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

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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: Reverb and starkness of line

[koganbot]

Stupid of me to begin my third paragraph with the phrase "And when I throw my mind into hip-hop," given that I'd obviously thrown my mind into hip-hop when listening to the sounds that I'd analyzed in the previous paragraph.

Another astonishing fact about 2003 is that my top three tracks were on indie labels, though they obviously are not "indie" in the sense that, e.g., the dipshits who put on the Plug Independent Music Awards (some of whom pay me to write for PTW, I believe) tout themselves by saying, "We're a community that thinks for ourselves – we don’t take our cues from mainstream media or marketing. PLUG is about the independent music community coming together to recognize our own."

Re: Reverb and starkness of line

[koganbot]

My third paragraph does foreshadow the fact that hip-hop isn't nearly dominating my listening and my lists in the way it was three years ago. What changed? I heard Ashlee, basically, and her lyrics gave me something to care about and identify with, more so than I had with anything since The Marshall Mathers LP.