The History Of Jop Epilogue AKA Who do you who do you who do you think you are?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Tiresome admin bit: I asked on Monday whether we should include the Jackin Pop 2006 results in the overall Pazz and Jop ones. Results were positive but not overwhelming, so I decided to do the poll anyway and if enough people fill it out to make it a comparable sample (hark at the market researcher) it'll count. Otherwise, it won't.

Anyway, 41 tracks, fourteen ticks, here you go.


[Poll #909183]


This also gives me the opportunity for the Joptimists 2005 Top 10!

1. Since U Been Gone (43 votes)
2. 1 Thing (41)
3. Hollaback Girl (34)
4. Hung Up (33)
5. Gold Digger (31)
6. Mr Brightside (26)
7=. I Predict A Lex Coronary (25)
7=. Pon De Replay (25)
9=. Feel Good Inc (24)
9=. Bucky Done Gun (24)

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I know we talked about the poll contents last week so I doubt we'll get much comment action here. My initial feeling actually going to tick it though is that it seems quite a lot 'cooler' than P&J used to be, presumably because more hott young bloggers filled it in and less old crit warhorses. Similarly there's not much here that's obviously naff (even though there's a couple of bad tracks). But also - and I bet this wouldn't stand up to any analysis - the poll feels a bit more cramped and less diverse.

Certainly there's a difference in flavour between this and old P&J, probably even more difference between this and new P&J, we will see. (But new P&J has missed its poll chance, I'm impatient!)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Judging from the list above it looks like us folks in the UK had great year for imported pop: Justin, Nelly, Bouncey, Cansei, Cassie, Xtina, TI, Rhianna - even Kelis had a decent single. Reprazenting the Brits we have Lily and... er...um. I know this is an US list but DUDES sort it out.

Bring on the reign of Lady Sov. I know she is up there but she has hardly made superstar impact in the same way as eg Lily. In fact I may order her alBUM tonight off the magical interweb.

SOV

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't bother. You already have all the decent tracks on it, most likely.

I made an mp3 of "My England" with half a thought of writing something about it on poptimists, but in the end couldn't be arsed. I can still post the track if you want though.

Re: SOV

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I would quite like to buy it and in some small way convince Defjam that she is grebt and not to drop her pls. I only have one CD single of hers so it's only proper :)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah I agree with Jeff, don't bother. And the best tracks on it aren't even as good as Sov's best ('Ch-Ching', 'Sad Ass Strippa', 'The Battle').

Did I mention on poptimists that I think the current era in British pop is the worst I've ever lived through? And that I don't think it matters because the US (and elsewhere) is hott like fire right now?

I really like 'Bossy' but not enough to tick - however I would have ticked the Switch remix. SO good to dance to! And also so exhausting.

[koganbot]

Agree that there's better Sov and better Luke than this track (though none of this year's great Luke ("4ever" and "Nothing In This World" and "Tap That" and "Break You," just off the top of my head) made the Jackin' Pop.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

It's a great alBUM! I have been playing it on heavy rotation. Obv if you have all the 'singles' then maybe it's a bit pointless, but as one who does not, I am a huge fan of the album.

Lots of 'wrong' tracks

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

from lots of 'right' bands. Ultimately this is a good thing as it freed up ticks I would have otherwise had to consider giving to Clipse, Junior Boys and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

[koganbot]

I've got two ticks to go. I'm open to bribes. Problem isn't that I can't find anything worth ticking, but that I've got too many choices. Both Timberlakes, Xtina, "Maneater," both Clipses, Prince, "Wolf Like Me" (won't come close to getting the tick, but it is clearly the most visceral on the alb and the obvious single; I'd actually have liked to hear someone with an r&b voice - Timberlake - do it; the TV On The Radio guy just rides the rhythm with too blank a voice; Timberlake might have the right combination of juiciness and delicacy), Lady Sov, the Knife, "Young Folks" (again, there are performance problems).

My Jackin' Pop Singles, 2006

[koganbot]

1. Veronicas "4ever" (Warner Bros.)
2. Aly & AJ "Rush" (Hollywood)
3. Lily Allen "LDN" (Regal import)
4. The Pack "Vans" (Jive)
5. Marit Larsen "Only A Fool" (EMI)
6. High School Musical (Zac Efron, Drew Seeley, Vanessa Hudgens) "Breaking
Free" (Hollywood)
7. Hi_Tack "Say Say Say (Waiting for You)" (Gut import)
8. Britney Spears "And Then We Kiss" (Jive)
9. Blog 27 "Hey Boy" (Magic import)
10. Yung Joc "It's Goin' Down" (Bad Boy)

My choices have a distressing lack of nonyoung people and lack of people without vaginas. For P&J I swapped out "And Then We Kiss" for "London Bridge," which pushes the list older only slightly, and does nothing to overcome the dearth of penises. (Avg. age is 32 years younger than I; avg. sex is 75% less male than I.) If you go off-camera you do get some more grownups and more men - but even there, often enough, female-male combos are wielding chords and boards.

