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

My year

[koganbot]

My Pazz & Jop singles ballot, 1989

1. Roxanne Shanté "Live On Stage"
2. Cynthia "Change On Me"
3. Bam Bam "Where's Your Child"
4. Housemaster Baldwin f. Paris Grey "Don't Lead Me" [remix by Mike Hitman Wilson]
5. Kix "Blow My Fuse"
6. Pajama Party "Over And Over"
7. Neneh Cherry "Buffalo Stance"
8. Bang Tango "Someone Like You"
9. Pajama Party "Yo No Sé"
10. Young MC "Bust A Move"

Notice how in 1989 P&J is actually whiffing* completely on the greatest U.S. music of the time (freestyle), almost whiffing on the most innovative (house and techno), totally missing the boat on hair metal, and, like me, treating country and adult contemporary and other vast parts of the popular landscape as if they don't exist.

Great year; P&J doesn't reflect it very well.

(Is "whiff" in this usage - taking a swing and missing - part of the British idiom?)

Re: My year

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

we say whiffle

(as in "whiffling in the dark")

Re: My year

[koganbot]

When it came to music, I spent most of the '90s whiffing in the dark.

Re: My year

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Housemaster Baldwin f. Paris Grey "Don't Lead Me" [remix by Mike Hitman Wilson]'

never heard this but intrigued. Housemaster Baldwin!

Re: My year

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have only seen the word 'whiff' used like that in a tennis context before! as in, "she completely whiffed on that ball" when a tennis player failed to connect to an easy shot with her racket at all.

come to think of it it was an american commentator, so.

tenuous link - there is a tennis player with the surname Kix.

Re: My year

[koganbot]

Yeah, I think it's a baseball usage, though obviously it can be appropriated whole for tennis or boxing or cricket or futball or hockey, but baseball (and cricket?) are the ones where you're most likely to miss altogether, not even grazing the thing.