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

Re: Pavement

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

But somehow fitting.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

surely even the lex owns a pavement LP?

Re: dubdobdee vs infov0re FITE!

[koganbot]

I used to have the previous album, Temperamental, which is not bad at all, and the video for "Hey Little Boy" - Syndicate of Sound's "Little Girl" with the words changed - which is very funny, just the way Christina pouts and looks cute and bitchy at the same time. Not Cher so much as Lene Lovich-Debbie Harry going into cute-bitch mode.

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

nirvana was the first band i loved on my own

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

Nevermind this, I messed up a reply. LJ is so much tricksier than ilx!

Re: dubdobdee vs infov0re FITE!

[koganbot]

But I would be disturbed if "I Touch Myself" wins. Mark likes the Divinyls because they're on the Buffy OST.

Re: am i being previous again

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'move any mountain' was the first song i played over and over again to try and write down the right lyrics

Re: am i being previous again

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

There's an excellent meme! Mine was It's The End Of The World As We Know It.

Re: am i being previous again

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Mine would have been something by the smiths where Morrissey MUMBLES.

This is worth a post on its own I think.

OST staple

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

haha I only really got to know "I Touch Myself" cos it's on the soundtrack to the first Austin Powers movie!

(also haha somehow I got it into my BRANE that because Susanna Hoffs is on the OST, and is married to Jay Roach, Hoffs was also lead singer of The Divinyls. Or something.)

Re: I was a Complete Chump for not voting for "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

[koganbot]

Well, they both have trouble staying in tune, and Courtney is far LOUDER. But it's more the way her voice can rip you up - which ultimately isn't Ashlee's personality, anyway.

Re: am i being previous again

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

for some mental 11 year old me reason, i slowed down the tape of Kim Wilde's "chequered love" to count the beeps/beats before the song started proper.

Re: Here Is Something You Can't Understand

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Wow. Never heard that Geto Boys song before. S'great, and so's the video.

Re: Hip-hop got turned into hit pop

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Never heard this before either! Don't think much of it - getting dangerously close to Fun Lovin' Criminals territory. However, the first 3rd Bass LP, The Cactus Album, from 1989 or thereabouts is a lot of fun. Several songs on it are as good as "Ice Ice Baby", I'd say.

USE CORRECT FACTS PLS ;)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

what happened was kurt's throat was fvcked (possibly due to touring/possibly due to large amount of druqs), and as it had been DECREED that all artists MUST sing live at this point in TOTP history (beginning of the end, in my opinion), despite kurt's begging they wouldn't let him mime, hence the performance we got.

anyone who sa anything else is WRONG ;)

Re: COLOR ME GOOD MORE LIKE

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

if it wasn't for the singer's DREADFUL 'tache this may have remained in the top ten selection, but it just lost out...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes, i concur. partly cos it only cost $600 and they recorded it in ten minutes etcetc. i think i was also a "first alBUM better" snob after about 6 months...

Re: The Indie That Killed Me

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

fabulous was Simon Dudfield (oh the ironing) and they were managed by James Brown. they were meant to be as big as birdland the manics...

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

they are ALL* brilliant, i hadn't realised quite how indie i'd been in '91 until i saw this list...

i was devouring every word of NME at this time, it took slightly longer for me to fall out of love with it than tom (ie five or six years)

*overstatement for dramatic effect, obv, even i can't defend midway still...

Re: yooooooooooooo couulld be miiiiiiiiiine

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

except, of course, they came out in the september i think, but then were made more irrelevant than pink floyd in 1977 by SLTS, so highly unlikely anyone would vote for it end of year, plus it was mainly rub (live and let die notwithstanding)

Re: am i being previous again

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

wasn't this also the year of the 23 track alBUM of progen remixes? marvellous, there.

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? ;)

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.

Re: I was a Complete Chump for not voting for "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

[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.