From: Dave Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1) best east-coast band: Sloan
Eric's Trip
Hip Club Groove
2) best non-east-coast band: Sonic Youth
Shellac
Sianspheric4
3) best east-coast LP: Hip Club Groove-
Trailor Park Hip-Hop
4) best non-east-coast LP: Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Sianspheric4 - Somnium
Cypress Hill - III (temples of boom)
5) best east-coast EP or single: Orange Glass - 7
Elevator to Hell - 7
6) best non-east-coast EP or single: Grasshopper - The Invisible Album.
Treble Charger - Self=Title (just
cause of the screenzine..:)
7) best live performance: July 23rd, 1995 Lollapalooza, Barrie
Sonic Youth.
8) best video (EC or non): Shallow - Odd
Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea
Sonic Youth - Superstar
9) Worst Song of the year: What if God was.. - joan osborne (who is
obviously Ozzy's sister..
well, that thar's my ballot. dave.
From: colin mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1) best east-coast band-The Super Friendz (this year)
2) best non-east-coast band-Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
3) best east-coast LP-Mock up Scale Down
4) best non-east-coast LP-Luna-Penthouse
5) best east-coast EP or single-Witchdoctor/Flexman-Metropoloticians
6) best non-east-coast EP or single - Grifters- Eureka ep
7) best live performance - Boss Hog- Portland Rock for choice
8) best video (EC or non) - tie Micheal Jackson Bjork
From: James R. Covey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* best east-coast band
- the motes
- thrush hermit
- spine
(best new songs + live consistency won out here.)
* best non-east-coast band
- pavement
- flying nuns
- change of heart
(i'm only voting for bands i've actually seen live this year.)
* best east-coast LP
- the motes _gesner_ (ant)
- horseshoes and handgrenades _a thousand thousand ways to get things done_
- the hardship post _somebody spoke_ (sub pop)
(i'd vote for rebecca west but i like the songs they've written *since*
the record a lot better!)
* best non-east-coast LP
- superchunk _here's where the strings come in_ (merge)
- archers of loaf _vee vee_ (alias)
- pavement _wowee zowee_ (matador)
(that was the easiest category.)
* best east-coast EP or single
- thrush hermit _the great pacific ocean_ (murder)
(the bongload single rules too!)
- elevator to hell _forward to snow_ (sappy)
- broken girl _nora_ (sappy)
(i can also recommend some choice selections from our own catalogue, hee hee.)
* best non-east-coast EP or single
- nerdy girl _nerdy girl_ (no life)
- sportsguitar gong gong b/w tits (sub pop)
- archers of loaf harnessed in slums b/w telepathic traffic (alias)
* best live performance
- pavement, may 15, lupo's heartbreak hotel, providence RI
- spine, april 7, birdland, halifax NS
- eric's trip, october 14, birdland, halifax NS
* best video (EC or non)
(this is the hardest -- i don't watch enough tv)
- al tuck buddha
- the beatles free as a bird
- radiohead just
ok, now my own categories:
* best read
- _the baffler_ #6 (the mother of all indie 'zines)
- james kelman _how late it was, how late_ (1994 novel)
- john ralston saul _voltaire's bastards_
(i haven't finished _the unconscious civilization_ yet but it's great so far)
* best major-label LPs
- hum _you'd prefer an astronaut_ (rca)
- the sixths _wasps' nests_ (virgin)
- teenage fanclub _grand prix_ (dgc)
* best songs that haven't been released yet
- state champs set up in frats
- eric's trip/broken girl soon coming closer
- coyote never let your friends find you dead she's alright
* favorite live musical moment
- coyote with david ledden on guitar: like a pig at their EP release
* the everybody's forgotten about this great LP because it was released
so early this year award:
- pond _the practice of joy before death_ (sub pop)
merry christmas!
listmanagerboy
From: Jeremy Harris Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: my best of 95 cont'd
8)best video
i don't have cable so these might not be very good in relative terms
but out of what i saw they wuz cool.
1.sEAm-the honey coming down the face of the singer guy video
2.sEAwEEd-start again
3.rAdIOhEAd-just(what does the guy say?)
From: C. Trowbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1) best east-coast band
-superfriendz, coyote, elevator to hell
2) best non-east-coast band
-jon spencer blues ex, spiritualized, al green
3) best east-coast LP
- superfriendz, elevator to hell
4) best non-east-coast LP
- raekwon - only built for cuban linx
- boss hog -s/t
- blacktop - i gotta bad feeling about this
5) best east-coast EP or single
-coyote
6) best non-east-coast EP or single
- The Headcoatees - I feel Good/Park it up your Arse
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