The History Of Jop Part 27 aka She got one of your kids got you for 18 years

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

And now - the final* Pazz and Jop poll. 2005 - seems like it was yesterday eh?

You have thirteen ticks across 39 boxes - the holdover from last year that I left out was "Galang", if you're interested.


[Poll #904749]


*or potentially penultimate, but I suspect the discussion of the New Times PJ poll will be along the lines of the JP one i.e. poll-free.

2004: Joptimists Verdict

1. Toxic (52 votes - offhand I can't remember anyone ever getting more, and certainly the 91% is huge)
2. Take Me Out (43)
3. What You Waiting For? (38)
4. Chewing Gum (37)
5=. 99 Problems (36)
5=. Galang (36)
7. Heartbeat (33)
8. Drop It Like It's Hot (27)
9. Yeah (Usher) (26)
10. Somebody Told Me (25)

And that's it. If anyone has any ideas for flagship poll series I will take them under consideration!

Comments

Re: Tournament

[koganbot]

Are there quite a few? I would have thought no more than several - "Always On My Mind," "Common People," and "Toxic" are the only three that jump to mind - and I think that they would not be shoo-ins in this competition. Even if they ended up 1, 2, and 3, there'd be a lot of interesting stuff happening along the way. Maybe what you could do is force repeat winners to play each other right off, so only half of them would make it to the second round! (But then, in general I think you should seed from the get-go on the basis of number or percentage of ticks or something, so you won't have super-loved stuff getting knocked out early. But maybe you could have repeat winners have their own separate qualifier round, before you do this. Or maybe you could just disqualify anyone British.)

Re: Tournament

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Going through I discovered that you're right, there weren't *that* many crossovers, also some of the "any good at all" consensus picks in the Now polls would face stiff opposition in a percentage-based Jop seeding system. I may well make the giant spreadsheet and see if this is a goer.

I also love the idea of a worst-of-the-worst poll, maybe a one-off though.