The History Of Jop Part 20 aka Check it out now the funk soul brother

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

After a short delay, here's the 1998 poll - 25 singles, NINE big picks.


[Poll #866558]


1997: Joptimism In The Wind

1. Your Woman (42 votes)
2. Around The World (37 votes)
3. The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) (34 votes)
4=. Song 2 (31)
4=. Wannabe (31)
6=. Mmmbop (29)
6=. Firestarter (29)
8. Da Funk (27)
9. Brimful Of Asha (26)
10. Block Rockin Beats (25)

Comments

such a great year!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

If this list doesn't grab you then you are 1x CURMUDGEON.

only sad point - 'Hard Knock Life' was the first Jay-Z track I ever heard & had the effect of putting me off him for years & years.

But, like, Lauryn! Aaliyah! Courtney! Madge! Stardust! I didn't even tick Fatboy Slim or Shania whic I love.

Re: such a great year!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hard Knock Life is grebt! Admittedly his attempt to repeat the formula with "Anything" is one of the great aesthetic disasters.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hard choice this time I thought - only a couple of ones I hate (and my pick as 'worst' I bought at the time!), my ticks came down to a "one must go" battle between Fatboy and Madge, and in the end I thought Norman would need the tick more in the long run. Several other records I like - Stardust, Shania in megaballad mode, Sheryl's last good single, Harvey Danger's guilty powerpop pleasure - ended up unticked :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am really surprised that you ticked 'Malibu'! Well not actually surprised but I would have thought you'd go for 'Celebrity Skin' if you went for Courtney at all.

This is another of those loads-of-great-music-from-all-directions-all-ending-up-in-top-10 years, really really gladdening.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

- Flagpole Sitta is probably the song that most often has people going "Oooo I know this one, who is it by". I bought it on CD single from MVE in about 2002.
- Lauryn Hill in the sixties AND the nineties at the same time, cor
- Semisonic THUMBS DOWN URG
- I knew all the words to the Barenekkid Ladies song
- I remember watching Glastonbury on the telly this year and everything sinking, hahaha.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This was the year it was really really wet. Everything sank in 1997, the previous year.

< /glasto geek>

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Oh come on people the collapse in quality between the first and second half is enormous.

I'm having trouble working out whether the Barenaked Ladies are worse than Semisonic.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I'm having trouble working out whether the Barenaked Ladies are worse than Semisonic.

This was my dilemna too! The fact that One Week contains some sort of horrific geek rap finally decided it for me.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Closing Time is not good, not good at all, but Semisonic are redeemed by the joyous Singing In My Sleep. One Week is horrible beyond belief, and yet Barenaked Ladies are spared execution because of the glorious Brian Wilson...

No-one ever said that this pop business was easy.

What I Was Into In 1998

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I did a unified Top 20 list of albums, tracks, singles, reissues, live stuff etc.

20. Piano Magic - "I Am The Sub Librarian"*
19. Field Mice - Where'd You Learn To Kiss That Way?
18. Jurassic Five - Jurassic Five
17. Lambchop - What Another Man Spills
16. Tricky - "Divine Comedy"
15. Mixmaster Mike - Anti-Theft Device
14. Doolally - "Straight From The Heart"*
13. Kenickie - "I Would Fix You"*
12. Massive Attack - "Teardrop"*
11. Future Bible Heroes - Memories Of Love
10. Dock Boggs - "Country Blues" (Reissue)*
9. Air - Moon Safari*
8. Fatboy Slim - "The Rockefeller Skank"*
7. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
6. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson (Reissue)*
5. Hal Wilner - Whoops, I'm An Indian*
4. Future Bible Heroes - "Lonely Days"*
3. Pulp - "This Is Hardcore"*
2. Mercury Rev - Deserters' Songs
1. Charlemagne Palestine live*

* = still listen to / remember fondly in the case of 1

Basically I was rudderless here - trying hard to be a 'proper critic' i.e. heavily under the influence of S.Reynolds and G.Marcus and cut off from my own taste/voice/responses to music.

