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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this is a pretty good list! whatever happened to tracy chapman?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

see The Primitives song here for clue

Question which has mystified me for my entire life

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Why do people like Guns'n'Roses?

From the very first moment I became aware of them they struck me as being utterly repellent.

Also, 'Push It' = best song ever made.

Re: Question which has mystified me for my entire life

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Even though I like Push It more, I want G'n'R to win this poll - S'n'P have had their turn.

At the Next Poptimists

[koganbot]

At the next Club Poptimists, it is imperative that (after the Sinker-Skidmore version of "Je T'Aime") you all reenact The Rare Remix Video of Galbi, in costume. Imperative.

Re: Question which has mystified me for my entire life

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

S'n'P cannot have ENOUGH turns!

Urgent Question

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What on earth is "Da Butt"?? Promising title!

Re: Urgent Question

[koganbot]

Fairly so-what go-go track; used in one of Spike Lee's films.

Re: Urgent Question

[koganbot]

Da Butt on YouTube, low-quality transfer. AND YOU WOULD BE MUCH BETTER SPENDING YOUR TIME WATCHING THE "GALBI" VIDEO.

Re: Question which has mystified me for my entire life

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha lex, gareth maintains that GnR are the AMERICAN SMITHS!!

Re: Urgent Question

[(Anonymous)]

Dear god go-go was dull. That's something that didn't come up in the discussion of the hip-hop wars: how the black music-is-always-better crowd had been tarnished by the tedious instance that Trouble Funk were the future we should all embrace.

Re: Urgent Question

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

He is also the male vocalist (uncredited on this poll) on Salt N Pepa's "Shake Your Thang"

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

I had trouble picking only nine.

Re: Question which has mystified me for my entire life

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

haha! i am not sure i see the connection but i think i will run with this one.

Re: Urgent Question

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

It's awesome! I don't think I currently own a copy in any form or I would upload it.

Re: Urgent Question

[(Anonymous)]

Incidentally, EU are also on Salt n Pepa's Shake Your Thang.

Re: Urgent Question

[koganbot]

By "he" you mean Gregory "Sugar Bear" Elliot, not Spike Lee. (Think the whole band might have been on that track.)

Re: Urgent Question

[koganbot]

xpost

Re: Question which has mystified me for my entire life

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Sexually confused paranoiac frontman tempered by down to earth, raised eyebrow at "yet more of your crazy antics Axl/Moz" guitar "hero".

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the patti smith song is officially "not bad" in an anthemic kind of way

i interviewed ofra haza round this time, but don't think i can have written it up -- i don't recall a thing she said, tho she was very charming

Re: Urgent Question

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Haha, I have spoken to a HIP-HOP WARS SURVIVOR (not at the NME at the time, but he was working high up in music journalism) and he was trying to convince me that go-go was due a much needed comeback!

Re: Urgent Question

[juror8.livejournal.com]

I actually thought he was talking about The Go Gos at first, and was confused.

Re: Question which has mystified me for my entire life

[juror8.livejournal.com]

"From the very first moment I became aware of them they struck me as being utterly repellent."

That was the point! Rock music is meant to be scary and offend people and etc etc etc etc.

"Sweet Child of Mine" still amazing even today. Not as much as "My Michelle" though, which is the best love song ever written.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ah 1988, GNR (third gen tape copy of Appetite) came along and LO, my hair did grow and my jacket did become made of denim (ok, i didn't actually get the denim jacket for another year, no denim at school you see).

BUT, i was still listening to a lot of pop radio, and my sister had just started getting Smash HIts (in its POMP in my opinion), so i could still hold forth on the !P!O!P! issues of the day.

AND THEN d-mob came along and it ALL WENT A BIT ACIIIIIIIIIEEEED as well...

blimey, what 1 x year!

Re: Question which has mystified me for my entire life

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

paradise city is better than BOTH though, COWBELL! WHISTLE! ALL SORTS!!!