The Brain
  the year in review
THE WINNERS!
Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's poll. There were a lot of entries, a lot of great choices, but we proudly give you here the highest ranking ones.
ALBUM
OF THE
YEAR
 The top 10 notches...
  1. Tortoise, "TNT"
  2. Autechre, (self titled, LP5) tied with Meat Beat Manifesto, "Actual Sounds + Voices"
  3. Legendary Pink Dots, "Nemesis Online"
  4. Massive Attack, "Mezzanine"
  5. Boards of Canada, "Music Has the Right to Children"
  6. godspeed you black emperor!, "f# a# to infinity"
  7. Coil, "Time Machines"
  8. Coil, "Autumn Equinox" (it's really an ep) tied with Ritalin, "Bedside Toxicology"
  9. Belle and Sebastian, "The Boy with the Arab Strap" tied with Current 93, "Soft Black Stars"
  10. Sonic Youth, "A Thousand Leaves"

BAND
OF THE
YEAR
  1. Coil
  2. Tortoise
  3. Meat Beat Manifesto tied with Legendary Pink Dots
  4. Autechre
  5. Massive Attack

SONG
OF THE
YEAR
  1. Coil, "Amethyst Decievers"
  2. Current 93, "A Gothic Love Song"
  3. Meat Beat Manifesto "Acid Again" tied with Coil, "Moon's Milk"

MUSIC
VIDEO
OF THE
YEAR
  1. Aphex Twin, "Come To Daddy"
  2. Squarepusher, "Come on My Selector
  3. Beastie Boys, "Intergalactic

NEW
BAND
OF THE
YEAR
  1. godspeed you black emperor!
  2. Boards of Canada
  3. Arab Strap tied with Ritalin

CONCERT
EVENT
  1. Legendary Pink Dots
  2. Meat Beat Manifesto
  3. Tortoise / Isotope 217

BEST
LABEL
  1. Kranky
  2. Thrill Jockey
  3. Soleilmoon / Staalplaat
  4. Warp
  5. Nothing (for basically releasing Warp stuff most people said...)

BEST
PRODUCER
  1. John McEntire
  2. Steve Albini
  3. Jim O'Rourke

WORST
BAND
  1. Marilyn Manson
  2. Backstreet Boys
  3. Matchbox 20
  4. Rammstein
  5. Barenaked Ladies

WORST
ALBUM
YOU
BOUGHT
  1. Marilyn Manson, "Mechanical Animals"
  2. A four-way tie:
    Meat Beat Manifesto, "Actual Sounds + Voices
    Ritalin, "Bedside Toxicology"
    Front 242, "Re Boot"
    Tricky, "Angels with Dirty Faces

BEST
COMP
  1. Coil & Friends, "Foxtrot"
  2. Pi Soundtrack
  3. We Are Reasonable People
  4. A Tribute to Spacemen 3
  5. Remix Dystemper

BEST
MOVIE
  1. Pi
  2. Saving Private Ryan
  3. The Trueman Show
  4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  5. The Big Lebowski

BEST
TV SHOW
  1. The Simpsons
  2. The X Files
  3. South Park
  4. Sifl & Olly
BEST
BOOK
  1. "Smoke and Mirrors" by Neil Gaiman tied with "Lords of Chaos" by Michael Moynihan
  2. "About a Boy" by Nick Hornby tied with "A Man in Full" by Tom Wolfe
well, they didn't get many votes, but there's hardly any book readers any more...
BEST
ACTOR
  1. Bill Clinton tied with Johnny Depp
nobody could agree on the rest
BEST
ACTRESS
  1. Christina Ricci
  2. Gilian Anderson
  3. Parker Posey
Parker can do better next year, come on guys!
BIGGEST
DISAP-
POINTMENT
  1. Titanic
  2. Waking up
I'm losing faith in our readership
EVENT
  1. Clinton Sex Scandal
  2. LPD tour the USA
this category's answers aren't helping either
WEBSITE
  1. brainwashed
  2. The Onion
  3. Warp Records tied with suck.com
flattery will get you nowhere
HERO
  1. me (yes, everybody voted for themselves)
  2. Edward Ka-Spel

VILLAN
  1. Kenneth Star
  2. A four-way tie:
    me (yes, voting for themselves again)
    Bill Gates
    Marilyn Manson
    my boss

MOST
ANNOYING
TREND
  1. Swing
  2. Tommy Hilfiger
  3. Body Piercing tied with "Any trend"
Don't believe us? Here's the pretty full text only of the results.
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