Conference marvin::uk_music

    BEST: Bjork "Debut"
    	  Cocteau Twins "4 Calender Cafe"
    	  Belly "Star"
    
    WORST: Bjork not playing in Washington, D.C.
    
    fred deady

    
    Best was probably Glastonbury... several days of good vibes, too many
    bands to mention, lot's of sunshine and smiley happy people....
    
    
    Worst probably happened last weekend with the death of Frank Zappa....
    
    Graham
    
    BTW. is it time to start the Glastonbury '94 rumours yet ?
    

    
    	Here's mine ->
    
    			Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
    			Boo Ya Tribe/Faith No More  - Another Body Murdered
                        Limbomaniacs - Shake It Like That
    			N-Joi - Anthem - not sure when this came out
    			Wrecks n' Effects - Erection
    			B-Tribe - Fiesta Fatale
    		 	Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby
    			William Orbit - Strange Cargo III
    			Cocteau Twins - Four Calender Cafe
    
    
                   In no particular order.
    
    					Stuart,	

    Best, in alphabetical order (B-C):
    
    Belly - Star
    Bjork - Debut
    Carter - Post Historic Monsters
    Cocteaus - Four Colander Caf�
    Costello - Juliet Letters
    
    Worst:
    
    Hearing all those awful Frank Zappa records again.
    Missing Radiohead, Slowdive, JAMC...
    Rod's Walkman at work with Indie/Dance/Trance/Techno at full whack.
    Russell's heavy metal records.
    
    Piers

    
    Best things:
    
    Singles - Sterolab/French disko, Bjork/Venus as a Boy and the Cover of
    the Year - St Etienne/Who do you think you are?
    
    Albums - That Petrol Emotion/Fireproof 
    
    Worst things:
    
    BNP election victory and the Pixies splitting up.
    
    
    Andy

    Did the Pixies not split up in 1992?
    
    Piers

    Best: "Very" Pet Shop Boys
          "Waiting for Herb" The Pogues
          St Etienne's new single (I was born on Christmas Day)
          Discovering The Mission

    Worst: Not seeing the Pogues or Madness in concert.

    Goldy.

14 good things in '93:

Radiohead 'Pablo Honey' - they've got guitars, tunes and attitude.
Bjork 'Debut' - loved it to death (can't play it now!).
Slowdive 'Souvlaki' - delicately authoritative.
Sven V�th 'Accident in Paradise' - ambient stream-of-consciousness.
Smashing Pumpkins 'Siamese Dream' - makes other grunge seem a thrashy mess.
Trance Europe Express - dig those crazy beats.
Cocteau Twins '4 Calendar Caf�' - music 2 die 4.
Beavis and Butthead - they're cool. He he, he he, he he he.
Radiohead at Vernier sur Rock - one day, all live music will be like this.
Carter in Fribourg - the mosher's dream.
Liz Phair - wish I was her boyfriend.
Couleur 3 radio station - what Radio 1 should be. 
My new hifi - the detail! the stereo imaging! the [contd p94] 
PJ Harvey - as a concept.

4 bad things in '93:

New Order 'Republic' - bring back the monarchy!
Jacko's exposure as an (alleged) child molester.  
Vinyl's continuing decline.
PJ Harvey - to actually listen to.


Rod 

** In the "I played them so much that if they'd been vinyl you could'a seen
through 'em" category:

Feral Pop Frenzy - Even As We Speak, as seen live at Rising Sun institute
Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins, as seen live at Brixton Academy (even
                tho' the lead signers voice was COMPLETELY shot)
Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters
Fat City - Shawn Colvin
Anything by The Blue Aeroplanes
Mezcal Head - Swervedriver, as seen supporting Curve at Brixton Academy

** In the "I can never turn the album up loud enough now I've seen them in
concert" category:

4 Non-Blondes, live somewhere or other [a '4' album which Rod failed to review]


** In the "no reasonable offers refused" category:

Jawbreaker - Bivouac ("well, they were good at the Reading festival")




Ok, so 'Star' and '4-Calendar Cafe' are also excellent, but I'd hate to be
any more unoriginal than can be avoided.

