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

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I moved to Europe this year, and so completely missed "the year punk broke." I remember asking my clueless mother to go out and buy "The Fly" single for me on the day it came out and mail it to me.

A friend made a cassette for me in December or early 1992, which was the first time I heard Nirvana (and some other stuff). Electrifying, but I still loved (and love) Achtung Baby much much more. But I remember coming back to the US in 1993, I guess, and feeling like the whole world had changed. Suddenly I didn't understand the music scene at all.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i was unaware that the US had coined this "yr punk broke" thing until about 2001! silly ppl, punk was years before that, thort i

[koganbot]

Well it meant, "Broke big commercially," though you had to willfully not notice all the punk in the Beastie Boys and Guns N' Roses to make this claim.