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

Meanwhile In Britain

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The NME top 50

Higher than the sun - Primal Scream
Justified & ancient - The KLF
Loosing my religion - REM
Starsign - Teenage Fanclub
The concept - Teenage Fanclub
Get the message - Electronic
Smell like teen spirit - Nirvana
Unfinished sympathy - Massive Attack
Pearl - Chapterhouse
Size of a cow - The Wonder Stuff
Sexuality - Billy Bragg
I won't try - Midway still
Only love can break your heart - St Etienne
Playing with knives - Bizarre inc.
I'm to sexy - Right said Fred
Happy - Ned's atomic dustbin
After the watershed - Carter USM
Feel so sad - Spiritalized
Set adrift on memory bliss - PM Dawn
Wear your love like heaven - Definition of sound
Waterproof EP - Kingmaker
Motown junk - Manic street preachers
Where the streets have no name - Pet shop boys
Endless art - A House
You love us - Manic street preachers
The fly - U2
Infiltrate - Altern 8
Destined to be free - Fabulous
Apparently nothing - Young disciples
What do I have to do - Kilie Minogue
My legendary girlfriend - Pulp
Gett off - Prince
Carwash hair - Mercury Rev
Cream - Prince
Dominator - Human Resource
No score after extra time - Thousand yard stare
Not superstitious - Leatherface
Superelectric - Stereolab
Planet of sound - Pixies
Bring the noise - Anthrax/Public Enemy
Go - Moby
Missing on the moon - Field Mice
Tasty fish - The other two
There’s no other way - Blur
Pregnant for the last time - Morrissey
Words that say - Mega city four
Young people - Pooh sticks
Tremolo EP - My bloody valentine
Drive that fast - Kitchens of distinction
Frozen EP - Curve

Notice that indie has basically 'won' by this point.

I have a meeting in 5 mins so someone else can do the MM chart, which makes similar and grim reading (w/more of an emphasis on gothy shoe noize I guess)

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

God, it has, hasn't it? Poor old Right Said Fred and KLF sandwiched in with a load of BOBBINS.

[I possess a) that Thousand Yard Stare EP b) at least four Wonderstuff albums]

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[graciousviv.livejournal.com]

Did you buy that as well then?

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

No I stole it off you. Dude you didn't have a record player!

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[koganbot]

"Justified and Ancient" should get boldness too (made the 1992 Pazz & Jop).

The Indie That Killed Me

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The bands that particularly prompted me to stop reading the NME were:

The Wonder Stuff (91 incarnation), NEDS, Kingmaker, FABULOUS (this was an NME writer's side project IIRC), Thousand Yard Stare. If the blame is to be laid at a single door it would be Neds Atomic Dustbin.

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

[koganbot]

There's an amazing number of these I've never heard.

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Higher Than The Sun" seemed to me - and still seems actually - a weird thing for the NME to pick as #1. I guess in retrospect it's part of a minor tradition in UK indie of people writing songs about/invoking the 'rave experience'

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...

Super-electric

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I bought this from Rough Trade on 10" at the time. (The MM "Single of the Week" review more than a little responsible for this purchase.) I liked it then. I knew it had something special about it, as did the rest of the EP. But I ranked "Super-Electric" way down in my songs list for 1991 (a lowly #70). Just one of many indie-noise-pop singles and EPs that were knocking around at the time.

It was not until I saw the groop play live for the first time in 1992 that my (still-ongoing) obsession with them really took off.

Re: Meanwhile In Britain

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Carsmile OTM, this list beats the shite out of the Pazz & Jop, and the Billboard too for that matter.

Justified & ancient + Smells like Teen Spirit + Unfinished sympathy + Sexuality + Only love can break your heart + I'm to sexy + After The Watershed + Where the streets have no name + Endless art + The Fly + Gett off + Bring The Noise + Go = best year ever!