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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)

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From:

alexmacpherson.livejournal.com

I heart Suzanne Vega! No one else has done librarian-pop quite as well.

From:

koganbot

I ticked this too, but I do recall the schoolkids' retort (or should I say detournement), "My name is puka, I live on the bathroom floor."

From:

alexmacpherson.livejournal.com

So...Luka as victim of DRUGZ as well as domestic abuse! DARK.

It's not even anywhere near S Vega's best. (I actually prefer the vaguely electronic/jazzy stuff she was doing in the late 90s, Nine Objects Of Desire especially, to the early folkier sound...)

From:

koganbot

I've got to explore her further. At the time I suspected she was too prissy, so never explored the albs.

(Lex, you know, you've got to give Marit Larsen a chance. She's more libarian pop than teenpop, which might have been what threw people at first.)

From:

alexmacpherson.livejournal.com

I suspect the folky albums ARE too prissy (singles mostly magnificent but I have those on the best of).

The thing with all these old female singer-songwriters I still like and rep for is that their styles don't much appeal to Lex 06: I don't often feel like listening to music like this and so their contemporary equivalents don't interest me much (eg Bat For Lashes who is like Tori Amos gone trip-hop - I would have adored her in 1998 but it is not 1998 any more. I would probably have loved Marit Larsen in 1998 too).

From:

koganbot

The one I'm really interested in what you think of (when you get to her) is Teena Marie. A total r&b babe and a total teengirl poetry babe. Her stuff varies wildly in quality and style, but she's one of the most all-embracing exuberant pheenoms ever, and her hits packages don't serve her well.