The History Of Jop Part 22 aka I apologise a million times

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

To celebrate all meeting up in the year 2000, the Pazz and Jop singles poll jumped in scale from a Top 25 to a Top 40 - 42 in this case, thanks to ties. You therefore get FOURTEEN big picks - use them wisely.


[Poll #871746]


1999: Poll Over Jops Out Of Time

1. ...Baby One More Time (43 votes)
2. No Scrubs (41)
3. Genie In A Bottle (38)
4= Got Your Money (34)
4= My Name Is (34)
6. Rendez-Vu (26)
7= Steal My Sunshine (24)
7= Beautiful Stranger (24)
7= Praise You (24)
10. Believe (22)

Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Hurrah, all of mine are winning with 100%! First time I've been first in on one of these...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

We seemed to agree on most of these!

That was a hard poll - very sorry to say goodbye to MOP on the last tick.

WOW

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

All bow down before the turn of the century, innit.

Apart from two awful sore thumbs...it's basically solid gold until MOP.

I feel sad that I had to leave Jay-Z, Macy G and MOP unticked :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

SURELY I am not going to see any "meh, don't like any of this really" comments up there. SURELY. I think anyone who feels underwhelmed by 2000 needs to RETHINK THEIR POPTIMISM.

Re: WOW

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Gah, I forgot about Dre too :(

Re: WOW

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

BEST POLL EVER. Clearly.

There's so much goodness and I feel sad I had to pull the trigger on DMX right at the end.

Re: WOW

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Racist.

Re: WOW

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, I had a token white boy pick.

Let me see that tick...

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

... all you people not ticking the Thong Song better explain yourselves.

I'm-a bang 'til the springs in this thing start squeaking.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

"Ante Up" is the only record that will appear on these lists that will ever come close to my top 50 ever.

The most important...

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

... surely this is Stan? Not only was it #1 but there aren't many other tracks to have singlehandedly launched the career of a hugely successful if rub artist?

Rock Off

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This was the big 'rock is dead' year I think - no surprise given that the best it could do was Queens Of The Stone Age and their novelty drug track. I larffed like a drain when I saw the NME had made it album of the year (well no, I got irrationally annoyed and wrote a blog post, probably).

Along similar lines, this is one of only two Sleater-Kinney tracks I've heard: don't like it at all.

Re: The most important...

[juror8.livejournal.com]

First Shady, then Boreanz... Dido's always been given the rub by another artist.

Re: The most important...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

haha I thought you meant Eminem for a second there!

Re: Rock Off

[juror8.livejournal.com]

S'weird that "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" is still taken as a classic of the genre by rock fans, but if you started raving about Mystikal or Dead Prez to the average rap head as being GOATs, they'd just glare at you.

Re: Rock Off

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i) ROCK IS DEAD HURRAH - can we get back to this please
ii) ironically enough I think both token rock acts here, QOTSA and S-K, are very very good generally! Not good enough to come close to a tick, but they're basically the best the genre's come up with this decade.

Re: Rock Off

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Also, Dead Prez probably are one of the most "important" records on here, they were doing that "lol social commentary with pop beats amirite?" about five years too early. "Hip Hop" is the original "Where Is The Love?"

Re: The most important...

[koganbot]

Nah, she was already getting attention for Faithless.

Re: Rock Off

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's stretching it a bit to call it a pop beat though! It's a lot more dour.

Re: Rock Off

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Well, relevant to the prevailing underground hip-hop vibe at the time, it was pop I suppose. Radio 1 b-list, wasn't it?

Re: Rock Off

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

death is a risky territory for something to achieve if you want it GO AWAY, as it is merely the tubestop prior to back! back!! BACK!!!

Re: Rock Off

[koganbot]

Why aren't you counting U2 and Coldplay as rock? Or do you mean noncrossover-from-rock-stations-to-pop-stations rock? But S-K never made it to the rock stations, even. They're Nindie.

M.O.P. is much more of a rock band than any of those, anyway. "Ante Up" is guys hollering over the chords to "House of the Rising Sun." (Or "For My Love" or "Steppin Stone" or "Tales of Brave Ulysses" or...)

Re: Rock Off

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

as we are currently seeing :(

where is the love for

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ILHAN MIMAROGLU BAHA MEN?

Re: Rock Off

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I kind of think of rock as loud and noisy, U2 and Coldplay are...mimsy, wet MOR.

God I loathe that U2 song. How in the world did it end up so high?!