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: Aaliyah, All-4-One, Ace

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

when did the P&J voterbase start super-expanding? isn't it like 35 in 1990 and 670 in 2005?

Re: Aaliyah, All-4-One, Ace

[koganbot]

No, it was 289 in 1990 and jumped around between 250 and 310 for the next six years (as they probably made occasional efforts to cull the list), then the Website neglects to list a number for 1997 - which may be the crucial year, 'cause by '98 it's up to 496 voters, it hovers around there for another year, it jumps to 586 in 2000, and from there climbed to just short of 800 in '04 and '05. The Interweb plays a role in the expansion. My guess is that the number drops next year owing to shortage of manpower to make decisions about who receives ballots etc.