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: Poor old Grime

[koganbot]

Well, it all depends what you mean by "futurism": I didn't think of "Oops Oh My" as futuristic at all (even if it was new and innovative). Is the word "futurism" in a lot of use these days? The hip-hop movement that was self-consciously "futuristic" was Bambaataa's electrofunk, which seemed to get a lot of its idea of the "future" from '50s' sci-fi flicks; but then "Planet Rock"'s actual legacy - freestyle and Miami bass and on to today's Dirty South - didn't wave around futuristic signifiers, even though it had electric beats up the booty. And then also (this being my own perception, not necessarily how it was generally perceived) I don't perceive Harrison as retro or Timbaland as futuristic; rather, I think of them both as omnivorous (as was Bambaataa; he'd use Monkees beats and insert dialogue from old movies; idiots were calling this "pomo" at the time). Same way I didn't think of Destiny Child's "Jumpin Jumpin" as retro but rather as laying claim to a whole jazz and r&b legacy of experimentation. I might say the same about the new Ciara; even though it samples/pilfers from the '80s, it doesn't sound remotely like the '80s.