The History Of Jop Part 13 aka It's fun to lose and to pretend

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Back after a short absence it's the Pazz and Jop poll for 1991 - a particular blockbuster of a poll this with TEN ticks to be shared between 28 singles (would have been 29 but for C&C Music Factory cropping up last year too).

There's a fair bit of ground to cover in the comments boxes, I'm thinking!


[Poll #845917]


1990: Time For The (Poptimist) Guru

1. Groove Is In The Heart (48 votes)
2. Vogue (42)
3. Nothing Compares 2 U (34)
4. Gonna Make You Sweat (28)
5. Been Caught Stealin (26)
6. Justify My Love (25)
7. Hold On (24)
8. Kool Thing (21)
9. Epic (19)
10=. Welcome To The Terrordome (18)
10=. 911 Is A Joke (18)

Note very rapid drop off in vote totals from 1-3 down.

Comments

Pavement

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I feel there should maybe be more commentary on Pavement. Not that I like them any more particularly (and I was only dutifully into them at the time) but.....erm....actually it strikes me I've never read anything very convincing or inspiring on Pavement ever: they've always been around (there was a time when every second thread on ILM seemed to be about them) and they have hugely passionate fans but I've never seen one of them articulate very well why the band are good.

Does anyone have anything to say about them?

Re: Pavement

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Obviously page 2 of a Pazz and Jop thread may not be fertile ground for the devastating insights I seek.

Re: Pavement

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

If I ever have the energy (and I'm feeling a bit unwell, so probably this will not happen ever soon) I would like to try and explain why I still like some Pavement stuff.

Re: Pavement

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

But somehow fitting.

Re: Pavement

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have always thought they were utter bobbins.

Re: Pavement

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i'm not a hugely passionate fan, but i do heart slanted and enchanted, although it took me about a year to get into (and i'd bought it a year after it came out) having bought it (on tape obv) during my first week of college. to me they fill a similar niche to the lemonheads or teenage fanclub, lovelorn, not very grungy but still the odd squealy gtr. will that do? ;)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

surely even the lex owns a pavement LP?

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

nirvana was the first band i loved on my own

Make me over

[koganbot]

Oh, I doubt she'd have sung it with an excess of respect, as I'm guessing that she took the song as BEING ABOUT HER (just as I took "Autobiography" as being about me), so the whole point would have been for her to get up in front of her fans and sing "Make me over," and then "Look at my face/My name is Might Have Been/My name is Never Was/My name's Forgotten" and enjoy while people gasped.

Have you seen Ashlee doing "Sweet Dreams"? She prances around the stage flourishing a couple of white capes.

Re: Make me over

[koganbot]

Er, that was a reply to Lex, don't know how it ended up over here. Jeez, livejournal is acting strange.