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

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I dug out my pile of UK music press cuttings from 86 and 87 last night. I was hoping to find some of the Xmas '87 issue of MM in there but that issue is either in storage or I have thrown it out :(

I do remember the individual MM writers' lists of 20 favourite tracks of 1987 being particularly inspiring. And obv far more wide ranging than the singles poll results would suggest - album and EP tracks by the likes of Arthur Russell, Jane Siberry and the new noiseniks like The Young Gods (who won the MM albums poll), AR Kane and Loop.

I did find plenty of interesting articles though: this was the year that Reynolds and Stubbs were allowed to write manifestos disguised as features on a fairly regular basis. There's a particularly striking one from the issue dated Nov 14th called "Schemers, Dreamers" having a go at what they called Pop Entryists and praising the return to remystification and the "intuitive rock" of e.g. the above-mentioned artists. I expect dubdobdee could find plenty to argue with in this piece.

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The stuff from this era collected in Blissed Out was massively interesting and inspiring for me - much much more so than almost any of the music being discussed, which it took me a long time to admit I didn't really like. They talked a good game, let's say. (I wonder if there's a parallel between the Reynolds/Stubbs noise aesthetes and 'pigfvck' in the US, which would have been about this time (I think))

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

man alive, i forgot the sucrecubes! they made a big impression on newly-indified alang.

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

actually what a great year. so much on those lists. i was a hopeless indie innit. sisters of mercy, new order, swans, JAMC, PSBs, smiths, marrs, weddoes. SWOON.

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite sure what pigfuck is/was, but this was def. the golden era of Forced Exposure rockwrite - my first exposure to Meltzer and Coley and all kinds of gd weird shit

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

pigfuck = i dimly recall Fritz and his (I think) ilm thread on this.

always assumed it was sorta hardcore w/these hardcore-type jokes that were often funny (butthole surfers the best example) but often not (naming a band 'rapeman').

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[koganbot]

Yeah. Where's dubdob? I'm getting antsy.

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

sorry i was out of the hallway and in the classroom all day -- plus i have ppl comin round tonight AND a moomins paper to write the proposal for :(

(haha oops i got called out for GIGGLING during the course-director's induction speech!)

(why do brit academics say "my work is based around issues of _____ and _________" instead of "my work is ABOUT _____ and _______"?)