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

Jungle

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Tom mentioned it in his "what were you into at the time" response. I almost did but at this point I only knew of it from unidentified sounds on pirate radio (and possibly from the odd micro-review in the back pages of The Wire late '94). I had limited ways of working out what the essential records were, let alone knew where to go to find them. [When did the Drum & Bass Selection albums come out?]

In other words, I knew it was probably better/more important than the singles and LPs I was actually buying. But didn't know what to do about it.

Re: Jungle

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Drum And Bass Selection Vol 1 is 93 I think - I heard it (and Vol 2) in 1994. Also The Dark Side: Jungle And Technology and another one I bought that autumn which had a load of Bukem, Droppin Science etc on it. Oh and "Warpdrive" by DJ Crystl which was a monster record for me (tho maybe I heard it start of 95).

And the Omni Trio compilation album right at the end of the year, maybe? (Or again, 95 perhaps)

I was too scared to go to the intimidating dance music shops though.

Re: Jungle

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Re last sentence: me too!