The History Of Jop Part 10 aka I had a feeling I could be someone

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1988 - and it's a winner! (Also possibly your only chance ever to vote, vote, vote for the Wilburys in a Poptimists Poll)


[Poll #835009]

1987 - What The Jop Was Going On?

1=. Sign O The Times (33 votes)
1=. Pump Up The Volume (33 votes)
1=. Bring The Noise (33 votes)
4. Faith (29)
5=. U Got The Look/Housequake (24)
5=. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (24)
5=. I Know You Got Soul (24)
8. The One I Love (22)
9. Don't Dream It's Over (19)
10. Luka (18)

MARRS and PE got 6 'best' votes each, Prince got 8.

Comments

Re: Meanwhile in Britain

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The more important point here is that alongside their poll results MM ran a piece that pretty much invented the "Best Year Ever" meme - declaring 1988 the Greatest Year For Music of All Time (or words to that effect).

With the benefit of hindsight, this is probably the moment MM blew it. Part of the reason is undoubtedly down to pinning its colours to a Nu Rock mast. But frankly, where do you go after wild overstatements like that?

(That said, during 1988 the NME had continued to be as rubbish as it had been in '86 and '87 - the Rattle And Hum affair was probably the nadir. Even the rockists at MM were happy to trash this record on a weekly basis.)

Re: Meanwhile in Britain

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah I think if I'd actually been reading NME in 1988 (as opposed to the end-of-year being my first), I might well have seen its EOY list as directionless flailings rather than a wide-ranging celebration of all music with indie reassuringly central.

Re: Meanwhile in Britain

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the world is not yet ready* for the affair of the giant rattle of humatra!

*"not yet ready" in the sense of "has already been told too often"

Re: Humatra

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

actually, I've never heard/read you tell it. But I assume the basic facts in Wiki are right.

also: when has * ever stopped you before :-P