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

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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)

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My (unsubmitted) Pazz & Jop ballot for 1994

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Frank Kogan's Pazz & Jop 1994 ballot that he didn't even submit:

SINGLES:

1. Black Betty "Ram Jam"
2. Cactus Brothers "Sixteen Tons"
3. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs "El Matador"
4. Beck "Loser"
5. The Offspring "Come Out and Play"
6. Hole "Doll Parts"
7. Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
7.5 Hole f. Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas Is For You To Ache Like I Ache"
8. Ricky Martin "Que Dia Es Hoy"
9. Candlebox "Far Behind"
10. Mariah Carey "Without You"

I was really alienated from rock criticism, was only writing for Radio On, which came out once a year with a circulation of about 40 people (I'd drifted away from writing for the Voice, and they were no longer printing Xhuxk, either), was really searching for things to put on my list. "Black Betty" was eighteen years old and my only justification for including it was that, for reasons entirely unknown to me (had it been in a TV commercial?), it hit the Top 10 in France in '94. "Doll Parts" should have been my number one but I still wasn't willing to admit to myself how much I loved an alternative rocker. "Que Dia Es Hoy" is a Spanish-language teenybopper cover of Laura Branigan's "Self Control." Xhuxk kept taping Latin American music for me. My number 7.5 existed only in my dreams. Someday, someday, the one you gave away will be the only one you're wishin' for. Someday, someday, you will ache like I ache.

re 7.5

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