Neal.

    I am surprised this worst one hasn't already cropped up;
    
    MR BLOBBY!!!!!
    
    R
    

    
    
         The Best;
                  Manic Street Preachers
                  Bjork.........
    
    and the Worst;
                  Lulu & Take That
                  Pet Shop Boys(again)
    
    
    
    Pete......

        
    
    Best : The Lemonheads  "Come on feel the Lemonheads" 
           Suede 
    
    Worst: Anything that has ever been or will ever be by Stakka 
           Bo / Cyprus Hill  
    
    Sandie.....
    

    Late contenders for single of the year coming in right now from the
    Fall and Cornershop (Readers Wives). Good singles from Sonic Youth with
    sugar Kane (that was this year wasn't it?), and unlike some I liked the
    Stakka Bo single. Marvellous debut efforts from Elastica and S*M*A*S*H.
    
    Good year for, erm, cultural mixes, new marriages of different styles
    etc.
    
    One highlight of the year has definitely been actually getting to hear
    stuff on XFM that I previously only read about in NME/MM. There's a
    load of great stuff happening
    
    Surprise likes of the year have been two great singles by Pet Shop
    Boys, who I don't usually have a lot of time for - nice to see old gits
    can make fresh sounding music, even if one was a cover.
    
    Oh, by the way, just leave it out about Take That, OK? They are all
    right - my 13-year old daughter loves them, and their songs aren't that
    bad, especially compared to other recent teen acts like bros or NKOTB.
    Also, through seeing her reaction to them (especially sfter going to
    their Wembley show recently, when she didn't come down for about a week
    afterwards) reminds me of why I got to love pop music so much at a
    similar age.
    
    Albums of the year for me - Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins and the
    Auteurs.
    
    Bob
    
    p.s. Finally, a nod to PJ Harvey, the concept and the band.....

    p.p.s Gig of the year for me was Sidi Bou Said/Ecstacy of St Theresa at
    the Garage. Crazy gals, crazy venue, crazy gig.
    
    Bob

    
    So most have them have been mentioned B4...
    
    Cocteau Twins - Four calendar Cafe
    Bjork   - Debut
    Cranes - Forever
    Slowdive - Souvlaki
    Philip Glass - Low Symphony
    
    By my quick reckoning of all the previous notes, the most mentioned Lp
    is the Cocteau Twins - Four calendar Cafe, and so I (unofficially)
    declare it the ALBUM OF THE YEAR !!
    
    To argue would only be admitting to an unparalled lack of taste  :-)
    :-) :-)
    
    Full of Christmas cheer,
    
    Paul 

    Best :
    
    Aimee Mann - Whatever
    The Lemonheads - Come on feel...
    Belly - Star
    Maria McKee - You gotta sin etc.
    (Bjork would probably be here if I'd heard all of it)
    Marxman - All About Eve & Ship Ahoy singles
    
    Worst:
    
    Shaggy - Oh Carolina
    2 unlimited - No Limits 
    
    
    

    Worst:
    Cilla Black & Barry Manilow -You'll Never Walk Alone
    
    
    Sounds like they both need to use wheelchairs!!  Sequal should
    be -"We'll Never Work Alone Again".  

    Best : Four non blondes - What's up ?
    	   the Levellers - This garden 
    	   INXS - Get out of the house tour and singles.
    
    all a breath of fresh air
    
    
    Worst : Whitney bloody Houston releasing that song again.
    	    Meat Loaf - Anything for love garbage.
    	    Cilla black releasing songs again.
    
    Rich.

Best Single   : You're in a bad way - St. Etienne.
Best Album    : Debut - Bj�rk.


Worst Single  : What's Up - 4 non-blondes.
  
Worst Lyric   : "Serious as Cancer....Rhythm is a dancer" (was that last 
		 year).



Merry Christmas..........Mark

    Can't believe no-one has mentioned The Breeders. From down here,
    Cannonball was the song of the year, if not the decade (Christ, even my
    mum likes it, and she's normally a Shostakovich freak). Last splash is
    a brilliant album.
    
