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

Think of Keep On Rockin In The Free World As Confessions of a Broken Heart

[koganbot]

Lex, I cannot express to you how much better "Keep On Rockin' in The Free World" is than those Living Colour and Replacements songs.

Think of Neil's relationship to the free world as equivalent to Lindsay Lohan's relationship to her dad. In other words, he doesn't know what he's saying but he knows how to say it, so (as I said in one of the other subthreads) he's beautifully emotionally committed to his extravagant whiffling.

Re: Think of Keep On Rockin In The Free World As Confessions of a Broken Heart

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

That sort of makes sense. I will listen again with new ears.

This much madness is too much sorrow

[koganbot]

My favorite Neil Young songs are "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Down By The River," both of which are interminable and have worse rhythm than a tin can rolling to a stop, but are just these absolutely emotional expressionist guitar and vocal-pang slabs of, um, emotional expression. The delicate beauty of high-school despair raised to a very indelicate level.

Re: Think of Keep On Rockin In The Free World As Confessions of a Broken Heart

[koganbot]

Everything being equal, capital-I Importance/pseudo-Importance will enrich a song not harm it, but unfortunately the capital-I Importance often creates a dynamic in which everything is not equal and many other music aspects wither in the shadow of Importance.

Notice that I ticked "Self-Destruction" and "Janie's Got a Gun," the first most seriously addressing an issue of Importance (and not being full of air about it, but not making a dent on the problem, either, and there's the disconcerting fact that "we're heading for self-destruction" is delivered in such a way that the sound is utterly enticing and catchy), the second very modestly addressing an issue (incest, child abuse) just then coming into public consciousness.