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

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

This, btw, is the first P&J I was ever really aware of, having had my mom's bf buy me a copy of the VV to see what it (meaning the VV) was all about. Boy was I surprised. When I started buying the VV regularly was I finally became aware of rockcrit as something that handled events As They Were Happening rather than from a rear-view mirror (in other words, this was really the first time I digested rock criticism per se from magazine/tabloid/alt-weekly rather than a book).