction against the crass way the political wing of the nme attacked it -- yes yes simon (actually really) breached the cultural boycott -- but "he is an old-skool fart and therefore of no consequence" is not actually a position that ppl actively supporting say NELSON MANDELA can uncontradictorily take, i think

i guess it has always been a record i wanted to explore for the implicit politics of the music -- just to run against the way these were lost in the slightly cynical tactical jockeying (v.big name pop-star project exploited -- by being attacked -- in order to promote important political campaign)

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Graceland won the album poll I think; Christgau's essay, which I read last night, seems to be mostly about this. Seems to have been era-defining in terms of the music-politics link.