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

Indeed we are!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

My Top 20 Singles of 1997 (at the time)

1. Primal Scream - Kowalski
2. Smog - Ex-Con
3. The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
4. Speedy J - Patterns (Remix) (I did not know what this was at the time)
5. Denim - Summer Smash
6. The Blueboy - Remember Me
7. Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
8. Eruption - Don't You Want Me
9. The Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel
10. Prefab Sprout - Prisoner Of The Past
11. Double 99 - RIP Groove
12. Source Direct - Two Masks/Black Domina
13. Souvlaki - Inferno
14. All Saints - Never Ever
15. Jonny L - Piper
16. Stereolab/Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind
17. N-Trance ft Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
18. Tricky - Tricky Kid
19. Porter Ricks - Spoil
20. Fugees - Rumble In The Jungle

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

A massive YAY for Double 99 Ripgroove!

I always preferred Stuka to Kowalski though.

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[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

hurrah for The Private Psychedelic Reel - the one really ace Chems song

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Still awesome: 4,6,7,8,9,11,14,17
Good but not awesome: 1,2,5,10,16,20
Would need to hear again to confirm possible awesomeness or otherwise: 12,13,15,19
Bad but with trace elements of awesomeness: 3
Not remotely awesome at all: 18

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[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

Tom, you're practically the one who convinced me #2 and #18 were awesome!

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was really shocked at how badly Tricky (first album maybe excepted) has dated - "Tricky Kid" and "4 Real" sound such AWFUL WHINGES to me now.

2 may still be awesome, to be fair, but I'd need to be in just the right mood.

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[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten all about 3. I still have the white label 12 somewhere -- does the MVE basement still exist? I must make a pilgrimage there next time in London. OK not the next time in London, as I'll be on my way to Heathrow, but the time after.

19 is still awesome. Porter Ricks definitely stand the test of time.

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[koganbot]

The video for 3 cracks me up (sidewalk rudeness at its best). 3 is also the only track on Tom's list I remember hearing.

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[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

ok I actually meant 4 in my comment, not 3, the wierd Speedy J remix which goes creak blurgle thump blam blam something.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I still like 'Tricky Kid'! It doesn't sound like a whinge to me, I think the galloping rhythm saves it here, it does sound very paranoid though.

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[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i still love 'Bombin Bastards' from the '4 Real' single - anything samples 'Assault On Precinct 13' = great

can't remember how his cover of M's 'Pop Muzik' (also from that single) was but probably less great

'Christiansands' is still ace. Basically anything by Tricky but with a female vox (esp. Martine and inc. 'Broken Homes' with PJ) will never stop being good. His stuff without this element does tend to not stick as well.

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[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

A pleasant surprise to see two of my favourite drum & bass tracks of that year in there!

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah this was the last year I was really into d&b, I think (was Aphrodite this year or next? Next I guess from the lack of tracks above)