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

At the time...

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Still liked a lot of Brit indie and shoegazer - this was the year of "Tremelo" and Loveless after all. But I was getting into "dance music" in a fairly significant way too thanks to chart hits by the likes of Cathy Dennis, Don Pablo's Animals, T99, t' Prodge, Candy Flip etc etc, as well as indie dance crossover stuff - this was also the year of Screamadelica and Blue Lines don't forget. I bought quite a few dance comps on cassette tape this year and listened to Pete Tong's R1 show quite a lot. That was where I heard the "Urge mix" of 'Gett Off' first.

My favourite LPs of the year, at the time, were Seal's and PM Dawn's respective debuts, with World of Twist's Quality Street coming in third. (De La Soul is Dead is clearly the best LP of 1991 in retrospect though.)

But one Stanley/Wiggs song towered over all of the above...

My top 15:

1. Saint Etienne - "Nothing Can Stop Us"
2. Primal Scream - "Higher Than The Sun" (+ various remixes)
3. Prince - "Gett Off" (7" mix / 12" 'Urge Mix')
4. My Bloody Valentine - "Swallow"
5. Electronic - "Get The Message"
6. Definition of Sound - "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
7. Slowdive - "Albatross"
8. The Belltower - "Outshine The Sun"
9. PM Dawn - "Paper Doll"
10. Seal - "The Beginning"
11. My Bloody Valentine - "I Only Said"
12. The Prodigy - "Charly"
13. PM Dawn - "A Watcher's Point of View (Don't Cha Think)"
14. Slowdive - "Catch The Breeze"
15. Blur - "There's No Other Way"

Re: At the time...

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

I like this list a lot, but then I would because this was most of the stuff I was listening to at the time.

Re: At the time...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hahahah I got a 7" of Don Pablo's Animals off the back of a Frosties packet! Andandand Ninja Turtles' Spin That Wheel!