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

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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)

Comments

Re: Dean's Essay

[koganbot]

All right, this is one of those times where Xgau hovers near an idea without quite getting there. In other words, I don't altogether understand what he's saying. But among other things he's projecting an internal tension of his own onto me (at least) and onto rock criticism: That is, he, Xgau, thinks (thought) there was a tension between significance on the one hand and pleasure on the other, so he is working hard in his essay (and in his work in general) to overcome that tension. And one of his problems is that he hasn't thought through what he means by "significance," so he uses it as a stand-in for a vague constellation that can mean anything from "socially significant" to "poetically impressive."

(Whereas I was working from different maps altogether; not "pleasure" vs. "significance" but stuff like hallway vs. classroom [though I hadn't come up with that metaphor yet], and I wasn't buying into the classroom's right to define "significance" or the hallway's right to define "pleasure" - whereas I think Xgau fell whole hog into those def'ns, and then worked with difficulty to extricate himself.)