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

[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').