Powter, Blunt, Tashbed, Fergie, Rascal, Booty

[koganbot]

Billboard's top 40 singles, 2006

01. "Bad Day" Daniel Powter
02. "Temperature" Sean Paul
03. "Promiscuous" Nelly Furtado Featuring Timbaland
04. "You're Beautiful" James Blunt
05. "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira Featuring Wyclef Jean
06. "Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield
07. "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley
08. "Ridin'" Chamillionaire Featuring Krayzie Bone
09. "Sexyback" Justin Timberlake
10. "Check On It" Beyonce Featuring Slim Thug
11. "Be Without You" Mary J. Blige
12. "Grillz" Nelly Featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp
13. "Over My Head (Cable Car)" The Fray
14. "Me & U" Cassie
15. "Buttons" The Pussycat Dolls Featuring Snoop Dogg
16. "Run It!" Chris Brown
17. "So Sick" Ne-Yo
18. "It's Goin' Down" Yung Joc
19. "SOS" Rihanna
20. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" Panic! At The Disco
21. "Move Along" The All-American Rejects
22. "London Bridge" Fergie
23. "Dani California" Red Hot Chili Peppers
24. "Snap Yo Fingers" Lil Jon Featuring E-40 & Sean Paul Of The YoungBloodZ
25. "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It" Dem Franchize Boyz Featuring Lil Peanut & Charlay
26. "What Hurts The Most" Rascal Flatts
27. "How To Save A Life" The Fray
28. "Unfaithful" Rihanna
29. "Chasing Cars" Snow Patrol
30. "Lips Of An Angel" Hinder
31. "Everytime We Touch" Cascada
32. "Ain't No Other Man" Christina Aguilera
33. "Dance, Dance" Fall Out Boy
34. "Gold Digger" Kanye West Featuring Jamie Foxx
35. "Money Maker" Ludacris Featuring Pharrell
36. "Ms. New Booty" Bubba Sparxxx Featuring Ying Yang Twins & Mr. ColliPark
37. "(When You Gonna) Give it up to Me" Sean Paul Featuring Keyshia Cole
38. "Photograph" Nickelback
39. "Because Of You" Kelly Clarkson
40. "Stickwitu" The Pussycat Dolls

Re: Powter, Blunt, Tashbed, Fergie, Rascal, Booty

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

TashBed never really got any love from this voting body, which is unsurprising. "Unwritten" was in my top 10 for 2005, at any rate (of course, I didn't have a vote). Of the exclusions, I am surprised by Ne-Yo, Sean Paul, and Shakira, not that they are really great or anything, I just thought they'd make it. Young Joc too. This list was a lot more "indie" than I expected it to be.

My Chemical Romance get the emo-rock slot in the poll (over Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, All American Rejects, etc.), though not on this list. To be fair, that's because the popularity of the song has been confined to after December 1. It will be in the top 40 of 2007, I presume. Still, wish it would have been "Move Along".

Re: Powter, Blunt, Tashbed, Fergie, Rascal, Booty

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Also, Fred Bronson publishes year end lists in his book (Billboards Hottest Hits of All Time? Or something like that) which has year end lists that are, I think much better than the official ones. For one, they run from January 1 to December 31. They also tabulate holdovers. That is, a song is placed into the year it was most popular and receives all of its points in that year (even if some of its popularity was in prior or future years). Of course, those lists only go up to his latest edition, which was before 2006.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

Greg Fanoe's Theoretical Jackin' Pop Ballot 2006

1. Lillix - "Sweet Temptation (Hollow)"
2. Amy Diamond - "Don't Cry Your Heart Out"
3. Aly & AJ - "Rush"
4. Beyonce - "Irreplaceable"
5. Marit Larsen - "Only A Fool"
6. Hannah Montana - "I Got Nerve"
7. Carrie Underwood - "Before He Cheats"
8. All American Rejects - "Move Along"
9. Paris Hilton - "Nothing In This World"
10. Hilary Duff - "Play With Fire"

An overlap of only one, but I did switch out "Hey Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" for Hilary Duff at the last second. I would have been the only person voting for the Hannah Montana and Hilary Duff tunes, which disheartens but does not surprise me. Lack of support for the Carrie Underwood and AAR tracks, though, was disheartening AND surprising to me.

Crazy

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't think that "Crazy" will make the cut for the Grand Pazz and Jop Tournament, which is interesting given how hugely it won the JP poll, and how hugely it will no doubt win the official P&J one. My feeling is that if we were to do this a couple of years down the line it would place a lot more easily.

Maneater's revenge over CSS hurrah

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

More poptimists like it but fewer like it best.