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)

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Meanwhile In Britain

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Top 50 NME singles Crossovers in bold!

She bangs the drums - The stone roses
Fools gold - The stone roses
Can't be sure - The Sundays
Made of stone - The stone roses
Pacific state - 808 state
Fight the power - Public enemy
The third time we opened the capsule - Kitchens of distinctions
Back to life - Soul II Soul
Last of the famous int. playboys - Morrissey
All around the world - Lisa Stansfield
Round and round - New order
I don't know why I love you - The house of love
Dowutchulike - Digital underground
Madchester rave on EP - Happy Mondays
Closer to fine - Indigo girls
Like a prayer - Madonna
WFL - Happy Mondays
Keep on movin' - Soul II Soul
Funky cold medina - Tone loc
Dont let me down - The wonderstuff
Orange crush - REM
Monkey gone to heaven - Pixies
Tears - Frankie knuckles
Less than senseless - Mega city four
Interesting drug - Morrissey
Sleep talk - Allyson Williams
Barging into the presence of god - Pail saints
Sit down - James
Move - Inspiral carpets
Tom Verlaine - The family cat
Me, Myself and I - De La Soul
Pure - Lightning seeds
Eye Know - De La Soul
The Phantom - Renegade Soundwave
The Sensual World - Kate Bush
Warning - Adeva
All’s well in the world - The sandkings
She drives me crazy - FYC
Leeds station - The Parachute men
Ride on time - Black Box
Getting away with it - Electronic
Losing my mind - Lisa Minelli
Kennedy - The Wedding present
Veronica - Elvis Costello
Too much kissing - The senseless things
People hold on - Coldcut & Lisa Stansfield
Blue moon revisited - Cowboy junkies
Say no go - De La Soul
Have I told you lately? - Van Morrison
Joe - Inspiral Carpets

As you can probably tell, the NME 'got behind' the Stone Roses to a degree.

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I knew and liked vast numbers of these, having read the NME all year and looked forward to its Xmas poll immensely. Indie records from this list I still like:

Can't be sure - The Sundays (The Smiths meet Marit Larsen)
Madchester rave on EP - Happy Mondays (Shaun Ryder's best dance music move)
Monkey gone to heaven - Pixies
Pure - Lightning seeds
Kennedy - The Wedding present
Joe - The Inspiral Carpets

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Oh how frightening, I know almost every single one of those records.

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i'm glad they liked 'Pacific' that much. everybody seemed to at the time, and perhaps even now! :) it was my favourite record of all time for ages until i realised that having an instrumental as #1 might be a bit silly so it went back to 'blue monday'

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

pacific was masseev! except with my uber rockist indie chums who were most unimpressed with my 12" remixes :-(

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah it was the first 'dance record' I liked!

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

this is how much a student nme-ist i was: i went to the reading festivals in 89 (sugarcubes! new order!) and 90 (wedding present! inspirals!).

ever the one to choose the loser, i thought Happy Mondays a bit meh, but loved the inspirals. Joe EP - corr!

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Inspirals main sin was to be a bit stodgy, especially on their slower records (they're a good example of the trade-offs you make when trying for Importance). "Joe" and "Find Out Why" are good!

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i want you (the one with MES) - still one of my songs of the 90s

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

wot i should have added to the "what were you into" if i'm REALLY being honest, is "Talulah Gosh and Sarah reckids" :-O

Re: Meanwhile In Britain: MM top 20

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I expected this to be dreadful, but The Cu*t and The Cu*e aside, it's not bad actually. I love this Aerosmith song (don't know the one that made the P&J list).

Monkey gone to heaven - Pixies
Can't Be Sure - The Sundays
The Sensual World - Kate Bush
Lullaby - The Cure
Keep on movin' - Soul II Soul
Just like heaven - Dinosaur Jr.
She Bangs the Drums - Stone Roses
Me Myself and I - De La Soul
Love in an Elevator - Aerosmith
Fire Woman - The Cult
W.F.L. - Happy Mondays
Back To Life - Soul II Soul
Eye Know - De La Soul
You're History - Shakespeare’s Sister
Downtown Lights - The Blue Nile
Say No Go - De La Soul
Blue Moon Revisited - Cowboy Junkies
Manchild - Neneh Cherry
Lazyitis - Happy Mondays
Omega Amigo - The Shamen

Re: Meanwhile In Britain: MM top 20

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Haha yes the Cure approval put me off buying MM for another year. I think it was around this time they started having their "debate" issues - The Techno Debate; The Goth Debate; and so on - which were awful and awesome at the same time.

The NME had their annual "take Paul Heaton and some other pop drunks to a pub and get them to mutter about the year's singles" feature, which is - along with Radio On - the other parent of the FT Focus Group.

Re: Meanwhile In Britain: MM top 20

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

The NME had their annual "take Paul Heaton and some other pop drunks to a pub and get them to mutter about the year's singles" feature, which is - along with Radio On - the other parent of the FT Focus Group.

I always did love those.

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[koganbot]

We are now on our fourth spelling of "Doowutchyalike."