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)

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My Stupid And Contagious ballot, 1995

[koganbot]

My singles ballot, 1995 (once again I wasn't part of Pazz & Jop; this ballot went to Jill Blardinelli's fanzine Stupid and Contagious):

1. Hole "Violet"
2. Fun Fun "I'm Needin' You"
3. Lordz of Brooklyn "Saturday Nite Fever"
4. Mo-Do "Eins, Zwei, Polizei"
5. Rednex "Wild and Free"
6. Mariah Carey "Long Ago"
7. Rancid "Salvation"
8. Real Joy "La Danse d’Helene"
9. Gillette "Mr. Personality"
10. Gillette "You're A Dog"

My alienation from rock criticism continued apace. I have no idea how old "I'm Needin' You" was at that point; I willfully believed it was from 1994, but it may well have been from 1984. "Wild and Free" and "Long Ago," while being from 1995, were album cuts not singles. I chose "Wild and Free" because it was uniquely weird and was better than "Cotton-Eye Joe"; "Long Ago" because I'd created a rule the previous year that any best-of with Courtney had to include Mariah, and vice versa, and Mariah's for real singles from 1995 were too much from the air-freshener section of her repertoire.

Violet scorned

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

What happened to "Violet" this year? I remember it being Hole's biggest hit. First Hole song I remember hearing a lot, anyway.

Re: Violet scorned

[koganbot]

Straddled the 1994-1995 divide I think, so by the time for P&J voting for 1995 it was basically off the radar. "Doll Parts" charted higher (#4 modern rock, #58 hot 100; "Violet" was #29 modern rock, didn't make the hot 100).

Re: Violet scorned

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm rather surprised it didn't make the list. But then there has always been a massive Courtney hate-on amongst certain critics.