The History Of Jop Part 11 aka Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1989, the number, another poll - something to do while you count the minutes until POPTIMISM TONIGHT AT THE UNION TAVERN (ahem).

Only EIGHT picks this time because Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" was a duplicate.


[Poll #837465]


Sweet Jop Of Ours (1988)

1. Push It (38 votes)
2. Sweet Child O Mine (35)
3. Don't Believe The Hype (34)
4. Paid In Full (33)
5. Alphabet Street (28)
6. Birthday (27)
7. Crash (26)
8. Welcome To The Jungle (25)
9. My Prerogative (23)
10=. Fast Car (20)
10=. It Takes Two (20)

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1/ Does anyone on Poptimists like the Replacements? I have always hated them but I am not sure I have good grounds for this.

2/ 3 out of the top 4 singles by black British artists! Blimey!

3/ Did the Stones voters have any shame?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I vaguely recollect this being the Stones's comeback, and possibly the first of the "blimey, they still rock up a storm" reactions. Did their existence as a enormous moneymaking touring juggernaut start around this time as well?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

no that started in 1968 usw!!

(well in the 70s really)

[koganbot]

I ticked "One Hit from the Body" for 1986 and "Rockin' in the Free World" and "Janie's Got a Gun" this time, but I'm appalled that "Mixed Emotions" not only made this list but made its top bracket. Unlike "One Hit" it's not intense, not doing anything half-way new, not even a bearably pretty ballad like "Angie" or "Waiting on a Friend" (which are barely bearably pretty). I suppose it'd be comfort factor for people who like Stones-based rock without actually having EVER ADORED THE STONES. In other words, I have no clue what this song is doing on this chart. Ach.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Sympathy votes for Mick and Keef getting back together and doing something that wasn't utter crap.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

something about the 'Mixed Emotions' chorus does indicate a strangely pleasant sense of 'togetherness' among the band that may not have been quite as strong before? they sound like a bunch of pissed up pirates having a jokey singalong just like old times....almost...

Pleased to meet me

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I, in fact, quite love the Replacements, and will be somewhat surpised if no one else does. They were one of the bands in high school that I loved that no one else I knew, even knew about. I'm too tired to wax particularly eloquent on them now, other than to point you to "Skyway" and "Can't Hardly Wait." Stephen Thomas Erlewhine trashes them on allmusic, but I have no attachment to their pre-Tim stuff, so I find the better production values and tighter playing totally to my liking.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

2/ it's a very black poll all round, hurrah! even (funk) metal by african-americans...

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

weirdly the only 'young' or 'unestablished' white artists in the list are The Pixies...unless the two men from Two Men A Drum Machine And A Trumpet ft. Roland Gift count.

LEXCLAIMER: who are The Replacements?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

oh some old indie noncesense...