Re: What I Was Into In 1998

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I still think Mezzanine is one of the best albums ever. I haven't listened to it in a very long time though.

I didn't buy Deserters' Songs until many years later in an HMV sale, I couldn't believe I had missed out on it for so many years then promptly got sick of it and ebayed it. FickleKat.

[infov0re.livejournal.com]

OK, so I was totally going to pick History Repeating as my favourite from that list, but then decided I would feel ashamed the moment everybody else tore it to shreds. So I didn't vote. But it totally is.

(I have this really weird love of the Propellerheads; a high-spot of Big Beat for me. I also own a Midfield General album, for some reason...)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Big beat was great at the time! A lot of the biggest tracks have been totally overplayed since, and many of them don't seem to have ever stopped being played - I somehow ticked neither big beat track here but I do love them both.

great year

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

That Charlemagne Palestine experience was totally awesome.

This was a brilliant time for pop, as I recall it, so maybe that just means that I was enjoying life more than I had been for a while? Although I can remember being melancholy to the sound of Torn, so this may be an illusion.

Several that I did love at the time I have cooled on now -- Rockerfeller Skank and Stardust which were big big-night-out tunes. Monica and Brandy was about the first time I had really loved an R&B track I think; lots of great hip-pop e.g. Pras, Jay-Z; not-bad Madge; Sheryl/Shania reliably great; most of the rest is American stuff I didn't get to hear.

Re: great year

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the highpoints of this year - at least I think it was this year - was the series of tape trades I got from Mike Daddino and others - when/where I first heard Aaliyah, Blackstreet, loads of old soul and pop I'd missed. None of that really shows up on my list though, maybe it was later than I thought.

I have a tendency to wear my heart on my sleeve, I have a history of taking off my shirt

[juror8.livejournal.com]

"One Week"... it's not _that_ bad. Right?

Re: I have a tendency to wear my heart on my sleeve, I have a history of taking off my shirt

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It really is THAT bad.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Also of note: thanks to my Fastball love, everything on this poll was ticked within 19 posters. Surely a record?

[avv.livejournal.com]

I ticked Fastball based on my love for it at the time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzcKCkUIMWk

OH DEAR :(

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that list is just so far away from my '98. was there rly no alt.rock except hole in the states in 98, or had the critics given up on it?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

RICKY SPONTANE FAIL TO CRASH PAZZ AND JOP SHOXOR!

Flagpole Sitta

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

???

kat sez: 'probably the song that most often has people going "Oooo I know this one, who is it by?"'

How does it go? YSI anyone?

Re: Flagpole Sitta

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Theme tune to Peep Show.

From the family tree of old school hip-hop

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Last ever good Beastie Boys song. RIP AD-ROCK YOU WERE MY FAVOURITEST JEWISH RAPPER OTHER THAN SERCH

Re: From the family tree of old school hip-hop

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

My favouritest Jewish rapper currently = Weird Al on his new Chamillionaire parody. He's not half bad!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Is there a thread hidden on the previous poll regarding OMFG Your Town #1 Wannabe #4?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No, because it's not odd - they both won Now Polls after all!

