The History Of Jop Part 20 AKA Hangin out the passenger side of his best friend's ride

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Today we're gonna poll like it's 1999. Nine ticks from twenty-six singles.


[Poll #868997]


1998: Joptimist Judgement

1. Music Sounds Better With You (41 votes)
2. Ray Of Light (36 votes)
3. Doo Wop (That Thing) (35 votes)
4. Intergalactic (34)
5. The Rockefeller Skank (33)
6. Celebrity Skin (31)
7. Torn (28)
8. History Repeating (25)
9. You Get What You Give (23)
10. The Boy Is Mine (22)

So Lex was right, and Aaliyah did get diddled :(

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

I thought Juvenile did 'Bling Bling'? (first time i heard the term) - who is BG?

i ticked Kid Rock cos it inspired 'Cobrastyle' :)

i came worryingly close to ticking RATM

[juror8.livejournal.com]

I did tick RATM! Easily their best single.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of surprised that "No Scrubs" won this. Britney and Christina are too low. Nevertheless, a really strong list this year.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I am v glad Stardust won last year's poll :-)

I feel Ricky Martin is underrated! LLVL is a grebt song to sing at karaoke hence = grebt pop classic.

This ain't my car like that ain't your hair: UH-OH

[juror8.livejournal.com]

No "No Pigeons", no credibility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJYL4odVu3s

"Your fat ass gets 'nuff laughs/ Take it to the salon, pluck ya moustache"

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i like 'Cup Of Life'!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a pretty good list, paints a rosier picture of 1999 than the one I lived through (though 2000 was great cos I was catching up on all this stuff).

My big ticking dilemma: Madonna vs Jaxx - went for Madge after much agonising.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I like Beautiful Stranger a lot. It would have been my tenth tick.

Re: This ain't my car like that ain't your hair: UH-OH

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

a "wacky" comedy riposte which...is not as funny as the original. NO THANKS

Re: This ain't my car like that ain't your hair: UH-OH

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it's really really violently misogynistic! And one of them died after getting hit by a van leaving a kebab shop.

Re: This ain't my car like that ain't your hair: UH-OH

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

You're just a misandrist!

[koganbot]

B.G. is short for Baby Gangsta. He was on Cash Money records at the time. I'm pretty sure that Juvenile is a guest rapper on "Bling Bling."

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

mine was Santana vs Eminem vs Cher vs Moby - decided that as it didn't make it clear that the Moby was the Kelis remix that would lose out, went for Cher in the end.

I have a little trouble with you not fvckin' me

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Realisation the other week: no matter what type of party you are at, no matter what kind of music is getting played, at some point 'Got Your Money' WILL be dropped and everyone WILL go nuts. It is THE MOST UBIQUITOUS SONG EVER.

Re: This ain't my car like that ain't your hair: UH-OH

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

pt i) ODB does violent misogyny better and funnier on this list alone!
pt ii) botherd!

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Kogan, when did Cash Money become a US critic touchstone out of interest? I kinda thought they were anathema to most mainstream rock writers over there until the coke rap bandwagon came around 18 months back?

[koganbot]

Oh, and Lil Wayne and Mannie Fresh are on it too. So you've got three quarters of the Hot Boys and one of the Big Tymers.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

"only nine ticks" must die :(

I wanted to tick about 15 off this list.

[koganbot]

Became a touchstone for me around '99, when I was getting back into hip-hop and playing catchup. Obv. already was or became important to others that same year, placing two tracks in the P&J. Simon Reynolds and Sasha Frere-Jones were supporting Cash Money enthusiastically, and I'm sure future Voice writers like Harvell and S. Clover were into Cash Money back then.

[koganbot]

Didn't just win it, but trounced everything else: 109 votes to Eminem's 66. I don't quite get it - it's my ninth tick here, but I don't see how it's any better than Destiny Child's very similar "Bills Bills Bills," which went number one that year but didn't make this list. (And I prefer Blaque's "808" - which I've read was produced by Left Eye - to either.)

[cis.livejournal.com]

Amount of well-loved songs on this list means that I had to untick 'baby one more time' to get down to nine!

Honey

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This is the worst record to have appeared in the Jop poll to this day. The vocal sample sounds like the Vic Reeves club singer looped over and over again. Argh.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This is a cracking list, one of the best bar the inclusion of a few utter clunkers.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I would have included BBB in my nine if it were listed above.

[cis.livejournal.com]

second single syndrome? which is to say-- the follow-up, less great version, benefits from people regretting not making more of a fuss about the previous? Also it felt really important at the time, I remember.