JOCK JAMS POLL, volume one

I have a feeling this one may be a bit of a landslide in favor of "It Takes Two", which gets my vote at any rate.

I have a feeling you're right. But you forgot to credit DJ E-Z Rock. Hit it!

Blame Wikipedia.

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tootsie roll

2 unlimited were my first ever favourite group :D

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BUTTERFLY? UH-UH, THAT'S OLD! LET ME SEE YOUR TOOTSIE ROLL!

Thank you, Ethan, even if I didn't vote for "Tootsie Roll", I was going to be Zeus-&-lightning-bolts angry if no one threw a vot its way.

I voted for "Everybody Dance Now"!

me 2 - gayest jocks ever lol

I was gonna vote for "Tootsie Roll" but I decided to show some Gary Glitter luv instead

Get Ready for This!

I will always vote for "Pump up the Jam", no matter what the other choices are.

garu g-litter

rob base gets my vote but M/A/R/R/S was so so close

that song list is amazing.
i guess it's too easy to vote for marrs. i'll vote for gary glitter, just for the shit of it.

these albums, early on anyway, were pretty great

i voted it takes 2 but theres a gang of other shit i could have chosen.

which one has 'everybody everybody' by black box, jj3? thats my shit

That's on #2, which at least judging by the tracklist (I no longer have the cds, sadly, although I had all five at one point) is a bit weaker than those surrounding it.

Gonna Make You Sweat

What essential qualities do all these song share? What makes for a good jock jam?

I voted for tootsie roll, mainly because I downloaded it, and have plenty of memories of seeing the video from back in my much younger days. Plus it also didn't hurt that it would always make me think of tootsie rolls (the candy, not whatever sexually suggestive message I couldn't have possibly understood at the time).

What essential qualities do all these song share? What makes for a good jock jam?

-- Mark Rich@rdson, Saturday, June 16, 2007 10:10 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

cheerleader music

(circa early 90s)

"The Power", obviously. That tune kickstarted the nineties.

Good grief, I have to say Tuomas OTM.

"The Power" was the welcoming beacon for that fascinating new decade that The Escape Club alluded to in "Wild Wild West" when they prepared us for "heading into the nineties."

What essential qualities do all these song share? What makes for a good jock jam?

FFForte, four-on-the-floor bass drum, and one iconic line that even your grandma can remember, like "Everybody dance now!", "You're Unbelievable!", or "Whoomp! There it is!"

INSANE PIECE O' TRIVIA FOR THE DAY:

"Whoomp! There it is!" was the Number One song of 1993, despite having never reached the Number One spot on its own during the year.

"Whoomp! There It Is" is also the biggest selling single of all time (in the US) that never reached #1.

This was such a great volume...I believe any of these tracks would win on vol 5.

"We Will Rock You" or "Blitzkrieg Bop"

I never realized that this was the greatest album ever made.

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I mean these really are the hottest crowd pumpin grooves of all time.

While I appreciate almost all of these songs on some level, I rarely have any desire to listen to them. Is that the point? Or do most people wake up and blare "Tootsie Roll"?

I used to really, really like "Pump up the Jam". But that was when all I had was my Best of the 80s tape from a gas station.

Oops, I meant to add that I still like that song a lot, and it still gets me pumpin' hotly.

That album cover looks like it was created by having three tiny pixie cheerleaders lie on a color photocopier bed

M/A/R/R/S owns all of these songs 100x over.

I actually have this album at work (as I've mentioned somewhere else I think.) Whenever the high school game would end and we were still eight minutes away from the scoreboard show, this CD would come in handy, I hate to admit.

That album cover looks like it was created by having three tiny pixie cheerleaders lie on a color photocopier bed

I have found the most confounding website ever. (NSFW)

WHERE IS ZOMBIE NATION?!?!?

2 unlimited were my first ever favourite group :D

-- lex pretend, Saturday, 16 June 2007 14:11 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

hah! me too!

"The Power", obviously. That tune kickstarted the nineties.

-- Tuomas, Sunday, 17 June 2007 15:31 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Nope. It was beaten by a whisker by Beats International "Dub Be Good To Me".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I showed "YMCA" some love...for Karaoke's sake.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Glitter fanbase alive and well

Village People, not so much

Someone should do a musical, 'Gary Glitter is alive and well and living in Bangkok'.

ILX: we love the child rape

Maybe not the landslide I suspected, but good results. Nice turnout, too. Person who voted for "Uh, Ungawaa!, you commend are a commendable soul.

"you are a commendable soul", naturally

i prefer commending a commedable soul tbqh

Black Box - "Strike It Up"

i dont remember this but surely it deserves better than no votes

When It Takes Two would come on, the middle school dance would suddenly feel like the most exciting place on earth.

Okay, this is the dumbest thing I've ever said on ILM, but here it is...

Jock Jams 2 >>>>>>>>>> Jock Jams 1

That said, when will the Jock Jams 2 poll be arriving?

v. soon , my friend

"Beat, scream, beat scream. A mindless liturgy of another Baltimore summer, a theme song for a city that bleeds."

-David Simon, Homicide on "It Takes Two."

I'm surprised that SNAP! lost out to Gary Glitter and so many others. "The Power" was just as popular as "It Take Two" at my ice rink.