The History Of Jop Part 17 aka I'm the kind of G the little homies wanna be like

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The amazing history of JOP reels round to 1995 - NINE ticks from 25 singles!


[Poll #856398]


1994 - Joptimism Unplugged

1. Girls And Boys (39 votes)
2. Sabotage (38 votes)
3=. Regulate (35)
3=. Here Come The Hotstepper (35)
5. Loser (34)
6. Gin And Juice (31)
7. Cut Your Hair (30)
8. Whatta Man (25)
9. Doll Parts (23)
10. Miss World (22)

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Exactly 9 songs I like!

tuff poll!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i only ticked 6 -- and wonderwall wd have been my 7th! bcz i dislike it less than everything else i didn't tick

(except for a couple of unknowns i am no doubt sliming)

Re: tuff poll!

[koganbot]

I doubt that you are sliming any unknowns. (Which are unknowns?) But you are one COWARD for not ticking "Wonderwall." I am left all alone with my brave trickery.

Re: tuff poll!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

well i don't really LIKE it! so it seemed a bit odd to tick it JUST to be fair to it -- yes it is by no means as bad as a lot of the other songs, but also oasis had better songs -- my sister bought this (a VERY rare occurrence) and i asked why and she sed "IT'S GREBT", so i played it a few times to see what i thought and was a bit nonplussed at her regard for it (i had nothing invested pro or con oasis at that stage -- of course the sheer scarring ugly media omnipresence of oasis uk-side hasn't helped)

by unknowns i meant "unknowns to me" -- luniz, filter, joan osbourne, matthew sweet i remember nothing of

("forgottens by me" is possibly closer but i really really was OFF ALL MUSIC in 95-96)

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[koganbot]

Let's see, Luniz good-not-great reggae-rap amalgam w/ nice Xmas tinkles in the background (I'm a sucker for Xmas tinkles on tough songs; is very crunk). Filter is hardcore punk that has what I imagine to be RAVE tendencies. (Maybe my imagination is askew.) The Joan Osborne is a gorgeous quasi-faux-Appalachian-new-agey singer-songwriter track about God's incarnation as a shlub (or whatever it's about; she's a singer-songwriter so she doesn't have to know what she's saying, right?) that outstays its welcome as her voice gets soggy and the words get cute. The Matthew Sweet is jangly power pop with typical shiteating wallflower vocals but an excellent slashing, dissonant lead guitarist.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Luniz is v definitely great! omg I just realised that 'I Got 5 On It' INVENTED Cassie's 'Me & U' omgomg.

Frank this is not 1995 but have you heard and do you like the new Ciara single?

Re: tuff poll!

[koganbot]

No, not the new Ciara. Was disappointed by the previous one, though I wasn't altogether sure why I was disappointed. 'S really hard to do delicate-in-a-nondelicate-world and get it right, which she did perfectly in "Oh!"

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I thought you liked 'Get Up'? I remember you terming it crunk-pastorale which nailed it perfectly.

The new one is a massive massive departure from her delicate/indelicate aesthetic.

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[koganbot]

I did like "Get Up," just didn't love it. Having same reaction to the Timberlake singles and the first two Furtado singles (and then I unexpectedly really like "No Hay Igual" and the ridiculously pretentious one she does with that Coldplay goofball).

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[koganbot]

Whereas Cassie's "Me & U" is on my shortlist for song of the year (but said shortlist already has 50 songs, so "Me & U" prob'ly won't even make my top 10).

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I love the Furtado/Martin duet too and am profoundly thankful that "record company issues" meant they had to take his voice off it. 'No Hay Igual' is def my favourite nu-Nelly though.

I'm surprised you don't love 'My Love' more!

I am not sure I can even bother with a singles list this year, like, I've heard about 500 singles worthy of it.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I was strangled by medically needing to tick both Elasticas and both TLCs. It's probably my favourite Shaggy song up there though, amazing stuff.

This year the combined forces of Elastica, Portishead & Massive Attack turned me off the glorious chart dance I had loved so much in the previous 3 years and sent me down the path of guitar-playing gothery.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Almost the same here except sans Elastica; and P'head and M Attack are TECHNICALLY DANCE (ie found in the dance section of HMV) and have no guitars so my get-out clause is PRESERVED!

God those TLC songs are masterworks.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Both Massive Attack and esp P'head have TONNES of guitar.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Not as the lead instrument though!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Alas Lex most pop has guitars in, just not playing the distortion-heavy chords you loathe so.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

I like everything on this list! (apart from the ones I haven't heard) I feel slightly ashamed.

CORRECT

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

...the liking, not the feeling ashamed.

How can I choose between Luniz and Waterfalls? This is so unfair. With the possible execption of Seal there is nothing on that list I wouldn't listen to voluntarily.