Meanwhile In Britland

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The NME Top 50

Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
Super Furry Animals – Ice Hockey Hair EP
Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
Mercury Rev – Goddess On A Hiway
Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha
The Beta Band – The Patty Patty Sound EP
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
The Beta Band – Los Amigos Del Beta Bandos EP
Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank
Primal Scream – It They Move, Kill ‘Em (Arkestra Mix)
Hole – Celebrity Skin
Elliott Smith – The Ballad Of Big Nothing
Air – Sexy Boy
Low Fidelity All Stars – Vision Incision
Ultrasound – Stay Young
Grandaddy – Summer Here Kids
Jurassic 5 – Concrete Schoolyard
Catatonia – Road Rage
Clinic – Cement Mixer
Air – Kelly Watch The Stars
Massive Attack – Teardrop
Black Box Recorder – Child Psychology
Lauryn Hill – Doo Wap (That Thing)
Embrace – Come Back To What You Know
Clinic – Monkey On Your Back
Six By Seven – 88-92-96
Asian Dub Foundation – Free Satpal Ram
Asian Dub Foundation – Naxalite
Pj Harvey – A Perfect Day Elise
Jungle Brothers – Jungle Brother
Les Rythmes Digitales – Music Make You Lose Control
Brandy And Monica – The Boy Is Mine
Radiohead – No Suprises
Mogwai – No Education = No Future (Fuck The Curfew)
Four Tet – Thirty Six Twenty Five
Mojave Three – Who Do You Love?
Arab Strap – Here We Go/Trippy
Depth Charge – Blue Lips
Campag Velocet – Sauntry Sly Chic
Delakota – C’mon Cincinnati
Cornershop – Sleep On The Left Side
Baby Bird – Bad Old Man
Bomb 20 – Flip Burgers Or Die
Asian Dub Foundation – Buzzin’
Wildchild – Renegade Master
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Let’s Get Together
Bran Van 3000 – Drinking In LA
Idlewild – Everyone Says You’re So Fragile
Robbie Williams – Millennium

Re: Meanwhile In Britland

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

fuck me 98 was shite.

it was totally the year of ultrasound though. in the first week of january they came and did a warm up gig in cheltenham before they played the NME show that broke them. by June i was getting ABSOLUTELY DRENCHED at glasto and loving every second of their set, and by the end of the year they'd put the alBUM out, it was rubbish and everyone forgot about them, great career trajectory, there.

Jennifer Paige, Usher, My Heart Will Go On, My All, Backstreet's Back

[koganbot]

Billboard Top 25, 1998

1. Too Close - Next
2. The Boy Is Mine - Brandy & Monica
3. You're Still The One - Shania Twain
4. Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
5. How Do I Live - LeAnn Rimes
6. Together Again - Janet
7. All My Life - K-Ci & JoJo
8. Candle In The Wind 1997 - Elton John
9. Nice & Slow - Usher
10. I Don't Want To Wait - Paula Cole
11. How's It Going To Be - Third Eye Blind
12. No, No, No - Destiny's Child
13. My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
14. Gettin' Jiggy Wit It - Will Smith
15. You Make Me Wanna... - Usher
16. My Way - Usher
17. My All - Mariah Carey
18. The First Night - Monica
19. Been Around The World - Puff Daddy & The Family
20. Adia - Sarah McLachlan
21. Crush - Jennifer Paige
22. Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - Backstreet Boys
23. I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
24. Body Bumpin Yippie-Yi-Yo - Public Announcement
25. This Kiss - Faith Hill

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Where are the Shania ticks? Isn't it the greatest lady-ballad of the last decade? (The answer, by the way, is: YES)

My love is really, really shhh

[koganbot]

My Pazz & Jop ballot, 1998

1 - Aqua, "Lollipop (Candyman)"
2 - Spice Girls, "Spice Up Your Life"
3 - Jimmy Ray, "Are You Jimmy Ray?"
4 - Everclear, "I Will Buy You a New Life"
5 - Somethin' for the People featuring Trina and Tamara, "My Love is the Shhh"
6 - Sheryl Crow, "My Favorite Mistake"
7 - Madonna, "Ray of Light"
8 - Hole, "Celebrity Skin"
9 - Will Smith "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"
10 - Madonna, "Frozen"

"My Love Is the Shhh" was way more '97 than '98, and I think my excuse for voting for "Spice Up Your Life" for '98 is that it had a second life on the dance charts. Or maybe I just didn't know any better.

Are you Fay Wray? Who wants to know?

Hrrrm Aaliyah is getting diddled

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Given that 'Are You That Somebody?' is only one of the best songs ever and stuff, and has a beat made out of a BABY CRYING, it should be way up front with the other leaders.

Re: Hrrrm Aaliyah is getting diddled

[raw-patrick.livejournal.com]

Seconded. And where is the love for "Rosa Parks"? So catchy.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Because I am writing an essay about Machiavelli I think I may have forgotten all about the nine ticks thing and ticked about ten zillion. :/ I apologise for this blatant flaunting of pop convention.