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

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.

Re: What I Was Into In 1998

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Mezzanine is really good, Massive Attack's finest I think. I also like Deserter's Songs! But never listen to it now obv.

Air should be in the poll. 'Sexy Boy' is HEAVENLY.

Re: What I Was Into In 1998

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I'd heard 'Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi' around Christmas '97 and thought it was amazing but hated 'Sexy Boy' at first for sounding 'cheap' and 'poppy' (i loved it after a few months tho). Then Pete Tong played 'La Femme D'Argent' on the Essential Selection and I thought it was astonishing but overall 'Moon Safari' is a bit too wishy-washy. I should proffer it up for Poptimists Album Science perhaps.

Re: What I Was Into In 1998

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yes! I liked Sechsy Boy and All I Need before they got overplayed on How Badly Designed Is Your House et al. I still like "You Make It Easy" quite a lot.

Re: What I Was Into In 1998

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah since EVEN AT THE TIME I knew that only the first three songs on DS were any good I think #2 was an overreaction. But those three songs were INCREDIBLY GOOD, or so I thought back then. My not listening to them now is about 50% 'preserve a happy memory' after the rubbishness of all follow-ups and the horrors of Grandaddy et al.

Re: What I Was Into In 1998

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

That song on DS, I think it's track three, with the Silent Night bit, is cloying and sickly and horrible. There were far better moments later in the album IIRC.

I might listen to it tonight just to check.

Re: What I Was Into In 1998

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Cloying and sickly and horrible were EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED! The ones I like are the ones that sound like some kind of horribly hungover and damaged versions of Disney tunes (the wankiness of this description is exactly why I fear hearing them again). All the other stuff is just pub rock.

Re: What I Was Into In 1998

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

While the first three songs are unbeatable, I think the rest of the album isn't quite the pub-rock comedown you remember it being, especially the last song -- "Delta Riverboat Stomp Something". I've heard a live MP3 of a where they ditch the Reich-house and turn it into a Creedence uptempo choogle.

The real horror isn't even Grandaddy so much as MR repeating themselves again and again. They've deluded themselves into thinking that DS (and really, just the second half) was all they ever need to do ever again.

Re: What I Was Into In 1998

[epicharmus.livejournal.com]

Anyway, DS arrived at a rilly awful time in my life so it is sadly one of things that I can't criticize fairly without tearing my tiny little heart in two.

Re: What I Was Into In 1998

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

oo i think this was the year i probably played the FBH album non-stop.