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: Meanwhile In Britpop

[koganbot]

"alt rock" and "britpop" not really equivalent as categories - "alt rock" was a huge catchall that embraced a giant mass of post-new-wave, postpunk music, from avantsies like Sonic Youth to mumblers like R.E.M. to airy folk-poppers like Mary Lou Lord to post-no-wavers like Half Japanese to grungers like Pearl Jam to melodic hardcore to shoe-gazers to shamblers to, well, britpoppers. Whereas britpop is a more concentrated sound-somewhat-like-each-other genre. So alt rock has a greater chance of good stuff through sheer numbers. (That said, if the Auteurs count as Britpop, then the genre deserves credit for "Bailed Out"'s exquisite, tuburcular beauty.)

Re: Meanwhile In Britpop

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

weeeeelll, kinda. alt.rock over here (and how i'm assuming tom is using it above) was generally taken to mean american non-metal post-grunge guitar-based music (gotta love those hyphens ;)), often on major labels, ie the artistes above. it wasn't a compliment, and often prefixed with the phrase "whiney-mcshiney" (actually i may have made that last bit up ;)) so pearl jam, beck, all that lilith fair stuff, greg dulli, bush, all that american rubbish (yes, irony, there)