The History Of Jop Part 24 aka It's Your Fremme Neppe Venette

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Here's 2002! Wasn't expecting to be polling it but since I'm here and you're here let's have a shot - you get FOURTEEN big ticks across 41 singles.


[Poll #876240]


2001: The Jopolith

1. Get Ur Freak On (43 votes)
2=. Bootylicious (35)
2=. Survivor (35)
4. One More Time (34)
5=. Get The Party Started (30)
5=. Where's Your Head At (30)
7. Romeo (29)
8. I'm A Slave 4 U (28)
9=. Izzo (HOVA) (25)
9=. Last Night (25)

Comments

The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OK, so you had the Strokes, and ROCK WAS BACK.

Except! it wasn't really - there was a weird interregnum with a wave of bands like The Hives and The Vines who sort of nearly almost hit big and then vanished. So there's a 2-year gap before the Killers and Libertines and Franz pick up the Stroke-ish baton and bring us to where we are now.

Re: The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Haha THE DATSUNS.

Re: The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i still like 'Harmonic Generator'!

Re: The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I think it's just bad timing plus the fact that it was just these two bands - they just both appeared at the same time, had a few hits, and then came back with more in two years time (the Hives' Walk Idiot Walk was the only single from either band to actually crack the top twenty) by which time they were a bit of a sideshow.

Re: The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

This is why I don't think The Strokes are anywhere near as important as people made out on the last poll: to my mind the US-based garagey sound they peddled is a very different beast to the Britpop Mk II which emerged later, after Franz Ferdinand (who themselves may be a red herring as they're hardly typical of what's popular now), which was v definitely UK-based. The Strokes themselves: where are they now? (NOWHERE = HURRAH, though I;d rather have them than the Arctic Monkeys)

Re: The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Dude, the music is largely irrelevant here (although that clipped eighth note sound set the tone for most subsequent haircut indie, including FF a lot of the time). The reason I was arguing The Strokes were important was because they made guitar music FASHIONABLE again, and I'm talking in the edgy style mag sense of the word as well as among The Kids. That dictated the look and feel (and record sales) to quite a degree.

The Artic Monkeys are the start of a shift away from that, I think.

Re: The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

talking of style mags I note that Cassie and P Diddy are on the front cover of i-D.

I hope THIS is the start of a SHIFT AWAY.

Re: The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

if only P Diddy's new stuff wasn't so crap (ok i figure there are one or two good tracks on his album but the Xtina thing is v disappointing)

Re: The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[maura.livejournal.com]

seek out the diddy/brandy song. i love it. but yeah, the xtina thing is a total retread (diddy's had the hook since he was taping 'making the band')

Re: The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

See also LCD Soundsystem taking the piss out of same on Losing My Edge.