The History Of Jop Part 12 aka Just lovely and delicious

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another day, another decade - it's the 1990 Pazz and Jopp poll.

No particular gerrymandering this time so you get the full NINE picks. I left off some EPs (MBV's Glider, Ride's Smile) which I knew might have brought smiles to ageing Brit faces, but I figured the "I've heard of them" defense wouldn't really justify them being included when others weren't.


[Poll #840496]


1989: Joptimist Verdict is IN!

1. Like A Prayer (42 votes)
2. Buffalo Stance (40)
3. Fight The Power (33)
4. Me Myself And I (33)
5. Monkey Gone To Heaven (30)
6. Back To Life (26)
7. Good Life (22)
8. Straight Up (21)
9=. She Drives Me Crazy (19)
9=. Love Shack (19)

Comments

At the time

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

My top 15. Surprised now to see TWO baggy classics in there. I was rather more into The Scene That Celebrates Itself, I think. Of course the Weatherall remix of "Soon" sort of unified the two scenes.

1. Prefab Sprout – “Jordan: The Comeback”
2. Happy Mondays – “Step On”
3. My Bloody Valentine – “Soon”
4. S(k)in(h)ead O’Connor – “I Am Stretched On Your Grave”
5. “Groove is in the Heart”
6. Cocteau Twins – “Wolf in the Breast”
7. Brian Eno & John Cale – “Spinning Away”
8. “Welcome to the Terrordome”
9. 808 State – Cübik”
10. Lush – “Deluxe”
11. Public Enemy feat. Ice Cube & Big Daddy Kane – “Burn Hollywood Burn”
12. “The Obvious Child”
13. MC Hammer – “U Can’t Touch This”
14. The Charlatans – “The Only One I Know”
15. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Farmer John"

Re: At the time

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think of the Scene/shoegazing as being a '91 thing - I was well into baggy all through 1990 and fondly remember a Radio 1 documentary at the end of the year whose big sell was the first opportunity to hear the latest James song! ("How Was It For You?" possibly - ew).

Shoegazing was what drove me to stop buying the NME for a year or so in 91/92, it seemed really tedious to me, "Soon" aside. I bought the first three Ride EPs out of indie kid duty (and maybe a bit of speculator mentality) but to this day I don't really see the point of it all.

Re: At the time

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

cathedrals of sound dronerock is a live thing really, isn't it? (KtS to thread)

my favourite SG name was THOUSAND YARD STARE

Re: At the time

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Shoegazer was pretty much OVER by mid 1991 (= haha when the NME discovered it?), though it officially died the day Loveless was released.

The point about the STCI however was that they all ligged and gigged together and often played on each other's records, it wasn't just a sonic thing. (Hence the mention of Blur upthread - around the time "She's So High" first came out, I'm sure they were regarded as part of this cabal.)