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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

What looked like a hard poll turned out to reduce easy by dint of Avril and Sean P's best singles not making it.

Hands up who remembered before reading this list the existence of "You Know You're Right"

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Strangely, given that I spent most of this year lying on my bed despondently, listening to the radio and pretending to revise for my GCSEs, I have no idea what half these songs are and hate most of them.

That Truth Hurts one is/was well good, mind. Completely filthy, too. She was not as fit as I hoped when I heard the song, though.

he turns my pages

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the Truth Hurts song is AMAZING, the lyrics are really great as well (even though a small piece of me suspects she might actually be singing the far less romantic "returns my pages"). this may well be the pinnacle of R&B-does-orientalism...

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.

OMG!

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This is an amazing poll, so much goodness and its the first time I've genuinely had to think about which records not to tick. Missy and Eminem's finest moments, the Ratpure and LCD Soundsystem records whose glory either band never got anywhere near replicating, the two best bootlegs ever, ANDREW WK and most importantly ADDICTIVE aka the absolute high water mark of the ethnic ripoff rnb tune.

Substitue Gimmee The Light with Like Glue and this would be as good an encapsulation of early 00s pop as you could wish for.

Re: The Strange Case Of The Vines.

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Haha THE DATSUNS.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

That Jimmy Eat World song drove me UP THE WALL from repeated playings at the indie disco. I didn't get sick of Noone Knows though. This year was a very weird one for me (musically and otherwise). Things started to Go Wrong somewhat.

Re: he turns my pages

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

MINDMELD!

Re: OMG!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I would have ticked the LCD Soundsystem if "Beat Connection" had been on it.

2002 was totally amazing - this is a great poll (though let's not overlook some of the horrors on it too) and it's a measure of how much I was into everything this year that it still seems vaguely disappointing next to the memories.

Ain't no shame ladies do your thang

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Just make sure you ahead of the game...

This song is absolutely brilliant. And it has small children body-popping in the video. Hurrah!

Re: OMG!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Never mind the band's career, the entire genre might as well have finished with HOJL.

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.

Freelance Hellraiser - Smells Like Booty

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

this mashup was actually done by Soulwax/2 Many DJs but seems to be credited to FH all over the internet and beyond.

either way it's a really boring one and way over-rated.

2002

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

... was also the year ILM was in full-on canon-forming critical overdrive, and that's reflected here quite strongly I think. I remember the epic threads on almost all these singles, and a lot of them in retrospect seem really epochal, partly due to the mass of debate that surrounded them.

I wonder if some of these records, especially Andrew WK but possibly the bootlegs as well, would have appeared here otherwise.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I wuv the Jimmy Eat World song, and then rushed out and got their best-of. It turns out they used to be absolute shit emo-indie.

Re: 2002

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Ah now more than anything, Andrew WK needs no explanation.

Re: OMG!

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

This was an amazing year for me as well - moving out of home, getting a job, meeting loads of people, including a lot of ILXers for the first time, that World Cup London Summer, and pretty much everything here brings back memories. I could have ticked four or five more easily.

Re: OMG!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Rapture were k-grebt live. But I was *horrifically* drunk both times I saw them so perhaps I'm not the best judge.

The Year Popism Broke

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah this was an ILM golden year - it's weird actually, looking at this list I remember ILM in full on enthusiasm OMG mode, and looking at the 2003 list I remember the huge arguments more than anything (this is partly because of 2003's #1 single of course).

Re: he turns my pages

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

wasn't there a big row about this on ILM? 'turns my pages' made more sense because who on earth would still be using a PAGER in 2002?

Re: Freelance Hellraiser - Smells Like Booty

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

From a technical perspective perhaps, but the song itself is so great at what the two records have and lack. It's also the reason for my first FT "article" (http://freakytrigger.co.uk/old-ft/essays/2003/07/glasto2003/).

Re: OMG!

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Their new album is really great, mostly through being more electro and less squally punk funk. But nothing is as good as HOJL.

Re: OMG!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

no they were good when i saw them too (at Heaven). and i like 'Sister Saviour' and 'I Need Your Love' as much as 'HOJL'.

Re: The Year Popism Broke

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

(Starts making "I've stopped asking about Focus Group X" badges)

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

This seems to be a pretty weak year to me. I don't know if that's because my personal situation at the time predisposes me to dislike this music or if it's legitimately not a great poll. I had to stretch to get 14. I ended up ticking "The Rising" because I knew Broooce would get little love on this poll and I think it's OK.

I still have a soft spot for that White Stripes song due to the video and also due to the fact that all I was listening to at the time was an assload of college rock and so I loved the song. I should have voted for Avril for my favorite song and the most important song though. Whoops.