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

Re: BUFFALO STANCE vs LIKE A PRAYER

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can see myself agreeing with yr last point only (and I always felt vague irritation that Like A Prayer is the Madge album which gets the critical love, above Erotica and True Blue even, because it's so capital-I-Important.

but I think that its sheer rapture elevates it to top-tier Madonna, its deliberate evocation of the religious experience, the sonic rush of it all. It's not my absolute favourite Madge - top 5 almost certainly - but there's this massive pulling-out-all-the-stops (thematic, sonic, everything) feel to it which I completely adore when it succeeds.