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

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!