The History Of Jop Part 15 aka In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

If it's Thursday, it must be 1994! The grip of alt.rock and hip-hop - mostly alt.rock - on the Pazz and Jop poll is close to total, and Anglophiles aren't carrying much weight. This does mean that we've got a lot of tracks to rate that never came near a Now album, though!

NINE ticks out of 27 songs.


[Poll #853615]


1993 Joptimist Judgement

1. Cannonball (40 votes)
2. Go West (38 votes)
3. Insane In The Brain (34 votes)
4=. Heart Shaped Box (28)
4=. Oh Carolina (28)
6. Nuthin But A G Thang (26)
7. Creep (25)
8. Informer (24)
9. It Was A Good Day (23)
10. Show Me Love (19)

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

94 = the year of some magazine (Christ, it could have been Mojo) with Tori Amos, Courtney Love, Bjork on the cover. It was supposed to mean something, though I forget what.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i think it was tori, pj H (not Love) and bjork. and i think it was Q

as i loved pj and bjork at the time, but couldn't stand tori (yes, yes, lex) it has stuck in my head. i can't recall what it was "about" either

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Amos, Bjork, and Harvey. Which has lead a lot of loser fan fic writersinternet fans to assume that they're best chums and hang out together, a la the Monkees. Apparently that's the only time they've ever spent more than 30 minutes in the same room together though.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They've been asked about each other in interviews ever since and the reply is "ohhh I have so much respect for her, she is a soul sister, I remember I...bumped into her backstage once? She came over to my trailer? I forget"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It was like dream-magazine-cover for me because those three were basically my TEENAGE HEROINES (before the cover conflated them) - it wasn't actually a very interesting article though. The strapline was HIPS! LIPS! TITS! POWER!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

You are of course correct!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

and you don't even know where that line comes from, do you dear?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Haha it comes from somewhere? I have always thought the Q sub-editors made it up!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish_(band)

in my head they were on yr favourite record label, too pure, although wiki sa creation...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I've never heard Silverfish but I LOVE Ruby which Lesley Rankine was in after Silverfish!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I have a Silverfish tape of their first 2 EPs which is raw but pretty good IIRC. Tons of attitood.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Were they more alt-rock? Ruby were totally trip-hop, I found what they/she did very much a counterpart to what Tricky was doing at the time.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

oh yes, almost punk rock in fact

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

they were camden lurch!!!

I think it was Q?

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

not 100% postive, but pretty sure it was...

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

It was Q, I think the point was that there had never been such a high concentration of pretty ladies in music.