The History Of Jop Part 18 aka Get your next of kin your sister and your friend

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It was ten years ago today....the Pazz and Jop poll for 1996. We are spared a second go-round for "Wonderwall" (#4 in this poll), leaving 27 singles and NINE ticks


[Poll #858822]


1995: I Got Jop On It

1. Waterfalls (46 votes)
2. Sour Times (37 votes)
3. Connection (36 votes)
4. Gangsta's Paradise (34)
5. A Girl Like You (32)
6. I Wish (30)
7=. Stutter (28)
7=. Creep (28)
9=. Boombastic (27)
9=. I Got 5 On It (27)

Comments

[koganbot]

Strangeness in this poll. "C'mon N' Ride It" won with a miniscule 34 votes, which was only 14.4% of the voters. Previous two years had gotten 29.9%, and winners usually get in the 20%s. "Hey Ya" got an incredible 44.1% in '02; "Gold Digger" won with a relatively weak 18.2% last year. I haven't calculated every year, but I'd be shocked if anything else won with such a low percentage as "C'Mon N' Ride It."

Btw, "C'Mon N' Ride It" is great and way way way WAY more the music of the future than the album winner Beck turned out to be. Was considered a novelty, I suppose, but foreshadowed the triumph of the Dirty South.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I haven't even heard OF 'C'mon And Ride It' until now.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Me too. Someone upload it please.

[koganbot]

Peruse downthread

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Quad City DJs failed to hit in the UK, so i've not head it either!