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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Delay (and general absence from LJ today) caused by my being off work with the ills :(

Ok yes it was me

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

that voted for Everclear. However, has anyone else noticed a similarity between this song and a Paris one?

1979

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This is the song that justifies the existence of Billy Corgan.

On the basis of this thread, 1996 was much better than I remember.

No Diggity

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Am I the only person who finds this astonishingly overrated? I don't actively dislike it, but the critical rapture it's received for years leaves me completely nonplussed.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I can still do the dance to the Macarena.

Re: No Diggity

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I still love it to this day! Queen Pen's bit is brilliant.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

What on earth is the Macarena doing in here anyway? This might be the most baffling inclusion yet.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Haha phear the Common PEople backlash!

I am *assuming* that Born Slippy is "Born Slippy (Nuxx)" but while they specified the Los Del Rio mix they didn't specify that one.

1996 not as bad as I remembered either but all that "indie meets hip hop" stuff is pretty much totally awful.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

What are you pointing the finger at precisely there?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Worldwide phenomenons, you can't keep 'em down. The Macarena is a great dance track. Groundbreaking, even!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Born Slippy is the better of the two songs </indie>

Yeuch

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I only just managed to find 9 to tick -- the bad stuff here is ABSOLUTELY AWFUL i.e. Garbage x 2, Beck, Everything But the Girl; RATM; and although I have a sentimental soft spot for Ready or Not, overall the Fugees are a BAD THING.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Beck, Primitive Radio Gods, ISTR Eels and this Butthole Surfers release ploughing a similar furrow.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

cos it's great, ya menk

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I'm just amazed so many critics voted for it at the time.

why you imitatin' Al Capone? I be NINA SIMONE, defecatin' on your microphone

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

My god when Lauryn Hill concentrates she is absolutely devastatingly great. I put it down as a tie but on reflection I think 'Ready Or Not' just edges 'California Love'.

If fucking 'Common People' beats those two and 'No Diggity' and 'Macarena' I shall be VERY DISPLEASED.

Re: Yeuch

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

How so! They gave us Lauryn Hill!

which version?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I am *assuming* that Born Slippy is "Born Slippy (Nuxx)" but while they specified the Los Del Rio mix they didn't specify that one

similarly "Missing" must presumably be the Todd Terry remix

Don't think I ever saw the "(Nuxx)" appended at the time. Come to that, I don't actually know what people are referring to when they suggest there is another non-Nuxx version of Born Slippy.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Hurrah 'Common People' backlash.

I also assume 'Missing' is the Todd Terry rmx.

Stuff like Beck and Eels makes me rather horrified. WHY in the NAME OF GOD.

[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.

The Train

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=DA9C86464AC246CA

things i don't recall at all (ftb we are still in the penumbra of NO MUSIC FOR MARK S)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Quad City DJs - Come On N Ride It (The Train)
Butthole Surfers - Pepper
Everclear - Santa Monica
Everything But The Girl - Missing

Re: Ok yes it was me

[koganbot]

Huh? Which one? Did notice the similarity to five or six better Everclear songs from their next album.

Re: No Diggity

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

I reckon it's pretty overrated too, but then I do have terrible taste so that probably doesn't count for much.

Re: No Diggity

[koganbot]

Borderline nontick for me. Teddy Riley puts forth great rhythms but is too much of a formalist or something, what's on top often lacks an emotional zinger (even the MJ stuff on Dangerous), the major exception being Spoonie Gee. No Spoonie here, however.