The History Of Jop Part 19 aka You have so many relationships in this life

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I decided to do a Jop poll after all, so here's 1997. With "Lovefool" left off for appearing twice, you have nine picks on twenty-five songs - a generous allowance!


[Poll #861316]


Joptimism 1996: Predictable, Us?

1. Common People (38 votes)
2=. California Love (33 votes)
2=. Born Slippy (33 votes)
4. Lovefool (31)
5. No Diggity (30)
6. Woo Hah! Got You All In Check! (28)
7. Setting Sun (23)
8. 1979 (20)
9=. Ready Or Not (19)
9=. Macarena (19)

Thank heaven the Macarena scraped in there ahead of Beck!]

TYPO ERROR: That should be "Cornershop" doing Brimful of Asha, not Chumbawamba - apologies for Cornershop and all their fans. Also it's "Da Funk" not "The Funk". Mondays, eh.

Comments

Against "Autumn Sweater"

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

Who LOVES this song? My horrible unfair suspicion is that the people who voted for "Autumn Sweater" were largely deaf, non-responsive when it comes to singles. They had an empty space on their ballot and they filled it with a known quantity. (Lots of P&J singles seem like this.) I do not understand why anybody would care very deeply for it, even for terrible reasons, stupid reasons. It translates as almost a vote for the album, not the song, and the YLT album is a fucking great one, their best, but the only song that kills me is "Deeper Into Movies." It feels like the White Album, the obvious dreck (organ workout, Beach Boys cover) makes it all seem more emotionally coherent somehow.

Re: Against "Autumn Sweater"

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

If you can make a case for this song as being something more than very pleasant, very sweet filler (not a slam, really -- actually the album seems almost like all filler 'cept for "Deeper Into Movies" and I still think it's GREAT) I'm all ears.

Re: Against "Autumn Sweater"

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

(I am trying to mitigate my dickishness here.)

Re: Against "Autumn Sweater"

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I see what you mean about this translating into a vote for the album, but in my case I genuinely love the song, the fragile vocals, the understated but massively funky beat, the sense of melancholy, the melody. It's not the best song on that album; it's still a heap better than Chumbawumba or Hanson or fvcking Janet Jackson.

Also this song brings back a lot of memories of very happy times with my greatest friends, seeing YLT play at festivals, it's a really summery song for me despite the title. I can't help it if this colours my view of it.

Re: Against "Autumn Sweater"

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

Argh, I see I'm close to using a rhetorical strategy I typically loathe and should be more careful with ("you are KIDDING yourself if you think you like this") but really I've never seen any kind of loving words for this song, not even deludedly or hedged loving words.