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.

Re: such a great year!

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Hard Knock Life invented Teenage Life by DJ Daz! This is a bad thing...

Re: such a great year!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooo that makes it even BETTER!

Re: such a great year!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I really really hated the sample! I might think differently if I went back to it now but given that I hate 'Beware Of The Dog' and disapprove of 'SOS' maybe not.

Reach Out And Touch ME

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ARGH LJ et my comment NOT HAPPY

Beware Of The Dog (hahaha DOG DOG DOG DOG) is so nearly excellent but Jamelia (lovely as she may be) doesn't quite have the bolshiness to carry the sample off. Gwen S might have done a better job perhaps.

Even the lyric change (see subject) can't bring it up to the mark, astounding though it is!

Re: Reach Out And Touch ME

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Oh my god talking of Gwen S her new single is guilty of EXACTLY THE SAME THING as 'Hard Knock Life' - it samples THE LONELY GOATHERD from the Sound Of Music and it's AWFUL and really obviously scavenged from the LAMB cutting room floor.

Re: Reach Out And Touch ME

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

it samples THE LONELY GOATHERD from the Sound Of Music

I am not sure whether to hope this is a lie Matt DC told you at Poptimism, or to pray it isn't.

Re: Reach Out And Touch ME

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

No, the Lex is right :-( I haven't heard it yet but I can't imagine it will be anything other than awful.

She Yodels

[koganbot]

Go here and click "Wind It Up" for lonely goatherd and friends.

Re: Reach Out And Touch ME

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Not even Matt DC's evil brain could have thought of this one. The CD is on the table in front of me.

Re: Reach Out And Touch ME

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Then again Lily sampled 'Puppet On A String' for the last track on her album that that turned out rather boshin'.

ARRRGH why is LJ eating all my comments only when I forget to select-all-then-copy!

Re: such a great year!

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

Oh Lord yes. I have an allergy to Annie dating back to childhood and I find it impossible to overcome. I hated the enforced cuteness of the vocals, they were like a demand that this is what kids should be like: loud, artless, attention-whoring.

Re: such a great year!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

This is my objection too and if anything the recontextualisation of it in a Jay-Z track should have whittled some of the cuteness away but in practice it made it all WORSE.

In 1998 I hated it for those reason, now I hate it because it delayed my recognition of Jay-Z as great by a good five years.