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

Re: Du Bist Sehr Schon

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'I thought Blur had just totally cracked it and knew that Britpop was going to Actually Happen.'

does this mean at this point there was already a sense of what it was as well as what it was going to be? can't remember first uses of the term, and sorry i know we've done this to death!

Re: Du Bist Sehr Schon

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Well what I meant by "Britpop" was the manifesto for smart, funny, art-pop based, 80s-inflected British pop music outlined in Select the year before. I don't know whether I'd have called it "Britpop". I thought Suede had lost the plot, pretty much, but "Girls And Boys" and "Razzmatazz" were pretty much exactly what I'd been looking for.

"Parklife" (the song) and Oasis were a disaster for me, and combined with my getting more interested in hip-hop and dance music they put me off the whole thing - it had got wrapped up in laddism and I wasn't up for it any more. More of this than I'd care to admit was a middle-class Oxbridge student's anti-prole snobbery, I guess (esp. as early Oasis obviously weren't that bad).

Re: Du Bist Sehr Schon

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

early Oasis obviously weren't that bad

YES THEY WERE!

Re: Du Bist Sehr Schon

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

"Girls and Boys" was also one of those moments for me, although I thought it was some crazy new Eno single the first time I heard it.

Although I eventually came around to the album, I'm not sure I would ever have cared about Blur were it not for that song.

Re: Du Bist Sehr Schon

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i think select had called it britpop by this point, and it meant suede and blur and pulp and elastica (and st et and the auteurs and possibly gene). going on the basis of supersonic and live forever oasis could easily have joined them.

Re: Du Bist Sehr Schon

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I always thought of Britpop as rock-inflected by definition, and therefore Saint Etienne were definitely something else. At least that's what I remember thinkning back in 1994-1995 - "hey dance(y) music that i like!"