The History Of Jop Part 15 aka I'll Be Your Whatever You Want

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1993 sees the alt.rock revolution in full swing, hip-hop going in all directions at once and a smattering of other stuff for YOUR jurisdiction. NINE ticks across these 27 songs, please.


[Poll #851292]


1992: The Love AlBUM (Poptimists Promo)

1. My Lovin (Never Gonna Get It) (38 votes)
2. Justified And Ancients (35 votes)
3. Jump (28 votes)
4=. Jump Around (27)
4=. Baby Got Back (27)
6. Friday I'm In Love (25)
7=. Pretend We're Dead (23)
7=. Ain't Too Proud To Beg (23)
9=. Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover (21)
9=. Lithium (21)

Comments

Alternative was the new pop?

[koganbot]

Funny Tom's not liking alternative rock at this point. There's a school of thought (don't know if I'm part of it, as I've not really gone back to listen in the intervening years) that says alternative got way BETTER - briefly - when it broke onto the charts in the early '90s because then all these wannabes and pretenders came along and turned it into pop music. E.g., I surprised myself today by listening to the Hatfield, possibly for the first time, and liking it. (Not enough to tick it, mind you. Still don't love her little-girly goo-goo voice. Jordy crushes her.)

But actually, hip-hop was the new pop, even if relatively mediocre in comparison to the hip-hop that had been and the hip=hop that was to come.

Re: Alternative was the new pop?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think you're probably right! Thing is, I was at probably my least pop ever in 1993 (see post below), so I wouldn't have noticed. I might go back and re-hear some of this stuff tonight, though.