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

No Diggity, No No Doubt

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Where the heck is No Doubt?

Re: No Diggity, No No Doubt

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

(Oh there it is on Frank's ballot.) Wait, bigger travesty, NO "CROSSROADS." If it weren't for that song I might have never learned how to feel deeply. That Mariah/B2M thing lasted 4ever if I remember correctly, only a fluke like the Macarena could have unseated it from the #1 spot.

Re: No Diggity, No No Doubt

[koganbot]

Funny, I think Gwen has one of the worst singing voices in pop history, but she manages to - sporadically but without end - do interesting stuff. I would be curious to hear Kelly C or someone with an equally "legitimate" voice try "Don't Speak" and see how her version stacks up against Gwen's. It's a song that invites oversinging, which Gwen avoids, of necessity. As for "X-roads," I'd never been able to stand that particular type of sing-rap, seemed really wanky, until Nelly came along. Still don't like "Crossroads."