The History Of Jop Part 9 aka Every other story is tellin you somebody died

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Pazz and Jop poll for 1987, revisited. You get nine choices.


[Poll #832067]


1986: The Jip-Jop Wars (Poptimist Version)

1. West End Girls (38 votes)
2. Word Up (35)
3=. Walk This Way (33)
3=. Fight For Your Right To Party (33)
3=. Papa Don't Preach (33)
6=. Kiss (31)
6=. Walk Like An Egyptian (31)
8. Manic Monday (25)
9=. Rise (18)
9=. Nasty (18)
9=. Addicted To Love (18)

Comments

At the time

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Graduated from Uni at end of '86, so 1987 was my first year of paid employment. Was particularly excited by the effect that turntablism and sampling was having on mainstream pop. My #1 album by a country mile was the JAMS withdrawn LP, 1987 - What the Fuck's Going On?. My copy is slightly scratched but must be worth $$$$$ by now. Hearing "Bring The Noise" towards the end of '87 was another momentous event. I'd put this at #1 now. But "Birthday" is arguably just as remarkable.

Top 15
1. "Pump Up The Volume"
2. "Bring The Noise"
3. "Sign 'o' The Times"
4. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - "All You Need Is Love"
5. The Sugarcubes - "Birthday"
6. "I Know You Got Soul"
7. Coldcut - "Beats + Pieces"/"That Greedy Beat"
8. The Fall - "Australians in Europe"
9. The Smiths - 2I started Something I Couldn't Finish"
10. U2 - "Where the Streets Have No Name"
11. Abigail Mead & Nigel Goulding - "Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor)"
12. Public Enemy - "Rebel Without A Pause"
13. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - "The Queen & I"
14. Big Black - "Things To Do Today"/"I Can't Believe"
15. Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction - "Prime Mover"

Re: At the time

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I got 'What the fuck's going on?' off BitTorrent whilst searching for Monkees, because I'm a sucker for gratuitous obscenity and considered it pretty fucking genius, frankly. ^^

Re: At the time

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Right at the end of the year the JAMS issued a version of 1987 called "Edits" which blanked out all the illegal samples (but included instructions on the back cover of the record about how to recreate the original LP yourself). As "Edits" contained less than 25 minutes of sound, it retailed for the price of an EP!