    Other great albums were "star" by Belly and Part #1 of "Firepile" by
    the Throwing Muses.
    
    Best overseas act to visit Australia was Belly, although Juliana
    Hatfield's support act bored me to tears. Sonic Youth/Disposable Heroes
    was a great night, given the sound.
    
    And the jangly Flying Nun tour at the Annandale was a groovy bargain -
    we often get the Straitjacket Fits and the Bats, but the JPS Experience
    don't come that often.
    
    Special mention too to the Headless Chickens for their many shows,
    hundreds of mixes of "Donde esta la polle" and belated album, Body
    Blow.
    
    And, at the risk of sounding perochial, the Falling Joys' "Aerial",
    Died Pretty's "Trace" and Bughouse's "bardo" are all fantastic.
    
    Worst of the year was nothing new from My Bloody Valentine or Single
    Gun Theory, not to mention the Breeders cancelling their tour (but they
    are coming in January).
    
    Until '94 (when the Honeys retrospective is due out),
    
    Peter! 

    Hmmm...fave lps of the year...
    
    Bjork, Debut.  The Lemonheads, C'mon feel...  Not realy a great year
    for lps to be honest.  Zooropa was OK.
    
    Singles.  Kingdom by Ultramarine, the post ambient folk song of the
    year, to which one could do a post ambient folk dance, or my infamous
    tree shuffle.
    	       Open Up by Leftfield and Lydon, excellent boogie noises. 
    Ten YEars *mumble something* by Kingmaker, I think thats what it was
    called.  A great Stuffies style singalong indie song, to which one
    could stretch ones arms to the size of a cow.
    
    	       Sometime by James - the flailing arms jingly jangly single
    of the year.
    
               Feed the Tree by Belly. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Tanyaaaaaa.....
    
               Cannonball by The Breeders.
    
    Dull release of the year - Republic by New Order. Went down well with
    the volvo and squash crowd tho.
    
    LP that should really have been turned into a flowerpot - Dream Harder
    by The waterboys.  I have worshipped at the alter of Mike Scott since
    the beginning, but this was a duff album.  "Ohh, corn circles, they are
    mysterious, and in the corn, and circular, oh yeah, like wow"... do me
    a favour...
    
    Hype of the year - rereleasing the Smiths lps for lots of money, oh
    heaven knows I'm very poor now.  I hated even New Order for falling
    into the double CD single scam.
    
    Grower of the year - Laid by James.  I hated it at first, but now I
    like it in a mellow sort of way.
    
    Event I missed for which I deserve to be spanked with a wet
    plimpsoll..New Order at Reading Festival.  Why didn't I go????  
    
    Rediscovery of the year - Movement by New Order.  I have really
    disliked this lp for years, but I picked it up cheap on CD, and loved
    it!  It wears its early eighties origins on its sleeve, and doubtless
    inspired early Tears for Fears (not as bad a thing as inspiring later
    Tears for Fears), but is well worth digging out again.
    
    Good news of the year -  more independent noise on Radio 1.  Peelie on
    at a decent hour, Mark Radcliffe in the week, and thingy and whossit on
    the early evening show.
    
    Gig of the year - Julian Cope in Cambridge.  Give that man a knighthood
    now!!!     
    
    
     Well, thats about it.  No songs really made me want to remove my
    underwear this year.  I really liked 'Stamp on their heads and chew up
    their Brains' by Killer Surf Nazi Scum.   
    
    Well, Happy Crimble one and all, and good hunting in the New Year sales
    at HMV.
    
    Mikef
    
    PS - I made up the bit about Killer Surf Nazi Scum

  Re: 20

  I'm sure that wan't '93.  Anyhow, the lyric was this:

	Rhythm is a dancer
	Have to swing your pants sir
					[Trev and Simon]

  Which surely qualifies as the best lyric;  of any year.


  /Ian

    
    
    Best Album : Harfloor "TB Resusitation"
    
    Best EP    : EX17 - Bio Dream's "Dream Sequence"
    
    Best Track : Robert Armani's "Just Do It"