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

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I can remember 1990, just about and all I ever hear is fucking Deee-Lite's HORRIBLE TINNY NOISE. :( Seriously, they play that all the time 'for the students' and it makes me want to pull my brain out through my ears.

What is appealling about that song? I don't mind the repetitiveness, the danciness, the slight wooziness or anything else about it singularly, in fact many of my favourite songs possess a lot of its qualities but I find it totally and utterly intolerable.

[koganbot]

I sort of agree with you, and this would have been a no tick for me except that Tom unexpectedly allowed us a ninth (despite their only being 25 songs on the chart, presumably due to a mass tie-up at 26), and the basic undeniability of its danciness is what merited the tick, I decided. But the competition was weak. (And I don't share the love for the bald squawking song listed right below this one, either.)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Two things that are appealing to me now about GIITH - that have nothing to do with what I thought and felt about it at the time, but which (sadly) prevent my being able to recall those thoughts and feelings:

1. It's the most manufactured manufactured pop record ever: the vocals aside, the record is entirely constructed out of other records.

2. It ushered in shibuya-kei, which I kind of partial to.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

partial to, to extent I forget how write English

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

Herbie Hancock sample = K-lassik