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Conference marvin::uk_music

Title:The UK Music Conference
Notice:Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN.
Moderator:RDGENG::CROOK
Created:Mon Mar 28 1988
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1381
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1200.0. "Best and worst of '93" by RUTILE::MACFADYEN (I only like stuff that's cool) Mon Dec 13 1993 19:40

    It's that time of the year again.
    
    What's the musical best and worst of '93? In your honest opinion, 
    that is, though feel free to be dishonest if you can get a cheap laugh 
    out of it.
    
    
    Rod 
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1200.1:) :(GRANMA::FDEADYeverything's fine... just fine...Mon Dec 13 1993 20:197
    BEST: Bjork "Debut"
    	  Cocteau Twins "4 Calender Cafe"
    	  Belly "Star"
    
    WORST: Bjork not playing in Washington, D.C.
    
    fred deady
1200.2MJ. having to sell the Beatles back catalogue was good too %^)WOTVAX::STONEGSo hard, finding inspiration....Mon Dec 13 1993 20:2211
    
    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 ?
    
1200.3Off the top of me heedAYOV11::SROBERTSONTue Dec 14 1993 11:4617
    
    	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,	
1200.4RUTILE::LETCHERRepublicTue Dec 14 1993 14:5716
1200.5YUPPY::ASHLEYSMITHashib smitty?Tue Dec 14 1993 16:3114
    
    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
1200.6RUTILE::LETCHERRepublicTue Dec 14 1993 18:253
    Did the Pixies not split up in 1992?
    
    Piers
1200.7ARRODS::WHITEHEADJ10's for lunchTue Dec 14 1993 19:228
    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.
1200.8My listJURA::PELAZ::MACFADYENlike it or lump itTue Dec 14 1993 19:4026
1200.9the good, the bad and the "For sale"RDGENG::CROOKGort! Klaatu barada niktoTue Dec 14 1993 21:2629
** 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.
1200.10Blobbly the worst record this year!!!YUPPY::AMERRThu Dec 16 1993 19:036
    I am surprised this worst one hasn't already cropped up;
    
    MR BLOBBY!!!!!
    
    R
    
1200.11Looking forward to more from the Preachers in '94KIRKTN::PMOONI gotta tell ya.......!!!Fri Dec 17 1993 17:2113
    
    
         The Best;
                  Manic Street Preachers
                  Bjork.........
    
    and the Worst;
                  Lulu & Take That
                  Pet Shop Boys(again)
    
    
    
    Pete......
1200.12'Take That' and dump it !!!COMICS::MACLEANA Pure Dear in a Wicked WorldFri Dec 17 1993 18:1210
        
    
    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.....
    
1200.13A few random highlightsWELCLU::GREENBGratuitous use of fluteSat Dec 18 1993 15:5430
    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.....
1200.14WELCLU::GREENBGratuitous use of fluteSat Dec 18 1993 15:564
    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
1200.15And that concludes the voting from the Monaco panel...BRUMMY::RANKINEMon Dec 20 1993 18:1919
    
    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 
1200.16set myvote/priority=topCURRNT::PAYNE_AMr Cosmic Love VibeMon Dec 20 1993 19:4417
    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 
    
    
    

1200.17Worst Current SingleBREAK::BURKETue Dec 21 1993 07:526
    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".  
1200.19not a bad year really.CHEFS::HARRISRGoosenargh!Wed Dec 22 1993 21:1212
    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.
1200.20VYGER::RENNISONMThis is the voice of the MysteronsThu Dec 23 1993 15:2714
1200.21From the deep southGLADYS::CRAVENYou are a case and a halfThu Dec 23 1993 17:5130
    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! 
1200.22boop de boopWOTVAX::FIDDLERMThe sense of being dulls my mindFri Dec 24 1993 14:2163
    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
1200.23Recognising talentCOMICS::V03W07::RINGIEveryone thinks I'm paranoidFri Dec 24 1993 17:0013
  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
1200.24DANCE MANIAC !SUBURB::EDWARDSMFri Jan 21 1994 16:098
    
    
    Best Album : Harfloor "TB Resusitation"
    
    Best EP    : EX17 - Bio Dream's "Dream Sequence"
    
    Best Track : Robert Armani's "Just Do It"