The History Of Jop Part 25 aka Don't want to be your Daddy just want you in my Caddy

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

After an enforced absence, the History of Jop polls enter their final lap, reaching 2003. IT'LL ALL BE OVER BY CHRISTMAS! to coin a phrase. You get THIRTEEN ticks across thirty-nine singles: the Rapture were on last poll as well, the greedy beasts, so we leave them off this.


[Poll #888665]


Joptimists Go 2002

1. Work It (46 votes)
2. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (41)
3. Hot In Herre (38)
4. Fell In Love With An Girl (30)
5=. Like I Love You (29)
5=. Lose Yourself (29)
7. A Stroke Of Genie-Us (28)
8=. Oops Oh My (27)
8=. Hella Good (27)
10. Without Me (26)

Also be sure to go and nominate for the Poptimists end-of-year poll. Poll poll poll poll poll.

Comments

Stacy's Bum More Like

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Why did people voters like this so much?

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The video is actually DISGUSTING. And not funny. The song is worse. It's Passantino music basically.

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[cis.livejournal.com]

cos it's really great! In any other year I probably would have ticked it, and one of the amazing things about it is how it really could have been released in any other year - in fact I thought it came out a good two or three years earlier. It's very much the definition of a certain type of college-indie-rock (that for me starts with weezer's 'buddy holly'): aggressively tuneful, punk-pop without the punk- part, masculine-immature... good stuff.

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think this particular 'strain' of pop is one of the few sub-genres I really can't find anything to enjoy in. But maybe if I tried harder...

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's the puerile nature of it which I can't stand, I guess it depends on how funny you find 10-year-old rough-and-tumble boy humour. I hated it when I was 10 and I hate it now and I comfort myself with the fact that practitioners of it surely never get laid.

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I hated in when I was 10! Oddly teaching 10 year-olds has really changed my mind, I am super fond of it now. It's just... how they talk? And they're great, because everyone is, so it must be, too.

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[cis.livejournal.com]

♥

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'and one of the amazing things about it is how it really could have been released in any other year'

ha ha, is that really a virtue? i mean i get that it's often nice to have that sense of 'timelessness' or whatever but still...

'Buddy Holly' seems a lot 'smarter' than 'Stacey's Mom' but i don't think of them as connected really. 'Stacey's Mom' doesn't seem like college-rock more than highschoolfreshman-rock. i'm being very snobby here i'm sure!

really tho i wonder just what it is that makes me like the Ted Leo track but hate this (i know they're different in certain ways but still). not just being a rockist about rock i hope.

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

really the reason i dislike 'Stacey's Mom' probably doesn't go far beyond the same reasons why i hated 'That's What I Go To School For' when that first came out. carry on.

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Oops I ph34r you have pinned the tail on the elephant in my particular room there Steve.

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i half expected you to like 'Stacey's Mom' myself or at least be healthily indifferent!

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Because I am shallow so liked the video, and a sucker for an obvious tune. Actually this is the only year in my life when I have watched a lot of music TV (i.e. The Hits) and so some of my choices are heavily influenced by the videos (e.g. Junior Senior, which would just have annoyed me without the visuals!).

Re: Stacy's Bum More Like

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I have basically zero memory (this is the only year so far I have remembered 13 tracks from) but I remember Stacy's Mom, and how it goes, and it makes me smile? 'Radiation Vibe' is one of my favourite songs ever, still.