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]

Who was voting for Joan Osborne?

This poll has a strong "must vote for alt.rock regardless of quality" streak to it, for me - Wasis, Foo Fighters twice(!), Smashing Ps, and then that weird sort of power-pop revival thing that was going on (I had completely forgotten about Matthew Sweet even existing!). It's kind of a bad list, but then I was pretty detached even from UK 'alt' by this point - I nearly put "A Girl Like You" as worst!

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

It's just wrong!

[koganbot]

Oh, yes, it's a terrible list (coming right after 1994's quite packed one), but Joan Osborne at least had a melody, would have ticked it if you'd forced us to pick another four. The Dionne Farris song is terrible way beyond the terribleness of the rest of the stuff on here, since being actively catchy and irritating is far better than being NOTHING.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my Joan Osborne qn was more bafflement that critics had picked something which seems really obviously likely to trigger sneering reflexes rather than that they'd picked a dreadful song (though it isn't a good song).

[koganbot]

I would say "One Of Us" has an actively good melody and has a singer with an actively good voice that somehow weighs the song down (not just the terrible lyrics, but the way she layers on her good voice) so as not to be as good as it should be. But I remember being happy to hear the song's bright cheery chords the first six or so times it came on MTV. Though usually I was happy to hear the song end, as well. The lyrics are no worse than some of Nelly Furtado's imbecilities, and Nelly gets (deserved) respect these days.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Bright Eyes got in last year!

'One Of Us' teeters on the tightrope between good and bad for the most part and ultimately veers into CRASHINGLY AWFUL thanks to some choice lyrics about eg the Pope in Rome.