The History Of Jop Part 14 aka Let me understand your plan

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

After the blockbuster commentsfest of 1991, the Poptimists pollmasters bring you.....1992, obviously. Will punk keep breaking? Are we all ternative? Whose trousers were on back to front? ect ect.

"How I Could Just Kill A Man" has been left off this list because it was on the last one, thus leaving you NINE ticks to make.


[Poll #848522]


1991: Other People's Poptimism

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit (36 votes)
2. Losing My Religion (28)
3. I Touch Myself (27)
4=. Enter Sandman (25)
4=. Unbelievable (25)
4=. Mama Said Knock You Out (25)
7. Gett Off (23)
8=. Set Adrift On Memory Bliss (22)
8=. My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style (22)
10. Bring Tha Noise (20)

Comments

At the time...

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

1992 was the last year I did a "tracks of the year" list, although the cracks were already showing since I was putting entire EPs into single slots in the Top 15. (Brits will remember that indie bands were very big on EPs in the early 90s.) From 1993 onwards I gave up and just compiled a (much shorter) singles/EPs of the year list. Perhaps not coincidentally, around this time I also began to get somewhat disillusioned with new music - with a few notable exceptions (see below) - and started buying a lot more old music.

Anyway, the 1992 list is FAR TOO embarrassing to post here. But let's just say the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy were #1 in both my tracks list and albums list and leave it at that. (Actually, I still like their stuff quite a lot.)

Other artists I liked a lot at the time and which may or may not feature in my Top 15 are:
- Belly and The Cranberries (saw both of these live when they toured the UK together) plus obv Throwing Muses still
- Shonen Knife, Babes In Toyland, L7
- Shut Up and Dance (I've still got an original SUAD Records sweatshirt that I bought from PJ & Smiley by mailorder before legal action forced them to close the original label)
- En Vogue
- Arrested Development
- The Orb, FSOL, Aphex Twin, The KLF, Saint Etienne
- Denim
- pretty much everything released on the Too Pure label; my Stereolab obsession pretty much took off in '92, So the answer for every year from now on to the "What were you into at the time" question will be "Stereolab".