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: "nexus" at the time this felt like the greatest time for music ever

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

(i meant 78/79 and 88/89 obv)

Re: "nexus" at the time this felt like the greatest time for music ever

[koganbot]

I don't get this either. 77-79 was an amazing era, but it was something like the opposite of a nexus, w/ disco and punk leading separate lives, maybe something pulling together at the very end w/ B-52s suggesting a new-wave new way into disco; but the pulling together came in the early '80s, and that nexus still doesn't take in so much of the great music of the time. Can see maybe a pseudo-nexus in Britain in the late '80s w/ various attempts to incorporate hip-hop and hip young dance, "Buffalo Stance" being a good example whereas the "Paid In Full" remix and "Pump Up the Volume" seem really shallow to me (fun, nonetheless) and anyway TOTALLY LEAVING HAIR METAL out of the great nexus. (Some great music, nonetheless.) 1999 wasn't a nexus either, but of my great elevenses - my fave years for music may well be 1966, 1977, 1999, and 1988, in that order - it's the year whose greatness seemed to set the pattern for the years that followed, w/ Max Martin and Mannie Fresh and Timbo and Beyoncé et al. still in the DNA of 2006. Whereas 1966 was defeated in several years, 1977 had something of a dance future, but punk evolved into something like its opposite (hardcore and indie-alternative), and the great from '88 (PE and Def Leppard and Company B, for instance) all were pretty much deep-sixed culturally in a few years, and the M/A/R/R/S-type pseudo stew was replaced by other stews.

Re: "nexus" at the time this felt like the greatest time for music ever

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i was using nexus to impy the "pulling together" as you put it, or a feeling that things were falling into place. perhaps with 88/89 i am thinking of the indie/dance/proto-rave thing which seemed like a monolithic wide-church "scene". the 78/79 would have been new wave, after punk and disco.

but i am really too young to have a proper perspective. and as ppl are saying it may well just be me - just the things happening to me (78 =autonomous love of music, 88=autonomous life entirely).