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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)

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From:

koganbot

How is the Elvis line great? It was ignorant and stupid, calling someone complex "simple." (But that's not why I'm relatively tepid on the song. It just fades down the homestretch for me.)

From:

chezghost.livejournal.com

i thought it was great because it just comes out like pure anti-establishment energy. D sacrifices/risks accusations of ignorance and stupidity (which he felt he was getting regardless of what he said, presumably) to make a relatively good point in a way that makes you sit up and react. the strikes me as uber-punk (if you feel punk was always meant to be effective in making people think diffrerent).

From:

freakytigger.livejournal.com

I loved "Fight The Power" because it was the first thing PE did after I got into them, and because I was one of maybe three people who liked any hip-hop at ALL at my (private boarding) school, so I felt quite pleased with myself for liking it, but was also, in your elegant phrase re PE "addicted to my own oppression", and so read "the Power" as "the guys in the top year who hassle you" and "Elvis" as "the boring rock music they play" (which didn't include any Elvis - it was mostly Dylan, and I started loving Dylan as soon as I left school, when he started to make a great deal more sense).

I don't know whether - more than half my lifetime afterwards - I should still like "Fight The Power" as much, these reasons having mostly withered. But I do.

"Love Shack" annoyed me then and annoyed me now, though seeing friends try it at karaoke endeared it to me.

From:

carsmilesteve.livejournal.com

um, isn't he saying,

a straight out racist the sucker was, simple and plain

ie simply and plainly, he was a straight out racist, rather than as well as being a striaght out racist he was also simple and plain...