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

Did I tell you about the time I nearly got suspended from school because of Madonna's 'Secret'?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Our maths teacher got pregnant and so we had a replacement for her. This replacement, one Mrs Bvckn4ll, was astonishingly shit at a) keeping a class in order and b) teaching maths, and lessons were mostly a waste of time - mostly exercises in throwing screwed-up bits of paper across the room than anything else. My then best friend and I set about rewriting the words to Madonna's 'Secret' into a Mrs Buckn4ll hate song. The chorus went "Mmm-mmm, we hate Mrs Fvckn4ll". We typed all the lyrics out and then recorded it on to tape using the instrumental version available on the CD single and brought it into school. We were listening to it in the library one lunchtime...when her son, also a pupil in our year, walked in on us. Disaster ensued.

We were nearly suspended but ended up just getting lots of detentions, and we had to write letters of apology. Mrs B apparently had to go into counselling. I couldn't listen to 'Secret' for ages afterwards!

(But I can listen to it now, even if I still sometimes sing "We hate Mrs Fvckn4ll", and Bedtime Stories is a ridiculously underrated Madge album! Silky-smooth white-Sade soul. The ballads, as ever, are the best.)

Re: Did I tell you about the time I nearly got suspended from school because of Madonna's 'Secret'?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Fvckn4ll doesn't sound that bad a person based on your anecdote. Why were you so mean to her?!

Re: Did I tell you about the time I nearly got suspended from school because of Madonna's 'Secret'?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

She was probably a lovely woman! She was just ineffective and we were mean teenagers. And we never MEANT her to see it. Her son was a right cunt though.

Re: Did I tell you about the time I nearly got suspended from school because of Madonna's 'Secret'?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I could understand it if she had been a b1tch and shouted at you a lot!

Re: Did I tell you about the time I nearly got suspended from school because of Madonna's 'Secret'?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Teachers never shouted at me!

it's right there on my time-machine list...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

... after kill hitler as a baby

Re: it's right there on my time-machine list...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i was a GOOD PUPIL!